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What if the West Coast could save American democracy?
Former WA State Senator @reuvencarlyle.bsky.social joins us to talk about the the climate & economic policy innovation, "Cap & Invest" that's sweeping the West Coast. Link in comments...
October 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Former WA State Senator @reuvencarlyle.bsky.social joins us to talk about the the climate & economic policy innovation, "Cap & Invest" that's sweeping the West Coast. Link in comments...
While the federal government dithers and shuts down, West Coast governments are getting busy with innovative policies that tackle the existential challenges of climate change. And what's that? No federal involvement required?
October 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
While the federal government dithers and shuts down, West Coast governments are getting busy with innovative policies that tackle the existential challenges of climate change. And what's that? No federal involvement required?
Donald Trump: Portland, Oh-er-gone needs the military
Portland: No thanks, we're fine here in Oh-ruh-gun. Want an IPA?
Here's a hot take from the West Coast, and details are on Ep 30 of Pacific Time with Kari Chisholm, Portland-based political consultant.
Portland: No thanks, we're fine here in Oh-ruh-gun. Want an IPA?
Here's a hot take from the West Coast, and details are on Ep 30 of Pacific Time with Kari Chisholm, Portland-based political consultant.
October 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Donald Trump: Portland, Oh-er-gone needs the military
Portland: No thanks, we're fine here in Oh-ruh-gun. Want an IPA?
Here's a hot take from the West Coast, and details are on Ep 30 of Pacific Time with Kari Chisholm, Portland-based political consultant.
Portland: No thanks, we're fine here in Oh-ruh-gun. Want an IPA?
Here's a hot take from the West Coast, and details are on Ep 30 of Pacific Time with Kari Chisholm, Portland-based political consultant.
Hate isn't hiding--it's mainstream. Heidi Beirich from joins Pacific Time to ask: can the West Coast hold the line on civil discourse?
September 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Hate isn't hiding--it's mainstream. Heidi Beirich from joins Pacific Time to ask: can the West Coast hold the line on civil discourse?
Wildfires are one of our worst nightmares on the West Coast. Preventing them and responding to them is one of those climate-related challenges that seems daunting. What if progress is possible? What if we don't have to accept our fate in facing stronger and more frequent natural disasters?
July 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Wildfires are one of our worst nightmares on the West Coast. Preventing them and responding to them is one of those climate-related challenges that seems daunting. What if progress is possible? What if we don't have to accept our fate in facing stronger and more frequent natural disasters?
Our landscape in the West is part of our identity, so when Congress threatened to sell off our public lands, it was personal. The amazing leader of a "fiercely independent" ski mountain offers a perspective on stewarding our land. Try not to be inspired...
July 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Our landscape in the West is part of our identity, so when Congress threatened to sell off our public lands, it was personal. The amazing leader of a "fiercely independent" ski mountain offers a perspective on stewarding our land. Try not to be inspired...
Heard of Caesar? Reflections from Rome on democracy, empire, collapse, fighting back, and reclaiming patriotism from people who don't seem to know the first thing about America or how to make it great.
July 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Heard of Caesar? Reflections from Rome on democracy, empire, collapse, fighting back, and reclaiming patriotism from people who don't seem to know the first thing about America or how to make it great.
Our health by the numbers. We're better, and not so different. Given budget cuts, what if we did something radical? -- join the Canadian National Health System (and make it stronger in the process)? Fund unmet needs for mental health and Alzheimers? Support lifestyle interventions? Ideas, please.
July 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Our health by the numbers. We're better, and not so different. Given budget cuts, what if we did something radical? -- join the Canadian National Health System (and make it stronger in the process)? Fund unmet needs for mental health and Alzheimers? Support lifestyle interventions? Ideas, please.
A brave immigrants right advocate -- who requested anonymity in the wake of violent threats -- shares a first-hand perspective on how ICE is terrorizing a West Coast community and making a broken immigration process worse. Ep 16 is live wherever you get your podcasts.
June 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
A brave immigrants right advocate -- who requested anonymity in the wake of violent threats -- shares a first-hand perspective on how ICE is terrorizing a West Coast community and making a broken immigration process worse. Ep 16 is live wherever you get your podcasts.
Assuming that the courts will help dampen the most egregious attacks on higher ed, our universities and colleges still have work to do. Ep 17 is live with chancellor and reformer Dan Greenstein. Listen wherever you get your podcasts and chime in here with your ideas...
June 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Assuming that the courts will help dampen the most egregious attacks on higher ed, our universities and colleges still have work to do. Ep 17 is live with chancellor and reformer Dan Greenstein. Listen wherever you get your podcasts and chime in here with your ideas...
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I’m writing a book about the devastating 2025 L.A. fires, which I covered in real time as I watched my childhood neighborhood burn to the ground. Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster will be released January 6, 2026. www.harpercollins.com/products/fir...
June 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I’m writing a book about the devastating 2025 L.A. fires, which I covered in real time as I watched my childhood neighborhood burn to the ground. Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster will be released January 6, 2026. www.harpercollins.com/products/fir...
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FIRST ON MSNBC: "It's all BS coming from Trump."
Sen. Padilla gets emotional talking about the treatment of immigrants from the Trump administration hours after being forcibly removed from a DHS press conference.
Sen. Padilla gets emotional talking about the treatment of immigrants from the Trump administration hours after being forcibly removed from a DHS press conference.
June 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
FIRST ON MSNBC: "It's all BS coming from Trump."
Sen. Padilla gets emotional talking about the treatment of immigrants from the Trump administration hours after being forcibly removed from a DHS press conference.
Sen. Padilla gets emotional talking about the treatment of immigrants from the Trump administration hours after being forcibly removed from a DHS press conference.
What if we onboarded new neighbors like teammates?
What if potlucks were civic acts?
What if block parties re-built democracy?
Aaron Hurst is building the U.S. Chamber of Connection—and he's onto something the West Coast needs.
🎧 Ep 15 now live. pacifictimepodcast.transistor.fm/15
What if potlucks were civic acts?
What if block parties re-built democracy?
Aaron Hurst is building the U.S. Chamber of Connection—and he's onto something the West Coast needs.
🎧 Ep 15 now live. pacifictimepodcast.transistor.fm/15
June 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
What if we onboarded new neighbors like teammates?
What if potlucks were civic acts?
What if block parties re-built democracy?
Aaron Hurst is building the U.S. Chamber of Connection—and he's onto something the West Coast needs.
🎧 Ep 15 now live. pacifictimepodcast.transistor.fm/15
What if potlucks were civic acts?
What if block parties re-built democracy?
Aaron Hurst is building the U.S. Chamber of Connection—and he's onto something the West Coast needs.
🎧 Ep 15 now live. pacifictimepodcast.transistor.fm/15
@reshmasaujani.bsky.social makes an important point about disconnection. Soooo how can we reconnect? This coming week’s episode of Pacific Time offers ideas (new episodes out Wednesday mornings wherever you get your podcasts)
June 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
@reshmasaujani.bsky.social makes an important point about disconnection. Soooo how can we reconnect? This coming week’s episode of Pacific Time offers ideas (new episodes out Wednesday mornings wherever you get your podcasts)
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"The answer to the manosphere’s dark turn is rooted in embracing men with sincere affection, shunning the zero-sum calculus of the gender wars and offering a vision of masculine virtue that inspires men to heroic acts of compassion rather than vicious acts of aggression." @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social
Opinion | The Democrats’ 20-Million-Dollar-Man Problem
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May 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"The answer to the manosphere’s dark turn is rooted in embracing men with sincere affection, shunning the zero-sum calculus of the gender wars and offering a vision of masculine virtue that inspires men to heroic acts of compassion rather than vicious acts of aggression." @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social
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May 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Urban planner Nolan Lienhart wonders if Portland (and all West Coast cities?) can recover their appetite for risk. What's at stake? Our sense of place and renewed trust in government and one another. Ep 14 is live wherever you get your podcasts.
May 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Urban planner Nolan Lienhart wonders if Portland (and all West Coast cities?) can recover their appetite for risk. What's at stake? Our sense of place and renewed trust in government and one another. Ep 14 is live wherever you get your podcasts.
@nicoletrimble.bsky.social offers a great perspective on the patriotic power of service. What if Memorial Day grew to recognize all its forms? In the military, in the Peace Corps, in AmeriCorps, as a civil servant? (Get the context on Ep 13 of Pacific Time Podcast, now live wherever you listen)
May 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
@nicoletrimble.bsky.social offers a great perspective on the patriotic power of service. What if Memorial Day grew to recognize all its forms? In the military, in the Peace Corps, in AmeriCorps, as a civil servant? (Get the context on Ep 13 of Pacific Time Podcast, now live wherever you listen)
What if National Service Jump Started the West Coast Workforce?
Service has been making America great for a very long time (e.g. WPA, Peace Corps, Vista, AmeriCorps, etc). Yet it's on the chopping block. Nicole Trimble sees opportunity for the West Coast.
pacifictimepodcast.transistor.fm/13
Service has been making America great for a very long time (e.g. WPA, Peace Corps, Vista, AmeriCorps, etc). Yet it's on the chopping block. Nicole Trimble sees opportunity for the West Coast.
pacifictimepodcast.transistor.fm/13
May 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
What if National Service Jump Started the West Coast Workforce?
Service has been making America great for a very long time (e.g. WPA, Peace Corps, Vista, AmeriCorps, etc). Yet it's on the chopping block. Nicole Trimble sees opportunity for the West Coast.
pacifictimepodcast.transistor.fm/13
Service has been making America great for a very long time (e.g. WPA, Peace Corps, Vista, AmeriCorps, etc). Yet it's on the chopping block. Nicole Trimble sees opportunity for the West Coast.
pacifictimepodcast.transistor.fm/13
Did you, or people know, people serve in the Peace Corps or in a domestic national service program? How did you or they help? How has serving helped you or them? (Ep 13 is live!)
May 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Did you, or people know, people serve in the Peace Corps or in a domestic national service program? How did you or they help? How has serving helped you or them? (Ep 13 is live!)
Prompts for your civics teacher, ChatGPT:
1. Summarize The Federalist Papers
2. Highlight FP thinking that would disagree with the actions of the second Trump administration
3. Highlight FP justification for Trump actions
4. Write a rap battle about this between Hamilton & Jefferson
1. Summarize The Federalist Papers
2. Highlight FP thinking that would disagree with the actions of the second Trump administration
3. Highlight FP justification for Trump actions
4. Write a rap battle about this between Hamilton & Jefferson
May 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Prompts for your civics teacher, ChatGPT:
1. Summarize The Federalist Papers
2. Highlight FP thinking that would disagree with the actions of the second Trump administration
3. Highlight FP justification for Trump actions
4. Write a rap battle about this between Hamilton & Jefferson
1. Summarize The Federalist Papers
2. Highlight FP thinking that would disagree with the actions of the second Trump administration
3. Highlight FP justification for Trump actions
4. Write a rap battle about this between Hamilton & Jefferson
If we laugh to keep from crying, what are your go-to sources for funny in a time of democratic decline? (Ep 12 with Mark Fiore now live!)
May 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
If we laugh to keep from crying, what are your go-to sources for funny in a time of democratic decline? (Ep 12 with Mark Fiore now live!)
Historian and author Margaret O'Mara explains why Silicon Valley needs to reconnect with its government roots; I elaborate on Substack about why tech workers need to cast off the dictates of their billionaire boy kings to breath life back into tech's promise. substack.com/@pacifictime...
May 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Historian and author Margaret O'Mara explains why Silicon Valley needs to reconnect with its government roots; I elaborate on Substack about why tech workers need to cast off the dictates of their billionaire boy kings to breath life back into tech's promise. substack.com/@pacifictime...
Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist @markfiore.bsky.social offers advice on resisting over the long haul on today's new episode. What are your strategies for avoiding burnout while fighting to protect democracy?
May 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist @markfiore.bsky.social offers advice on resisting over the long haul on today's new episode. What are your strategies for avoiding burnout while fighting to protect democracy?