I consider this chart to be the clearest indictment of our country’s path over the last several decades: In 1980, the U.S. had a typical life expectancy for an affluent country. Today, the U.S. has the lowest life expectancy of any affluent country:

Libraries are more than just books. They’re the places poor people go to get essential tasks done. These are a few of the critical services the City will cut to pay for cops’ massive raises.

The City is denying Seattleites 1,500 hours of learning, checking out books, applying for jobs, talking with neighbors, sheltering from bad weather, and, though librarians should not be de facto social workers, perhaps overdose prevention, workers said.

I've been waiting 29 years to tell this story about OJ and his days at USC. Now that he's dead (may he burn in hell) I have a story that I signed an NDA for that is no longer valid. I was a junior at USC working in Topping Student Center on campus in 1995. I was an administrative

If you thought the massively inflated rent prices across the country were criminal, that’s because a good chunk of it was

Mayor Bruce Harrell Rolls Back Funding for Mental Health Support in Schools After Garfield Shooting thestranger.com/news/2024/06/1…

In light of Louisiana’s recent decision to require that the 10 commandments be posted in every public classroom, I’m reminded of this astute observation from Kurt Vonnegut.

>become poor >Lose housing >Get arrested because you are a human that needs sleep >Go to jail >Work as a slave because that's legal in the US in prisons >If you manage to get out you are arrested again because you have nowhere to go and will fall asleep eventually Deeply evil

Once again the right-wingers on the Seattle City Council misread the election results. They had no kind of mandate to undo this deal. If they do, it’ll go on the ballot next year to get undone. Voters support the minimum wage, not a corporate-bought council.

The Genocide Leaderboard Fast food meal = 1 cigarette + McDonald's Big Mac Meal $12.69 reduces your life by 10 min + Each $1 spent on fast food costs 49 sec of life + Smoking one cigarette reduces life by 11 min + Spending $1 on 2.5 cigarettes reduces your life by 20 min

A 32 hour four day work week without loss in pay would do more for our overall quality of life and wellbeing than nearly any other singular socioeconomic change

Over the course of my grandfather's lifetime, he gifted and "loaned" Donald $413 million. And Donald still declared bankruptcy 6 times. He failed so badly that the banks needed to put him on a $425,000-a-month allowance.

Right now, someone making $1 billion a year pays the exact same amount into Social Security as someone making $170,000. We can fix this & make sure billionaires pay their fair share—but Republicans are standing in the way.

Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7B in taxes in 2022. T-Mobile, Office Depot and 21 other major profitable corporations paid $0 in taxes from 2018-2022 while getting billions in taxpayer subsidies. Just in case you thought it was immigrants who weren't paying their fair share.

DEI is bad; everything should be merit. Same folks: Nepotism and good old boy networks are great; pick whoever you like.

Andy Cohen: “The mayor’s still running around.” Anderson Cooper: “Kindness in 2025. You don’t know what battles people have.” Andy: “The mayor is battling indictments.” *Takes final shot of the night* #CNNNYE