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Cake day: June 29th, 2025

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  • Newsweek is such a rag. It contorts itself so hard to not say this is directly attributable to Trump’s incompetence.

    It confidently declares:

    The surge in layoffs in 2025 is due to a mix of government downsizing, corporate restructuring and the growing effects of artificial intelligence.

    The government fired nearly 300,000 workers, or about 36% of the total for the year. Fine.

    But the phrase “corporate restructuring” is doing a lot of heavy lifting. It goes on to say:

    Private sector cuts have been concentrated in industries under structural pressure. […] Retailers have been hit by softer discretionary spending, higher costs and changing consumer habits, prompting store closures. Other sectors above historical layoff norms include finance, business services and transportation, where companies are scaling back capacity after pandemic-era expansions.

    Economic conditions—including inflation, shifting demand and global uncertainty—have been cited in more than 170,000 job cuts so far this year. Business restructuring, store or plant closures, and bankruptcies have also played a major role.

    That’s Trump. Say it, you cowards.


  • OK, so she was a county clerk who refused to issue a marriage certificate to a same-sex couple and was briefly jailed and fined as a result. Now she’s the vehicle to overturn same-sex marriage because she’s seen as basically the only person who would have standing to bring the issue before the Supreme Court again?

    But how does her case have any bearing on whether or not same-sex marriage should be legal? It’s a separate and unrelated issue. The connection isn’t even tenuous, it just seems nonexistent.

    I really hope the Supreme Court just declines to hear the case. At least Kavanaugh and Barrett don’t seem interested in revisiting the issue.


  • Spend a moment to reflect on the fact that you’re confidently incorrect in response to someone who lives here and has spent a considerable amount of time in all corners of the region.

    Aside from NYC and DC, the “strictest gun laws in the country” are still some of the loosest gun laws in the world. Even at an FFL dealer it’s basically an instant background check and a three-day waiting period. Not to mention all the gun shows, unless you think someplace like Eugene, OR is a secret MAGA bastion—in-between all the Occupy, BLM, and pro-Palestinian protests, I mean.

    In Seattle my coworkers were some of the most heavily-armed coworkers I’ve ever had in any part of the country. They all had small armories. My old boss cast his own bullets from lead ingots. My neighbor in Oregon could probably supply the entire neighborhood if needed, although of course I’d be set. My leftist friend I just had lunch with the other day was just telling me about his collection of handguns and rifles. I guess the neighbor who runs a daycare nearby probably doesn’t have any, though. And no, I don’t live in the boonies.

    But by all means, feel free to underestimate us.




  • This is a very good article. Thanks for sharing it.

    For now, we will have to look to the actual states to leverage their sovereign authority, their control over government-in-depth to contest the lawlessness and illegitimate power of the current government of the United States. That can go in some very dark directions.

    I’m glad some in the media are finally reckoning with the possibility—if only in allusion—that this path leads to secession and civil war.











  • Washington has a bipartisan redistricting commission by state constitutional amendment. They would need the cooperation of Republicans to reconvene the bipartisan redistricting commission, then the cooperation of Republicans to gerrymander away eastern Washington (the areas they come from). It won’t happen. They may be able to make a purple district more safe.

    The bipartisan commission does give a disproportionate voice to Republicans relative to actual apportionment in the state legislature by giving each of the top two parties two seats (with a nonvoting chair), but it’s a direct result of the unambiguous wording of the amendment. There would need to be another amendment to update that commission’s composition.


  • The better strategy at this point is to draw a clear and simple distinction that the everyone can easily understand - the Democratic party doesn’t redistrict without a new census and they don’t ever say they’re drawing districts just to disadvantage…

    Hello, I’m the average voter, and I just fell asleep when you said “mid-census redistricting” and something about tyrants.

    This is a losing strategy. The other strategy is probably also a losing strategy, but at least it’s going down swinging. The single greatest thing Democrats could do to get people in a voting booth is run on an anti-corruption, progressive economic agenda and show some backbone.