The likelihood you've been right about the course of American politics over the last decade rises in direct proportion to how often you listen to Rage Against the Machine. Having studied political science hurts you a bit. Having worked as a political journalist hurts a lot.

Can’t argue with that

NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.

Pleased to find myself in the era where millennials have become old enough that lame mass media stuff like football game halftime shows now shamelessly pander to our nostalgia

seattle's political geography is as wild as (and presumably at some level is reflective of) its physical geopraphy

Harrell is now at 116,435 vs Wilson's 112,135. Wilson got over 5k more new votes than Harrell today, and today's ballot drop is less than half of the outstanding vote. So a similar margin in the remainder would have Wilson narrowly pull ahead.

Friday 11/7: Wilson made up quite a bit of ground today.

Thursday 11/6: Slight movement towards Wilson today, as expected with the later vote. Still a lot of ground to make up and a lot of votes outstanding, so it's really hard to say much more than it'll be interesting to see tomorrow's results!

King County elections confirmed to me that so far they’ve only counted ballots up to those submitted Monday or early on Election Day, and none from drop boxes. Wednesday reflects basically a wrap up of what they started counting Tuesday.

Well. That's not a shift to Wilson. She did lose ground on one day of the primary count, but needs something dramatic now. 90k to 100k votes left, Wilson trails by 11,183. She needs at least 55% of the remaining votes.

Wednesday update: with the 11/5 King County results, no evidence of a shift yet. Harrell maintains a lead of about 74k to Wilson's 63k, meaning his lead actually expanded from 8k to 11k with the second day of counting. [1/n]

The Seattle mayoral election will be a nailbiter for sure. Incumbent Bruce Harrell is currently up 62k votes to challenger Katie Wilson's nearly 54k. But as is typical for Seattle and its mail-in ballot reporting (there is no in-person voting in WA state), that leaves a lot of uncertainty. [1/n]

Just imagined a guy who rinses his bananas after peeling them and now I'm so upset I need to take a walk around the block to cool off.

Kinda says it all. @weisenthal.bsky.social $UPS

i am 39 years OLD. i post ONLINE. i have a stable job in a big CITY. i have a mild form of mental ILLNESS that can be treated with LITTLE to NO medication. i am going to kill myself because of postseason BASEBALL.

Reading today’s big NYT Magazine story made me physically sick It details how Trump & the men he put in charge of federal research—men like Jay Bhattacharya & RFK Jr—are dismantling cancer research Not just the US vaccine system—they’re crushing cancer R&D 🎁Link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

perhaps soon, going solar need not involve tens of thousands of dollars and an onslaught of logistics. here's how small, simple, plug-in solar arrays - and the laws to support them - are beginning to gain traction in the U.S.

Of course

Just imagined the French version of Yogi Bear saying “labubu” and now I’m so angry I need to walk around the backyard for a bit

McKinsey believing from its board of directors on down that the current state of AI is existential to its business says far more about McKinsey than it does about AI lol apple.news/A8FLn2BPeRP6...

Like watching someone dunk Prometheus's flame in a lake.

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.

See this is what I’m talking about

The moon is getting out of hand. We used to just go outside and every once in a while think "huh, moon looks weird tonight" and go about our business. Now every other week there's gotta be a new name and series of articles about it.

Wish I was as excited about anything in my life as this guy is about numbers going up on a screen

There are more yoga teachers in America than there are coal miners

David Lynch’s DUNE (1984) is a world beyond ur experience, beyond ur imagination, and you can go to this place beyond ur dreams when it plays at Downtown! Plays April 11-16, as part of the Greater Seattle cinema series, To Live Is To Dream: A Northwest Tribute To David Lynch: siff.info/lynchdune-bs

My favorite weekly email is the one from the reptile store near my nephew's house that I bought him some newts from. Pipa Pipa toads are clearly just steamrolled Rain Frogs. Fascinating species!

This list is just brutal to read. A collection of some of the most impactful and effective things the US has accomplished, now all gone. And torn down in such an intentionally destructive way as to eliminate any sort of mitigation or soft landing.

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

NEW: Bill Gates’ climate tech advocacy/philanthropic org, Breakthrough Energy, is sharply cutting its grant making to climate policy and advocacy nonprofits, i’ve learned. Breakthrough made almost $100 million in grants to these organizations in 2023

This is the correct response to all popular music, beginning the day you turn forty. I too hope the young people had, and will continue to have fun.

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Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

Hegseth really brings home how Evangelical Christianity got so much market share in America: it's the religion that asks less of you once you convert

Gotta hand it to Aaron Sorkin for this one

Interesting night to be landing in Santa Ana.

GUYS I FOUND HIM

quit complaining about stores playing christmas music in november and start writing some thanksgiving songs. we wouldn’t be in this situation if thanksgiving had bangers

Just me, yet again tapping the "oil and gas companies poisoned the brains of my entire generation and now we're predisposed to reactionary, emotional behavior and easily manipulated by anger and fear" sign.

this one is just going to haunt me. might get a tattoo of it.

"do better things" "who is going to tell people you're doing the things?" we do not currently have a great answer to that question, and it's one of our biggest problems I would like people to do better things but that on its own won't be enough

Appropriate message for a garbage can today. I admire Lincoln's spirit but he was wrong.

Apropos of everything, here's NIN playing Bowie's "I'm Afraid of Americans" in Toronto 15 years ago, filmed by me from on stage in a single shot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-d2...

Not feeling great, to be honest!