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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?

submitted 3 hours ago • 22 comments

… but all the upheld norms…

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 20 hours ago • 12 comments

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

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Lmao

submitted 20 hours ago • 114 comments

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

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 18 hours ago • 41 comments

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.

submitted 21 hours ago • 312 comments

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

submitted 21 hours ago • 8 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

foreshadowing

submitted 1 day ago • 117 comments

Cascadia checking in

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 118 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 232 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 490 comments

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.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

just tweet after tweet of this conspiratorial nonsense

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

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.

submitted 2 days ago • 219 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 2258 comments

you're telling me they milked a muscle

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

At some point we gotta start arrest ICE agents for kidnapping

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

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.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 120 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 286 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

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.

submitted 2 days ago • 137 comments

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.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

“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

submitted 3 days ago • 1920 comments

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.

submitted 3 days ago • 55 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 156 comments

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.

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submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

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.

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

mike johnson desperately wants to be a supplicant to a king

submitted 3 days ago • 425 comments

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."

submitted 3 days ago • 108 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 667 comments

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.

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments