Venezuela, MN, Greenland, etc, are not "distractions" from Epstein or anything else. They are all connected in that they are the fruits of unqualified and unstable people given absolute power and wielding it in ways that profit them and hurt others. It's not a conspiracy, it's an ethos.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Nicolás Maduro "wasn’t captured," says Venezuelan reporter Andreína Chávez in Caracas. "This is a kidnapping. The United States has just kidnapped a constitutionally elected president."

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

The United States carried out a large-scale attack on Venezuela overnight and captured President Nicolás Maduro, U.S. President Trump says in a statement.

The west coast has successfully entered 2026.

The gay hockey show has been so good for my soul, as a writer of AU fanfiction.

The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse? You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.

Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." bit.ly/3MMdJvz

New Children’s Book ‘Good Afternoon Moon’ Celebrates Seattle’s Painfully Early Sunsets: tinyurl.com/yrze7kp8

Time for The Lion in Winter, the best holiday movie!

Happy Solstice! Now the light returns! 🌅

Wayback Machine grabbed the original Epstein files dump before that photo of Trump got pulled. You can't get to the individual PDF page for the missing image, but if you click "download all files" and download it locally you can find the now-deleted file in: IMAGES / 0001 / EFTA00000468.pdf

“This is utterly divorced from reality."

King County warns of toilet rats after record flooding

The Trump administration is reportedly seeking to denaturalize 100 to 200 U.S. citizens per month.

Reminder that in June, 2016, a suit (w/witnesses) was filed against Trump re: his repeated raping of a 13 year-old child at an Epstein party. (She wasn't a "teen," in anything but the most technical of senses. She was a 7th, maybe an 8th grader.) We've known he was a child rapist THIS WHOLE TIME.

“Get Me Through December” by Allison Kraus and Natalie MacMaster is still and always the mood of the season at this time of year.

The transition from yelling fake news to fake documents is seamless of course; a white supremacist regime is attempting to make us all inauthentic unless they say otherwise.

They can call anyone “illegal” and declare their documents fake. If there isn’t due process for everyone, there is no due process for anyone.

In a world without Section 230: 😩 Big Tech companies everyone hates would win. Giants like Meta and Google have armies of lawyers to navigate compliance 😩 Alternative platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon would likely shut down, along with Wikipedia, review sites, how-to resources, small forums, etc

NEW: They kept saying they were gonna do it and now they've done it A group of clowns (Senators) have introduced a bill to FULLY REPEAL Section 230. No reform, no replacement, just utter destruction of all online free speech. We can't let this happen. Share & take action www.badinternetbills.com

The mothers of these kids know. Moms know they’re coming for their kids, and they feel powerless and terrified

Asked why no one outside the state of Washington cares enough about its flooded communities that just lost everything they own right before Christmas, today the nation admitted it just kinda assumed the PNW was always living underwater in some sort of giant puddle like that.

Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.

Conditions at the Northwest Detention Center are unacceptable—and a year of Trump's cruel mass deportation campaign has made the situation far worse.   I'm sounding the alarm on overcrowding, lack of medical care, food, & more at ICE facilities. We need answers and accountability.

Revolutionary optimism is the disciplined confidence that because trans lives are forced to invent ways of surviving capitalism, we also possess the skills needed to abolish it. Despair only serves existing power structures. Collective struggle for total intersectional liberation now. ⚧️

“Oil… oil… oil… oil… oil… oil…” TLDR: It was never about drugs

Every major news organization should be writing about how insane this is and how, if he takes this country to war (tomorrow?), it is the act of a madman.

I see people claiming that videos are "obviously Ai" and they're just pointing to compression artefacts that any video might have. Seems concerning that we're overestimating how easy it is to spot.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Holy hell. Go Now evacuation order issued for Tukwila after the Green River levee breaks. Seattle metro area itself was managing to avoid the worst of the flooding so far, but it looks like our luck is running out... komonews.com/news/local/f...

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Folks on Washington state community Facebook groups are arguing about whether images of local flood damage are real or not. Generative AI is making it so much harder for people to get the reliable information they need to make decisions during disasters.

99 percent of the world’s cocaine comes from Colombia, Bolivia and Peru, not Venezuela. No fentanyl is made in Venezuela But it does have the world’s largest oil reserves.

In order to "protect women" Texas made it so that women have to go through armed guards with an ID check. They literally created a potty police.

Later when a guard pushes his wheelchair, he does it while “popping a wheelie” the whole time. Why? So the migrant’s leg irons don’t drag on the ground. Yes. He can’t walk, but he’s still shackled. 2/

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33

@wnsdpod.bsky.social If you cover The Lion in Winter, it will make my entire December. Best Christmas movie for people who need perspective on their own terrible family dynamics.

Federal Way Light Rail Extension Opens Stations to Star Lake and 5 Other Fictional Universes: tinyurl.com/bdhyymyk

🧵 Oregon's Direct Cash Transfer results Location: Oregon (across 3 counties) Participants: 117 homeless youths ages 18-24 Control group: No Amount: $3,000 + $1,000/mo Duration: 2 yrs After 6 months, 63% were in their own homes. At the end of the two years, 91% of participants were stably housed.

The tech industry wants to put AI in everything. It also wants the Trump administration to block all AI regulation in the states. Thankfully, it seems there is no appetite to do so in Congress. This EO will have the same legal impact as a wish cast upon a coin. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...

The death rate among children under 5 is expected to grow this year for the first time in the 21st century, researchers say. A key factor, they say, is cuts to U.S. and other foreign aid www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

“This is not how a civilized nation should act, just murdering people on the high seas without proof, without trial.”

🚨 ALERT🚨 ICE operating in South Seattle. Abductions yesterday, agents spotted today in Othello. Be on the lookout: