Levi Pulkkinen
@levipulk.bsky.social
Seattle Times biz team editor. Recovering/relapsing crime reporter. Sometimes climber of mountains. Past bylines include The Guardian, Hechinger Report, WaPo, CS Monitor. Ex-PI pirate.
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Breaking from us:
As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate.
Nisqually Indian Tribe is saying no.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate.
Nisqually Indian Tribe is saying no.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
ICE looks to WA tribes to house detained immigrants
The Nisqually Indian Tribe says it is turning down a request from ICE to house detained immigrants on tribal land.
www.seattletimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Breaking from us:
As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate.
Nisqually Indian Tribe is saying no.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate.
Nisqually Indian Tribe is saying no.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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The DOGE gremlins cut funding for a UW scientist studying how wildfire smoke affects air quality in schools—kind of an important topic in Washington nowadays!—in order to save $866 www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
DOGE cancelled this UW scientist’s grant — to save just $866
The budget-slashing mission of Elon Musk's DOGE is to root out waste, fraud and abuse. So why did it end a UW professor's air quality work to save just $866?
www.seattletimes.com
May 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The DOGE gremlins cut funding for a UW scientist studying how wildfire smoke affects air quality in schools—kind of an important topic in Washington nowadays!—in order to save $866 www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Good #airbus v #boeing orders summary by Dominic Gates of #theseattletimes. www.seattletimes.com/business/boe...
Crisis-hit Boeing delivered less than half as many jets as Airbus in 2024
Year-end jet orders and deliveries figures released Tuesday by Boeing reveal how much Airbus dominated its crisis-ridden U.S. rival in 2024.
www.seattletimes.com
January 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Good #airbus v #boeing orders summary by Dominic Gates of #theseattletimes. www.seattletimes.com/business/boe...
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A front page for the ages.
December 24, 2024 at 1:12 PM
A front page for the ages.
If you're like, "My brain could use fun words today. If only there was a non-indulgent essay connecting Victorian weirdo trends, well-intentioned parenting fails and pronunciation", here you go.
A sea anemone: I have pronounced their name incorrectly most of my life | Helen Sullivan
A sea anemone: I have pronounced their name incorrectly most of my life | Helen Sullivan
It is probably wrong to touch, even gently, these creatures. But even now I find it difficult to resist
In her book Theatres of Glass, Rebecca Stott writes about the Victorian craze for home aquariums – which swept London in the 1850s, with people taking…
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2024 at 2:01 AM
If you're like, "My brain could use fun words today. If only there was a non-indulgent essay connecting Victorian weirdo trends, well-intentioned parenting fails and pronunciation", here you go.
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Today, on the 40th anniversary of Lynch's DUNE, pop on the sooting sounds of THE BALLADS OF GURNEY HALLECK and relax.
December 14, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Today, on the 40th anniversary of Lynch's DUNE, pop on the sooting sounds of THE BALLADS OF GURNEY HALLECK and relax.
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"Rural Americans already have far less access to higher education than their counterparts in cities and suburbs. Now the comparatively few universities that serve rural students are eliminating large numbers of programs and majors, blaming plummeting enrollment and financial crises."
‘Easy to just write us off’: Rural students’ choices shrink as colleges slash majors - The Hechinger Report
Rural Americans already have less access to higher education than people in cities and suburbs. Now the comparatively few universities serving rural students are cutting large numbers of programs and ...
hechingerreport.org
December 6, 2024 at 12:03 PM
"Rural Americans already have far less access to higher education than their counterparts in cities and suburbs. Now the comparatively few universities that serve rural students are eliminating large numbers of programs and majors, blaming plummeting enrollment and financial crises."
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instead of spotify wrapped i want linked in wrapped where it tells me which job listings i spent the most time looking at and wondering if those industries were more stable
December 6, 2024 at 12:14 AM
instead of spotify wrapped i want linked in wrapped where it tells me which job listings i spent the most time looking at and wondering if those industries were more stable
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Two stages of writing:
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
December 4, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Two stages of writing:
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
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Seattle's 'forever home' problem, via @heidigroover.bsky.social
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December 2, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Seattle's 'forever home' problem, via @heidigroover.bsky.social
www.seattletimes.com/business/rea...
www.seattletimes.com/business/rea...
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Hard to overstate how hard this hit way back when.
Meredith Blake on the other greatest teen show of the 1990s. (And since.) www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
'My So-Called Life' at 30: How a short-lived show became a ’90s pop culture touchstone
Thirty years after its short but memorable run on ABC, it is widely regarded as a miraculous one-season wonder that captures the era’s competing strains of irony and earnestness.
www.latimes.com
December 2, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Hard to overstate how hard this hit way back when.
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Many of your favorite Seattle Times journalists are now on BlueSky. Follow them all.
December 1, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Many of your favorite Seattle Times journalists are now on BlueSky. Follow them all.
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Fact: The Counting Crows lyric “it’s been a long December” was written halfway through the first day of December.
December 1, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Fact: The Counting Crows lyric “it’s been a long December” was written halfway through the first day of December.
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For 50 years, the Mormon feminist magazine Exponent II has made the male hierarchy of the LDS Church squirm. It has no plans to stop.
My latest story for @highcountrynews.bsky.social
www.hcn.org/issues/56-12...
My latest story for @highcountrynews.bsky.social
www.hcn.org/issues/56-12...
The passion of the Mormon feminist - High Country News
For 50 years, ‘Exponent II‘ has made the LDS Church squirm. It has no plans to stop.
www.hcn.org
December 1, 2024 at 4:25 PM
For 50 years, the Mormon feminist magazine Exponent II has made the male hierarchy of the LDS Church squirm. It has no plans to stop.
My latest story for @highcountrynews.bsky.social
www.hcn.org/issues/56-12...
My latest story for @highcountrynews.bsky.social
www.hcn.org/issues/56-12...
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James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.
November 27, 2024 at 5:03 PM
James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.
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