I take so much comfort in my dog's complete joy despite the world's horrors.

A dark day for Northwest journalism: @cascadepbs.bsky.social is axing the @cascadepbsnewsroom.bsky.social, laying off 17 people, per internal memo obtained by @kuow.org. Cascade PBS got ~10% of its budget from Corp. for Public Broadcasting. Unclear why its whole newsroom had to be axed.

Infuriating.

Blowing up random boats in international waters is obviously the path to the Nobel Peace Prize, you violent thug.

This is, like so much these days, both laughable and horrifying. But any reporter or news organization who agrees to publish their press releases and not do any reporting is a fool. Why on earth "cover" something you have agreed not to do any real reporting on?

I ordered a dozen small ones for No Kings and handed them out to everyone in our group. Getting more for NK2.

that's why you bring the US flag to protests, folks

Fast, excellent reporting! Thanks to the folks at The Sick Times.

I am biased but I don’t think there is a better website on the internet today than TheOnion.com.

Welp, I managed to get vaccinated, no thanks to RFK Jr. I imagine it could have been a lot less chaotic if everyone wasn't worried about Covid vaccines disappearing completely.

The announcement of health insurance companies that they’ll continue covering routine vaccinations is a huge vote of no confidence in ACIP's recommendations. It reflects a desire by insurers to avoid the cost of illnesses by having their customers vaccinated. Gift link:

Proud to be your constituent, Senator.

Really enjoyed the unmasked people coming in to pick up Paxlovid while I was waiting to get vaccinated.

Brian Kilmeade stated homeless individuals who are resisting mental health treatment should be given "involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill ’em." This weekend, there was a mass shooting of a homeless encampment. It barely made a blip on the news. www.startribune.com/shooting-sou...

Q. Why is there a special election in the Minnesota House tonight? A. Because the Democrat who held the seat was assassinated in June. www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...

How the fuck is this not a national story?

What a whiny dictator.

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Fuck that guy.

A thousand times this.

It truly cannot be restated enough that earlier this year Trump pardoned everyone involved with J6, the largest event of political violence in the US in my lifetime. They have absolutely no credibility here and deserve to be confronted with this fact whenever they're in public.

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

"Where do you do most of your organizing? a. The Crimson comment section. b. Lol. No. I mean, I’m in a Telegram channel with forty-seven members, twelve of whom are Kash Patel under different usernames, and another six are Pete Hegseth under the same username."

Murder is wrong. Pogroms are wrong. Using a murder to incite a pogrom against a small and vulnerable group in society is wrong. (If I’m not mistaken, an assassination was the excuse for the wave of mob but state-sanctioned violence in Russia in 1881 that gave us the term “pogrom.”)

This is unhinged, dangerous, and reckless. At this point I don't know how you conclude anything other than that Musk is trying to foment pogroms against immigrants across the west.

“Involuntary lethal injection. Or something. Just kill them” Holy shit. MSNBC fires an anchor for accurately reporting on Kirk’s past comments. Does FOX care if a host calls for systematic extermination??? 😳😳😳

Right, right, "the LEFT [is] the party of murder," not the dude who's scaring everyone into violence. Glad Elon got the message about toning down violent rhetoric.

"On the last episode of his show before he was killed," Kirk told "his audience, falsely, that “one in 22 Black men will be a murderer in their lifetime” and that “by age of 23, half of all Black males have been arrested and not enough of them have been arrested.”

Thank you to @jamellebouie.net for, unsurprisingly, reminding us that Kirk was not the compassionate, reasonable guy everyone's making him out to be. Gift link:

Welp, this didn't work out for me. My pharmacy ran out of the vaccine.

To fully grasp the danger of RFK Jr., recall that before ACIP recommendations are enacted, the CDC Director must sign off on them. Dr. Monarez wouldn’t rubber stamp them, so they fired her. In her place is a political appointee with no knowledge, education or training in science or medicine.

#NEISvoid Absolutely enraging. I changed my appointment to today. My state has enabled everyone to get vaccinated, but I don't know if this committee can cut off supply to the states or something.

Are all you white media punidts who have been cannonizing Charlie Kirk also going to start praising Nick Fuentes for practicing politics "exactly the right way" now that it looks like the suspect was inspired by Fuentes' "willingness to debate"? Or nah?

I cited actual Kirk quotes where he calls Black women less intelligent, demonizes me for being Muslim, & dehumanizes LGBTQ people—& his supporters are upset at me for “speaking evil of the dead.” If quoting him is “speaking evil” maybe ask yourself why you followed someone who believed evil things.

I had a corneal transplant as a teenager for a rare eye disease. It was a novel treatment then-I would have otherwise become blind. Now they have new contact lens that make another transplant likely unneeded. US health research is amazing--and RFK/Trump are killing it.

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

This reporter's question is absolutely valid, & not asking it would have been a dereliction of duty! WTF.

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses

Trump literally tried to get his VP killed and did not intervene to stop attempts on the lives of every member of congress

He joked multiple times about Paul Pelosi getting smashed in the skull with a hammer.

We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.

Two weeks before he shot JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald tried to shoot a far right political figure (Gen. Edwin Walker). Political assassins rarely have well thought out, coherent ideologies, and some just want attention any way they can get it. Remember that as Elon and Fox leap to conclusions.

No, no, this can't be right. Now that tough guy Trump is president again, Putin won't cause any trouble. Trump has already fixed All The Problems just like he said he would.

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Delicious.

The simplest explanation for why the right does not appear to care that Donald Trump is a sexual abuser and a pedophile is that they do not, in fact, care if he is a sexual abuser and a pedophile.

Right, rather than try to shame Republicans for their complicity here, Democrats should simply state -- loudly and repeatedly -- that the Republican Party clearly shields pedophiles. They'll howl about it, but all of their actions to this point leave no other conclusion.

Supreme Court reform has to be a litmus test for every democratic congressional nominee in 2026/8

I mean what on earth are district court judges supposed to do at this point other than get the message from SCOTUS to let Trump do whatever he wants to no matter what the law says.

I'm a very Jewy-looking Jew. So if an ICE agent doesn't like Jews, it's now constitutional to stop and detain me based on my looks, or is it only certain ethnicities they're allowed to discriminate against? #fascism