This sort of smug, dismissive superiority from pundits - "oh, you were naive to think anything could be better" - is defeatist and lazy. There are a million different ways the world isn't the way it should be. That is an invitation for improvement! Use your platform to rally people for change!

Seattle City Hall right now, where students from around the city have gathered after a mass walk-out to protest ICE:

the ideals are good, actually even if we’ve never lived up to them it doesn’t mean we can’t start

@murray.senate.gov (202) 224-2621 @cantwell.senate.gov (202) 224-3441 I called my senators again to make it clear this is not good enough. We need firm commitments to abolish ICE and DHS. We can't settle for meager reforms ICE can just ignore. These 'reforms' won't stop ICE executions.

Listening to a day-long hearing on whether building affordable housing in a small section of Bainbridge Island will have a negative impact on the environment and I have to tell you, I don't think this is a good use of anyone's time.

Philip I am an elder caregiver, in very rural very red Colorado. All of my clients are veterans in their mid to late '80s or older. Every single one of them, believe with their whole being, that they are having an actual conversation with Donald Trump in these emails. Every one of them.

Who’s next? One demotion cannot detract from accountability. Greg Bovino and Trump’s agents must still be held responsible for the killings and the damage they’ve done to America.

There’s no need for deep analysis of why Dems want to increase ICE funding. It’s simple. You’ve been lied to and they are one and the same with Repubs. Feel the sting and move forward like a grown up. prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...

Back when I lived in NYC there was a joint on St Marks Pl where you'd sit at the grill and they'd serve up sliders and milkshakes, with rap on the stereo and CSGO matches on the TVs more than once. It turns out that making a restaurant that targets me personally is not a viable business strategy

My statement on Immigration Enforcement Actions in Seattle and Minneapolis followed by the full press release from Councilmember Foster and myself. council.seattle.gov/2026/01/08/s...

For months, Trump’s DHS has wreaked lawless havoc in our neighborhoods. Tear gassing infants, families, and police. Firing their weapons at peaceful citizens. Killing innocent people. It’s brutal, unconstitutional, and out of control. It must stop. Kristi Noem must go. Now.

10 years ago today, Ken Griffey Jr. was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. historylink.org/File/11185

If a film is over 160 minutes long, it really needs to have an intermission.

It feels like certain types of guys are unable to take in information in solitude. It has to be a conversation, explanations tailored to their thought patterns, with someone they perceive as servile to them. They can’t read an email: someone has to tell them what it says, even if it’s incorrect.

“I just don’t like mayonnaise” you are wasting your life

Merry Christmas

I've never once had a Jones soda that was even halfway drinkable but if somebody from out of state said that it'd start a fight

convincing ordinary people that making dumb little html sites was embarrassing and passé was a crime worthy of death

Picked up my kiddo's season-long rental skis last week...

To be clear, this isn’t even about anything to do with the match. They’re just mad that their match is happening during pride. The nicest thing I can say here is “shut the fuck up and respect our norms or don’t come” www.kuow.org/stories/egyp...

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Can't express enough how much driving in a city and sitting in commuter traffic ruins the driving experience.

Yes. We are living through a horrible moment in history and none of us are doing nearly enough about it.

Tidal could be a real - if niche - player if they hired somebody to fix their iOS app and advertised that they actually pay artists (relative to other services). Instead, it feels like the "is Pepsi okay?" of streaming.

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

It's crazy how the way you have to get to WA ski areas directly contributes to worsening, shortening ski seasons (on top of the rest of the whole climate apocalypse thing).

Until the sun burns out

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Enjoying an unhurried and delightful meal at The Table Of Success. My waiters keep bringing me off-menu amuse bouches "from the chef." Ah here comes another crudo. Sublime.

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers".

this is just me at 8:01PM

The Seattle Mariners, everyone. 😔

God hates the Seattle Mariners, and god hates me specifically

Here we go, last chance… let’s go M’s!

Alright, I still believe this can go 15 innings or more. Just one run, M’s. / Bon, je crois toujours que ça peut durer 15 manches ou plus. Juste un point, M’s.

Baseball is a misery who invented this shit

Watching the Mariners. / Regarder les marins.

🔱 🔱 🔱 🔱 🔱 🔱 🔱 🔱 🔱

you can tell this is a game 7 because it's the sixth inning and none of the players have left the stadium yet. even the shortstops are sticking around even though you don't really need them. this is playoff baseball

Hell yeah

That's what we need

Could we stop doing double plays

Here are Hasan Piker's avg concurrent viewership figures, for comparison. There have been some stories on him recently, but I still think journalists are underrating the influence of him+his fellow politics streamers. "Online isn't real" doesn't cut it anymore, the center of gravity is shifting.

#OnThisDay in 1992, the first Twin Peaks Festival was held in North Bend. historylink.org/File/11182

Hard to overstate how much help Sound Transit would be providing tourists by labeling light rail platforms "northbound" and "southbound."

"And Ryan is over there saying 'she's going to take the whole housing budget.' No, I am not. I am simply saying that we're going to have to look, we're going to have to look in places where we can do the least damage and to continue funding our top priorities, and it's going to be rocky." 3/