the photographer was definitely like, "ok everybody, look tough!" but we know they're all just reading tweets with their arms crossed in a country club dining room divided up by bedsheets tacked to the beams

I’ve sent off my painted postcard to @paeartforacause.bsky.social which will go towards their Postcard Art Exhibit. This year, they are supporting people affected by Alzheimer’s disease. Please visit their page if you’re interested in purchasing #postcardartexhibit26 #birds #alzheimers #art

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

L'Etat, c'est moi. That's where we are now. Trump acting like MBS, Putin, a monarch, where he and his family are enriching themselves by acquire/occupy/seize/rule/exploit Gaza, Venezuela, Greenland and what the f-ck Witkoff and Kushner are negotiating with Putin.

FOLKS NEED TO REALIZE HOW HUGE THIS IS For the first time in modern Texas history, Dems have candidates running in every state and federal race on the 2026 ballot. That includes all congressional seats, every state House and state Senate race, plus statewide judicial and State Board of Education.

you simply do not have to preface your statements about this with “but Maduro sucks” whether or not Maduro sucks is entirely beside the point - we invaded another country and grabbed their leader with no justification other than “we wanted to” don’t give them cover on it

Precisely

Bombing another country and kidnapping its leader would also be wrong with Congressional approval. The outrage, and call for impeachment, should be over the evil and illegal outcome not merely the failure to follow the prescribed process.

i know that a lot of dem voters will just shrug their shoulders at this, but the world won’t forget! this stuff matters!

Trump openly frames military force as a commercial acquisition tool. You can’t credibly argue limited self defense, LE action, narrow authorization, or emergency necessity while simultaneously describing infrastructure takeover, profit generation, corporate involvement, and follow-on strikes.

Just a reminder: Venezuela's oil has NEVER belonged to the United States.

The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab

JD Vance: This is a law enforcement operation to bring a narco terrorist to Justice The President:

Very important in these media times to distinguish between independent journalists who do real reporting, and newsfluencers who repackage others’ work. It’s right to direct people to seek reporters with frontline sources, and wrong to smear independent journalists ly lumping us in with pretenders

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

Look at this fucking headline on CNN. “Snatching” “shows a new level of unrestrained global power” We’re living in imperialist dystopia, people. And the champagne-waiting-for-him-to-die thing is so irrelevant: this is *us* now.

if he is not stopped now, he will have no reason to stop

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

So it's appropriate to arrest a world leader if you consider them criminal? You can just go get them? Just asking questions here.

Imperialist Donald Trump goes full George W. Bush in Venezuela for the oil, illegally seizing its dictator and vowing regime change Without congressional authorization, Trump escalated an undeclared war with Venezuela. U.S. military forces captured the country's dictator and his wife after bombing…

A college sophomore at an Occupy rally could not have generated such a grotesque outsized caricature of US imperialism

Mushroom workers take fight to Washington Supreme Court nwlaborpress.org/2025/12/mush...

It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.

The U.S. will very likely lose its measles-elimination status, and Americans will have to confront how difficult this virus can be to control, Katherine J. Wu reports: theatln.tc/bZcb1Wmr

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In Germany 3 storey multi family homes are #strawhouse #passivhaus territory. This way building itself is 'green'.

This is your city — that means that you belong here, you have a right to be here and to live a dignified life, whatever your background and whatever your income. wilson.seattle.gov/2026/01/02/m...

My Fitbit finally died and I would love a watch that could do at least some of the smart things it did without spending more than $300 or sending all my personal data to tech bros. Am I in fantasyland?

Who could have foreseen

so basically our rich oligarchs launched a racist propaganda media campaign to demonize taxpayer-funded childcare, our garbage oligarch press parroted the attack, and now they're going to steal that money to put into their assorted cryptocurrency grifts

#PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky 🛟🫁💊 Today, California starts selling insulin at $11 per injection pen, the second drug sold under the CalRX label after naloxone. Albuterol inhalers and vaccines are next.

I may *or may not* have decided to light an orange candle every day in 2026...until it happens.

least surprising headline of all time

The boots were reportedly on loan but also $630 is mid-range for quality leather, well-constructed boots

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:

Chicanes are a prime example of self-enforcing infrastructure design. ​Unlike a speed limit sign, which relies on voluntary compliance, a chicane uses physical geometry to dictate safe speeds. It removes the choice to speed.

Having Grok issue an “apology” is not just insulting and stupid (obviously Grok cannot actually “regret” anything, deeply or otherwise) but cowardly: It asks us to assign responsibility to an unconscious piece of software rather than the humans and institutions who should actually be blamed.

Why is Seattle (and every other municipality) constantly going broke? Because property tax revenue is not allowed to keep up with inflation! Time to fix this.

stoked to have a cartoonist first lady

Since January 1, 2020, prices for goods, services, and labor have increased by 26%. But over the same period, #waleg has only allowed each jurisdiction’s property tax revenues to grow about 5% to 6%, plus the value of new construction. It’s time to fix this. Read my latest for the @inlander.com:

I volunteer my block as tribute.

Every time the legacy media tries to whip up some suburb-coded bullshit about Mayor Wilson she should pedestrianize another block. Whenever they get really over-the-top: whoops here's a superblock

Newspapers are like “unsettled New Yorker’s hold their breath as the Mamdani administration takes the reins from the insane man who does crimes”

For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok. Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

The way we need to market this shit is to do what conservatives did for the past 30 years and write books like “The ten forbidden truths you’re not allowed to say on politically correct tv” and then it’s just cities are mostly fine and it’s good to get a flu shot

I would like to direct all speeders to this chart

if you still use Twitter please understand that you are enabling and supporting this. It’s only going to get worse, so you may as well leave now and start rebuilding your “following” anywhere else.

And people are still on there?

#OTD in 2005, we lost Shirley Chisholm. Chisholm was an American politician, educator, and author. In 1968, she became the first Black woman elected to the US Congress--and represented NY's 12th congressional district for 7 terms from 1969 to 1983. #WomenInPolitics