Cursed Macramé Owl
@danielsohn.bsky.social
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Coming to you live from beautiful downtown Interbay/Magnolia in Seattle! Library person, squirrel wrangler
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danielsohn.bsky.social
Bill Nye should run for governor and then blow all his political capital on passing an income tax
robertcruickshank.com
Trump 2.0 has really exposed how brittle and broken the West Coast states' tax systems are. WA, OR, and CA all have a 1% property tax cap. WA has a sales tax but no income tax; OR has an income tax but no sales tax. It is not possible to effectively resist Trump without fixing these tax systems.
calmatters.org
The news has sent counties throughout California into a panic. The state is bracing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars for permanent housing, which is the one thing experts agree on as the most effective way to solve homelessness. https://cal.news/4nBKuZI

📷 Fred Greaves
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randomgacha.bsky.social
https://gacha.o0o0.jp/gp/archives/4180
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 Purchase the 300 yen capsule here (Rakuten)
danielsohn.bsky.social
A second frog has hit the streets
oregonian.com
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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mtsw.bsky.social
Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.
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hal10000.bsky.social
One of the more frustrating things about modern society is the influence of people who are completely full of shit.
postleftwatch.bsky.social
Matt Taibbi's co-host, Walter Kirn, compares Democrats who oppose Trump's immigration crackdowns to Southern politicians who opposed school integration in the 1960s, and equates the National Guard protecting the Little Rock 9 to the National Guard abducting immigrants now.
danielsohn.bsky.social
A big tent (that holds more bigots)
paleofuture.bsky.social
Ian Carroll is a bad dude. He appears on Alex Jones and regularly dabbles in anti-semitic conspiracy theories about 9/11 and the holocaust.

If Ro Khanna is not only sharing his videos but sitting down to talk with him or his allies, something is fundamentally broken within the Democratic Party.
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danielsohn.bsky.social
That this point isn't brought up constantly shows how rotten the mainstream discourse is
jamellebouie.net
they can see the polling
aawayne.bsky.social
“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
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jfallows.bsky.social
Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.
Headline: Trump Has His Eyes on Nobel Prize. Will He Get It?
danielsohn.bsky.social
If they do give it to him, it retroactively stains everyone who has won before. Except Woodrow Wilson, who already debased it with his racism
gregpak.net
this is the weakest person who has ever lived
newsguy.bsky.social
The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...
danielsohn.bsky.social
*Anthony Kiedis voice
🎶If you have to ask....you'll neva knooooow🎶
ericacbarnett.bsky.social
Looks like Rachel Savage—another Republican who's running against popular incumbent Position 8—isn't here either.

These candidates have shown up at many other forums. Wonder why they didn't show up for this one? 🤷‍♀️
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iwriteok.bsky.social
They Live is a fantastic film but every time I introduce it to a Gen Z friend I'm reminded that the plot boils down to, "two hobos carry out a series of workplace mass shootings because they believe half the population are aliens wearing human skin"
danielsohn.bsky.social
John Carpenter's The Muppet Movie
danielsohn.bsky.social
"If he gets his boss to leave the neighbors alone, he deserves credit for making some phone calls" Just listen to yourself John. Did the stroke knock out the last shred of your ability to see the world as it is?
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
Horrifically creepy and emblematic of this rape-coded administration, but also a govt employee staying at the fuckin ritz on a business trip shows you how much the DC world has changed since the DOJ muffin scandal of 2011.
donmoyn.bsky.social
"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.
danielsohn.bsky.social
It's good practice to scroll the replies to @ericacbarnett.bsky.social and @publicola.bsky.social to look for new jerks to proactively block! I don't need the a-hur a-dur fellas stinking up my feed
danielsohn.bsky.social
My prediction that Barnes is not long for this city begin to come true!
ericacbarnett.bsky.social
Reversing Decision, SPD Removes Controversial Captain Tietjen from East Precinct

Police Chief Shon Barnes blamed PubliCola's story, "internal leaks," and "a lack of comprehensive input" from others for the controversy.

publicola.com/2025/10/09/r...
Reversing Decision, SPD Removes Controversial Captain Tietjen from East Precinct - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett Two days after PubliCola exclusively reported that  Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes had promoted controversial police…
publicola.com
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djw172.bsky.social
Harrell's campaign is leaning hard on the "experience managing large, complex organizations" argument. And yet here's a story where SDOT ultimately follows its own policies and does the right thing, but *in spite of* Harrell's leadership, thanks to pressure from his opponent's activist organization.
danielsohn.bsky.social
Whatever you think of James going after Trump, it was not driven by Biden leaning on her to get him. Trump has a list of crimes that could stretch to the moon, and James just went after one in her purview. I'm reasonably hopeful this sham doesn't live long, and it's important that it doesn't.
gregsargent.bsky.social
This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."
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mtsw.bsky.social
When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win
delrayser.bsky.social
everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco
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thedailyshow.com
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.