What's it called when you take someone else's reporting, use a screen shot they obtained before the person took the post down, and then fail to credit the reporter? That is called stealing someone else's work. @michmf.bsky.social @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social Credit me. Do better.

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

89 candles would have set off the sprinklers, so we settled for one — and one perfect slice of cake (with @bradtakei.bsky.social on ice cream duty). Thank you to every friend, fan, and fellow traveler who has made these 89 years such a joyous voyage.

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

any advice from writers for when you desperately need to start writing something but you can't because you're terrified of it being terrible

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Doorman and building staff may go on strike against building owners in NYC for the first time in 30 years+ next week, and I can say that among apartment building residents, there is a 50/50 divide between "Give them anything they want" and "Give them anything they want, you assholes."

Large parts of the business of keeping the US military fed were privatised to civilian contractors. And then last year DOGE started making cuts in those civilian contractors. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

At this point, I feel it incumbent to point out that Substack was started by the guys behind Kik, a "private direct messaging" app which became known as the Internet's #1 app for child predators due to its complete lack of safeguards: www.bbc.com/news/uk-4556...

WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

everyone involved in the dismantling of USAID should be forced to spend their lives watching graphic videos of what they have subjected people to in their callousness, clockwork orange style

Energy policy think tanks keep putting out proposals like "give Mark Zuckerberg sole control over our utility rates by making him America's next grid czar" and the people in Everytown, America are like "go ahead and fuckin try"

art of the deal, baybeeee

Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

I watched the video. That’s definitely what he said!

I'm just putting it out there, Windows 10 was also bad. Like, the only substantial advantage it had over Windows 7 from a UX perspective was a nicer file transfer UI. Cortana was a slop feature, and it + advertisements + web search suggestions ruined the start menu

“The drones represent a loss of about $720 million. Depending on the variant, a single Reaper drone can cost about $30 million or more.”

CBS reports that the number of MQ-9 Reapers the US has lost over Iran is now 24, including 8 since the beginning of April: www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...

Americans, you could have a better life.

👀 Oh. My. Gawd. Now we know why Melania gave that Epstein presser on Thursday. An interview with Amanda Ungaro is about to be released by El Pais on Sunday morning (and it’s after midnight right now in Spain). And on Monday, she will be on CNN.

What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

Hope this attorney can add “workers subjected to sex harassment to keep their jobs” to the brief. I had police say “sounds labor related” and labor enforcement say “sounds criminal” and my poor client was caught in the middle.

Well, here's some news. Going forward, the Seattle City Attorney's Office will have a full-time attorney devoted to working on wage theft and worker rights violations. On the one hand, I can't believe we didn't have this before. But otoh, it's a positive change.

I was just a few minutes ago assaulted by somebody who was working for local ghoul Andrea Suarez. He attacked me in public, in front of witnesses, and then ran off. Andrea Suarez refused to take responsibility for his presence or behavior. She associates with amoral thugs who can't hit for shit.

Today, I'm sitting down with Leila Bozorg and Cea Weaver from my housing team for a live AMA on r/nyc. Bring your questions on affordable housing, tenant protections, and the fight to keep NYC a home for working people. We'll be live at 1:45pm for an hour.

Sound Transit CEO Dow Constantine just announced that 205,000 riders boarded trains on the opening day of the Crosslake Connection, a number that's second only to the Super Bowl Parade.

People forget this but Chuck Norris jokes were originally Mr. T jokes. I don't know why that changed but clearly the world would have been better if it hadn't

FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatens broadcast licenses over Iran War coverage

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

Ok after some truly champion milling around, we're I think about to start the Millionaires Tax debate in the House. It's not every day you get to be a part of something actually historic, so we're ready to go. Very good chance this takes 12 hours. #waleg

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

WALZ: What a 'stop payment' meant by what the administration did last week is 400,000 children without healthcare COMER: We believe that's your fault WALZ: Our Medicaid error rate is lower than your state

CORREA: What do you suggest I tell my constituents? Have a passport with you all the time? NOEM: No. I would tell your citizens to be grateful they live in this country where President Trump is upholding the law. We will help them self-deport. CORREA: These are American citzens!

It’s looking increasingly likely that Kristi Noem and Lewandowski funneled almost 200 million in government money to a company that is run by her friend and that nobody can give an address for. Oh, and it was 8 days old when it was awarded the contract.

Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(

Lastly, they are for the soul of your nation and your cause. Limits on war preserve humanity. Mercy transcends violence. After the fighting, there has to be something more. Rules of engagement and the laws of armed conflict protect you; abandoning them is dire.

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes: Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.

I spoke with two ICE watchers who lost their Global Entry after brushes with federal agents. Now an internal memo shows Customs and Border Protection is evaluating cases where people's Global Entry could be revoked based on "encounters" with its officers. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-wa...

I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it: Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports. tucson.com/news/local/b...

Thank you to the community leaders on my transition team who worked for months gathering feedback from more than 1,000 people about their issues, priorities, and dreams for the city. Check out the full transition report and recommendations here: www.seattle.gov/mayor/transi...

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Bruce Campbell announces he has a type of cancer that's "treatable" not "curable"

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Today is the last day of #BlackHistoryMonth, and we want to honor some inspirational Black women abolitionists from the last 200+ years. Swipe through to read! #AbolitionNow 1/2

Footage shows three US Patriot air defense missiles fail to intercept an Iranian ballistic missile before it strikes Al-Udeid Airbase in Qatar.

As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in