the fascists have been lying, cheating and changing the rules to their benefit for years. turnabout isn't just fair play, it's the only way to maintain some semblance of a civil society.

Things I keep saying that no one likes.

I love the "No way!" "Yeah, way!!" that you can hear at the end. It's just so Seattle.

Gondorians hearing Isildur’s heir has returned:

Map showing the western United States mean temperature for January to March 2026 relative to a 1991-2020 departure.

Almost the entire Western United States is averaging more than 5°F warmer than the most recent 1991-2020 climate baseline so far in 2026, which is truly remarkable. Off the color scale here!

Graphic from wrcc.dri.edu/my/

love how Seattle invented the ham water tunnels

It looks like they are meant to be paths. "Accessible primary pathway follows Henry Drive" and "Circle connects primary paths".

There is a certain, defined point of wealth at which due to compound interest it becomes basically mathematically impossible to actually lose money.

Mackenzie Scott is proof that this amount of wealth is far below $38 billion.

Elon is worth $811 billion, 21x more. Bezos, $257 billion, ~7x more

Beyond the masked thugs and goons to seize people, these spaces were built by contracted firms and workers, are staffed by people, serviced by utilities, catering/food delivery outfits, etc. And prosecution for these civil and human rights abuses needs to go after the whole system.

It's the 7th month of the US bombing random ships in Latin American waters they claim are drug smugglers (reminder that two survivors who were rescued were repatriated, not charged), and the death toll is 150+, and it barely gets discussed.

The woman being murdered in the video Trump posted was an immigrant. Her name was Nilufar Yasmin. She was from Bangladesh. Trump is weaponizing her death against communities like hers. Outstanding reporting from @pabloreports.bsky.social for Migrant Insider. migrantinsider.com/p/her-name-w...

Boston Globe mock front page from April 9, 2016. Date says April 9, 2017, with giant headline “DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN” and “Markets sink as trade war looms.”

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

There’s a reason why we treat threats of violence as antisocial behavior, even if they’re not carried out. If someone threatens to kill me, that can do harm even if they never pull a weapon.

And the same goes for the man who threatened genocide this morning. Impeach and remove him now.

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)

It is historically normal for terrorists to go after the moderates who might dampen a conflict.

not to downplay the severity of what's cominb but the entire fall campaign of just executing boats full of civilians in the caribbean was a screaming klaxon that illegality of the order is no obstacle for Hegseth's Department of Warcrimes

This is so, so well-articulated.

It's not just Flock, Axon (maker of tasers and police body cams) are also capitalist bastards turning your town into a total surveillance nightmare state.

"...one prominent western company, Axon — based in Arizona — is at the forefront of law enforcement’s 'AI era,' and is offering police departments financial incentives to get on board."

Axon was once Taser International. Now, it's making body cams with integrated AI...

jawlines galore

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. I know trans people and I know fascists who are making life difficult for trans people. The trans people are pretty cool and I'm glad I know them. The fascists can go fall down a deep dark hole.

This.

The idea that an education must be exclusive in order to be good is one of the more destructive--destructive to the project of education itself--scams out there.

“No book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.”
- George Orwell

This feels weird. A lot of reporting is sounding very much like "how long will this take to get back to normal" when there's no sign in the short term that normality will return at all

It's like 2020 Covid reporting

This is what Idi Amin’s government did to Ugandan Asians applying for passports in the period preceding the expulsion. Amin then argued that they deserved to be expelled because so few had taken up Ugandan citizenship.

Seattle's CCTV Vendor Has Received $126 Million in ICE and CBP Contracts Mayor Katie Wilson announced an expansion of Seattle’s CCTV surveillance network Thursday, telling a closed press conference of Seattle journalists she had little choice but to hire US Departmen...

Under-appreciated report even by its own publication that hasn't posted it here:

"9 of the 12 members of Axon’s ethics board resigned in 2022 after the company announced plans to develop armed drones for its clients. Of those that didn’t resign, one was former Seattle police chief Cameron Best."

"How does one hate a country, or love one?"

Ursula Le Guin always out there expressing my exact feelings in trying times.

If your city is suspending or cancelling #Flock, remember that "switching to another #ALPR vendor" is NOT the solution.

Dragnet bulk data collection is the core problem. #Flock is just one particularly egregious example.

Mass #surveillance does not make any of us safer! 🚫

I'm old enough to remember that George W. Bush is the reason DHS and ICE and several of the secret warrant structures exist, that Obama did not fulfill his mandate of pulling back on abuses of executive power/murdering people in the Middle East, and to know there is a straight line from then to now