A monstrous waste of money.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 12h ago

Unfathomable

i think another way to create harder targets for bullies and bigots is help out the incarcerated. don't let the criminal justice system victimize whomever it wishes. uplift the vulnerable. get them bail and books and supplies. make sure their voices are heard. don't let people be made invisible

I watched cable news... I thought that less than 2% wins = complete mandate... We were told that this constituted a vibe shift and that the left should get with the fascist program.... What's changed? [OK offline again, lol]

A civilian medical plane went down after an experimental US military GPS jamming test reportedly disrupted its radar. Every person aboard lost their life. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

My primary care doc asked me today if I've ever gotten my Crocs resoled. And y'know what? Maybe I shouldn't trust this person with my life.

Literally a week after Barnes was fired the hours of the CARE team were expanded from 12:00 PM - 10:00 PM to 6:30 AM - 1:00 AM. Firing Barnes got results fast! www.instagram.com/p/DboFnMosVVJ/

Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Seattle's crisis response team leader Amy Barden hasn't met with Police Chief Shon Barnes since Bruce Harrell appointed him in 2024, despite the fact that the two departments are supposed to work together to decide which 911 calls require cops and which require a social work/mental health response.

Good framing.

Kindergarten girls targeted for invasive exams by new GOP-led ballot measure

Washington State voters will decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before playing school sports — a ...

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a lot of people seem to think there is a fundamental inferiority to women that simply isn't true and a lot of those differences are less your biological makeup and more the fact that boys get so much more support, food, and training than girls, that gulf vanishes the more you equalize those things

Micah@rincewind.run · 24h ago

it's the old serena williams tweet in action, that there is a physical difference between the top tier of male athletes and the top tier of female athletes gets taken by far too many delusional men as "I can beat a woman at anything" no, you cannot beat a decent athlete of either gender at anything

The military did not make Graham Platner who he was. Graham Platner joined the military aspiring to be this person. Stop speculating when he told us all in his own words.

Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5d ago

A watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

Kettle is on course to lose his re-election bid next year, especially with ridiculous crashouts like this. (Wilson has in fact left most cameras on, but you wouldn't know that from him and her critics on the right.)

Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 23h ago

Seattle City Councilmember Bob Kettle had an emotional meltdown at a meeting this morning, calling Mayor Katie Wilson's decision to study police camera surveillance "unconscionable."

Bragging about missing the message of a movie for seven-year-olds

Army ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2

Army ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints

Soldiers can no longer make anonymous reports of discrimination, and commanders can more easily dismiss complaints they disagree with.

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🚨 ICE is arresting visa overstays & pending green card applicants at airports using TSA data. If your status is in a gray area, domestic air travel is high-risk right now. Know your rights before you fly. www.instagram.com/p/DboXgR1CRM...

A vote to confirm Todd Blanche is a vote “so that the Dobbs decision becomes permanent in every single state.” Those were his own words to anti-abortion extremists. Senators who vote for Blanche are voting for an Attorney General who will attack abortion rights in EVERY state.

Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’

The acting attorney general made the remarks during a private call with faith leaders.

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If you're a cis person insisting that the prospect of trans children playing youth sports is not only "a problem" but in fact one of the biggest problems we currently face as a nation, I'd be happy to introduce you to literally a million other things that should be worrying you more.

I HAVE BEEN SUBSIDIZING WALMART AND AMAZON STARVING THEIR EMPLOYEES FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE.

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.

Kindergarten. They want to examine the genitalia of KINDERGARTNERS but somehow queer people are the problem. The greatest trick the devil (right wingers) ever pulled was convincing people queer people are deviant but people who want to inspect children for a living are somehow moral

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Our flight from Seattle to Sacramento was delayed by a few hours last night, but we were rewarded with an epic sunset on Tahoma (Rainier) as it poked through the low stratus layer. The pastel peach backdrop was made possible by the horrific wildfire smoke from all the PNW fires.

going TERF is like the fentanyl of prejudices. you can’t just dabble in it and return to normal life, you gotta double, triple, quadruple down until you’re trying to get a hit on a podcast with isabel brown

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Sophie Cunningham is getting booed every time she touches the ball here in Minneapolis

the concrete effects of Virginia restoring voting rights Friday boltsmag.org/virginia-gov...

This is pretty much how all the anti-trans cis crybully athletes are. Sub-par and looking to blame anyone else for it.

Appropriate air quotes because the most infuriating part about Americans debating "lockdown" is that it simply never happened. Having to pick up your Applebees and eat it on the sectional does not count. There wasn't even a brief moment where "everything" was closed. That's not real.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 3d ago

if you hated covid "lockdowns" try long covid

This is way too familiar. I grieve for every person who knows what that kinda fear feels like.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

(Describing a classic abusive relationship dynamic) now does that sound plausible to you, that my bitch wife would do that

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

Marjory Wentworth, an Ohio activist and a member of G92 faith org., tells me at least one of the Haitian immigrants who Trump’s ICE fixed with an ankle monitor today at the blue ash Ohio office is a grandmother: “When she walked out with the ankle monitor, some of us wept.”

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 3d ago

an immigration lawyer working on some of these Haitian cases today says an ICE officer told them, re: the ankle monitors: “We’re following our orders.” Direct quote Hm

Featured story: Thousands of children ages 10 to 12 whose lives were upended by around 8,000 arrests or criminal citations made in 168 Texas public school districts from the 2021-22 through 2024-25 school years, an investigation by the Observer has found.

In Texas Schools, a Crisis of Arrests of Kids as Young as 10

A groundbreaking data analysis shows how districts across the state are arresting and citing children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age…

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ask them what they're mad about. that she fired the police chief? that she took too long to hold a press conference because she had to wait for the police chief who was flying back from yet another conference? do you hear how that sounds when you say it out loud

Brett Hamil@bretthamil.bsky.social · 4d ago

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