My friend Kara, the one currently incarcerated at Carswell, has had her hormones cut yet again. They haven't done labs or anything on her in weeks. They've now reduced her to 3 mg a week for her HRT. We are still desperately searching for legal counsel who will advocate for her. Please help.

Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?

"If you have a water view, Bruce Harrell might be for you!"

The WORST people in Seattle are crashing out about mayor-elect Katie Wilson. Frankly, you love to see it VERY funny that Andrea Suarez thinks the reason Bruce Harrell didn't win is because he didn't give her and her jackboots the key to the city lmaooooooo

So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.

Congratulations Seattle Times for a clean sweep in the 2025 election—for mayor, city attorney, and city council, all of your endorsed candidates lost!

money, love, health, these are the demons you must slay to be bluesky's most prolific poster

Bruce Harrell makes his closing statement for why he should keep his job after his poor performance as Seattle Mayor and this line says it all. "This is not the time to hope."

Seattle Police spend 2.25x as much per officer as Boston, which has similar pay. rondezvouswa.com/p/seattle-po...

🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record. As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

The reason this moment is so fraught is because people are so comfortable. So make people uncomfortable. Show up to the protest. Be the family member at Thanksgiving that talks politics. Talk to your co-workers about the FCC and the New York Times lawsuit. Be That Person. Democracy depends on it.

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Whew!

In short, force them to try to rule by naked force because they *do not* have enough force and the very nakedness of it will mean they have less and less. The Civil Rights movement overcame far more with far less, if we had a fraction of their courage, we'll win.

We don't know what's going to happen so might as well fight for better. That's really my basic political orientation.

In July, Trump and his FCC chair Brendan Carr celebrated CBS cancelling Stephen Colbert—and Trump also threatened then that Jimmy Kimmel would be “next up.” Now that’s happened too. This is government censorship of comedians who Trump dislikes. This is the US constitution being set on fire.

My 2028 primary vote is for sale. The highest bidder is the Democrat who can convince me they aren't just going to return to normalcy but are going to actually going to hold these people accountable.

What’s at stake here is free speech. Across the board, we’ve seen the Trump administration use the power of government to go after anybody who’s criticized them — and in this case, Jimmy Kimmel. We need to all stand up and speak out.

Since Antifa isn’t really an “organization”, this is just carte blanche to arbitrarily declare people terrorists.

i think Kimmel could have the #1 podcast in the world in two weeks if he wanted to

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Bad headline: "ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel off air ‘indefinitely’ over Charlie Kirk comments" Good headline: "ABC bows to government pressure to pull Jimmy Kimmel off air ‘indefinitely’" Kimmel did not criticize Kirk. He said his death was being exploited and implied the killer was pro MAGA

reading a book about china. apparently the government there has sent federal forces into cities, taken shares of major private enterprises, slapped tariffs on industries, and pressured media outlets to fire people they politically disagreed with. didn’t know this.

I'm an antifascist. I have always been an antifascist, as any right-thinking person is. There is nothing to be gained in appeasing moral monsters when they ask for your submission, or your deft elision. You either stand firm or you will die in the ways that make biological death seem incidental.

The most important thing you'll read today: "Hope is a duty." charlesmcbryde.substack.com/p/hope-is-a-...

Alerta! Alerta! Nazi gathering signatures "for Palestine" at the Cal Anderson farmer's market on Capitol Hill. White male, around 5'10", ~170 pounds, beard, camo pants, dark t-shirt with runic symbol and "Reject Modernity" messaging on it.

This is genuinely the news every day

Is Cal Raleigh’s ass the most culturally significant ass since J. Lo’s? Can Cal Raleigh’s ass single-assedly save Major League Baseball? These are the things only the true sickos ponder (complimentary)

The Mariners retweeted this LMFAOOOO

The rise of people like Lander and Walz, whose ideologies don't exactly match mine but have the exact right combination of "love thy neighbor" and "fuck you, asshole" attitudes, is massive positive for people who care about left of center politics

Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nāṣir had "high quality copper"

The Zohran thing has been very revealing, and not in a way that speaks well to the Democratic Party as currently constructed. “Fix your hearts or die” would be my advice.

BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.

you can tell mamdani has the juice because they did the same type of desperate stuff to obama and aoc when they hit the national stage

Word on the street, literally, is that this is the biggest demonstration in Hungary since 1918

trump crash economy

Two major labor unions that backed Cuomo’s failed NYC Democratic mayoral bid are set to endorse Mamdani.

WE DID IT!!! WE STRUCK DOWN THE BAN :))))) so proud that Mady and I broke the story, but this couldn't have happened without all of you. everyone who reached out and pressured their Sens about the Byrd rule - thank you 💖💖💖💖 we protect us

Brilliant. 10/10. No notes.

A reminder that the @nytimes.com told New Yorkers to not rank Mamdani at all, & instead endorsed former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson. Tilson sits at a whopping .8%. Corporate media trust is dead. They killed themselves by failing to fulfill their promise of holding the powerful accountable.

how it feels to wake up from a lil nap that got out of hand

As I just learned today, there's a Russian word for this: "In Russian, it’s obnazhenie; ‘laying bare’.” It’s an approach to politics “in which all of the ugliness is right on the surface,” not concealed in any way. “And that’s its own kind of strategy. You just lay everything out there.”

People need to go to jail for this, and Dems need to be out there saying that people need to go to jail for this

God protect Doechi. bsky.app/profile/phil...

The Overton Window has shifted all the way to ban all non-white people from coming to America. It was never about illegal immigration.

Right now, Dems are hiding in their offices, scrolling their phones fearfully, wondering "how are voters going to feel about the National Guard being deployed?" The right, meanwhile, is vigorously *attempting to shape* how voters feel about it, filling every medium with coordinated propaganda.