Okay y'all, the full Baileys clip is up and it is my duty to tell all of you that Chuck Schumer's imaginary friends ARE REAL AND CAN HURT YOU. Please tell your (not imaginary) friends. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dijM...
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Okay y'all, the full Baileys clip is up and it is my duty to tell all of you that Chuck Schumer's imaginary friends ARE REAL AND CAN HURT YOU. Please tell your (not imaginary) friends. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dijM...
Seattle friends. Police Guild president Mike Solan is a hard core Trumper and a threat to democracy.
We need a Mayor and Council who are ready and willing to take on Solan and the SPOG. A very real threat to democracy.
"What more could you possibly ask for when we provide you with flexible hours so you can be pinged around the clock, unlimited paid time off that prevents us from having to pay out unused vacation days, and company equity that is effectively a lottery ticket?"
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
If this is what the Republican ‘Lincoln Project’ folks are putting out, where are the Democrats who will say, “see you and raise you”?
SEATTLE: This was the final vote count in Seattle's recent PRIMARY for mayor. Progressive Katie Wilson resoundingly defeated business-backed Democrat Bruce Harrell. Wilson has a long list of accomplishments as a community leader making the Seattle area more affordable. It's time for a change.
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I don't know what this means, but it sounds awesome.
RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
A Sara Nelson campaign email asserts that she is "pushing to get millions in unused housing funds off the shelf and into actual homes", which is news to me as a city hall reporter. Nelson has actually proposed borrowing against Office of Housing dollars to fill other budget holes.
What are the betting markets saying?
Oh, really smart, making yourself totally reliant on the sun. I mean, how long can that last?!
I would read a book-length collection of these posts
The words, the tone, the affect, the scene. Everything is wrong every time.
How do you really feel?
Don't get my hopes up y'all
He really is Patrick Bateman. He spends a lot of time with his hair slicked back, coolly fighting the other side in a fashionable way, and then at night he runs out to furiously throw some homeless person’s last picture of their family into a garbage can.
Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.
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Seattleites love their summers, but it’s a little more complicated for parents. What if we had universal summer care for all children in Seattle? This isn’t a pie in the sky idea. We can make Seattle a great place for working families.
Fucking zombie
Le sigh
Indict corrupt would-be dictators? Good idea!
One of the things the Nazis did when coming to power was push propaganda that Jews were criminals and prone to violence by focusing on crime committed by Jews or fabricating crime they falsely attributed to Jews. The last 36 hours on X has been this on a massive scale against trans people.
On the new acting CDC director. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
He has a concept of a museum
As always, the fascist party is a murderous losers' club clown show
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Kroger says it’s closing stores because of retail crime or high wages. But it’s really about one thing: corporate greed. I am excited to work with UFCW 3000 on their Fresh Food for All campaign to ensure that all neighborhoods in our city have access to healthy food and medicine.
AP Livestream - CDC coming out in force to support our ousted leaders.
They are just gonna keep flogging that dead horse, aren't they?
little known fact: In 2020, Republicans lost the White House and the Senate.
Look at Friedland's face when Torres "rejects the notion" of Israel having the policy of killing civilians seeking aid.
If I were the democratic leadership, or their donors, I would be setting up shadow everything. Shadow congress. Shadow CDC. The overwhelming message being: here is where you come for facts. Here is what science really says. Here is what polling really says. Why aren’t they doing this?
Too late
Yes
Is that a CILANTRO sandwich?
Vanity Fair staffers threaten to walk out over a proposed Melania cover: “We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife… if this happens, i’m gone, and so is half my team.” www.thedailybeast.com/i-will-walk-...
Exactly what you would say if you were a Democratic influencer
🚨 The CDC as we know it is being severely altered tonight. In addition to the CDC director being ousted, the Post is reporting that several senior leaders are leaving as well. Here are from two of the resignations:
I thought of Wind that Shakes the Barley immediately, but I couldn't decide whether to recommend it. So good. So real. So brutal.
here’s my impression of the horrors: ohhhh look at me I’m the horrors! I’m refusing to cease!!!!
As @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social correctly pointed out yesterday, the military commissary system is one functioning model of a public option grocery store. Wilson is absolutely right to explore this as a solution to what @joemiz.bsky.social wisely calls Kroger's "food foreclosures."
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
Excellent work!
Hell of a passage to read in twenty twenty five
I am thrilled to have the support of UFCW 3000, the largest private sector union in the state of Washington. UFCW 3000 members work in grocery stores, hospitals, cannabis shops, retail stores, laundries, and much, much more.
an ~80' tall white pine that was killed by the heat dome was felled today no one from tree action seattle or sim groups showed up to mourn it or the thousands of other trees killed by excessive heat due to climate change, exacerbated by single family zoning and cars
Dayquil/Nyquil Great medicine Horrible color coding
Does anyone know what happened between May and August this year?
Melissa was able to visit Zahid recently and asked us to share his statement. He is currently in an isolation cell. From Melissa: “He can't even see a clock to tell day from night, and he's still under the 24/7 bright light exposure. This has to stop.”
Grinders maybe
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Big money donors in real estate, hedge funds, banking, and sports team ownership are backing Bruce Harrell for Seattle Mayor? I wonder what they see in him that Seattle's working families and renters are missing.
Of course he did!
Well, he deserves it, but it's bad for Democracy and we should oppose it.
Buddy!
$ Billions spent on the wall. They paint it black so it’s too hot to touch, but on the American side, and now this. That wall is more propaganda than a barrier. If you saw this anywhere else, you’d call it a gate or a fence.
This is what I keep thinking about. At some point it's going to come down to force. And law enforcement will not be on the side of democracy. It's going to require massive popular mobilization to defend ourselves.
Great trolling
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Condolences to your mentions
Somebody make me a video of every time Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries said the word "bipartisan" in the last 4 years.
They should be standing in front of tanks
So... Trump is intervening in favor of Russia?
I have known brilliant and sharp 85 year olds who contribute in all kinds of ways. Responsible leaders don't hoard power.
85! Fucking retire from Congress. Mentor. Fundraise. Go stand in front of a tank. Garden. embarrassing. Matter how you assess her career, it's embarrassing.
It would be helpful for a lot more of us on the progressive-to-left spectrum to better understand the Party system and the structure/mechanics of the Democratic Party. Would be great to have educational resources on this that are agnostic with respect to how the audience should make use of them.
We need a massive effort to engage with and organize among this group. Shouldn't be left to chance.
Training to be an HONORARY agent
JD Vance, famous expert on authenticity
Many of you have told us that you’re really frustrated with your elected officials. The good news is we’re heading into a primary season where we get to determine the leaders of the Democratic Party.
This is such a weasel ass description of what's happening. Get a fucking spine.
If a Democratic president starting sending Blue state national guard troops to occupy a red city as a power grab, the GOP officials in that state would arrest the invading guard troops to send a message that they are defending their sovereignty.
there’s a direct line between the decades long militarization of law enforcement and the willingness of a large fraction of Americans to accept armed troops occupying American cities in the name of “crime fighting” and both parties bear the weight of that sin
It's really great that, at a time when they are threatening military occupation of Seattle, the president of the Seattle Police Officers Guild is full on MAGA, and nobody in the Harrell administration has ever shown any willingness to stand up to him.
They are declaring war on us
Protest advice from a TikToker. Listen carefully. “You put 20,000 people in one place, the cops can handle that easily, you put a 1,000 people in 20 places, they will collapse. It’s also harder to target everyone with rubber bullets and tear gas if everyone is spreads out.”
Bipartisanship That's it, that's the post
This is a fucking disaster. I'm going to donate to this newsroom. They're the real deal, and Republican fascists are killing their reach. Give them money, y'all. And let's figure out how to keep amplifying them.
I think people heard "democracy" as "status quo" and that is kind of understandable.
Mainstream Dems: Oh, we can't do that because corporations and rich people will go on an investment strike. MAGA: I own Intel now. Fuck you.
The first thing everyone in this country who is anti-fascist can do now is to join something where people are already gathering to address any issue. Can't find anything you want to join, then make your own thing and invite people to join you. This is not a time for Lone Rangers.
This is a declaration of war
JD Vance says 2+2=5.
Bad faith bullshit
So we need like a thousand people to move to Bainbridge?
It should be read as a fundraising pitch.
And, also, Democratic politicians are generally not using this language, at least not the stuff that's most unfamiliar to normies. They are just using this fake ass issue as a cudgel against progressives.
In 2023, she was considered the progressive candidate. I'm gonna throw up. Councilmember Kirsten Hytopoulos: “It doesn’t look good. It looks like affordable housing, so I think people will be prouder to live there if it’s something that’s not an eyesore.”
The CEOs of the 12 biggest banks on Wall Street probably got $53 MILLION in tax breaks from the first Trump administration. The American Bankers Association lobbied to keep those tax breaks going. That's exactly what Trump just signed and said was for you.
The Supreme Rubber Stamp
Eternal vigilance and so forth
Why yes, I am still pissed off that Donald Trump used his GOP convention speech (one of the biggest audiences he would have all year) to present Viktor Orban and Kim Jong Un as models for how he would rule and the New York Times (etc) ignored it. Me, then: www.findinggravity.net/tell-the-new...
