Imagine: it's midnight and your child is sick. You ask Walmart's AI to suggest a thermometer & Tylenol. Now it knows your purchase is urgent. @lindsayowens.bsky.social told the @judiciarydems.senate.gov: The risk of being ripped off is only poised to grow.

Can electoral lightning strike twice? #VoteBinface #Clacton

Of all the things to admit on the internet, “I don’t know how bananas work” is one of the funniest

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 14h ago

Spoken like a man who has never had to shop for himself.

What is truly "shocking" about the polling miss in Michigan is that it is completely average for a primary "The expected error on the margin between two primary candidates in a race for governor or U.S. Senate is a whopping 13.0 points." blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/2026-texas...

Do we really know who's leading the Texas Senate races?

Primary polls have historically been rather unreliable, and a surge in new primary voters means turnout assumptions matter more than usual

blog.fiftyplusone.news

|horses|@chemotaxis.bsky.social · 7h ago

Polling is like really fucked. Strikes me as a huge problem honestly.

Attention anti-tax politicians: even in red states voters know the money has to come from somewhere. They even understand the difference between progressive and regressive taxation. I mean REALLY.

It's sad the way Seattle voters have lost touch with the Seattle Times editorial board.

So far, voters overwhelmingly approve Seattle library levy

A property tax levy to fund the city's public library system over the next seven years is solidly ahead after the first release of vote totals Tuesday evening.

seattletimes.com

Um... a chipotle is literally a smoked and dried jalapeño, so this can't be good for the brand?

Chipotle pulls jalapeños from some restaurants amid salmonella outbreak

Chipotle Mexican Grill said Tuesday that it had removed jalapeños from some of its restaurants, after determining the peppers could be tied to a salmonella outbreak.

seattletimes.com

Don’t think of it as a publicly subsidized grocery store. Think of it as a food bank that charges money in order to cover most of its costs.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

The last time the Seattle Times went this off the rails, we had banned circus animal performances.

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 2d ago

Still not over writing about the mayor's water bottle stickers in the print newspaper.

CARTOON OF THE DAY (if you know who made this let us know)

Suffice it to say, @goldy.horsesass.org is a fan of the Good Life Agenda from @rooseveltinstitute.org . From last week's episode with their President and CEO @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social.

For the record: NOPE. Honestly, I don’t think there’s an issue today I care about on a personal level more deeply than trans rights. And it’s rough out there right now. Bigots on one side of the political aisle and too many cowards on the other. ⬇️

Maybe I'm biased living in a state (WA) with a functional public health system, but given the circumstances, I actually think the nation responded quite well to Covid. Made mistakes, but we'll learn from those and do better next time... assuming we're not being run by sociopaths like Trump & RFK jr.

It couldn't be clearer what's happening with local legacy media trashing Mayor Wilson: the reactionary centrist majority is about to melt away & they're trying to bake in a narrative that she has fucked up in some catastrophic--but also indefinable--way, to hamstring the coming progressive majority

"Now if we could only figure out a way to cancel July 4th fireworks!" — My dog, Rita

celeste ✨️@its.celeste.baby · 4d ago

blue angels canceled dogs all over seattle rejoice

I find it impossible to articulate how much I resent spam texts like these trying to guilt me into responding so that they can determine if I'm a live target. Way more intrusive than the actual spam trying to steal from me or sell me something.

The amount of taxes we pay to the feds compared to what we get in return is outrageous. This needs much more attention, including from our businesses. The reason we keep increasing local taxes (the only ones we can keep 100%) is because so much of our state & fed taxes are going elsewhere.

Cascadia Journal@cascadiajournal.bsky.social · 6d ago

"In 2025 Washington state paid $69.3 billion more in federal taxes than it received back in funding." My latest for #Cascadia Journal: www.cascadia-journal.com/as-feds-hold...

How stupid is our health care "system"? My insurance would only preauthorize a prescription through Accredo, the online specialty pharmacy associated with ExpressScripts. The "amount billed" was $4,376.96. (No way to know what insurer paid.) $67.07 at GoodRX, $40.26 from Cost Plus Drugs. WTF?

I've been seeing a lot of people responding to this with "there ought to be a law," but importantly, we haven't needed a law for this sort of thing because no prior president wanted to be known as a leader who would literally kill people in their hour of need for not voting for him

Seth Masket@smotus.bsky.social · 7d ago

This is honestly one of the most shocking images coming out of this administration and that’s saying something

new ap poll shows Jewish people loathe trump and netanyahu and like mamdani. most mainstream jewish institutions insist that this is not true and that Jews support Israel and trump. *this is effectively antisemitic propaganda.* www.everythingishorrible.net/p/zionist-in...

Zionist Institutions Spread Antisemitic Propaganda

Linking Jewish identity to war and atrocity harms Jewish people

everythingishorrible.net

I need Christopher Nolan to keep adapting towering works of literature as a sort of Keynesian stimulus for literary culture.

Aaron Bady@zunguzungu.bsky.social · 7d ago

Okay now it's getting real

TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.

On the chance that this is a sincere question, @whstancil.bsky.social, I would direct folks over to @nickhanauer.bsky.social, @goldy.horsesass.org and @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social discuss the "public option for groceries" and other stuff at @pitchforkeconomics.bsky.social. youtu.be/e3nw-FVJAOU

The Good Life Economy (with Elizabeth Wilkins)

YouTube video by Pitchfork Economics Podcast

youtu.be

Here's one idea: bar guns and patrol the grounds with gun-sniffing dogs. Large fines and suspended permits for violators with otherwise valid permits, mandatory prison sentences for anybody illegally carrying. It's random. But the risk would be a real deterrent. (And dogs are less racist than cops.)

Goldy@goldy.horsesass.org · last wk.

"Freedom"...? There's a cost to barring guns at food truck festivals in terms of freedom? WTF? In defense of Danny, he doesn't write the headline or the kicker and this "freedom" concern doesn't appear in the column, so this disgrace is squarely on the editors. Do better, Seattle Times!

"Freedom"...? There's a cost to barring guns at food truck festivals in terms of freedom? WTF? In defense of Danny, he doesn't write the headline or the kicker and this "freedom" concern doesn't appear in the column, so this disgrace is squarely on the editors. Do better, Seattle Times!

What we do know is that the existence of a Jewish state post-1948 has failed to reduce the situation of Jewish existential anxiety that it promised through normalization, and also that far more Jews have been killed for being Jews in the state of Israel than out of it post-1948.

Seattle Is Dying™

Tony@tonychiado.com · last wk.

Of cities with 500k people, Seattle has seen the 3rd highest child population growth in America over the last decade with 10%.

Johnson believes that Miller has the right to do what he wants with his own property, is why

Morgan J Freeman@mjfree.bsky.social · last wk.

😡 BREAKING: New court filings reveal Republican Max Miller poured hot water on his wife, put a gun to her head, and broke his two year old daughter's collarbone. Why is Mike Johnson defending him?

I mean, seriously, how great is vote by mail? Every American voter should have access to it.

I strongly urge the vote-by-mail states to make it clear to both the administration and the Supreme Court that we will not comply. It's time to confront our constitutional crisis head on.

Trump administration urges Supreme Court to allow order targeting mail-in voting before midterms

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow for now an executive order targeting mail-in voting.

apnews.com