For no particular reason whatsoever, I wrote a whole book about why society should stop trying to cure #ActuallyAutistic people and instead focus more on creating a better world and society for them. You can buy it here. www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...

It's actually extremely alarming to me that the frontrunner for the open King County Council seat doesn't seem to know how the county's budget works, nor the systemic issues that have led to the county's budget issues. www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/22/k...

It’s an absolute must. Biden’s failure to do this in 2021-22 was catastrophic for our democracy and for many people’s lives.

What MAGA fears most is Black communities--not the rare individual Black conservative--from getting too much political and economic power. It has been this way since reconstruction, and will always be so. Everything will always be about this first, and women getting too much power second. Or both.

Madness

This

Immigration is a classic glonzo situation. Take something that is good and heathy, define it instead as a major threat, and thus only those who advocate extreme measures to deal with the threat get taken seriously. “Your facts and figures about how to stop glonzo don’t add up!” is a sign of weakness

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

Both stations?! Yowza. What a mess.

My whole freaking life this country has been mainly governed by shitty right wing ideas, but most everyone thinks the problem is we're too polarized or too divided.

Fevers are dangerous early in pregnancy and Tylenol is the only fever reducer pregnant people are supposed to take. In this freak’s mind, having a baby with congenital anomalies incompatible with life is *less bad* than having a child with autism

They are trying to use him as the flashpoint for a deranged Great Awakening. And because they are in a weird bubble, they don't understand how bizarre and offputting it is to normal people.

Step one: Cancel your Disney+ subscription. Step two: Build collective power so we can wield it against the Trump regime. I've got some suggestions and resources for your next steps. www.altrightdelete.news/p/for-real-l...

The initial reaction from MAGA was to use Kirk's death to launch a purge. But now they're using it to try and revive the Religious Right. This oughta be interesting. I don't think Trump would have won twice if he ran as a Religious Right candidate.

Trump, RFK Jr., and Boomers like them think there's One True Way for humans to think and behave. Recently a lot of progress had been made in understanding neurodiversity, that humans have different brain flavors, that it's normal and not cause for panic. But they're bent on upending all of that.

The number of people who are going to die because of this is horrifying to think about.

it's pretty radicalizing to become a parent in Seattle and realize that your child being able to do wholesome af stuff like this is at odds with the entire centrist political establishment, who consider their safety a luxury instead of a baseline requirement of urban living.

who was President from 1 Jan 20 until 20 Jan 21 continues to be the defining political question of our time

Get yourself a mayor like Sadiq Khan, who works this hard to create lively, car-free spaces in the city.

This is awful. Kids don’t learn more by making them take the same subject for a longer period of time. And abandoning science and social studies is insane. Where is @chrisreykdal.bsky.social on this stuff? Or is OSPI partly to blame (as they partly are for the Seattle split lunch debacle)?

It doesn’t matter if the state passes middle housing reform. All you have to do is fight back with tree protection bills designed to ban middle housing growth. The defiance is republican level sabotage

Governor Newsom has a historic opportunity to fix the policy roots of California's housing crisis. Sign SB 79! www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Oh my god it’s even worse. This isn’t a Saturday night live parody, this is actually what the leader of the Senate Democrats is saying: begging a fascist authoritarian to meet with them, showing weakness, rather than showing strength by making clear Trump gets nothing unless he caves to Dem demands.

Just absolutely unfit for the moment, deer in the headlights stuff

Also, Democrats have run many pro-life candidates in the South over the last 20 years. They almost always lose. This is not some novel idea! The fact that leading figures in the party are suggesting this is an original thought further illustrates the problem. abcnews.go.com/Politics/mis...

genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump

When elected Democrats only offer tepid resistance, that sends an unmistakable signal to other institutions that nobody is going to have their back.

What really frustrates me about the political data pundits is how regularly they ignore the actual data. Dan brings the facts in this thread, including this item. Democrats lose not because they're insufficiently moderate on policy but because they aren't convincing voters they will bring change.

Led Zeppelin, but potentially The Yardbirds or The Doors. (Yes I know two of those three are related.)

Barro gets it backwards: having a decent moral compass, ethics, and concern, caring, empathy for one’s fellow humans comes first; the liberal-to-progressive opinions on issues flow downstream from there.

Trump can be stopped if we have the courage to stop him.

It is really gross and disappointing that the only three members of WA's delegation to oppose this are also our only three women of color. Shame on Democrats Adam Smith, Kim Schrier, Rick Larsen, Suzan DelBene, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.

talked about this on the latest neonliberalism, but one of the distinctive features of the centerless centrists is that they try to triangulate not by paying attention to what conservatives actually want, but by what they imagine the median voter in their head wants.... ...with predictable results.

And this is the legal justification for trying the whole lot of them as war criminals.

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Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

I say this once again, our city council is currently populated by deeply unserious people.

When thinking about a possible government shutdown, consider that some of the key moments in the development of Anglo-American democracy were when the legislative body withheld money from the executive in order to stop the executive from committing abuses of power. A shutdown is the system working.

The Seattle City Council bullied District 2's elected council member into retirement, appointed their hand picked successor, and then scheduled the most important votes of the year for a day he told them a month and a half in advance that he wouldn't be able to make. So anti-democratic.

As someone who is autistic and has an autistic kid, this is an extremely ominous announcement. It would be nice if Congressional Democrats had any sense of urgency about dealing with this regime.

If you’re a democratic lawmaker who won’t do the right thing in Congress because of an outside threat, this is going to sound callous but you’re in the wrong job. This kind of stuff is your job. It’s the whole ballgame. “I’m afraid” is not a viable excuse.

I strongly agree with every single word of this. Public disorder is toxic to the pro urbanist political project and we must take it seriously.

This is good stuff from AOC

Sinclair should absolutely be broken up. Corporate media consolidation is poison for democracy. That consolidation now fuels the fascist regime.

I really think that Dems should demand firing RFK Jr. as a condition to fund the government his negative value over replacement cabinet member is undoubtedly the highest in the administration

This is what all our *currently* elected officials should be doing, and not nearly enough are. We need people who are willing to stand up against fascism, not weak-willed appeasers. Good on you, @katmabu.bsky.social

She’s a leader and a hero