What frustrates me about these comments from Seattle Councilmember Maritza Rivera is that the council has received many briefings on Housing First (a widely adopted best practice) and she continues to define it the way MAGA does: As giving people empty "houses" and letting them rot.

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

Just a reminder: Democrats can’t shut down the government Republicans hold the majority #TrumpShutdown

NEW: Hawaii's Supreme Court keeps releasing opinions that denounce the U.S. Supreme Court. The latest? A new ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations from now on. The author took it as an opportunity to say Hawaii's court will protect due process—while SCOTUS isn't:

Pretty wild to be alive in a time when the United States is being stripped down and sold for parts by a wretched con man and his cronies.

I will never forgive the people who voted for this.

New Yorkers stop their march in front of 26 Federal Plaza to observe a moment of silence for all in our immigrant communities disappeared, killed and currently suffering at the hands of ICE. We’re united in demanding an end to these abuses. #ICEOutOfNY

Oh, honey. If witches were real, they'd have turned Trump and all his minions into flies by now.

Me: Why is this production schedule all fucked up? Them: The year is broken out into 4 quarters. The schedule is based on quarters. Me: Why do the quarters range from 10 weeks to 15 weeks? Them: We are in a different time zone.

They're about to shut down the government to protect the Epstein Files from disclosure. Whatever is in the files must be so unhinged as to be beyond imagination.

Putin forced to raise taxes again as Ukraine war drains finances. After raising personal income taxes sharply at the start of the year, the widening budget deficit is causing inflation of over 8%. 8% inflation is a very serious problem for Russia's economy. www.politico.eu/article/vlad...

‘Shake it off’: Taylor Swift’s changing voice shows how our accents evolve. Researchers have confirmed what Taylor Swift fans have long suspected: the music megastar’s dialect & pitch have shifted throughout her career. 🧪👄📣 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A forceful Happy Birthday to @markhamillofficial.bsky.social

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

Ponderosa pine smells like butterscotch. Go ahead, sniff one the next time you're in the western US. Some say "vanilla", some say "oh no, my nose is covered in sap." Let's talk about birds, butterscotch, forest fires, blue wood, & boring beetles. But mostly this thread is about terpenes.

the worst fuckin people being extremely frustrated

RIP Laura Loomer FORGOTTEN BUT NOT GONE

BREAKING NEWS: TYLENOL RESEARCHERS FIND DISTURBING LINK BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND JEFFREY EPSTEIN

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

BREAKING A federal judge found it "appears ... that multiple employees of the Department of Justice may have violated" local rules in SDNY guaranteeing Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial. Full order here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...

"fearing or regulating it, or opposing technological progress, would hasten the coming of the Antichrist, Thiel said" what the fuck

mRNA medicine is a miracle. We should be investing in it HARD as a country, not cutting it.

Just to piss off Nexstar, Sinclair, and Trump. Linking to the Kimmel YouTube video which has nearly 3 million views. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

An emotional house is about to fall on all of us. 🧹 #WickedForGood #Wicked #ForGood

Archaeologists at Pompeii uncovered a fresco depicting a meal of a flat bread round covered in herbed cheese (called 'moretum'). That's right, a PROTO-PIZZA. But modern pizza, as served from Tokyo to Rome itself, was probably invented in New York. Let's talk about the "Pizza Effect".

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

This is very exciting! A small clinical trial using gene therapy for Huntington's disease has been successful. microRNAs were used to edit the Huntington mRNA, stopping it making mutant protein that can damage neurons. Huge hopes now for treating such a devastating condition

HOW TO WATCH JIMMY KIMMEL if your local station is owned by Sinclair or NexStar who both refused to air it on ABC affiliates they own Jimmy Kimmel Show From the New York Times Meanwhile call your local ABC impacted by this and file a complaint with them

Coming to a city near you

It’s still too early for migration to take off out west where the sun hasn’t set yet, and there’s a lot of storms shutting down migration in the middle, but still! Over half a billion birds in flight already tonight! #birds #fall #migration #LightsOutForBirds

If you have the means, PLEASE WATCH or DVR “Jimmy Kimmel Live” tonight. Let’s make this the highest rated episode of late-night television since Johnny Carson’s farewell show in 1992. 📺

He stood in front of the world at the UN today, and every other word out of his mouth was a lie. I’ll say it again, we’ve not been here before. An American President who lies as he breathes. It’s a terrible place to be. Shame on the media & everyone who’s normalized his lying and/or doesn’t care.

Boom: The results of the ADAPT-PD personalized brain stimulation trial showed promise for treating Parkinson’s. First longer-term results for adaptive DBS in PD. Adaptive stimulation automatically adjusts in real time to a person’s brain signals. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

The pressure on KOMO 4/Sinclair advertisers is working. Seattle Theater Group and Seattle Opera say they are no longer advertising on KOMO. More info on companies that advertise on KOMO is here: www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...

I'll say it again: if you're not following @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social you are REALLY missing something 🧪

What she meant to say was - My husband lost his marbles, took an airplane as a bribe & Americans can go fly a kite

So you're a scientist about to face a government shutdown? Have you considered becoming a rock star? It's easy AND profitable! 🎸🧪 Let's list off five scientists who turned rockers:

Kimmel is back, but many Americans won’t be able to watch. Two companies — Nexstar and Sinclair — control hundreds of local TV stations and have business deals pending Donald Trump’s approval. They won’t air Kimmel tonight. I’m pressing for answers on potential corruption.

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

Wandering around the neighborhood tonight.

A family that has a weekly grocery bill of $200 would pay an extra $128 a month if President Trump’s tariffs are fully implemented. We will be filing a brief with the Supreme Court to explain the harm Trump's tariffs are doing to Washingtonians.

Congressmember @velazquez.house.gov has introduced a bill in Congress that would bar immigration agents from wearing facial coverings during enforcement actions. "This administration is out of control, and it's affecting everyone."

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in federal grant funding that it froze at the University of California, Los Angeles.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

London resident here. There is no Sharia law. No one is asking for Sharia law. The mayor has cleaned up the air, improved social housing and transport, and all with 24 hour armed guards because people who don't live in London keep lying about him and inciting people over here to want him killed.

I'm just gonna keep reposting this inane BS from Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence on the roving immigration patrol case from LA.