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willoremus.com
every company in 2025
comic strip with call and response text. who are we? CEOs what do we want? AI! AI to do what? We don't know! When do we want it? Right now!
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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golf1052.com
Altered photo of the famous "Dewey Defeats Truman" with Katie Wilson's face photoshopped holding the early Decision Desk HQ call in the Seattle mayoral race
November 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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robertcruickshank.com
While the pandemic delayed some of this, the main cause was a lack of seriousness and urgency among regional elected officials to quickly conclude the planning process and get shovels in the ground. Delays cost money. A lot of money.
spokanerising.com Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 8d
Interesting find: in 2016, when Seattle passed its $54 billion ST3 transit package, it expected:

– West Seattle and Tacoma Dome Link extensions to be under construction by now
– Stride BRT to be *OPEN* by now (!)
– Federal Way Link to have been open for a year by now
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
A visual metaphor for the moment.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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abradacabla.bsky.social
Once more, for old times’ sake
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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robertsilverman.bsky.social
GET FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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larryglickman.bsky.social
Great example in the hed of the dangers of reporting everything that "Trump says" and in the subhed of both-sidesing an issue about which there are not two sides.
Trump Says a Recent M.R.I. Scan Was ‘Perfect,’ and He’d ‘Love’ a Third Term President Trump made the comments on the second day of his trip to Asia. The Constitution limits presidents to two terms, but Mr. Trump has suggested he might try to circumvent it.
October 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working
October 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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sandibachom.bsky.social
🔥🔥🔥 Today at immigration court 26 Federal Plaza this woman went ballistic to the masked ICE agents who detained her family member. Where are the people standing up to the Gestapo? I never saw this in 4 months I’ve been filming. 👏👏👏👏
October 15, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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costasamaras.com
Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
jael.bsky.social jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · Oct 10
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
heatmap.news
October 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
October 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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junoryleejournalism.com
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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ericacbarnett.bsky.social
Ultimately, they moved this project forward, subject to future conditions to be imposed later. For a city whose mayor and council say they support more housing, addressing food deserts, and more child care, we sure do everything in our power to prevent any of those things from getting built.
September 30, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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ericacbarnett.bsky.social
Harrell cites the father of a young man killed at Garfield High School as evidence that cameras are needed. The father of that teenager, Amarr Murphy-Paine, has come out strongly against cameras. Read his quotes here: www.fox13seattle.com/news/cctv-ex...
CCTV expansion bills head to Seattle City Council for final vote
www.fox13seattle.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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altmtrainier.com
rizz em’ with the tism ✨
September 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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davelee.me
Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Jesus Christ.
It was my birthday recently and I sincerely considered not living anymore. The worst part of all is that the parents who once supported me fully in being an artist sent me an AI generated picture of a caricature of themselves holding a birthday cake with my name spelled incorrectly.
September 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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jrock08.bsky.social
It's actually hilarious for Jayapal to endorse and work to elect Zohran in NYC while not working to elect Katie in Seattle.
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 14
Thank you Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal for firing up our Jackson Heights canvass this afternoon and joining us to knock on doors in the world's borough.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal holding a megaphone, with Zohran smiling next to her. Zohran address a big crowd of canvassers. Zohran smiling and talking with Pramila as he knocks on a door.
September 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.
September 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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niedermeyer.online
here's Elon Musk's dad going 100% mask-off on the entire white South African racist colonialist package and saying "Elon agrees with me"

EXTREME ANTI-BLACK RACISM CONTENT WARNING

www.mundoamerica.com/news/2025/09...
Q. Why? A. Until 1965, Africa was very civilized because each country was governed by a European country, and there was law and order. Look at Spain's example. Spain's history is the history of world colonization. Where Spain went, it brought order, civilization, cities... We did the same, but 500 years later. When the Europeans left, everything fell apart. Nothing remained. South Africa today is a lawless country, where even the police chief and Interpol director [Jackie Selebi] was sentenced to 15 years in prison for corruption. The African National Congress [ANC, which has governed South Africa since the end of apartheid] has looted the country. We are bankrupt. The US has cut all economic aid because South Africa supports Iran, Hamas, and all those terrorist groups. Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia [which also had its own apartheid], is as if it ceased to exist. Q. Why did that happen? A. All European countries have practiced racial discrimination. What happened is that South Africa maintained it when it achieved full independence in 1961. So apartheid is not something South Africa invented but something it continued. For example, the Netherlands did not allow people of color to enter its territory until 1920, despite having colonies in countries with people of color. South Africa maintained apartheid for an obvious reason: as soon as European countries left Africa, everything went to hell, civilization ended. Q. But exactly, what is the reason for the end of civilization? A. Look at what the UN defines as the average IQ in the world. In Africa, it's 63. In Spain, it's 100; in the UK, 99; in Germany, interestingly, 104; in Japan, 107, and so on. Anyone with an IQ below 70 needs special education. So handing over those countries to people who may be very nice but not very intelligent and therefore will not manage the country like Europeans means those nations will go to hell. Q. Experts say that these IQ differences are due to educational and economic factors. Do you believe it's due to biological causes? A. It's biological. IQ has nothing to do with education. Q. Just to clarify, we are talking about blacks and mulattos. A. About blacks. Just come to Africa and see where they live, in shantytowns, in holes in the ground... Europeans don't live like that. If you go to Paris, where there are many Third World people, you'll see that the streets are dirty, filthy because, for those immigrants, garbage is a decorative element. So it's very strange that a government is elected by a population with an IQ of 63. Q. Do you believe democracy and multiculturalism are compatible? A. I don't know what to say. I was just in London, and it seemed fine where I was, which is a good area. But apparently, in London, only 33% of the population is white. 67% are of color, and the mayor is Muslim. That's sinister. England is starting to seem strange to me because in some places, only a third of the population is English. Q. Do you think the West should follow Errol and Elon Musk's example and have many children? A. Absolutely. But let me tell you this: based on my experience, if you tell me that thousands of Spaniards, Italians, or Germans are going to move to London, I'll say it's a fantastic idea. But if you tell me that Congolese or Rwandans are going to move, I'll say, "Oh!" Because they will turn the UK into Congo, into a country where Ebola, dengue, malaria, or river blindness are normal diseases. And also violence, murders, rapes... Q. How do we know that the Democratic Republic of Congo or Rwanda won't follow in China's footsteps, which 100 years ago was one of the poorest countries in the world, where people were literally dying of hunger and living in perpetual civil war? A. It's impossible for Congo to ever become like China. China was printing paper money 2,000 years ago. They always achieved extraordinary feats. In April, I went to Stanford University [in California], and many of the students and professors I met there were Chinese. They are the nicest, most decent, civilized, and intelligent people you can imagine. As far as I'm concerned, all the Chinese - and all the Japanese - who want to go to London can go. Q. Do your children share your views, or are there big arguments at family meals? A. They share them. Q. What about Elon? A. Yes. My views are not based on any crazy ideology but on the experience of having traveled through Africa, where you have to be careful about what you eat and drink because if you make a mistake, you could be dead in two weeks... Think about Spain. It's an exquisitely beautiful country. If you bring people who don't appreciate that beauty, what can you expect other than them destroying it? They won't do it on purpose, but because they don't understand that beauty. I like people to move up in life, so I have a lot of black people working for me in minor roles. They are very useful, helpful, try to do things right, do as they are told, don't argue with you... but I would never live in their communities under their lifestyle.
September 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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sharonk.bsky.social
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.
September 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...
Maga is fundamentally a populist white racism. The slogan "Make America Great Again" is more accurately described as "Make White America Greater." The fact that the tariff policy insisted on a 50% tariff only on steel and aluminum stems from the concentration of these groups in the Rust Belt. The massive crackdown on illegal immigrants at the Hyundai-LG Energy Solutions joint venture plant in Georgia must be understood in this context. The scenes of our workers being chained and escorted away were reminiscent of the dragging of African slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Department of Homeland Security boasted of "the largest single-site raid in history," and Immigration and Customs Enforcement even brazenly released footage of the raid, which was highly violating human rights, as if to boast of their "achievement." Far-right whites may have secretly rejoiced. Even politicians like the Georgia governor and local lawmakers, who had been active in attracting factories, have shifted their stance and sympathized with their grievances. This is likely because it's difficult to ignore the anti-immigrant sentiment of native Americans. Like the McCarthyism that swept through American society in the 1950s, irrational madness dominates American society. The recent visa issue, which could have been resolved diplomatically with advance notice from an ally, is difficult to explain beyond political maneuvering. The fact that they mobilized helicopters and armored vehicles for show, as if they had been caught, is difficult to explain.
September 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
September 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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aweiss.bsky.social
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.

Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Governor Polis Orders Flags to Half-Staff to Honor the Anniversary of September 11th and the Passing of Charlie Kirk
September 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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marcelias.bsky.social
The difference may seem small, but it is important. WaPo presents the facts without the full context. Democracy Docket presents the facts but makes clear it is a gerrymander.

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September 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM