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submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Great to talk with British Columbia Premier David Eby last week about renewing the strong Washington and B.C. partnership. We have deep ties on trade, housing, transportation, the environment, and more. We will work together to take on the challenges facing the Pacific Northwest.

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

Fuck Google and Google Maps. #brucecoffman loves you! www.geeksforgeeks.org/the-best-alt...

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

NORTHWEST: On I-5 northbound just south of SR 104 (MP 177) there is a collision blocking the left general purpose lane and the HOV lane. Medical Aid, Fire Assistance, the Incident Response Team, and Shoreline Police have arrived on the scene.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Dear @Doge If there is nothing to hide. Hide nothing

submitted 17 days ago • 2170 comments

Stopping FARA is opening the door to massive corruption

submitted 17 days ago • 77 comments

Finally a bit of good news.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person

submitted 20 days ago • 620 comments

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

submitted 19 days ago • 2271 comments

RFK Jr. passes key HHS confirmation hurdle with Senate panel vote Ugh.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

This is really alarming.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

honestly think some of the hesitation here is that no one wants to sound like a crank. i was talking at an event last night and even i felt like a crank while i was speaking!

submitted 20 days ago • 1571 comments

How your health care--not just your reproductive health care, all of it--intersects with politics and has just been compromised. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I know that millions of Americans find this deeply embarrassing. And my sympathy with them But honestly, this is the sort of petty crap that failing autocratic countries engage in. www.reuters.com/world/us/goo...

submitted 26 days ago • 426 comments

Owners’ box

submitted 34 days ago • 308 comments

Big hearts to Costco Diversity has been proven to yield better results.

submitted 31 days ago • 622 comments

Instead of introducing pointless "every sperm is sacred legislation," introduce a bill—a Pro-Birth Accountability Act—like Sen. Mia McLeod introduced in S. Carolina in 2019. I call it a "F**k You, Pay Me" bill. If states are going to force people to give birth, then states should pay for it.

submitted 31 days ago • 31 comments

Trump, who was targeted twice for assassination and complained that his security was not tight enough, pulls security for his own former advisers targeted for death by Iran, Mike Pompeo and Brian Hook, just as he previously did for John Bolton. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...

submitted 31 days ago • 31 comments

Go Jesse! www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Libraries & librarians have never been more important. If we care about the future, we must make sure every school, every community, every child has access to a library & a librarian. And we have to give them all our support, so they can do their vital work, which benefits us ALL! #SaveLibraries

submitted 32 days ago • 59 comments

Laura Ballarín Cereza an EU Parliament member says it out loud. 🔥

submitted 31 days ago • 14 comments

The bishop who pleaded at the inaugural prayer service for President Trump to “have mercy” defends her sermon.

submitted 31 days ago • 352 comments

One day after the White House environmental justice website went dark, please join me in welcoming the father of environmental justice to Bluesky. Yes, sociologist @drrobertbullard.bsky.social literally defined the concept in his 1990 book, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality.

submitted 32 days ago • 250 comments

submitted 32 days ago • 1839 comments

Friends - please take advantage of this starter pack.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

TikTok is back up. This is all such performative nonsense by the kleptocrats and hypocrites who run DC. And we look like idiots to the CCP. Bluff called and we are flaccid.

submitted 35 days ago • 399 comments

Enjoy the last day before tomorrow. Then four years…

submitted 35 days ago • 578 comments

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

It is truly about who tells a better story — or really a story people want to hear and makes them see what they believe rather than believe what they see.

submitted 43 days ago • 122 comments

www.heraldnet.com/opinion/edit...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

We just added a few more WA elected officials. Is anyone missing? go.bsky.app/DSRUZRd

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

this urge to launder rfk jr. as “just a guy who is right about a few things” is such a perfect example of how liberals are people who won’t take their own side in a fight

submitted 53 days ago • 1033 comments

There cities that border Edmonds which care about housing costs and are diligently working to increase supply.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

x X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app? If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.

submitted 48 days ago • 2895 comments

I think journalists, policymakers and good govt types are struggling to understand DOGE because their mental model is that it is a government reform commission, operating like previous ones. Maybe. But it might be better to start thinking about it as a hostile takeover of the govt by oligarchs.

submitted 50 days ago • 412 comments

Tell him, Mark!

submitted 54 days ago • 1069 comments

Congratulations! We are all within hours of surviving 2024 & ready to face the challenges of the decade that will be 2025.

submitted 54 days ago • 1603 comments

You can even do it in big cities, metropolitan regions, and statewide. Make coalitions and work! 😎

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

We saw this in our council meeting last Tuesday with our Comp Plan decisions. Removing housing options and reducing commercial options in a cute little neighborhood hub. We met our Comp Plan goals, but removed multi family housing options right next door to an elementary school! What a mess.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments