A friend saw outgoing Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell in a Lowe’s parking lot yesterday- soon after the election was called for Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson (!) and we’ve been playing a fun game in the group chat w/ the prompt: What was Bruce Harrell doing at Lowe’s at that moment?

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I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

"They give you food only once a day, food that even has worms in it," Izquierdo said.

This is actually the thesis of Chuck Schumer’s book

100% For more on this check out @dnbrgr.bsky.social incisive review - he read it so we dont have too! spectrejournal.com/chuck-schume...

The man who’s pretending that he’s burning down the universities in order to protect Jewish students:

True! And, a story we will never see in the New York Times...💥

After mostly shrugging off Trump’s assault on government for the last five months, establishment Democrats have finally found something to be outraged about: Zohran Mamdani’s primary win.

Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.

Say it louder for the people in the back (or at the head of the party).

My home of Missoula just voted to establish the pride flag as an official government flag of the city, thereby circumventing the state's asinine pride flag ban. 🏳️‍🌈 Missoula is once again showing how to fight back against policies that seek to erase the LGBTQ community.

If it’s our “patriotic duty” to be healthy, then government has a duty to provide the means to achieve that Universal healthcare Paid time off Clean air UBI They don’t want to provide those things because it isn’t about health, it’s about blaming the chronically ill so they can be eliminated

im sorry to be so divisive and partisan but i dont think the government should be inventing a criminal history out of thin air to justify sending someone to a concentration camp in a foreign country

Yes! Fight for it and say why!

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Israel has begun the final stage of its genocide. Palestinians are being forced to choose between death or deportation. What we are witnessing dwarfs all the historical assaults on Palestinians.

Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

K-12 educators and educational organizations are being shut down for including Palestinian voices or criticizing the Israeli government’s policies. Organizations like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) are using disingenuous, racist smears that weaponize antisemitism.

Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.

“I’ll make it plain: collaborationist Jews will not help make Jews safer. Even more important, collaborating with fascism will not make anyone safer. It feels somehow ridiculous to have to say these words out loud, but here we are.” rabbibrant.com/2025/03/12/f...

@standupforscience.bsky.social Seattle getting ready

Hey DOGE, I found some unelected bureaucrats with bloated salaries! www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

Just feeling so much appreciation for librarians and national park workers for the ways they are showing up in this moment! Not at all surprising, but still inspiring

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

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Stand up for transgender people now or stand for nothing at all: lindseyadler.substack.com/p/the-urgenc...

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What I can say for certain is that if I had infinity money this is NOT what I would be doing with it.

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

More of this!

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DO NOT MEMORY HOLE THE NAZI SALUTE! Elon Musk did it not once but twice, and with vigor! It’s been 3 weeks, and there’s been no accountability. Institutionalized Judaism has let him off the hook. It is up to us to remember, to never forget the ancestors who deserve better, and to make it stick.

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

If Gritty can still fly the pride flag so can we

Especially when the topic is Dearborn because… the Biden and Harris campaign staff calculated since at least the summer they could and might have to win Michigan without the Arab Muslim voters they lost! And they were right… it’s just that they lost too many white voters too…

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

More of this!

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.