My dad survived 19 trips across the Atlantic on convoys during The War. www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-a...

Zactly

Federal and state approaches to managing the Colorado River – as well as land and wildlife – reflect a lack of experience.

After auctioning Late Night Show memorabilia, Stephen Colbert raised nearly $2.5 million for @wck.org and the humanitarian efforts of José Andrés and chefs feeding victims of war and disasters around the world. 👏🕊️❤️ latenighter.com/news/late-sh...

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

The interaction between the zookeeper and the otters is just too adorable.

At an opening ceremony for Western Washington University's new House of Healing longhouse, President Sabah Randhawa said the building is the "answer" to the question of what comes after a land acknowledgement.

Final tour stop this Sunday 5/17! Join our overpass protest at the Murray Rd/Hwy 26 overpass at 11:30am to 1:00. Final tour stop this Sunday 5/17! www.mobilize.us/indivisiblew...

Truth. Amen.

TOMORROW'S SONG The USA slowly lost its mandate in the middle and later twentieth century it never gave the mountains and rivers, trees and animals, a vote. all the people turned away from it myths die; even continents are impermanent 🖊️ Gary Snyder 📕 Turtle Island

Activist Guido Reichstadter scaled the Frederick Douglass Bridge in Washington, D.C. earlier this month to protest the Iran war. "What I did was follow the call of my heart. I couldn't stay silent in the face of these ongoing acts of mass murder by the U.S. government in my name."

Wow! There’s an awful lot of 🟥 in this chart, lol! 😂

Went to Krukeberg Botanic Garden plant sale today. A lovely lush four acres tucked in between Shoreline & Edmonds. Lots of NW native species. www.krukeberg.com

@pagev2.bsky.social You should go!

Just gonna leave this here, with the note that Hanta Virus is only transmitted to humans by exposure to rodent droppings and urine. In case you thought 'Enshitification' was just a metaphor. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

Literally thrilling to see what is happening in Hungary.

Sunset light spills down the shoulders of Mt Constance of Washington state’s Olympic Mountains. ##seattle #sunset #iphone #mountain #ArcanumAlumni #peaceful

Look up, Seattle! 🌕 This Friday’s “Flower Moon” blooms over the city at 9:02 p.m., then a rare Blue Moon micromoon closes out the month on May 31. When and where to watch this double lunar show 👇 https://hyperlocalnews.website/seaen/may-flower-moon-to-light-up-the-sky-when-to-watch.html

Mayday in Seattle. "Pay me my money down" sang by Bruce Springsteen. Video by Me. 😊

Forgot to post this when I took the pic last week. Probably better to have “saved it” for May Day anyhoo!! From Crown Hill, Seattle:

The Seattle City Council has announced a new moratorium on data center construction within city limits. The proposal follows massive backlash to the news that several companies, under the shadows of NDAs, were exploring siting 5 new data centers in the city. council.seattle.gov/2026/04/30/c...

But their consolation prize is having the world's most powerful idiot in the Oval Office, always mocking the "elites" they hate (people who work hard), always oppressing communities they hate (minorities who work hard), always winking at them and giving them a circus of schadenfreude.

«Owls are just bird hardware running cat software» Original post

This is exactly where we’re at and we need to respond accordingly

It's hard to pick the most absurd moment of Hegseth's testimony today, but his claim that the total cost to date of the Iran War is about $25 bn may well be it. That's about one-third the actual cost.

Happy 93rd birthday to Willie Nelson! Clip from Outlaws and Angels, Live at the Wiltern Theater, 2004.

🧵 Much of the reporting on this Jimmy Kimmel story makes it seem like the only important context is the last time Trump tried to get Kimmel fired. But to understand why Trump is doing this again, you really have to know a story about Vladimir Putin. Let me tell it to you. 🧵🧵🧵

Alisa Valdes Rodriguez on Substack Deep dive into Zorro web.

AquaSox alum and Seattle Mariners infielder Cole Young had an incredible showing during the Mariners’ 11-9 win over the St. Louis Cardinals today, collecting three hits while homering and doubling!

AquaSox alum and Seattle Mariners outfielder Julio Rodríguez had a stellar game during the Mariners’ 11-9 win over the St. Louis Cardinals today, collecting three hits while homering!

👇👇 💯🎯

Researchers from University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa created a simple ocean-based model to predict El Niño and La Niña 15 months ahead using ocean surface temperature and height data. It achieves forecast skill similar to complex models. The current forecast predicts a strong El Niño later this year. 🌊

Seattle's 50th pm and 50th am teams from this last Thursday on the overpass. Thank you for your continued dedication for free speech!

KUOW has an exciting opportunity for a dynamic journalist and on-air storyteller to join the station as a co-host of its midday program Soundside. Learn more and apply: https://www.kuow.org/careers/show_host

WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

The #BraveOfUS speak out against injustice with loud voices and in clear terms. Concentration camps are places where civilians are held without due process and that is precisely what's happening here and now. #CloseTheCamps

🚨 Noa Cochva, former IOF soldier and Miss Isrsel 2021, is speaking at an event at the Seattle Town Hall TOMORROW (4/19), located at 1119 8th Ave. Protesters and groups plan to turn out at 5 p.m.

Look how dang cute they are.

Trump illegally coerced Apple and Facebook into removing ICE tracking devices that citizens have every right to use, rules federal judge. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Donald Trump and Big Oil's illegal ploy to restart the Sable oil pipeline in Santa Barbara County was just REJECTED. Launching a reckless war with Iran and creating a global oil crisis doesn't suddenly allow these guys to break the law.

NEW: Maine’s legislature passed the nation’s first state-level hyperscale data center moratorium, freezing construction approvals for data centers requiring more than 20 megawatts of power for the next year and a half.

Ansel Adams would have appreciated the conditions today… @mountrainier.bsky.social @altnps.bsky.social

David F. Ellison cordially invites you to an intimate gathering in celebration of the civil rights movement honoring George Wallace and the White Citizens Councils Thursday, April 23 at an all-white country club to be named later

Vance has now seized the top seat in the Death of Expertise Hall of Fame: He has lectured the pope—the pope, the leader of a billion and a half Catholics—about being too sloppy with theology. The queen of all vices: Pride. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

China tells citizens not to enter U.S. through Sea-Tac Airport after scholars were denied entry Source: KIRO 7 Seattle share.newsbreak.com/i5l853p1

Who wants this traitorous regime to sell off our public lands. Not me ! www.youtube.com/live/EpP6i73...

7/5! In Seattle? Here's something you can do about it! Tell @council.seattle.gov and @mayorofseattle.bsky.social: we need a moratorium on data centers (and also a ban on NDAs)! actionnetwork.org/letters/no-n...