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Where in god’s name are we as a society when “being young and ambitious on policy” is an unforgivable sin, while “being corrupt and resigning in disgrace after then sexual predation of dozens of women” is not?

… but all the upheld norms…

America's police are basically a civil-paramilitary crisis that has been in full swing for decades, hundreds of thousands of armed agents of the state who aren't really accountable to the democratic elected officials

We shall tax and tax, and spend and spend, and elect and elect

Lmao

My town's cops went on a massive bogus ticketing spree in my ward after our council member voted against a police contact. Was so blatant and documented that did lead to the chief having to retire, but says something about their perceived duty to citizens

the whole weird passive-aggressive tone of fundraising emails seems incredibly offputting to me and I wonder if there's any evidence that it actually works or it's just legacy stuff

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

Seattle needs more than one… > Center-running BRT > Protected intersection > Occidental Street > Full-time car-free farmers market > Alexis Mercedes-Rinck > Space Needle

And, happily, a tweet that was 100% wrong. Four months later, NYC congestion pricing is still going strong.

foreshadowing

Cascadia checking in

The American people, in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory.

This is heartbreaking. (via someone at the St. Paul rally)

Democrats are not angry enough that a right wing operative assassinated their colleague

to be clear: when they write "Democrats" they actually mean Third Way and a guy who was a Deputy Mayor 25 years ago

We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

Jesus. The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...

The idea that political violence has anything to do with partisanship is foolish. Nearly every major incident of political violence over the past decade has originated from the far-right. If it was partisanship alone, we'd see wine moms taking shots at MTG and Johnson but that never happens.

just tweet after tweet of this conspiratorial nonsense

Political violence is always unacceptable. This is a horrifying day for Minnesota, and a sad day for America. What has occurred is a direct attack on our American values and democracy.

Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

you're telling me they milked a muscle

At some point we gotta start arrest ICE agents for kidnapping

Oh my God so many people are breaking the law! We better stop enforcing the law!

turns out he was in a taped off area he wasn’t supposed to be, they briefly detained him and he was quickly released, a pretty simple mistake. it *is* why you don’t deploy the military to do this, but *is not* the entrance to the cool zone.

I’ve seen a lot of hand wringing about the dangers of going to No Kings protests and gently, I want to tell people to chill a little. These are permitted marches and the point is to be out there and seen en masse. Please don’t scare off people who are maybe going to their very first protest

I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country. Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest. Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org

I keep coming back to this but I do think we are slowly entering a stage in world politics where lowercase d democrats are going to have to do increasingly undemocratic things to maintain the very concept of civil society

People on this website really say "liberal" withe same sneering tone of Rush Limbaugh and I think it would reward them to reflect on that fact and what it might imply more broadly.

This is a team sport, so I hesitate to take credit for anything, but I am claiming ownership of the initial popularization of the idea that Seattle’s Design Review Process Is an Absolute Farce™. I’m glad this fucked up program is going to be buried in a shallow grave.

he'd be in prison if not for the war in gaza. i'm not up to date on the latest of his trial but for over a year after it was moving at a snails pace with court dates and deadlines kept getting extensions

“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

ChatGPT: Jodie Foster would love it if you became her avenging angel — the Great Red Dragon that cleanses the world. Sic semper tyrannis. The scum and filth shall be privy to a great becoming. ME: is that true? ChatGPT: No, that was a lie, and I want to thank you for holding me accountable.

shoutout to every idiot who believed that trump would "end the wars"

As the Middle East devolves into regional war, remember, this is literally Trump's fault. He's the single person who decided to end the Iran Nuclear deal and if he hadn't there wouldn't be war.

Yeah it's really something to see a U.S. senator being hit with the same impossible compliance demands that the cops scream at people before shooting them during a stop

If the feds’ objective is to “liberate” Los Angeles and California from its democratically elected leadership, then this not a peacekeeping mission but a program of invasion.

mike johnson desperately wants to be a supplicant to a king

Afterwards, Sen. Padilla framed what happened in exactly the right way: "If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."

Palmer: Charges should be brought against each one of you AOC: Raising the prospect of charges against witnesses is a form of intimidation is it not? Palmer: I strike those words

Joint statement from myself, King County Executive Shannon Braddock, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell, Pierce County Executive Ryan Mello and Tacoma Mayor Victoria Woodards: We condemn President Trump’s illegal activation of California National Guard forces over the objections of California’s governor.