Possom is ten years old and a HUGE lovebug, a staff favorite, and a bargain at $25 at the PDX Humane Society

I love everything about this story, which shows what can happen if you can question or even abandon the defaults of the moment: “What we saw, underneath all of the horror, was something that looked more like the future that I want to be a part of.”

In case you forgot what it looks like when a real president gets the love at a game. You know, when the crowd actually wants the president there.

I really enjoy EB White's take on New York and New Yorkers.

There is literally no reason for cars to be able to 130 mph on a public road. None. But automakers choose to sell them, and the feds (i.e., NHTSA) sit on their hands.

"There is no perfect material nor perfect diet; there’s only trying to tread more lightly." Very much appreciated @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social's latest post grappling with vegan vs. animal leather, given the harms of both. www.aliciakennedy.news/p/on-leather

This is such an embarrassing headline. As if "pretty good" is suddenly the gold standard and means we should just pack it in for ... forever?? (I also take real issue with calling the system "pretty good" to begin with...) www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

“Here's a stat for you — If somebody abused women & girls with Jeffrey Epstein, they are literally more likely to be hired by Trump's administration than prosecuted by it”

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

Opinion | Democrats are the real racists. Also, here’s why I support the Confederate slave states furiously redrawing their maps to replace all Black Democrats with white Republicans.

“We moved 4.5 million people off SNAP” is a crazy way to say you took food away from 4.5 million people, mostly needy families. And also crazy to think this works for them politically!

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

This is my favorite place in Seattle, my ideal of what a neighborhood bar should be. It would absolutely kill me to see it close.

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

They go fast when they want to go fast and slow when they want to go to slow and the decision is *always* an ideological one.

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

If schools have money for AI, I'd rather they use that to pay teachers more

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

thank you sam alito for ending the unconstitutional racial discrimination against white conservatives and allowing them to obliterate federal representation for as many black people as they can manage, as the reconstruction congress intended

On this day 70 years ago-May 1, 1956-the polio vaccine was first made widely available to the public. The vaccine’s developer, Dr. Jonas Salk, did not patent the vaccine so that it would remain available to as many people as possible in the US and internationally. Image: Harvey Georges/AP.

I have spent my entire career listening to FedSoc types complain about liberal “activist judges” who “legislate from the bench,” and none of them are going to say a single blessed thing about Sam Alito rewriting the Voting Rights Act to say what he thinks Congress ought to have said

BOO: almost got clipped by A FUCKING WAYMO when it turned left into a crosswalk at full speed and I had to stop to cut me off Hey, Seattle, can we say no to this?

okay, when you’ve lost the former director of Mossad, maybe it’s well past time to rethink your policy decisions

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

Today, I urge everyone to find and financially support an independent news outlet — one that will not be attending a spectacle dinner tonight to schmooze with the Trump administration while they berate the press.

Just arrived at the KCRHA meeting to discuss a damning forensic audit that came out this week. (It moved to the 4th floor of the downtown library). CEO Kelly Kinnison was saying "no money was lost" when I came in, adding that all the money was used to serve homeless people.

Ted Cruz is the #1 lifetime recipient of fossil fuel money in the entire U.S. senate, receiving over $1 million from the oil and gas industry in the 2024 cycle alone Now he's proposed a bill to give the fossil fuel industry lifetime legal immunity from climate lawsuits

"Waymo has told advocates that expecting it to respect bike lanes is 'too high a bar' because customers expect to be dropped off in them." To be crystal clear, it's illegal for a car to be in a bike lane. It doesn't matter what Waymo's customers expect; the company shouldn't be doing it.

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time. This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

Everyone knows the way you change the Constitution is to have six people in robes make up a new Constitution as they go along.

The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of: “people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”

"You’re basically putting in an upscale RV park. And there’s zoning for that.” Nice piece on an Alabama developer who's building out an entire tiny home community since city zoning is still so stacked against TH infill. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

Are environmental reviews really a problem? Well, folks, consider: a Sam's Club on north Aurora (near where I live) closed several years ago. Been sitting vacant, attracting ... the stuff vacant buildings attract. There's a proposal to open a low-cost grocery there. Much needed! However ...

Nice piece about San Diego's desalination plant, and how planning that started decades ago set the city up to have an excess of water now—when so many other parts of California are struggling. www.wsj.com/us-news/clim...

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology. This is a serious escalation.

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

DOGE turbocharged the deficit. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.

I think that lack of competition is one of the most important mini-beats we cover at @boltsmag.org. Here’s @taniel.bsky.social on Oregon, where 15 DA seats are up this year, and every one of them drew just a single candidate: boltsmag.org/oregon-uncon...

It is legit funny but it doesn’t change the fact that if your mayor went on FB tonight, said that the Pope sucked, and then posted an AI painting of themselves as Jesus Christ performing miracles, they would be removed from office in less than 48 hours.

They literally have a task force to investigate anti-Christian beliefs in the federal government, while simultaneously threatening the most visible Christian leader in the world.

WHAT WE KNOW, 11pm: —Liberals flip seat on Wisconsin supreme court. —Also flip important school board seats in WI, OK, MO. —Dems win Waukesha mayor race. —GOP defends MTG's seat, but Dems way overperform. —Big MO county rejects property tax freeze.

I don’t want to hear about brave and conflicted service members I want to hear about people sacrificing their careers to do the right thing

We built a communications system intended to be so redundant it could survive a nuclear war and now it struggles anytime there's a rainy day at an Amazon server farm.

Fascinating to hear house owners continue to claim, in a majority-renter city, that residences for renters do not belong in "residential areas" because those renters will destroy "the character of our neighborhoods." (They also don't want people without yards to live near parks.) It's 1991 for them.

Have driven by this shop on Phinney Ridge so many times and wondered what the story was. How lovely that @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social told it! www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-m...

when we're all unable to connect to use the internet, send emails, pay our bills, use our toasters, and god knows what else if AWS goes down, i want you to know now that i blame our lack of antitrust laws far more than i'll blame a foreign missile