Shame on you, you failed to credit @ericacbarnett.bsky.social and @publicola.com.web.brid.gy for this story including the screen shot.

King County assessor in hot water after social media post King County Assessor John Wilson faces two charges of violating a court order in relation to an allegation of stalking from his ex-fiancée.

Hey, @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social you literally GOT this story from me. I broke it days ago on Bluesky and then on my own website, PubliCola. THE POST WAS DOWN BY YESTERDAY. I RAN INTO YOUR REPORTER WHO THANKED ME FOR BREAKING THIS NEWS today. Give my independent outlet credit immediately.

And Brent Spiner seems to have appeared twice

oh my god that's devastating.

Worm. Then frog.

I of course got the pregnant one.

What a great boost for the economy!

I don't know but FedEx owes my partner around $80 for tariffs he paid on the kilt set he ordered when we were in Scotland last year. And I doubt we'll see it. 🤬

"People won't agree with me even though I want them to; they persist in having their own ideas and therefore I am the victim here."

I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"

I personally appreciated how much time was given to this very point in the recent Ken Burns documentary on the American Revolution. Washington had the problem "if I vaccinate, my men will be out of action [because of symptoms] for weeks but if I don't, a lot of them will die." And he chose 💉.

There's an enormous purple and black contusion on my left calf and I'm sure I caused it by, like... rounding a corner or something.

"My back went out."

"Oof, what did you do?"

"Breathed funny."

Citation still needed please. I don't have any knowledge of such a thing being MAINLY countries in the Global South and would like to understand what leads you to assert that it is or has been.

Don't forget the sexism/kyriarchy/toxic masculinty/Christian Nationalism. Essential broth for the stew.

Citation needed please. Family annihilation has been documented in the US and other "first world" [sic] countries for quite some time AFAIK.

Wow, thanks for that warning. My partner and I just started the TV show and I had to explain that yeah, Garth Ennis could be pretty violent and nihilistic, but I heard the show handled it pretty well....

Mm, gotta say that I think building a comedy writer's room and then publishing the results is pretty substantially different in cost than building a journalistic endeavor. The fact-checking & legal alone, plus staff to do in-depth research, feels like it must be an order of magnitude more $$.

I haven't felt great about hanging out to eat and drink in an airport since COVID, is the thing. I do eat indoors now, but airports are SUCH a conflux of people and their germs from literally everywhere. And I don't want to eat/drink on the plane if I can avoid it. :(

As a Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified Gottman Therapist, allow me to say: Contempt has never once persuaded anyone. It may have intimidated people sometimes, but it has never changed their thinking.

"the center cannot fail, it can only be failed"

Sent you an email. :)

Feed it to Claude and ask it for an evaluation.

They mean "gay is a choice and trans is fake." That's always what they mean. Also "hitting kids is OK and drug abusers should be put in jail, not coddled." Oh also something something climate change is a hoax "The Aristocrats."

I genuinely think you're encountering rage-farming bots to at least some degree.

Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.

1. This weekend, a federal judge permanently blocked funding threats to providers and hospitals that provide trans youth care.

The judge also blocked "any similar policy."

Hospitals have NO excuse and must return to providing care under many blue state laws.

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Just please don't let it turn into South Park, which I blame for the entire "caring about things is cringe, all sides are equally bad, expecting people to behave like they live in a society is stupid, nothing matters" ethos that is behind so much of the hellscape today

Do they sell cheeses or magics or both??

Sadly it sounds like it was a classic family annihilation case.

deep cut, A++

Thank you for trying to do this work in a very difficult time.