If there's one thing that unifies the Republican Party it is that it is profoundly pro-suffering.

This Trump/Epstein stuff is so typical of a modern political "scandal," in that ... we know he did it. He knows he did it. Everyone knows he did it & everyone knows that everyone knows he did it. There is zero "did he do it?" involved here. The whole thing is about ... what, exactly?

Um... what?

1/ While we wait on Bruce to accept the inevitable and concede, let's take a moment to explore why challenged ballots tend to lean toward the left. It's because younger voters tend to lean left, and they have a higher percentage of challenged ballots. Why? Because their signatures aren't set. …

Other folks have said it, but let me just note that: (1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year (2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?

Obvious but worth saying. We really think the White House/DOJ which disappears documents and people pretty regularly is gonna go, "Welp, House voted so I guess we have to turn over the stag films of Trump with a 15 yr old. The rules are the rules." I'm not saying the exercise is pointless at all.

I find it a little ungracious of Bruce not to concede the race and congratulate Katie. But not un-Bruce-like.

Congratulations Seattle Times for a clean sweep in the 2025 election—for mayor, city attorney, and city council, all of your endorsed candidates lost!

It has now been 20 years since Seattle voters last reelected a mayor. Tough audience.

Katie Wilson won 61.2% of today's ballot drop to take a commanding 1,346 vote lead over incumbent Bruce Harrell in Seattle's mayor's race. This is over.

NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state. José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time: “I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"

Katie Wilson won 55.57% of today's ballot drop, giving her a 91 vote lead over incumbent Bruce Harrell out of 272,041 ballots tallied so far in Seattle's mayoral race. So... she likely wins.

congrats dems you lost a staring contest to this man

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Weird that the tush push is only controversial when the Eagles do it.

Keep thinking about the words of wisdom from @bradlander.bsky.social that the divide in Democratic politics right now is between folders and fighters.

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.

Those were some pretty lopsided and uninteresting late games, NFL.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Dark side of the loon.

So, given the way interest payments are front loaded and the fact that the average mortgage is held for only 10 years, a 50-year-mortgage is actually MORE expensive than a 30-year loan with a 10-year interest-only term… a product that already exists.

The good news is that I just harvested half my fall carrot crop. The bad news is that I had to harvest them early and all at once because the rodents suddenly discovered them and harvested the other half over night.

the only time the filibuster has ever been used to protect a particular interest of a set of states is to kill anti-lynching and civil rights legislation. that's it.

There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.

In which Danny Westneat, without explicitly saying it, essentially makes a case for dictatorship.

"It's what the president wants, and it will probably happen." As a fan of both democracy and the Philadelphia Eagles, this might be exactly what it takes to displace the Dallas Cowboys as the most hated team in football.

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going! Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists. We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

The most corrupt administration in American history.

ICE grabs father by the neck—send him into violent seizure while his arms lock up around his toddler. "He's having seizure and they're trying to rip the baby out of his hands!" Agents then handcuff him—before putting in ambulance with his child. Mother is detained by agents as target of arrest.

I'm filing this away for the next Eagles Super Bowl celebration.

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Katie Wilson won 54.85% of today's ballot drop, cutting Bruce Harrell's lead to 50.74% to 48.86% in Seattle's mayor's race. It's gonna be really close.

This is not the country we should be.

It's old news, but for all of Trump's lies about the money going to blue voters in Democratic cities (ie black people), in WA state and throughout the nation, it's the rural red counties that disproportionately rely on federal subsidies like SNAP. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

For all the local handwringing leading up to Tuesday about this being a low turnout election, turnout in Seattle has now hit 55.2% compared to the 55.3% final count in 2021 and just under 50% in 2017.

Rich Cybertruck-driving crypto guy sinks quarter million dollars into local elections because he's clearly smarter than we are, and all four of his candidates get blown out. #meritocracy

"The cost of all this success was a short, transitory burst of moderate inflation...& then the burst...stopped cold. It was over after the middle of 2022." "I characterize 2024 as...a worldwide failure to break the misinformation system..." All. Of. This. In re: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

If you voted for Zohran, don’t bother coming to Butt Shit, Montana when things go bad! Don’t come here and try to put out the underground coal fire that’s been burning beneath every sq foot of our town for 80 years! don’t come here and vote for anyone cept this one family that owns the coal mine

Katie Wilson won today's drop of 36,129 ballots by 51.63% to 48.11%... which is not enough of a swing to change the outcome. But King County Elections has been slow, so there's a possibility these are more comparable to typical Wednesday results, in which case there's still a chance.

There is going to be a lot of whining about the Sandwich Guy by people who also think it was great that Kyle Rittenhouse killed two people and had a court say he didn't commit a crime. They should be mocked.

This wouldn’t happen if we still had a 92% top marginal tax rate, because obscene and dangerous payouts like this would be pointless.

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

This is going to be an absolute disaster and they could stop it by ending the filibuster

Calling these goons pathetic losers to their face is an act of patriotism.

Another 23k ballots added to Seattle's return statistics this morning. Turnout is now at 54.83% (and inching higher), comparable to the 55.3% turnout in 2021.

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So, KC Elections just updated its ballot return statistics, and turnout looks significantly higher in Seattle than the the county as a whole: so far, 50.26% to 40.22%. 139,173 ballots have been counted out of 253,988 returned. Not all will be accepted or marked, still a lot more ballots to count.

DO THIS! I never have had issues before, but this time there was an issue with signature match. I just sent in a form on my phone to cure my ballot: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

Wednesday's ballot drop was not good news for Katie Wilson. 20,804 ballots were added to the count today, and Harrell won todays drop 56.71% to 42.94%, compared to 53.32% to 46.18% on Election Night. So he has expanded his lead.

Always magical to see King County ballot sorting at work! This is in the mail-in/dropbox-only voting state of Washington.