In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

NOAA has been depriving us of more incredible folk songs.

"Hemp"-derived products that contain only CBD will continue to be legal, and any state that's legalized cannabis will still have legalized (and regulated) cannabis. This is just to close the loophole that resulted in some dangerous products being technically legal.

The inclusion of the ban on THC-containing products derived from "hemp" is to close this loophole and stop allowing THC that's chemically converted from CBD. The completely unregulated market for these products has resulted in some dangerous shit being sold!

What it bans is the loophole that accidentally made selling THC-containing products legal in nearly every state, as long as you started with a plant that was less than .3% THC. It's possible to chemically convert CBD to THC. The process is expensive and kinda dangerous!

THREAD!!!

This is deeply misleading. The agricultural section of the bill does NOT ban hemp-derived cannabinoid products that contain less than .3% THC total. www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/hemp/news/15...

Re-upping for #RemembranceDay

Alt text on their social media posts. Alt text of quoted tweet: Black text on a white background reading "All video games should have", followed by a line inviting you to complete the sentence.

"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives." As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly. jrnl.ie/6864189

Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa. Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality. In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.

Lifetime maximums pre ACA were deadly.

Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down? Federal workers aren’t furloughed. Funding for social services doesn’t dry up. Failure to pass a budget triggers an election. It puts the politicians jobs on the line. They get the budget passed.

Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot. Vote in your local elections! www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...

NY doesn’t have caucuses we have closed primaries. But same deal. That’s why @nywfp.bsky.social wants us to stay registered as Democrats: so we can win the primaries like Zohran & AOC did.

Cops are great

Councilmember Eric Zimmerman sent a bullshit email to District 4 Problemsolvers complaining that the camps are ugly when viewed from inside your car, and therefore everyone should testify against the amendment. I replied to him. And I deleted the "Eat farts" before I hit send.

The world would be immensely better if more religions and their believers had even a tenth of the dedication the Sikhs do to doing good for people with no gatekeeping or expectations of anything other than "you are a fellow human in need and we can help you"

Oh, I forgot to mention! If you are going to be at a Broadway, Off-Broadway, or touring production in the next few weeks, it is the fall Red Bucket Follies, one of the main fundraisers for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadwa...

Also, because I would be remiss if I didn't include it: fuck Margaret Thatcher

My contribution to Edmund Fitzgerald Day: Bobby Sands MP, who died in a hunger strike while imprisoned in the notorious Maze prison, used the tune of Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" for his protest song "Back Home In Derry": m.youtube.com/watch?v=vMu6...

My favorite annual event! Folks, I know it’s been a tough and terrible year. If you can spare some money for this very worth cause, please chip in. With the uncertainty around SNAP this year it’s more important than ever.

Chuck Tingle is the only identity of Chuck Tingle I need to know about.

welcome to bluesky. if the word "mapquest" means anything to you and/or you used it as a verb, you're in the right place

In Edmund Fitzgerald news: There’s an analysis of the weather leading up to the sinking. I think it firms up the Three Sisters rogue waves lifting the stern theory. And that storm was BAD. One of the comments calls it a cold hurricane. It fits. So does bomb cyclone. youtu.be/d1FE69h-mdk?...

What happens to disabled people WILL ALWAYS happen to you.

SEATTLE CURE YOUR VOTES PLEASE

We all knew that. It’s you and your colleagues that seem to think otherwise, because CRs are the only way to force them to agree to funding. Instead, you’ve conceded the point after weeks of suffering which you rendered worthless.

In my head, to the tune of 7 Drunken Nights: "So I read the reply and I said to her Could you kindly tell to me How you see a question mark Where no question mark would be? For it's many a day I've posted A hundred skeets or more. But no advice did you need to give When no advice I asked for."

*** 11th ANNUAL BULL CITY FOODRAISER FUNDRAISING THREAD *** It's that time again! 🦃 For the 11th year in a row, we need your help providing groceries to 5,100+ schoolkids! ➡️ GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/11th-annua... ➡️ PPGF: www.paypal.com/US/fundraise... (Plus other donation options in thread!)

Now that Greg Bovino is wearing his court-ordered body cam, he's wide open to FOIA requests, so have fun with that.

BREAKING: We won! Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years. pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...

If I have to know this, so do you:

The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling

On the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, I always think of T. D. Mischke's '90s radio interview with a historian, who Mischke surprises by *singing every question* to the Lightfoot tune. The historian gamely gives straight answers! (at 8:00) www.mischkemadness.com/audiofiles/t...

i found this out YESTERDAY and i'm boggled

How do so many democrats still not understand that the ACA *was* the compromise.

Check your ballots, Seattle! A couple years ago my signature wasn't accepted and it was easy to fix and get it counted. info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

Why is it just always Charlie Brown trying to kick the football with these people? “A promise of a vote on healthcare” = bupkis.

Before the ACA, I couldn't get insurance as a freelancer at all, bc I'm a type 1 diabetic, so "pre-existing conditions." It was absolute shit on my health, scavenging for insulin & test strips, constantly in life or death debates about being able to go to the doctor. I had no primary care.

Caving now means they literally did it for nothing and caused harm to people for nothing. Just absolute failure on every level.

Imagine coming off an incredible Election Day mandate from coast to coast and going 'you know what voters want? to be completely sold out by a bunch of craven cowards too pathetic to hold the line against a bunch of fucking weirdos'

All of this is confirming my belief that Republicans never learn from a loss and Democrats never learn from a win

Insight Brewing in Northeast Minneapolis is doing this as well.

If a budget deal goes through without restoring Medicaid & ACA subsidies, they will never be restored. That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.

This is a fantastic series of posts about subsistence farming and why your ancestors will rise from the grave and smack you if you return to it after they got out.

trump was solidly booed at the commanders game...proud of you, DMV...

HOW IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE TO FUCK UP THIS BADLY

Contact your lawmakers: Democratic, to tell them to hold the line; and, yes, Republican, to stress that this budget will have grievous consequences for the entire country, including financial ruin for many of their largest donors www.congress.gov/members/find...