Once or twice a year, I get to be creative with lights for art Zone. This time I got to light some band performances. Here’s the first one at nine minutes in. www.seattlechannel.org/artZone?vide...

A cybertwat parked north of seattle. Don’t these things have 4 wheel steering that’s supposed to make parking easier?!

Can he even drive a car?! EV or ICE.

Wired is still ahead on reporting the government takeover

So, the great negotiator lost his cool in front of everyone.

At Tesla dealer protest, U Village Seattle

Translation: leading while black

Trump fires Black joint chiefs chair Hegseth accused of promoting diversity

Wow, it appears that the Sanewasher machine at the NYT has finally been overloaded by King Orange www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

Yet more Cray Cray: www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murr...

So have any protests been scheduled for Presidents’ Day tomorrow in Seattle or Olympia?

The fantasy of the tradwife cannot happen in the US without systemic change that enables a family to survive on one income, or universal basic income.

Last night, we broke the news that the top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years. https://wrd.cm/3QkfGh3

I’m home sick in bed, but I hope the rest of you can make it. actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

What the voters want

I’m glad people, or at least Europeans, are responding better to Musk’s repulsiveness than they did to Henry Ford’s antisemitism of 100 years ago

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

I dont see a problem

The WA DOH is expediting sex designation change requests on birth certificates. People born in Washington state who want to change the sex designation on their birth certificate can do so by filing a request. Go to doh.wa.gov/DesignationChange for more information.

More scary stuff from wired. Maybe I’ll go check the NYT site to see what the the Orange one’s nominees are wearing to their senate hearings.

Great. Opened a letter from Medicare & now owe $185 a month when I already have good insurance from my employer for $100 a month. thanks to all the websites & people telling me to sign up for Medicare when I turned 65 even if I am working & have full insurance or I’d face have big penalties.

Anyone else feeling that luigi could have set his sights a little higher?

Wired is all over the doge crap, www.wired.com/story/treasu...

Worth watching youtu.be/XzX0hSW3W4g?...

Thousands of wild birds are dying and T2 is restraning the CDC’s ability to study and communicate about how this might affect humans. We’re already losing millions of our domestic flocks. www.npr.org/2025/02/05/n...

Trump diplomacy: Carry a big stick and drag your knuckles www.seattletimes.com/opinion/trum...

I guess now we’re finding out what people meant when they said “ government should be run like a business.”

Perfectly captured.

Thank you angelenos! Marchers protesting planned deportations block major freeway in Los Angeles

Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were ordered to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “L.G.B.T.” or “pregnant people.”

Nailed it

I am intrigued y point 4

BREAKING NEWS: A scoop for The Contrarian by Harry Littman, as a purged inspector general speaks out: open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Logic

2025 has been my least favorite decade so far.

“"I’ve been on the bench for over four decades," Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee, said. "I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order."

People were critical of me when I said that Trump supporters in 2017 were either evil or gullible or ignorant. In 2025 I’ve changed my mind. Trump supporters are either profoundly evil or profoundly stupid.

‘I am so proud’: Joy as Thailand’s same-sex couples can at last get married

The Trump administration warned federal employees of “adverse consequences” for not reporting colleagues resisting orders to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, giving a 10-day deadline to report via a special email account.

Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025

Thank you Martin Luther King and all the civil rights movement’s leaders and activists for your sacrifices and great work!

Blue blue sky at Golden gardems today! No filters!.

When the Secretary of Defense transitions from a black 4-star general to a white cable news host, we’ll have ended DEI and brought back the meritocracy. by Charlie Kirk

I’ve never heard of this show before but after learning that it was inspired by a local woman who wanted to get the word about about credit unions Ima gonna check it out. Seattle’s connection to 'Opportunity Knocks,' the 'Ted Lasso' of reality TV www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

As a seasoned DC reporter, I know Trump can't fulfill his campaign promise to lower grocery prices upon taking office. Here's why I'm going to drop that topic and only ask him about Greenland, as he wants me to.

I don’t want to live in interesting times anymore.