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Jeong Park
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Assistant Metro Editor at The Seattle Times
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November 18, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
jeongpark.bsky.social
Sometimes I wonder why I tell reporters to be concise and keep their writing tight when this kind of writing gets you to the “top” of journalism
davekarpf.bsky.social Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 16h
Me, before reading the excerpted passage: “I don’t see why anyone would read Olivia Nuzzi’s book. What a pointless exercise.”

Me, after reading the passage: “I must read this book. The hate-read theoretical has launched the hate-read possible.”
michaelcaley.bsky.social Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 18h
I regret to inform you that Olivia Nuzzi's book appears to be Perfect

insane, stupid, comically overwritten, dishy, politically indefensible I cannot wait to get my hands on it I must accept this is who I am as a person at some deep level whether I like it or not www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
November 18, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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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...
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
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This drama out of Everett school is bonkers: www.heraldnet.com/news/investi...
Emails shared with The Daily Herald showed that shortly after the mailer campaign began, James Lee offered to pay students $20,000 for information that showed evidence the Jackson High School robot was built by adults, the team is managed for the benefit of adults rather than kids, that students fear speaking out against the way the team is managed, or that a former coach was good friends with the district’s superintendent. James Lee also wrote that students could get an additional $50,000 if a “desirable result” was achieved, and offered $250,000 to current or former adult mentors if they cooperated with the family.
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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seattlebikeblog.com
Dewey Defeats Truman.
Screenshot of the decision desk calling the race for Bruce Harrell
November 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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!!!!!!!!
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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The first primary of the 2026 election, by the way, is less than four months away, so we'll see very soon how much of this anger on BlueSky translates at the ballot box:

www.ncsl.org/elections-an...
2026 State Primary Election Dates
State primary dates for 2026 are listed here. Political parties use primaries to determine which candidates will run for their state’s partisan offices in the Nov. 3, 2026, general election.
www.ncsl.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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🚨LA-based journalists/journos willing to relocate to the west coast:

We're looking for a senior news editor to help run our news operation in downtown LA!

If you're well-versed in breaking news and want to work with really wonderful humans, APPLY!
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Senior News Editor, West Coast
The Guardian is a global news organization that delivers fearless, independent journalism. From breaking news and award-winning investigations, to in-depth coverage of technology, sports, film, cultur...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Tagging @hollyanderson.bsky.social
joolia.bsky.social Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 12d
The new British competitive knitting show hosted by Olympic diver Tom Daley has been denounced by the knitting community of the Shetland islands for its imprecise portrayal of fair isle knitting and negative attitude toward a technique known as steeking
Shetland knitting group ‘shocked and saddened’ by representation in Channel 4 show
A GROUP protecting Shetland’s knitting heritage has criticised a new Channel 4 show for spreading “negative misconceptions about Fair Isle knitting...
www.shetnews.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Update: Barnes & Noble has confirmed they'll return to downtown Seattle in April at 520 Pike St.
November 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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UPDATE: the incumbent school board, who voted against the ban on trans girls and is now facing the mother of the complaining student, is leading in results so far.
taniel.bsky.social Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15d
I'd totally missed this:

In Tumwater, WA, a HS student complained about a trans basketball player. Then, the local school board passed a resolution to ban trans girls from girl sports.

Now, the mother of that student is running against the sole school board member to vote against the resolution.
November 5, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Remember reading how NY Post has gained so much influence in NY politics in recent years. Man has that been proven loudly wrong tonight
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13d
I'm mad. Please put in the newspaper that I'm mad.
November 5, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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taniel.bsky.social
Seattle brings a rare ray of hope for centrists over progressives tonight, as Mayor Bruce Harrell leads Katie Wilson in the first batch of results. 53.5% to 46%.

Caution: This will shift a lot before the final result, and will be very slow.

Ann Davison, the GOP city attorney, trails huge.
November 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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How has "Unwritten" become the party song
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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We're starting to fill our election guide! Come join the Bolts party as results pop up: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
November 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Oh my god!
November 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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I promised my boyfriend I will work on a puzzle with him as soon as this baseball game ends. “The game will end in 20 minutes,” I told him. That was an hour ago
November 2, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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One of my friend, a Dodger fan, has a wedding going on right now. Can’t imagine what he’s going through
November 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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This game feels like a fever dream, something that can't possibly exist in this world
kromandavid.bsky.social David Kroman @kromandavid.bsky.social · 16d
BlueSky filling with baseball tweets means it's a really good game
November 2, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Thank you @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social for making me Google search "UCLA Nazis"

www.ugeducation.ucla.edu/2025/05/23/u...
October 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Oh my god… Humpy just earned a win in the Mariners Salmon Run.

#TridentsUp #SeizeTheMoment #Postseason
October 11, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Washington Supreme Court Justice Mungia has an extraordinary opinion condemning "the underlying racism and prejudices that are woven into the very fabric" of SCOTUS opinions about Native people.

"We must clearly, loudly, and unequivocally state that was wrong.”
www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf...
MUNGIA, J. (concurring)—I concur with the majority’s opinion.1 And yet I dissent. Not from the majority’s opinion, but I dissent from the racism embedded in the federal case law that applies to this dispute. FEDERAL INDIAN LAW IS A PRODUCT OF THE RACIST BELIEFS ENDEMIC IN OUR SOCIETY AND OUR LEGAL SYSTEM While it is certainly necessary to follow federal case law on issues involving Native American tribes and their members, at the same time it is important to call out that the very foundations of those opinions were based on racism and white supremacy. By doing this, readers of our opinions will have no doubt that the current court disavows, and condemns, those racist sentiments, beliefs, and statements. Since the founding of our country, the federal government has characterized Native Americans as “savages”: They were “uncivilized.” They had little claim to the land upon which they lived. At times, the federal government attempted to eradicate Native Americans through genocidal policies. At other times, the federal government employed ethnic cleansing by forcibly removing children from their parents’ homes to strip them from their culture, their language, and their beings.2 Federal Indian case law arises from those racist underpinnings. The majority correctly cites to Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 30 U.S. (5 Pet.) 1, 8 L. Ed. 25 (1831), which is one of the foundational cases involving tribal sovereignty. That opinion is rife with racist attitudes toward Native Americans. Chief Justice John Marshall, writing for the majority, describes a tribe’s relationship to the federal government as one of “ward to his guardian.” Id. at 17. In effect, the opinion presents tribal members as children, and the federal government as the adult. That theme would follow in later opinions by the United States Supreme Court—as would the theme of white supremacy. Cherokee Nation began with the premise that Native American tribes, once strong and powerful, were no match for the white race and so found themselves “gradually sinking beneath our superior policy, our arts and our arms.” Id. at 15. The white man was considered the teacher, the Native Americans the pupils: Meanwhile they are in a state of pupilage. Their relation to the United States resembles that of a ward to his guardian. Id. at 17. This characterization of superior to inferior, teacher to student, guardian to ward, was repeated in later United States Supreme Court opinions. In Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, 187 U.S. 553, 23 S. Ct. 216, 47 L. Ed. 299 (1903), often characterized as the “American Indian Dred Scott,” 3 the Court used that rationale to justify ruling that the United States could break its treaties with Native American tribes. These Indian tribes are the wards of the nation. They are communities dependent on the United States. Dependent largely for their daily food. Dependent for their political rights. . . . From their very weakness and helplessness . . . there arises the duty of protection, and with it the power. Id. at 567 (quoting United States v. Kagama, 118 U.S. 375, 383-84, 6 S. Ct. 1109, 30 L. Ed. 228 (1886)). Our court also carries the shame of denigrating Native Americans by using that same characterization: “The Indian was a child, and a dangerous child, of nature, to be both protected and restrained.” State v. Towessnute, 89 Wash. 478, 482, 154 P. 805 (1916), judgment vacated and opinion repudiated by 197 Wn.2d 574, 486 P.3d 111 (2020). 3 See A Returning to Cherokee Nation, Justice William Johnson’s separate opinion was less tempered in how he considered the various Native American tribes: I cannot but think that there are strong reasons for doubting the applicability of the epithet state, to a people so low in the grade of organized society as our Indian tribes most generally are. Cherokee Nation, 30 U.S. at 21. Native Americans were not to be treated as “equals to equals” but, instead, the United States was the conqueror and Native Americans the conquered. Id. at 23. In discussing Native Americans, Justice Johnson employed another racist trope used by judges both before and after him: Native Americans were uncivilized savages. [W]e have extended to them the means and inducement to become agricultural and civilized. . . . Independently of the general influence of humanity, these people were restless, warlike, and signally cruel. . . . . But I think it very clear that the constitution neither speaks of them as states or foreign states, but as just what they were, Indian tribes . . . which the law of nations would regard as nothing more than wandering hordes, held together only by ties of blood and habit, and having neither laws or government, beyond what is required in a savage state. Id. at 23, 27-28. This same characterization was used by Justice Stanley Matthews in Ex parte KanGi-Shun-Ca (otherwise known as Crow Dog), 109 U.S. 556, 3 S. Ct. 396, 27 L. Ed. 1030 (1883). Justice Matthews described Native Americans as leading a savage life.
October 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 10, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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What the hell was that?
October 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM