That was one of the greatest collapses in the history of sports by the Sounders. Up 2-0 in the eighth minute, up a man and a goal in the 41st minute, had to tie it in the 88th, miss four penalties - including two that would have won the game.

Look at this asshole ICE agent pointing his gun at a photographer. Just the worst fucking people.

I think it's pretty clear, Zohran Mamdani won the NYC Mayoral Election because he's a Sounders fan.

An incredible thread from the author of one of the best books I've read this year. Go salmon, go.

A big blue tidal wave calls for Tuesday beers.

The Caldwell Police Department has been the only one of 10 agencies at a recent federal raid in Wilder, Idaho, to confirm that its officers zip-tied children during the Oct. 19 operation at a horse racing venue. www.idahostatesman.com/news/northwe...

WA AG joins multi-state coalition supporting transgender student-athletes’ rights “Attorney General Nick Brown officially joined 12 other states in a court brief supporting trans-inclusive sports policies.”

Oh. My. God. What a day in the Puget Sound. 73 Endangered Southern Resident Orcas swam past Point Robinson Lighthouse on Vashon Island. Here is one breaching with a salmon in its mouth. 🦑

That was one of the most incredible choke jobs you will ever see. Unbelievable performance by the Jays.

That bomb reminded me of Jim Leyritz's homer against Smoltz and the Braves in 1996. Hanging breaking ball golfed out by an unlikely hero.

Holy cow.

sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is

Republicans are perfectly happy that SNAP isn't being funded during the shutdown because they don't think that SNAP should be funded, period.

I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.

Even after the windstorm over the weekend, Tacoma is still looking mighty fine this fall.

Fall colors and a bald eagle are pretty fun. Normally, I capture photos of bald eagles high up in trees - so I'm below them. Yesterday, I was on top of a cliff with very tall trees on the slope and so this eagle was actually below me. 🪶

Apparently my daughter can't call @chrisgove101.bsky.social Uncle Groves anymore, since he's not really her uncle. Oh, the humanity.

Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol chief in charge of operations in Chicago, told a judge today the government needs more time to submit use-of-force reports to the court because of the "sheer volume" of reports

Just so everyone knows where we are currently in the job market: employers are asking for 3-5 years of experience for part-time jobs. If you have a job - hug it. You do not want to be out here looking for one.

*Stares in roadway safety wisdom Eyes up, phones down on the highways.

I have a soft spot for Don Mattingly because he's on the record as 1994 being his best last chance at a World Series, but deciding the more important thing was to support a strike authorization vote and strike if necessary that year, as the game the young guys would inherit mattered more.

Welcome my son Welcome ... to the machine

the reason this local pizza chain says it’s closing is the economy. they do not mention the class action lawsuit settlement over 5+ years of skimming employee tips to pay credit card fees www.yahoo.com/news/article...

A big bowl of Pho in at Vien Dong in Tacoma’s Lincoln District before seeing Bad Bad Hats in someone’s living room. (h/t: @craigcraker.bsky.social)

Just wanna highlight that Seattle Public Schools teacher salaries start at just over $60,000, less than half what a new Seattle police officer will make after six months under the new contract. Cops get bonuses for two-year associate degrees; teachers, of course, have to have finished college.

Baseball has survived a racist color line, game fixing, The Great Depression, two world wars, a work stoppage that canceled a World Series, and Bowie Kuhn. Can we stop talking about "one team trying too hard to win" as an existential threat to the game?

Don Mattingly is headed to his first World Series.

Blocked someone for skeeting that the No Kings protests "didn't accomplish anything" Oh, I'm so sorry that 7,000,000+ Americans taking to the streets to be in community and send a very clear message of regime change two days ago hasn't fixed everything just yet I'm sure your plan is better

Who cares about her op eds? Nobody's paying to read them any more. It's like complaining about the sports guy in Boise.

This sums up the state of media in our state well. To make matters worse the partisan local news is also the only local news. There is nowhere else for people to turn. And with King5 being bought by right wingers, it is about to get even worse.

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

The Tacoma #NoKings rally was great fun today - lots of silly costumes standing in opposition to fascism.

Washington State is one of the most Democratic leaning states in the country. Zero Republicans hold statewide elected office and the state hasn't voted for the GOP for President since 1988, that's 37 years. Nevertheless the ABC & Fox affiliates in Seattle are right wing propaganda mills.

25 years ago today: "Get your tokens ready!" Good ol' Arthur Rhodes lost his battle against David Justice, and the Bronx shook.

Over on Twitter, DHS just questioned @nicolefoy.bsky.social's vital @propublica.org reporting on American citizens arrested by immigration agents, calling her story "fake news." But—whoops!—they conveniently forgot the link. Here it is. Check the receipts. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

A Steller Sea Lion eats a salmon while a Glaucous Gull waits for leftovers Wednesday in Tacoma, Wash. in the Puget Sound. 🦑

It is a spectacular fall day in Western Washington and Mount Rainier is looking amazing even with the haze.

What if - and hear me out here - we simply didn't put tariffs on coffee? Then we could all enjoy our cup of joe without stupid articles like this.

At this point, if the Mariners don't win the World Series then they are chokers.

For those who don’t intimately understand how news works and why Bari Weiss’s unearned elevation to head of CBS News matters, I’d recommend watching this in entirety. Also, will forever point out irony of how an admitted DEI hire thinks her hire was meritorious while Black people’s aren’t.

It's mushroom season in the Northwest.

This is an outstanding conversation about how the city council in Tacoma is functionally banning people experiencing homelessness from much of the city. open.spotify.com/episode/6Mex...

Imagine if you did this in any other journalistic context "Did the Tigers or Mariners Win Game 5? In Detroit, Depends on the Narrator."

Fuckin awful.

It's world octopus day and in honor of that, here is an Eastern Pacific Red Octopus I saw in 2023 in Tacoma, Wash. 🦑

I’ve gotten so many emails that say: “Spokane is not liberal. The majority voted for Trump.” And then they send me the election results. Those are COUNTY results. The majority of Spokane CITY (and Boise, too) voted for Harris. Thus the use of “liberal cities”

I just saw a Seattle Police employment commercial on Hulu that uses "Come as you are" as its tagline. What in the absolute fuck?

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

The scale of the Bill Belichick humiliation is really remarkable, though then I remember, well, he is a Trump man