Emmy in Ballard
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This is Mary. Love democracy, minimalism, my dear departed Westie. Progressive Lutheran living in Ballard neighborhood of Seattle.
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Timeline cleanse: welcoming fall chum salmon home to Piper’s Creek in Seattle, WA.
November 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Timeline cleanse: welcoming fall chum salmon home to Piper’s Creek in Seattle, WA.
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Went on a lovely couple of hour through Central Park and I wanna punch the Seattle voters of the 90’s in the face.
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Went on a lovely couple of hour through Central Park and I wanna punch the Seattle voters of the 90’s in the face.
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its easy to feel powerless. But each of us has the power to save or transform lives.
@nickKristof’ has done the research. Read his suggestions on gifts we can give that save lives
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
@nickKristof’ has done the research. Read his suggestions on gifts we can give that save lives
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
Opinion | Gifts You Can Give That Save Lives
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
its easy to feel powerless. But each of us has the power to save or transform lives.
@nickKristof’ has done the research. Read his suggestions on gifts we can give that save lives
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
@nickKristof’ has done the research. Read his suggestions on gifts we can give that save lives
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
-FDR, 1937
-FDR, 1937
November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
-FDR, 1937
-FDR, 1937
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When a kind and decent man enters a house of horrors, even the monster acknowledges how wonderful it is when he’s in the room-this is a total kick in the nuts to the Stephen Millers of the world…
November 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
When a kind and decent man enters a house of horrors, even the monster acknowledges how wonderful it is when he’s in the room-this is a total kick in the nuts to the Stephen Millers of the world…
Last line of Ken Burns’ “The American Revolution”
“…the revolution is not over.”
“…the revolution is not over.”
November 22, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Last line of Ken Burns’ “The American Revolution”
“…the revolution is not over.”
“…the revolution is not over.”
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I am a citizen and so are majority of Somalis in America. Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn’t have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate. We are here to stay 💁🏽♀️
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I am a citizen and so are majority of Somalis in America. Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn’t have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate. We are here to stay 💁🏽♀️
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The American Revolution, airing this week on PBS, highlights the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in Episode 1 as Benjamin Franklin's inspiration for union among 13 British colonies in North America, 20 years before the revolution.
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www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
New Ken Burns series features Indigenous nations' role in American Revolution | CBC News
Ken Burns’s new documentary series on the American Revolution includes history often left out of textbooks: the economic and diplomatic roles sovereign Indigenous nations had in the creation of the Un...
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November 22, 2025 at 4:08 AM
The American Revolution, airing this week on PBS, highlights the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in Episode 1 as Benjamin Franklin's inspiration for union among 13 British colonies in North America, 20 years before the revolution.
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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further proof that they're feeding him a steady diet of ai slop.
donald mentioned a couple of times that mamdani himself and his policies were very different than he thought they would be based on what he's been reading/seeing in the news.
donald mentioned a couple of times that mamdani himself and his policies were very different than he thought they would be based on what he's been reading/seeing in the news.
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
further proof that they're feeding him a steady diet of ai slop.
donald mentioned a couple of times that mamdani himself and his policies were very different than he thought they would be based on what he's been reading/seeing in the news.
donald mentioned a couple of times that mamdani himself and his policies were very different than he thought they would be based on what he's been reading/seeing in the news.
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I have never felt more patriotic
November 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I have never felt more patriotic
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Elizabeth Warren on Colbert's show: "We don't think one corporation or one man named David Ellison should be able to buy up all the shows and buy up all the sports and buy up all the news and decide who watches what and I'm gonna stay in that fight."
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Elizabeth Warren on Colbert's show: "We don't think one corporation or one man named David Ellison should be able to buy up all the shows and buy up all the sports and buy up all the news and decide who watches what and I'm gonna stay in that fight."
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Please join No King's "We Ain't Buying it" : www.nokings.org/alliance
No Kings Alliance — No Kings
Authoritarianism thrives on silence. The No Kings Alliance exists to make capitulation impossible—and resistance unstoppable.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Please join No King's "We Ain't Buying it" : www.nokings.org/alliance
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It’s time for another one of my MAGA reality checks. If you know anyone who still proudly dons the red hat, please share this with them. They need to know what’s happening, and they’re not hearing it on Fox or OAN.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...
Hey MAGA, Here’s More of What Fox News Won’t Tell You
Sorry MAGA, but I won’t stop putting the truth in front of you
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November 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It’s time for another one of my MAGA reality checks. If you know anyone who still proudly dons the red hat, please share this with them. They need to know what’s happening, and they’re not hearing it on Fox or OAN.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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A beautiful moment for Westie lovers.
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
A beautiful moment for Westie lovers.
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Imagine if tech companies had made a wild capex bet on chasing clean energy, instead of inventing a plagiarism machine powered by **checks notes** extending the life of coal plants
November 20, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Imagine if tech companies had made a wild capex bet on chasing clean energy, instead of inventing a plagiarism machine powered by **checks notes** extending the life of coal plants
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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November 2025: the dismantling of USAID has caused 600,000 deaths- 2/3 of them were children
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Google Search
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November 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
November 2025: the dismantling of USAID has caused 600,000 deaths- 2/3 of them were children
www.google.com/search?q=us+...
www.google.com/search?q=us+...
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The Department of Education is parceling off its main offices and giving their responsibilities to other federal agencies.
Much of the funding for K-12 and colleges is being handed over to—wait for it—the Department of LABOR.
Because what else is education good for apart from producing workers?😞
Much of the funding for K-12 and colleges is being handed over to—wait for it—the Department of LABOR.
Because what else is education good for apart from producing workers?😞
November 19, 2025 at 4:04 AM
The Department of Education is parceling off its main offices and giving their responsibilities to other federal agencies.
Much of the funding for K-12 and colleges is being handed over to—wait for it—the Department of LABOR.
Because what else is education good for apart from producing workers?😞
Much of the funding for K-12 and colleges is being handed over to—wait for it—the Department of LABOR.
Because what else is education good for apart from producing workers?😞
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I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
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Most of us have no idea how bad it is inside ICE detention centers because they have kept it hidden. Then a truth teller shows up and says it plain.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Most of us have no idea how bad it is inside ICE detention centers because they have kept it hidden. Then a truth teller shows up and says it plain.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
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I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
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In the Oak Park neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan, on November 17, 2025, an ICE goon tased a non-resisting woman and then threw her non-responsive body into his truck like a rag doll.
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
In the Oak Park neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan, on November 17, 2025, an ICE goon tased a non-resisting woman and then threw her non-responsive body into his truck like a rag doll.
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Republicans have taken a Sharpie to my 2025 plans.
November 18, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Republicans have taken a Sharpie to my 2025 plans.