"Oh, well yes we are making people are poorer, but it's to make the government leaner and meaner for some reason"

Due to an off-the-cuff remark by an unnamed fellow Evans alum who happens to be on city council, my local LD Dem Party group chat is now having a dozens-of-messages long conversation about bowel health. Happy pre-Pride, Seattle

Not to be gleeful about places falling flat on their face, but the fact that New York City's venue is doing this while Seattle's is in our downtown and perfectly accessible by foot and transit is delightful.

the things you can do to these people is only limited by your imagination. all it takes is the will and the commitment to the idea of the rule of law. you can literally draw and quarter them. you can keelhaul them.

Seattle does not have the power to produce a social services agency that allows us to appropriately serve our homeless population because our police union wrote the city's policy without our input.

Give your favorite Democratic elected official a copy of BLUE POWER today!

We've been going through a privatized Cultural Revolution. Absolute deskilling of our economy toward more desperate, more precarious work.

What happened yesterday was effectively a coup by Snohomish County, with help from Pierce County, against King County -- even though King generates most of Sound Transit's revenue and votes. And King County's political leaders just rolled over and let it happen.

Now this is why you relocate your HQ off the Pacific Coast.

High progressive income and wealth taxes are the purest example of a champagne problem.

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

I've been in a days long virtual training that's been full of the usual "Jesus Christ, someone please train this team in pedagogy" moments, but my niche favorite is when they illustrated a slide about "Usual, Customary, and Reasonable" pricing in health insurance with the Unión Civil Radical logo.

Is King Charles I the President Trump of England, insofar as he was finally destroyed by his people but his name is weirdly everywhere?

wrote an essay about the Bicycle Weekends kickoff last weekend "I'm so used to decisions that feel capricious. Out of my hands. But here was a decision made with public input for and against. Heard fairly. Not withdrawn at the slightest provocation. Not a decision made in advance of a process."

Great point, and also worth noting that Sound Transit's governance structure was WIDELY CITED by elected officials who argued that KCRHA didn't need a board of experts, but a changing cast of random electeds, when they got rid of the implementation board and handed all the power to elected officials

Ah, the old Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez excuse of going mad from abject hatred of sea lions. It's spreading in Washington. www.kuow.org/stories/lawy...

Yeah, affectations of machismo like "don't mess with Texas" ring a bit hollow when the majority of Texas voters and the bulk of their political leaders have repeatedly shown they are obedient lapdogs for a soft nepobaby covered in bronzer who spends most of his time golfing and whining.

Given dictator powers for a day I would probably undo SNAP and Medicaid and transit funding cuts first, but then I would eliminate all use of auto voices on training to guarantee that whatever script they're currently writing hurts the training team to say as well as trainees to hear.

Having been in Texas during much of the attacks on trans rights, every single bill that attacked transition care had carve-outs for transitioning intersex kids. Talarico would sit with us, and we would have intersex people talking about how they were operated on before consent. This is listening.

I carried a friend's obituary to meet with his staff about red flag laws to prevent veteran suicides. I broke down in the walkway of the Hart SOB before going in. He looked at me so disgustedly as he passed by. Anyways, get rekt, senator.

I don't know what fate should await the collaborators in this story, but I hope for the sake of justice it happens in this life that every one of them loses their position of authority that let them govern without a thought toward the consequence. www.propublica.org/article/arka...

Introduce yourself with 10 bands / artists you've seen live Florence + the Machine Sofi Tukker Gorillaz Charli XCX Kylie Minogue Fatoumata Diawara Bomba Estéreo Knower Wet Leg Rebecca Black

Future President James Garfield at the first official Decoration Day, Arlington National Cemetery, May 30, 1868: "But, thanks be to God, this arena of rebellion and slavery is a scene of violence and crime no longer!"

In the cycle of a morning coffee, it is a wonder that 14 years into my dependency on morning caffeine, today is the first day I have stared at a toilet while washing my hands thinking profound thoughts about using it as a teaching model for savings/strategic reserves/whatever builds up and releases.

I'm avoiding going grocery shopping by taking a pattern drafting course. So naturally my first pattern I draft is going to be a canvas paper bag.

This is the talk of a man with a rape mentality

If we are going to Bluesky discourse this long weekend, my only addition is that yesterday Bluesky made me realize that I should be wearing slides in the room where I take my progress photos at the gym, and that all the jokes about the posing room were more valid than I understood.

I will die on this hill: Zelle goes through the banking industry, which is regulated by our flawed democracy in how it can find profit. Venmo is not, and is partially owned by Peter Thiel. Using Venmo funds fascism. Use the ugly, clunky software your dad insists on using.

Sunday is a good time to re-share this: Alaska officials gave false info to American Samoans, telling them they can vote. (They can’t, due to a unique status.) Now, the state is threatening them with years in prison, part of GOP’s voting fraud panic. An important story that's worth your time.

So like, to be clear, everyone's reporting their secretary's prayer service as illegal DEI to the OSC, right?

I love not panicking at the weirdest HR letter I've ever gotten because they called me "Ben" even while sending it from the most absurdly scary return address possible. Like this is not about me, even though it sounds like I'm getting a counterterrorism investigation opened.

See my senator is across the room. Immediately have to look at the ITEP page for the state and seeth. itep.org/whopays/wash...

Praying, manifesting, chanting, whatever that as I open this box that just went from Seattle to Nashville and back, that I'm not going to find a piece of paper that tells me "Oh. Yeah, you just put in one of the two pieces you can even control on this machine wrong."

When reading the mosque attacker’s manifesto you realize how impossible it is to separate his Islamophobia from his obsessive antisemitism. They are not competing hatreds in the text. They are structurally intertwined in every argument he makes.

new conspiracy theory: Trump started the war to get out of going to his son's wedding

Hm. More deadly weapon enhancement use today.

Martin's research reveals that roughly 90% of goods exported from occupied Palestine to the EU are actually illegal Israeli settler goods. And the EU wants to insist there is not a double standard between its approach to Ukraine and Palestine.

A very, very linear city along a north-south axis is not set up for mass transit. Anyways, I just went back and forth to my office in under 40 minutes this morning to grab my work station, will take it later this month to go *camping~, and so much more.

I'm vaguely aware and cognizant of how criminal accusations work, but how can murder have a sentencing enhancement for involving a deadly weapon? Is that... Is that not part of the murder? Don't... all completed murders... include a deadly weapon?

Not the sheriff: taxpayers. I genuinely think there is a broader trend of institutions not feeling bound by fiduciary duties; they prefer to do what the want, and deal with the lawsuits and compensation.

If you don't pay taxes, your government can ignore you easier and will coddle the people that do pay the taxes. See the example of literally everywhere the oil industry dominates (yeah yeah yeah, excepting Norway).

They’re trying to normalize the idea of a national sales tax to end progressive taxation, and I’m already sick about the number of people who are going to fall for it because they hate the idea of other people enjoying anything.

Well, AP English and Lit/IB English HL 2012 students from Signature School are all at least prepared to write about the news today? www.forever-wars.com/the-plan-we-...

When you think you've tasted this sidecar before? That's a cognace.

If you don't like what's happening here - Texas courts abusing their authority to oppress queer people who live in New York and Rhode Island - take a look at KOSA, a Democratic-sponsored bull which would explicitly give state AGs more power to oppress queer people in other states.

I did not enjoy waking up sick with a gross upper respiratory thing, but I am using this sick day as hammock time and I've never felt as amused to do so.

every ward in dc enters as another state, now the moderate position

Last week I went to a lovely little get together to hang out with Chinese authors and translators to hype up Penguin's Riverhead Books imprint. Peter Navarro is accidentally right. I'm really enjoying Everyday Movements by Gigi L Leung, about protecting freedom in HK. lithub.com/everyday-mov...

Every pro ethnostate liberal be gangsta talking about a kurdish state till you hit em with the "what about a Shabbak, Assyrian, and Turkman ethnostate" and suddenly the whole concept is revealed to be patently absurd

For non-Washingtonians, our senate majority leader failed to push hard enough for increased public revenues and his district's insiders are mad. Next month will come the formal endorsements, while tonight was a lot of candidates, a lot of state con delegates, and half various local org heads.