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Literary journalism, creative nonfiction, whatever you want to call it... man, this is just such a good read. Equal parts infuriating, inspiring, educational and witty.
December 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Literary journalism, creative nonfiction, whatever you want to call it... man, this is just such a good read. Equal parts infuriating, inspiring, educational and witty.
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Hey, if you’re a Seattle/WA author with a book coming out next year and you have a firm pub date, please let me know for potential inclusion in the Seattle Times’s 2026 book preview. (Space is limited but I’ll do my best.)
Drop a link either in replies or at my email: [email protected].
Drop a link either in replies or at my email: [email protected].
December 9, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Hey, if you’re a Seattle/WA author with a book coming out next year and you have a firm pub date, please let me know for potential inclusion in the Seattle Times’s 2026 book preview. (Space is limited but I’ll do my best.)
Drop a link either in replies or at my email: [email protected].
Drop a link either in replies or at my email: [email protected].
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Contracting on detention sites has carried almost no downside risk for disaster relief firms. With some organizing, we can change that by urging elected officials and EM leaders in blue states to stop contracting with companies involved.
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December 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Contracting on detention sites has carried almost no downside risk for disaster relief firms. With some organizing, we can change that by urging elected officials and EM leaders in blue states to stop contracting with companies involved.
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If tariffs are such a good idea, why do our farmers need an aid package to survive? And why is the US aid package smaller than what Argentina got? Things that make you go hmm….
Trump set to announce $12bn aid package for US farmers hit by tariffs on.ft.com/4rRdYWf
Trump set to announce $12bn aid package for US farmers hit by tariffs
Bailout will help mitigate cost of the president’s trade policies to the sector
on.ft.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
If tariffs are such a good idea, why do our farmers need an aid package to survive? And why is the US aid package smaller than what Argentina got? Things that make you go hmm….
Getting sick more frequently than you used to? Know a lot of people like this? It’s probably Long Covid. Immune impairment is just one but largely “invisible” way Covid causes long-term damage. Just bc the lab isn’t testing your CD8+ T cell levels doesn’t mean they aren’t impaired.
Immunity debt's "...explanatory power has faded as the number of non-covid infections has kept rising each year...
A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems." 🛟😷medsky
A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems." 🛟😷medsky
Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports
Myco...
www.bmj.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Getting sick more frequently than you used to? Know a lot of people like this? It’s probably Long Covid. Immune impairment is just one but largely “invisible” way Covid causes long-term damage. Just bc the lab isn’t testing your CD8+ T cell levels doesn’t mean they aren’t impaired.
I’m looking for help from the #Covid conscious community. We’ve always said the goal is not to wear masks forever, but to push society to *clean the air* so that it is safe for everyone. My partner & I thought, “What if we did this for our own house? So we could occasionally…” 1/X
November 24, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I’m looking for help from the #Covid conscious community. We’ve always said the goal is not to wear masks forever, but to push society to *clean the air* so that it is safe for everyone. My partner & I thought, “What if we did this for our own house? So we could occasionally…” 1/X
By this definition, may we all aspire to be better gentlemen
This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:
November 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
By this definition, may we all aspire to be better gentlemen
This is the way: states subsidizing clean energy options for those who otherwise couldn’t afford them. A win for individuals, communities, and the Earth.
GOOD NEWS ALERT: The California Public Utilities Commission just approved two programs to help get window heat pumps and 120 volt induction stoves onto store shelves across the state 🎉
earthjustice.org/press/2025/c...
earthjustice.org/press/2025/c...
California To Launch Window Heat Pump and 120 Volt Induction Pilot Programs
California Market Transformation Administrator to launch two programs helping more homes electrify appliances
earthjustice.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 AM
This is the way: states subsidizing clean energy options for those who otherwise couldn’t afford them. A win for individuals, communities, and the Earth.
I wish this wasn’t what it took in order to get Republicans to support real law and order, but I’ll take it when the tide shift comes.
Dang - how bad was the Border Patrol invasion in North Carolina?
None other than Thom Tillis himself is blasting DHS for gross overreach, and demanding lists of those detained, property damage caused by CBP agents, and their plan for restitution.
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
None other than Thom Tillis himself is blasting DHS for gross overreach, and demanding lists of those detained, property damage caused by CBP agents, and their plan for restitution.
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
November 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I wish this wasn’t what it took in order to get Republicans to support real law and order, but I’ll take it when the tide shift comes.
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THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
![II. Credibility
The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6]
Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage.
[FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifpyry2il5toxbr3iejgrsxs6kmnwve75qwnhebfp44ieyjrfpsdu@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
Love to see states embracing this. Why aren’t environmental nonprofits aren’t offering to fund these investments? Seems like an easy and cost affordable win. And so specific, seems like it would be straightforward fundraising.
Fun envelope math: If each of the ~125 million US housing units installed ~1 kW of do-it-yourself "balcony solar" (costing ~$1k each and paying back in ~5 years at ~15% capacity factor and ~15 c/kWh), that'd be 125 GW of solar, or ~50% of the total solar capacity that exists in the US today.
Balcony solar gains unanimous bipartisan support in Utah
A new Utah bill allows portable solar power systems of up to 1.2 kWac to connect directly to 120V outlets without interconnection applications or utility fees, provided they meet NEC and UL certificat...
pv-magazine-usa.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Love to see states embracing this. Why aren’t environmental nonprofits aren’t offering to fund these investments? Seems like an easy and cost affordable win. And so specific, seems like it would be straightforward fundraising.
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CNN reports that only 2% of the 600+ people arrested without probable cause or warrants in the Chicagoland area in violation of a standing court order had any criminal records at all.
The idea that these are the worst people on the planet only makes sense if you see them as Nazis saw Jews in 1940.
The idea that these are the worst people on the planet only makes sense if you see them as Nazis saw Jews in 1940.
November 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
CNN reports that only 2% of the 600+ people arrested without probable cause or warrants in the Chicagoland area in violation of a standing court order had any criminal records at all.
The idea that these are the worst people on the planet only makes sense if you see them as Nazis saw Jews in 1940.
The idea that these are the worst people on the planet only makes sense if you see them as Nazis saw Jews in 1940.
Science wasn't breaking fast enough I guess. Absolutely crazy.
Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
November 14, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Science wasn't breaking fast enough I guess. Absolutely crazy.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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The Uninhabitable United States
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The Uninhabitable United States
Over 52,000 signatures the last time I checked. If you want Schumer to step down as Minority Leader, if you want the Dems to *know* they screwed up, here’s a way to do that. c.org/S9q4JjLgsm
Demand That Chuck Schumer Step Down As Minority Leader
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
c.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Over 52,000 signatures the last time I checked. If you want Schumer to step down as Minority Leader, if you want the Dems to *know* they screwed up, here’s a way to do that. c.org/S9q4JjLgsm
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Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
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Do you support a change in Senate leadership after this surrender?
Not picking on Booker - we should ask this of literally all the no votes.
Not picking on Booker - we should ask this of literally all the no votes.
As I've always said, I will not support a government funding bill that continues to raise our costs, jeopardizes our health care, and hurts the people of my state.
November 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Do you support a change in Senate leadership after this surrender?
Not picking on Booker - we should ask this of literally all the no votes.
Not picking on Booker - we should ask this of literally all the no votes.
This is what we have to demand
Schumer can be removed from his Dem leadership role this week - 23 Dems (and/or independents) just have to vote to depose him
And they should, given this is his fault.
And they should, given this is his fault.
This is a lovely sentiment but Schumer isn't up for re-election until 2028 and he knows this. At which point he will be 77/78. There's no mechanism to recall a sitting senator AFAIK.
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 AM
This is what we have to demand
At this point, I think people are so mad, if a group of progressives were to break away and form a new party, I think they’d have a decent chance of winning. Maybe the Democratic Socialists should become an actual political party?
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
At this point, I think people are so mad, if a group of progressives were to break away and form a new party, I think they’d have a decent chance of winning. Maybe the Democratic Socialists should become an actual political party?
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The whole GOP shutdown strategy is hoping that sheer force of propaganda can convince the public that things getting worse does not reflect badly on the people in charge of the government, and that hurting America more will get Democrats to acquiesce to the Trump admin hurting America in other ways.
Sean Duffy: "We have a number of people who want to get home for the holidays, they want to see their family. Listen, many of them are not going to be able to get on an airplane."
November 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The whole GOP shutdown strategy is hoping that sheer force of propaganda can convince the public that things getting worse does not reflect badly on the people in charge of the government, and that hurting America more will get Democrats to acquiesce to the Trump admin hurting America in other ways.
Tonight is a great night to listen to Muse’s “Will of the People” on repeat and high volume.
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Tonight is a great night to listen to Muse’s “Will of the People” on repeat and high volume.
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My mind has really failed to catch the "LLMs are normal and it's normal to use them" norm. Every single time someone casually talks about using them I am surprised and uncomfortable, like someone has admitted to rolling coal or lighting wildfires bc it "helps them get more done"
November 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
My mind has really failed to catch the "LLMs are normal and it's normal to use them" norm. Every single time someone casually talks about using them I am surprised and uncomfortable, like someone has admitted to rolling coal or lighting wildfires bc it "helps them get more done"
The fact that wealthy right-wing supporters are rapidly buying up all the media companies and not a single wealthy left-wing supporter has stepped up to stop them or even slow them down tells you a lot. Either influential Democrats don’t understand what’s happening or they don’t care.
November 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The fact that wealthy right-wing supporters are rapidly buying up all the media companies and not a single wealthy left-wing supporter has stepped up to stop them or even slow them down tells you a lot. Either influential Democrats don’t understand what’s happening or they don’t care.