"While they reduced reports of rats, they are limited as a case study. Once enacted, the Empire Bins will destroy the character of neighborhoods. We will have fewer cars and more dumpsters." The character of the neighborhood is cars. Incredible. Scenes. No notes. 🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌/5

I think the median voter might be the devil

Academic authors: For a fee, I will read your book on the NYC subway looking very engrossed. Extra for if you want me to point, and say very loudly, "THIS is what I'm talking about!"

Well-Pleaded Complaints@timorous.cishet.net · last wk.

spotted: man on the uptown D reading @unlawfulentries.bsky.social’s “Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship”. that’s what we call a blockbuster hit folks

every one of these people should be fired. out of large potato guns. into each other.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump jokes about serving a third term — and gets laughs at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Are renters allowed to have an opinion on the library levy according to the Seattle Times or nah www.seattletimes.com/business/whe...

Seattle homeowners give their read on the $479M library levy

As the August primary approaches, Seattle voters will decide the fate of a $480 million library levy.

seattletimes.com

once again I am asking for a democratic party that actually does what republicans claim they will do

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump: "The Democrats are gonna terminate the filibuster as soon as they have a chance and then they're gonna approve DC and Puerto Rico as states. They get 4 more senators, 12 more congressmen, like 40 electoral votes ... you don't want to see me cry."

The Oakland University Archives and Special Collections has made available via JSTOR 23 oral history interviews that capture the history of Pontiac’s Black community and map the routes of the Great Migration. The post also includes a classroom activity for interpreting excerpts of the interviews! 🗃️

The Cassette Tapes of the Great Migration - JSTOR Daily

An archive of recorded interviews captures how ordinary people experienced one of the defining chapters of American history.

daily.jstor.org

A huge part of being an undergrad is *discovering* ways of thinking and experiencing the world that are outside of all their expectations and understandings. Boiling our offerings down to a homogenous sludge of career-oriented boilerplate is the polar opposite of that.

it's like if Robinson Crusoe was a coke dealer

i wish for everyone a mayor who truly loves their city

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w ago

This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City.

This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.

This is who they sent out on our streets to murder us

I need a rich person to fund a new TV channel or studio or whatever that just does shows that have the same vibe as the USA heyday. Burn Notice, Royal Pains, Psych, Monk, Suits, White Collar, Covert Affairs...

This party is filled with losers from top to bottom. Primary them all.

Kate Riga@kateriga.bsky.social · 3w ago

Durbin came to talk to us after meeting w Todd Blanche - said Blanche said "I made a mistake" about the weaponization fund. Durbin asked for assurances that the admin won't interfere in the midterms — says Blanche said "we won't." Also seemed pretty sure that there aren't many swayable Republicans

Writing headlines is hard. You have to compress an article into a phrase or two. And you have to fit an exact and usually inconvenient line space. Two images below: What the NYT is running on line. (h/t @jaywillis.net for calling this one out.) And what would fit exactly the same space, by me.

i don't think it's good to be friendly with fascists. i think it speaks poorly of the character of every dem senator trotting out this trite bullshit. graham defended the ICE agent who murdered your fellow citizen on camera. graham was subhuman garbage, and the world is better off with him dead.

Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · 3w ago

What I’ll remember most about Senator Graham was his sense of humor and how he deployed it to move his policy positions forward. Though we did not often agree, Senator Graham was never disagreeable.

Democratic messaging would be 97% better if they simply stopped and asked "Who is this for?" before hitting Send and deleting everything where the answer is "People who love Donald Trump."

We should invent a kind of canceling where the guy goes away

Losing my mind at this Murder, She Wrote promo

i fell down a deep and winding rabbit hole on the General Hospital wiki to bring you this... ... and it was all so, so worth it type-click-type.ghost.io/john-oliver-...

A Non-Viewer's Guide To John Oliver's Appearance On General Hospital

It's nice to sit back and watch a man have the time of his life.

type-click-type.ghost.io

Seattle artists and art lovers! A very cool volunteer opportunity awaits. The Homeless Remembrance Project installs bronze leaves on the sidewalk to commemorate unhoused ppl who have passed away. It's art, activism, metalworking, community building, and sacred ritual all in one. And we need help.

Gaining access to a multibillion dollar transit system that provides direct access to an international airport, professional sports arenas, and some of the world's most valuable companies while only adding 122 residents should be a crime

Greg Spotts@spottnik.bsky.social · last mo.

Mercer Island grew by 122 folks from 2020-2026

*nodding solemnly with full comprehension* yes, I see. there’s a special kind of kid who can’t play sports or go to the bathroom

House-made ketchup. Just give us Heinz, they figured it out already and you're not improving on the recipe.

Food Republic@foodrepublic.bsky.social · last mo.

What's one food trend you're ready to never see again?

Universities are indispensable to reproduce democracy, society and all kinds of other jobs. So if they are showing up as costs on your balance sheet but not as essential capacities, get a different balance sheet approach

Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · last mo.

We don't know who needs to hear this but ... wait ... yes we do .. it's bloody everyone.

‘Our estimate is that about 200 to 400 pedestrians a year would not have died if vehicles had remained approximately the same size over the past quarter-century. That represents about 10 percent of the recent increase in pedestrian deaths.‘

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)

The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

nytimes.com

The dog has discovered that the plants in the garden have veggies on them—just saw him help himself to a snap pea, as though anyone had invited him to do so!—so RIP to our crops.

The boring but necessary solution to having cool art is affordable places to live, reasonably priced groceries, free health care & not weighing graduates down w backbreaking debt before they even graduate. People can be weird freaks & still create but we get less weird cool stuff if they can't eat

“it’s a long time ago” these murderers make me sick

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

NYT: Can you now say whether you will hold anyone in your administration accountable for the strike on a school that killed more than 100 children? TRUMP: No. It's such a strange question to be asked. It's a long time ago. Mistakes are made. I would ask Pete Hegseth that question.