After Biden commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row last year, the Trump administration is retaliating by sending them to the supermax. Prisoners are locked in cells smaller than a parking space 22-24 hours a day. One prisoner told me he fears he won't make it out alive. My latest:

This is fu*king outrageous! The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards. apnews.com/article/utah...

a PSA: most nonprofit newsrooms right now are probably participating in the NewsMatch program RIGHT NOW. That’s a program funded by a few foundations that “matches” your end-of-year donation. If you set up $10 monthly, that literally unlocks $120 from NewsMatch. So who could you support?

JP Morgan knew about Epstein's sex trafficking, but didn't report it so they could keep doing business with him.

This is far worse than anyone expected. Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps. All as mass internment camps are being built.

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true

Grounds for impeachment?

Folks, the reporting is that Trump is making PERSONAL CALLS to Mace, MTG and others about the discharge petition. Would you be doing this if you had nothing to hide? Let's please all be serious here.

RAW STORY: “The first woman nominated to lead the Naval Special Warfare command overseeing Navy SEALs had her promotion abruptly canceled — military sources blame Hegseth's hostility to women in combat roles.” 🤔 www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth...

Look at what our dumbass President is doing, getting us into yet another war.

I want everyone in Seattle to know that, if Katie Wilson wins the Mayoral race, Jon Talton of The Seattle Times will spend the next 4 years tearing her down. I just saw a comment he made on Facebook under Greg Nickel's post saying "she'll ruin the city". So be prepared to ignore anything he writes.

@murray.senate.gov WTF are you doing?

We may be slow at counting in Seattle but we're moving in the right direction! www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The official statement from @mauricewfp.bsky.social for us at @workingfamilies.org. Bottom line: THERE IS NO EXCUSE for tonight's vote! Join WFP at the link ⬇️ ⬇️

Crime central

“Providing the homeless with a place to live may seem like a high cost for taxpayers. But the alternative, it turns out, is more costly, new research shows. Subsidized accommodation could actually be a bargain for the public, in purely economic terms.” Via @fastcompany

Private planes make up nearly 12% of all flights. And yet even with major air traffic control safety concerns, the DOT is planning to exclude them from its plan to order 10% cut in flights at 40 major U.S. airports. People who can afford to charter flights will be fine. Everyone else is screwed.

Oh yes. Here. We. Go.

@jkarsh.bsky.social Very important Ozzy update.

As Mayor, Harrell Paid for Luxury Upgrades on City Trips, Including a $12,000 Flight and a $1,000-a-Night Hotel Now he wants voters to believe he represents the working class—and that his opponent, renter Katie Wilson, is an out-of touch-elite. publicola.com/2025/11/04/h...

This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ

Venture capitalists Andreessen and Horowitz invest in startup that sells thousands of AI bot influencers to manipulate social media as a service, clearly violating major platform policies www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

Jeff Bezos’ wealth grew by $24 billion *yesterday.* Meanwhile, the VA now is asking for donations so veterans can *eat.* www.va.gov/northern-ind...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

I would like to once again congratulate all the "I hope Harris loses 1,000 times" (I'm looking at you Kshama Sawant, Congressional hopeful in WA). This is going to cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and Harris had a so many good economic plans. May Stein and non-voters reap what they sowed.

As of today, Adelita Grijalva has gone un-sworn-in for longer than any representative-elect this century. (Data from @greggiroux.bsky.social)

☢️ President Trump says in Truth Social post tonight that U.S. will resume testing nuclear weapons again. — The US hasn’t tested nuclear weapons in three decades. This is a major shift in policy.

Learned today from someone doing work in a border town in Texas that paramedics/EMTs have been instructed to not respond to medical emergencies inside detention camps. Think about that.

As Tesla’s board lobbies for Elon Musk’s trillion dollar pay package, a reminder that this is NOT an independent board: our @wsj (Pulitzer winning!)investigation from last year: www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...

I would like to mention again that menstrual products are covered by FSA funds. fsastore.com - so if you find yourself with money left on the table by the end of the year, consider using those funds and donate the products [pantries, homeless shelters etc...]

People in the Seattle area should know about this organization. They pack up bags of food that are delivered to area schools on Fridays for children to take home and feed their families over the weekend. It’s a great place to donate to help folks who are losing SNAP benefits www.backpackbrigade.org

Again, this is a PUBLIC university. Which means that the school will be sending CA taxpayer dollars to Trump.

Joe Gebbia, who also threw his support behind DOGE. Joe Gebbia, whose business model depends on housing being removed from local markets. Joe Gebbia, yet another rich man with no soul. Don’t use AirBnB.

can someone please just run this as an ad?

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

Congrats to all the farmers, manufacturers and importers/exporters who voted for Trump thinking he would shave a couple of percentage points off your taxes. Now he's decimating your market FOREVER. There's no coming back from this.

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today. abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

Total federal spending is up +7% in 2025 over 2024 year-to-date to Oct 20. The story that the fed govt is tightening its belt is contradicted by its own real-time expenditure data. Admin spectacularly hammering some things but raising spending elsewhere. Was -7% just after Inauguration Day.

Exclusive: Leaked documents detail Trump's plans to open East and West coasts to offshore oil drilling. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

This is OUR HOUSE, people. OUR HOUSE. It doesn't belong to the orange menace and he has absolutely no right to demolish part of this historical structure.

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

Christian nationalist podcaster Joshua Haymes says Christians must be willing to defend the institution of slavery because the Bible makes it clear that "it is not inherently evil to own another human being." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat. Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

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