what percentage of americans are ever in a frat? I never went to a college with them and I've never heard "there are a few bad ones but the institution is important" from a politician, which is an impressive level of untouchability given every time they make news it's something stupid or monstrous
Dallas is funny because it's like a major American city, but its cultural impact on America is still eclipsed by a soap opera of the same name that ended 35 years ago.
Being and adult is funny cause I go to buy a lime and in the back of my head I think “Will this lime make my meal 50¢ better?”
New Google Maps images show the scale of Israel’s destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...
Satellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel’s genocidal war
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Israel is a safe haven for Jews* * as long as they commit themselves to absolute ethnosupremacy over indigenous Palestinians www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Israel freezes aliyah for two Jews over activism protecting Palestinians
In both cases, the protective-presence activists, who did not know each other, had their passports photographed by a soldier or settler. These are the first known cases in which Israeli authorities ap...
haaretz.com
This isn't the worst thing int the world but it's gonna piss off a lot of people around here
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · yesterdayTrump aims to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs. “It’s going to create a lot of conflict and confusion and animosity.”
My kid loves this show called Superkitties, which is about superpowered kitty cats, an idea so generic and obvious it feels like a show that you'd see on TV within a real TV show.
Were all voting no on I-645 I-638 I-001 And we are thanking all the electeds and campaign organizers who worked hard to grt the word out for it!
Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong.
Rezone Jackson Golf Course! It’s city-owned land, currently surrounded by chain link fence and limited to paying customers. Imagine a euro style eco-district with lots of public parks space, social housing, community spaces, etc. Let’s put @holz-bau.bsky.social in charge, w a generous budget
Mike Eliason@holz-bau.bsky.social · 3d agoyou can upzone the sh*t around pinehurst all you want - it's not going to induce an ecodistrict or walkable neighborhood because it's sandwiched between a golf course and a literal highway we're so effing bad at city making folks www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
jokes aside did the stroke actually cook his brain?
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3d agoSen. John Fetterman says he's a "lifelong Republican" before Major Garrett has to correct him
I love porridge, stews, beer and boring folk music. I would have crushed it in the middle ages.
ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA & universities going to do about it? Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing intl college athletes: univ eagerly recruit them, but support disappears when their immigration status becomes precarious www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
theguardian.com
Maybe I’m illiterate but I don’t know what this literacy crisis stuff is about. People seem to be using it to mean like 5 different, unrelated things and I’m not really sure any of them are true.
It’s really not much of an exaggeration to say if you’re alive on Planet Earth today, thank your parents, the Good Lord, and Stanislav Petrov.
Ed Maibach@maibached.bsky.social · 5d agoHappy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
The Seattle Public Library celebrates its youngest branch turning 20 today. The South Park library opened when the city had 240,000 fewer residents than it does today. blog.spl.org/2026/09/09/h...
Happy 20th Birthday, South Park Branch!
Twenty years ago, on Sept. 9, 2006, South Park neighbors streamed into their new library branch at the corner of Eighth Ave. S., and South Cloverdale. As a mariachi band played, more than 100 peopl…
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This is... troubling. SCOTUS is allowing the Trump administration to use an error-ridden tool that relies on inaccurate data. This tool has already led to false allegations of non-citizen voting. Now, it could "accidentally" remove legal voters from the rolls, causing real disenfranchisement.
Ari Berman@ariberman.bsky.social · 5d agoThanks to SCOTUS GOP-appointed majority (same ones who attended Trump's state dinner last night), Trump admin will use faulty & inaccurate data to wrongly label eligible voters non-citizens & pressure states to remove them from rolls. Sets a chilling precedent www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Now combine with this pattern : www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... They should not get the benefit of the doubt; they’ve proven their data is crap, and people shouldn’t use it. (They should be using ERIC, which a bunch of the swing states abandoned for no good reason.)
Nearly 200 people wrongly identified on Nevada’s voter rolls as non-citizens
State election officials said they reviewed 185 records homeland security sent them and confirmed they were US citizens
theguardian.com
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · 6d agoBoasting to the world of his mass terrorist atrocity:
A reminder that Netanyahu is wanted by the ICC for the crime of using starvation as a weapon of war
somehow chocolate chip scones are always great. I think maybe berry scones suffer because of the extra moisture in the berries but not so in chocolate chips
“Rather than worrying about eating a balanced diet or maintaining an active lifestyle, our advice is to spend as much time as possible in the gym hitting dumbbell curls until your biceps are crazy big.” — Dr. Willie Underwood III, American Medical Association president
American Medical Association: ‘Huge Biceps Are Only Thing That Matters’
CHICAGO—Granting the public permission to disregard the organization’s previous recommendations, American Medical Association officials announced this week that huge biceps were now the only thing tha...
theonion.com
Twilight Zone episodes always have a moral. Sometimes it’s “racism is bad”. Sometimes it’s “value the time you have with your loved ones”. Sometimes it’s “lol you got fucked. Sucks to be you.”