Itsbeenneal
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That weird sense of hometown pride you feel when your local natural disaster is big enough to warrant an article in The New York Times.
December 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
That weird sense of hometown pride you feel when your local natural disaster is big enough to warrant an article in The New York Times.
Welcome to socialism Republicans! We’re so happy to have you!
Breaking News: Michael and Susan Dell said they would put $250 in individual investment accounts for 25 million American children, expanding the reach of soon-to-be-created "Trump accounts."
Michael and Susan Dell Pledge $6 Billion for Child Investment Accounts
The tech billionaire and his wife hope other philanthropists follow their $6 billion lead in expanding the reach of soon-to-be-created “Trump accounts.”
nyti.ms
December 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Welcome to socialism Republicans! We’re so happy to have you!
Ok, I love @propublica.org, but you don’t need to review 700+ videos to confirm reality. Just put a reporter on the ground.
Our review of 700+ videos of the Portland protests shows a wide gap between the reality on the ground and the characterizations by Trump, Fox News and DHS, which said its office in the city was under “coordinated assault by violent groups.”
By @robwdavis.bsky.social and Steve Suo
By @robwdavis.bsky.social and Steve Suo
What Really Happened in Portland Before Trump Deployed the National Guard
In the two months before Trump’s decision, criminal charges were announced against only three people. On nights when physical conflict did erupt, it often came from police firing on, shoving, pepper-s...
www.propublica.org
November 9, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Ok, I love @propublica.org, but you don’t need to review 700+ videos to confirm reality. Just put a reporter on the ground.
Mayor Harrel is here to stand up to painting of… Bruce Willis?
November 1, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Mayor Harrel is here to stand up to painting of… Bruce Willis?
Katie Wilson already getting results
Katie Wilson proposed zoning changes to encourage grocery stores and exploring publicly owned groceries. Today, her opponent, Mayor Bruce Harrell, issued an executive order supporting a potential City purchase of the Lake City QFC and other properties and zoning changes to encourage grocery stores.
October 21, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Katie Wilson already getting results
Disappointing
"We need to not hoard trees on private property where most can’t even see them" is an absolutely bonkers statement. It's both false and utterly divorced from where voters are. Trees on most private property in Seattle are easily seen from public sidewalks, etc. They're a critical part of the canopy.
September 17, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Disappointing
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Here’s the thing. Everyone loves big trees. EVERY SINGLE PERSON. It’s simply a matter of what else you also love. Tree Action & NPI only love big trees (and parking). I also love people, equity, stopping climate change, little trees, shrubs, bushes, restaurants & cafes, ending traffic violence, etc
September 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Here’s the thing. Everyone loves big trees. EVERY SINGLE PERSON. It’s simply a matter of what else you also love. Tree Action & NPI only love big trees (and parking). I also love people, equity, stopping climate change, little trees, shrubs, bushes, restaurants & cafes, ending traffic violence, etc
So you’re saying he’s available to run in 2028?
Breaking News: CBS will cancel “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” next year, retiring a franchise that lasted more than three decades.
‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Is Being Canceled by CBS
The show will end in May, the network said, calling it “a purely financial decision.”
trib.al
July 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
So you’re saying he’s available to run in 2028?
Also, am I right in understanding that money from kiosks in commercial areas outside downtown will still go to the DSA?
I'd be OK with these if the money went to the City. (The ones in Berkeley seemed fine and surprisingly not obtrusive.) Instead the money from renting the public sidewalk is going to the Downtown Seattle Association. That I cannot support.
These giant digital billboards, which I've covered extensively in the past, will fund the Downtown Seattle Association. It's kind of hard to imagine a worse deal for the city—allowing a private company to plunk massive moving billboards everywhere for the benefit of a private business group.
June 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Also, am I right in understanding that money from kiosks in commercial areas outside downtown will still go to the DSA?
I dunno man, the last five months do not make a good case for “institutional constraints.”
my big point in all of this is not “these things are impossible” but that even the most ambitious authoritarians have to contend with institutional constraints, questionable internal support and loyalty, and the decision-making of ordinary people within and outside the government
June 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I dunno man, the last five months do not make a good case for “institutional constraints.”
Also, “probably” apparently replacing “beyond a reasonable doubt” as our legal standard
Is the consensus among mainstream journalists that the White House slandering a man they delivered into slavery using a crudely manipulated photo in the president’s grasp in the Oval Office is just not a very newsworthy event?
April 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Also, “probably” apparently replacing “beyond a reasonable doubt” as our legal standard
March 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The truth is we demolished the King Dome so we could always be sure who moved here after 2000.
Local Idiot Thinks SoDo Has Always Meant ‘South Of Downtown’: tinyurl.com/m5kdrtsc
March 27, 2025 at 4:53 AM
The truth is we demolished the King Dome so we could always be sure who moved here after 2000.
Without a doubt one of the greats. Just really, really sad.
A huge loss for WA. Frank Chopp, the Seattle Democrat who was the longest serving speaker in state history, has died. #waleg
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Frank Chopp, former WA Former House speaker, dies
An advocate for health care and low-income housing, Frank Chopp was the longest-serving House speaker in the state's history and a rare legislative force.
www.seattletimes.com
March 23, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Without a doubt one of the greats. Just really, really sad.
Eh, I recognize this is just a marketing gimmick but it sends the wrong message about the value of journalism. Records are only ostensibly public until someone actually puts in the work to make them truly public, which costs money.
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Eh, I recognize this is just a marketing gimmick but it sends the wrong message about the value of journalism. Records are only ostensibly public until someone actually puts in the work to make them truly public, which costs money.
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Gofundme should not be our national safety net
January 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Gofundme should not be our national safety net
This is by far the funniest storyline in Seattle politics right now.
March 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
This is by far the funniest storyline in Seattle politics right now.
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To put a finer point on it:
If you want a Trader Joe's in your community but you don't want to allow housing that a Trader Joe's employee could afford to live in, you're an advocate for traffic creation.
If you want a Trader Joe's in your community but you don't want to allow housing that a Trader Joe's employee could afford to live in, you're an advocate for traffic creation.
Yup. And they are already driving into our communities to work. We've got their cars, we should welcome the rest of them too.
We just need more policy makers who get it.
We just need more policy makers who get it.
December 20, 2024 at 2:18 AM
To put a finer point on it:
If you want a Trader Joe's in your community but you don't want to allow housing that a Trader Joe's employee could afford to live in, you're an advocate for traffic creation.
If you want a Trader Joe's in your community but you don't want to allow housing that a Trader Joe's employee could afford to live in, you're an advocate for traffic creation.
New bot reply just dropped over at the bad place.
February 23, 2024 at 6:08 PM
New bot reply just dropped over at the bad place.
Finally advocating for myself at the doctors office because if I don’t my wife will kick my ass.
January 22, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Finally advocating for myself at the doctors office because if I don’t my wife will kick my ass.
Probably not the first to ask, but did they consider people might refer to this site by its acronym when they named it Bluesky?
January 5, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Probably not the first to ask, but did they consider people might refer to this site by its acronym when they named it Bluesky?
Remember when reporters were always asking Obama about his “red line” in Syria? Are they asking Biden about his in Gaza?
January 5, 2024 at 5:47 AM
Remember when reporters were always asking Obama about his “red line” in Syria? Are they asking Biden about his in Gaza?
Hello, here is your new credit card. Please sign your name in a recognizable and legally binding manner on this surface that will accept no ink known to man.
January 3, 2024 at 1:55 AM
Hello, here is your new credit card. Please sign your name in a recognizable and legally binding manner on this surface that will accept no ink known to man.