Hope porn. youtu.be/gja-HKD2B6A?...

It's also deeply weird to be in the middle of a shutdown during which people doing actual productive work can't get paid, and having the president just start doing an optional reno project

The stupid thing about non-recognition of Palestinian Sovereignty is that Gaza should have a military with support from other countries for training to ensure that its borders exist, it has a valid route to the sea, and that it has access to its Egyptian border to ensure the peace deal.

The administration seems to be wanting to conflate a "ceasefire" with "disarmament " which will lean that Hamas can be said to have broken the "peace" plan if they don't fully disarm which is a ridiculous disingenuous demand.

i think people sometimes overstate the likelihood of america’s credibility being lost forever; forever is a very long time. but i think the next dem AG will need to commit effort and resources to investigating the full truth of the second admin and prosecuting them accordingly, starting with rubio.

I love Seattle because we get one peal of thunder and everyone is texting like "gunshots? Fireworks? Bomb? Literally what was that?"

For the #NoKings protest in Taylor, TX, I invoked abolitionist Frederick Douglass. #skystorians 🗃️ #AbolishICE

Entering my miniatures era

one thing you learn going to these protests is there is a general pro-Palestinian AND pro-Ukrainian consensus among the opposition but you wouldn’t know that solely from online spaces

Anyways about that USAID funding, Mr. Foreword to AIDS in America Writer:

The biggest part of this to me is that if they were brought here and forced to explain themselves, it would have torpedoed the government's lies that these were drug boats. They cannot have survivors telling us through affidavits and testimony that we are openly committing war crimes.

Good example of how much of a hack Oren Cass is—on April 2nd he had *the White House* publish his praise for Trump's tariffs, and now suddenly those tariffs were "haphazard", created "heightened uncertainty", and have "needlessly antagonized Allies"

A crime so bad you need not prove it in a court of law! Your punishment? Death or a very stern warning before going home. It boggles the legal mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

This seems like a good opportunity to remind folks that solitary confinement is torture

In the meeting, Harrell interrupted and talked over his female opponent, suggested she wasn't making any sense, and belittled her, saying repeatedly, "Do you smell that?" (meaning bullshit), which prompted one staffer to ask him, "Are you having a stroke?"

Friends, if you haven’t been to a normie protest before, please don’t let some nutters on the internet worry you that you’re going to be tear gassed and beaten, it will be fine. By all means be reasonably cautious, but this is not a black bloc event okay? It’s fine.

I'll be honest, seeing what my employer posted after its 9 month posting hiatus is more nauseating than what it's said in office. I don't hate my work and have found it reasonably untouched (though I've written down my red lines), but Christ I can't believe what is going on around me.

Clearer than ever that the Epstein Files are what could bring this all crashing down and they're trying to get everything fascisted up before anyone can make that happen

This is functionally a robbery of New York City and New York State taxpayers, who contribute billions more to the federal government annually than we get back. Stealing our money, blocking our bus lanes.

It should be noted that the entire justification underpinning this policy is Texas House Bill 229, a law that only says that state documents may only have "male" or "female" on them and enshrines definition of "male" and "female" into law. The bill says absolutely nothing about class curriculum.

Again, this is a liquidation of the union in all but letter of the law. This is reverse secessionism engineered by a central government.

just go to the protests take whatever precautions you personally feel comfortable with but these are massive, joyful events, go and have fun

once again wishing democratic politicians and pundits would speak out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns cities are "real america" just as much as any twee main street or dying industrial town

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

I don't understand how everyone on Hinge has abs? I live here and go out enough that I feel like I know what the Seattle median is. This website is a mirage.

Adding prolapsed butthole to the list of things to confirm your radial symmetry project doesn't give.

Let's fucking go! For endorsements I helped do, see the LD43 cheat sheet here: 43rddemocrats.org/endorsements...

Fossilized Northeast Democratic machines running sclerotic candidates is going to be the death of America

the government needs to stay shut down until the authoritarianism is meaningfully constrained or Republicans break the filibuster

Bessentch better have my money.

The bipartisan consensus against the International Criminal Court is so absolutely disgusting. I listened to Cory Booker say he wants to see less violence in Africa, and then he went after the ICC for its looks at Israel—which are an essential step to the ICC proving it is not a western anti-Africa/

The biggest personal problem I have with the government shutdown is again discovering how much money I pay to not be able to cook lunch. I think I can squeeze another week of living expenses out of the fact that I have a stove and oven available.

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Personal update: I just learned to change a headlight on the car I learned to drive in 15 years ago.

Can't film a geology video without a green M&M anymore, cuz woke

Read a book about monopoly, but there are insufficient copies to share out

A pesto-centered restaurant: The Basilica

I love sitting with the people in my life as they go "I should move back in with my ex-roommate" as I just think about how the entirety of the drive from Indiana to Oregon I was getting a play by play of why they needed to stop living together and how separate sides of the country were needed.

Halle Berry saying "I work for the American people, and you're keeping them in the dark" in Moonfall (2021) is one of the funniest things I've heard during the government shutdown.

Amtrak Cascades party carriage when?

I have the best animal neighbors.

You ever remember King Street Station has Dough Zone two blocks away and you don't have to dine on microwave mac and cheese on your way to Portland?

There have been so many sales tax increases under Mayor Tax-the-Poor.

Like every mayor before him, Harrell wants arts and culture events downtown. The difference is that "you're going to see a lot of AI in it."

The mayor who let minimum 12 full time salaries go to keeping a hotel—contracted to put unhoused people under a roof—empty:

Every line is an applause line with this crowd. It's so interesting to see Harrell deal with a friendly audience in a familiar setting (the WAC) without anyone challenging him in any way. Mayor Friendly emerges, a huge contrast from the contempt and rudeness he shows when his opponent is present.

I described a friend as moving past the end of the world to my brother, who lives in the bad Vancouver. "What, do they live in Renton now?" "Beacon Hill."

*screaming~ Mayor Harrell wants us to believe being an executive director of a major philanthropy org is the same as doing direct client-facing work. Having gone to school kind of for the former (big part of MPA cohorts do that) and been the latter, this man lives in irreality.