Today I'm calling on @governorferguson.bsky.social to declare a state of emergency: the expiration of SNAP benefits for nearly one million Washingtonians will be a disaster for the health of many, and for the economic health of the state. We must join other state governments and act swiftly.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

Raindrops splashing around a cormorant swimming in Puget Sound

The sky’s lighting up over the Kitsap Peninsula and Whidbey Island right now #wawx

Blue skies in the Olympic Rain Shadow near Sequim this weekend

Rainy day on Puget Sound #wawx

Walken tour of Port Angeles: Front door of Markd Body Art and the walk-in at Next Door Gastropub … next door

The Olympic Mountains peeking out through clouds over Port Angeles, Washington, yesterday

www.wsj.com/us-news/jb-p... *NO PAYWALL Pritzker sets up Illinois Accountability Commission - take evidence & prepare for future investigations to hold fascists accountable...great model for country....

“.. perhaps the most cruel and unlawful offense the Trump administration has perpetrated yet — freezing funding already enacted into law to feed hungry Americans while he shovels tens of billions of dollars .. to Argentina and into his ballroom.” @politico.com #SNAP www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Read these takeaways from an interview with the Strib CEO, and then head to @racketmn.com and click “subscribe”!!!!

So I realize I’ve reposted this all day, but I cannot understate the scale of this story. If Anthropic is spending this much on Google Cloud - or even 25% - the costs of running their business are never coming down. It’s a huge scoop, and the first real discussion of the true costs of AI anywhere.

There were two cases left of the Kirkland Signature Single Barrel Bourbon (by Barton 1792 Distillery) at the Costco in Lynnwood, WA today. These won’t last long!

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Hundreds of people — looked like it could have been thousands — are marching in downtown Edmonds, Washington for #nokings despite the rain, with lots of support from onlookers and motorists driving by and honking. @ricksteves.bsky.social was cheering the crowd on by the fountain!

Premium newsletter: OpenAI promised to build a gigawatt of data centers for AMD, NVIDIA and Broadcom by the end of 2026, and 9GW more for Broadcom by the end of 2029. They need $400 Billion in the next 12 months - and to do several impossible things at once. www.wheresyoured.at/openai400bn/

1st snow of the season on the Olympics this morning! 📸 Theresa Arbow O'Conner

This week’s main story is about Paramount’s decision to name Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS News, the future of U.S. journalism, and why we think she shouldn’t describe her endeavors as “punk.” Bari, look at us: You are not punk. Joe Strummer would’ve hated your fancy Substack, Bari!

CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin Is ‘Anxious’ Wall Street Is ‘Reliving’ 1929 Market Crash Under Trump

Epulo in Edmonds has a delicious @mariners.com cocktail on the specials sheet

Test flight over Edmonds today for this Suparna Airlines Boeing 777F (#B227X)

Humpy won the Salmon race for the 1st time! Hey, things are looking up.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Yet even if these data centers get built - and one analyst told me only 30% of them are viable - they are dead weight debt vehicles of what will be near-obsolete GPUs that *everybody* has been buying - all built for AI compute demand that doesn't exist. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

they can see the polling

For every horrific act of fascist abuse you’ve seen video of in recent months, there are hundreds that you’ll never even hear about.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov 37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois. This is assault.

New: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells 404 Media "we are determined to fight this." "Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move." www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

Ah man we’re screwed

24 hours after my Novavax Nuvaxovid Covid-19 shot and no side effects except for slight tenderness at the injection site - less than the flu shot in the other arm. Go get yours!

i love ta-nehisi coates so much

CVS in Lynnwood WA has novavax!

Costco pharmacies have the Novavax Nuvaxovid Covid-19 vaccine in Western Washington for anyone in the Seattle area looking!

Put together some thoughts here. In an earlier time he would have been the kind of writer being paid $5 a word by magazines to go write about whatever he pleased. And no one would be pissed off or jealous about it either. www.welcometohellworld.com/life-is-a-pr...

At Walgreens and the pharmacy line is eight people deep and crawling, one pharmacist said they’re too busy to fill a pain med prescription for someone who had dental surgery, and I’m hoping they have Novavax (but no way to tell without coming in because their phone lines were jammed). Madness.

As I was saying…

Tomorrow I put out a long premium story about Ai compute, and why I believe there’s barely a billion dollars of revenue outside of hyperscalers feeding either themselves or NVIDIA money. Here’s a $10 off discount, get in early. edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

Tonight’s unsettling Seattle sunset through billowing wildfire smoke #wawx

This political fundraising spam is getting out of hand

The first East Link train under its own power on the floating bridge!

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

Thanks to a standing order signed by the state health officer Thursday, anyone in Washington state can get the Covid-19 vaccine without consulting their doctor.

Regardless of your politics, this piece is a masterclass in how to write a political profile. Just incredible work from @anamariecox.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...

Somehow I missed news of this deadly storm that took many lives on Lake Tahoe early in the summer. Gripping article outlining the storm as it overtook several boats… with no advance warning detected by weather services. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"Mariam Dagga, a visual freelance journalist for The Associated Press, chronicled the stream of wounded and dead that every day flowed into southern Gaza’s main hospital, where she was often based. [...] Dagga was killed Monday by Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital, according to health officials."

HEY friends: recently seen heaps of "disclosures" from AI companies of the energy cost per question you type into chatbots (most recently from Google)? Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts! NEW POST -->>>

Outstanding article on covid’s impact on our immunity. We need to confront this emerging truth and stop this harm to all humanity. @nicktsergas.ca @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social @senpatrickbrazeau.bsky.social @jmeddings.bsky.social @snyderinstitute.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/390/...