Mista Beee arrrruh

Worf and Chewbecca initially fight but then come to respect each other's bravery and combat prowess. Worf compliments the fine warrior culture of the wookies. Then I walk into the sea.

Without faster-than-expected housing growth in Seattle since 2019, the broader Puget Sound region would be behind on an overall goal of adding around 620,000 new units of housing through 2044. www.theurbanist.org/most-puget-s...

America's Highway Trust Fund spends far more than it brings in in gas and truck taxes, and the US constantly bails the fund out from the federal general fund and by taking out loans. The Bay Area will pay ~$1.3B/year to bail out the fund yet again, starting in 2028. From @maxmautner.com.

I have told the story before about how my church friends told me about learning about Obama in history class and thinking of it as a completely different world

We are definitely not. www.wonkette.com/p/man-we-are...

You know what pissed me off about the Ramaswamy ad beyond the obvious grotesqueries? There’s no EVIDENCE disputing Acton’s life story. There are court proceedings backing up her story. And all Ramaswamy’s got is the (accused) mother saying “nu uh” and somehow that’s enough? FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

Important piece: Republicans already strip-mined their donor base, and now are deeply dependent on billionaires. Unless Dems change, they will go the same route, or become electorally uncompetitive.

we're going to need a long-term plan, with broad political appeal, for ending impunity & holding the trump administration accountable for its crimes, malfeasance & cruelties. not 'tit-for-tat' but an american version of transitional justice. my take in @slate.com 👇

youtubers, streamers, podcasters, etc are always on this beat bc they don't know how anything works & know that if they say something like this, their audiences will lap it up now & also 3 years later when they point to total gay commie revolution not happening and go "see? i was right!"

This is what happens when young men do not have the moral and spiritual courage to just admit that they're dumb.

Seafor, the pass-through former councilmember Sara Nelson created so that donors supporting centrist candidates can donate to candidates in "private," just reported its first big spend North Seattle council candidate Julie Kang. web6.seattle.gov/ethics/filin...

The first big anti-trans law in the US was in North Carolina in 2016. THE WHOLE NATION CONDEMNED IT. There were boycotts. Companies pulled events out of the state. Now, in 2026, the map looks like this. bsky.app/profile/dana...

"We need a federal programs and funding initiative comparable in ambition to the Works Progress Administration to put Americans back into their communities, empower local organizations, and revitalize the republican virtues that sustain a people tasked with popular government and a free society."

I agree with this. One amendmwnt that I think could pass is to modify the electoral college so that winning > 50% nets you some number of bonus electors but that if no candidate reaches 50% there is a second round of voting.

"Unless we pay special attention to uplifting the poor and removing or ameliorating those hierarchies I do not think we can get what I want. [...] Simple as this is, getting there will require turning the world upside down."

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: nom nom nom gimme dat seed corn i have to eat all the seed corn bsky.app/profile/twil...

ten years of telling people they should stop complaining about not being able to afford stuff has not yet endeared them to our political project. but that’s no reason to stop trying

In the Great Chart War I am unequivocally on the side of the Bloodless Quants, who are usually correct on the specifics, and totally correct in general on the need for quantifiable data analysis. But today they seem to be reacting *extremely* uncharitably to a Tweet that is, at worst, poorly worded.

We need an ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS which puts a floor under people's livelihoods and a ceiling on the extreme concentration of power and wealth. 🔗 Today I am launching my new YouTube channel: youtu.be/Wj_GdHSo7PU

So this is an illegal fishing expedition to find a pretext to deport a sitting member of Congress. Everyone should be up in fucking arms about this.

our immigration “debate” has become a pandering contest between the two political parties to win the votes of racist assholes that see immigrants as an invasive species instead of people coming to us for help

My final article as a Vox staff writer is finally live! After months talking to Democrats about plans for the next presidency, I learned that they have quietly developed a true equivalent to Project 2025 — one much more ambitious than people understand www.vox.com/politics/505...

A must read thread from @doctorow.pluralistic.net.

Great post from Anne! It affirms that one of the challenges progressives face when it comes to asserting a vision for public education is that they're (we're) now required to sell public education to the public. Which isn't really our forte.

The other day, Talarico leaned hard into the case for immigration as a positive good for our country in a way you rarely hear from Dems. He has a real theory of the case: Trump's cruelty and barbarism have opened space for new moral arguments, a new consensus. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...

Crazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it.

This is a) a really great and specific policy proposal that b) addresses a real problem for government efficiency and c) also American democracy, by potentially reducing the clout of megadonors like Musk

"Starlink gets turned into universal basic Wi-Fi after Elon's assets are forfeited" is an abundance vision i can get behind

i simply want democrats to be the version of themselves that steven miller conjures in his nightmares

Man, it's actually really striking how much this is true. Not just about the Nixon thing, there's a handful of right-wing causes celebre that right-wing legal thought is dedicated to justifying, but like..... that is so very much what it is

We also gotta get out of the panopticon mindset and start reading and dancing to music again and stop video-ing each other doing anything slightly weird and taking pictures of strangers on the subway like volunteer cops. Documenting an uninteresting life nonstop instead of living interesting life.

It is looking like it is going to take 8 years to create a 10 year comp plan.

VOTE NO on I-638 And No on I-001 and 645