WATCH THIS: The most amazing thing about this remarkable 2002 car commercial is that it didn’t seem to realize at the time, or perhaps didn’t care, how effectively it made the point that cars and car infrastructure are a HUGE waste of space in cities. Award-winning 2002 ad for Saturn car company.

Israel to close West Bank crossing to Jordan indefinitely starting Wednesday. The closure of Allenby effectively seals off the non-Jewish population of the West Bank from the outside world, as IDF attacks and settler pogroms accelerate. www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro hits out at President Donald Trump in his United Nations General Assembly speech, calling for "criminal proceedings" over missile attacks on suspected drug-running boats in Caribbean waters.

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 don’t even know what to say about these hate crimes that are happening literally a 5-10 minute walk from where I used to live. Give Madison some help if you can.

I genuinely enjoy reading the city's budget book, a high-level look at what our taxes pay for. Not very deep in yet and I've learned the budget adds $762,000 for expansion of the Joint Enforcement Team, recently in the news for raiding gay bars in search of "lewd" conduct.

anyway here’s @vivmccall.bsky.social with some extremely good and extremely fucking sobering reporting on the recent surge in random hate crimes directed at trans women in Seattle. Please be careful, everyone. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

I can't decide which question from tonight's mayoral debate was more unhinged: "What's your position on crime?" or "Candidate Wilson, is it your plan for the city to look like New York by depending on mass transit?"

Grateful to our courageous clients and co-counsel @dsc250.bsky.social @bergermontague.bsky.social. Together, we will protect trans youth!

All that needs to be said, really.

Yesterday marked 8 years since the late Sarah Hegazi raised the rainbow flag at a Mashrou' Leila concert in a moment of uncalculated joy so threatening to Egyptian authorities that they arrested, tortured, prosecuted her, and sent her to exile. Sarah in my heart today. 🌈

1. Trump has dug in on anti-trans provisions in the shutdown fight this morning, cancelling a meeting with Dems unless they cave on trans people. His post to Truth Social is a clear indication that Republicans are making targeting trans people a priority. Subscribe to support our journalism.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

The anti-trans right heavily praised Gordon Guyatt as the “godfather” of evidence based medicine. He worked for SEGM and was responsible for their GRADE reviews. Now he disavows them, says evidence supports transgender youth care. Great coverage from Henry carnell.

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

Dear Disney, We, the American people, and Mr Kimmel, while pleased at the reversal of your vulgar decision, require an apology. An apology for violating our public trust and constitutional rights. Seriously, anyone rushing to sign back up? They’ll have to do more than that to regain my $

Goebbles or Miller?

How it started, how it's going: New York Times headline edition. Yes, these are three iterations of the same headline. Let just call it a strategic retreat.

dudes rock

NEW: Angelo State University in San Angelo, TX has told faculty that they can't discuss trans people in curriculum. When I asked the justification for the policy, they referenced Texas state law - but Texas law doesn't forbid discussions of trans people in higher ed. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Just wait: Tylenol's gonna pay Trump $10M, and he's gonna come out next week saying that actually it's Advil that causes autism.

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Im now obsessed with the term “animal archaeology.” I mean, HOW COOL IS THAT?!?!?!?

BREAKING: Cascade PBS, which operates the website Crosscut, is laying off 19 people, reportedly including its entire news staff. In an email to staff, CEO Rob Dunlop blamed federal cuts, saying the nonprofit is "winding down our longform, written journalism."

We have a handy chart...

No worries, Sinclair. We have a new fangled tool called “the internet.”

Looks like the boycott and protests against KOMO in Seattle must continue.

A quick reversal ain’t gonna cut it. House of Mouse needs to woo me back.

This is, I think, the best push alert and makes me wonder why this directness isn’t the norm.

1. The Trump administration has filed an emergency motion with the Supreme Court to reinstate its transgender passport restrictions. The filing in the much-criticized shadow docket could cast trans travelers into chaos, with a decision likely soon. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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The longitudinal study ACTUALLY concludes: "The gender change..[the 1/5 figure that the @economist.com cynically distorts]..is suggestive of a potentially major shift among North American youth in thinking about gender as a concept that is less anchored on binary options and flexible across time"

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Where are you going to put #KilroyWasHere this week? \\// -(@ @)- --oOO-- (_)-- OOo-- Kilroy is the OG Antifa.

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

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📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua

A timeless sentiment

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

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I’m in Boston. This ad just came on TV

Brava!!!

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

An Arizona man is facing felony charges for threatening to shoot up a gay bar to avenge Charlie Kirk. He was convinced the shooter had "transgender ideology." Fortunately, he was stopped, but this is on the media for running with the erroneous WSJ reporting. www.azfamily.com/2025/09/19/p...

Tom Homan is doing corruption the right way By Ezra Klein

No, death is definitely the worst you ableist piece of garbage.

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world