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Left coaster Proud parent Business owner I have a much better half MMT-curious He/Him
The U.S.-Funded Plan To Kill Infants In Africa By Withholding Vaccines Has Been Thwarted By Sabrina Imbler
The U.S.-Funded Plan To Kill Infants In Africa By Withholding Vaccines Has Been Thwarted | Defector
This week, one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s most malevolent plots was finally brought to a halt when police in Guinea-Bissau raided the offices of Danish researchers who intended to carry out a hepatiti...
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Here’s all his contacts. Do with them whatever you like. He’s a trash journalist that should be at the Post or the Daily Mail. Omar should sue the Times for this.
I’ve read a lot of bad NY Times articles in my life. This is possibly one of the worst. If it was possible to criminally charge a journalist for being monstrously bad at his job this is one of those times. Ernesto Londoño makes claims at the top of the article that are literally disputed within.
Patrick Stewart story: Night before my GCSE Chemistry, I waited for Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart backstage after Waiting For Godot. Patrick asked what’s in my bag, I told him about my exam. So Stewart and McKellen told the Green Room to “shush” as they both tested me on the Periodic Table. RIP
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 7h agoRIP to one of the realest who ever did it www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
NEW: My midterms cheat sheet features 670+ races—up and down the ballot, & why they matter. Now it's in PDF, printable form! Save it, print it, give it to your kids to color the Senate map, & use it your worksheet on election night. Find it here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
MAGA is offended by Obama invoking the Cheesecake Factory but not offended by him comparing Trump to Saddam Hussein.
I-001 repeals existing laws that ensure parents are informed when their child needs them most and removes common-sense protections for victims of child abuse. Join State Rep. Monica Stonier and hundreds of other teachers, counselors, nurses, doctors, and more in voting NO on I-001by November 3rd.
The victim in Colorado's 12th bear attack of the year took a stand for humanity and opened a can of whoop-ass on the bear.
Good people? Who knows? They just aren’t the worlds worst people. Low bar. Good for them
The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · last wk.⚡️️️️️️️Amid Starlink crisis, Finnish tech giants announce plan to help Ukraine build its own sovereign satellite system. "Ukraine needs secure, sovereign, and high-performance satellite communications systems that it controls," ICEYE CEO Rafal Modrzewski said.
Fundraising costs gobble up most of the funds raised. Billions are spent on TV ads that have virtually no impact. Candidates may win or lose—but the consulting class always wins. trib.al/nhvi88R
How the Consulting Class Is Eating the Democratic Party
Fundraising costs gobble up most of the funds raised. Billions are spent on TV ads that have virtually no impact. Candidates may win or lose—but the consulting class always wins.
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Share the Cities built Lefty Cheat Sheet to better inform Seattle voters of the range of endorsing organizations that exist beyond our two major newspapers. It was built with us and our own communities in mind, and then shared with everyone to use and to customize. leftycheatsheet.org/about.html
RFK Jr’s unethical experiment on African babies is officially canned, thanks to public backlash driven by Stand Up For Science 🎉 ✊️ 🧵 🧪
A scoop from me: CBS-owned local stations' election coverage will be sponsored by DraftKings, a deal that has stirred concern inside the company. www.status.news/p/cbs-draftk...
CBS' DraftKings Gamble
CBS' owned stations will carry DraftKings branding through Election Night, Status has learned, a sponsorship that has stirred concern inside the company.
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I wrote about the fact that GOP spreading bigotry isn't (just) an electoral strategy, but is in fact a core fascist goal—and why it's hard for Ds to engage with that. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/bigotry-is...
Bigotry Is A GOP Strategy And A GOP Goal
Democrats have trouble addressing the second.
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“There is blood on your hands. Not just Hunter Foster, but everyone that is complicit in the cover-up, including Attorney General Lynn Fitch, and everything that happens as a result,” activist Marquell Bridges said after Fitch declared the police shooting of Kohen Wiley "justified."
New data: Good news! Sales at Pike Place Market are up $7.5 million so far this year compared to the same time period in 2025 (Jan-Sep). Keep visiting and supporting market businesses, and tell them you support restricting unnecessary car traffic on Pike Place.
Gordon Padelford@gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew data: Good news! Spring sales at Pike Place Market were also up in 2026 compared to 2025, about ~5%!
The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office announced on Monday. buff.ly/EqW7n8c
Kohen Wiley Shooting ‘Was Justified,’ Mississippi AG Says
The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s…
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How North America’s Largest Wildlife Overpass Reduced Collisions by 91% ponderwall.com/index.php/20...
I-25 Wildlife Overpass Cuts Colorado Collisions by 91%
Colorado’s I-25 Greenland wildlife overpass reduced animal-vehicle collisions by 91%. Read the engineering and economic ROI analysis.
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After a 71-day protest, the last of the 100-plus-year-old trees was cut down southeast of Tucson. buff.ly/85IBUDu
The ‘grandmother’ cottonwood trees bulldozed for the border wall - High Country News
After a 71-day protest, the last of the 100-plus-year-old trees was cut down southeast of Tucson.
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It’s also funny that right-wing deviants think that we’re scared of the Muslim Brotherhood, when our own government employs tens of thousands of secret police that roam the streets with impunity kidnapping our friends neighbors and coworkers
All to prohibit 10 kids (that's the number) from playing sports with their friends? Alas, no. It's so every kid has to have someone check their genitals before they play sports with their friends. Your daughter, grand-daughter, sister.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w agoOn my long list of things to feel heartsick about: there is a genital-check initiative on the ballot in WA this cycle, intended (as they all are) to make a marginalized minority's life even more difficult, and polling shows that it is likely to pass.
Go to your camera roll, search “boat” and post one that you like
Jess-Icabod Zellers@stellagarp.bsky.social · 2w agoGo to your camera roll, search “boat” and post one that you like
Notably Eileen Pollet is also a consultant for independent expenditures promoting Jamie Pedersen against Hannah Sabio-Howell. This behavior is so petty but also shows that all the money in the world can't buy you trust from progressive voters.
Share the Cities Collective@sharethecities.bsky.social · 2w agoMore explicitly a relative of Rep. Pollet, Eileen, who owns a consulting firm that a lot of Dems have used, bought leftycheatsheet dot com and is redirecting it to the FUSE guide as an attempt to confuse people trying to find leftycheatsheet.org
