idk if you all know but this whole climate change thing is a pretty big deal come write about it! seattletimes.applytojob.com/apply/apstHy...

I love this. Not sure a flag decal on my Nissan Leaf would be quite as effective, sadly.

Good thread about how editing is way easier than writing so the goal of writing a first draft should just be to get placeholders onto paper so you have something to edit.

it's crazy how we just take for granted now that the president is a deranged racist

I’d like to thank the plumbing company that gave me a wildly absurd estimate to replace the corroded P trap in my bathroom sink for inspiring me to figure out how to do that myself with some light Googling and $30 of supplies

Happy Election Day, Seattle! I found myself subconsciously expecting there to be hard DVD-shaped objects in these ballot envelopes while I walked them to the drop-off box. Guess the early Netflix days hard-wired my brain. #votingselfie @elections.kingcounty.gov

There's a level of rich you can reach where the idea of being told no becomes unfathomable, and it probably shouldn't exist.

Well all the news makes me want to smash my phone, so I guess that’s enough internet for today

If you feel helpless, as I do, you can give money to a group you know will provide direct food aid on the ground whenever possible, often risking their lives. I just gave.

A+ prank if that’s what this is, sure got me

A great many things that are real today were previously unfathomable, but the one making me lose my mind is seeing “PRO SE” under the current President’s name

A few times, I've heard people who knew I had a male partner describe me as straight, and I don’t always correct them because it's exhausting, awkward, and their incorrect assumptions don't affect me much. But be aware that good people often accidentally erase identities other than gay or straight.

If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad.

👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers. That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value. It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

“Children are dying because medicines have been abruptly cut off, and risks of Ebola, tuberculosis and other diseases reaching America are increasing — while medicines sit uselessly in warehouses,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes of U.S.A.I.D. cuts in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

I have spent my life fighting for justice alongside brilliant lawyers, organizers, activists and artists. And I am not stopping now or ever.

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

The silver lining of all the incidents like this is that the experience of having a panicky, amoral bureaucrat punish you for doing something brave will be the most educational experience these young people get at school.

my soul left my body watching the fox news feed glitching out as the tanks roll past the president’s observation stand and the announcer’s voice echoes across the mostly empty streets, “special thanks to our sponsor, palantir”

I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC

Imagine you spend $45 million on your birthday party and what you get is that you have to watch this all day with everyone you work with who you made come in on a Saturday, in suits, outdoors in a swamp

Massive crowd moving through Seattle. The front of the march has reached Seattle Center. Meanwhile, people are still pouring out of Cal Anderson

For my sign, I went with a lyric from a local musician (Macklemore) #Seattle #NoKings

The chatbot instructed him to give up sleeping pills and an anti-anxiety medication, and to increase intake of ketamine, which ChatGPT described as a “temporary pattern liberator.” he also cut ties with friends and family, as the bot told him to have “minimal interaction” with people 😳😳😳😳😳🥴🥴🥴🥴

Here is a gift link to @kashhill.bsky.social's must read piece on the dangers of OpenAI's sycophantic LLMs and the parasocial relationships people are creating with them. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

The Senate bill aims to effectively end all civil rights lawsuits against the federal government except by entities rich enough to potentially pay million/billions in fees. I am not making this up.

There is a swarm of bees in the trees in our front yard tonight that was definitely not there yesterday and I didn’t believe that a roving swarm of bees was really a real thing until just now

This theory of the crime would mean that basically every protest is illegal as a conspriacy to impede a federal officer. Megaphones, placards, congregating in groups: all kind of intimidating.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Monday railed against the Trump administration’s unilateral deployment of the National Guard. “We didn’t need the National Guard,” Bass said. “Why on earth? What are they going to do?” wapo.st/3ZphBGl

“I’m one of the good guys keeping America safe,” I tell myself as I try to kidnap a six-year-old girl from an elementary school.

People are getting kidnapped by the secret police for arguing the position of the Financial Times opinion page.

It took just 15 years to get from Citizens United to this

I wonder if anyone’s told Trump about civil asset forfeiture yet

Oh Philadelphia how I miss you

ICE kidnapping people out of their trucks on Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket vineyardgazette.com/news/2025/05...

Fed Chair Powell graduation remarks to Princeton nod toward our current predicament: "Look around you. I urge you to take none of this for granted. When you look back in 50 years, you will want to know that you have done whatever it takes to preserve and strengthen our democracy."

It is kinda funny to me when the segregationists are like 'you need to be focusing on BUSINESS not diversity' and a company responds 'we've actually found that diversity is good for business 🤷🏾‍♀️' and then the segregationists are like wait no

happy for Khalil of course but i must say, "lawful permanent resident not charged with any crimes, imprisoned by president's stormtroopers for having forbidden opinions about US-abetted genocide, briefly allowed to touch his child" is a hell of a thing to find oneself feeling joy and relief about

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

New nightmare just dropped

Found a copy of Dan Brown’s 1998 “Digital Fortress” in a little free library. It was a simpler time.

Proud to see so many firms and lawyers I’ve worked with on here.

NEWS: More than 500 law firms sign on to an amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie amid the firm’s legal battle against Trump’s executive order targeting its business. Read the list of firms that signed the brief authored by former SG Don Verrilli: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

fortunately I put all my money into existential dread futures

Would love to hear how America’s boardrooms are handling investigation into the more “sensitive” tariff-response options, such as bribery Oh to be a General Counsel today

I've quoted this passage from Trump -- where he states his intent to cause riots and US economic collapse -- so many times. He flat-out announced it on Fox News in February 2014. In my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT I quote my own 2016 essay warning of his plan: www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

We had to ask him to stop tbh

I ended yesterday listening to Sen. Booker filibustering and now am starting my day weeping and listening to him still going. (He has not yielded the floor, just taking a “question” right now.)