Watch Duty is also sharing updates about the Garden Grove chemical incident now: share.watchduty.org/i/99643?ts=1...

“This is not precautionary… this thing is gonna fail, and we don’t know when,” said Division Chief Craig Covey during a Friday afternoon press conference. “We’re doing our best to figure out when or how we can prevent it.”

“There are only two ways the situation could possibly unfold, according to the Orange County Fire Authority, and neither of them is good. The tank could either fail and spill thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals, or it could explode.” abc7.com/amp/post/tan...

The success of the U.S. vaccination system depends on two fundamental pillars: parents trusting in vaccines and children having access to them. Under RFK Jr., both are in peril. (Published March)

NGL if you never lived down south I don’t wanna hear your opinions on living in the south. The answer ain’t “just move”. Our people is there and most likely some of Yall people.So keep them opinions in your group chat.

Today is the last day to comment to the FCC that LGBTQIA2S+ names, stories, identities don't need a warning label. This new potential rulemaking is an attempt at criminalizing the mere fact of being trans or otherwise queer, in the name of discrimination, bigotry, and persecution. Tell them no, now.

freed from the tyranny of health

since my surgery ive read about the untimely deaths of 3 trans women and girls. they just keep killing us

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

truly remarkable for a councilor to repeatedly vote to defund a fire station in their own district

she was SIXTEEN fucking years old. i never have words to give shape to the anger. every time someone’s “just asking questions” about bathrooms or sports or prison or healthcare or whatever abstract they suddenly think is a problem, there are individual trans people who pay for it. she was a CHILD.

All of this was pretty well documented from their work in other cities before they were even handed a giant contract under Ted Wheeler. The conservatives on council have been terrible on so many issues, including this.

Half of our city council chose not to do anything about this, even though there were allegations against urban alchemy before they even started working here. None of this was secret.

Councilors Loretta Smith, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Eric Zimmerman, Dan Ryan, Steve Novick and Olivia Clark voted no. Let's name names

A reminder to Portland auto owners, MGP is an owner of Dean's Car Care on Lombard

am i right fellas

This photo is funnier than it has any business being people.com/hairdresser-...

this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU

If you are on the left and trying to argue that we need to find a way to adapt to AI use, then I think you need to ask yourself what it means to be on the left. Because to me, people having clean drinking water is definitely a minimum left position. I think it should be a human position, period.

Yall I forgot how eating a hot dog hangs on you like cigarette smoke

The House passed a bill late Wednesday to force public school teachers to out transgender students to their parents. It wasn’t a party-line vote, either: Eight Democrats voted for it. www.huffpost.com/entry/8-demo...

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A very big fuck you to anyone suggesting trans people Should ask for our own segregated spaces

one member of Los Angeles County's board of supervisors has more constituents than the U.S. senators of 12 states

Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades.

Per my notes, Portland city councilors have voted on 23 amendments since 9:30 Tuesday. 13 amendments have failed. Worth noting 9 failed w/ a 6-6 vote (& the same 6 people on each side each time), signaling councilors are still having a reaaaally hard time finding common ground.

The message shouldn't be "taxes are bad," it should be that you should get something for them, it's your money, it shouldn't be going to some rich dipshit's Dr. Claw-ass ballroom or into the pockets of J6 child molesters

Information security in cyberpunk looks so cool and then you get to do it irl and 90% of your effort is keeping an ancient man in accounts payable from wiring $300k to a criminal running a phishing campaign.

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do you think we all got on a Zoom call and were like "alright gay people can get married next up is making sure we can place fifth NCAA swim meets"

I keep seeing people claiming things are AI-generated based on asking an AI if they are AI-generated and I am not convinced that AI is good at answering that question.

Ok I've designed an LLM prompt to make Google AI just give you a list of links. It's longer than you might think because it kept ignoring the instructions. This is efficient. This is The Future™

I’m kinda mad about how quick it recovered the first time

400 members of the Colorado democratic party have officially condemned this action and he thinks this will be remembered fondly? what the hell is wrong with him

Gov Jared Polis told a Colorado Sun event that his decision to give clemency to Tina Peters "will be remembered fondly." He was later interrupted by protesters carrying an enormous banner reading EAT SHIT POLIS coloradosun.com/2026/05/19/j...

The insurrectionist pedophile in question is Andrew Paul Johnson and it is public record that he tried to silence his victim(s) with promises of Trump millions for J6.

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

Trump announced on Monday that he plans to bring in 10,000 more white people from South Africa into the United States at a cost of $100 million. The move came on the same day he announced $1.8 billion in reparations to white people.

“A University of Michigan researcher told the AP that Whisper created false text in 80 percent of public meeting transcripts examined.” Consider saying “no” if your doctor wants to use “AI transcription” for your appointment.

I loved it. I still love the idea of it. I miss that feeling of endless possibility for learning about my world.

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This means that the $1.8 billion dollar slush fund is straight-up American taxpayers money stolen from American taxpayers.

Need some inspiration for written testimony? In my latest newsletter, I've included a round up of some highlights from today's public testimony in support of Avalos 1 and against Clark 1. Votes are happening on amendments tomorrow and Wednesday, so don't hesitate to weigh in!

In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

Turns out the soundest and most lucrative financial decision you could’ve made in the last five years was “get arrested for participating in a coup attempt”

THIS IS HUGE: Colorado Supreme Court orders Colorado children's hospital to resume gender affirming care for trans youth. www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/05/18/c...

“I am feeling much better now. Toad,” said Frog. “I do not think I need a story anymore.” “Then you get out of bed and let me get into it,” said Toad, “because now I feel terrible.”