If you really want to heal this nation let the kids keep their phones and impose screentime limits for billionaires

Campaign to repeal WA ‘millionaires tax’ submits over 500,000 signatures. w/ @jimbrunner.bsky.social: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

No Trump, no Vance at U.S. World Cup in Seattle. Trump hasn't been to the state since late 2016, and I don't recall Vance ever stopping through. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

WTF did we do to Colorado? www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

The Stranger endorses state Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen over challenger Hannah Sabio-Howell in the 43rd LD... while also endorsing far-left socialist Kshama Sawant over Congressman Adam Smith. All as news breaks (via @publicola.bsky.social ) of its editor getting pushed out.

The central problem of social media is that you can find an example of anything. In this lecture I will... (1/29)

Left-Wing Insurgent Ousts 15-Term Congresswoman in Colorado www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

The Seattle hot dog is incorrect. www.seattletimes.com/life/food-dr...

“This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,” Coughenour said from his 16th floor courtroom in downtown Seattle back in January 2025 after oral arguments that lasted mere minutes. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

LOL... apparently this is a mistake?

NEW: SCOTUS ruling ‘a relief’ for WA mail ballot system - continues to allow counting of ballots received after Election Day www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

ICYMI: Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen, author of the “millionaires tax,” is facing a strong challenge from the left in Hannah Sabio-Howell, who argues he hasn’t been bold enough www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

YOU GO AROUND IN A CIRCLE TO THE RIGHT.

Trying to keep count of Dem incumbents who appear to be going down to challengers from their left tonight. I have: —2 congressmembers (both NY) —3 state senators (1 in NY, 2 in MD) —4 state house members (3 in NY, 1 in MD) May be missing some, will update.

Been at the state Dems convention in Spokane this weekend. It's been nonspicy, but there was division this afternoon over a resolution to condemn Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez over her vote for the GOP "Don't Say Trans" bill. It was NARROWLY rejected by delegates on a 383-377 vote.

World Cup column: On Seattle, shining. And the U.S., rolling Gift link to read for free: www.nytimes.com/athletic/737...

Washington’s snowpack is all but finished, weeks before normal, and some major reservoirs are starting to dip as much as a month early. That's a pretty big problem. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

NEW: WA's spiking lawsuit costs have pushed its self-insurance fund into a "temporary" cash deficit of up to $1.7 billion, per a new OFM memo. That's up from $1B a year ago. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Seems like something local politicians who run on "affordability" might want to take a hard look at. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

I know we’ve grown used to this garbage, but this is just an astounding thing for a U.S. president to say at a summit with the leaders of the world’s most powerful countries.

2026 is drunk and huffing ketamine

Pierce County will vote this fall whether to make its sheriff appointed instead of elected - and oust controversial Sheriff Keith Swank on Jan 1, 2027 (Via the News-Tribune) www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/a...

WA GOP is amplifying baseless California/LA vote fraud conspiracy theories, using them to attack mail ballots in WA. A preview of the midterms this fall? www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Our research team is ramping up for coming midterms. Looks like we'll be busy. If you're interested, here's an interactive graph (thanks to Stephen Prochaska) showing how X influencers re-ran the "rigged election" narrative during/following the CA primaries. faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Cumu...

If you’ve been following the “rigged election” rumors from the CA primary and thinking, gosh, haven’t we seen this all before? Well, you’re right! Sounds like you’d be competitive in a friendly and frenetic game of “Rigged Election” Bingo! uwcip.substack.com/p/rigged-ele...

Inflation has overtaken wages for the first time in 3 years. That means Americans’ incomes are shrinking in real terms, largely because of the Iran war. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart.

NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the U.S. hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl.bsky.social @johnismay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

NYT Ed Board backs Election Day deadline for all ballots www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/o...

The Punisher sticker we've needed all along

In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...

64% of Washington voters disapprove of Donald Trump’s job performance, a new record in NPI’s Civic Heartbeat polling Even more striking, the percentage of voters in the Evergreen State who approve of Trump's job performance fell to 30% in NPI's spring survey of the Washington electorate, which is…

Very interesting new owners of The Crocodile www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

"His departure will undoubtedly add fuel to a heated debate over whether Washington’s upcoming 'millionaires tax' — a 9.9% levy on any income over $1 million — will drive away the state’s ultrawealthy." www.seattletimes.com/business/zil...

Big differences this time around, as I see them: a) the GOP is now fully bought-in to election denialism and ran off those who aren't b) the legal activism wing of the GOP has spent years cooking new schemes c) many state/county election boards are now full of people eager to screw with counting

NEW: Scott Pelley to NYT on Bari Weiss: "I don't want to be hyperbolic. My impression at the time was that she was putting a thumb on the scale on behalf of the administration. Constantly looking out for the views of the president. We're reporting those views … but it was never enough."

"it shows a script we are going to see again in 2026: viral candidate overperforms in the feed, ordinary ballot-counting reveals a different reality, and the people who conflated engagement with votes decide that there’s something suspicious about the count."

Cat check point. #proofofcat

Appeals court rules in favor of a University of WA professor who sued the school after he was disciplined for making fun of Indigenous land acknowledgements in his syllabus. Stuart Reges claimed UW retaliated against him for First Amendment-protected speech. #1A www.axios.com/local/seattl...

He rose to prominence on election denial. But even deep-red Shasta voters didn’t flock to him. (Promoting wackadoodle theories and threatening to “throat-punch” staffers can do that to a candidate) Hailey Branson-Potts www.latimes.com/california/n...

John Bolton, Trump's former national security adviser, is reportedly expected to plead guilty to mishandling classified documents

Anduril is expanding in Seattle. But no word on Glamdring. www.seattletimes.com/business/loc...

Attorneys for the family of George Floyd urged state GOP leaders to apologize for the moment of silence held last weekend.

STATUS SCOOP: Scott Pelley has been terminated from CBS News. More in @status.news shortly. Subscribe here: status.news/subscribe

Former Border Patrol commander-at-large Greg Bovino spoke at this event with white nationalist Keith Woods & told Woods "immigration & remigration, mass deportations, are the number one issue for the preservation of our culture, the preservation of our society, our values, our customs, our beliefs."

I am a fan of this 60 Minutes pushback - and the whole leaked audio of internal meetings genre! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/b...

"Bari loves this institution," Bilton told staffers at one point during the highly contentious meeting. "She loves '60 Minutes.'" "She's murdering '60 Minutes,'" Pelley countered. "She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it—and she's doing exactly that."

Is Google cooked? www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

After his fealty to Trump — and Trump’s endorsement of Paxton — ended his career, John Cornyn posts the fable of the frog and the scorpion, which is the same story as “The Snake” poem that Trump would read at all his rallies

In the last two months Peter Thiel has traveled to Patagonia, placed 3rd in a Buenos Aires chess tournament & attended River-Boca. That's all as he's considering whether to take residency in Argentina as a hedge against the US and specifically, California. We report: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/w...

A classic.