Hey folks, we're back at Shoreline City Council! This week, they'll be discussing placing a measure on the Nov. 2026 ballot to set up a metropolitan park district to build and operate a regional swimming pool. Shoreline last asked voters to fund building a pool in 2019. That measure failed.

Hey folks, we’re (virtually) here at the shoreline city council meeting. I’m under the weather today, so the blow-by-blow is going to be a bit limited today. First up, adoption of the ban on civil immigration enforcement on city property.

The Mariners are a poison that you should give to your enemies.

Hey folks, we're here at tonight's meeting of the Shoreline City Council. Tonight's agenda: discussion of amendments to the 2025-'26 final biennial budget, and discussion of the 2025 Shoreline Police Service Report. Shoreline has budgeted $36.5M toward police, about 24.33% of the total budget.

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

We're live at Shoreline City Council! Two items of interest here tonight, but neither are "final action" items. First, the city will discuss an ordinance seeking to ban civil immigration enforcement from city property. Final approval would come on April 27. shoreline.granicus.com/MetaViewer.p...

Jo Adell is a machine and he MUST be stopped.

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Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

I thought this bit, on football clubs creating value for a community versus extracting value from it, was particularly interesting

Weird that the Mariners have given up three touchdowns today, but good on them for blocking an extra point I guess

So, in English: Noem is fired and will be demoted to running point on Trump's spin on the Monroe Doctrine, where he's going to try and keep Latin American countries from building relationships with China.

A LWV member in Hawthorne, CA (one of the first women admitted to the bar in Los Angeles County), will not be able to vote if the SAVE act is passed. 🧵

Dozens of FBI witness interviews from the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein appear to be missing from the files released by the Department of Justice last month, according to a CNN review – including interviews related to a woman who accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her decades ago.

Hey folks, @jdmendez.com is at the Shoreline City Council meeting tonight! A few interesting matters are on the agenda this evening, including a resolution on the city's response to federal immigration agents in Shoreline and discussion on speed cameras in school zones.

I am a fan of both the Phoenix Suns and the Seattle Mariners, so this is my lot in life.

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

Hey folks, tonight we're at Shoreline City Council, where there's a pretty full house. Based on the list of public comments sent into the council, we're in for a lot of comments on the city's policies related to ICE. As you might remember, federal agents have already detained folks in Shoreline.

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

Kind of gives away the whole game that all the crypto ads this year have been replaced with gambling and AI ads.

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” MAGA wanted you to boycott this.

Anyone else moved by the halftime show? That ending, the shoutouts across the Americas, got me.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

This kind of thing does point out a real ethical dilemma: block or mute?

This was the most fun thing I wrote this year. It’s not my first trip back to the 19th century, but I really immersed myself in it and enjoyed digging up the story of the very first baseball team in the northwest. www.nwbaseballhistory.com/19th-century...

Look who I found on pdf page 80 with a big ol' redacted box

Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.

The Epstein Files, everybody!

BREAKING: The Justice Department has released *some* of the Epstein files. All of the files will not be released today, in violation of the law. www.justice.gov/epstein

Hasn’t Ben Garrison always been filed under “don’t even read this, not even for comedy value, it’s complete trash”?

Considering the last week has had me sick, and taking care of sick kids, all while I’ve been worrying about stories that are growing increasingly cold…this is me.

For context: Trump’s post is responding to an article about Dems who are reminding soldiers that they are required to follow lawful orders and can be prosecuted for following unlawful orders. So…it seems Trump’s calling reminders to follow the law “sedition” and calling to execute opponents.

Hey folks, we're live at the Shoreline City Council meeting, and we just learned something from Councilmember reports to the public: CM Ramsdell just announced that Sound Generations will be "severing ties" with the Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Senior Center in three years. Reaching out for comment.

NEW: A "disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps" by Lindsey Halligan imperils Comey case, magistrate judge finds. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Hey Bluesky, we just published our second edition of the Osprey Update, our weekly(ish) collection of stories from The Osprey. Check it out here! www.ospreynews.net/p/the-osprey...

me, researching and interviewing experts: hell yeah this is awesome me, sitting down to type up everything I've learned: what the hell is this

Miss me live-posting civic meetings? Here's a brand new place for it, from my brand new news project!

That’s some heavy rain and loud thunder

Alright I fucking wrote about this. It was apparently necessary to vent my rage about this this afternoon, because that took me two hours to get it all out and onto the page.

democracy works when the lazy doofus can quickly and easily understand how to vote for what he likes. it’s hard to imagine a system less like that than what we have

This is goddamn obscene. Teen Vogue became indispensable through work like theirs.

Weird how this made me miss Los Angeles.

“They have fun while doing it, which is deeply disturbing. We expect some level of decorum from government officials,” says Phoebe, a member of Harbor Area Peace Patrols. The full story: lataco.com/federal-immi... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: At least one nuclear-weapons expert (one of many, I’d reckon) is baffled by Trump’s call to “immediately” resume U.S. nuclear tests. An enlightening convo with @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social, courtesy of @danvergano.bsky.social. www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

The federal government is punishing all of its citizens to cow political opponents.