Baseball!!! Clap your hands, or cheeks (if you have the assets)—the Seattle Mariners are headed to the playoffs after beating the Colorado Rockies 4-3! I have only one thing to say:

Crash: A fatal crash between a truck and a motorcycle slowed traffic on southbound I5 around Interstate 526 in Everett, reports the Seattle Times.

Back to the Collapsing Empire: President Donald Trump started his Tuesday address to the United Nations by announcing his teleprompter was broken. He only referenced the war in Ukraine and genocide in Gaza in passing, and according to CNN, spent most of his time talking shit. From the network: “‘I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell,’ he said at one point while talking about migration, a sentiment that neatly summed up the thesis of his speech. In a sign of just how much the world has changed since he was laughed at from the same podium by delegates in his first term, the audience Tuesday sat mostly silent.”

Change-up: Trump posted on social media that he believed Ukraine could, with NATO support, reclaim its territory from Russia. The statement came after a meeting with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. Just before the meeting, he told reporters NATO countries should shoot down Russian aircraft in their airspace. This is good for Ukrainians, but also, so odd. For months, he’s been saying Ukraine would have to cede land for peace with Russia. 

Violence: Three people have been shot at an ICE facility in Dallas. One person is dead and two are wounded. Detainees were among the three victims, officials say. No federal agents were shot, but VP JD Vance and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem posted about violence against federal law enforcement immediately after the incident was reported. The shooter shot and killed himself. The news is moving fast. Check here for updates.

Bad Cops, Want to be a Worse One? The federal government is airing local ads to lure local law enforcement toward a wild and wonderful career with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The campaign is targeting sanctuary cities like us, LA and Chicago. “Attention Seattle law enforcement,” the ad states. “You took an oath to protect and serve, to keep your family, your city safe. But in sanctuary cities, you’re ordered to stand down while dangerous illegals walk free.” Mayor Bruce Harrell is pissed about the recruitment ads, saying that “we are not going to compromise our high standards for law enforcement when the Trump administration tries to bully us into violating our own laws and values.” (He also likely doesn’t want to lose any gains on officer numbers). The $8.9 billion city budget proposal he dropped Tuesday included $40 million for the Seattle Police Department, the biggest increase for a city department in the plan.

What’s in that Budget? Dough to fund the police (less money for the Fire and Health and Human Services departments), a plan to divert 45 percent of the JumpStart tax (money specifically set aside for affordable housing) to the general fund (money specifically set aside for whatever), and more (it’s a budget). The Seattle Times’ David Kroman has more details here. He writes that the budget is built around a slightly sunnier economic forecast than August’s: Officials expect a $150 million deficit, not a $240 million deficit.

Harrell Announces $15 Million to Address Gun Violence: The city will send the money to groups focused on gun violence prevention, school safety, and support services. Harrell made the announcement at Garfield High School, where 17-year-old Amarr Murphy-Paine was shot and killed during lunch in June 2024. After the shooting, the school partnered with Seattle’s Health and Human Services Department on prevention. Garfield’s principal said students are in “a better place” as a result. 

Mayoral Challenger Katie Wilson Criticizes Harrell’s Approach: In a statement to KUOW, Wilson’s cited the City Auditor, which found last year that Seattle lacked “a rigorous evidence-based framework for our violence prevention investments.” “Putting existing contracts out for bid now is putting the cart before the horse — the strategic framework should be hammered out first, and should draw on highly successful approaches that have been tested in other cities.” Wilson said this should be postponed until the city can work with local leaders and community-based organizations to “identify best practices.”

Seattle Area Trans Women Are Being Beaten by Groups of Men: Earlier this month, three trans women were beaten by a group of young men on Capitol Hill. According to the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, there’s been at least four other group beatings like it since June 2024. In one case, strangers joined in. No other group in the county is being targeted like this, the office told The Stranger.

Today’s Forecast: Sunny with a high of 70 before we drop into the 60s the rest of the week.

Dropping into the 60s:

Air Quality Alert Until Noon: The air quality sucks in southern and eastern Pierce County and northern and east King County. The wildfire smoke may linger for the next day or so, according to the National Weather Service. Save that strenuous outdoor activity for the evening, this shit is not good for you.

“GIMME MY JIMMY,” read protester Chris Kevorkian’s sign outside the local ABC affiliate KOMO’s office on Tuesday. The station’s parent company, Sinclair Broadcasting, has said it won’t air “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Executives at Disney and ABC took Kimmel’s show off the air last week shortly after FFC Chair Brendan Carr went on a far-right podcast and called Kimmel’s conduct “some of the sickest conduct possible.” Carr implied his agency could “do this the easy way, or the hard way.”

Kimmel’s “controversial comments” about Charlie Kirk’s shooting were not all that controversial. He suggested MAGA was “desperately trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, anything to score political points from it.” He may not have been right about the shooter’s ideology (which is still unclear), but he was absolutely correct about the right exploiting Kirk’s death.

What You Didn’t Hear on KOMO: During his first opening monologue since his return, Kimmel called the Trump administration’s threats against ABC “anti-American.” “This show is not important,” he said. “What’s important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.” The New York Times reports Carr will not stop going after the media.

Apple TV Quietly Pulled Show About Domestic Extremism: The Savant—a show about law enforcement trying to prevent domestic extremism—was supposed to premiere this Friday. But now, it’s off the release slate and it’s unclear when it’ll be put back on. The decision was made “amid current events,” writes Deadline.

A song for today: According to the New York Times, people have been gathering outside the Dallas ICE facility for a weekly prayer vigil, where people raised signs like “families belong together” and “due process.” More than 8,400 people have been detained at the building since President Donald Trump took office.

Vivian McCall is The Stranger's News Editor. In her private life, she is a musician and Wii U apologist. If you’re reading this, you either love her or hate her.

84 replies on “Slog AM: At Least One Person Is Dead at ICE Facility Shooting, Trump Tells UN Member States Their Countries Are “Going to Hell,” Harrell Announces Funding for Gun Violence Prevention”

  1. It’s funny (not haha) that all the MAGA officials and influencers, after years of violent rhetoric against anyone and everyone they don’t like, now insist on toning down the rhetoric. Guess they never thought it would come back on them. What’s that saying again, “fuck around and…”

  4. article says 2025 is the first year in 3 decades that left wing terrorism is exceeding the right, with 5 attacks so far this year vs 1 from the right when a guy assassinated a democratic rep and her husband

  5. @3 I would say that’s more so bad news for the right-wing accelerationists who have been pushing “civil war” rhetoric for years. Like I wrote, as they love(d?) to say: “FAFO”

  6. “Harrell Announces $15 Million to Address Gun Violence” = thanks, “teens”!

    “Seattle Area Trans Women Are Being Beaten by Groups of Men” = thanks, “teens”!

    They are just trying to help you to become more “Progressive” by forcibly Dismantling your White Privilege and Abolishing your Whiteness. You should get down on your knees and thank them and tell them you are sorry.

  7. In a photo going around of the shooter’s corpse, it looks to me like the rifle is yet another K98 although not sporterized like Tyler Robinson’s. This ancient rifle is becoming the new face of American political violence.

  8. “… VP JD Vance

    and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem

    posted about violence against federal law

    enforcement immediately after the incident was reported.”

    so many vids

    showing MASKED ICE Agents

    VIOLENTLY arresting Citizens for being

    . . . off-White? Violence begetting Violence!?

    it’s a cra-cra World out there

    trumpftopians — and You’re

    merely making it Worse/

    More So. Surprised?

    Don’t be.

    @6

    gosh

    monoped

    that’s Alotta

    cra-cra Caps. have

    You gone Over the Edge?

  9. I’ll update that a little bit, Robinson might’ve used a Gewehr 98 while this one looks like K98k, both based on the Mauser 98 design, for those interested in the gun minutiae.

  10. @4 it also says there has been a steady uptick since Trump first took office in 2016 which is obvious to anyone with eyes.

    @5 perhaps but the progressives have been leaning pretty hard into rhetoric as well when someone doesn’t agree with their ideology. In looking at SLOG today one of the lead tags is “Bad cops…” It’s just more labeling to dehumanize people and make it easier to hate them.

  11. Left-wing terrorism includes large throngs of gangs smashing and looting stores, wanton vandalism in our inner cites, tagging and vulgar graffiti everywhere, assaults on police, and many more examples.

    Right-wing terrorism is able to channel their rage into specific targeted actions at least.

  12. “According to the New York Times, people have been gathering outside the Dallas ICE facility for a weekly prayer vigil, where people raised signs like ‘families belong together’ and ‘due process'”

    before an anti-ICE sniper shot three detainees, killing one.

  13. @10 “In looking at SLOG today one of the lead tags is “Bad cops…” It’s just more labeling to dehumanize people and make it easier to hate them.”

    Come on, we’ve got right wing ideologues calling immigrants and LGBTQ people animals and worse, calling someone a “bad cop” isn’t just not in the same ballpark it’s not in the same zip code.

    @11 well played, let’s see how many bites you get

  14. 10 sure but it still didn’t exceed right wing violence, despite the general trend of political violence increasing inversely with the presidency (eg, right wing violence spiked dramatically under obama). It would take several decades for the left to catch up, which should be obvious to anyone who can see where most of the threats of violence and civil war are coming from.

  15. The Stupidest Speech in UN History

    Everyone’s saying so!

    But this will in the end be a very significant speech—

    precisely because of its stupidity. When American historians

    tell the story of 2025, it will be about the rise of our off-brand fascism.

    When world historians tell the story of 2025, it will be

    about the passing of technological, and hence economic, and

    hence political leadership from the U.S. to China, in the span of eight months.

    The tape of this address will be

    the easiest way to explain to people

    how such a mammoth shift happened so fast.

    –Bill McKibben

    oodles More:

    https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-stupidest-speech-in-un-history

  17. @12 – the Dallas ICE sniper was a moron who shot into an ICE van that had tinted windows, while it was raining. There is zero chance he was trying to kill detainees, he was just so stupid he thought he was going to kill some ICE officers.

  18. Ignored by Slog, two people involved in the Antifa / John Brown Gun Club attack on the ICE facility in Alvarado Texas, in which an Alvarado police officer was shot in the neck, were arraigned JUST YESTERDAY and 6 of the others involved were arraigned on Monday. This attack in Dallas was most likely connected to those events. If you get all your “news” from The Stranger, it’s understandable how you probably weren’t aware of what happened.

  19. @15: When will the day come when someone stands up and yells to him face to face what an idiot he is with all the cameras rolling and world to hear?

  20. TS continues to struggle with Tyler Robinson’s motive. Radical Left indoctrination? Absolutely not. Its much simpler and quite worse actually, the internalization of liberal nostrums that have been radiating into our culture for many years;

    The primacy of the “lived experience,” an impenetrable fortress to outsiders which may never be interrogated, the holder merely needing to state their “feelings” in any given second, its sacrosanct transmission requiring strict genuflection.

    Emotional safetyism, first codified and practiced in our institutions of “higher learning,” now an expectation among many, especially in the younger cohorts, whose failure of observance may lead to censure or worse. See Bari Weiss, Bret Weinstein, and scores of others.

    “Words are violence” – when the “new normal” institutions fail to “correct” the micro aggressor through deplatforming or simply dismissal, “words are violence” is the next step. Its chief merit is framing it so that the unwelcome thing is now dangerous. License is now granted for the offender to defend themselves with whatever means they feel necessary. Combine this with strident anti-bullying instruction, rushing to the defense of the “victim” of “violent” speech is a celebrated virtue – heroes are easily made with this discourse.

    In Orem Utah, we have a charming tale of Brokeback Mountain Furry Edition. Mr. Robinson feels the weals of hate being meted out upon his paramour. Not physically of course. No, they did not abscond out of the cultural vapors of Utah for a Bay Area liberation, nor were even attending the school where Kirk was to “spread hate.” Simply having an awareness of voices out there that were at variance with them was enough for Mr. Robinson to begin etching his cartridges. This emotional chain does not require time at Jacobin online or days at the range with a local John Brown Gun Club. Its more ominous than that – a thought/feeling chain at flood tide within our society, and worse, rife among GenZ, whose poor socialization and mental health combine with ready access to firearms. An all American shit show that I fear will see much more blood on the streets before it ebbs.

  22. @13 I guess if you want to compare TS to the wackadoodles on the internet that is your choice but I’m talking about reputable sources of information. TS didn’t call someone a bad cop they said ALL cops are bad and that’s the playbook for them and most of the activists in this town. The left is very casual with labeling everything facist or racist or whatever else suits their fancy and the sole purpose is to dehumanize those who run counter to their ideology to try and discredit them. It really shouldn’t be surprising that left wing violence is on the rise when news sources keep telling people these things.

    @14 It doesn’t matter what happened 50 years ago per the Cato institute. What matters is what is happening today. You keep downplaying the notion of left wing violence based on historical trends and that’s not reality. You can’t address a problem if you wont even admit it exists.

  23. This thread is full of some of the worst reasoning ever posted by any of the usual idiots who post here. Binary thinking is a trap which enables extremism of all kinds. Use your brains and quit parroting the lowest common denominator of “thought,” if this pathetic drivel could even be considered such. Good lord, shameful and pathetic.

  24. 22, well no, it’s also per the article you shared, in addition to every other reputable source available, including the right wing cato institute, as you helpfully mentioned.

    It’s genuinely weird behavior to actively downplay decades worth of political violence while accusing me of downplaying 9 months of it when i’ve done no such thing. I have not challenged the findings of your source, but you refuse to acknowledge any sources that don’t flatter your biases, even when those sources are on the right.

    I’m trying to understand reality on its own terms but you seem bent on ignoring things that don’t suit your preconceived notions. If you can find a source that says the right is not responsible for the overwhelming majority of political violence in this country feel free to share it but even the source you’ve provided doesn’t indicate that prior to the current year.

  29. @24 “in addition to every other reputable source available” … ” decades worth of political violence”

    Do those “reputable sources” include the approximately 100 million people murdered by Communism worldwide in their numbers?

  33. “but also, so odd. For months, he’s been saying Ukraine would have to cede land for peace with Russia”

    It really isn’t odd – the orange shit stain’s philosophy is exceedingly simple: praise him and you’re golden – publicly disagree with him and you’re fucked. Putin understood this for a while but he also understands that an end to fighting in Ukraine is not good him (personally) – you don’t become the next Czar by ending the fight before it’s over.

  34. @22 “TS didn’t call someone a bad cop they said ALL cops are bad”

    I read it as they assumed the ICE recruitment efforts would appeal only to the shittiest SPD officers, but maybe you’re right. Even still, being a cop is not an immutable trait so the comparison doesn’t really work regardless

  35. I don’t have a subscription to The Atlantic, so I couldn’t read the whole article. What are the five (?) instances of left-wing violence this year?

  37. @24 I’m not downplaying the historical trend of political violence being right wing oriented I just don’t think that has any relevance to what is happening in the present. You and other commenters on this site continually waive off any notion of an issue with an escalation of left wing violence because over the last 50 years most violence was driven by conservatives. I think you are over inflating the importance of historical trends to diminish what is happening now.

    @34 we aren’t talking about discrimination so whether someone is the member of a protected class is irrelevant. What we are talking about is referring to groups of people as a monolithic thing in order to paint them as the bad guy. Your post @1 claims this is a right wing tactic but the truth is both sides do it and the far left (especially around here) has done far more lately to encourage violence or make it seem acceptable.

  38. Speaking of botched attacks on ICE, remember back in July 2019 when 69-year-old Seattleite Willem Van Sponsen—early member of the Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club—armed with a rifle, attempted to ignite a large propane tank and set buildings on fire at the Tacoma immigrant detention facility 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙙𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙨 𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚. Officers arrived and shots were fired, and Spronsen was killed in the shooting. In Spronsen’s farewell letter to a fellow John Brown Gun Club member he wrote “I am antifa.” Antifa are idiots.

  40. @37 I didn’t say “protected class” I said “immutable trait.” It’s worse to disparage people because of something innate to themselves than their membership in some group or profession. And what I said in #1 was the right have been espousing violence, not labeling groups monoliths, and when you threaten people with violence you can’t be too surprised if they launch a preemptive strike.

  41. 37 i haven’t waved off any violence at all. Your article is the first evidence i’ve seen that left wing violence has exceeded the right this year for the first time in decades — as your article confirms to be historically true — and i’m not questioning those findings. Meanwhile you were in these comments last week saying “everyone knows” the left is the most violent and refused to accept any evidence to the contrary even when coming from a right-wing source. I’m just asking you to hold yourself to the same standard you are asking of me and I am accepting without any pushback.

  42. Thank you, Biped dear. I appreciate that link and access to the article.

    But I have say, the article seems a bit fluffy. There are really no instances of crimes per se this year, other than the killings of the Minnesota couple and their dog, and allusions to the motive of Charlie Kirk’s assassin. What about the other Minnesota couple who were shot and survived, for instance?. That makes at least two right-wing political acts of violence to have happened this year.

    To me, the takeway of the article is this:

    “In many cases, categorizing the ideology of a perpetrator is difficult, if not impossible. Some extremists pick from a “salad bar of ideologies,” as the former FBI Director Christopher Wray once said, many of which don’t fit the traditional right-left dichotomy.”

    Take the young man in Utah: While we still don’t know his motive, the chances that he has some “leftist” bent is highly unlikely. We know that he – like a young JD Vance – was roommates/friends (and perhaps more) with a transwoman. It could be that he was simply angry at Kirk about his attacks on transpeople, and he reacted in the way a conservative young man raised in a cultish religion, and awash in guns, would. That doesn’t mean he is a liberal ideologue. He was perhaps just exacting revenge.

    The same is true of Luigi, the killer of that United Healthcare CEO. Anger at the US healthcare system knows no political boundaries. It is reviled across the spectrum.

    The transperson who shot the children at the Catholic School in Minneapolis may have had a grudge against Catholicism, which is also something that runs the gamut of the political spectrum with many Christian Nationalists thinking of the Catholic church (and LDS, for that matter) as not “Christian” or – in the case of the Catholic church – having too many liberals.

    Being trans, or associating with people who are trans, does not immediately equate with liberalism. Look at Jenner (I won’t deadname her, but I won’t use her new name either, because she doesn’t deserve that) if you want an example of a hard-right transperson. Or Peter Theil if you want an example of a hard-right gay person.

    As the article notes, the era of the “leftist” terror groups of the 70’s (including Seattle’s own George Jackson Brigade, which robbed banks and blew up things around town) is not the era we are in today. Gun violence more often than not is not politically motivated. And the traditional markers are more an more unreliable to guage what is, or is not, political.

  43. @41 I totally accept there has been and continues to be right wing violence and perhaps my words last week were not the best. The way the blog post framed things last week (at least in my reading) was that violence mostly came from the right. My point then as it is now is that there has been a rise in left wing violence the last few years (most notably here in Seattle where there really isn’t any right wing groups) and pretending this is a right wing problem based on data over 50 years is not an accurate way to view the present situation.

    @40 I don’t think immutable traits have anything to do with it. Both ends of the spectrum have been engaging in the behavior you describe. Any violence that results from it is despicable and the group generating it should rightly be called out. The way you are talking about it can lead one to believe you think left wing violence is somehow justifiable and it isn’t.

  44. @42: Her name is Caitlyn Jenner. Other trans influencers who think clearly on current events are Blair White, Alexis Blake, Marcus Dib, and Buck Angel. To name a few.

  45. That’s all you took from my comments, Coolidge dear?

    And how about Ms. Jenner? Will that make you less tense and nervous about my thoughts about her?

  46. @43 “I don’t think immutable traits have anything to do with it.”

    Which is worse, promoting violence against Latinos or promoting violence against members of MS-13? Or do you think there’s no difference?

  47. @46 I think promoting violence is equally bad? Do you think its ok to shoot someone because they are in MS-13 even if they haven’t done anything? I think in your example the assumption is MS-13 is a criminal organization and thus is more likely to be engaging in violence themselves which then of course justifies a response but all things being equal if an MS-13 member is standing side by side with a Latino you make it sound like its fine to shoot the MS-13 member. Not a good look and that’s exactly how and why we are where we are at today.

  48. @42: “Gun violence more often than not is not politically motivated. And the traditional markers are more a more unreliable to guage what is, or is not, political.”

    Thank you very much for writing this. And as you alluded, the violence is also not organized, unlike much of the past violence you mentioned, which was deeply political. We now experience “lone gunmen,” whose motives are often unclear — or even inscrutable — to the near-total majority of us who would never do such a thing. Arguing over traditional labels can’t help us. Right now, either we concede Charlie Kirk’s point about shooting deaths just being the price of living here, or we decide to change the attitude which accepts shootings. We once tolerated legal discriminations against Blacks, gays, etc., until we decided to change the attitudes which permitted those injustices.

  49. @47 shooting isn’t the only form of violence. Do you think it would be acceptable to round up MS-13 members and confine them in an overcrowded, inhumane detention facility? How about Latinos?

  51. Coolidge dear, are you still stuck on this? Ms. Jenner demands respect that she denies others. So I, personally, will only refer to her by her surname. I’ve never met her, I wouldn’t want to, because Republicans are horrible people, so you needn’t worry about the possibility of my disrespecting her to that mass of Botox where her face used to be.

  52. @51: Sometimes Republicans turn into Democrats as politics is malleable. Your “Republicans are horrible people” schtick makes you a nasty hateful person even though you think it gives you clout.

  54. Coolidge dear, how you do prattle on. Republicans are not only horrible people, they are also terribly emotionally fragile.

    You really should buck it up a bit, dear. Put on your big boy pants, cry harder, all of those other cliches you people are so fond of.

  55. 50 pretty ironic for you to be acting like the moral authority on respecting caitlyn jenner’s chosen name when vivian had to close comments on the article about anti-trans violence because you couldn’t resist the urge to use slurs

  56. @52: “Sometimes Republicans turn into Democrats as politics is malleable.”

    That would be the very first step to their becoming slightly-less-than-horrible people, now wouldn’t it? 😀

    Have you any examples of Republicans turning into Democrats?

    Have you any examples of Republicans being not-horrible people?

  57. Ah yes, right-wing terrorism like the Oklahoma City Bombing, lynching, burning flaming crosses, and dismantling voting rights and the Constitution to prop up poor victimized white folks who had their jobs and college admissions taken by immigrants who got a free pass because DEI or some such pathetic excuse. Whatever happened to bootstraps and personal responsibility? Now they just blame everyone who looks or sounds different for all their problems in life, pitiful and weak. At least Oklahoma wants to make sure a Turning Point chapter is placed in every high school so that Timothy McVeigh’s savage ideology can proliferate and become normalized by a bunch of suckers.

  64. I can’t believe they’re trying to pass that psycho who killed the deportees at the ICE concentration camp as a “leftist” Republicans think we’re all as dumb as they are.

  65. “64” Anti-Ice?” Not exactly deny defend depose. I am starting to think they are just reporting whatever is engraved on shell casings as some bullshit to scapegoat this bogeyman of radical leftists. Like at least Robinson’s were a bit more creative. The media is highly compromised right now.

  67. 58 ???? Vivian had to shut down comments on it because you typed out a bunch of nasty slurs within minutes of the post going live. Not to mention your other sock puppet in the same thread minimizing their experience. This thread was closed because you can’t contain your hatred of trans people, unless they’re podcasters and celebrities who grift off of anti-trans sentiment of course.

    https://www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09/23/80249464/seattle-area-trans-women-are-being-attacked-by-groups-of-men

  69. 67: You’re wrong about this buddy. Biped may have commented. We are not sock puppets. My comment was @2 and it was in regard to how strange it was that Viv used scare quotes like “f_g” instead of typing them out.

  70. Also, when was the last time the radical left pulled a January 6th? Like what the fuck, those shitbags tried to overthrow our entire government and then got pardoned by the biggest criminal fuckhead of them all. Do we just accept that because he pardoned them it didn’t happen? We are under far right extremist terrorism right now that is blanketing the country with falsehoods and total rewriting of history every day by outlawing thoughtcrime, aka the truth! How the fuck people could vote for that mother fucker after J6 still boggles my mind. How fucking stupid and weak minded are our people to gobble up this dogshit? Pitiful and disgraceful. Fuck everyone who voted for Trump again after J6, unbelievable traitorous filth.

  71. 69 no i’m not, i saw the comments myself —coolidge was comment number 2 with the slurs and @spankey” was comment number 1, and these are both obvious raindrop/phoebe alt accounts

  72. @71: I saw them too. My comment, @2, was about the typing of slurs in Viv’s text. Do you remember what @1 said? It was something like “How horrible to be attacked for your beliefs.”

    Do you recall any comments past @2?

  74. If the author is not typing out the full slur that should be your first clue that they’re not welcome in the comments for reasons that would be obvious to a non-horrible person. You have a long history of talking shit about trans people so you don’t deserve the benefit of the doubt.

  75. 74: Since when do stranger staffers not type out slurs in their full text? Viv was being prudish.

    I have never said anything negative about trans people. That’s the truth.

  77. The fuck you haven’t, and you knew exactly what you were doing when you typed out those words with your whole chest. It’s not hard to ask a question about editorial style without using the actual slurs.

  78. @76. Thats right, fuckface. What about January 6th? Do you support pardoning all the fuckers who invaded and vandalized the Capitol? Or is a pitiful caps swap all you got? You probably aren’t even a real American.

  81. 77: You’re actually hanging your hat on the use of a slur in a news story in this rag as opposed to using the slur against someone specifically or as a group? My, such pearl clutching when you really have exhausted anything of substance you could ever say against me.

    You so excruciatingly pathetically desperate. It must be because I’m living rent free in your head.

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