to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness

if you plot Ryan Lizza, RFK Jr, and Keith Olbermann on a graph the point in the middle is Hunter Biden

Excited to read articles about politics by the people with the absolute worst judgment in human history, and maybe also the greatest need for editors. ISTG Ryan Lizza may yet discover that Olivia Nuzzi is his mother and gouge out his own eyes. This story has the juice.

When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.' people.com/donald-trump...

I’m so old I remember when Republicans thought a war on Christmas, or indeed on churches, would be bad.

"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."

My crazy idea for incorporating public feedback into city planning: You let residents vote for representatives in city government, and those people are empowered to implement the policies they promised while campaigning.

I went down a rabbit hole and this opinion is even more dishonest than I thought. 1. 33 percent vacancy rate is false 2. the top four cites re: vacant office space are all tech company towns that have had huge layoffs 3. the vacancy rate in bellevue is comparable to seattle!!!

The arms of an octopus were used to mark specific parts of this page that were of importance or interest - 14th century, Bancroft Library, BANC MS UCB 085

I don’t do things like “pick a perfect album from the year you were X” because I don’t need to make it easy for bots to scrape my birth year but I looked over the year at issue for the meme these days and folks, I win. Not just that there’s a perfect album but there are several and you would agree.

Trump’s attacks on boats in the Caribbean are clearly murder, but the interesting question is whether they are piracy and thus hostis humani generis and subject to punitive actions by all nations.

Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...

For those who understand Urdu/Hindi, a nice video from my colleague and friend from @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, Salman Hameed and his YouTube channel, Kainat. The video is a good historical contextualization of the Galileo Affair #histsci #history www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHoR...

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons to want more walkable cities.

"The cars are not [your] constituents!" - @sgoodyear.bsky.social speaking truth to power (elected officials)

New Post: Katie Wilson is Seattle’s Next Mayor seattletransitblog.com/2025/11/13/k...

This is one of the most important yet least told stories in Seattle over the last 5 years: the steady scaling back of transit service, even as we expand light rail. We need to bring transit back closer to more people.

just going to point out that there's a difference between "Trump is betraying me and maybe Dems are right" and "Trump is betraying me because the Jews have him under mind control"

People who founded the Leopards Eating Faces Party and pushed for a platform of Moar Leopards do not deserve to have their faces eaten by leopards, and maybe the Leopards Eating Faces Party was a bad idea.

Centrist Democratic strategists have probably done more to prime voters to think of the Party as a vehicle for wokeism than anyone other than Trump or Fox News. And on very thin data that's not causal or predictive out of sample. The extent of the self-own is remarkable substack.com/@gelliottmor...

Paint me like one of your French bike lanes

We want to know who Bubba is so we can celebrate the president’s passion, not shame him. Love is love.

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

I continue to find it fascinating the Mueller and Garland haven't gotten this sort of attention from Trump.

Senator Menendez is sitting in his cell at Allenwood right now because he took a 1kg gold bar from the Egyptians, among other forms of “lobbying.”

Hmmm….

Not sure this really makes sense, but the only way to know for sure is to ask the White House press secretary every day and if she doesn’t explain which “Bubba” President Trump sucked off, to ask him directly at every public appearance. Like when that British Prime Minister made sweet love to a pig.

Pressure is building for Democrats to take a big swing on taxes, beyond this year’s hikes. How far state Sen. Noel Frame and others pressing for new progressive taxes can deliver on that goal in 2026 is an open question. washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/11/14/w...

The important thing is not whether the Trump performing sexual favors for Bill Clinton thing is true. The important thing is that we all pretend it’s true, and that someone asks Trump about it every day.

🚨 My new piece: increasingly, vaccine hesitancy tied to political identity www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... via @thestar.com Vaccines are a wedge issue, exploited by politicians to garner votes, by political commentators to build brands and by online influencers to get clicks. #VaccinesWork

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

Congratulations to Girmay Zahilay, new King County Executive, and Katie Wilson, new Seattle Mayor, bringing fresh, youthful leadership to Washington State.

This mood is just - really strong right now.

Via bsky.app/profile/did:...

We know he rapes women. The only question is does he also rape girls?

Sad but true xkcd.com/3167/

Trying very hard not to do Epstein Murder Conspiracy Theory but these emails are really testing my resolve

Aside from apparently being married to Larry Summers, why is the Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature & Director, Poetry in America at Harvard University running pedophile book club for the world’s most famous pedophile?

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.

As of 2011, Epstein was a Level 3 registered sex offender (highest-risk) with a lifetime registrant requirement in NY. And a registered sex offender in Florida by 2008/2009. He was required to report all international travel. But sure, visit the Southern White House.

In May I wrote to @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social and asked if the next Mayor of Seattle would endorse me. She answered that she’d endorse if @seattletru.bsky.social did. They did, she did, and my prediction was right. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

I don't think I've ever seen anything like this in my lifetime

@bowlerhatscience.org “no matter what.”

Katie Wilson has been elected Seattle's next mayor www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Wilson was mocked for acknowledging that the cost of childcare is outrageous and her parents help her with that expense. But it turns out a majority of voters feel the same squeeze, liked her universal childcare plan, and voted accordingly.

The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.