1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation. It methodically goes through each problem in the review. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism

one of my professors has the date on his computer set 24 hours ahead of the current date. perhaps he's using day savings

9. Civil rights leaders, orgs, and individuals can practice steps to keep themselves safer from domestic surveillance. Such individuals and orgs should practice digital hygiene, use password managers, two factor authentication, keep apps upgraded, and use tools like Signal. Find EFF's guide here:

The current historical moment has given me obvious cause to go back and read what people wrote during their own interregna. The through-line to each is that a bias to normalcy, a belief the old world lives as more than a half-dead husk, is the greatest danger of all.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so This headline is misleading for not mentioning that. The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk. There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest! www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

This is fascism in a nutshell. Right here. "A counter-revolution against a revolution that never occurred."

chat is it a good sign for american federalism that calls for (any form of) secession are starting to get published in places like the guardian and mojo regularly

Thinking about my tiny uncle who always showed up on time to his twilight bodybuilding competitions: the punctual crepuscular muscular avuncular homunculus.

Bikes can do so many more things than most people think. Today’s wonderful example is Carla Cargo’s feature on @mountvernontrail.org’s bike-based volunteer trail maintenance work. www.carlacargo.de/heroes/carla...

Actually it did begin with a parade of tanks

“… the data out of Montgomery County, Maryland makes one thing unmistakably clear: this crusade is not a mass movement. It’s the obsession of a vanishingly small minority …”

Whether you like it or not, this is our painful truth in America.

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

I genuinely think experience counts for a lot. I simply find it enraging when people pretend doing some normal private business job is somehow more qualifying for political leadership than organizing. It should be unnecessary for me to point out why that's problematic.

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Do judges like it when you make them do court at 7pm on a Sunday

Things to consider: Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed You are a witness. Expose it.

went Outside™ today for the first time in months and i need someone who loves me to grab me and drag me outdoors—by force if necessary—every time i start getting blue

“U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut, an appointee of President Donald Trump, issued a temporary restraining order after Oregon and Portland sued. The order expires on Oct. 18 but could be extended.” www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Looking good, Ravenna Boulevard.

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

When a president sends troops into American cities to “restore order,” what he’s really doing is testing obedience. Portland and Chicago aren’t war zones…they’re warning shots. Authoritarians don’t announce takeovers. They practice them. One city at a time. However, each practice destroys families.

I now have people explaining to me how to get your documents again and y'all... I realize this is a problem because I've had to do it. When you don't have ANY of them, it's not that straightforward even when the government isn't hunting you for sport.

The “but that’s illegal” crowd is going to find out soon what those of us on the academic and research side have been saying for months is true in that you cannot “legally” fight a legal fascist framework when countering fascism is seen as terrorism and illegal

Bruce Harrell has gotten very good at talking about progressive things that happened in the city despite his administration and touting them as if he had anything to do with them when really his prerogative is treating graffiti as the highest priority municipal issue

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Thunderstorms moving through the Puget Sound brought rainbows and dramatic skies to downtown Seattle tonight. #wawx #pnw #seattle

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

The "Bruce Harrell for Seattle's Future" PAC has raised more money from Medina residents than the "Katie Wilson for an Affordable Seattle" PAC has raised overall.

Honey, wake up! There's a new "in any other time, this would be a scandal for weeks" story breaking.

found out what the catch for my new apartment is: i have to go back to using comcast for internet =w=

i made this at 2am

Seattle mayoral candidate Katie Wilson is really fucking interesting. This stunning profile by @hmwinter.bsky.social takes a look inside who Wilson is and what shaped her. Give it a read: www.thestranger.com/news/2025/10...

Bruce Harrell makes his closing statement for why he should keep his job after his poor performance as Seattle Mayor and this line says it all. "This is not the time to hope."

And we have a backpedal from SDOT. "[W]e are updating our approach to meet the changes requested by Metro to support Route 2, while continuing conversations and evaluations with all stakeholders before advancing changes to bus lane uses." sdotblog.seattle.gov/2025/10/02/c...

University of Washington - Piece of shit disrupts Psych 210 (The Diversity of Human Sexuality) throwing up nazi salutes, yelling Heil Hitler, and calling everyone “retarded degenerates” and “fags" The professor, Dr. Nicole McNichols, and her class 👏DO 👏NOT 👏PLAY 👏THAT 👏GAME

PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.

This is big news: Sound Transit is proposing to launch a new overnight ST Express network, once Federal Way and East Link are both fully operational. There would be three routes: Everett-Seattle, Lakewood-SeaTac-Seattle, and Redmond-Seattle. Headways are still TBD, but expected to be around 30 min.

This person summed up in 21 words the contents of a couple thousand emails sent to SDOT, the Mayor's office, and Council over the last 24 hours. Advocates for non-car transport have to win every public and private battle; opponents only need to win once. So we'll just keep on winning, I guess.

Ideally, growing up is learning one's capacity to effect change on the world around themselves which can induce a toxic pride in people, more so when they are taught they are special. Everyone is special and teaching children that "special" means "important" is doing them a disservice.

even more so than the cooler temps, I'm happy fall is here because I love looking at clouds and this summer had the clearest skies I'd ever seen

highly encourage people to go visit the Connections Museum in seattle when they're open, it's a whole building full of this!

nobody talking about sacred machines is talking about telephony equipment and they ought to be, like all of this metal was directly connecting your ear to someone's gaping maw and into literal orbit and back while simultaneously handling hundreds more. and it sounds like this it's like a critter

Holy SHIT they've identified an actual biomarker!!!

eternal september appropriately ends in october

Hacked off? So are we. Join @seattletru.bsky.social, @csgreenways.bsky.social, @fixthel8.bsky.social, @seattlesubway.org, and more to tell the city to keep our bus lanes where they are. Even the little ones. actionnetwork.org/letters/seat... (Photo used with permission.)

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

NEW: Judge William Young's ruling against Rubio and Noem is a lesson for all in the Trump era. Young lays bare the unconstitutionality of the Trump administration's student deportation efforts — and issues a challenge to America. Today, at Law Dork:

I was just as shocked with the news about the route 2 bus only lane as you. We are working on it. We need to prioritize pedestrian safety and not go backwards on our transit investments.