Waste of time, Brent. Stupid email. Meaningless.

A dark day for Northwest journalism: @cascadepbs.bsky.social is axing the @cascadepbsnewsroom.bsky.social, laying off 17 people, per internal memo obtained by @kuow.org. Cascade PBS got ~10% of its budget from Corp. for Public Broadcasting. Unclear why its whole newsroom had to be axed.

MORE DRAGONS THAN ANY OTHER THEME PARK!!!!!!!! SCARY BUT FUN!!!!!!!! FREE TOP RAMEN TO FIRST 100 VISITORS!!!!!! What the hell is South Seattle's Dragon Land? www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Opposing accountability and constitutional rights as a matter of federal policy.

If U.S. Customs and Border Patrol can unlawfully detain someone in secret, without notice or access to counsel, then no ones’ due-process rights are safe, one attorney said this morning. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

AP: Trump's attacks on media echo authoritarians who silence dissent apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump says the FCC should revoke broadcast licenses of TV networks with show hosts who are critical of him. “The networks were 97% against me ... 97% negative,” he said. “I would think maybe their license should be taken away." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

California’s lawmakers over the weekend extended the state’s carbon market for years — and rebranded it to mirror Washington’s landmark climate policy. These two states are pulling to the head of the national pack on climate policy. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Two lawsuits filed in Denver District Court this week allege that artificial intelligence-powered chatbots sexually abused two Colorado teenagers, leading one girl to kill herself via @elliottwenzler.bsky.social www.denverpost.com/2025/09/18/c...

Feels like I have received Climate Week pitches every week for the past three years and when every week is Climate Week, no weeks are Climate Week

Climate change ‘beyond scientific dispute,’ National Academies report says - Politico politi.co/48jOb1k

Charlie Kirk spread hate speech, amassing money and power for himself and his allies in the process. Right-wing politicians are swiftly pushing to whitewash Kirk's fraught legacy and now, television stations across the country must run a Kirk tribute segment. www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

Yesterday, Trump was threatening a reporter. Today, he coerced ABC to kick Kimmel off the air. He's also suing NYT & WSJ for reporting the truth. And it's not just media: he's threatening private companies, colleges, Congress—everyone. Enough. NONE OF US should cave. We ALL need to push back.

field work

because the united states government is killing people in boats without trial or providing concrete evidence of their alleged crimes

zillow 2nite queen? 👀

me waiting for the housing market to crash so we can actually afford to buy a house

Beside the point but wouldn't 35,000 troops actually equal 70,000 boots on the ground? Either way, that's a lot of troops/boots deployed within the United States.

Karen Attiah, a black woman, got fired for A: accurately quoting what Charlie Kirk said about Black women B: Accurately observing that most white Americans seem permissive of white violence. It's bullshit, but almost expected in this white supremacist country.

Bills unpaid, contamination and concern growing, Washington’s Department of Ecology is escalating its strategy to clean up the once-prosperous pulp mill outside of Aberdeen. All the while, its latest owner is growing more defiant. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Today @vox.com is rolling out something special from climate correspondent Umair Irfan. Recently, we went to southern Texas to dig into an unsettling story: how climate change—and the ways we’ve built our cities—is giving mosquito-borne diseases new footholds in the US. www.vox.com/climate/4603...

I'm not sure that a journalist using plain and accurate language is newsworthy, but here we are

The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from. (Published April)

Editor: please stop making Patrick Swayze rhymes in your stories Me after my third cup of coffee: Uh oh y’all, it’s getting kinda hazy…

Imagine getting from Seattle to LA in four and a half hours with near-zero emissions.

"A group of more than 85 scientists have issued a joint rebuttal to a recent U.S. Department of Energy report about climate change, finding it full of errors and misrepresenting climate science." From @juliaradio.bsky.social @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/09/02/n...

This is important. It's about the air you breathe and who's allowed to pollute it. The federal government wants to abandon years of climate science and regulation, which will drastically slow the country's ability to cut greenhouse gas emissions. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Late Friday after the story pubbed, the EPA confirmed that arsenic, barium, chromium, lead, & other hazardous materials like cancer-causing nitrobenzene were found in soot following the explosion. The agency maintains the position that the toxins are not a threat to human health.

“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris

Most questions remain unanswered, including whether businesses or firefighters were targeted in the criminal investigation, and whether the investigation was connected to the arrests. Firefighters said it felt like a setup. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Scoop: The Trump administration appears to be considering a move to label wind farms as intentionally harming migratory birds, a classification that would in the eyes of some legal experts label *any* project illegal. It would definitely be fought in court if pursued. @heatmap.news

It was what it looked like it was: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.

Context that didn't make it into the story, a quick 🧵 About 60,000 people are currently in custody across the country, said Matt Adams, legal director for the nonprofit Northwest Immigrant Rights Project. 1/9

If this is what it looks like it is, then… woof. Good reporting from @isabellabreda.bsky.social and @conradswanson.bsky.social

Border patrol, and other federal agents, arresting firefighters on a red flag day. This isn’t normal.

idk if you all know but this whole climate change thing is a pretty big deal come write about it! seattletimes.applytojob.com/apply/apstHy...

Washington state officials say the U.S. Army is violating state law over its lack of action on PFAS contamination in East Selah, Yakima County.

To get that perfect ear of corn, weather has to cooperate. But climate change is making it dicier

Israel assassinates another group of journalists, part of 19 people the IDF killed when it fired two missiles at a hospital. They’re going to just keep killing and killing and killing unabated, journalists and aid workers and doctors and children and families.

I wanted to do something different so I went to Oregon to understand how in the world Seattle expects to double its energy output without adding fossil fuels. It’s gonna be hard. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

News flash jerk weeds: I QUIT. Just struck it rich with Goldmbn Sbchs!!!! You’re never going to see me again. I’m going to take my millions and build a huge moat to keep all of you away from me and my money

@kromandavid.bsky.social catching a stray out here

Our Climate Lab is growing, come work with us! www.journalismjobs.com/1691620-clim...

In the 1990s, Colorado was dubbed "The Hate State" after voters approved Amendment 2, which prohibited the state or local governments from passing anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people. James Dobson and Focus on the Family lobbied heavily for that amendment.

Iowa corn is better.

"Mixed" is quite an understatement for a man who is deploying the United States military against its own citizens

Happy Monday to everybody except the woman who inexplicably already has 5820 XP in my Diamond League in Duolingo. We all know you're cheating, Gigi. You're not fooling anyone.

We asked people who experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments to write about it in their own words. In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us about how her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal:

you telling me we came from drought 100 years ago why we still got drought?