Mack Reed

This is a great speech. More Dems and would-be primary challengers need to channel this energy. Like, NOW.

Seattle will send up to $8M to food banks, meal programs The city of Seattle plans to release up to $4 million per month through the end of the year, or until SNAP benefits are restored.

Now that the federal government has abdicated its responsibility to the people who employ it, cities and states have to pick up the slack.

Or at least those do that care whether their constituents starve. #seattle
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That we KNOW of.

@artlung.com on Bluesky Today for #WeirdWebOctober a page which is slightly better in "dark mode." But do it quick or you'll miss it. Thanks for reading. Once.🌹 artlung.com/wwo/6/ https://artlung.com/wwo/6/

This is exceptionally neat.

Well, TFG didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize this morning. So I guess today the US goes to war with Eastasia … errr, Chicago, Portland, and Los Angeles.

Well, TFG didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize this morning. So I guess today the US goes to war with Eastasia … errr, Chicago, Portland, and Los Angeles.

Fair. I’m a bitter ex LA Times reporter and seeing that juxtaposition triggered me to overstate the problem. Pro Publica, 404, and on a good day, WaPo are doing their jobs. The problem is, most folks don’t bother following actual journalism when the likes of CNN, Fox, and Newsmax are easier to find

Let us all acknowledge that journalism is no longer even pretending to transmit the truth.

Shocker: complete police fabrication in a post-use-of-force report.

Trump calls on Microsoft to fire an executive President Donald Trump called for the firing of a Microsoft executive on Friday over her ties with the Obama and Biden administrations.

#234 in Political Vendetta, Criminal Overstep, or Epstein Distraction: www.seattletimes.com/business/tru...

Pentagon places further restrictions on journalists' access Defense Department officials said in a memo that journalists who report information not approved by the government will have press credentials revoked.

Pete Hegseth’s decision to restrict press access at the Pentagon is the Trump administration’s latest attack on the First Amendment and an attempt to suppress public accountability. Secretary Hegseth, what do you have to hide?

MAGA Is Mad at GWAR Video of the band "murdering" Elon Musk and Donald Trump at Riot Fest went viral over the weekend. MAGA and conservatives are big mad.

Money quote: “GWAR is to violence what the New York Post is to journalism.” consequence.net/2025/09/maga...

Original post: mastodon.social/@augieray/11...

Tours: X cancel upcoming North American tour | Punknews.org X have announced the cancellation of their upcoming North American tour with Los Lobos. The tour was set to begin on September 19 in Toronto, Ontario. The band released a statement on Instagram that reads, ”Due to circumstances beyond our control X and Los Lobos will be unable to embar...

Damn. We had good tickets to see them in Seattle. Damn it. www.punknews.org/article/8653...

This man has three Pulitzers

The Trump administration’s latest power grab: your voter data The Justice Department sued Oregon and Maine to gain access to their full voter registration lists.

As the Trump administration vows to undertake a sweeping crackdown on liberal orgs in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, the DOJ is now suing two blue states, Maine and Oregon, to attempt to gain access to their full, unredacted voter registration lists.

It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

Justice Jackson accuses Supreme Court majority of playing Calvinball A partial dissent last week by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is attracting attention for her reference to a game that made a recurring appearance in the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes.

I'm late to the party but I have just learned of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's neologism "Calvinball jurisprudence" and I could not possibly respect and admire her more: www.abajournal.com/news/article...

DOJ Posts Embarrassing Apology Over Official Caught in Honeypot Trap The undercover sting came amid the ongoing firestorm over Jeffrey Epstein. Published Sep. 4 2025 5:28PM EDT Attorney General Pam Bondi’s department was forced into damage control after a top justice official was secretly recorded telling a date that the Epstein files would be manipulated to protect Republicans. Joseph Schnitt, an Acting Deputy Chief in the Department of Justice, was caught divulging the information by a woman he met on the Hinge dating app, not realizing she was an undercover

Crimes and dirty tricks, non-stop. This is the kind of thing that would have sunk a previous administration. I’d be shocked if there’s ever a charge brought or a hearing held under this criminal fascist regime. apple.news/AXISWOq3_RfG...

I HAVE YET TO SEE HIS GOP TOADIES OBJECT.

Hooo Ridin treatin the whole world like a Disco ball’

Requiem for an Orgydome [FULL]

For all my dusty friends: youtu.be/gE4XQThQ6as

The Race to Rescue PBS and NPR Stations

Today, Knight Foundation is committing $10M to the Public Media Bridge Fund — part of a nearly $37M effort to support public media. We’re calling on others to join us in ensuring public media remains a pillar of civic life.

Read more in @nytimes.com:

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/b...

Sad!

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@derfbackderf.bsky.social on Bluesky Inks. Splash page. From the new book. This bastard took me three days to ink.

Glorious.

Fucking hell.

The Distraction Playbook: How Trump’s DC Takeover Swallowed the News Cycle Trump didn’t like what he was seeing on his TV screens these past few weeks, so he decided to change the story.

NEW: Trump’s DC “crime crackdown” distraction worked as planned: in 72 hrs, media mentions of Epstein revelations fell 71% and BBB coverage dropped 29%, replaced by wall-to-wall footage of troops in the streets and repetition of Trump's message.

www.waleed-shahid.com/p/the-distra...

Mark Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution