If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

noem's dog looking down from heaven

Broke: I-5 Woke: Lid I-5 Woke 2: Depave I-5 and fill with a linear park and tens of thousands of housing units

new impossible to implement idea: taxation system based on societal wealth distribution levels

"WSDOT was able to affirm that Rainier Avenue functioned well with just one general purpose lane continuing through the interchange in each direction, along with a dedicated bus lane." 👀‼️ @mayorofseattle.bsky.social should transform Rainier Ave S to be safe and accessible for all

ok I would definitely watch baseball if each team got one (1) animal to let loose during the game. when will you use your animal delay. what animal will you choose

Doomscrolling is the weaponization of literacy

hard to believe just a decade ago the US had to couch all its imperialist wars in layers of metaphor & faux-human rights concerns, and now got literal cartoon villains just being like “We are bombing Iran to initiate the Human Instrumentality Project”

perfect representation of the vicious asininity of our persecution and the banal mechanisms of its implementation: these regular-ass people, the staff at the dmv, dutifully inflicting whatever absurd degradation they're told, no matter how blatantly, cruelly pointless. would you do that? will you?

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

As Kagan notes in her dissent, the Court opted not to hear the due process parental rights argument against bans on gender-affirming medical care in Skrmetti, basically setting up a regime where parents can force their trans children back into the closet but cannot help them out of it

Want to scream? Me too. We're putting a monthly protest calendar in @thestranger.com, including marches, rallies, and other ways to get involved. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Doesn't that feel better?

Its not important in the scheme of things but being ruled by 250 pedophile Poasters is made extra annoying by the fact that none of them can post good

normal caveats about wealth measures vs GSP aside, we should not be surprised that the elite impunity political environment has been good economically for the people on top, and that all of this is not solely about getting to say slurs during business hours

i really can not emphasize enough that the most materially impactful thing you can do for trans people right now is hire them.

The most useful writing I’ve read on the subject remains this blog post from William Scheuerman about the dual state: Fraenkel’s argument—that capital requires a normative state—falls apart when economic power becomes highly consolidated verfassungsblog.de/trump-2-0-as...

art of the deal, baby

A useful analogy I’ve heard is between cognitive bias and optical illusions. Squares A & B in the famous Adelson Checkerboard Illusion are exactly the same shade of grey. You can confirm this by cutting them away from or covering the surrounding imagery. BUT YOU STILL SEE THE ILLUSION.

[guy who sang baby beluga] the festering belly is splitting, each half digested soul fumbling for a knife

In competitive authoritarianism (US right now) there's often a "loyal opposition" that's essential to the regime. They are so wedded to "decorum," they go along with rites & rituals that help regime prop up veneer of normalcy, undermining clear view of regimes actions & aims.

Woke 2 is going to absolutely bury these people. It is true that in the time between now and Woke 2, they are going to hurt a lot of people, some very badly. There’s no way around that. But then, again, Woke 2 is going to absolutely bury these people.

now *this* is deliverism

Hey why did the costco ceo actually reply to my email

this year's state of the union is plasma, congratulations to plasma

do Link stations even have like a second of silence anymore. they don't even wait for their own announcements to finish

this video is gonna make me throw up

the downside of living in new york city is that it’s the only place in america that experiences snowstorms. the upside, and in fact the only reason i live here, is that it’s the only place where you can produce videos and upload them to youtube

remember when EA was considered a big enough deal to be included in these kinds of things

Lime carried record 57,000 trips the day of the Seahawks parade, on par with daily traffic over the Aurora Bridge #SEAbikes #Seattle

"and some, i assume, are good people" is definitely part of my speech. so is "open the schools."

1. My newest Anti-Trans Legal Risk Map is here. For trans adults, Kansas is the newest "Do Not Travel" warning, only the 3rd state to achieve that warning. For youth, a change to the map increases risk to Medium in many states. Nationwide risk remains extreme. Subscribe to support my journalism.

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

The Supreme Court:

Reporter: Do aliens exist? Obama: *chuckles* Technically no, a time ghoul is from Earth. Just not today’s Earth

realizing how much my quality of life has improved since moving somewhere I don't have to worry about traffic

How it started: early construction taking shape. How it’s going: a fully connected 2 Line. Years of planning, precision, and teamwork are leading to one historic connection, opening March 28. See more photos: https://www.soundtransit.org/blog/platform/then-now-crosslake-connection-journey-photos

the rail junction south of Chinatown station looks so...naked, now. I'm used to seeing it full of fences and construction equipment.

"Professor White Boy " has perished. They found him self harmed at the bottom of an elevator shaft. Thanks for the fucking smiles, Professor

You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...

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It was refreshing to see how living in a functioning democracy responds to awful events: it was distressing to realize how used to dysfunction I have become. newrepublic.com/article/2066...

Libraries are among the few public institutions that represent the kind of world we want to live in. They must be fought for.

2026 basically

To paraphrase Terry Pratchett in The Truth: “A lie can make it halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on… but now the truth has its boots on and it’s time to start KICKING”

This whole fight over transgender stuff happening on X is so weird to me. The most notable thing about trans issues in the last 5 years has been the enormous, coordinated anti-trans activism campaign across the right, aided by moral cowards in the center. But that campaign is *never mentioned*.