Perfection.

My fellow Washingtonians, 2025 might be an off-cycle election, but we've still got some important measures to weigh in on! Remember to have your ballot in an election drop box by 8:00 pm Tuesday! More resources, including drop box location and in-person registration & ballot casting, at votewa.gov

PSA for Seattle procrastinators: If you're voting today or tomorrow, USE A DROP BOX, NOT THE MAIL! The USPS won't guarantee your timely ballot is postmarked on time. Locations of ballot boxes: cd.kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec... More details: publicola.com/2025/10/03/p...

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

If you see someone stealing groceries, no you didn’t

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone. And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

CHICAGO — WGN News editor/producer Debbie Brockman grabbed by Trump’s ICE goons.. who then intentionally ram a bystander’s car as they peel away. More: www.fox32chicago.com/news/wgn-new...

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

The free press in the PNW takes another hit: Cascade PBS shutters its newsroom, putting sixteen staff out of work Among those who have been let go are editor Megan Burbank, city hall reporter Josh Cohen, and state politics reporter Laurel Demkovich. Meanwhile, CEO Rob Dunlop's executive…

Ben is right (🧵). Also, subscribe to The Onion. The paper is such a treat. membership.theonion.com

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards." www.wired.com/story/uncann...

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Breaking — FEMA Acting Chief Counsel Colt Hagmaier just resigned in an email to staff. He's worked at the agency for more than a decade. Hagmaier's resignation comes immediately after two FEMA employees were placed on leave for comments about Charlie Kirk. Text of his email shared with me:

marco rubio trying to impose sanctions on brazil but he can't because his propeller beanie keeps falling off and getting caught in his tricycle

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

I was going to post about how amazing it was that I can now ride from Beacon Hill to South Park to Georgetown to downtown almost entirely in PBLs. But instead I’ll post this picture of a guy who smashed into the bike lane seconds after I rolled through:

Published over 6 years ago.

so close! that is a field

need people to understand that accepting or conceding that he has the authority to do these things is tantamount to giving him the authority, and so your preemptive dooming is actively counterproductive

When four homes replace a SFH, each new home is about the same price as the original, and at 5 units or more, the new homes tend to be more affordable. But the critical comparison is to the 1-for-1 replacement — a mansionization, in other words.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Boycott CBS and cancel your Paramount+. Make a pledge to PBS and NPR instead.

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

i lose friends the old fashioned way by playing ska

Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated). It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings. It has written majority opinions in only 3. Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*

The Bothell City Council just voted 5-1 to drop all minimum off-street parking requirements at the same time that they approved the legalization of neighborhood cafes and corner stores everywhere in the city.

hey, you ever re-read the Declaration of Independence? some fascinating stuff in there www.theverge.com/policy/69730...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Nine of these hospitals are in WA-04 (Newhouse (R)), two in WA-05 (Baumgartner (R)), and three in WA-06 (Randall (D)). Among them, only Randall voted against the bill.

The Trump administration is currently holding hostage nearly $7B in federal funding for K-12 schools--funding that was supposed to be distributed yesterday. They've stolen $80M from Wisconsin students and teachers alone. How much have they stolen from your state? www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.

The rise of people like Lander and Walz, whose ideologies don't exactly match mine but have the exact right combination of "love thy neighbor" and "fuck you, asshole" attitudes, is massive positive for people who care about left of center politics

This is thimerosal. It is NOT mercury. You can see that clearly by the chemical structure. It has an ion that contains mercury as a component. That’s it. That’s like saying water is “hydrogen” or air is “nitrogen” — it’s wrong. It’s ALSO been extensively studied for safety. 1/

On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park. New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.

Once more with feeling

1. After the Skrmetti decision, the New York Times has published 6 articles dancing on the graves of trans youth and spreading disinformation on care. It was cited 7 times in the ruling. Read my latest on what will be a black stain on the NYT for a generation. Subscribe to support my journalism.

Telling me "the subway is so dangerous now" is my immediate sign that you need your TV taken away and your news algorithm adjusted www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...?

if i can be y’all’s dad for a second: one of the most important things I’ve learned is that acquiring a skill is literally uncomfortable that awful moment where you feel confused and stupid and embarrassed? it means you’re about to learn something. and it’s *mandatory* if you want to get better

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

here’s the moment LASD advanced on protestors with horses and used flash-bangs as we reported live yesterday. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp-vi...

I'm pretty sure Trump (or whichever lackey programmed the music) associates the Army with "Fortunate Son" because of "Apocalypse Now", or maybe "Forrest Gump".

Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.

Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

Fake statement from an unofficial account. The real account is @reignfc.com .

For those unfamiliar with the timing March 15 Garcia kidnapped April 4 Judge Xinis ordered his return April 10 SCOTUS confirms Judge Xinis order April 15 Judge Xinis calls for discovery for possible contempt April 28 TN begins investigation

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.