The firm Decision Desk HQ has rescinded their projection that incumbent Bruce Harrell would prevail over his challenger Katie Wilson in the Seattle mayor’s race.

Portland City Council will consider an amendment next week to redirect $4.3 million from the city program that sweeps homeless encampments. If passed, the budget adjustment will instead invest $2 million in rent and food assistance, and support for immigrants and refugees.

Pierrot, by Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1718-19, 📸 by @andyharnik

The US will spend $700 billion this year on prescription drugs and pharma products, all thanks to gov-granted monopolies. That’s not the workings of a free market, that’s a system of inequality funneling wealth to the top.

Among those who want ACA enhanced premium tax credits extended, most say that either Congressional Republicans (38%) or President Trump (37%) would deserve most of the blame if they weren’t extended. Fewer say they’d blame Congressional Democrats (23%): https://on.kff.org/47ZwwLO

ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”

Amid Federal Cuts and State Austerity, The City Must Step Up and Pass a Budget that Puts People First In a guest post, City Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck says the budget should prioritize people who stand to lose most during state and federal cuts. publicola.com/2025/11/06/a...

it does seem like there’s a major—though potentially fleeting—opportunity to invest in left-wing media. more than a million people in the most populous city in america just enthusiastically elected a democratic socialist and the world is watching. putting $$ towards left media rn is good business.

Andy Warhol, Hammer & Sickle, 1977 crystalbridges.emuseum.com/objects/3647...

Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.

OK Seattle, it's election night and the first batch of mayoral results have come in with Harrell leading Wilson (62,086 votes to 53,767). Of course, we know that Seattle frequently sees progressive-leaning swings as the final few days of election results are still counted. But by how much? 1/3

actually just talked about this on NPR's It's Been A Minute on Monday, worth a listen

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.

This is an Obama 2004 DNC Convention speech-level seismic event of a speech by Zohran Mamdani. It's too bad he can't run for President, but this speech will be every bit as much of political earthquake that will be remembered.

New national climate plans have barely moved the needle on limiting global warming. Yet there is hope. According to UNEP's latest #EmissionsGap Report, accelerated adoption of renewable energy and falling costs mean we have the tools to cut emissions now: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

Local news reporting has highlighted the dire situation SNAP recipients face as their benefits expire, while right-wing media figures attack SNAP recipients as “overweight,” “lazy,” and undeserving of food assistance. https://

The president of the United States thinks asylum-seekers come from mental asylums. He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up. How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?

Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Forrest Smith, the only National Park Service engineer cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells, lost his contract, leaving 93 orphaned wells on park lands unmanaged. These leaking wells release methane and toxins, threatening human health and the environment.

these charts show the relationship between zip code-level average income and individual probability of voting for democrats in different regions of the country. one of my favorite group fo charts, lots of stories to unearth

David Brooks has written many, many uninformed things about art, but equating Marcel Duchamp's 1917 "Fountain"—an ordinary urinal presented as a work of art—with Republicans praising Hitler in a group chat definitively qualifies him for a gold medal in stupidity www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/o...

The administration claims that net neutrality rules are a form of rate regulation and thus not allowed under the US law that created the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program.

“They have fun while doing it, which is deeply disturbing. We expect some level of decorum from government officials,” says Phoebe, a member of Harbor Area Peace Patrols. The full story: lataco.com/federal-immi... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

ChatGPT cited a paper of mine which I did not know existed, so I asked it for the link to it. Unfortunately that link to the Nature website just gave a "Page not found". So sad.

“Recent studies show that between 80% — 89% of the world’s population wants to see climate action. Many would even contribute 1% of their income to make that happen, even tho people vastly underestimate their peers’ desire for change. Members of this “silent majority” come from all walks of life…”’

As part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Urban’s Local Data for Equitable Communities grant, three #communities are using local #data to address barriers to healthy #food access. Learn more in this new blog post.

📍 BREAKING 📍 As Trump accelerates approval of LNG export terminals, a new report finds that during the past five years, all seven of the fully operational LNG export terminals in the U.S. violated the landmark Clean Air Act. Read DeSmog's latest.

We warned this exact thing would happen. This is why dozens of human rights groups have been calling to BanFacialrecognition.com for years

So the $20,000 humanoid robot housekeeper actually just webcams your house to a random person in a call center with an Xbox controller www.wsj.com/tech/persona... @joannastern.bsky.social

“Has Katy Wilson ever balanced a budget?” Has Bruce Harrell?

It's becoming chillingly clear: an administration that gleefully dismantled USAID and consigned countless people to slow death by starvation and preventable disease will not hesitate to inflict hunger on tens of millions of Americans by cutting off SNAP funds.

Even if they achieve nothing at these UN Climate Change Conferences (i.e., COPs), we always get updates about how fucked we are so that's something.

People who use they/them pronouns face documented employment discrimination. Is that material enough for you? newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/pronoun-disc...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) Monday corrected a key piece of evidence it repeatedly cited in defense of President Donald Trump’s attempted military deployment in Portland, Oregon, last month. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

One of my niche ethical stances is that I think that people should use Wikipedia and donate to the Wikimedia Foundation and that ChatGPT and its siblings are trash and so are the people who use them.

it's not just approved permitted units that have cratered the last 4 years new permit applications have also cratered colleague talked to ULI rep today who said nothing is penciling in seattle or the PNW right now. we're headed for massive rent increases, folks.

This report by @rebeccaburns.bsky.social raises troubling questions about the role of the landlord in the federal raid on the apartment complex at 7500 South Shore Drive. Agents "appear to have received advance information about the building’s occupants that led them to target certain apartments"

THIS. If the tree NIMBYs really cared about salmon & orcas, THIS is what they would be fighting. Private ownership of any waterfront ANYWHERE is absolutely immoral but ESPECIALLY in critical habitat. The waterfronts belong to us all and to the salmons. They should be public green spaces.

The design of your city can help make you healthier, study finds. (That should be ANOTHER study) “A new study in Nature found when people moved from less walkable U.S. cities to more walkable ones, they increased their levels of physical activity & saw health benefits.” www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Yesterday, the Associated Press published a story about anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers that illustrates perfectly how traditional notions of journalistic objectivity and “both sides” coverage fail to meet the current moment—and even facilitate the spread of disinformation.

The best T-shirt I’ve ever made worn by a great guy and photographed by the very talented Andre Pattenden

A new report finds corporations like Kroger and McDonald's are using digital loyalty programs to track your data and potentially charge you more. It's a tactic known as surveillance pricing. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains. https://youtu.be/-cbtUYshYM8?si=GPRt5_WnLehnjgWR

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

The real truth is the only people who feel positive about our economy are the ones making over $250,000 a year and have lot's of money in the stock market. The rest of us are picking up the scraps.

"far too many who see themselves as progressive LGBTQ 'allies' have been far too fearful of further offending the perpetually offended 'parents’ rights' crowd to prove themselves proactive advocates for these vulnerable and oppressed young people." www.currentaffairs.org/news/dont-ju...

NEW: A coalition of political officials, labor unions, and business interests from the State of Washington have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the imposition of tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Filing: governor.wa.gov/sites/defaul...

this is the website for elder millenials with humanities degrees. everyone has done the reading on why people invest meaning in public buildings. you can’t fool me