A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million. He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz. His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY. Bipartisan capture in full bloom. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...

Talarico: I was required by law to report any indication there was abuse at home, and I would hope that the top law enforcement official in Texas would be held to the same standard as a middle school teacher. Ken Paxton had the opportunity to protect a child, but instead he protected a predator

Ken Paxton let a pedophile back on our streets. Adam Hoffman—an admitted child molester—should have gotten life in prison, but Paxton gave him an Epstein-style sweetheart deal. Today I’m calling on Paxton to release the Hoffman Files. The Epstein Class has no place in Texas.

RFK Jr. says that HPV vaccine is “dangerous and defective”. A new study from England shows that HPV vaccines have reduced deaths from cervical cancer to ZERO for women aged 20-24. Significant reductions in older age groups were observed as well, though the latter have lower vaccination coverage.

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If Rhino Pipeliner 5000 (w custom flag blue tint) is indeed what they're applying, in around 5 years it'll be delaminating and peeling up in massive slimy sheets. So a perfect future metaphor for the Trump years inB4 capitol scum pond liner delamination

Rhino Pipeliner 5000 is not recommended for ponds. It's specialized for trenchless pipe repair, hence its rigidity and 3 second gel time. Other polyureas/polyurethanes are far more stretchable and good for continuous immersion. Baffled that Rhino itself didn't step in, maybe they did

To avoid pinholes, mobility, and osmotic blistering, pros use geotextile. Thick, felt-like fabric gets laid out across a pond bed and anchored at edges. Flexible polyurea sprayed on the fabric, not the ground. Polyurea soaks into the fabric, cures. You get a seamless, reinforced rubber-like mat.

This shit shrinks 1-3% when curing, which in a pipe is exactly what you want. On a big slab, uh, no it will pull towards the center and delaminate from the substrate at the edges. Plus, applying directly to concrete is a problem. Long story short: Swiss cheese pinhole effect. Already flagged.

They're using Rhino Pipeliner 5000, which freezes as sprayed-on curds almost exactly as it hits the surface. Won't flow out, flatten, and self-level like standard epoxy or paint would. Under standing water, the orange peel texture is a perfect scaffolding for algae, bacteria, and general bio scum

HAHAHAhaha! they're making the world's biggest synthetic scum pond!!! The coating is a polyurea used inside pipes. It gels in about 3 seconds, making it non self-leveling. The texture is like an orange peel, the perfect substrate for biofilms. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

The scum pond is delaminating well ahead of schedule. This is a good hypothesis for why. They're dumping peroxide in at the edges, where the polyurea attachment will be patchy thanks to shrinkage during curing. O2 will be produced at the concrete surface, mechanically lifting the membrane.

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I do not know whether this is like Society Members or Speakers/Guests At Society Meetings or whatnot, but I also dont know how much of such a distinction even exists? it is very hard to find out anything tangible about how this organization works.

Here are all 113 alleged members we were able to successfully extract. This data can also be verified via versions of the site captured by the Wayback Machine, even if it doesn't properly render the website.

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

"She would make sure that all 535 packets of letters and drawings were delivered to every member of Congress. She would keep telling the stories of the children she’d met." Keep going, Ms. Rachel. (gift link) wapo.st/4ecHKP2

"Love feels like blasphemy when you worship power” damn ok James get his ass

For decades, Dan Patrick has sold out the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable to enrich his donors. Love feels like blasphemy when you worship power.

This is textbook violation of fiduciary duty on behalf of the Board — it's deliberately sabotaging your own institution to make a political point. Every Board member who voted for this is breaking their oath.

it actually brings me great pleasure to know that billionaires are so afraid of journalists that they’re trying to build whole new systems for justice to diminish our power. despite corporate consolidation, we continue to do something they can’t fully buy and it drives them mad. stay mad, assholes.

there were already many reasons to do this but Elon Musk actively encouraging racist violence in Belfast should be the final straw for every UK government institution to stop doing business - including being on X - with him in any way, and for him to be barred from entry to the country.

Here’s a video of what the booing actually sounded like at Madison Square garden. #NBAfinals #Knicks

Such a disgrace. This guy’s worked his whole life to be selected for the World Cup. He’s earned it.

Seattle's light rail & streetcar lines carried 4.8 million riders in April—a 44% increase above March, after Link Line 2 was extended to connect Seattle & Bellevue across Lake Washington. Seattle's light rail & streetcar lines are now the most-ridden in the nation, above LA, Boston, or San Diego.

The very first full month of data on Seattle Link's line 1 & 2 connection is in today, and ridership has surged up 49% compared to this time last year, hitting a new record high! Seattle Link moved 4.7M passengers in May, breaking its previous record by nearly 1M

I’m at a Seattle city club event, and local FOX anchor Hana Kim just demanded that Mayor Katie Wilson respond to Spencer Pratt’s claim that people are flooding into Seattle to be homeless because they love the lenient access to drugs here. People are clapping for Spencer Pratt.

Step 1: ask the progressive mayor stupid questions like this Step 2: write stories about how she "dodged" the stupid fucking questions

Last year Bruce Harrell proposed a 0.1% sales tax for public safety, approved without a public vote. The King County Council took the exact same vote, and is poised to adopt another 0.1% sales tax in a few days. The 0.15% proposed increase for bus service is getting a very different reaction.

⚽️ Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson announced the city had secured free World Cup tickets for 1,400 youth in the city. Mayor Wilson raised concerns to FIFA in early February about local access to the matches. Atendee's will recieve 🎟️ 1 Match ticket 🍎 Food voucher 🧣 World Cup scarf 🚌 Metro shuttle service

So after openly deadnaming all our trans folks last week, leadership apologized, but then did not update employee's names for the vote today. This means our trans employees are being forced to openly deadname themselves in order to vote in today's union election. This is deeply fucked.

Almost forgot to link to the full opinion: www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/ind...

Seattle's Hearing Examiner had come to the conclusion that if that were true, the new SEPA exemptions would be "rendered meaningless." And yet the Court of Appeals upheld that interpretation.

Simply put: appeals of final decisions are prohibited. Appeals of the "procedural determinations" leading up to those decisions are still allowed.

This essentially confirms a loophole in recent state laws limiting the ability for growth plans to be appealed under SEPA. The appeals now head back to the superior court. www.theurbanist.org/seattle-grow...

BREAKING: The Washington Court of Appeals has found in favor of the two groups challenging the environmental review of Seattle's Comprehensive Plan, finding that both King County Superior Court and the city's Hearing Examiner erred in dismissing the appeal at earlier stages.

Reminder that Klingons say TRANS RIGHTS BRING HONOR TO YOUR HOUSE

We Rate Dogs is a good dude. The internet got lucky with him.

My wife asked this guy if he was aware this was playing off a popular racist & antisemitic slogan & he abashedly said "yes" & admitted it was unfortunate. He offered to turn his sign around, where the other side said: "DRIVERS ARE PEOPLE TOO"

UPDATE: Mike Johnson said he has nothing to do with this dirty tricks operation. Which is interesting because what I reported was that it was linked to the Congressional Leadership Fund, the House Republican Super PAC. The CLF has declined to comment.

Katie Miller is beefing with my fiancée on twitter and it has backfired badly for Miller because — and this might not be popular to say on here, but — my fiancée is way hotter

The MTA should refuse these ads because they're begging for someone to smash the screens.

round 2: xbox removed the option to directly contact xbox customer support in favor of their ai chatbot, which told me to directly contact customer support with a link that directed me to ask the chatbot (i did eventually get it to open the "request a call" window, waiting on that now)

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

Last year, we re-marked 1,500 crosswalks and re-painted 560 miles of Seattle streets. If you notice a damaged crosswalk or street marking, please report it through the Find It, Fix It app or email [email protected]

SDOT crews are restoring all 11 Pan African community crosswalks. We’ll remove the worn markings, clean and prepare the street surface, and then install new markings. The temporary "Remove" markings you may see are just part of our planning process. They do not mean the crosswalks are going away.

it's wild watching ppl do the work of wealthy lakefront homeowners & leveraging social justice language to do it. a free program open to all that happens to slightly inconvenience some of the most regressive, status quo voices in the city is literally the opposite of "gentrification"

BREAKING: The Seattle Social Housing Developer has announced its first acquisition, a 150-unit apartment building near Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle, for the cost of $60.9 million. It plans to convert half the units to be affordable for low and middle-income tenants.

33 years. Countless laughs. One hell of a writing staff. Tonight, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert signs off. The writers who made it an institution — our members — go out the way they came in: with integrity, solidarity, and the best jokes in the room.