I had no idea so much relied on the boat v. ship distinction.

I got the Laurelhurst Community Council's meeting minutes before they took down their website. You'll never guess what they had to say about the helicopters flying sick kids to the hospital: www.thestranger.com/news/laurelh...

I think about this a lot. Not sure it's the only country but the propaganda has absolutely been effective.

Report: Laurelhurst Residents Blocking Helicopter Landings at Seattle Children’s Ain’t Heard Shit Yet: tinyurl.com/yc3u8ukh

A Seattle cop had a wall-involved shooting www.divestspd.com/publish/post...

You can read any Seattle Times article for free with a Seattle Public Library Card!

Not gonna read this stupid shit from the Times. I can't be bothered to pay for whatever this is, but you guys, Bruce Harrell wasted everyone's time w/ his constant stories about high school football. Literally during every single public speaking opportunity.

this is the precise sense in which "technology is political"

Police are using the surveillance state to stalk "love interests" because there really is no difference between the part of my job where I fight state surveillance and the part where I fight domestic abuse: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#OnThisDay in 1937, In the Lives of Men, by Seattle doctor Alan L. Hart, was published. Hart, who grew up as a girl in Oregon and lived his adult life as a man, served from 1930-1932 as head of radiology at Tacoma General Hospital. historylink.org/File/22896

whole states have stopped their election processes faster than the Biden administration was able to respond to an opinion that had already been leaked months earlier. i don't mean this as a random jab; republicans just understand power in a way that dems do not.

Ukrainians showing us all how to have a real good time

Mike Solan—disciplined by OPA & under investigation by the state for voter fraud for falsely registering to vote in D2 for years (when he actually lives in West Seattle)—is now running for office in … Pierce County?

As a child in communist Iowa back in the Marxist 80s, we would make little gift baskets to hang on our pinko neighbors doors after a radical ding dong ditch.

you can do this with e-bikes, too cities can just give them away instant livable cities hack with massive improvements for local economy, quality of life, safe streets, and public health outcones

Many liberals can’t understand how the GOP continues to fall in line behind Trump—but it makes perfect sense if you recognize that most feel an inherent & historical right to dominate & control women & Black people. He delivered with Hobbs and Callais, and that is a spectacular win for them.

I wish I had time during our data surveillance class today to explain how real-time bidding for digital ads works, bc once you know how complex that infrastructure is, you will never again believe people who say we can’t solve, like, free school lunches stateofsurveillance.org/news/how-ad-...

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.

The result in Callais completes the Court’s “demolition” of a law “born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers,” and will “set back the foundational right Congress granted of racial equality in electoral opportunity.” - Elena Kagan ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

I can’t get over how much it always was and still totally is all about race. White supremacy is like a rhizomatic cancer.

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

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

Either we want to get people out of tents and into shelter, or we don't. This amendment suggests they don't.

American Black women now have fewer voting rights and reproductive rights than their mothers did at the same age. Progress isn’t a straight line, indeed.

it kills me that there are many well documented and effective ways to increase the number of people having children but it would involve improving society somewhat so absolutely no one wants to do it

Reminder: ICE is still kidnapping kids.

The highest paid government employee in Seattle is a police officer. They make more than the Chief of Police and more than the Mayor of Seattle

Here's a goddamn win and thank you to many people for bringing it to my attention: 988 works. We have more people still with us because of it. I'm glad they're here and I'm glad you're here. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...

To be scrupulously fair to any media outlet attempting to cover the Mayor of Seattle: We have had something like five consecutive (including interim) Mayors who got elected on a platform and then did...none of that. It could be an actual shock that a Mayor is doing what they said they would.

I just wandered all around downtown Seattle and there’s almost no seating or benches anywhere. I had to sit on the ground to rest. This is not an accessible city.

More of this: An Illinois bill would stop publishers from charging libraries more than the public for e-books and limiting the number of e-book software licenses a library can get

Blow it up like the whale.

in the postwar era and the civil rights era people discussed racism not just as immoral but as dangerous. they noted the role it played in WWII and said that for civilization’s sake we cannot afford to let a cancerous ideology spread. we need to talk more like that imo. racism as dangerous to all.

the fascists have been lying, cheating and changing the rules to their benefit for years. turnabout isn't just fair play, it's the only way to maintain some semblance of a civil society.

Any Dem who runs on a platform of ending every single government contract with Palantir, then hiring a team of experts to undo the damage these fascist dorks have done to our infrastructure, communications and personnel, not only has my vote, but has my donation checks and volunteer hours as well.

It is objectively bad for democracy that both blue and red states are doing extreme gerrymanders. But the only feasible solution — a national ban on partisan gerrymandering — has only been endorsed by one party. And it's not the one complaining about Virginia right now.

the only redistricting energy i will accept, at this time

The FBI can initiate an investigation against you without any criminal predicate, reasonable suspicion or probable cause. Individual agents and task force officers who are part of your local police can do this on their own without supervisor approval. It's called an "Assessment."

UPDATE: the SPD has told me they have footage from this secret camera of CHOP but refuse to disclose it, citing an ongoing (Antonio Mays Jr.) homicide investigation.

what if they made the entire administration out of katrina response

Folks underestimate how many SPD cops with abhorrent incidents on their records are still making $150K+ from you and your neighbors.

Your regular reminder that cops don't actually justify their existence or enormous budgets by solving much crime. Approximately 11% of all serious crimes result in an arrest, and about 2% end in a conviction. And then there's this...

Things I keep saying that no one likes.

SPD Gives Medal to Officer Who Chased Man Into Traffic, Leaving Carful of Kids Behind The department used 911 audio of a panicked domestic violence victim, without obtaining her consent, in its video promoting the officer's courage for apprehending her abuser. publicola.com/2026/04/20/s...

"The complaint gets at the heart of an ongoing frustration in Seattle City Hall: That the city’s primary solution to police violence coming out of 2020 has been exceedingly slow out of the gate and kneecapped in backroom deals with a protectionist officers’ union."

If the hardcore band’s guitarist looks like this you’re about to die in that pit

I love reading novels. I’m always amazed by folks who don’t read fiction. There is nothing better, to me, than being in the middle of a book that you can’t wait to return to. It’s like living two lives at once.

Trending: Defense giant Anduril is quietly building autonomous warships on Seattle’s historic ship canal https://www.geekwire.com/2026/defense-giant-anduril-is-quietly-building-autonomous-warships-on-seattles-historic-ship-canal/