Seattle Seahawks win their second Super Bowl and avenge prior loss to the New England Patriots as the PNW beams with pride In a decisive 29-13 victory watched by over a hundred million people, the Pacific Northwest's pro gridiron team took home the Vince Lombardi Trophy, delighting people across…

The feud that just keeps on giving

And we aren't sorry, either. Not even a little. Feels GREAT! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/08/s...

Sunday Super Bowl recap: * Bad Bunny makes history as the Super Bowl halftime performer, leaving MAGAland furious and sputtering * Seattle Seahawks crush the New England Patriots and hand their Trump-aligned owner Robert Kraft a big defeat * QB Sam Darnold silences the doubters It was a good day!

SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS! The Seahawks WIN! Congratulations, Seattle!

DOGE and the deluge: The hits on our cherished public recreation lands just keep coming A vital system of trails and campgrounds is buckling under climate damage, chronic understaffing, and political sabotage — putting public lands, local economies, and decades of investment at risk.

Pete Davidson returns to SNL to portray Tom Homan, cold open addresses ICE’s brutality in Minneapolis Watch highlights from the twelfth episode of SNL’s fifty-first season, hosted by Alexander Skarsgård, with Cardi B as the musical guest, including the ICE Meeting Cold Open.

Super Bowl LX: These longreads look at the Seahawks’ chances The Hawks are favored against the team they lost to the last time they played for the championship... but that doesn't mean the game is in the bag. Here are three in-depth articles looking at the team's chances.

Some of the protest signs are similar to anything else you’d see since the start of Trump 2. Others are directed at the concentration camp guards inside.

Awful

Thank you, Congresswoman!

Horrific

Absurd that this fundraiser has to exist If you hadn't already canceled your WaPo subscription, the events of the last few days should convince you it's time.

In hearing on proposed high earners tax, Republicans serve up a litany of bad arguments to justify their coddle the rich dogma Failed initiative promoter Tim Eyman, mega-millionaire Brian Heywood, and other right wing ideologues were among those who demonstrated they're still wildly out of touch…

The blatant, deliberate destruction of official records is absolutely appalling

King County Councilmember Jorge L. Barón launches reelection campaign with broad community supp First elected in 2023 to succeed Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Barón's priorities for the next four years include public safety, housing, healthcare, and transit.

The Trump regime and its oligarch enablers are trashing our nation’s capital, from the Kennedy Center to The Washington Post Vital public and private institutions in the District of Columbia are being hollowed out by vain men obsessed with amassing and flaunting wealth instead of sustainable…

Republicans find there are limits to SCOTUS' naked partisanship

Exactly

Democrats can’t simply react to polls. They must lead. "Even if you think politicians can only react to public opinion rather than influence it—and we strongly dispute that—true leaders understand policy and anticipate how the public will react to it," write Adam Bonica and Jake Grumbach.

It's a vicious cycle. Bezos should sell the paper since he's not willing to be a good steward of it.

Washington’s House and Senate Democrats unveil first public draft of high earners’ tax on mega-millionaires and billionaires The legislation would help meet the state's paramount duty of amply providing for the education of all youth residing within its borders while rebalancing Washington's…

Scramble for the Senate: How Democrats hope to flip four seats to regain a majority in the 2026 midterms After a brutal 2024 that cost the party its Senate majority, Democrats are working to put together a ticket that can send John Thune and his caucus back into the minority. They need to net four…

Keeping the republic during dark times: A recap of 2026 Democracy Lobby Day in Olympia On Friday, January 23rd, hundreds of Washingtonians trekked to Olympia to meet with their state legislators and urge support for bills that would improve election security and fairness.

Documentary Review: “20 Days in Mariupol” bears witness to the brutal war being waged against Ukraine by Putin’s Russia Filmed from inside a besieged city, the Oscar-winning documentary records the realities of occupation and the indispensable role of journalism in preserving truth.

The energy the country needs

Agreed

Freedom! Well done, Judge! School the fascists: Biery also included in his ruling a photo of Liam Conejo Ramos and references to two lines in the Bible: “Jesus said, ’Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these,” and “Jesus wept.”

Book Review: “Do Aliens Speak Physics?” asks whether science is truly universal or shaped by the limits of human experience Andy Warner and Daniel Whiteson have created a witty, illustrated inquiry into what the search for alien intelligence reveals about scientific knowledge, human perception,…

Chaya Raichik is emblematic of the cruelty coming from Trump's cult

Harvard professor Steven Levitsky, who studies democracy backsliding, on Don Lemon's arrest: “This is a new dimension. In democracies, journalists don't get arrested. In authoritarian regimes, journalists get arrested." More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/don-lemon-...

Good! This is how local police should act

Good work, @sanders.senate.gov!

Standing with you, Don

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

The rise of the slopagandist: When “independent journalists” aren’t really journalists Nick Shirley and others like him are reminiscent of yellow journalism of the 19th century, updated and turbocharged by social media algorithms, wrties Mia Sato for The Verge.

A reckoning is coming for Donald Trump and his fascist wrecking crew, powered by a mass movement of patriotic Americans In a second Gilded Age of greed and excess... an age when so many large institutions have become corrupt and unresponsive to the people's needs... large-scale democratic…

Frey: "In Mpls, we heard them say they'll end this siege when we hand over voter rolls. The DOJ is being used as a weapon. They're investigating me and several other local elected officials not because we've done something wrong because we speak on behalf of our constituents.

New poll finds voters want Congress to enact major reforms to ICE even if it requires a government shutdown. It concludes: “The Minneapolis immigration raids have been a complete and unmitigated disaster for the Trump administration.” www.theargumentmag.com/p/immigratio...

Good man. Thank you for looking out for this family and others like them.

A plurality of Washington voters back lowering the threshold for drunk driving to a blood alcohol concentration of 0.05% NPI's research suggests that even before hearing the evidence suggesting that Senate Bill 5067 will save lives, a near majority of the state's electorate is supportive of…

Ilhan Omar: “In the 4 years when Biden was president, my death threats went to almost zero — now they are back up — so there is a clear correlation between his presidency & the political violence that we see & the political danger that a lot of members of Congress & electeds feel across the country”

It is a very self-defeating move. It's like when Trump's folks released the photo of Nancy Pelosi standing up to him.

While Minaj engages in Trump worship, Springsteen is releasing new music dedicated to the people Trump is trying to oppress. Quite a contrast. bsky.app/profile/bruc...

MUST-LISTEN: Bruce Springsteen releases new song called “Streets of Minneapolis” The Boss has an incredible new song you need to hear. In a note to the world, he says it was written Saturday the 24th of January and recorded on the 27th. It's "dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent…

Senate Democrats must not fall for this ploy. It's Republicans who have created these manufactured fiscal crises. It is Democrats' moral responsibility to withhold their votes for funding an abomination that sends masked thugs into America's streets to oppress and murder its own people.

"I was only following orders" wasn't an acceptable excuse at the Nuremberg trials & won't work now. #AccountabilityIsComing

Educator Renee Hernandez Greenfield is challenging Michelle Caldier for State House in Washington’s 26th District Caldier, a swing district Republican with a history of ethics complaints, currently holds a seat that is one of the Democratic Party's top pickup opportunities in the 2026 midterm…

Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, is terminating its lease agreement with the Department of Homeland Security, which had been renting office space used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from the county, an official said Tuesday. County Executive: "We will not accept their blood money."

Gray market weight loss drugs are harming Washingtonians As the demand for GLP-1 medications grows, gaps in insurance coverage and persistent weight stigma are driving vulnerable patients toward dangerous counterfeit drugs. Legislators must act to protect patients, secure the drug supply, and…