Again, I beg of y'all, crack a fuckin' history textbook.

Michael Paulauski♨️@mike10010100.com · yesterday

This holds true historically, too. Letting reactionaries win has never catalyzed progressive leaps. Civil rights wasn't won by sitting out to teach Democrats a lesson. Organizers knew right-wing victories shrink the room to organize, litigate, and apply pressure.

Seattle interim Police Chief Andre Sayles says "I need to delay" the release of "any" Bite of Seattle-related texts and Teams messages due to the ongoing investigation/search for potential suspects hwo are still at large 6 weeks later. The mayor's office released their messages earlier this month.

There are a lot of amazing & hopeful environmental restoration successes out there & it’s my duty to remind u that none of them involve stopping dense infill housing. We really know how to fix things. We just need everyone to understand what we really need to do & scream louder than the orca NIMBYs

Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d ago

Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToo

81% of Seattle police calls for service are for non criminal activity The police budget doubled in 10 years. Cops make $154k at 5 years. Most of the city’s $175m budget deficit this year is related to police lawsuits, raises, overtime Why *wouldnt* you defund that?

Ronald Rice@ronrice.bsky.social · 22h ago

That may be, but they are two diametrically opposite approaches, obviously. 'Demilitarize and Educate' versus 'Defund'. Totally different paths.

The Trump administration wants to cull people with disabilities from the workforce. Requests for disability accommodations are not special privileges. They are required for people with disabilities to be able to work, and they should not be treated carelessly or maliciously.

CDC, after months of delays, gives employees 20 days to resubmit disability accommodation documentation

CDC is spending months, if not longer, to process reasonable accommodation requests because HHS-wide layoffs and separation incentives decimated the department’s human resources functions.

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When was Bruce mayor?

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, we won’t be able to address mass deportation without addressing policing.

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · yesterday

How is ICE making record arrests? I found the answer in Pa. coal country, where cops lured by a promise of federal $$$ have embraced ICE's 287(g) and are throwing up checkpoints, raiding job sites, arresting 100s, and terrorizing their communities My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/penn...

showing up for the Chamber to oppose something exactly like the bill you SPONSORED 6 years earlier gratuitously sick gotcha by Shaun Scott btw bsky.app/profile/fuse...

Fuse Washington@fusewashington.org · 8mo ago

There was also a funny moment earlier where former state Sen. Joe Nguyen opposed the Well WA Fund as Commerce Dept. head, and Rep. Scott pointed out Nguyen had sponsored a bill 6 years ago in #WALeg to create a progressive payroll tax just like this one, and asked him what had changed.

Horrific though unsurprising report from @propublica.org: Ectopic pregnancy deaths have basically doubled since the end of Roe

Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

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The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland

A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".

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"Kennedy's department cited seven articles, two of which were apparently made up entirely and three of which did not exist in the journals to which they were attributed..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Judge slams HHS for referencing fake studies generated by misuse of AI

The Department of Health and Human Services has suffered more than its share of AI-related humiliations. The list, alas, is still growing.

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As I explained the last time this dumb argument made the rounds, if Congress was never allowed to change the Court’s size (something it’s done seven times), that would mean four of the *current* justices (all of whom are Republicans) hold unconstitutionally created seats: www.ms.now/opinion/repu...

Republicans say court packing is 'unconstitutional.' They're wrong.

The argument that court expansion is unconstitutional is weak, transparently political — and most importantly, wrong.

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Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 3d ago

Really rare to spot something like this in the wild, but The Wall Street Journal ran a "Supreme Court Expansion Is Secretly Unconstitutional Actually" column that directly refutes its thesis in the paragraph that immediately follows. Beautiful stuff. www.wsj.com/opinion/is-c...

This! (I need reminders, too.)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d ago

if it took you 5 seconds of contemplation to think of an alternative you should take at least another 5-10 to at least consider the possibility that it at least crossed the minds of 1 or 2 of the people who dedicate their lives and research careers to dealing with the problems we post about on here

The media wanted a hero, and they sanitized Giuliani into one in the aftermath of that tragedy. But he wasn't a hero he was a side villain. If you want to look at REAL heroes, may I point you to the boat lift people

BOATLIFT - An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience (HD Version)

YouTube video by Eyepop Productions

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If you don't know the lore, Giuliani was in the streets on 9/11 because he had nowhere to go. He insisted they put the emergency-command center in the WTC because he wanted to be able to walk to it and it was destroyed. This was 3 years after the first WTC attack. (pre-Bari Weiss CBS link)

The Bunker

By Kevin Drum

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this is fucking FOUL if you need the archive link: archive.ph/4qjEq

Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social · 3d ago

An OB-GYN sued (often low-income, uninsured) patients for owing as little as $114. He charged them 18% interest. And oh, he had many of them *arrested* if they didn't follow through. That OB-GYN? Republican Senator Roger Marshall www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u... Insane story by Sarah Kliff

republicans take food stamps away from 82,000 Indiana residents www.newsfromthestates.com/article/thou...

Thousands of Hoosiers removed from food assistance

Eighty-two thousand fewer Hoosiers are receiving benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program since President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act took effect last October.The l...

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NEW: The City of Oak Grove's request to use paper poll books rather than electronic records could disenfranchise thousands of voters, a Minnesota Supreme Court justice said Tuesday. The city wants to overhaul part of the election system, in part because of a conspiracy theory about iPads.

Minnesota justice warns electronic poll book conspiracy theory could threaten voters’ ability to cast ballots

“Do you agree that this is a legitimate concern, especially in light of, for example, the American Bar Association’s note that it’s axiomatic that voter participation in our democratic processes is on...

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this is why community resources and social services ARE public safety priorities. investing directly into the communities where violence occurs, whether that means free childcare, additional workplace training, no-barrier housing, etc. - all of this has durable violence prevention benefits!

the population of seattle in 2010 (closest i can find) was ~610k, so 19 homicides is a rate of 0.0031% in 2023 (again, using available numbers) the population was ~755k, so 21 homicides is a rate of 0.0028% THE CITY GOT FUCKING SAFER Y'ALL

Instead of smashing the machine that could replace them, typesetters embraced the Linotype and took control of it -- perhaps lesson for us today. Here's a small sample on Labor and the Linotype from my book Hot Type: medium.com/whither-news...

Labor and the Linotype

Surprising lessons when typesetters met the machine

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Yeesh. 👀 “.. we find limited evidence that data center development improves fiscal balances, employment, or business formation.” (via @talsmith.bsky.social) download.ssrn.com/2026/9/1/738...

NEW: In Washington state, a right-wing sheriff has been pressing for the authority to collaborate with ICE. He's also drawn complaints about many public, transphobic statements. A ballot measure this fall would cut his term short—and it'd also end all sheriff elections in Pierce County (Tacoma).

In Washington, a County Mulls Ending Sheriff Elections—and Ousting Its Right-Wing Sheriff - Bolts

The ballot measure in Pierce County follows controversies surrounding Sheriff Keith Swank, at a time Washington is grappling with poor oversight over law enforcement.

boltsmag.org

A four-star general launched an independent review into Kid Rock’s taxpayer-funded “joy ride” in a military helicopter. Five days later, Secretary Hegseth fired the general. He is purging our military of experienced leaders to cover up his own corruption. wapo.st/3Uuf51X

This Labor Day, ask where the returns on labor actually go. Basic income isn't about rewarding work, it's about making sure everyone shares in the wealth we all help create.

Work that gets more thankless and prosocial turns into women’s fields and that’s probably a net gain for politics, let’s do it

(Read the whole thread tho)

Jessica Price@delafina777.bsky.social · 4d ago

Oh wait, maybe that’s because 3/4 of working-age women work outside the home, and 80+% of those working work full time (+). So women are working 60-70 hours a week, juggling a full time job with the housework that used to be a full time job. www.americanprogress.org/article/fact...

It takes a real act of will to ignore the overwhelming evidence that SPD failed to put out information, despite the mayor's office asking them to do so, after the Bite of Seattle shooting, in order to blame the mayor for the lack of information. Nevertheless, the Seattle Times persisted.

Former chief Barnes' interview adds urgency to answer Bite of Seattle questions | Editorial

Former police chief Shon Barnes' interview with the editorial board underscores the need to better understand what happened at Bite of Seattle shooting.

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Another thing I learned while writing my piece is that the UK has specialized units for new mothers with PPP, schizophrenia, bipolar, and other life-threatening mental illnesses. Their babies aren't taken away from them. We don't have this in the US, but we could. spitfirenews.com/p/lindsay-cl...

Lindsay Clancy is the manosphere's new weapon

The facts of the case are a tragedy. So are many of the reactions.

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