Someone broke into my car last night and they didn't take any one thing of particular value, but they did steal the digital clock velcro taped to the dash, and my copy of Death Cab's Transatlantacism.

"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." as we sit at the beginning of the Lenten wilderness, may we remember the generations of mothers and fathers who came before us and their perseverance in the face of violence, pain, and grief.

Incredible how much work we leave undone by not having a full time legislature. Home to two of the biggest tech companies, one of the largest aerospace companies, 13th largest state economy, 13th most populus state, one of largest agricultural producers/exporters... and we constantly run out of time

I think we're going to discover how effective the Lina Kahn approach of enforcing archaic laws is. Sure you can argue that it's playing whack-a-mole with SCOTUS, but I think we too often rush to the assumption that we need new laws to address current problems. Sometimes we already have the tools.

Valentine's Day and the 100th day of school (why is this a thing?) have conspired to make me the worst parent ever this morning. So that's fun.

I don't understand NBC coverage of these Olympic games. the 3 hour long "Primetime Olympics" broadcast seems to have huge chunks of drone footage with the caption "coverage will resume shortly".

the problem with not being online all day is that you realize how incomprehensible all the conversations are without context. only solution is to obviously double down on being online

Absolutely dominate. This team is going to be good for years.

Sufjan has like 20 of these, but what I've been jamming out most to lately is Phil Collins "Something Happened on The Way to Heaven"

Hard not to compare them to the team across the street--who won a championship, reinvented themselves, and are on the verge of winning another championship. An organization who has little challenge recruiting talent to Seattle despite playing during The Long Dark.

Tattoo progress today. I got the coffee mug and stained glass cross back in the fall. Took the opportunity of my birthday to add the trumpet vine.

as someone who has filled out lots of job applications--similar to some other areas where we talk about progressive values having unintended consequence-- striving to eliminate bias from the interview process has made it bad/impossible to seem fun and weird (complementary) in the application process

you can get conspiracy pilled even if you don't participate in the conspiracy. you start thinking that you need to understand, and end up as Charlie Day with the red thread thinking the global right is controlling trump. good way to end up hopelessly depressed and ineffectual in the actual struggle.

I got a new coat over the weekend, the Hawks won, and we had a good day doing good at work. Thanks, Monday.

Not to shamelessly hope-skeet on main but I think the NFL picking Bad Bunny, Green Day, and Brandi Carlile as Super Bowl performers is a positive sign that they don't think things are going to stay this way long-term.

It also makes you a better messenger. Stop yelling at people that we should do xyz because of your grad thesis on Marx. Start talking about why doing XYZ progressive policy aligns with their community values. Mutual aid is very strong in lots of conservative communities. There's common ground!

blue sky

the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?

Folks, Trump has brought the full force of ICE to bear on a mid-sized city and he can't even stop the demonstrations there. He's not going to be able to cancel the midterm elections by fiat or station his goons outside more than a handful of polling places.

There should be zero uncontested seats in November. run everywhere.

Obama once said Brexit seemed like a bad idea and the global press lost their minds.

Not disagreeing with Tyler: From Paul Revere's ride to the end of the American Revolutionary War was almost a decade, same with the French Revolution from the Estates-General to Napoleon's first defeat. History gets flattened, and we want to measure our days in Scaramucci's. Not how history works.

Diminish a band Loft Wedge Frenzy

Yes!!

one of my main pieces of advice to folks is volunteer at a food bank or community helpline. it's going to connect you to the most vulnerable members of your community, and I promise you will feel better about the world than you do when you're mad online.

we have too many dystopian stories and not enough utopias. even beyond politics, we've lost our imagination for a better world. we don't have jetpacks because we stopped dreaming about jetpacks.

this is my "talk to me about cooking, baseball, nerdy bible jokes, guitar, writing, fundraising, golf, and watching old seasons of This Old House on YouTube" shirt.

someday when I run for office one of my core issues will be standardized unit pricing. no more having half the prices in oz and half in lbs and another half in volume.

“It’s about being full human beings and not just means to an end. I want to live in a city that honors what you’re doing when you’re not making money: time spent on the playground with a kid or visiting a sick friend…we need bread, but we need roses too.” -Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson

read my first book of 2026

Impeachment is the morally correct path, but it's politically a dead end. I care less about whether Dems take up impeachment than I do about someone like AOC or Raskin being chair of oversight and handing out subpoenas and contempt citations.

don't waste a second screaming into the void about this being voter suppression. organize in your community and make sure everyone turns in their ballots to a drop box on election day. don't waste your energy on anger. they want you to feel angry and powerless. just don't.

I shook John Roderick's hand at the Shoreline Goodwill

on a train, AMA

I discovered something tragic this holiday season. Costco apparently changed their men's merino wool socks to be a high-calf sock rather than a mid-calf sock and it has ruined something previously perfect. I'm being silly about this, but also I kind of don't know what to do for new socks now, haha.

Genuinely curious what Gorsuch would think about federal officers/troops being deployed to arrest undocumented people living on tribal land.

bari weiss is in hot water, fielding accusations of both malice and incompetence, but it’s not too late for her to clear this whole thing up by sitting down for an honest, straightforward interview with isaac chotiner.

when I'm working on a car, I 100% have more trust in the YouTube video from a shop with 500k subscribers and 20m views over whatever uncited gobbledygook that ChatGPT tells you to do.

Rick Steves 2028

One of my favorite scenes in Wake Up Dead Man is Father Jud saying to Blanc, "you’re setting me against my real and only purpose in life, which is not to fight the wicked and bring them to justice, but to serve them and bring them to Christ!”

Christmas music is the bestmest music.

there is a criminal lack of people acknowledging the perfection of the Star Wars joke in this movie.

We watched Wake Up Dead Man last night and I cannot, *cannot*, CANNOT recommend this movie highly enough. I very much want to talk about this movie with other folks.

Fast and Furious movies with other unhinged FF franchise fans. Avengers: Endgame. The Last Jedi.

"accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete" I picked this book up today and the first thing in it is a poem by Teilhard de Chardin. It's like God hitting me in the face with a frying pan to get my attention. Excited & trepidacious for this. Thanks @sarahbessey.bsky.social

I'm almost old enough now to relate to Bob instead of Charlotte

it is still my opinion that the college football national championship is best decided by the Huskies beating Michigan or Ohio State in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day.