Sweet Seven Sacks

Something positive in the media world - Washington State University and Report for America have launched a partnership aimed at placing a reporter in every single one of the state's 39 counties: www.reportforamerica.org/2026/02/04/w...

A civic crisis: "The Metro section will be restructured, ensuring a "healthy presence for local subscribers," he said. According to a Metro staffer who was just laid off, there will be about a dozen people left on the desk. That's down from more than 40." -- www.npr.org/2026/02/04/n...

I thought the LAT layoffs were brutal but WaPo layoffs take the cake

JESUS CHRIST.

Not for nothing, but it was a Washington Post article about romance fiction that pushed Jacob Tierney to contact Rachel Reid about making #HeatedRivalry.

sports coverage is not about box scores anymore. it's about power and politics and corruption and sovereign wealth and real estate and the use of taxpayer money and the most publicized labor disputes in the country and yes, sometimes about ball go in hoop

10/10 no notes needed

Federal immigration agents detained a man in Shoreline, leaving his 2-year-old son sitting alone in the back seat for about 40 minutes. Here's what the activists saw: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Cal Anderson Park tonight

a message from the longshoremen in oakland

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Finding it incredibly depressing that we have to beg the world’s fourth richest person to spare up some change to save the sports and foreign desk at the nation’s second/third biggest paper

Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.

The StarTribune live blog is paywall free: - The man shot by federal agents this morning has died - Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building. - ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

BREAKING: San Francisco Giants star Jung Hoo Lee has been detained by CBP at LAX. Pelosi's office says she is working to secure his release. www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant...

Local authorities have cordoned off a parking lot here at Adventist Health in Portland, right by where federal agents with U.S Customs and Border Protection reportedly shot and injured two people Thursday afternoon. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Can today just like stop

via @shanedkavanaugh.bsky.social

confirmed katu.com/news/local/i...

We are working to update this story as soon as possible, but here is the info we have: https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/01/portland-police-responding-to-report-of-shooting-by-federal-immigration-agent.html 

Rally against ICE in downtown Seattle:

Verónica García is a transgender athlete who won the girls high school 400-meter championship in Washington state — twice. Her success did not come with any perks. Instead, she was subject to abuse from people who oppose transgender women participating in women’s sports. https://wapo.st/4qziWp7

Kinda getting a kick out of this weirdly very dramatic Spokesman front page www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

Kinda astounds me that journalists (and media orgs, for that matter) seem to use Twitter way more than Reddit, tbh

This is innumerate nonsense. An average of 1.1 million people were watching The Simpsons throughout its entire thirty-minute broadcast according to a third-party data company contracted to measure viewership by Disney. Somebody, no way to know who, hit the play button 1.7 million times on Twitter

In October, statewide news reported that a sheriff's deputy in Texas searched thousands of Flock cameras in Washington for 'Had an abortion, search for female.’ New documents obtained by RANGE show Spokane County Sheriff's Office cameras were accessed in that search:

www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/22/n... Some stuff is happening in the Bay Area

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Not that this is a surprise at this point, but for the first time in eons, it appears LA Times no longer has any correspondent based out of Asia (Beirut notwithstanding)

Sorry, but I can’t stop thinking about how many overqualified, underemployed journalists are currently living on the West Coast with years of local experience and extensive contacts in the region’s many globally important sectors… And this is who Vanity Fair chose to hire as its West Coast Editor.

The Pop Tarts have invented Democratic Calvinism. I’m excited to see what they eventually cook up as their eschatology. On that day will be the end of all non-five-minute breakfasts

"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."

Sometimes I wonder why I tell reporters to be concise and keep their writing tight when this kind of writing gets you to the “top” of journalism

Breaking from us: As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate. Nisqually Indian Tribe is saying no. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

This drama out of Everett school is bonkers: www.heraldnet.com/news/investi...

Dewey Defeats Truman.

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The first primary of the 2026 election, by the way, is less than four months away, so we'll see very soon how much of this anger on BlueSky translates at the ballot box: www.ncsl.org/elections-an...

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Tagging @hollyanderson.bsky.social

Update: Barnes & Noble has confirmed they'll return to downtown Seattle in April at 520 Pike St.

UPDATE: the incumbent school board, who voted against the ban on trans girls and is now facing the mother of the complaining student, is leading in results so far.

Remember reading how NY Post has gained so much influence in NY politics in recent years. Man has that been proven loudly wrong tonight

Seattle brings a rare ray of hope for centrists over progressives tonight, as Mayor Bruce Harrell leads Katie Wilson in the first batch of results. 53.5% to 46%. Caution: This will shift a lot before the final result, and will be very slow. Ann Davison, the GOP city attorney, trails huge.

How has "Unwritten" become the party song

We're starting to fill our election guide! Come join the Bolts party as results pop up: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

Oh my god!