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“Trump had nothing to do with Epstein” “Trump was a confidential informant that helped take Epstein down” “Releasing the Epstein files will destroy the Democrats” Then why the fuck is Trump threatening to primary the Republicans who are trying to release them?
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with one of his own states. This is completely unhinged.
Dipshit can’t even rig the jobs report right
This is a deeply reported, heart-pounding read Gift link ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...
Got 3 cars 4 tickets today. Don't park on the sidewalk assholes. #thewaroncars
RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
And Americans just accept it. All this money, all this wealth, and they accept grinding, day-to-day shit. Just tapping the sign again, I guess:
People return from other countries that are *much poorer* than the US and exclaim, "god, it sucks here!" You can't walk anywhere, cars dominate every square inch, there's very little public space or community, health care is a nightmare, child care is a nightmare, public education is mediocre.
The biggest scandal in US public life *ought* to be that we are the richest country in history & yet our infrastructure sucks, our transportation choices suck, our cities suck, our healthcare sucks, our public administration sucks, & in dozens of little ways, our daily lives suck.
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Seattle isn't perfect, but it is one of the best places to live car-free and car-light in the U.S. We need to build on this momentum.
The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024. Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay. The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year. Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M See the problem?
40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Holllllyyyyy fuck.
He’s either announcing a health-related resignation or that he’s militarily occupying Chicago. Kind of 50/50 at this point, lol.
Happy Labor Day 🙂
CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
We're one week away from the big grand opening celebration for the new Seattle waterfront, so I'm having fun going back through the original conceptual renderings presented to the public in 2012.
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
8 Avoiding property takings and free access to public streets 9 No off-street parking and bus facilities 10 Using elevated as much as possible 11 Sole permitting authority 12 Agency board composed of technical experts only 13 Avoiding federal permitting
1️⃣ In-house design and engineering 2️⃣ Standardized station designs 3️⃣ Smaller station boxes 4️⃣ Cut-and-cover construction 5️⃣ Zero betterments for jurisdictions 6️⃣ Utility relocation reform 7️⃣ Procurement reform
@robertcruickshank.com correct me if I'm wrong but the state currently contributes no funding to link light rail correct?
Figured Federal Way was part of the news. Is there more news coming?
The GOP is preparing to change Senate rules to make it easier to adopt Trump’s agenda and confirm nominees. Good thing Manchin and Sinema “preserved democracy” with their performative bullshit. Dems have to quit holding themselves to standards the GOP won’t meet.
Huge progressive vibe shift, total YIMBY domination of the discourse on both ends of the political spectrum now
Now turn them on 24/7 like state law legally allows. Vision zero doesn't only exist when kids are present. You know as an adult I'd really like to not get hit by a speeding car too.
this is fucking insane
Everyone say thank you...Alex Pedersen?
Remember when people said this was just hyperbole and a candidate saying it made them unelectable…
I, for one, believe the convicted sex offender who said this to the President's personal criminal-defense lawyer while trying to obtain a pardon. Totally credible, case closed. Definitely don't need to release Epstein's accounts to see if there are any transfers of funds from Trump.
Not Gentrification: selling your single family home for $1,500,000 to a professional class couple who will pay $8,000/month mortgage payments. Gentrification and Displacement: selling your SFH to a developer for $2,400,000 who will knock it down for 25 $3,500/month apartments.
I can't find the article but I'm sure studies have shown that there hasn't been a significant increase in retail theft. Also I remember another article that was local that showed that most stores that were closed due to increased theft actually had lower theft rates than stores that weren't closed.
Not only is this fucking embarrassing, I can’t imagine how much counterintelligence work is going to be required after this trip. Having a hostile head of state in the presidential limo is *insane*
We need a law that says if you're only driving your car for fun, you must do it on a race track. And if you are driving a car for transportation, it must have a speed regulator, and your phone will be disabled as soon as you enter the vehicle.
Seattle, NYC, Maui, Copenhagen, Paris.
Update on this: Mayor Bruce Harrell's office never did respond to my question about whether the new executive-level hires at his police department received $50,000 lateral hiring bonuses. I'm a member of the media asking a very basic question of public interest, and the city is stonewalling me.
Guys listen, I know we’re on our 12th final tariff extension in 7 months but this is the LAST one, I’m super serious this time
The Trump administration is floating ending monthly job reports because they’re so fucking bad right now.
Katie Wilson now has 50.7% in the Seattle mayor's race; incumbent Bruce Harrell has 41.2. AND, in the latest batch of votes that were counted (late votes, generally younger/more progressive), Wilson has 58% to Harrell's 35%—the earliest mail-in votes were the most pro-Harrell.
Yeah it really felt like a betrayal to their values. Can they change their endorsement for the general?
That's fair. I was just wondering. No shade intended.
Why not just mail it back like a week ago?
Prediction: 750,000 jobs will have been added in August.
Okay you can officially get ready for an attempt to cook the books.
Portland, Oregon, which has a similar population as Helsinki, had 58 traffic deaths in 2024 www.portland.gov/transportati...
The media trying to both sides this.
Real discussion: CNN: Hey Dave it's CNN. Could you come on to talk about the death of Hulk Hogan Me: Hulk Hogan was a racist scab and a liar. He hated unions, Black people, and the truth and that's why he loved Donald Trump. What time do you want me? CNN: Great! Well.... so we'll keep looking
Your minimum job as an elected official is to show up for committee meetings. Today both Sara Nelson and Rob Saka just chose to not do that. #Seattle if Nelson can’t be bothered to show up and do the people’s work, why is she still on the council? Let’s vote her out this election. #NoMoreNelson
Sitting in your office when you’re supposed to be at a committee meeting is a real choice. #Seattle is one of America’s great cities and we deserve elected leaders who are up to the task of governing.
So to clarify the timeline: Trump promises to release the Epstein files for his entire campaign. Bondi says they’re on her desk. Trump gets told he’s in them. Bondi says whoopsies, turns out the Epstein files don’t actually exist.
“Over 40k people die in car crashes in the US every year. Entire neighborhoods are carved up by high-speed traffic. Kids can’t walk to school safely. But don’t worry – someone saw a teenager run a stop sign on an e-bike, so the real crisis must be those darn batteries on two wheels.”
Trump the president has been doing exactly what Trump the candidate promised to do. This steep falloff in support, just five months in, is a sign of some catastrophic failings in our media and education systems.
Read this now The government does have an Epstein list — here’s the proof BY CHRIS TRUAX thehill.com/opinion/whit...
Paris urban biking DOUBLED in just one year. “Cycling in Paris has transcended mere trendiness; it’s become a fundamental aspect of the city’s identity. Despite challenges like inclement weather, cyclists continue to flock to the streets, setting new records and reshaping the urban landscape.”
Whether it's Hillary Clinton wearing pantsuits or Donald Trump drawing naked women in a letter he sent to a pedophile, both candidates took a provocative approach to women's attire.
Epstein mentions on Fox News today: 1 Biden mentions on Fox News today: 46 Wonder why.
time for the press to do another feature on biden
"To encourage civility..." It's not my problem that you bought a vehicle too large for your property. It's also not my problem that "the market" may only offer vehicles that are too large for your property. Society has said you may not obstruct the public space...so, uh, don't do that.
Ah yes, people's thoughts accessibility in a nutshell. "Reed said he’s happy to rush out and move his car for any passerby, though he would prefer they call or ring his doorbell, rather than filing a complaint. To encourage civility, he posted a sign at his front steps."
After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.
Freedumb
it’s depressing to think about all of the people who will suffer and die from his policies but it’s just embarrassing to be governed by the trashiest, dumbest losers on earth
The media made a HUGE deal out of "basket of deplorables" and "cling to their guns or religion." But, of course, it will totally ignore Trump saying he hates Democrats: "I hate them. I believe they hate their country."
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
Congratulations to the GOP for just losing the midterms.
GOP: this bill is fucking terrible. It’s going to kill people, explode the deficit, and completely kill the renewable energy market in the US. Also GOP: so anyway, here’s why I’m voting for the bill
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
I think I’m going to keep posting this until it goes viral or I get carpal tunnel. Tasha Cloud implicitly shames every athlete/author/actor choosing silence right now.
It wouldn't kill the bill entirely. Rs would have 3 choices: 1-try to arm-twist some more and get the votes 2-negotiate with some faction to make changes to the bill and ping-pong it back to the Senate 3-go to a conference committee Leadership doesn't want to do #2 or #3
sorry if this offends but i hate this heinous bitch
Ok grandpa back to bed.
The GOP just passed a bill most of them vehemently disagree with — and that they know is going to harm their constituents — because they’re afraid of Trump. Pretty pathetic stuff.
So fast forward 5 years from now. What barriers still remain to Washington becoming a YIMBY paradise? (I'm really asking I'm curious)
Jerry Brown once said CEQA reform is "the lord's work." With all due respect to any divinity that may or may not exist...this work got done by Gov. Newsom, Speaker Rivas, Asm. Wicks, Sen. Wiener, and thousands of YIMBYs across California.
It’s pretty impressive how bad this bill is, honestly. Gigawatts of projected energy shortage. Starving kids. Massive deficit increase. But at least Trump’s rich friends get their tax break!
Mask off, hood on.
Stop voting for old people. Thanks.
How many pre-written "#MeToo Is Over" columns had to be shelved tonight?
And the Being Normal olympics begin.
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So many Cuomo parallels - scandals with the club he's a member - the misogyny in his administration - his reputation for vindictiveness - his long record of accomplishing virtually nothing - his outspoken defense of Ed Murray
Cry more, fash freaks
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa [SpongeBob narrator] "Three hours later..." aaaaaaaaaaaaaamn!"
Wake up Democratic Party old guard establishment. This isn’t about New York City. This is the way the wind is blowing. Step aside for young people who this country will need over the next several decades long after you are gone. Enough with your egos and the big money interests.
Democrats: "We need to engage young voters." Also Democrats: "Let's endorse the most recidivist, backwards thinking thugs we can find in the name of maintaining the status quo!"
Tell me again that Bruce Harrell is a shoo-in for re-election. Go on. Say it. I dare you. The polling evidence already showed @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social could win. Now we’re seeing in NYC that voters are ready for change. No matter how it turns out there, the same dynamics exist here.
Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.
