this is such small potatoes in the grand context of things but this announcement in Publishers Lunch tells me someone was absolutely giddy to stick it to Carsten

I just remembered this from Glenn Kessler 3 months ago

Let’s go Seattle 📢📢📢

Katie Wilson has been elected Seattle's next mayor www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

yeah it's a good thing Landon didn't publish any of this shit. the Times might have had to bump an article about trans people. bsky.app/profile/arid...

NYT had details of Trump's engagement with Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking and *hid it for him*, at the same time it was crucifying Clinton as untrustworthy due to her document retention & security.

The absolute funniest thing Mike Johnson could do right now is resign as speaker and force them to elect a new one to administer the vote

If, like me, you let Microsoft update in the last 24 hours and discovered they've found a new way to shoehorn in a Copilot icon that just... sits there, watching... You can uninstall Word and install the version from Nov 4th or earlier: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office...

With basically all the ballots in the city of Seattle's mayoral election counted, Katie Wilson is now above 50 percent, with Mayor Bruce Harrell sliding to 49.6 percent. They're currently within the mandatory recount requirements, but machine recounts don't generally change things much.

KATIE WILSON LEADS BY 1,346!

You have to send this link to everyone you know who voted I Seattle: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/... It takes like 30 seconds to make sure your vote was counted. Folks on here have all seen this probably, but your friends and family might not have!

This is so fucking funny

My guess is an underground electrical fire. Per SFD: "The [Energy Response] team is comprised of 44 firefighters specifically trained to fight energy-related fires in substations and underground vaults that make up a significant part of the city’s electrical infrastructure."

DON’T CALL IT A COMEBACK

that’s sure some weather!!!

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

Notably, this is about where Wilson was on the first night of the primary, and she wound up winning with 52% of the vote. Stay tuned!

I need all of capitol hill to divert their adderall supplies to king county elections STAT

BREAKING: California voters approve a new House map designed to help Democrats net 5 seats next year, NBC News projects, countering Republican redistricting in other states.

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

live view from cuomo hq

I bet he can pronounce it now

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

[Exit Clown.]

The overall trend seems to suggest Seattle's results will be what I'm hoping for but let's just say our sports teams have prepared me for eleventh-hour tragedy 🥲

I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.

this is objectively hilarious

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

I just wish Dick Cheney could have lived to see this.

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

The most measured thing I can say about Cheney is that there is not a single evil at work in politics today which he did not, with devotion and deliberation, clear the way for. Not a single one.

The long witch cackle my neighbors were just subject to at 6:23 am was me waking up, picking up my phone, and seeing the news alert

YOU THERE BOY, WHAT DAY IS IT

At this point they *have* to be doing this because they think it will be easier to scaremonger against Mamdani

Dropboxes are also closer than you think! You probably commute past at least one! www.sos.wa.gov/elections/vo...

I wish someone could explain daylight savings to my animals

mariners fans tonight

real quick can someone spoil the great gatsby for me

when Vance called Charlie his brother I didn't realize he meant as in levirate marriage

my review of Everybody Screams is that if paris paloma opens for F+TM they will draw and quarter a man on stage (positive)

Good morning it’s almost time.

I got about 2/3rds of the way through crafting my island into the setting of Little Thieves years ago and never finished…. PERHAPS IT IS TIME

“Used awful language at times” is a wild way to frame his rape apologia and wilder to call his critics of such “shrill”

I SEE THE MARINERS YET HAVE THE LAST LAUGH

I’m so sick of the economic issues are more important than social issues people. 44% of the US is non-white, 30% are white women. We’re all included in “DEI,” a group they’re trying to kick out of the job market. It’s hilarious that anyone thinks they can have an economy without us.

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

at some point the white guys on the left will have to reconcile with the reality that so many of their populism-spouting idols would happily sell out everyone *but* other white guys