I’ve been in the I don’t trust the dude with the Nazi tattoo since the beginning and people were like oooooh but the alternative was Susan Collins or Janet Mills dummy. No the alternative is the party cultivating talent and doing capacity building

Every reporter who ever wrote a sentence on Biden’s decline or fitness for office should be legally required to explain why they’re not covering this shit. Every. Single. One.

the original “outside agitators” were abolitionists. the concept is rooted in the racist idea that black people aren’t smart enough to want their own freedom, they were just getting tricked into misbehaving by outsiders stirring up trouble.

The Crossville Republican cited the incident in which House Democrats gathered at the front of the chamber as Republicans voted to redistrict the state’s congressional map last week and locked arms in a show of solidarity against the GOP plan."

what, you mean the government usually has a reason for doing things and a bunch of dipshit crypto bros looking at a spreadsheet and going "lol that sounds stupid" is not a viable way to run the country?

This is awesome someone should tell the Sound Transit board

First MMWR on AIDS, 45 years ago tomorrow

I cannot stress how important it is for progressive orgs who intend on building power through community and diversity to distance themselves from Platner. There's no reason for people, especially minorities and women, to ever trust you if your standard of conduct for white men are in the toilet.

I just keep staring at this part chased the kid down shot the kid in the back and successfully claimed the kid was the aggressor sickening apnews.com/article/stor...

it's genuinely extremely disheartening to watch liberal and leftist men get more and more overt about their desire to rid themselves of the burden of having to pretend not to hate women and queers

Jail and prison are incredibly unsafe. There is no safe jail. The important thing to keep in mind when reading these stories is that the answer is always to let people be free (not to hire more doctors). apnews.com/article/ice-...

these people think they deserve to lead the party going forward and we need to correct that assumption

This is one of the reasons why I was so strongly opposed to what the Sound Transit board did last week. By undermining public support and trust with their vote to delay several ST3 projects, they also made it harder to get the funds needed to fix the Rainier Valley section. 1/2

Delaney freedom fighters, inside & outside, are forcing the world to see what it is: a concentration camp where people are held captive due to who they are, without due process. They are catalyzing demand to close this and all camps.

I can't stop mentioning that Marco Rubio was confirmed in a 99-0 vote that had a celebratory atmosphere and literally none of them have apologized, explicitly, for that vote

It's ridiculous that police departments make up around 30-50% of the average municipality's budget, but those same police look at you like you're stupid if you ever ask them to investigate a crime.

United Healthcare is at it again!!!

This is fucked up. @bvibber.bsky.social was one of my best friends in high school. I remember after college when she showed us this website she'd been helping build in her spare time, this "online encyclopedia" anyone could edit. Worked most of her adult life there. Fired for organizing a union.

Seriously, why would anyone come here to watch the World Cup this month? In West Seattle today

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

I'm just playing catch-up today to last month's murders of the Ocean Observations Initiative and the NPR Climate Desk

We have got to have better judicial ethics and conflict of interest enforcement mechanisms up and down the court system. This vibes based honors method is not working.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the shifting baseline concept as applied to everyday life. People in their 20’s now have no memory of highly functional systems, products (from blenders to sweaters) that were so well made you could hand them down across generations, or even helpful customer service.

I love my city but there is a minority of the population who is used to being able to veto any change to the status quo. It prevents the city from being dynamic, trying new things, and being able to meet the needs of the moment and prepare for the future.

ICE insists that it needs to spend $1B detaining people inside Delaney Hall to protect Americans from "murderers, rapists, and pedophiles." People inside and protestors outside say the facility is inhumane, exploitive, and unnecessary. What does the data say? 🧵

Good job, fascists. You are well on your way to killing the next million people in your eugenicist agenda.

Focusing on how the protestors are "so peaceful" is like the "immigrants who have never committed a crime." Prosecuting protestors is always political, and prosecutors can always argue a law was broken, like vandalism or "violence."

spoke to some Utahns on the ground about the A.I. data center complex that Kevin O'Leary wants to bring to Box Elder County, how they're pushing back, and what the groundswell of protests could mean for Utah's politics more broadly: slate.com/technology/2...

DACA renewal delays are upending lives across LA. As federal delays drag on, DACA recipients in Los Angeles are watching careers unravel and questioning whether the country they’ve spent years contributing to still has a place for them. lapublicpress.org/2026/06/daca...

Cities will tell us we can’t block side streets from vehicles “because of fire trucks and garbage truck access” and then install things like this which those vehicles can’t navigate through anyway. Just makes you realize that’s all bogus and what they want maintained is private vehicle access

"The cause of freedom has advanced only because of those who have been willing to stand up against government overreach." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

DRT IS BACK!!! disasterrelieftrials.com?utm_source=i...

Politicians and police pushing a line of "outside agitators" are following a playbook written by neo-Nazis and the KKK. Don't make us tap the interview with @transform6789.bsky.social. libcom.org/article/anti...

Somebody one described LLMs as “mansplaining as a service” and that definition has stuck with me ever since

Migrants at ICE concentration camps in California, Michigan, & Pennsylvania join hunger & labor strike started by 300 people in New Jersey’s Delaney Hall operated by GEO Group "Hunger strikes are a tool that people use when they are most desperate, where they feel that they have no other options"

The president of the United States—elected by the GOP voters—is hosting a cage fight at the White House for personal profit. He’s just YOLO doing it, doesn’t care that we know. GOP folks, how can you live with this as the head of your party?

I can’t believe we’re sleepwalking into this shit.

At the start of my terrorism studies course, I ask students what most terrorists have in common. They always say: 1- Mental illness 2- Religion. They are, of course, wrong. The two most common traits of violent extremists are: 1- Gender 2- History of domestic violence and online mysogyny.

People are so mad about this; wait till they find out this is our least controversial opinion.

Standoff at Delaney Hall ICE continues, New Jersey. Currently shooting rubber bullets at media. Live:

"We must learn to resist a singular focus on ICE as a rogue agency, looking instead to how the sprawling border policing apparatus has been built up over years as a bipartisan effort. We certainly do need to abolish ICE, but that cannot be the only goal." - @harshawalia.bsky.social

“The mainstream right is crawling into the sewer of neo-Nazi ideology but you probably wouldn't know it unless you were a right-wing extremist yourself. Even news outlets that dedicate significant resources to covering the scourge of antisemitism generally ignore it, at least in the United States”

Westneat is pretty much against anything and will contradict himself to be against things.

i hate the way the word 'podcast' sounds coming out of my mouth so when strangers ask me what i do, i tell them i'm a writer. i do write for a living! i just also then read what i've written into a microphone. but yesterday someone hit me with the followup, 'what books have you written?' 🫠

This Delaney Hall curfew likely violates both the U.S. and New Jersey Constitutions, and certainly violates them both by failing to exempt press. Press require sight and sound access to do their job. Think of them like a first responder, running to danger to keep public informed.

a lot (most?) people understand racism as “being a meanie” and if you aren’t a meanie then you can’t be racist, even if you believe in, say, the biological inferiority of entire groups of people based on phenotype

One of the things i keep trying to get people to understand is that these linguistic shorthands and stylistic flourishes have existed in writte and spoken communication for long before "AI" got ahold of them, and their proliferation with the training data is a part of where "AI" "learned" them. …

it's actually very good that the average federal prosecutor is now a recent graduate of a barely accredited law school, we did this on purpose and we couldn't be happier with our decision. checkmate, libs.

Seattle Public Schools adopted a flawed English language arts curriculum in which middle schoolers no longer read whole books. When some teachers tried to teach whole books anyway, district admins made them stop.

"He's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he's gone" is a very good line of attack against Trump.