Seattle No Kings from the monorail

Shohei Ohtani is just a fucking cheat code.

GRAND SLAM!!! #M's #Mariners #Suarez #ALCS

Today, Trump's trying to make us comfortable with masked agents on the streets. Tomorrow, Trump's looking to leverage this power, take advantage of our elections, and scare voters away. We must call this what it is: a power grab that echoes the rise of authoritarian regimes.

Jeanine Pirro’s office tried three times to indict a woman on bogus felony charges of assaulting an ICE agent. A DC grand jury turned her down each time. So Pirro brought a misdemeanor charge instead. And now a trial jury has acquitted her of that. www.huffpost.com/entry/sidney...

These people need to be sent to The Hague if the US legal system is too broken to bring them to justice. Every Democrat office-seeking should commit to doing so.

Happened upon this gorgeous coyote near the end of my bike ride today. They were hunting in the tall grass near a small retention pond. #nature #pnw #wildlife

“WHOAH! Be careful not to step in that pile of shit there!” exclaimed the man pulling his pants back up.

Happy #Caturday to all who celebrate. Here's Emma preening as Ella tries to nap below.

ICE in Portland is coming off like Gargamel getting repeatedly rolled by the Smurfs

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

You’ve gotta be kidding me. This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump. Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies. Really embarrassing stuff.

We live in a fever dream.

war-ravaged!

Here’s video of the incident

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Thorough accounting of TFP's shoddy journalism here. slate.com/technology/2...

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

1/ This is so f'ing outrageous. You cannot safely restrain people on their stomachs. They're going to kill people. This is very well known now.

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Welcome to our new era of merit

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

Happened upon this adorable rough-skinned newt during a hike today, after our first good fall rain. Felt like I stumbled upon a real life Pokemon. #pnw #naturesky #wildlife

Some statistics about the 16 blue states Russ Vought wants to target: - 39% of the country lives in those states. - They contribute 44% of GDP. - They are also home to almost a third of 2024 Trump voters, some 24 million of them. www.pbump.net/o/sorry-abou...

Drop whatever you’re doing and read the last 15 pages of this 161-page opinion. I’m serious. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Fox is showing viewers footage of vandalism from 2020. The White House is touting misleading statistics on violence. Trump’s allies are telling his base that the left is a dire threat, and even he is buying it. www.pbump.net/o/how-trumpw...

It is undeniable that this moment is being shaped by people who marinated for years in an informational environment where reality was not only demoted but actively disdained. It took a while for that bubble to become impermeable but it did and now we have a chunk of people who know nothing but.

This government is fundamentally anti-constitutional. Every branch.

Bertrand Russell once received letters from Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, inviting him to a debate. Russell not only declined but replied quite generally that “nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

This clear declaration that Trump views the DOJ to be an entity designed to impose his political retribution - alongside the clear evidence that it is already being used in this way - is impeachable.

Post now deleted, more or less confirming it was a DM. Great opsec!

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

I cannot overstate how remarkable it is that under GOP rule, US federal health regulations have been captured by fringe crackpots who espouse views that the vast majority of the US public—and nearly 100% of health professionals—reject. Gift link:

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.

This is false. For example, the libertarian @cato.org breaks down the numbers, showing about 6 deaths from right-wing politically motivated attackers for every 1 from left-wing attackers. Moreover, the claim that shooters represent anyone other than an unhinged fraction of society is the deeper lie.

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah. Political violence has no place in our country.

While South Korea might be mad at us over brutalizing their citizens for having the audacity to bring more manufacturing jobs to America, it’s important that it not overshadow other aspects of the relationship, like our president’s support for the guy who tried to end Korean democracy and start WW3.

This is abhorrent. America should not tolerate a president relishing in Pinochet-style rule over our own citizens.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site. This change to Grok’s answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

NEW: All but 1 of the Guatemalan children have been returned to HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement, DOJ tells Judge Sooknanan, and the fourth will be returned in approx. 3 hrs. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.

Useful frame for understanding Trumpism from @aselrod.bsky.social: "It’s not merely rule by the worst but an active assault on virtue wherever it exists. Trump/MAGA have turned the country over to the cruelest, most rapacious, and least honorable among us." www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Maybe we shouldn’t let someone who doesn’t believe in germs and who thinks it’s okay to eat roadkill and swim in contaminated ponds be in charge of our national food safety.

These are the kids whose medical treatment in the US Loomer objects to: "Leyan is a 14-year-old who was burned and injured by shrapnel in an explosion at her school. Ghazal, 6, was also hurt in an explosion. Another child, 8-year-old Anas, was hurt in an explosion that killed his entire family."