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  • The Seattle Mayor’s race is still too close to call. Aaaaaa.
  • We really need to fix the Federal access to police surveillance data.
  • And speaking of, Redmond stop contracting with Flock Safety.
  • I love the people making whistle kits.
  • With the Trump Administration being little shits about SNAP benefits, today is a good day to donate to the Vashon Food Bank.

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  1. America, where are you now?

    Don’t you care about your sons and daughters?

    Don’t you know, we need you now!

    We can’t fight alone against the Monster!

  2. In which Conde Nast employees learn that none of them are essential.

    TheWrap
    @TheWrap

    The most brutally awkward thing you’ll see today: Condé Nast staffers confront head of HR Stan Duncan over layoffs outside his 34th-floor office.

    Four of the employees featured in this exclusive video from the confrontation were then fired for “extreme misconduct.”

    The whole story: https://bit.ly/49EUgGk

    2:03 PM · Nov 6, 2025

    One less tranny in the Conde Nast workplace.

  3. @ 2

    And here’s the headline du jour covering it:

    Anna Wintour’s elite fiefdom rocked by woke soap opera after trans journalist had nerve to scold executive for firing non-binary ex-lover from Teen Vogue

    A little long, if you ask me. I’m more of a “Headless Body Found In Topless Bar” kind of guy.

    In her own statement posted to liberal social media Bluesky, Avalle complained that it was a ‘transphobic’ to describe her behavior as aggressive.

    She said: ‘I was acting as a union member and concerned employee when I questioned Stan Duncan, well within my rights.

    ‘I don’t love pointing to my identity, but the company saying that I was behaving ‘aggressively’ when I was calmly asking questions feel like a clear transphobic dog whistle.’

    I don’t think tranny dude would be any happier to hear that he behaved like a dick.

  5. 2, 3,
    When a bigot’s fear of gender is so overpowering and controlling that they really don’t mind it when the AI replacement for a human journalist sends recipes to their inbox that include toxic automotive fluids in the list of ingredients, and their next vacation booking puts them inside the exclusion zone around Chernobyl.

  7. Schumer just offered a clean CR with a one year extension of APTC.

    And Republicans said fuck off.

    It’s very notable that this is with considerable opposition from among the Democrat’s Senate caucus. But it would have certainly released enough D votes for the measure to reach 60. The biggest sticking point being that a majority of the caucus members do not trust their Republican counterparts to carry this past Fat Hitler’s opposition. And there is a very reasonable worry that without full support of Senate Republicans, Fat Hitler would simply do another pocket recision of the APTC funding. If Senate Republicans can’t find sufficient backbone to stand up and defend their own negotiated deals then they can’t expect anyone to negotiate with them. But Schumer was willing to give it a shot.

    And they are saying no.

    They probably won’t get a better offer than this.

  8. On this day of the death of James Watson, remember Rosalind Franklin, especially when you see mainstream media fuckwits like Ross Douthat lamenting how “me too” ruined the workplace for assholes like him, and James Watson.

  9. @7. Even Bloomberg isn’t outtong lipstick on this pig.

    Republicans Reject Shutdown Offer as Travel, Food Aid Delays Hit

    MAGA Mike Jesus Johnson really hasn’t heard anything about this but it’s the Democrats fault

  11. At least a one-year extension of APTC would have given Americans a chance to vote in the 2026 mids on whether or not they wan’t to keep them around beyond that. And it would give Republicans an opportunity to communicate their side to their voters in their districts. Republicans who, btw, since passing the billionaire tax cut, have refused to meet with their constituents or talk openly with the media about what they did and what they are doing.

    Republicans are just scared to death of voters and democracy.
    And that’s ultimately why they have turned to Fat Hitler and fascism instead.

  12. In today’s political news, Republicans are keeping the government shut down to deny health care to millions of Americans, and are going to court to deny food to millions of Americans.

    As Tuesday showed, where Republican candidates for dogcatcher, school boards, and Congress lost across the board, Americans are finally realizing the parties aren’t the same and who you vote for matters.

  13. Demorat-Pfizer Party Of Vax Mandates & Chickenhawk Warmongers News –
    Congrats on the shutdown, I am proud of you. Don’t give in, I give you a better than 50% chance of victory.

  14. @2 I don’t think tranny dude would be any happier to hear that he behaved like a dick.

    Yeah, I guess in their and your world that’s what union activity is, huh?

  15. @10 Imagine being a Christian and going to court to appeal an order to feed people.

    I don’t see any actual Christians going to court to appeal an order to feed people.

  16. @13 pork sauce is back? Dang, kinda strange pork sauce melted away after the election was “stolen” in 2020. Musta took off to Canada. Bet it was the same troll who babbled about its dual citizenship.. heh.. dope..

  17. It took 47 Democrats and affiliated indies 37 days to come up with this silly “offer”.

    Small wonder libbies have the long knives out for Schumer.

  18. @16, Demorat-Pfizer Party Of Vax Mandates & Chickenhawk Warmongers News –
    What the fk are you talking about and who the fk is pork sauce? Try showing a little class and thanking me for my congratulations. BTW I left about 6 months ago Einstein.

  19. @18 A1 is known as steak sauce but you’re pork sauce to us.

    you’re a troll and trolls are a laughing stock here.

    Congrats to finally crawling across the border to Canada. All 650 lbs of you?

  20. @19, Ok, I was thinking it was a smartass double entendre. Obviously you’re not that clever given your low IQ insult.

  21. @20 you think highly of yourself don’t you?

    Can’t blame you I guess. You have to feel good that someone got a laugh out of your puerile babbling here over the years.

    Even though it was a laugh AT you. (rolls eyes).

  22. @21, I’m not here to trade insults but to discuss Demorat shutdown tactics, which are excellent IMO. Apparently you are unable to do so.

  23. Here’s your friendly reminder that the GOP are in control of all three branches and all of this is the result of their leadership.
    Vote for better, vote for Democrats.

  24. to discuss Demorat shutdown tactics

    Oh please continue.. we’ll continue to celebrate your record of failed, puerile blather by laughing

    AT you.. heh.. live from Canada, pork sauce is truly back!

  25. GOP rejects ending shutdown and at the same time rejects healthcare insurance extension.
    The Epstein files must be nasty.

  26. Trump Says “I Don’t Want to Hear About Affordability Anymore” As Prices Continue to Climb On Everything, the Government is Still Shutdown, and SNAP Benefits Are Not Being Paid
    He campaigned on fixing affordability. Now he doesn’t want to hear about it anymore. Trump voters got what they voted for.

    Maybe he’s upset that Dems and Mamdani won on an affordability! His people keep replying to him to do something to make everything more affordable and he’s failing.
    He knows he’s a sinking ship, the norms are not trusting him anymore.

  27. Jobs Friday won’t be happening again this week as the record-long government shutdown has resulted in a lack of official data on the labor market as well as a host of other important indicators.

    Had the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly nonfarm payrolls report, economists surveyed by Dow Jones expect it would have shown a decline of 60,000 jobs and an unemployment rate increase to 4.5%.
    >> Considering that all jobs reports are wildly too high and come down even more as better data comes in, should we assume job loses are much worse?

  28. MAGA Mike Jesus Johnson announces another vacation week starting 11/10.

  33. @32 From 2015 and it’s still accurate.
    I would differentiate that the Cheap Labor Conservatives are the guys with money and the MAGA conservatives vote for the Cheap Labor Conservative politicians for promises of white privilege and hurting their enemies.

  34. @33 The author is Joe Lyles, who was a progressive talk show host in Jacksonville, Florida, in the early 2000s, and founded a website called Conceptual Guerilla.

  37. @ 29

    … will now ask SCOTUS to do the dirty deed.

    The “dirty deed” was done by KBJ. No one else. Just her.

    Why certain Seattle liberals think that the liberal, black, female AJ engages in filthy behavior is beyond me.

  38. On the troll’s lies about KBJ. “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” – Winston Churchill

    Justices are assigned to be on “Circuits.” Depending on what state an appeal is coming from, that’s the judge who has to deal with it. KBJ is the First Circuit. So it fell to her to handle it.

    In an order late Friday night, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the pause will remain in effect until the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issues a judgment on the matter.

    Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson gave her reasoning .. there is a pending order that would possibly be screwed up if she did anything other than a temporary administrative stay. She didn’t rule on the legality of stopping SNAP benefits. Instead, imposed a pause giving the lower court time to weigh the legal arguments.

  41. The Whidbey Community Foundation has designated $50,000 of its reserves to a newly created food resilience fund.

    Harvard University could use its reserves to do the same. So could the University of Washington. Who would file the lawsuit in opposition?

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