Crystal Fincher
@finchfrii.bsky.social
Personal account. Sportsaholic, geek, ASOIAF addict, relentlessly curious, award-winning political consultant. You know something I don’t. Currently: Strategic Communications Consultant to the Mayor of Seattle @HacksAndWonks.bsky.social (on hiatus)
The Seattle library levy is on track to pass with 80% voting yes. The Seattle Times came out against it and was resoundingly ignored. Seattle voters want nice things and are willing to pay for them.
So far, voters overwhelmingly approve Seattle library levy
A property tax levy to fund the city's public library system over the next seven years is solidly ahead after the first release of vote totals Tuesday evening.
seattletimes.com
“The group warned the markets could create financial incentives for arson and criticized what they described as profiteering from disasters affecting vulnerable communities.”
Jacob Gellman@jacobgellman.com · yesterdayThere is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...
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The Number of Regular People Being Arrested for Protesting Data Centers Is Astounding
The Number of Regular People Being Arrested for Protesting Data Centers Is Astounding
All over the United States, ordinary people are risking their freedom to take a stand against data centers in their communities.
futurism.com
CVS and Walgreens have about as much staffing as a Dollar General at this point, with a similar amount of stock. The reason they’re locking everything up isn’t because crime is rampant, it’s because there’s barely anyone working in the stores.
🥋🇬🇾Chris Hempsworth🇯🇲🥋@duckjordan.myatproto.social · yesterdayCVS is doing the most!!!
yeah, actually I want to engage with sports, and my other sources of human expression and delight. We were not born to be suffering at all times, which is in fact what “they want”
Scoiattolo@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz · 2d agoSomeone replied to my post about the Verge quote actually being about sports with a no shit "the country is burning and they want to distract us with sports"
In the past 3 days, I had someone deliver me homemade biscuits, someone else deliver me two homemade pizzas and another person sent pizza delivery. My circle of friends always shows up for me and I love and appreciate them ❤️
NEW OP-ED// Op-Ed: Federal Transportation Policy Is Growing Unhinged Under Trump By Mike McGinn via @theurbanist.org
Op-Ed: Federal Transportation Policy Is Growing Unhinged Under Trump
America Walks is urging Congress to block federal transportation funding reauthorization until the Whitehouse can prove that it is following the law and disbursing funding Congress has allocated to transit, bike, and pedestrian projects.
theurbanist.org
Corporations, not immigrants, are responsible for the vast majority of healthcare fraud, OIG report shows
Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows
Trump officials are focused on immigrants, but the Department of Health and Human Services report on healthcare fraud doesn’t even mention them.
theintercept.com
PSA: Smoke in Seattle starting tomorrow ish probably during the day. Worse on Tuesday. Prob gonna be until Thursday at least
here to remind you that monday is a social construct and one we can all band together to reject
UPDATE: Some good ways to donate and help people trying to make it through in Spokane: www.khq.com/fires/how-to...
How to help those affected by the Spokane Area Fires
SPOKANE, Wash. - Three fires that sparked in Spokane County on Saturday afternoon—the Old Trails, Fairview, and Autumn Lane fires—are now being handled as one incident referred to as the
khq.com
We Need To Talk About Kevin@kdreyfuss88.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is tough to see for a cool, weird town I love. Thinking of you, Spokane.
One thing I document in my book is that companies that engage in slave labor are also going to have all kinds of other health, safety, and labor violations.
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d agoThe diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
Important. #wawx Public radio is simulcasting all coverage KHQ's wall-to-wall coverage is being simulcast by public radio stations across the region
Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is “one of the most catastrophic events we've seen in our lifetime here in Spokane," KHQ anchor @KHQSean says, noting it's impossible to know many homes have already burned. Now it's sunset. "Tomorrow morning is going to be devastating for our community," @KHQLeslie says.”
"They’re cultivating their own individual personas, while together giving off 'StudBudz of women’s baseball' vibes (what would you call a white, baseball-playing version of the WNBA fan favorites? 'Butch Buddies?' 'Masc Mateys?' Let’s keep workshopping it)."
Frankie de la Cretaz@thefrankiedlc.news · 6d agoIn the meantime, here is a profile I wrote of WPBL & USWNT players Ashton Lansdell & Denae Benites. You can have it in hard copy in the sports issue of Autostraddle, out now:
GOOD MORNING! There’s a new women’s professional baseball league starting today, @wpbl.bsky.social, and we are all over it @theixsports.bsky.social #wpbl
The IX Sports@theixsports.bsky.social · 5d agoIt's been 72 years since women's baseball was played professionally in the United States. That changes tomorrow with the WPBL's inaugural slate of games. @mingemi.bsky.social explains how players and coaches are feeling before the big day. www.theixsports.com/features/wpb...
This is huge
Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 5d agoEndometriosis takes nine years to diagnose. That’s about to change. NICE has approved two tests: a saliva test reading microRNA markers, and a gut-sensor test returning results in 45 minutes, sparing women the keyhole surgery currently needed. buff.ly/QX3jHk8 #ShareGoodNewsToo
I worry that most cynical among us, hopped up on 30 years of law and order rhetoric, will say "this is the system working: he didn't do anything wrong and now he's free." As if the terror and wide-scale publicity of an arrest and federal prosecution is not a horrible punishment in and of itself.
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoThe Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
When Bruce Harrell was mayor, SPD kept information around a potential serial killer in Capitol Hill and First Hill from the public for a number of weeks, something that did not get as much media attention as a press conference being delayed for three hours. www.capitolhillseattle.com/2024/05/poli...
i'm sorry i missed this important reporting earlier in the month about republican rep. max miller, who allegedly abused his 2-year-old daughter and his ex-wife, who is the daughter of republican senator bernie moreno of ohio. moreno has refused to condemn miller.
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
motherjones.com
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
theguardian.com
FTC sues Hims & Hers for allegedly sharing patients’ medical data with advertisers Meta and Snap
FTC sues Hims & Hers for allegedly sharing patients' medical data with advertisers Meta and Snap | TechCrunch
The U.S. federal consumer watchdog said Hims & Hers, which prescribes for sexual wellness and mental health conditions, used website trackers to share customers' information with advertisers.
techcrunch.com
Working on a scholarly and more comprehensive piece with a non-bsky colleague on this but the notion that these data centers are ordinary customers which utilities have a duty to serve is unfounded in the history and justification for that legal duty.
Arlyssa D. Becenti ✍️🗞️@abecenti.bsky.social · last wk.Sports betting industry spending on US midterm elections surpasses $72 million
Sports betting industry spending on US midterm elections surpasses $72 million
DraftKings, FanDuel and other online sports betting companies have ramped up election spending on the U.S. midterms to at least $72 million so far, the latest campaign election data shows, as predict...
reuters.com
