Max Light-Pacheco
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All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
December 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
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Per my colleagues at the International Campaign for the Rohingya, the Department of Homeland Security has abandoned a meeting they agreed to set regarding the threats to end TPS for a country in active and brutal civil war.
What is a petition for redress of grievances if not a meeting?
What is a petition for redress of grievances if not a meeting?
December 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Per my colleagues at the International Campaign for the Rohingya, the Department of Homeland Security has abandoned a meeting they agreed to set regarding the threats to end TPS for a country in active and brutal civil war.
What is a petition for redress of grievances if not a meeting?
What is a petition for redress of grievances if not a meeting?
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Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
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We’re watching Joyce Carol Oates slowly torture a Boer to death in real-time
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 AM
We’re watching Joyce Carol Oates slowly torture a Boer to death in real-time
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Here’s the trick that these front groups for billionaires always do: they attack on social issues to cover for the fact that their real target is economic progressivism.
They offer only means-tested, kludgy mush and pretend it’s a focus on “kitchen table” issues.
They offer only means-tested, kludgy mush and pretend it’s a focus on “kitchen table” issues.
September 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Here’s the trick that these front groups for billionaires always do: they attack on social issues to cover for the fact that their real target is economic progressivism.
They offer only means-tested, kludgy mush and pretend it’s a focus on “kitchen table” issues.
They offer only means-tested, kludgy mush and pretend it’s a focus on “kitchen table” issues.
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Please join us Wed, Sept 10 at 6:30 PM at the Roseburg Library to learn about saving energy, saving money, and protecting the climate!
September 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Please join us Wed, Sept 10 at 6:30 PM at the Roseburg Library to learn about saving energy, saving money, and protecting the climate!
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TRAFFIC ALERT: The Hawthorne Bridge will be closed to walkers, cyclists & vehicles 3 PM Saturday, Aug 23 to 6 AM Sunday, Aug.24.
The bridge will close again on Sunday, Aug 24 at 3 PM until 6 AM Monday.
The bridge will be closed for bearing inspection cap work on the East tower. Use other routes.
The bridge will close again on Sunday, Aug 24 at 3 PM until 6 AM Monday.
The bridge will be closed for bearing inspection cap work on the East tower. Use other routes.
August 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
TRAFFIC ALERT: The Hawthorne Bridge will be closed to walkers, cyclists & vehicles 3 PM Saturday, Aug 23 to 6 AM Sunday, Aug.24.
The bridge will close again on Sunday, Aug 24 at 3 PM until 6 AM Monday.
The bridge will be closed for bearing inspection cap work on the East tower. Use other routes.
The bridge will close again on Sunday, Aug 24 at 3 PM until 6 AM Monday.
The bridge will be closed for bearing inspection cap work on the East tower. Use other routes.
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If you live in Seattle, today is a great day to remind your friends that our mayor sucks shit and they should vote for Katie Wilson tomorrow
July 15, 2025: www.kiro7.com/news/local/v...
Harrell is Mayor. Crashes keep happening. People keep being hurt.
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Harrell is Mayor. Crashes keep happening. People keep being hurt.
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VIDEO: New art highlights safety issues
www.kiro7.com
August 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
If you live in Seattle, today is a great day to remind your friends that our mayor sucks shit and they should vote for Katie Wilson tomorrow
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ITS FLAT FUCK FRIDAY
ROLL THE CLIP
ROLL THE CLIP
August 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
ITS FLAT FUCK FRIDAY
ROLL THE CLIP
ROLL THE CLIP
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6:50p UPDATE:
Tsunami waves are expected to reach Oregon around 11:40 p.m., with waves forecast to be up to 2 feet above the tide. Tsunami waves could continue to hit the Oregon coast for 15 hours after they arrive.
www.oregonlive.com/pacific-nort...
Tsunami waves are expected to reach Oregon around 11:40 p.m., with waves forecast to be up to 2 feet above the tide. Tsunami waves could continue to hit the Oregon coast for 15 hours after they arrive.
www.oregonlive.com/pacific-nort...
Oregon coast under tsunami advisory after powerful Russia earthquake
A powerful magnitude 8.0 earthquake hit near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.
www.oregonlive.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:58 AM
6:50p UPDATE:
Tsunami waves are expected to reach Oregon around 11:40 p.m., with waves forecast to be up to 2 feet above the tide. Tsunami waves could continue to hit the Oregon coast for 15 hours after they arrive.
www.oregonlive.com/pacific-nort...
Tsunami waves are expected to reach Oregon around 11:40 p.m., with waves forecast to be up to 2 feet above the tide. Tsunami waves could continue to hit the Oregon coast for 15 hours after they arrive.
www.oregonlive.com/pacific-nort...
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Harvey Fierstein: ‘There are so few heterosexual men that I know that I look up to’
Harvey Fierstein: ‘There are so few heterosexual men that I know that I look up to’
The theatre legend talks his feelings on Trump, the fall of the Kennedy Center and why he finds it hard to trust straight men
www.theguardian.com
July 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Harvey Fierstein: ‘There are so few heterosexual men that I know that I look up to’
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Seattle has its own Zohran v Cuomo mayoral race going on: A young charismatic upstart who actually wants to make the city cooler vs an establishment dinosaur who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a road rage incident.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/06/29/o...
www.theurbanist.org/2025/06/29/o...
Op-Ed: Katie Wilson is the Zohran Mamdani of Seattle » The Urbanist
# Progressive mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s victory in Tuesday's Democratic primary is a watershed moment for New York City, and Seattle is on the cusp of its own watershed moment with the opport...
www.theurbanist.org
July 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Seattle has its own Zohran v Cuomo mayoral race going on: A young charismatic upstart who actually wants to make the city cooler vs an establishment dinosaur who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a road rage incident.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/06/29/o...
www.theurbanist.org/2025/06/29/o...
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similarly the numerous conservatives that NPR and PBS platformed and promoted did nothing to defend those institutions. if they are destroyed, the conservatives will move to sinecures at think tanks or right-wing funded media. they were placed there, in some sense TO destroy NPR/PBS.
Turns out that NPR and PBS' pandering to the right still didn't save their funding. Maybe there's a lesson here for media that think that tilting to the right will spare them from accusations of "liberal bias."
The rescission bill has passed the Senate. Once it passes the House, as expected, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's budget will be zeroed out for the first time since 1967, back when TV stations still broadcast in black and white.
July 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
similarly the numerous conservatives that NPR and PBS platformed and promoted did nothing to defend those institutions. if they are destroyed, the conservatives will move to sinecures at think tanks or right-wing funded media. they were placed there, in some sense TO destroy NPR/PBS.
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The Supreme Court is out of control. To allow the president, without any explanation, to unilaterally dismantle agencies created by an Act of Congress is to endow the president with sovereignty. There is no justification, because they haven’t given one. Our country is in big trouble.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
From Sotomayor's dissent:
From Sotomayor's dissent:
July 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The Supreme Court is out of control. To allow the president, without any explanation, to unilaterally dismantle agencies created by an Act of Congress is to endow the president with sovereignty. There is no justification, because they haven’t given one. Our country is in big trouble.
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This. Even those of us who work directly with or in govt agencies, especially in the sciences - the long-term benefit of studying a very niche scientific topic is not immediately obvious. And it’s difficult to explain your work and make people care. Effective science communication is not easy.
June 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This. Even those of us who work directly with or in govt agencies, especially in the sciences - the long-term benefit of studying a very niche scientific topic is not immediately obvious. And it’s difficult to explain your work and make people care. Effective science communication is not easy.
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NYTimes has a long history of holding conservatives—including its paid columnists, like Stephens here—to absolutely no standards whatsoever, but still worth noting the complete lack of ethics required to not mention how 99.99% of Iran's uranium stockpile was due to Trump withdrawing from JCPOA.
June 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
NYTimes has a long history of holding conservatives—including its paid columnists, like Stephens here—to absolutely no standards whatsoever, but still worth noting the complete lack of ethics required to not mention how 99.99% of Iran's uranium stockpile was due to Trump withdrawing from JCPOA.
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Usually people like Clinton claim they HAVE to endorse the centrist candidate for electability reasons. But Mamdani could win the general election in blue NYC. Electability/polling/political strategy arguments are often just pretexts, masking ideological preferences.
Former President Bill Clinton is endorsing former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, his former HUD secretary, as the Democratic establishment tries to attempt to ensure Zohran Mamdani does not win the Democratic primary for NYC mayor. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/n...
Bill Clinton Endorses Andrew Cuomo for New York City Mayor
www.nytimes.com
June 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Usually people like Clinton claim they HAVE to endorse the centrist candidate for electability reasons. But Mamdani could win the general election in blue NYC. Electability/polling/political strategy arguments are often just pretexts, masking ideological preferences.
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I am sick of thinking about it and him, but of all the obviously wrong things that people have believed about Donald Trump, the idea that he wouldn't instantly be into dropping bombs on brown foreigners in order to look tough or just more or less for yuks has to be the dumbest/wrongest.
June 22, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I am sick of thinking about it and him, but of all the obviously wrong things that people have believed about Donald Trump, the idea that he wouldn't instantly be into dropping bombs on brown foreigners in order to look tough or just more or less for yuks has to be the dumbest/wrongest.
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It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.
The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.
Heightened Scrutiny, a very good doc about the Supreme Court case that was just ruled on, does an impeccable and infuriating job laying out just how culpable the NYT and Atlantic are for the nation’s transphobia www.avclub.com/sundance-202...
June 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.
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I don't know what to do about today's governmental transphobia. But I do know that the Trevor Project lost $45M in federal funding but we can help keep them running to make sure trans youth have someone to talk to. Join me here: give.thetrevorproject.org/campaign/692...
Donate to The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project https://give.thetrevorproject.org/campaign/692681/donate
give.thetrevorproject.org
June 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I don't know what to do about today's governmental transphobia. But I do know that the Trevor Project lost $45M in federal funding but we can help keep them running to make sure trans youth have someone to talk to. Join me here: give.thetrevorproject.org/campaign/692...
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Also it’s just factually true that the modern GOP base is disproportionately low-education voters and their policies are actively anti-education and anti-intellectual. You are allowed to judge people based on their stated beliefs and demonstrated values.
Republicans are overturning Roe and deleting Jackie Robinson from government websites but the real problem is that liberals think they're racist and sexist
May 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Also it’s just factually true that the modern GOP base is disproportionately low-education voters and their policies are actively anti-education and anti-intellectual. You are allowed to judge people based on their stated beliefs and demonstrated values.
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Who is behind the great rock’n’roll ripoff? How Ticketmaster swallowed the live entertainment scene
Who is behind the great rock’n’roll ripoff? How Ticketmaster swallowed the live entertainment scene
From grassroots gigs to stadium shows, there’s no escaping the ticketing giant, making billions from hiking up prices (and whacking on fees)
www.theguardian.com
May 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Who is behind the great rock’n’roll ripoff? How Ticketmaster swallowed the live entertainment scene