www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u... We must amend the constitution to outlaw any type of gerrymandering. Our constitution must guarantee one person=one vote, dilution or consolidation of the power of a vote is void ab initio. States should have the obligation to maximize voter turnout.

@ericholder.bsky.social What if we focused on having zero gerrymandering of any kind?

New constitutional amendment: 1. One person = one vote. Any effort to consolidate anyone's voting power, or dilute anyone's voting power, is invalid. 2. People pick their representatives, representatives DO NOT pick their voters. Gerrymandering is illegal for any reason. States must draw lines

For Week Without Driving, the Nondrivers Alliance asked our Sound Transit Board how often they took public transit. Here are the responses: Balducci, Mosqueda, Parshall, Mello, Birney, and Fain have all taken transit in the last week or more recently.

Trump is going to China to ask them to help solve the Iran War problem - that he and Bibi created with their hubris and brains that wouldn't know strategy if it rode in on a brain worm. This is going to be more humiliating than the daily Straits of Hormuz humiliations.

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

How much do you know about the origins of democracy? I watched this PBS documentary and was astounded! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aQU... Did you know that everything about the first democracy was structured to control and limit the power of their elites? Something to consider.

Japanese orphans were pulled out of their orphanages in California and sent to Manzanar Concentration Camp. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzana... It was a crime against humanity then, and doing it now is still. a crime against humanity. How can we keep sucking so very much?

OMG Dems, stop twisting yourselves trying to decode 2024's lessons. Here is the lesson: Bernie was always right. Move to the center, so long as you are robustly protecting the economic health of workers. Move far left, great, so long as you are robustly protecting the economic health of workers. Etc

Is anyone seeking to amend the constitution as far as ending gerrymandering of all kinds? I want to work with people who are actively trying to amend, not just address, voting access. Thoughts?

Love this shot. I think this is a thermal infrared camera, showing how the bottom of the capsule is still glowing due to its warmth after hypersonically ramming the atmosphere — compressing a gas heats it up a LOT when you're moving at superorbital speeds. #ArtemisII

It's better with George Costanza in the background.

The incoming health minister of the future Magyar government, upon learning of the election results last night (From Instagram)

He is doing everything he can to force the Rs hand - either they force him out or they completely capitulate and send us into some sort of Trumpocratic hell. Your move Mike.

@cmdanstrauss.bsky.social CM Strauss, I'm riding the 2 line! As far as reaching Ballard, and Tacoma and Everett, how much could be saved if no additional parking lots are built until AFTER the ends of each line under ST3 was built? Put off the parking but build the trains

Seattle area Transit riders: seattle.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?...

Stop talking to bots. Immediately demand a human. Stop doing tasks for free that used to be part of some other human's paid job.

We absolutely must have a second reconstruction, but this time do it right. Accountability is essential, like mass impeachment trials and states each running individual criminal and civil RICO cases. Once they are out of government and away from positions of authority, we rebuild the constitution.

After today's tweets, I am convinced he's begging us to remove him. He's doing absolutely every single thing he can do to force our collective hand.

Now do Hegseth!

Pete Hegseth removed 4 decorated Army officers—2 Black, 2 women—from a promotion list. The Army Secretary refused, calling their records exemplary. Hegseth overrode it. Possibly illegally. They gave decades to this country. He erased them & called it meritocracy. This is white Christian nationalism.

@tinakotek.bsky.social I wonder why Peace Health uses contractors for staffing their ER. Wouldn't physicians, nurses and all the other employees in the ER be employees under the economic realities test? We need to stop letting health care circumvent wage and hour laws.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u.... This violent, perverted behavior is endemic. Men must stand up to other men to stop this. Whether you are a conservative Christian or a farm labor activist, you have to report misconduct by your fellow men* and you have to speak against it at all times.

Life finds a way.

Oman and UAE coastlines are outside of the Straight of Hormuz (100% for Oman). Why are the oil transport facilities built above the straits? This seems like terrible infrastructure. Mayhaps we ought to rethink our dependence on such poor planners and their deadly product.

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3330):

You know what I want to see in a nationwide voting law? 1. Each state is responsible for maximizing voter turnout. Give incentives, like highest turnout state in one prez election gets the first primary of next presidential election. 2. Standard of proof for vote fraud is at least "clear evidence"

Hmmm. So interesting that #starbucks is moving into this guy's district. At first I thought it was a serious cultural mismatch. And then I remembered that @sbworkersunited.org no longer shares PNW values like... valuing humans. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Here is a man with more simple moral integrity & courage that the vast bulk of Dem electeds & pundits.

These are the 4 things AI can do well: •Clean up your email inbox (badly) •Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party •Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself •Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday You can see why we need to base our economy around it

Someone needs to explain to me how any MAGA devotee could have looked at the Gross Orange Pustule and thought, oh this guy is dedicated to peace. It was so obvious to me he was saying whatever he needed to say to con MAGA, but not to them. Why?

Starbucks should really check in with Boeing about how moving away from Seattle affected them. My recollection is that for Boeing it's been nothing but blue skies, dead passengers and stranded astronauts. Not sure what the coffee equivalent of that it will look like but we get to see.

Maybe it’s a bad idea to put people in charge of government who are eager for the rapture.

Another idea introduced by @gtconway.bsky.social is a "second reconstruction." If you can envision a post-MAGA period, what would your wish list for post-MAGA reconstruction look like? I'll start: 1. The Constitution spells out voting rights. * Each state is charged with making sure the highest

I went to see a speech by @gtconway.bsky.social on Wednesday evening. He believes we need keep trying to impeach Trump, and then impeach all the others too. Impeachment all the way down. Me, I'm looking forward to holding this tribunal in Bowling Green, thus creating some reality to the "massacre."

@gatesfoundation.bsky.social That he didn't "participate" in Epstein's crimes is one thing (jury still out on whether we believe that) but did he KNOW what that POS was doing? And if he didn't, why not? He's supposed to be a genius. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

@mspopok.bsky.social Could the judge in the "my client is radially profiling" case, could the judge order HOMAN into the court and then hold him in contempt until the habeas petitioners are,

just going to pretend this was inspired by my cat buttons

Homan referred to ICE agents as "in theater." That's all anyone needs to know as far as how the federal government thinks of Americans speaking their minds.

It's about a certain group of white men who think that the degeneration of this world is a direct attack on them. They are moving us back to the Chivalric era, where honor is the highest value and dissing someone puts you on the wrong end of the sword. We've all cosplayed knights and fair maidens,

@jsummers.bsky.social I just heard the interview with senator Ron Johnson of wisconsin. I appreciate how you pressed him. I do think, you need to start asking these people who think it's okay to shoot protesters if Americans' right to protest under the 1st amendment is gone. Do we have that anymore?

Migration is a natural human condition. If we were not migrants, we would have died off nearly 2M years ago in the horn of Africa. This idea of hating on others must stop. It must be scraped off of the streets of America like the blood of patriots. youtube.com/shorts/qld0g...

I had a really "positive" experience with the Drivo Rental Car agency in Newark when we were there for the winter break. Here's my review: www.yelp.com/biz/drivo-re...

Why don't I answer my phone if I don't recognize the number? I just checked my voicemail and I had 44 new messages, 36 of which were spam calls specifically offering to finally approve that loan I applied for, which I never applied for.

@sound-transit.bsky.social can we talk about how much worse the signages in light rail stations since you started using ABC - number number? People don't memorize these codes. Sure firefighters do, our firefighters taking the light rail everyday? Will they help people find their way? No

Pharmacy Benefit Manager: I'm trying to give you correct information. What I said outloud: I appreciate that What I thought: Is there a situation where you do not try to give correct information?

Why does it feel like we're being forced to adopt AI? Is it the desperation of the AI Companies that have put so much $$ into this they are terrified it won't pay off? On another note, why does it feel like Ukraine is being forced to adopt Trumps stupid "peace" plan? False urgency is a thing.

An exposë about being stuck in traffic in Seattle. Thank you @seattle, I thoroughly enjoyed the backup getting onto the University Bridge. (We figured out Mexam, duh).

“How did you receive the foreigner? And did you receive him and welcome him or not?” Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.

@marketplace.org re the flight groundings - Abigail Disney is saying that private flights make up more than 10% of air traffic. Why doesn't the admin ground them instead of harming the rest of us?