TL;DR: The Seattle Times editorial board is showing its entire ass. They are desperate to have Katie Wilson fail, and they're willing to make up bizarre conspiracy theories to facilitate that outcome.

"And it's out for a Sounders goal kick. Taylor, 5-1 loss, struggling historic injured can't score. Rivalry 5-1?" Twellman: "Brian Schmetzer 1980s 5-1 . Man manager streak rivalry. Veteran injuries. Find a way, losing streak. At home 5-1."

Among the worst ideas floating around is that "the free market" will naturally achieve desirable results for society. No, it won't, not even in theory, much less in practice. Markets don't optimize "good for society" unless you make them.

Jon of The North@krauza.bsky.social · last wk.

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.

The fuck is this bullshit. Ring added a Pro subscription trial to my account and enabled an AI-driven feature without my knowledge or consent. I only noticed because someone rang my doorbell and the notification was... weird and unhelpful (go figure!).

The Trolley Problem is a prevalent thought experiment because it features a real moral dilemma: Does action bear more responsibility for harmful outcomes than inaction? If the trolley’s heading to save lives and you flip the switch to make many die instead, there’s no problem. Obviously very wrong.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fuck you, Ian Bremmer, you abject ghoul.

Hot girl summer

Trump is such a fucking knuckle-dragging oaf

Title, subhead, and first paragraph. This is art.

OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...

sounds great! 👍

Tell Congress: Don’t turn the internet into an age checkpoint. Take action NOW to protect Americans’ web browsing and private messaging. act.eff.org/action/tell... (8/10)

Tell Congress: Don’t Force Age Checks Online

Congress is preparing to vote on the KIDS Act, a sweeping internet bill that would pressure websites and apps to determine users’ ages before allowing them to read websites, send private messages, or participate in online communities.

act.eff.org

All the props in the world to this guy, but THIS IS NOT A FEEL-GOOD STORY IT IS A DAMNING INDICTMENT OF OUR SOCIETY AND HOW WE TREAT OUR MOST VULNERABLE

CNN@cnn.com · last mo.

At just 22, Connor Gibson is doing something he never dreamed possible: using his engineering skills to 3D print dentures for America's most vulnerable people — and giving them back their sense of dignity in the process. https://cnn.it/44omGk4

i don't really know how "the government is sending deportees to dangerous countries on purpose to imprison or kill them" is not a bigger story

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · last mo.

Amazing news: Thanh Tuan Phan, one of the people ICE sent to South Sudan last year, has been released. Source familiar tells me he has arrived in Vietnam, a place he left as a child in 1991. www.eyeradio.org/joyful-to-re...

I made this little addition to the Boarding the Tantive IV set

Serious answer- Their masculinity is a performance and when you're constantly performing instead of just *being* you get paranoid you'll be found out, so you shift the focus on to someone you perceive to be a weaker and more socially acceptable target

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Serious question, why are conservative men so obsessed with how masculine other men are? Why do they think that endlessly thinking and talking about other men is somehow a signal of their own manliness? Why are they constantly nervously looking over their shoulders in a flop sweat?

Damn. Japanese national anthem is amazing.

We're going to have a big beautiful dark age, perhaps darker than ever before. And I think you'll be very happy

Today's USA v AUS attendance of 66,925 ranks #6 all-time for soccer in PNW. Top 5 all Sounders matches, topped by Leagues Cup final, MLS Cup final and Concacaf CL final.

No matter what you or I might think about the editing at the NYT these days, or how much Trump pretends he doesn't care, he *does* care a lot about what the Times says. So I'm really glad they are saying this. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...

A Fox Nation subscription costs $17.76... what's with these weirdos and their performative patriotism?

Finding out the hard way this new antiperspirant isn't effective

Socialist Mayor Reigns of Terror Continue with Yet Another Sports Championship Victory: tinyurl.com/3f39hzcb

How on earth does Rod Stewart still look like that

Mainstream media is 24/7 saturation of poor people committing petty crimes. Shoplifting out of control! Venezuelan thugs are stealing your apartment! Meanwhile billionaires are genocidal serial killers and treated like the pillars of our society

Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...

The US Is Pulling Up a $386 Million Climate Ocean Sensor Network

NSF dismantling Ocean Observatories Initiative as very strong El Niño forms. Edson, Robbins, McLean: an irreparable blind spot in U.S. climate observation.

easternherald.com

The more I learn, the less I wish to know

Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com · 2mo ago

This AI-generated image is making the rounds and normally I wouldn't even bother with something like this However, it gives us the chance to talk about a fascinating sub-group of White Nationalism that believes a race of pure Aryans called Argathans live in the center of the Earth 🧵

Perfect. Thank you, Governor Hochul.

Wolves are giving me hope

It’s past midnight and Republicans are fighting to pass $70 billion for ICE—but they can't find a single cent to make health care more affordable.   All while Trump's war and tariffs send prices surging.   That's the Republican agenda: Drive costs higher. Do nothing for families.

this is such a good example of someone asserting that incivility lives in actions that hurt people, not in questioning those actions

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Oliver Darcy got the audio of the heated 60 Minutes meeting where Scott Pelley dressed Nick Bilton down! "You know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock." www.status.news/p/scott-pell...