Guillermo Rogel Jr says Gov. Ferguson's plan will harm health & safety of low income people & communities of color in WA. He said that Democrats promised Climate Commitment Act "funds would go to mitigate the causes of climate change, help us reduce pollution, and help us wean off of fossil fuels."

🚨🚨VERIFIED STRIKE FUND LINK ALERT🚨🚨

You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.

Remember when you travel in Germany, say, and you wonder, "How did they build Dauchau, here, in a town?" This is how.

Enknitification

If you’re interested in how Washington is permitting data centers and shaping state policy around AI, please check out the work Front and Centered is doing:

Today only, Automatic Noodle e-books are on sale for $2.99 on all platforms! Grab one while they're still hot and chewy! bookshop.org/p/books/auto...

Keeping rats out of our toilets seems like an important yet heretofore unexplored climate action talking point.

The Jean Kim Center in Lynnwood, which offers showers and washer-dryers for our unhoused neighbors, was about to close after their building was put on the market. It was recently bought with money from our local philanthropist Rick Steves. myedmondsnews.com/2025/12/than...

Hey, if you’re a Seattle/WA author with a book coming out next year and you have a firm pub date, please let me know for potential inclusion in the Seattle Times’s 2026 book preview. (Space is limited but I’ll do my best.) Drop a link either in replies or at my email: [email protected].

also, Spotify doesn't pay royalties at all for tracks with less than a thousand streams. and sometimes if an album gets a sudden surge of fan interest, Spotify deems it "unusual listening activity" and just removes the album, as happened to my last EP.

i’m so happy for him

Welp, after years of planning, pots of dedicated funding, promises that despite other elements getting yanked from the plans that sidewalk repairs were still on the table, the only sidewalk on LWB that got repaved this year was the segment right in front of Bruce's house.

What I first said in sarcasm I increasingly think is a real thing to consider: Move SCOTUS to a strip mall in rural Kansas. We can’t fire them. Impeachment* is functionally dead. The 18-yr term thing is a fantasy. But we can kill a lot of their perks. Bet Kav would retire fast.

I’m thankful for brave women like Lindsey Boylan in NY and Monisha Harrell in Seattle. They stood up to men in power, held them accountable, didn’t relent, and helped defeat them. All at great personal cost.

Making a knit flower garland for a friend (think this shape:🌸) 🧶 Me reading through the pattern: “huh, they sure do mention a lot about how essential blocking is.” Me half way through the knitting: “ah yes, I see why they said that so many times”

It’s a good day to look up Rosalind Franklin.

Attention WA/Seattle area! Oscar is a 5 year old male (fixed) cat looking for a home! His owner recently passed away and my brother is looking for a new home for him. He's up to date on all his shots. If you know anyone who is looking for a companion, let me know! Boosts are appreciated.

Sara Nelson losing by 16 points is pretty fantastic. Ann Davison losing by 25 is even better.

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

Professor Olaf’s Scientifically Accurate Fortunes is set up to disperse fortunes from the multiverse, candy & treats to the trick or treaters of Ballard. 🔮🧪

no fr having a string quartet playing popular music at our wedding (during the cocktail hour and when folks walked down the aisle) made me SO happy, I was hype haha

If you’re getting in the spirit with family and friends this Halloween or making some last-minute purchases, buy union-made! ✊🎃

From the Transportation Library's Instagram - the C&O's Chessie and her family Peake, Nip, and Tuck for #NationalCatDay. www.instagram.com/p/DQaAaRzEiXO/

Sexy online metro trip planner. Hey, apparently I’m on trend this year!

Acceptable king

At the Ballard No Kings / #goms rally. The Humpy Not Trumpy sign was a crowd favorite.

Oh goodness, Geno’s post-game interview is so sincere 😭💙🔱

Cal Raleigh ties it up 2-2 with a BIG home run! # SeizeTheMoment @Mariners @TMobilePark @FoxSports

Chose the best moment to tune into today’s Mariners game today (bottom of the 8th) #goms

Harrell proudly said this has never been done before. There’s a reason for that. It’s an inequitable & ineffective idea. We should be spending the money buying up/depaving parking lots & turning them into pocket parks, restoring floodplain habitat, adding bioswales, planting new trees in areas w/o.

Mariners fans: I'm sorry you have to listen to John Smoltz while watching your team do well on TV. A jellyfish has more of a personality.

I know this is a toughie for republicans like Suarez and reactionary centrists like Harrell, but the difference between individual citizens wearing masks and agents of the state wearing masks is that citizens are not required to identify themselves but agents of the state are.

LOL the first few seconds of this are pure chaotic joy and it's perfect.

We need to tax billionaires to subsidize the hobby stores. I’m confident it was his model train* hobby that insulated my retired-engineer grandfather from crackpotism. The red string board in his study was just connected to old trade publications about electric rail projects. *electric trolleys

IT HAPPENED HOLY SHIT IT'S ALL WORTH IT 😂😂😂😂

RIVAS RUMBLE! Single to Left brings in Polanco to tie up at 2-2! # SeizeTheMoment @Mariners @TMobilePark @FoxSports

Put this man in the Fan Hall of Fame! #GOMS #TridentsUp

A HOME PLAYOFF WIN IN THIS ECONOMY?????

If you live in South Seattle, especially if you're in Beacon Hill, consider signing up to throw candy and help out at the @soseaemerald.bsky.social's T'Challaween, a family costume parade on the Safe Streets route through North Beacon Hill, celebrating its SIXTH year in 2025! Be our hero! 🦸‍♀️🦸‍♂️

Me: (leaves house to catch bus) Off leash dog outside my house: growls lightly as I step onto the sidewalk Me, gently & jokingly to the dog as I pass: hey buddy, this is MY house Off-leash dog follower, quietly & with petulance: OUR neighborhood

At the risk of restarting Discourse this is a whole separate reason the whole "register for the protest" thing was a red flag. It's platform logic It's meant to create a connection between you and the central org, rather than between you and other people

Obsessed with whoever this is. “They can’t get me scared. I will not give them what they want. I will not just leave. I’m going to make it as difficult as possible for these fuckheads.” —FEMA employee”

I fell like this isn’t the first time we’ve had to tell LinkedIn no about some gem AI nonsense. But when I checked my settings just now this toggle was definitely set to on. Off now & contemplating whether I even need my profile anymore.

Why would Major League Baseball, a league replete with immigrants and people of color, allow @espn.com to air the #ICE ads that use a slur to refer to immigrants? @mlb.com Would the @mariners.com agree to the airing of such ads?

Join the Friends of San Juans on October 11, 2025 in Friday Harbor for Spirit of Water with Chenoa Egawa. Song, story, and ceremony honor the Salish Sea and Indigenous wisdom. Come ready to connect, learn, and stand for the waters that sustain us all. redpopnews.com/spirit-of-wa...

The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

It is not too late to tell City Council we want more housing. Sign the Seattle YIMBY petition to the Council supporting what we think are the best amendments. The more signatures the greater impact it will have. And send to your friends. actionnetwork.org/petitions/4f...

Still managed to experience sticker shock at the yarn shop today, despite knowing tariffs are coming for our hobbies: $160 for four 400+ yard skeins 🧶🥵 Can’t confirm it is due to tariffs (yarn stores, don’t be shy about putting that on receipts!), but a few months ago I would have expected $120