Linehan has long been seen as so extreme that even JK Rowling refused to even acknowledge him. He's whined about it several times. His own wife and children left him over his unhinged tweeting over trans people. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Linehan has long been seen as so extreme that even JK Rowling refused to even acknowledge him. He's whined about it several times. His own wife and children left him over his unhinged tweeting over trans people. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
please consider donating to save Street Roots. it's so vital to Portland. a newspaper by and for and centering houseless people which provides both a megaphone for their voices and stories, and paid work to help support them. it's the only local election endorsement list I always trust.
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
Yeah it takes a bit more effort to research ones that aren't overly tech invested, but they exist. If your kiddo wants to try a small s&p for long term there are advocacy focused ones like VOTE too.
ETFs are still an option, just look for ones other than the s&p. I have a total stock market etf and international.
Francis J. Allman, Chief Judge of Florida’s Second Judicial District should be removed from the bench for a basic failure to understand our constitutional system if he lodged the complaint Atty Rashid discusses here ⬇️
From Africa. But it's ok he's got the right skin color.
Also I told my husband there was a conversation on blusky about dogs special interests and immediately replied "ours is cat poop". I think my dog might actually be autistic now. Or, you know, is a dog.
Envy. My dog has a lifelong obsessive interest in cat poop.
Who's the worst cartoon character? I vote Henry, the dad from Dennis the Menace. He's a mask deliberately invented to whitewash the identity of his creator, Hank Ketcham, one of the worst men to ever make comics. It's gonna take a thread.
Creative writing prompt: Make a simple press statement about a car accident sound suspicious on at least three different levels.
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
Sadly the computing/network/3d printer guy economy is the only one that is still flourishing. They can only trade so many favors with social media guys before that tapped out (maybe once). Manual labor guys are in high demand.
I'm stuck working on Monday and I can't decide if I'm hoping it'll just be another day in this hellscape so I'm not working on a day I should be celebrating or if I'm hoping I'll at least get to feel cheerful when I drag my butt to work.
any body want to help me plan sneaking around and raising all the flags back up to full mast
I frame it in the old Soviet joke Every day shopkeep sees man run up, look at front of paper, then scurry off Finally stops him and says "comrade every day you do this. What are you doing?" "looking for an obituary" "but those are on page 8" "not the one I'm looking for"
Ah that's it? I was expecting a covefe moment that lead to dying on the toilet phone in hand theories.
Ok could someone fill me in on whatever the heck everyone is giggling about tonight?
And we gave her family millions. Is there any justice for the many many unarmed black folks killed by cops? Nope! But the armed insurrectist ignoring orders to leave, well she was white and doing what our president wanted. Cha ching! Grrrrrrrrrrr
Every listing will have accurate measurements. And a full contents list. And you don't get to call something from the 90s antique. Even in the future when it technically is antique. At most anything from my lifetime will be vintage.
If I ever rule the world, the third thing I'm doing (after world peace and abundant resources for all) is mandating the language allowed in resale apps. No "unrelated brand for attention". You don't get to say silk like (polyester), suede (polyester), leather (vinyl), or other ridiculous claims.
I’ve seen a lot of fucked up shit in my day, but this might just take the cake.
I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Dual Roomba xkcd.com/3133/
![4-panel comic. (1) [Roomba next to two people] PERSON 1 to Person 2 with white hat: The Roomba keeps my floor clean. But what do I do when the *Roomba* gets dirty? (2) PERSON 1: Simple: I got a second Roomba and a ramp, so they can clean each other. [a second Roomba takes ramp to be on top of first Roomba] (3) PERSON 1: After the tops are clean, I flip one of them over so they can clean each others’ undersides. [flips Roomba upside down] (4) [stacked Roombas vibrating] PERSON 2: There’s nothing NSFW about this, and yet it’s the most NSFW thing I’ve ever seen. PERSON 1: Yeah, my YouTube DIY video about it got demonetized.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicowxulcoikrb7a7datbtfucl3yb2kfxjuoknszcvbrhjanpek7f4@jpeg "Click to view full size")
HUGE FLIP: Democrat Catelin Drey wins deep-red state Senate seat in Iowa, breaking the GOP's supermajority. Drey won by 11 points in a district Donald Trump carried by 11 points last year. It's another massive overperformance. The Iowa GOP should be very worried for the midterms. Our full writeup:
… and this is the effect.
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Ok I am absurdly happy that wasn't the rules in my debate era. Altho I can talk incredibly fast so maybe 🤔🤔. I really prefer a well argued case that changes minds tho.
Whelp, shoulda imported some pens and other office supplies while I still could. And really good instant espresso.
Among all the other things, "The President has screwed things up so badly that the world's other rich countries won't deliver mail to us anymore" really should end it immediately.
Earlier this year, SCOTUS tried to construct a stupid legal framework where the President was allowed to destroy basically all independent institutions except for the Federal Reserve, which was deemed too economically important. Unsurprisingly, even that was not enough for Trump.
Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
My Portland urbanism take is that we need way more covered outdoor spaces, public and semi-public. We have like 8 months a year where it's very comfortable to sit outside in warm clothes as long as you're not in the rain
I'm pretty sure it'll be the bomb followed by the clothes bought by FEMA at 10x retail given out to the survivors. Honestly I'm still amazed that we weren't higher up the list. PDX hasn't even warranted a mention yet. I think he learned how very white the city is.
It would not shock me at all if his fragile elderly hands are just bruising from the impact of gripping a club so often.
He's always been swimming in his shirts, he thinks it makes him look better.
“Jimenez Rosa’s time in custody ended with her alone, wet and begging for help at The Cheesecake Factory in the Burlington Mall, after ICE agents released her into the rainy street outside the detention facility Wednesday night. She was 30 miles from home, with no phone and a broken spirit.”
Did they talk to a single psychologist on how to do a decent survey? Ouch.
Nah, he's been obsessed since the black president got it.
This is precisely the sickness right here: "The Democratic Party should make fan fiction podcasts say 'woman' again." How? Why? Do right-wing podcasts ever say anything untoward that Republicans should address? Everything goes back to the myth that Dems are responsible for petty aesthetic gripes
I mean lots and lots of reporters trying to tell the west coast story without much traction. And the bay funds a bunch of media outlets they're just tech focused for the most part.
Eh, it just gets grouped into "the bay" or San Francisco, lol. The media largely ignores the west coast unless they want to claim Portland is burning again or look what those nerds in San Fran did this time.
I'd say keep the many blocks full of older houses but allow infill, expansion, conversion, etc etc. Don't keep the entire neighborhood as-is with all sorts of restrictions for owners.
True, I'm extremely let down that they're not trying. Give us videos of those people telling their story in your fundraising. Put them on social media. There are tons of options that don't take anyone else cooperating. I'm just not sure they're going to get in the big mainstream press outlets.
They may also just know said right wing ecosystem simply won't allow it.
Yup. Guess our government has completely forgotten about that little fact. They aren't kings.
Yup! Means your IP is being identified as being in TX.
IP blocks. They're not allowing any IPs from the state to access. Honestly makes sense for them due to the incredibly broad age verification law the state leg passed. Feel horrible for citizens tho.
Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley reacts to the Maxwell transcripts, saying Maxwell “repeatedly and brazenly lied” to the government and is trying to “recreate history.” Full statement
I think it'll just be listed in a section titled the end in the overall US article.
I've gone thru more anxiety meds this year so far than the last decade added together. I'm just glad my psychiatrist understands tho he'd like me to stop reading the news (that makes me even more anxious unfortunately!)
Wasn't she photographed taking a bin of documents back to her cell after the first conversation?
In recognition of James Dobson's all too delayed death, we republished an account of his legacy -- a three part series about evangelical child abuse, a culture Dobson disseminated and propagandized. buttondown.com/theswordandt...
I don't know why, but the call out about "rats" combined with how many of their "arrests" are undocumented immigrants and.... yikes.
If you're ever feeling overwhelmed about the never-ending river of shit that Trump, MAGA, Netanyahu, Putin et al. pour into the world, remember just how many kind, compassionate, and fundamentally decent people there are who will oppose them at every step.
Orlando wasn’t having what DeSantis did. They recolored the Pulse Memorial crosswalk.
They want to make sure that Republicans can cut off all federal money from possible Dems but then yank that power the second Dems might take over.
But the USDS was an Obama thing so it had to go, obviously.
Why did Gilbert quit? 🤷 The rumor is that the White House told him to fire somebody and hire in their place Charlottesville's incompetent former commonwealth's attorney, Robert Tracci, and he refused. (Tracci is now the new acting AG.)
listen the world is a mess but a judge ordered the Florida migrant prison closed, California passed their "fuck around, find out" redistricting, and James Dobson is dead this is the best net good news day in awhile, I really do think
Being quiet familiar with Calvinball I not only agree with the metaphor, but I’m proud of her for using it to such pointed effect. Kudos, KBJ!
This is the future this liberal wants.
I read somewhere that justices really care about their legacy, I hope it’s true. These conservatives on the court will go down as the stupidest, most corrupt justices. Total disgraces! Reform is not soon enough for this court.
Evil rots. It's why they lean so heavily on cosmetic surgery.
Colors aren't my ideal, but I fully plan to recover it eventually and I definitely don't hate the mauve and cream of it now.
Snagged an ~80s wants to be late Victorian curved lampshade lamp today for $25 an I'm both deeply annoyed that they've become popular and can't be found for $1 at grandma's estate sale and really pleased I got it so cheap. Just a frame to replicate the shade is more than that new and is just wire.
The fact that the Pentagon is asking for "volunteers" from civilian jobs to travel to immigration sites and work for ICE where they have no choice in location, where conditions will be "austere", for 6 months AND they won't even pay relocation costs....bwahahaha. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Yes. And don't forget the history of Juneteenth and what it celebrates. Namely slaves in Texas finding out 2 years after they should have been freed that they were.
Guess I need a Mexican flag sticker. Might go really subversive with Venezuelan.
GOOD NEWS DAY: James Dobson, terrorizer of generations of children and Founder of Focus on the Family, has finally upgraded to worm food.
Sending poor people a box of fresh food a) isn't even a real proposal b) is a logistical nightmare c) has no evidence of efficacy d) makes no sense while cutting food stamps and medicaid Stop laundering these people's dumb ideas into good ones!
Vance: "Immigrants come here to sponge off us because they have no money." Also Vance: "Immigrants are buying up all the housing supply."
Good point! How many murders is Vance accepting that a 35% decline rate is significant? Have we been wrong about the Zodiac Killer this whole time?!
Oh hey. Me too! And yeah no one should hope for or expect a civil war. With modern weapons? It'll be really really really bad very quickly.
Yeah Washington already has a large separatist movement and it's not a liberal one! Despite being a very blue state overall it would be SCARY here.
Love his press office. They are brilliant. And I love his social media posts thanks you Camille Zapata.
from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"
Attorney General Bondi sent me a letter last week. It purports to notify me that Washington state “has been identified” as a “so-called sanctuary jurisdiction” — on grounds that her letter makes no effort whatsoever to explain.
I had the most horrifying nightmare last night. It featured decor influencers doing videos in immigrant detention facilities. I really really really hope I'm not psychic and instead am watching too many interior design videos.
do these ghouls not realize starving kids with preexisting conditions is bad? That makes it worse than starving a child who might have more of a fighting chance in a famine. In theory, we try to reduce harm in this country to people with preexisting conditions, and in theory try Not to bomb them
BREAKING via Fox News Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel are bringing on Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey as an additional deputy director of the bureau. Bailey will serve as co-Deputy Director of the FBI alongside Dan Bongino. Full Story: fxn.ws/4oBACjz
Once you see this just sign offline for the day. You're not going to come across anything better. This is your sign you've had enough Internet for one day.
This is the same eugenic belief system that many still hold re: the ongoing pandemic. They believe people’s deaths from covid are acceptable if they’re medically vulnerable. It’s a disgusting ableist belief system and this rhetoric surrounding children in Gaza is the natural consequence of that
Pretty soon people will be dying of skurvy and somehow it'll be just a normal consequence of uh living near the ocean I guess.
They're not going to die of malnutrition, just uh dying *with* malnutrition. It's actually the paper cut that killed them. Or the bomb. Honestly probably that one. Can't starve people to death if you blow them up first!
How in the world could their muscles have atrophied? 🙄🙄🙄
Rickets?! They're seriously pointing out someone has rickets as tho that's not directly coorelated to diet?!
I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.
I am going to become the joker
Also, here’s the label. Look at that text immediately above attempting to minimize the disclaimer, just like the restaurant menu notices about the hazards of eating raw meat or the Prop 65 notice that is now on almost everything you buy. Overwarning is worse than underwarning.
I will continue to be pissed off at the chain of events that led to my disabled husband catching covid last month. Absolutely fuck you to anyone who deliberately leaves the house unmasked because "it's just a cold".
Masking is just public health 101 and I'm still in shock that on a flight I offered everyone near me a sealed n95 and said I was recovering from covid (for complex reasons I had no choice but to travel). 0 people accepted. I, of course, was masked.
Happy to say I'm allowed to nod along! I still regularly buy kn94s and n95s depending on what is available and affordable and intend to do so forever at this point.
It's the most basic idea behind public health that it CANNOT be left up to personal choice. Just like most of the people reading this thread and nodding along have inexplicably given up masking in public places (sometimes for years) and abandoned disabled folks to do our best to protect ourselves.
To quote directly from the conference for food protection addressing the senate, "Prior to pasteurization, milk was a common source of the bacteria that cause tuberculosis, Q fever, diphtheria, severe streptococcal infections, typhoid fever, and other foodborne illnesses. /
I lived next to Amish farms for years AND have farmer friends as an adult. I've milked cows. In no world would I ever drink milk that hasn't been pasteurized. So so so much poop and other things.
Sure. But she's not suing the state for the asinine wink wink law. I don't think she's actually really realized that she was in the wrong as much as everyone else involved.
I don't know if permanent removal would be warranted but a cps case and overall classes and education would. Unfortunately she's just going to sue the dairy, probably win, and just buy "safer" raw milk in the future.
Except she's learned nothing if she's suing the dairy rather than facing up to her own bad choices.