This article is just excellent. And spot on in a bunch of ways. I've been working in Silicon Valley for just shy of 30y and this place is unrecognizable. Nothing gets made here anymore except money for the oligarchs at the top of VC firms. Thanks @anildash.com for your honesty.

Tip of the iceberg. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/u...

Dear The Seattle Times, I'm an engineer with a BS and MS degree in stormwater, a PE license, and have over 20 years of professional experience. If you have a musician to explain why development in Seattle hurts orcas, would you let me explain why she's full of shit? Love, MS

NPR does Nazi the problem here.

MAGA made a terrible tactical error in forcing Stephen Colbert off the air. now he’s a free and considerably more vengeful chaos agent with immense popularity and good will behind him, instead of being safely confined on late night TV. it’ll be fun to see what he does next.

More like golden showers but whatever

While I’m thinking of it @lex.vaughn.theneedling.com, have you considered creating an “Editorials” page for The Needling? The Seattle Times editorial board is a ripe, ripe target, if not already almost beyond parody. And one shudders to think of the possibilities for “guest editorials!”

The entrenched powers of Seattle *HATE* that Katie Wilson presumes to lead without bending her knee to them, and will stop at nothing to put her in her place. It is tiring, but more than that, it is pathetic, and we should see it for what it is: old men kvetching.

This

Why do Republicans continue to aid and abet the Trump Crime Spree?

Dave, as usual, puts eloquent words to the thoughts I can barely think. Endless screaming indeed.

It's almost like smart talented people who live here want to keep living here so the companies come here to have them, not the other way around, especially when they relocate to fuckin' Texas and Tennessee.

Starbucks's former head, Schultz, is a guy with unresolved family dysfunction issues who saw unions as a personal affront to his role as daddy. Boeing left because execs hated being confronted by local politicians over their disastrous union policies. Amazon hates unions period.

Universal benefits are good. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/edit...

H. (12): “Sleater-Kinney? They’ve got a road named after them in Olympia.” Me: …

Here's a solution!

The legal definition of a concentration camp is a facility where civilians are held without due process. That is what these are and we must tell the truth about them to marshal the outrage needed to demand they cease to exist.

Is there any outcome to the Musk vs OpenAI trial that makes the world better off? Serious answers only.

We're not sending our best and brightest, are we?

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Vibe it in prod, bro.

My my! Sound Transit may have met its Waterloo at the Nordic Museum in Ballard tonight. A town hall held by CM Dan Strauss and all three of the 36th District legislators has shown wide, deep anger at ST over their threats to scale back ST3 and indefinitely delay rail to Ballard and other areas. 🧵🇸🇪

have to admit it is quite funny that Donald Trump, the Republican Party president, has kicked the green energy transition into overdrive with a de facto ~$100 a ton carbon tax. getting a little chuckle out of that

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

Class in the US is entirely a matter of aesthetics now. Rich suburban kids are “country”. Beard Dudes who look like they love IPAs are “working class.” Teachers who make $32,000 a year but have to dress up sort of nice in JCPenney clothes are “elites“. None of these words mean anything anymore.

I have been yelling at Dem donors & philanthropists my entire career, trying to persuade them to do this, so I'm just going to celebrate the fact that they are finally trying. It's a good thing.

This is all too familiar. And no, not these fake "gaffes" -- what's familiar is the Seattle Times creating a fake narrative about a progressive mayor. Westneat claims "Starbucks actually is leaving." No! They're not! They have made it clear they're keeping corporate jobs in Seattle.

Sometimes I worry that the future of work is an endless queue of slop to review.

New homebuilding in Seattle is down ~90% since 2020. Fewer new homes mean tighter competition and higher rents to come. We've joined @sightline.org and others encouraging the Mayor + Council to update MHA. Our proposal (MHA 2.0): forseattle.substack.com/p/mha-20-a-b...

The next reconstruction: - Expand the House to 700 Seats - Use MMP to create a multi-party system with PR - Use RCV for US Senate elections - End the filibuster + add DC - Limit the power of the Supreme Court - Expand the court to 13 Justices - Term limits and ethics rules for the court

Gross

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

a proportionate *and necessary* response, without which the current extremely illegitimate Republican Supreme Court will thwart other such responses.

most gerrymanders are republican legislators saying fuck the voters these ones are the voters saying fuck republican legislators

Republicans in Congress can bring up a national ban on gerrymandering anytime they want. It would pass with an overwhelming bipartisan majority. Until then, they can STFU.

Good news happening behind all the bad news.

Don’t look up.

Prophetic genius www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn1v...

Huge turnout of 250+ people at a rally and march to demand Sound Transit build light rail to Ballard as promised in the voter-approved ST3 ballot measure.

Recession? Why do you ask? cooking.nytimes.com/article/how-...

It boggles the mind that our elected officials need to be pushed into looking at this, but here we are.

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

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You know, I don't really think I want the Pope to be STRONG on nuclear weapons.

Accountability … from South Korea to Brazil and to now even Hungary. h/t @ryanlcooper.com

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

I love that JD Vance, the biggest loser in this regime, is the one person Trump can't fire.

ALL YOU FASCISTS ARE BOUND TO LOSE

Blockading the blockade is sure to work.