"Keep it one hundred / On the land, the sea, the sky" would be a banging new motto for the Coast Guard. Just saying. #TheFateOfOphelia

Taylor Swift is coming for me tonight. Eldest daughter “Every eldest daughter Was the first lamb to the slaughter So we all dressed up as wolves and we looked fire.”

Travis has been out there saying Opalite is his favorite, but Fate of Ophelia is quite the bop and he’s the dark lady of that sonnet.

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

Leslie Jones wonders how Jillian Michaels went from counting calories to counting slaves

All the Pundits spending all of their time on What Democrats Must Do should be spending all of their time asking the Lisa Murkowskis & Mitt Romneys why they aren’t following Bill Kristol’s lead & why they continue to ally with/enable the far right authoritarians & have done so since 2016.

Couldn't take Chicago, so he's going after Portland. Like a high school bully that got bodied by a wrestler so he tries to take it out on a theater kid. Pathetic.

Disturbingly relevant. Think of the insurance lawyer who filed the charges against Comey or the ICE jackass dropping his gun on Wednesday www.youtube.com/watch?v=362J...

Sinclair restoring Kimmel to its networks, and this whole situation in general, needs to be a lesson that we imprint in our minds and add to our arsenal of fighting back against fascism. If we are forced to live under capitalism then we can wield capitalism as a weapon and win.

Guess my day long headache is not random. It’s just crap air quality in Seattle.

Oh joy.

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

BREAKING: Cascade PBS, which operates the website Crosscut, is laying off 19 people, reportedly including its entire news staff. In an email to staff, CEO Rob Dunlop blamed federal cuts, saying the nonprofit is "winding down our longform, written journalism."

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi. This is *not* normal. I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

Bob from Chicago continues to be awesome.

My mom’s new Catholic parish family has a “pierogi ministry.” I’m reading the description of volunteers needed and it’s clear this is pierogi making at scale. Walk-in freezers and multiple dough squads are involved.

RTO is to productivity & innovation what taking our shoes off at TSA checkpoints was to security. Mostly performative.

JOSH. FUCKING. ALLEN.

I feel like that was the opposite outcome of so many heartbreaking Bills games in my lifetime.

Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans. As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA. See this:

Also, this is basically a metaphor for everything that’s happening to my country right now.

The Joann Fabrics in Shoreline, WA is now literally a Spirit Halloween. So the place we used to be able to go to get fabric and materials to make awesome Halloween costumes from scratch is a pop-up with cheap mass-produced Halloween crap.

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

As flagged by Democracy Docket, Mitchell recently appeared on a podcast where she highlighted a president’s ability to intervene in voting by citing a “threat to the national sovereignty of the United States.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Someone I know please apply for a spot on the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library board and then agitate for the city branches to get more staffing and resources, pretty please. www4.erie.gov/boards/volun...

An Ancestry dot com feature that highlights who died of things now prevented by vaccinations would be illuminating. I’m convinced my 4x great grandma had “of the smallpox” engraved on her tombstone in 1802 with I WANT THEM TO KNOW energy.

Seattle researchers argue that COVID-19 vaccine approvals should keep relying on antibody measures, while also adding T cell data and real-world outcomes like long COVID, to ensure vaccines remain protective as the virus evolves. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

You can now explore President William McKinley’s 1901 autopsy files online thanks to the University at Buffalo Libraries. 📚 library.buffalo.edu/news/stories...

Thank God.

Just watched a large amazon delivery truck with lights off do a 3-point turn on 20th Ave NE in Seattle, back into a fire hydrant (loud crunch, hydrant now slightly leaning, and drive of)f. Posting to document time for myself

Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."

ICYMI, Social Security’s chief data officer reported that DOGE staff took actions that “constitute violations of laws, rules, and regulations, abuse of authority, gross mismanagement, and creation of a substantial and specific threat to public health & safety.” He was fired. Now this.

We can’t have Jarts, Kinder Surprise Eggs, or drop-side cribs, but sure…

Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy

COVID-19, Flu May Reawaken Dormant Cancer Cells jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... All the more reason why we need to keep up with our vaccines!

Alas, my nation is in the grips of a heavy “we’re gonna ignore science” phase.

Lordy, do I ever need my son to own & drive the preparations for moving him into a dorm in a few weeks. But this is apparently not something 18-year-old boys really do?

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)

This is especially troubling given that final approval was expected by many for COVID19 vaccines last week, and it did not come. I’m devastating that the Republican Party would rather watch people die than remove Kennedy from office.

Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.

The Vaccine Integrity Project has posted links to trustworthy, evidence-based recommendations on fall vaccines at: www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte... www.npr.org/2025/08/24/n...

When the lawsuits come from the federal workers >>>>

Had never heard this before but now we know that Prince may have died of dysentery before the rest of us.

Have yall not been paying attention to everyone else whose been taking on Trump? Pritzker? AOC? Crockett? Mamdani?

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