But they don't have to pay the freelancers' health care or benefits. And they save on the fired employees' health care and benefits for good.

Seems like the kind of thing a political party interested in affordability might want to have a legible message on.

The California High-Speed Rail Authority has announced the team who will be laying the track in the Central Valley, promising construction will begin this year.

"The most important thing about the election is not that Trump was proclaimed the winner, but that he was allowed to run." I wrote that in 2024. I'm disgusted by those who ignore the institutional rot that enabled Trump and blame everyday voters instead. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

crazy that under the precedent set by callais, a lily-white congressional delegation formed by "partisan" gerrymandering in a plurality black state passes constitutional muster, while any majority-minority district is constitutionally suspect

Trump is stealing your entry fees to national parks.

Romania 24 hours before the Russian attack: “We will not be intimidated. We maintain our diplomatic presence in Ukraine and in Kyiv. Ukraine has the legitimate and inalienable right to sovereignty and freedom in full security.”

So Russia is attacking NATO members now. Seems bad.

E. Jean Carroll didn't just "accuse" Trump of sexual assault. She won a civil lawsuit against Trump for sexual assault. A jury found that Trump sexually assaulted her. She deserves for us to call it what it is.

Bruce Harrell gets a fair share of the blame for getting Ballard Link to the point where it's at today, and deservedly so, but someone who I don't think gets enough of the blame is Jenny Durkan. 2017-2020 were the lost years for Seattle's ST3 projects.

Greetings from Union Station. We're a few minutes away from the most impactful Sound Transit board meeting of this decade. The board is set to keep some ST3 projects fully on track, delay others, and throw a handful of major transit projects into limbo. Stay tuned for updates.

Reporters don't talk enough about how Republicans do not consider Democratic voters to be fully American.

It's really hard to understand how people can be this monumentally stupid. This will never, ever happen. Flights are not going to be diverted by airlines to red states. Idiocracy.

This is not just the foreseeable consequence of Trump policies, it was in fact projected in real time.

With tariffs, the Iran War and now the threat by DHS to close most major US airports to international flights, the Trump admin loaded with unqualified partisan hacks is constantly looking for new and creative ways to wreck the economy while blaming Biden.

This should be the single question test you need to pass in order to register to vote

That’s pretty unhinged. #CarBrain

Many things about Colbert doing a public access show in Michigan the day after his last Late Show are funny to me, but among the funniest is that I'm pretty sure this set is made out of the Mac OS X 10.3 default wallpaper flipped upside-down.

trump’s dumb ass has made colbert the most beloved guy in media right now

Google thought long and hard how to finally kill its flagship product for good, and came up with a surefire plan.

The best thing Seattleites can do right now to help queer folks is build an absolute shit ton of housing so anyone fleeing oppressive states can afford to move here

The story feels tailor-made for Bluesky

To be fair "mediocrity who holds a job for which he is not qualified" applies to anyone in Trump's administration

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, SCOTUS has paved the way for Republicans to eliminate Black leadership & representation in Congress. Instead of electing their own leaders, voters will now have their reps imposed on them. We must fight back & defend the right to vote.

I like the idea of going "holy shit americas gun control has this gaping loophole that people could exploit to get firearms" as though reloading a musket even once isn't harder than the entire process of legally buying a semiautomatic

The scientific explanation is that AI is just as sexist as the men who trained it.

Funny how after every SCOTUS ruling striking down some protection from government abuse, the officials those protections restrained — cops, prosecutors, Republican state electeds — immediately start acting in the precise manner SCOTUS assured us they no longer do.

I don't think the NYT other mainstream papers literally have a hole on the front page with a label that says "INSERT NEGATIVE MAMDANI STORY HERE" and then just search for whatever is the best story they can find that fits it, but if you assume that's true you will predict a lot of their coverage.

Absolutely devastating read. www.them.us/story/slain-...

The mainstream media fail us when they write small stories on individual bad acts instead of hitting the total button on Trump's deep corruption, with headlines like: HOW TRUMP PUTS JUSTICE UP FOR SALE or BILLIONAIRES BUY OFF TRUMP. Instead, the media treat each grift as a one-off, soon forgotten.

I’m actually happy he keeps going on tv and talking about the prices of things. Every time he talks the Democrats get new campaign material. Roll his festering ass in front of every camera and news agency that will film him🤷🏾‍♀️😂

munich, vienna, tokyo, seoul all have both bathrooms and/or small retail stores integrated into transit stations sound transit can't do either

This would come as a surprise to the coffee shop that just opened inside the Seattle ferry terminal, or the dozens of shops and restaurants at SeaTac Airport.

This a disgusting abomination. Republicans are going to make hard-working, law abiding taxpayers pay off the thugs and criminals who beat cops on J6 and were convicted of various other crimes. Vote every Republican out of office this Nov. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

The United States has only had full suffrage since 1965. After a recent Supreme Court decision effectively disenfranchised millions of Black voters across the American South, the country can no longer pretend it’s a democracy. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/millions-o...

An insane level of corruption—even for Trump. A $1.7 BILLION slush fund for Trump’s hand-picked stooges to hand money to January 6th insurrectionists and his political allies. Here’s the President’s priority as Americans sell their plasma to afford gas and groceries:

This is a required stand for anyone running in 2028.

The Dems are bad at a lot of stuff you want in a political party, but (the?) one thing they are quite good at is parliamentary maneuvering

Artificial “intelligence.”

HAHAAHAHAHAHAA! They keep coming up with better and better midterm-election slogans: "Gas prices are high, but that's life." YOU GUYS ARE DOING GREAT, KEEP GOING!

Hello Donald this is your communications strategist speaking. I am advising you today to please keep saying this shit

Straight-up admitting it’s all for show. Unbelievable stuff.

ALL Helicopters should be able to land at Seattle Children's Hospital, NOT a mile away. If South Lake Union can handle the perpetual seaplane noise, Laurelhurst can handle occasional helicopters. But maybe I’m biased:

Trump ravages institutional constraints as his GOP allies gleefully stack the electoral deck in their favor through aggressive gerrymanders. This leaves few remaining avenue for liberals to effect change. So you know what that means, right? That's right, its finger-wagging time.

"John Brown taught us that the cheapest price to pay for liberty is its cost to-day." WEB du Bois, in his 1909 biography

Secret Service shot a kid today

oh hey my book 'building for people' is half off (or 2 for the price of 1 - give a copy to your favorite legislator!) press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Another major indicator the NYT institutionally cooked its brain on X. Tucker Carlson is a non-entity for most Americans. I don't see him on TV, no one I know talks about him or is influenced by him. You have to spend considerable time on X to think he's still a big deal worth this much coverage.

The suckers are the whole business. That’s it. The whole ballgame. If there are no suckers there’s nothing for sharks to eat.