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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.

Comments

  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?

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