Kenneth Trease
@kptrease.bsky.social
engineering manager currently taking a break, co-founder @burkebrewing.bsky.social, opinions my own. he/him. normie shitlib data science bikes housing abundance transit language kids birds beer seattle
Oh, Needling. Are you new here?
Every left faction is going fight and compete for her attention. Every not-as-left faction is going to do everything to sabotage and slow-roll things. She’s only got ~3 council members.
You’re going to be fine. You’re going to have so much material.
Every left faction is going fight and compete for her attention. Every not-as-left faction is going to do everything to sabotage and slow-roll things. She’s only got ~3 council members.
You’re going to be fine. You’re going to have so much material.
Seriously. What are we gonna fucking do?!
New @theneedling.com headline: Seattleite unsure what to do now their mayor isn’t an utter monster.
November 11, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Oh, Needling. Are you new here?
Every left faction is going fight and compete for her attention. Every not-as-left faction is going to do everything to sabotage and slow-roll things. She’s only got ~3 council members.
You’re going to be fine. You’re going to have so much material.
Every left faction is going fight and compete for her attention. Every not-as-left faction is going to do everything to sabotage and slow-roll things. She’s only got ~3 council members.
You’re going to be fine. You’re going to have so much material.
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China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
'Winning the race': How China plans to meet its 2030 renewables target by the end of this month
While Australia debates the merits of going nuclear and frustration grows over the slower-than-needed switch to solar and wind power, China's renewables rollout is breaking all the records.
www.abc.net.au
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Doesn't even mention hyperloop bullshit, which was years earlier.
a brief timeline
November 11, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Doesn't even mention hyperloop bullshit, which was years earlier.
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I am not a crazy ideologue. I just think that the richest society in human history has a moral responsibility to welcome the stranger, feed the hungry, treat the sick, and house the homeless. If doing that requires forcing comfortably-housed people to accept neighborhood change, I'm ok with that.
Probably the key part of this piece. It comes down to the following: "What does prioritizing millionaire homeowners’ aversion to change over the needs of the poor and unhoused do to our souls?"
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I am not a crazy ideologue. I just think that the richest society in human history has a moral responsibility to welcome the stranger, feed the hungry, treat the sick, and house the homeless. If doing that requires forcing comfortably-housed people to accept neighborhood change, I'm ok with that.
The never ending desire to only work on perfect things is why we cannot have nice things.
Leaders from across the Pacific Northwest recently gathered at the Cascadia Innovation Corridor Conference in Seattle and reaffirmed their commitment to building high-speed rail linking the corridor from Portland to Seattle to Vancouver, B.C.
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/10/c...
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/10/c...
Cascadia Forges Ahead on High-Speed Rail Despite Headwinds » The Urbanist
# Leaders from across the Pacific Northwest recently gathered at the Cascadia Innovation Corridor Conference in Seattle and reaffirmed their commitment to building high-speed rail linking the corridor...
www.theurbanist.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 AM
The never ending desire to only work on perfect things is why we cannot have nice things.
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BREAKING--
Katie Wilson leads Bruce Harrell by 91 VOTES.
Wilson 133,469 49.83%
Harrell 133,378 49.79%
@komonews.bsky.social
Katie Wilson leads Bruce Harrell by 91 VOTES.
Wilson 133,469 49.83%
Harrell 133,378 49.79%
@komonews.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
BREAKING--
Katie Wilson leads Bruce Harrell by 91 VOTES.
Wilson 133,469 49.83%
Harrell 133,378 49.79%
@komonews.bsky.social
Katie Wilson leads Bruce Harrell by 91 VOTES.
Wilson 133,469 49.83%
Harrell 133,378 49.79%
@komonews.bsky.social
Call them out. Call them out by name. Shame the colleagues who capitulated. Shame the leader who let them. Call for resignations.
Do I trust them? No. That’s why I voted no. But they are in a terrible position, and we can use the next few weeks to turn the pressure up even further.
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Call them out. Call them out by name. Shame the colleagues who capitulated. Shame the leader who let them. Call for resignations.
Why? Will you have more leverage then, than you had yesterday?
1. We need to fight hard for a good ACA extension early in December and hold Republicans fiercely accountable if they betray everyone.
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Why? Will you have more leverage then, than you had yesterday?
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every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
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well that didn’t go well reason.com/volokh/2025/...
![Q: So as I understand it, you have a non-lawyer ... drafting a brief that you don't cite check the cases yourself to see that the language is in
there and your boss doesn't either, right?
A: It [unintelligible] on every occasion.
Q: I'm sorry, what did you just say?
A: It sounds like not on every occasion.
Q: It sounds like? ...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f4d76fjna5nxqsy2fu6cgmp3/bafkreidx2tlypxrvvef2z62a47ih4kn7s4dk7aa76q2ti5rczy4uuyig7a@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
well that didn’t go well reason.com/volokh/2025/...
We’ve been hacked. All our senators gone. This just sold please help us.
a lotta yall still dont get it
Senators can use multiple slurp juices on a single senate
so if you have 1 astro Senator and 3 slurp juices you can create 3 new senates
Tonight's slurp juice mint event is essentially a minting event for both Lab Monkes and Special Forces
Senators can use multiple slurp juices on a single senate
so if you have 1 astro Senator and 3 slurp juices you can create 3 new senates
Tonight's slurp juice mint event is essentially a minting event for both Lab Monkes and Special Forces
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We’ve been hacked. All our senators gone. This just sold please help us.
Sure, but you put them under pressure about things *they* care about (or that you make them care about) so they will make a deal about things *you* care about.
This was never about figuring out what they want.
This was never about figuring out what they want.
Sincere question: does anybody have any evidence that the GOP/WH would have eventually folded and extended the ACA subsidies if the shutdown continued?
I haven’t seen any. The President didn’t seem to feeling any pressure. No GOP Senator AFAIK expressed any concern. (Some Reps did)
I haven’t seen any. The President didn’t seem to feeling any pressure. No GOP Senator AFAIK expressed any concern. (Some Reps did)
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Sure, but you put them under pressure about things *they* care about (or that you make them care about) so they will make a deal about things *you* care about.
This was never about figuring out what they want.
This was never about figuring out what they want.
What if we agreed to a gofundme to foot the bill for private jets for senate dems so they didn’t have to deal with delays at the airport.
That would be excellent ROI, I feel.
That would be excellent ROI, I feel.
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 AM
What if we agreed to a gofundme to foot the bill for private jets for senate dems so they didn’t have to deal with delays at the airport.
That would be excellent ROI, I feel.
That would be excellent ROI, I feel.
Well, we sure as hell blame you now.
MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Well, we sure as hell blame you now.
Obamacare with subsidies is a moderate position! It's a perfectly fine moderate position!
And these fuckers won't even stand up for that!
And these fuckers won't even stand up for that!
I think tonight shows why “moderate to win elections” is a real risk
the big divide in the Dem caucus, as many have noted, has been less moderate vs progressive than fight versus don’t fight
but it’s not a coincidence that basically everyone in the “don’t fight” camp is a moderate
the big divide in the Dem caucus, as many have noted, has been less moderate vs progressive than fight versus don’t fight
but it’s not a coincidence that basically everyone in the “don’t fight” camp is a moderate
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Obamacare with subsidies is a moderate position! It's a perfectly fine moderate position!
And these fuckers won't even stand up for that!
And these fuckers won't even stand up for that!
but but but then I won't get choice committee assignments from which I can weakly complain and get on teevee from time to time.
Any Dem Senator decrying this deal - you better be making a motion to remove @schumer.senate.gov at the next available opportunity. Otherwise, it’s all just performative bullshit.
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
but but but then I won't get choice committee assignments from which I can weakly complain and get on teevee from time to time.
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Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
fucking clown.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM
fucking clown.
@murray.senate.gov you'd make a fine leader in this moment, IMO, but I also think you'd make a decent king- or queen-maker encouraging and supporting someone else. Do it.
you could call your democratic senators and ask them to replace schumer as minority leader
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
@murray.senate.gov you'd make a fine leader in this moment, IMO, but I also think you'd make a decent king- or queen-maker encouraging and supporting someone else. Do it.
Lifetime loyal Democrat here.
We were gonna win. And if we didn't actually win, we were gonna at least go down swinging, showing people we gave a shit.
But now we're just collaborators.
We were gonna win. And if we didn't actually win, we were gonna at least go down swinging, showing people we gave a shit.
But now we're just collaborators.
This shit is why people don’t trust the Democratic Party.
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Lifetime loyal Democrat here.
We were gonna win. And if we didn't actually win, we were gonna at least go down swinging, showing people we gave a shit.
But now we're just collaborators.
We were gonna win. And if we didn't actually win, we were gonna at least go down swinging, showing people we gave a shit.
But now we're just collaborators.
Thank you, Senator Murray.
I voted NO. As long as there is still any time left to reverse the MAGA health care hike, I believe we should do everything we can to force Republicans to the negotiating table.
The fight for health care does not end tonight.
The fight for health care does not end tonight.
Senator Murray Statement on Government Funding Vote: “The Fight for Health Care Does Not End Tonight—This is the MAGA Health Care Hike” | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
www.appropriations.senate.gov
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Thank you, Senator Murray.
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer
GOOD
Sen. Murray, the top Dem appropriator who negotiated the minibus, is a no on advancing the funding deal
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
GOOD
Fingers crossed.
Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen.
Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.
Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Fingers crossed.