"Trump thrives on the ineffectiveness of his opponents. The operation in Venezuela is a warning that Trump’s imperial ambitions are growing. An ineffective anti-Trump movement is an indulgence American democracy cannot afford or accept." - @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.

If articles of impeachment for Trump and Hegseth aren’t introduced tomorrow, then literally what is the point of the Democratic Party?

Since January 1, 2020, prices for goods, services, and labor have increased by 26%. But over the same period, #waleg has only allowed each jurisdiction’s property tax revenues to grow about 5% to 6%, plus the value of new construction. It’s time to fix this. Read my latest for the @inlander.com:

Nooooo, poor Gizmo!

#Seattle peeps: at 23rd and Madison this building on the NE corner has these strange boxy structures on some of their columns. Anyone know what’s up with them?

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Local Apathy Levels Off the Charts According To Study We Almost Did: tinyurl.com/2s3dwmsm

“It is financially devastating but morally exhilarating,” he said in an email.

That the comments here are all concerns about the 9 parking spaces—rather than any about how education works with hundreds of students in 6 temporary/permanent structures—tells you everything you need to know about the comments section of the WSB. (The blog itself deserves every plaudit.)

Minimum parking requirements still apply to schools in Seattle despite every single policy incentive pointing the other way. westseattleblog.com/2025/12/2026...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

DON’T. PRINT. LIES. IN. THE. NEWSPAPERS. Every damn day. It’s exhausting.

“CBS News ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi is walking the walk. What she has done for journalism in the last 2 days is about as important & courageous as it gets. With her cherished journalistic institution threatened, and her career on the line, Alfonsi is sounding the alarm…”— Dan Rather

People mandates are expensive, wasteful, and a barrier to new homes. We need flexibility instead. Baltimore gets it.

I guess we finally found the men who go into women's bathrooms

BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg rules for those deported under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 — certifying a class, finding the U.S. maintained constructive custody over them at CECOT, finding they were not given due process, and ordering return or that such process be given by Jan. 5, 2026.

The ultimate NIMBY.

This is going to result in more Trump tariffs isn’t it?

A busy fietsstraat this evening, a bike priority street in central Utrecht. A few cars and delivery vans, many many people on bikes and walking to stores, even an in-line skater & someone pushing a full trolley of beer bottle crates. Car-lite city life is the best for businesses AND for people.

The concept of "reconnecting communities" torn apart by federal infrastructure has come under fire by GOP leaders in Washington. This Senator says it's time to renew the program anyway — and more than triple its funding.

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UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.

Power is out in NW SF, affecting traffic signals and 5G network. All Waymo vehicles have simply bricked wherever they were, creating traffic chaos. AVs still have no plan for emergency evacuation in urban quake or fire missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...

Being able to identify hoaxes, avoid scams & debunk propaganda is a civic skill required in today's information society. That's why curriculum for students in Finland includes media literacy lessons, aimed at safeguarding a precious resource: the truth. youtu.be/UZV9uw4usEE?...

Rick Steves is our region’s biggest mensch.

I keep going back to Bob Ferguson's press conference yesterday. No mention of making safety investments to prevent wholly preventable road deaths. No mention of people who don't drive places, no mention of public transit. We've gone backwards. tvw.org/video/govern...

Taking the state further into debt just to maintain the existing highway infrastructure we have, all to avoid increasing the taxes we already raised to pay for highway expansion projects, is so wild. Ferguson's first transportation budget is even worse than I expected.

Never sell your soul. You might want it back someday. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

Search your camera roll for “Hell”

Love seeing collisions at intersections I’ve walked through today.

The third time in 2 months that the official DHS account has tweeted a Nazi term which means "ethnic cleansing" of all people of color from America and Europe.

So you’re saying we can reopen the Comp Plan?

Crystal is off to a rough start to the season. komonews.com/news/local/h...

Why should other countries sign deals with the United States when this president is breaking **his own deals** after less than 6 months? www.reuters.com/world/europe...

BOW DOWN!

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Instead of responding only with thoughts and prayers, Australia will respond with laws and regulations. Because, unlike the United States, it values the lives of its citizens over any sick adulation of firearms. The 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to immediate, sweeping, bipartisan gun law reforms.

I’m not sharing anything because the reports are all over the place but the Brown news is awful

someone tell the California ACLU who is disproportionately more likely to be killed in traffic accidents including those involving people under the influence

Man, what an insult to architects.

One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back. Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance. Be a housing fan.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released. “And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”

people, you have the chance to put my book ahead of Olivia Nuzzi’s on the bestseller list. put aside all other considerations and think how objectively funny this would be. #1, that Mountain Goats guy. #2, Antivax Man Has My Heart. funniest list of the century. We can do this if we try

👏 Go Bill!

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