“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

The man is a (•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) Hero

Get this journalist a Pulitzer

One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed

Mamdani’s campaign focused relentlessly on items that fall in the red section of this table.

I think the moderate position is "allow immigration that benefits America and Americans." Empirically, I think that means lots of immigration, but regardless voters aren't policy wonks and if they think you have their interests at heart, they'll trust you on the details.

Walmart has 2.1 million employees, so if Walmart paid its CEO $0, each employee would see, on average, a $0.006/hr raise—less than a single penny per hour. So…what's the argument here other than just resentment?

I remember when a business associate of my father started to suffer from dementia. They kept him engaged and out of trouble by setting up a model train for him to maintain and tinker with. When the job is run the free world, the model train is a banquet hall remodel.

Senile. Incompetent. Incapable

A great example of this was when CP Sara Nelson pushed through residential upzone with union support near the stadiums, a lot of nominal housing and labor advocates swerved out of the way to talk about how bad it was. She had the wrong vibe to get the W from them.

There is a “reopen McNeil Island” faction in Seattle. It’s important to deliver tangible results that don’t involve fantasy levels of taxation and spending because as we’ve seen in other parts of the country, they will eventually take hold if no one does anything.

While I am incredibly loathe to defend Platner, I’ll defend that owing a (successful) restaurant is working class. It’s a hard business where you’re buying yourself a daily, grinding job where you can never take your foot off the gas and you’re scraping every penny.

Your periodic reminder that if you don’t have speed pipes in your exercise playlist, you are missing out. spotify.link/Az13P6jtBXb

Wut

Can the Times et al actually explain their coverage priorities, even internally? How is it that any hint of denigration of Americans by a Dem is front-page news, but the president publishing video in which he calls himself "King Trump" and flies a plane dumping sewage on Americans' heads NOT news?

Seattle approved a muni water supply in the late 1800s by a vote of 1200-50. The difference is that in the ~pre-1970s era, people mostly wanted large public works and construction projects. Today, public works are a source of patronage and voters are mostly apathetic.

The new Reuters/Ipsos poll is absolutely brutal for Trump in every single way, but I want to take a moment and reflect on this little note about the party of Jade Helm. www.reuters.com/world/us/mos...

my most millennial internet complaint is that I find it contemptible when people post deliberately provocative shit and then get upset when people are provoked. back in my day being a troll used to mean something goddamnit. you didn't do this "whoooaa hey just a joke" shit, you accepted the risk

For someone in the White House, this guy has such loser energy. His next ICE order will be that they have to arrest every kid from his elementary school unless they come to his 40th birthday party and gift him a TMNT action figure.

Imagine being subject to a campaign of dehumanization! What kind of people would do such a thing!?!?

They want you to know that they can shoot US citizens with impunity, just because.

Someone suggested we call these attacks on civilians "Kavanaugh stops." Because after a brief questioning you're free to go, right?

Which is a more common cause of death in America? 1) Shark Bite 2) Lightning Strike 3) Modern Apartment Fire 4) Piano Falling on Them

I wish this would be seen by normal voters in its unvarnished form instead of sane washed into "Trump again asserts Dems searching for votes among illegals" by media.

I can’t think of anything bleaker than thinking society is a series of intergenerational wars we are bound to by bloodline. My hope for my son is that he has no attachment whatsoever to my struggles, the struggles of my father, or of my grandfather, and so on.

Anyone know if Mississippi is beating SPS? How do we compare?

Official data is in today, and America set a new record-high for solar power in July, with generation up 30% compared to last year!

I crunched the numbers so you don't have to but it seems like if you're able to preserve trees, things are looking pretty good for housing in Seattle's single family zones! The standard 5k sqft single family lot will allow a 4 story 12k sqft building 🤯 (if you retain trees). That's 6 2k sqft units!

Seattle has a glut of small apartments and a severe shortage of children, so while it isn’t perfect, this pushes in the right direction.

Old enough to remember when the Military Industrial Complex was an unstoppable lobbying force in DC…

Dude is losing his marbles.

Here’s an idea. The west has held about $300 billion in Russian assets. They should release 2 billion a day to Ukraine until Russia stops the war, or they disperse it all. Then Russia will have to accept the war has an additional real cost per day

This realignment is interesting.

A lesson that I’ve taken from the last decade is that it’s really important for “elites” in power to not take sides in culture (or do so minimally) because it’s important the masses feel they are protected by the elites. When they don’t feel that, they’ll put in power madmen.

Kettle really over performing the spread.

I'll say that this comp plan discussion is by far the most overt example of a district-based city council leading to factionalism I've seen, with each member claiming final authority over "their" district and Sara Nelson abstaining on controversial votes in deference to the district representatives

Liberalism cannot survive in a hallucinatory information environment where everything is true all at once. We’ll pay for any short-term benefit with our own destruction

Watching trains with the kiddo, like we do everyday after daycare.

LA’s firefighter union has come out with a four-page letter opposing single-stair buildings. I’m going to respond to a few of the points within it. 🧵

At least 3 students are in critical condition after a shooting at Evergreen HS in Colorado. This is the 47th shooting that took place at a school in the US so far this year: 24 on college campuses, 23 on K-12 school grounds. This happened less than an hour after Charlie Kirk shooting in Utah.

The perversely self proclaimed "Seattle Residents for Thoughtful Growth" just sent an email where they (understandably) lament the loss of a giant sequoia for a driveway, while in the same email demand City Council keep forcing homebuilders to pave car parking! 🤯 Maybe it's not about the trees?

I find some of this persuasive but not a lot persuasive. But one thing that stands out to me is that we talk about “Democratic” priorities in the government shutdown, when in order to come close to winning anything, Dems need to be advocating for “American” priorities that have broad appeal.

the results so far on congestion pricing in new york have been so outrageously good that opposition to it works as a convenient identifier of unserious buffoons www.reuters.com/world/us/new...

1 in 5 households in Seattle are car free 9 of 10 car free households are renters Yet we shove the vast majority of renters on the most car dominated roads in our city.

The American people ask a simple question: In the richest, most powerful nation in history, what corrupt special interests—foreign or domestic—have such a stranglehold on our government to prevent the full release of the Epstein files?

I expected an unaccountable Social Housing board appointed by the Renter's Commission to collapse, I didn't expect it to happen this quickly. They can't spend money to investigate their own CEO that they hired because of concerns about white men leading the process. cascadeparty.org/summit/2025/...

This is going well.

The big problem right now is that Dems aren’t saying “tariffs are bad and should be eliminated,” they’re saying, “we should be the ones doing the tariffs.” Since the farm states distrust the Dems for cultural reasons, they have no reason to believe Dems will set tariffs in a way that helps them.