This is a crucial article to read - it lays out very clearly the long record that justifies Mayor Wilson rightly firing the police chief.

PubliCola@publicola.bsky.social · 19h ago

Issues With Former Police Chief Barnes Weren't Just About His Travel or Where He Lived In a frenzy to condemn the mayor, her opponents seem to have forgotten why Barnes' future at the city was tenuous to begin with.

A 60 Minutes probe into Epstein's banking, with Wyden already interviewed, vanished right after Sharyn Alfonsi got pushed out under Bari Weiss. Same editor who stalled the CECOT migrant story until Stephen Miller got a say. CBS keeps calling it timing. Sure looks like a pattern.

60 Minutes Epstein Banking Story Vanished After CBS Ousted Sharyn Alfonsi, Dem Senator Reveals

Wyden revealed he was interviewed for the show in a Senate report alleging the country's largest banks turned “a blind eye” to Epstein's financial activity

mediaite.com

“Don’t print lies on the newspaper” is pretty simple and it should be bedrock principle

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · yesterday

Weird for NY Times to give David Ellison space to lie about Paramount-Warner. News "requires independence" and must "answer to the facts...not any party or cause"? He's done the literal opposite with CBS. Nonpartisan with a mix of views? Larry Ellison spent over $45M helping elect Trump in 2024.

I’m pretty sure if a court found Obama forceably penetrated a woman and made him pay millions in restitution, it’d be more than a 5 minute story

Vote today, Seattle. The race I'm watching most closely is @ronpdavis.bsky.social in the 46th LD. Vote for Ron Davis, please. This was going to be progressive Davis vs. establishment Pollet, which was already important, but it got more crucial with the surprise entry of the opportunist Dreher.

'The Arctic is cooking. Across N Russia… temps this week have routinely surpassed 90°Ft (32.2°C), adding to the mountain of broken heat records this summer has racked up so far… Rising tems are unlikely to let up anytime soon… thanks to a strong El Niño' www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-...

It’s 90 degrees in the Arctic right now

The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is

scientificamerican.com

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

Maddow asked #JamesTalarico about attacks on #trans people and those who think that to win, Dems must "moderate" on trans rights. Talarico answered, "I don't believe we win by selling people out." #Texas

This is banana republic stuff - we all know that, right?

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

ICE agents raided the family dormitories at the Dilley detention center and snatched this Bluey coloring page from a child before they could finish. I sued ICE to get these drawings back. You can what they sent me here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

The President promotes Scotts Miracle-Gro in the middle of an Oval Office event: The best grass you can get. Scotts, you know Scotts? Scott's Miracle-Gro, they're doing it. They do great grass. I got to give him a plug because they did the White House for free.

I'm just going to keep screaming this until I'm hoarse, but until Trump the norm -- for 50 years -- was that sitting presidents had their taxes audited by the IRS and released to the public to show they were clean. But Trump refused repeatedly, and sued when his return was leaked, and now ... this

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics

Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.

wsj.com

I’m glad that ABC News put “medical emergency“ in quotes, since ICE lies as a matter of policy.

Man detained at New Jersey immigration facility dies after 'medical emergency': ICE

Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 41, had been detained at the Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark, according to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

abcnews.com

The simple fact is that there are no penalties for lying, and so the people who benefit from simply denying the truth will do so. It is convenient for RFK's purposes to deny the reality of the COVID-19 pandemic, and anyone who does unambiguously call him a liar can be dismissed as lugenpresse.

yeah he sees himself as being in a negotiation with Iran but at war with Minnesota

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 3d ago

Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol

It's fascinating to me that this video is composed of things like "the Ring camera will show..." and "would I have...?" and not "I did not."

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?"

To the extent that the media is treating this as a horse story: Max Miller is not a some random candidate from Ohio. This is a picture of President Trump speaking at the wedding of Max Miller and Emily Moreno.

Foreign adversary? We’re, like, actually at war; I think you can just say “enemy”. Let’s be clear, a state was attacked by an enemy during wartime, and the “president” doesn’t think they should get any help from the federal government.

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 3d ago

Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol

Erica has been reporting on City Hall for at least the last 25 years. She is one of the city's most knowledgeable journalists. To call her an "influencer" is insulting. I don't think Seattle's establishment media understands the level of anger building at them right now.

Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 3d ago

Oh HELL no. @kuow.org people trashing my work and calling me an "influencer" on Week In Review, claiming—with no receipts whatsoever—that Gil Kerlikowske, Carmen Best, and Adrian Diaz also spent a quarter to a third of their time outside Seattle. www.kuow.org/podcast/week...

i'm gonna be honest i'm a little confused by this whole freakout over the pied-a-terre tax because property titles have literally always been public? "who owns this house" is a thing you have been able to look up since before America existed, ownership records have always been public

Just very openly a plot to resegregate America.

Senator Elissa Slotkin@slotkin.senate.gov · 6d ago

What I am hearing about from folks in uniform is a new secret vetting process where people in the Department of Defense are looking at someone’s social media history. Looking at whether they attended a Pride event or posted something on their personal Facebook page about Martin Luther King Day.

his settlement is one-quarter of the cost of funding universal free school meals for one guy

I've always loved Creative Commons. I hung out with Lisa Rein, Matt Haughey and Aaron Swartz while they coded up the site, and my first novelwas the first professionally published text ever released under a CC license, just weeks after CC itself launched: creativecommons.org 1/

you do sort of understand why people are cynical about capitalism when there is a problem that market mechanisms would be perfect for solving and we refuse to discuss them because they would impact a privileged cast (farm owners)

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 6d ago

Yeah so NYT asked me ~2 yrs ago to write an op-ed about how the Colorado is running dry, & what we should do to keep this exact thing from happening. I said "There's only one real answer. Bill farmers by how much water they use. Duh." NYT editorial staff freaked tf out & cancelled the piece.

And what are they going to do with the list of 70 million people that post anti-Trump messages on social media? You can't call 70 million people terrorists.

Jessica Kant@jessdkant.bsky.social · 6d ago

“The FBI has signaled that its new effort to brand political opponents of the president as terrorists has only just begun, and that soon the power of large language models will be brought to bear on the effort to flag and tag political dissidents en masse.”

“The FBI has signaled that its new effort to brand political opponents of the president as terrorists has only just begun, and that soon the power of large language models will be brought to bear on the effort to flag and tag political dissidents en masse.”

Minority report: FBI seeks AI for political watch list

Documents show the FBI seeking AI tools to flag Americans before they act, as the terror watchlist's focus moves toward domestic dissent.

reason.com

BREAKING: Anthropic announced that its artificial intelligence models had breached three different organizations during cybersecurity tests that went awry, a little more than a week after its chief rival, OpenAI, disclosed a similar incident.

Anthropic’s AI Models Hacked Three Organizations During Tests

Anthropic PBC announced that its artificial intelligence models had breached three different organizations during cybersecurity tests that went awry, a little more than a week after its chief rival, OpenAI, disclosed a similar incident.

bloom.bg

Joe Biden gets so much flak for opening the border and I wish he had actually opened the border even a little.

Zach Nation@reverius42.bsky.social · 6d ago

I'm starting to see benefits of immigration everywhere I look. Need more doctors? Let's open the border and start accepting (and licensing) foreign MDs. I hear Cuba has some great doctors who would probably love to make $200k/year.

Odyssey this. Odyssey that. We Odyssey ICE abolished.