Neil Snyder
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Neil Snyder
@neilsnyder.bsky.social
· May 21
You want half a Mr. Pibbs?
Much early 20th Century militant unionism was based around community-building among workers and their families, with union halls holding events, weddings, funerals, etc. There was a lot of hope and positivity even in the face of suppression and violence by those aligned with the status quo.
This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Much early 20th Century militant unionism was based around community-building among workers and their families, with union halls holding events, weddings, funerals, etc. There was a lot of hope and positivity even in the face of suppression and violence by those aligned with the status quo.
An assortment of late bloomers
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
An assortment of late bloomers
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I’ve written about a lot of forensic charlatanism over the years, but this is might be the most laughably stupid garbage I’ve ever seen. Hope this woman sues the pants off of them.
www.theblaze.com/news/former-...
www.theblaze.com/news/former-...
Former Capitol Police officer a forensic match for Jan. 6 pipe bomber, sources say | Blaze Media
A computer program that compared the bomb suspect’s gait to that of Shauni Kerkhoff produced a 94% match.
www.theblaze.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I’ve written about a lot of forensic charlatanism over the years, but this is might be the most laughably stupid garbage I’ve ever seen. Hope this woman sues the pants off of them.
www.theblaze.com/news/former-...
www.theblaze.com/news/former-...
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The American people, in my district and across the country, want us to hold the line to protect health care.
Premium notices have gone out, and open enrollment has started. We cannot cave for some future vote down the road. We need to stand up and hold the line NOW.
Premium notices have gone out, and open enrollment has started. We cannot cave for some future vote down the road. We need to stand up and hold the line NOW.
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The American people, in my district and across the country, want us to hold the line to protect health care.
Premium notices have gone out, and open enrollment has started. We cannot cave for some future vote down the road. We need to stand up and hold the line NOW.
Premium notices have gone out, and open enrollment has started. We cannot cave for some future vote down the road. We need to stand up and hold the line NOW.
Please enjoy a minute of gentle rain and the hum of a Monday in the city taken from my garden this morning.
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Please enjoy a minute of gentle rain and the hum of a Monday in the city taken from my garden this morning.
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heritage distilling closed down all its tap rooms and it turns out the business is all in on crypto and has decided to become a crypto company with a distillery attached to it www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/c...
Popular Pierce County distillery closed tasting rooms. Is crypto the reason?
The local distillery that created “House of Doge Bourbon” and “Bitcoin Bourbon” has a treasury of hundreds of millions of dollars in digital tokens.
www.thenewstribune.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
heritage distilling closed down all its tap rooms and it turns out the business is all in on crypto and has decided to become a crypto company with a distillery attached to it www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/c...
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Marrowstone, Washington
Pop: 926
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrowstone,_Washington
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Pop: 926
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrowstone,_Washington
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November 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
In the thick of leaf-peeping season.
November 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
In the thick of leaf-peeping season.
After his acquittal in the Centralia IWW trial in 1919, Elmer Smith ran (unsuccessfully) for Lewis County prosecutor on the short-lived Washington Farmer-Labor ticket. Here he is responding to a pamphlet circulating in the county making outlandish claims about what the F-L Party’s aims were.
November 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
After his acquittal in the Centralia IWW trial in 1919, Elmer Smith ran (unsuccessfully) for Lewis County prosecutor on the short-lived Washington Farmer-Labor ticket. Here he is responding to a pamphlet circulating in the county making outlandish claims about what the F-L Party’s aims were.
Not a lawyer either but I feel if I was a juror it would be hard for me to find injury when the supposedly injured agent had a plush sandwich on a shelf in his office and his fellow agents gave him a novelty patch making fun of the incident. And yeah, the supposed weapon was a sandwich.
I am not a lawyer but to me that absolutely does not sound like nullification.
I think the jury was like me and no matter how it was explained they could not get to the idea of "injury" a thrown sandwich.
I think the jury was like me and no matter how it was explained they could not get to the idea of "injury" a thrown sandwich.
'Sandwich Guy' jury note and verdict form: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
November 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Not a lawyer either but I feel if I was a juror it would be hard for me to find injury when the supposedly injured agent had a plush sandwich on a shelf in his office and his fellow agents gave him a novelty patch making fun of the incident. And yeah, the supposed weapon was a sandwich.
Courtland Sutton is in the passing stats because he had the ball and got sacked lol what a game
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Courtland Sutton is in the passing stats because he had the ball and got sacked lol what a game
Pete Carroll coaching a team in an unwatchable primetime game, is there anything more dependable than that?
November 7, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Pete Carroll coaching a team in an unwatchable primetime game, is there anything more dependable than that?
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Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
Here's the planned BLS data release schedule for Nov 2025.
On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.
This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.
Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.
This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.
Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
This issue of BusinessWeek being delivered after Tuesday is very funny.
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This issue of BusinessWeek being delivered after Tuesday is very funny.
Am I insane or is he starting to get that colloidal silver blue tint to his skin?
RFK Jr: "The American public because of this agreement will lose 125 million pounds by this time next year."
November 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Am I insane or is he starting to get that colloidal silver blue tint to his skin?
This is not an exaggeration, Helen is perhaps the only one that is an actual psychopath.
this is going to sound like an exaggeration but Helen Andrews is genuinely one of the worst women you will ever meet in the US conservative pundit sector. by far one of the worst
What the fuck is wrong with this woman?
November 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This is not an exaggeration, Helen is perhaps the only one that is an actual psychopath.
I had a real “oh god, who is this now?” reaction to the “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” headline but it’s just Helen Andrews squeezing more mileage out of her repulsive and stupid essay.
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I had a real “oh god, who is this now?” reaction to the “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” headline but it’s just Helen Andrews squeezing more mileage out of her repulsive and stupid essay.
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Google Maps highlighted this side of an otherwise nondescript commercial building as “Houston Mural” and Google Maps was not wrong.
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Google Maps highlighted this side of an otherwise nondescript commercial building as “Houston Mural” and Google Maps was not wrong.
I can’t tell if it’s sleet, hail, or heavy rain out right now.
November 6, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I can’t tell if it’s sleet, hail, or heavy rain out right now.
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ding how restaurant, amarillo, texas, 1982
October 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
ding how restaurant, amarillo, texas, 1982
I don’t really have an opinion on the city-run grocery store idea but WA had state run liquor stores until recently and prices were lower and inventory was never short, and if they didn’t have a brand you were interested in they would order it for you. And that was *without* private competition.
Do you have reason to believe that the services economy of the united states is structurally similar to the late soviets such that state operated grocers would result in shortages or are you just an economist making blithe and historically inaccurate comparisons for points online
This time will be different
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I don’t really have an opinion on the city-run grocery store idea but WA had state run liquor stores until recently and prices were lower and inventory was never short, and if they didn’t have a brand you were interested in they would order it for you. And that was *without* private competition.
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Unsurprising that, after his party got its ass whipped, Trump would lean into vote fraud horseshit. A little surprising, though, that no one has yet told him that anonymous grocery shopping remains not just possible but the norm.
Trump: "It's time for Republicans to do what they have to do and that's terminate the filibuster ... we should start tonight with 'the country's open, congratulations,' then we should pass voted ID, we should pass no mail in voting ... you go to a grocery store, you have to give ID."
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Unsurprising that, after his party got its ass whipped, Trump would lean into vote fraud horseshit. A little surprising, though, that no one has yet told him that anonymous grocery shopping remains not just possible but the norm.
I’m keeping my city politics opinions to myself.
November 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I’m keeping my city politics opinions to myself.
Sturdy boys, still went 9-7
#OnThisDay in 1979, the Seattle Seahawks played the worst game in NFL history, with negative yardage. historylink.org/File/2497
November 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Sturdy boys, still went 9-7