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Relatedly a central Washington head start program may be laying off 200 people in June because their federal funding hasn't come through yet. Feds are slashing and burning programs and Gov. Ferguson wanted an austerity budget & little to no new taxes. www.seattletimes.com/education-la...

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In case you need to know which Councilmembers to vote out, they’re the ones hiding from the public so they can lower the ethics rules that prevent them from voting to enrich themselves. And Sara Nelson not allowing opposing councilmembers, the ones still in the chamber, to speak?!? Unreal.

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All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

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The Seattle Council is likely to take its first vote on a controversial ethics bill allowing disclosure instead of recusal. Councilmember Hollingsworth appears to be trying to find a way to support it, proposing a more narrowly tailored recusal requirement.

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House Republicans smuggled this👇attack on the federal judiciary into their reconciliation bill. Courts rarely require plaintiffs to post security, so this provision, if passed into law, would render a vast number of existing judgments—including Boasberg's contempt order—effectively unenforceable.

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Went and I checked this, and Edwin's correct: On the left is text from the reconciliation bill "PROHIBITING FEDERAL MEDICAID AND CHIP FUNDING FOR GENDER TRANSITION PROCEDURES FOR MINORS" On the right is from the Manager's amendment that strikes the word "FOR MINORS."

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Back at Daybreak Star in the Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle to support the Fort Lawton project! Lots of people here but we’re ready to push to make Magnolia and Seattle a place where everyone can have a safe, decent, and affordable place to call home!

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Thread: Latest House GOP reconciliation bill language again makes the draconian #Medicaid cuts harsher. For example, mandatory work requirements now will take effect 12/31/26 instead of 1/1/29 and states have option to implement them earlier (1/x)

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IMPORTANT: Nationwide ban on Medicaid covering gender affirming care is in the House bill.

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Starting to think cops driving literally everywhere has warped their brains

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Ride of Silence 2025 The Ride of Silence is a world wide event where people ride at 7 PM local time on the 3rd Wednesday of May to remember fellow cyclists who have been killed on our roads. This is the 23rd year for this event, and Toronto has been doing these rides since 2010. Eighteen cyclists…

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Oh look, another cis lesbian assaulted for using the women’s bathroom. I’d like to send a gigantic fuck you to every lesbian TERF who helped create this situation www.outsports.com/2025/5/21/24...

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The authors of this report are doing their best and I believe they have the best of intentions. Also, 30yrs of science, CS, and survivor advocacy has very carefully shown how online abuse is not like spam and how people die when we treat it that way innovation.consumerreports.org/new-report-d...

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See our recent FAccT paper for analysis of how many of these models are for generating nonconsensual sexual imagery arxiv.org/pdf/2505.03859

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United Healthcare set quotas for the maximum number of hospitalizations they would allow for critically ill nursing patients. They changed patient records to DNR to prevent life-saving medical intervention. And they coerced nursing staff to leak patient data and fabricated records to sell more plans

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About 5-6 plain-clothed ICE agents were seen outside immigration courtrooms at Seattle’s Federal Building today. Several DHS vehicles were also spotted nearby. In response, dozens of community members rallied outside. This comes after 4 migrants were arrested here yesterday.

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"What children need most of all is a city that gives them space. Traffic-calmed zones, safe cycle paths, school streets without car traffic — these would be steps towards a child-friendly city and, at the same time, an act of de-adultising transport thinking." 100%

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🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

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Andrew Cuomo was found by the DOJ to be a serial sexual harasser, and now he's saying that the only regret he has is that he resigned. He is not remorseful. He has not changed. Anybody who refuses to denounce him has no morals, no principles, no shame.

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Local media could probably do an entire year's worth of stories on the absurd budget cuts #waleg and @governorferguson.bsky.social made in order to avoid taxing the rich. Voters want Democrats to govern well. This stuff is the opposite of that.

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OMG you all IT’S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW

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This Thursday at 2pm is the 2nd hearing/potential vote in committee about a bill that would weaken Seattle's Ethics Code, allowing councilmembers to vote on things that directly affect their interests. This is a betrayal of public trust and opens the door to corruption. linktr.ee/SeaRapidResp...

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VEO3 Prompt: “a man doing stand up comedy in a small venue tells a joke (include the joke in the dialogue)” The video and audio are generated together.

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Today, I saw a dude holding a sign and I honestly am somewhat confused what message he thought it was conveying. We love women Pride Army ---- Billionairism Vote Republican

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my friend yaya covered the disgraceful telegraph billboard 🥰

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I've been lazily trying to trace back some of the origins of space/place distinction. It was a popular topic across many fields in the 90s/00s, but there are earlier uses by some in architecture and urban design to the 80s. The social meaning aspect of place seems to go back even further.

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Get out and support middle housing on Monday at the Seattle City Council! 🚨 Sign up to comment in-person or online or send in written comment. Tell the council to reject amendments to water down the legislation and instead to improve it to be more pro-housing. www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/17/t...

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I picked up a new wahoo bolt, but software does not feel launch-ready. I've had it get confused during navigation 2-3x now and it just forgets the route, and it seems to forget settings between rides. The screen is pretty nice and navigation is nice when it's working.

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Watched a driver hit a speed bump on Lake Washington Blvd today at a high enough speed his front wheels popped off the ground. They almost hit the car in front of him that had been stopped. Dude had only a block to speed up. So happy the rest was closed to cars.

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Tree Action Seattle's talking points for Monday's public hearing on middle housing push for an amendment increasing building setbacks -- but notably do not recommend pushing for additional building height even as they advocate "developing up, not out."

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Meanwhile, over on Madison Park NextDoor, they are referring to this kind of alfresco dining as theft.

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This account just posts food at British football stadiums and it's the most upsetting shit I've ever seen

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🚨 Turn Out for Housing at Seattle Hearings This Week www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/17/t...

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My 5th grader and I talked about this approach to “showing your work” for writing assignments in the age of AI - not recording, just the edit log. Really young kids are surprisingly aware that this is the kind of thing that can prove they did their work.

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Yesterday i biked to Lincoln Park and had a little buddy who was very friendly in their begging for food. I suspect these creatures survive almost entirely on the crumbs of visitors. They were definitely not very afraid of me.

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Washington's first-in-the-nation shared streets bill, allowing local governments to lower speed limits to 10 mph on specific streets where vehicle traffic must yield to pedestrian, bike, and scooter traffic, is now law. app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...

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What happens to science under autocracy? The rise of the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany provides an (admittedly extreme) example. Prior to the early 1930s, scientists at German institutions won a third of Nobels. 10 years later, that number was 5%, and has never recovered.

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Every time there's a fraud controversy about a preprint, I immediately start seeing academics happily riding the slippery slope to opposing the proliferation of preprints/servers. Posting preprints is different from media coverage of preprints from the nature of coverage from prevalence of fraud.

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REI members show their power! Consumer cooperation and labor unions unite. https://www.thenews.coop/rei-members-reject-all-three-board-candidates-in-election/

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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

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