Tsunami update as of 6:45pm PT: A tsunami has been generated, and it was damaging near epicenter. Tsunami Warnings remain in effect for many Pacific Islands (including Hawaii) and SW AK. However, for U.S./Canada West Coast, Watch *has been canceled* & converted to "Advisory."

Drumroll, please... The first new Amtrak Cascades train is leaving the Siemens manufacturing facility in Sacramento today and heading to Pueblo, CO for testing! Following a year-long testing journey, they’ll arrive home to the PNW in 2026—stay tuned for more photos! #trains #PNW

Is this pizza cutter logical or nah? Just don't grip the nacelles too hard, right? @rainygay.bsky.social @brandonleblanc.bsky.social #StarTrek www.touchofmodern.com/sales/121227...

This is, without irony, the modern version of Cronkite saying Vietnam was unwinnable

Archie is monorailing hard this morning as he awaits the glorious sunshine to wash over him.

Shot // chaser

you can't spell "tariffs" without "FFS"

And it's not just Airbus, the entire aerospace industrial supply chain is globalized. Metals for Pratt & Whitney engines assembled in Georgia and Connecticut. Parts for Boeing 787s assembled in South Carolina. The list goes on. Tariffs will hit US aerospace production, like automotive, hard.

“I’m hopeful sanity will prevail.” Delta CEO Bastian says of the current tariff situation, adding that the situation is "self inflicted."

A concerning day for the US economy

YoY growth in wages and salaries hit a new post-COVID low (Feb 2024 was hot and rolled off the YoY calculation). March 2024 was a hot print as well so expect this to go lower next month:

That is one pretty low off the Pacific Northwest coast.

Plane hit by lightning while we were on the plane at the gate! So we are switching planes…

Cherry Blossoms in a Spring #Seattle Thunderstorm on the @microsoft.com Campus. #wawx

70% drop in transborder traffic is not surprising at all when you treat your best friend like shit

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

SpaceX lost another Starship shorlty after launch in Texas during Flight 8 and we're seeing flights now begin to divert/manuever possibly due to the potential risk of debris off the coast of Florida into the Altantic. @flightradar24.com

Another day, another flip-flop. The economy is not a game. His tariff chaos is actually hurting people & still raising prices.

This new complaint against DOGE is truly cranked up to 11 from start to finish. What a way to start a lawsuit storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... h/t @mikesacks.bsky.social

List also includes: —Dept. of Labor HQ —Dept. of Justice HQ —Dept. of Energy HQ —Dept. of VA HQ —FAA HQ —ATL Federal Cnt —CHI Federal Cnt —BOS Federal Cnt —SEA Federal Cnt —SF Federal Cnt Among many, many more

Trudeau: "We're probably gonna keep booing the American anthem. But let me tell Americans: we're not booing you ... we're booing a policy that is designed to hurt us. And we're insulted ... we're gonna fight. And we're gonna win."

This is unconstitutional. A violation of the First Amendment. A violation of federalism and the separation of powers. It’s unconstitutionally vague. It’s unlawful. It’s unlawful. It’s unlawful.

Rapid #tariffs escalation: Highest average US tariffs rate since WWII

This is very literally what precipitated the first impeachment

With Trump set to implement 25% tariffs on imports from both Canada and Mexico, re-upping this story on what the Canadian ones could mean for US travel. A 10% drop in Canadian visitors could result in as much as $2.1 billion in lost spending at American businesses.

This was posted as a full page paid advertisement in today’s New York Times

Big crowd at the NOAA rally

NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes

a lot of people whose politics were shaped by the great expansion after 2008 (rather than by the crash itself) and then big fiscal saving us in 2020 have come to believe material politics don't exist anymore start a recession and find out

Someone updated the Seattle season chart ☁️🌧️🌤️

The firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are “going to affect safety of flight, safety of shipping, safety of everyday Americans,” Admiral Tim Gallaudet, who was acting NOAA chief during the first Trump term, told the AP. “Lives are at risk for sure.”

ppl getting angry at this but he's talking alliances and he's 100% right- you cannot trust a country where every 4 yrs the foreign policy does a complete 180 & tears up treaties and reneges on deals and withholds payments because some sheep farmers in Wisconsin think too many black women have jobs

Folks,,, We have a winner.

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

My Republican colleagues are shit posting about reducing people’s cost of living while remaining perfectly silent about their Congressional counterparts moving to throw millions of Californians off of health care. Actions speak louder than words.

The fact that Comcast is spinning MSNBC off into a new company with its other cable networks in the months ahead have more to do with this than all the conspiracies floating around. MSNBC is building up its own newsgathering operation ($$$$). Probably won't even be called "MSNBC" much longer.

Don’t pass $4.5 Trillion in tax cuts and ever come at me again that we can’t have this.

The obvious move here would be for Democrats to have townhalls in key Republican districts to call out these cowards running and hiding from DOGE cuts.

Last week, President Trump announced plans to levy 25% tariffs on automobiles, pharmaceutical, and semiconductor imports. Today @budgetlab.bsky.social published a fiscal and economic analysis of this policy. Some high-level takeaways: 1/7

It took ten years, but the NYT finally got there

Saving grace (?) is that 2025-2028 is lower than the subsequent years. Highly unlikely this Adminstration will follow through with much of any funding - @sound-transit.bsky.social will certainly have to reforecast and adjust future projects to the current reality. :/

My administration is standing at the ready to support all Washington workers — including federal government employees impacted by chaos in the federal government. We will help you get back on your feet.

Remote work doesn't thwart productivity. It boosts focus. Government workers are 12% more productive when randomly assigned to work from home. They're more efficient where it's quiet. Most people aren't shirking from home. They're escaping distractions and long commutes.

Five things I accomplished last week: 1. Sued Musk & DOGE (repeatedly) 2. Got Musk blocked out of Treasury 3. Sued Trump (repeatedly) 4. Helped persuade SCOTUS to leave anti-Trump injunction in place 5. Got booked @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social Join us at 9 AM ET Sunday morning to discuss!

Two weeks from now the crew of a nuclear submarine are going to see this email and the subsequent one firing them all.

I'm gonna lose my voice at this ~500 person strong protest at the Tesla Dealership in #Seattle University Village. "Hey hey, ho ho, Elon Musk has got to go!" 🗣️🔊 Worth every decible.

Thank you, Janet Mills. This is how all our elected officials everywhere should be confronting Trump's authoritarian "we are the law" sentiment. Head on.

Morning - Rise up & resist! Today, let's focus on what we can control. Remembering that our purpose fuels our resilience & resistance. They want us to be fearful; worrying about the future. Bc in fear, we're not living in the moment. We're unable to help now when we're spiraling. #tgif