Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor with a mandate to make the company's chat bot less 'woke.' www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...

⭐️Rally for fired Texas State history professor Dr. Tom Alter and for #FreeSpeech this Thursday, September 25th, 11am at the Hays County Courthouse, San Marcos. ✊

Earlier this month, three trans women were beaten by a group of young men in Seattle's gay neighborhood. According to the county prosecutor's office, there's been at least four more group beatings since June 2024. In one case, strangers joined in. The kicker? www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

Every accusation is a confession. This is political indoctrination—the exact kind they accuse the left of.

This is the rapture

Seattle (bathroom) scene report

Meanwhile our boss is keeping himself busy licking Trump’s boots and trying to get his blowup doll new wife cast as a Bond girl

Anyway, off I go to another protest…

A few strategies I use: 1. Talk with students about how: 1) AI tends to produce work that is at best mediocre and at worst just wrong, 2) using AI habitually weakens the critical thinking skills that make college valuable, and 3) AI exploits environmental resources and content creators.

Like, this fake headline generator is great. Let us do this for everything. (If there is an easy-to-use NY Times headline generator, reply w link) mamdanitimes.com

“Winding down our longform, written journalism”—what could go wrong?

Seeing a lot of talk about medical misinformation (which I get!) and not enough talk about how autistic people are wonderfully and fearfully made just like everybody else and there is no need to find ways to prevent our existence or “cure” our neurodivergence.

Leo might be the only Pope to ever watch Entourage because he just pulled an Ari Gold

Yes, Cascade PBS is our (Seattle Times's) "competitor," so to speak, but also its journalists and their work has pushed us to do better ourselves -- When a region loses a journalist, its impact goes far beyond just a single job.

Today, I was laid off from Cascade PBS along with my entire team and most of the newsroom. I'll have more to say, but I have loved my time as news editor alongside some of the best journalists I have ever worked with. Every time a newsroom closes, stories go with it. The silence that follows is loud

Broadview, IL today

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

Disney fired and unfired Jimmy Kimmel the right way. by Ezra Klein

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

Just gotta say: boycotters got DISNEY to blink. DISNEY! In the face of overt pressure from the Trump administration! WE collectively did that! If you participated in the mass cancellation of streaming services and other Disney stuff, you should feel good about this. WE are greater than THEM.

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

Seattle scene report

In my sleepy haze this morning, I accidentally popped an Advil instead of my antidepressant. But at my age, it’s gonna help with something, so it’s all good.

Remember when being a podcaster meant, "deeply reported narrative audio news" and not "anyone with a mic spewing whatever half thought came to mind"?

I would love for a reporter with an established history/relationship with Sophie to ask her which of Charlie Kirk’s messages she agreed & disagreed with. I.E. “reject feminism,” “prowling Blacks,” Black women lacking “brain processing power.” Not in an antagonistic way, asking her with curiosity.

Under pressure from Texas government officials, Angelo State University in Texas is banning all discussion or mention of the existence of trans people along with banning the LGBTQ pride flag from campus and forced misgendering of trans people. conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...

Is it the rapture or do I live with a teenager?

With the unlawful Caribbean strikes, Trump officials are claiming the right to kill anyone merely by saying the targets are drug dealers—no real evidence needed—and by saying drug dealers are terrorists. The same week, they're claiming that criticism of Charlie Kirk is promoting political violence.

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

The University Democrats at UT-Austin, a longstanding student group, has been told that no guests, candidates, or speakers can speak at their meetings unless the administration approves them. Submitted speakers' lists have been ignored or summarily denied. Please HMU if you know a good 1A attorney

The audio quality on the Giants fans tonight is incredibly crisp lol. Can hear every word!

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Arrested because a white woman demanded he change the way he was sitting and when he didn’t, she complained to the conductor about his posture. His posture.

periodically I see the president doing things like “post crimes for his attorney general to do that were maybe supposed to be an unencrypted DM on his own personal social network” and I remember that he got elected in large part because of information security practices and I black out in rage

TFW you’re living in Seattle in the time of climate change

When you're trying to come up with a fake name to tell the mall cop after he caught you stealing from Spencers

Yesssss! 👏👏👏

If Roadhouse was set in Montana

Usually I turn off the brain rot Red Zone channel as soon as my teenager leaves the house, but now he’s got me hooked on it, goddammit!

Its me. I'm Fall Bitches. Fuck off, Summer.

Such comparisons also sit uneasily alongside the many angry calls at this event for retribution against and the vanquishing of their perceived enemies (roughly half of their fellow citizens). Not exactly what Jesus would do, but whatevs

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L’Shana Tova, friends!

I couldn't resist the obvious.

Seattle scene report: Our locally owned pharmacy was bought out by Rite Aid, but then Rite Aid went bankrupt, so…

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

When the New York Times interviews a person, and that persons says "we all know Joe Biden kicked Trump off social media," a statement that you don't even need to know the timeline to know isn't true, let alone "we all know," and you STILL INCLUDE THAT QUOTATION IN THE NEWSPAPER

Elon Musk did this