The president’s company is selling the president’s words to Wall Street for personal profit. This is cartoonish corruption a 10 year old understands.

Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."

New low unlocked! Today 100-200 commuters and I were stopped TWICE in one short stretch of @sound-transit.bsky.social track because SeattleDOT signals needed to prioritize <10 cars. Making hundreds wait so handfuls can have convenience is dumb and inefficient.

I appreciate @sound-transit.bsky.social’s work on keeping trains reliable. I don’t appreciate how reliably @seattledot.bsky.social prioritizes a handful of cars over rush hour trains filled with 100-200 people. I’m stopped between stations on MLK Way again because of car signals.

I’m stopped, delayed between stations on a @sound-transit.bsky.social train because @seattledot.bsky.social thinks 200 people on a train should wait for ~10 cars crossing MLK Way. 10 cars inconveniencing 200 train riders - is this good transportation practice? Please do better.

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

Your periodic reminder that cities aren’t loud. Cars are loud.

Garnet Smith, a 44-year-old U.S. military veteran has been detained at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma for over nine months, and recently reported to several groups that a guard employed by the GEO Group sexually assaulted him. More below

This is not hyperbole. It's a diagnosis. The level of incompetence at ICE is terminal. Destroy it and start over. Don't take it from skeets and posts - current and former law enforcement have been 💩ing all over ICE and the lack of professionalism for months now.

I can't stop thinking about our NATO Ambassador bragging on the US to World Cup tourists saying "we have extraordinary things like Buc-ee’s, Chick-fil-A ... just some very convenient places to eat in your car as you’re having a phone call." Eating alone in a car was his highlight. Boggles the mind.

When regulation = more freedom.

Rotten to the core. Lying about what happened when you killed a person you were pursuing only to find out it’s the wrong person is terminal level incompetence. Abolish ICE. Destroy the agency and rebuild what we actually need.

This is bad

I’m hearing people use the phrase “learning lesson” more often and it’s driving me slowly insane. “That experience was a good learning lesson for me.” “We’ll see what learning lessons we can take from this.” … what are we doing..

Anti-NIMBY campaigns should just be pictures of beautiful buildings that are illegal under design review and zoning standards.

Sure, but this only happens on the waterfront on days there's World Cup games or one of the 8 days there's a Seahawks game or one of the 17 days there's a Sounders game or one of the 81 days there's a Mariners game or when there are major concerts or when one of 42 cruise departures are happening..

I’m renaming SEPA the SEattle Process Annihilator - the place where good ideas go to die.

when i was young they had these people called “investigative journalists” who could find out stuff like if a senator was dead or not

Just found footage of the world trying to convince the US that the red card reversal is the worst thing that FIFA's ever done and the last straw:

More FIFA critique - raise prices high enough and you get more Jeff Bezos in a recliner and less real supporters who are ready to scream to the last. Rich people lack passion for sports. They are there to consume the environment, not contribute to it.

People who shrugged past Ronaldo's suspension lift, decisive handballs, Messi no-calls, one-sided officiating, VAR misuse, Russia's selection, and playing in slave-built stadiums ...are mad at FIFA's Balogun red reversal? OK. Noted. Let's just agree we all deserve better than FIFA.

We are a people united around an idea. Not an ethnicity, a religion, nor geography. This is our idea - all of us created equal, with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and happiness.

I think a lot of the talk of super manly men with over the top conservative views being closeted is overdone. But y’all…. Seriously. With this outfit?

Goal of the tournament.

America could really use Car Talk right about now.

Bicycles deliver the freedom car commercials promise.

If you think eating in your car on your phone is one of the “great” things about America, you need to go actually visit your community. Is that a reality for many of us? Yes. But I do a lot of things to get through life that I wouldn’t list as the best things about America. Yikes.

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Many people are choosing smaller-and-easier than car stuff to get the last bit of their journeys done. No matter what, everyone is a pedestrian at the end of their journey, even in a car. We should have better and safer infrastructure for them and us.

When it's guns, they're "originalist." When it's taking rights from women, they're "originalist." When it's birthright citizenship in a nation of immigrants - ALL OF THE SUDDEN the framer's couldn't have possibly foreseen what has happened. "Originalism" was always cynical bullshit.

I’m on a @sound-transit.bsky.social train stopped in the middle of MLK Way, between stations, because @seattledot.bsky.social thinks 1 car turning left should delay 150-200 people on a train. No, this isn’t a repost. The same delay keeps happening every time I ride @sound-transit.bsky.social

Every Fox News live shot today from Trump's post-rapture-like fair on the National Mall has been hilarious. Here's a supercut:

Days ago my paper said that 4 watch party locations was more than 1 and why didn't we just do 1? Today they're saying "yeah, ok, our reputation is great and business is up, but it's not as up as some people said and let's focus on that disappointment." Do they hate soccer, money, fun, or all 3?

Today the World Cup proved that conventional wisdom from soccer analyzers is group think. Netherlands out. Germany out. Brazil through by the skin of their teeth. This is very, very good for the game.

NEW: It has been 118 years since the Supreme Court ruled the federal government owes tribes water, but Native American communities in northern Arizona are still fighting for their rights to the Colorado River. With @kjzz.org

Sports shows us again and again that performance is as much about access as it is about ability. And yet we treat it as a pure meritocracy. It’s not. In the US it’s more about who is allowed to or can afford to participate. This situation is exactly that phenomenon, played out on the largest stage

The Iowa Cubs 18th annual Citizenship Ceremony is tonight. The team will welcome 29 new citizens from 16 countries. One of the best traditions in all of Minor League Baseball.

The World Cup is proof that if not for our leaders, the vast majority of the world's people would get along just fine.

Low key the best way to reduce income inequality right now is to unleash the IRS and let them enforce. Real agents, real investigative power, real consequences for criminal cheaters. If working people are ever back in power we need to make this more common: www.instagram.com/reel/DZu1CrU...

Oh man the cool air shift happening right now is Seattle is glorious. 11:45 at night and I'm sitting with all the windows open. Amazing.

The amount of hardware hacking that’s possible with electrification is endless. Cars as home backup power. Mini turbines. Plug in solar. Batteries in high-draw appliances….

I'm currently convinced that in my lifetime we will have to consider earth-cooling technologies (more scary, unpredictable, global climate manipulation) or accept that thousands to millions will die in extreme weather every year.

We built ~7500 parking spaces in big concrete bunkers right next to our stadiums. Meanwhile, trains capable of delivering 10x the fans are blocks away. We made the same mistake at SeaTac. And continue to at suburban stations. Low efficiency should make way for high efficiency. Not the opposite.

I’m on a @sound-transit.bsky.social trained stopped in the middle of MLK Way, between stations, because I guess @seattledot.bsky.social thinks 7 cars turning left should delay 150-200 people on a train.

Cool. Then he can expend 10x the money, effort, and focus on going around saying how wrong he has always been. OR The disinformation he fostered will stick around for decades and his total reversal will go mumbled in isolated corners of the discourse, never breaking through.

I have never heard any @mayorofseattle.bsky.social or @council.seattle.gov member give me a good reason why design review exists. It always sounds like process with no clear goal. Start over, it's broken. And possibly now illegal.

Good news! ‘Plug-in’ solar panels costing just hundreds of pounds are poised to go on sale within months after a review found they were safe to use in the UK archive.is/eZ8Q8

I often think bus drivers are unsung heros in many ways: coping with traffic issues; impatient drivers who do anything to get past them; rude customers etc. So I'm sending a huge 'thank you' to all our bus drivers especially working in the intense heat this week. You are appreciated ❤️