Uh oh, @techdirt.com is doing @jackjenkins.me dirty by calling him an "unexpected news source". Seriously, though, follow Jack. He's got really good insights on things like this.

I need every pundit and mainstream democratic policymaker to read this article from @elienyc.bsky.social, especially this part. The fascists do not care about logical consistency because they have something better: power www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Look, this isn't a good reason to hurt Kenvue. The fact that the company exists as a way for J&J to limit their exposure in talc and opioid lawsuites is a much better reason.

Good time for folks who haven’t to pitch in to support the hard work Erica does for our city!

“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.” So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.

It's extremely weird if you've never paid any attention to US politics. Abortion and same-sex marriage are just two recent examples where the federal government actively worked against an overwhelming majority opinion. When you call everything unprecedented, it erases history.

Just a reminder that there's no reason to invoke Islamophobia for something that is very much a product of American Christianity. The Taliban don't need to pull these mental gymnastics because their laws explicitly state that Afghanistan is an Islamic country.

One of the hills im willing to die on (and probably will die on because stress fucking kills) Is that preemptive crime solving is just racism and classism The police helicopter been circling for HOURS They not looking for a suspect Nothing happened But I can't sleep bc all i hear is

The thing about the Equifax leak years ago is that smaller leaks like this just don't compare. Plus, the credit companies all funnel money back and forth for "monitoring" after these breaches, which are full of predatory auto-renewals. The result is that they MAKE money after breaches.

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

Never fails

*IS* it getting under their skin, though? Or do Democrats just think it is?

The man has thrown trans people to the wolves and gotten into bed with STEVE BANNON. YOU are the one that needs to do better and stop accepting a guy who does good PR as good enough. This shit is tiresome. You people are why we keep going further and further right.

Appealing to the right is not about saving the Dem party or the country or democracy. It’s about individual political egos seeing a moment and trying to use it to make themselves richer and more powerful.

These maps are the best indicator of average net worth in this city. If you ever want to ask, "where do the rich people live?" your answer is right here.

wtf you talking about? samsung is totally participating

I mean...yeah. This whole amendment sounds like a bunch of special interest carve-outs. The fact that most of our council cannot comprehend the follow-on effects of such large exemptions is an excellent point showing how they are not equipped for their jobs.

Counterpoint: tech companies rarely invent new tech Source: over 20 years working in tech, including almost 17 years Amazon and Salesforce Also, it's well-proven that age verification does not protect children. It only endangers privacy.

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

Yeah? Well, human beings with an iota of empathy call it pure evil.

Boooo Paramount made me take these off Et$y but they can still be yours!!!! Who wants a Lower Decker on their head? (I'm beyond broke at the moment so an order would help me out enormously 🙏) #StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks #crochet #cosplay

It is not, and in no case ever should be, the job of government to decide what constitutes "art."

I'm not going to challenge Nelson's statement here, but it's pretty meaningless. In Seattle, you can also say that we can't allow more housing density because most of the comments are about trees. These both may be true, but they don't represent the actual BELIEFS of Seattlites.

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure there have been several cases that say you can't charge someone for liking a social media post. I'm not fan of Hollingsworth (or, well, 8 of the 9 CMs), but this amendment makes sense.

I worked dispatch at an HVAC company in semi-rural NC one summer. We would absolutely bump people off the schedule when the elderly or disabled called because their AC was out. It was a standard part of the script to ask if they relied on the AC for their health.

Nothing more perfectly describes the current political climate in the US than democrats fawning over Gavin Newsom for his comebacks on X/Twitter less than 3 months after he platformed Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon on his podcast. This is the most fucked up rehabilitation tour I've seen.

If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

The Doomsday Clock is just at midnight now, right?

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can’t believe this still needs to be said, but: stop following altNPS. none of them work for the NPS and they exist to do Qanon numbers station crap and sell merch. it’s annoying for a lot of us that are actually NPS. thanks

I'm seeing a lot of blue state/red state discourse today. This is a reminder that Sarah is right: we're all purple like a bruise. The large protests in states run by the GOP prove that. They're not red, they're hurting.

How many more examples before people understand that transphobia is violence

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Wilson, an elected official, serves at the will of the voters and there's no way to remove him—a nonbinding resolution is the most the council can do, and they did. This isn't a matter of "due process" in any legal sense at all.

The protests will stop when the kidnappings stop.

I see they're speed-running the 2020 playbook. Next up is shooting, gassing, and beating legal observers, I think. There were a lot of apologies about foreign press and legal observers in 2020. I'm not really expecting that this time, though. They're not worried about getting away with it this time.

This thread could easily have been pulled out of 2020 Twitter from Portland or Seattle. This shit doesn't change. Police actions are arbitrary, violent, and unconstitutional.

I mean, these days, the police aren't trained to do that either. They also view everyone else as a potential enemy.

But it would be a mistake to focus too much on which statutory power is being used here. What matters it that Trump is federalizing the Guard for the purpose of policing Americans’ protest activity. That’s dangerous for both public safety and democracy. 8/19

Having designated crisis responders (DCRs) evaluate every drunk or high person who goes to the emergency room to decide whether they need to be locked up in a facility would undoubtedly keep people from seeking care when they're most in need of emergency services. seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Propaganda I’m not falling for: Women are to blame for men's loneliness Women hit a wall Trans women aren't women Medicaid fraud is rampant Vaccines are worse than the diseases they prevent Pew pews don't kill Gender affirming care is mutilation People with disabilities are scamming "the system"

I went to Seattle's Norwegian parade yesterday because my kid's school was in it. When a Norwegian flag is hanging at an angle, it looks like a different flag. One that makes a bunch of white people cheering in the street look a lot scarier. I did a double take when I saw it.

This is exactly what happened during the pandemic. Prices went up because production capacity went down. When capacity COULD return, it didn't because they could get more profit off sky-high margins with lower volume...and people were willing to pay for it.

sure. fine. that's nice. that's not a scalable solution and it condemns a lot of people to death. we are a collective and a society and it is our right to have safe nonpoisonous food. and we should fight for it.

whatever it's fine publicola.com/2025/04/29/n...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

It is wild looking back at these 2016 articles and seeing watered-down versions of them now written by rich people who denigrated or even threatened me at the time. I spilled my blood and they peddle it as sangria.

Right here, this is it. We spend all this money to "revive downtown". I'm looking for a new home. I was considering moving downtown, but it's just not a good idea for someone with a young child. It's not homeless people that make it bad. It's the lack of anything for families.