Chuck Taylor | Seattle
@chcktylr.bsky.social
Retired WA journalist. Seattle Times, Everett Herald, Crosscut, Seattle Weekly, Tri-City Herald. Born in NH, reared in MI, live in Seattle. Non-current private pilot. FAA-certified drone pilot. Amateur photographer.
The best engineers aren’t going to Boeing these days, so they had to do something.
Boeing, SPEEA contract offers nearly 29% pay bump, commitment to PNW
Boeing is offering its professional aerospace union a 28.5% wage increase over the length of the next four-year contract, the company and the union said Wednesday.
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This is the problem with negative campaigning — even when your opponent is a corrupt asshole.
James Talarico Accused Ken Paxton of Voter Fraud. His Own Voter Registration Is Raising Questions.
ProPublica and The Texas Tribune’s review of the Democratic Senate candidate’s residency records found that he may have voted in up to five elections using an address where he no longer lived.
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I keep wanting to ask Claude about all the deception and other creepy behavior in AI tests, but I'm afraid it might get mad at me.
Interesting that Abdul El-Sayed won on strength in western and northern Michigan — but not in metro Detroit (except for Ann Arbor). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
You can pay millions to get a millisecond information advantage, or you can be a chump and refresh your feed manually and miss the opportunity to cash in on Trump's insider-trading scheme. Let's hope this sort of thing comes to a screeching halt in January 2029.
Wall Street finds new edge behind Trump's presidential paywall
Trump Media is monetizing the presidency's unrivaled power to move markets
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I’m still stuck on the fact they have 9 kids. That’s insane.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2d agoCompanies regulated by Sean Duffy reportedly poured millions into a road-trip show starring the transportation secretary and his family. It was supposed to premiere in June. But months later, not one episode has aired. @willsommer.bsky.social looks into what the hell happened.
This fucking lying hack. California home price index.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoHassett: "One of the metrics of shelter costs that I find most interesting is that they're going down pretty rapidly in places like California because everybody is leaving. Even though there are high prices in California, it puts downward pressure on inflation because everybody is leaving the state"
Trump: “The Winning Shot in the Bedminster Club Championship! Thank you very much to all of those who participated. I won with a 70, & am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m given very little time to practice, bc I’m focused on many other things. It’s called TALENT, and I have it”
Seattle mayor: "As the executive of this city, I have a different window into our Police Department than they do." Columnist Danny Westneat: "OK. What do you see through that window? Because it sounds like it might be bad."
Seattle City Hall rarely runs smoothly. This week it hit new lows
The spectacle of the neophyte mayor and the frequent flyer police chief, both failing at their jobs when they were needed most, is not going to pass lightly.
seattletimes.com
I lost my job, my kids have measles, my electric bill has doubled, and I have explosive diarrhea from a parasite the CDC no longer monitors. But at least now Black kids won't be getting free breakfasts from Head Start anymore.
Trump’s DOJ: “Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects.”
Mike Baker@mikebaker.bsky.social · 5d agoFederal prosecutors now admit that the reflecting pool damage was actually the result of a "botched" installation. Prosecutors are dropping charges against David Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist accused of vandalizing the pool. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
A report from Whatcom and Skagit counties in WA, where journalists make $19.10 an hour — because that's the minimum wage. It's even worse in some places. Meanwhile, we have the WHCA dinner. The news business, like the rest of US society, is being ravaged by wage disparity.
Saving local news starts with paying local reporters
A bold stand by underpaid NW WA journos cries out for public backing
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It was late in coming, but the major said all the right things here, including owning the botched comms on the day of the shootings.
Mayor Katie B. Wilson@mayor.seattle.gov · 6d agoMessage from Mayor Wilson.
"He insists that California has 'blackouts and brownouts every weekend,' when the state’s 39 million residents can tell you it doesn’t. He says that you must show ID to buy groceries, which everyone who buys their own food knows isn’t so."
Reality is a Communist Plot
Of MAGA and the totalitarian mindset
paulkrugman.substack.com
I look forward to learning who’s responsible for SPD waiting five hours before conveying any actual facts about the Seattle Center shootings — like where, precisely, it happened on the 74-acre campus.
Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 7d agoHearing on good authority that Police Chief Shon Barnes has just been fired. He just left the mayor's office this evening after being inside for quite a while. Barnes is currently calling around the police department to tell his captains. Still waiting on confirmation from mayor's office and SPD.
Federal prosecutors charged a man returning to the U.S. with obstruction because he gave them a passcode that erased his smartphone during a customs search.
A U.S. Citizen Deleted His Phone’s Data. Now He Faces a Felony Charge.
Federal prosecutors charged a man returning to the United States with obstruction because he gave them a passcode that erased his smartphone during a customs search.
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Scoop: I’m told that Ross Douthat is exiting The NYT and is expected to take a role at “60 Minutes.” News expected to be announced soon.
"How could the best-equipped, most sophisticated military in the world have allowed itself to be humiliated by a third-rate power? First of all, Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump began with an astonishingly stupid theory of war: the belief that performative masculinity is how you win."
The Putinization of the American Military
When poseurs and yes-men run a war
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"Climate scientists pulled off something that was extraordinary ... They got the basic outlines of what was coming and in many ways even the numbers on what was coming right decades in advance. In any kind of rational world we would be hailing them as heroes ..."
The Fire This Time
The willful ignorance, it burns
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The hours-long delay before the release of even basic information about what happened — "because officials were waiting for 'dignitaries' who wanted to participate" in a presser — is inexcusable. Someone at SPD needs to pull someone's head out of someone's ass.
Seattle Center mass shooting: What we know
One person was taken into custody and another suspected shooter remained at large. Here's what to know about the mass shooting at Seattle Center.
seattletimes.com
I like Kelly. He’s a fearless grownup. But I fear his lack of oratory skill would be too much to overcome if he were to run in 2028.
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · last wk.Senator Mark Kelly and former Representative Gabby Giffords remain a singular entity in American public life 15 years after her near-assassination, @markleibovich.bsky.social writes. How might their unparalleled dynamic play in a presidential campaign?
I try to avoid generic drugs, though it’s hard to do. With the name brands there’s some reputational pressure to impose quality control. I think.
ProPublica@propublica.org · last wk.The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
Weird: Closure of New York's only REI store, in existence a mere 15 years, warrants a teary writeup in the NYT. REI has been doing a slow fade in Seattle, its hometown. It's no longer the co-op I joined in 1977. Stopped shopping there years ago. They never seemed to have in stock the thing I needed.
New Yorkers Say Farewell to the REI SoHo (Gift Article)
Customers gathered to mourn as the outdoor equipment retailer shuttered its location in the famed Puck building in SoHo, where it had been for 15 years.
nytimes.com
“Judge Sullivan gave acting Attorney General Todd Blanche five days to provide him with unredacted copies of documents in the Epstein Files that the Justice Department continues to withhold.”
An Important Epstein Files Update
This afternoon, federal District Judge Emmet Sullivan did something unexpected.
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During a surprise visit to the WNBA All-Star weekend, Barack Obama delivered a personal message to Caitlin Clark, picked up on a hot mic. The encounter was a “heartening reminder of what ‘presidential’ can look like,” @sallyjenx.bsky.social argues.
A Brief Exchange That Shows the Enormous Difference Between Trump and Obama
This is what a president sounds like.
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Is this a fashion thing now? I’ve seen it before. This was in Seattle. No, I’m not talking about the guy.
