Kevin Kiley introducing a bill to ban partisan gerrymandering at the national level and desperately trying to become a Reasonable Bipartisan after Newsom deleted his district shows how you *acutally* uphold norms btw: you impost costs for breaking them

r/seattleWA is taking the Katie Wilson news as you might expect

Launching a new air traffic control system the week of Thanksgiving, what could go wrong?

I saw the Washington Post editorial on redistricting today and this is my official response.

Trump’s America

GM, Nate Cohn at his best sports pundit last night, already making up reasons why this one doesn't count

looking forward to Ann going full MAGA and running statewide in a couple of years for AG or Gov

doing their best to put on a smug face on Fox tonight

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

Got tired of reading the news and getting mad. Feeding America backs 200+ food banks around the country and I've seeded with $500 for now. I'll match up to another $500 myself. Pass the hat, RTs graciously appreciated, etc.

Just cleaned out of the full size candy bars for the first time ever. May need to double up on those Costco boxes next year!

Conor Lamb should have won

I know this fascist shit is doomed when I see late 50s and early 60s white guys in their Costco Shopping Finest screaming ‘fuck you’ in DHS officers’ faces

There is something about hearing the phrase “raise the salience” that I find deeply repulsive and almost sociopathic in the context of discussing fascist goon squads terrorizing kids.

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

This is such a bizarre visual for this mailer. Bruce Harrell’s experience as AI museum docent will protect us from Trump?

So it’s a Best of 8 series now?

might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen

“Fuck you, make me” needs to be the unified reaction to this government, and we’re suffering more than we have to because it hasn’t been.

maybe posting a video of yourself in a crown calling yourself king and dumping shit on half the country and then physically tearing down the White House the day after the largest protests of the century is a political masterstroke. I guess we'll see

Dan Wilson is not a good manager.

Bizarre interaction today where a woman approached me at my local grocery store to tell me she recognized me from this protest and was "relieved" to see I live in the area since she was "concerned" seeing me taking video, presumably because I look like a Fed to her?

“There’s no way I’m bending the knee I have left for a king in America.” Damn. Just … damn.

Liberal speakers at this No Kings rally in an East Texas city that's R+20 and the last one straight up just said that if the Heritage Foundation wants blood they'll get it lol

when i say that i yelped in shock at this kid’s sign

Powerful sign at No Kings in Cleveland

West Seattle #NoKings

So glad I didn’t buy tickets to this train wreck

I DO NOT WANT TO LIVE IN A "SHOW YOUR PAPERS" COUNTRY.

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

These people hate our country. They hate Americans and have declared war on our constitution and freedoms. They should repent and resign

And one actual lesson of political strategy is that sometimes, and in fact most of the time, it simply does not matter. No matter what you do, you will lose. Some great campaigns lose, and some absolutely terrible campaigns win. Sometimes your persuasion margin is smaller than you need it to be.

It took just three days to get Sinclair to back down, and what it got in exchange for agreeing to put Kimmel back on the air was...nothing. This is not what happens every time you stand up to a bully, but if you don't fight back, you'll never know if you would have won.

I'm at the point where I'm blocking people who do what he's describing and pretty much any garden variety doomer. They all see themselves as online Paul Reveres and no amount of engagement is going to convince them otherwise. Completely useless soul sucking behavior.

No one has been more vindicated than normie resistance Dems, women’s marchers and never-Trump Republicans. They were right all along about the threat. The anti-anti-Trump Republicans and reactionary centrists, and the far left “it’s always been this bad” folks have been proved wrong over and over.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

I find it bizarre how these videos have taken on an increasingly foreboding and existential dread-like tone while he’s trying to pivot to Let’s Work Through These Reasonable Disagreements

So Trump’s FAA flew this plane right into the worst of a storm injuring two dozen people. Why the hell wasn’t that the lede here?

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

I'm not completely persuaded a shutdown is going to materially change anything but I can't imagine a more negatively polarizing counterargument than this.

One of those rare moments where the headline is much better than the contents of the article. Shameless "this is fine" editorializing with that signature NYT patronizing house style.

I think you have to go back to Hurricane Katrina to the last time where Republicans were forced to own massive mistakes in reacting to a crisis. Arguably this was initially true of TARP and the financial meltdown in 2008 but even that was successfully rebranded as an Obama problem within a year.

This is "the one big trick" that the right has mastered. They present their movement as just "the authentic voice of the volk outraged by Democratic overreach," when really what they're doing is just old fashioned political mobilization. Organize a passle of pissed off people & call it a movement.

Always wanted to try the cochineal dye version of Campari and got my chance this weekend thanks to Scotch Lodge in Portland

Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict

The constant doomerist fascism drum beat is just really annoying because it refuses to grapple with some really basic administrative questions, like, importantly, how do you gut administrative state and then expect to wield administrative power over resistant localities?

"Democrats should be doing press conferences every day" or "we should bring back fireside chats" - Dems already do these things. The media doesn't cover them, social media doesn't amplify them (unless a Dem says something stupid) and no one watches or listens to them.

*laughs in coastal elite* www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...

I saw my first ICE attack — 4 unmarked black SUVs with blue lights flashing, w three house painters cuffed on the side of a highway they'd backed up for 30 minutes in both directions — and I can tell you this much: I will die hating these people, and I will spend the rest of my life ruining theirs.

I get the attractiveness of saying that the world cannot be worse. I have ADHD too motherfucker I need catastrophic consequences to compel action. That is not a theory of the world that is your fucking mental illness modeling your coping strategy and inflicting it on everyone. Go to therapy asshole.