It's hard to avoid the conclusion that Bluesky has been a net negative for US politics. They corralled everyone on the left into a little glass fishbowl where they shout at one another & everyone else ignores them. Meanwhile, all the pols & institutions stayed on X & are being dragged farther right.

Spotted in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood

Yes please. therealdeal.com/national/sea...

It's inefficient to get out of bed in the morning only to get back in the same bed at night. Stay in bed all day to avoid this

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Foreigners in US are less criminally inclined than natives.

Indeed. Seattle used to produce maps of which downtown streets had the most people walking on them to help accurately price real estate

Sorry for the string of videos, but this is amazing and makes me wonder if this is what life could be like if we all just logged off the internet. IG risolve

Seattle is Beautiful

The Senate’s version of Donald Trump’s tax cut bill will cost the bottom 20% of taxpayers an average of $560 a year while giving an average boost of $6,055 to those at the top end, per Bloomberg.

As I was listening to public testimony on the Comp Plan today, I was thinking about the 19-year-old me who moved here in 2006 with $1,500 and no job. The fact that the city was open to me then, something that simply isn't true today, changed my life.

Moskowitz: "Nothing has been made more efficient. Here are the wins for congressional Rs. You ready? They're gonna do a $9b recession bill. They're gonna get rid of Elmo, which the American people were clamoring for, but they're gonna add $2.4t for the debt. And then they want us to cheer for them."

Here’s what will happen to our National Parks if Trump’s budget passes. Did you know America’s national parks actually generate more income than they cost to operate? Yet under Trump’s proposed 2026 budget, the National Park Service (NPS) would face devastating cuts:

Page One in Des Moines. @jemsinger.bsky.social

If a tree falls in the forest but its parking lot is closed, does it make a sound?

As of this week, Pike Place Market finally has outdoor seating in the street!!! Make a plan to go to lunch at the market, tell the restaurant you’re there because the street is pedestrianized, and enjoy!

WATCH: Chris Murphy gives a masterclass in how to dismantle the cosplay queen, AKA Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.

The World Health Organization plans to officially back the use of weight-loss drugs to treat obesity in adults for the first time, per Reuters.

*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

North Cascades were showing off today.

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

Who gets fired from DOGE when it doesn’t meet its performance targets?

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

I just introduced the Delete DOGE Act, which – you guessed it – would defund DOGE.

Seattle is Beautiful 🌸 📸 📲

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

Our city has the coolest front door.

The hero we needed: www.google.com/maps/d/u/2/v... (from: www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/co...)

Oh good, let’s deport the working, tax paying immigrants.

Counting down the days till the midterm elections, if they still exist at that point.

A campaign group has staged the “world’s biggest anti-Elon Musk protest” by carving out a 250-metre long “Don’t buy a Tesla” message on a Welsh beach. A Tesla driver, named only as Prama, wrote out the 250-metre x 150-metre message by attaching a huge rake to the back of a Tesla

History repeats itself

Need more of this energy.

A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸

May I suggest that the Democratic Party look to Matt Drudge for messaging advice.

wow. they're like actually braindead

The next Canadian Prime Minister should appoint Trudeau as Ambassador to the United States.

The Washington Senate just approved a bill requiring cities to allow child care facilities as an outright approved use in all non-industrial zones. app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/...

If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.

Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY. David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”

www.cnbc.com/2025/03/05/n... A GLP price war is probably the best thing that could happen for public health in the long term. Let’s go!

NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

Can you imagine the uproar if Biden had done this?

Oh good, the worst timeline continues.

It bears repeating.

“Friday, February 28, 2025, will go into the history books as one of the grimmest days in American diplomacy,” writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social. Now “Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us”: theatln.tc/FHJeRVAj

It occurs to me that the person in charge of this grievously underperforming and apparently cratering company, who has not set foot in the office for months now, should probably send shareholders a list of the 5 things he accomplished last week on their behalf or risk being fired.

Colorado's Rep Brittany Pettersen (D) flew cross-country with her one-month-old to vote against the GOP budget tonight. Dems ended up one vote short. Pettersen was part of an unsuccessful bipartisan push to allow new mothers to vote remotely. #copolitics