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open source stuff pedestrian sea/sjc/bwi was parisinbmore on fka twitter fix your hearts or die. drum and bass saves lives.
Seattle voters are currently approving the library levy renewal by nearly 72%.
Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · yesterdayGreetings from the Yes Seattle Libraries election night party at Reuben's downtown, featuring CM Dionne Foster.
“DEI is a distraction”
David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · 2d ago"Commanders [must] maintain a log of personnel requiring facial hair treatment plans... Must forward a Facial Hair Accommodation Accountability Report in Excel monthly... Those approved for accommodation must carry the signed paperwork on their persons..." www.militarytimes.com/news/your-na...
missing all of those beautiful ideas about loan adjustment payments based on your first year salary to encourage more teachers and more. RIP
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
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#gophercon #k8s friends in seattle this week: heyyy let’s hang out. sushi is pretty good here.
my dog was groomed today and unfortunately they put the cone on her bc she really does not care to be wet. i’ve never been able to take a pic of her head on but today she insisted on looking at the screen lol i imagine she said:
"I'll say it right now, but I will probably say something different this afternoon."
in #seattle i get yelled at all the time from folks on scooters AND cyclists - on the sidewalk!! where else should i walk?? pedestrians are not your enemy.
andrea@andreawaves.bsky.social · 5d agoOnline white men in MPLS have Good Politics and then they get out on their bikes and call me a fat bitch for using the sidewalk while I walk my dog.
Absolutely incredible that Westneat and other critics of the mayor believe Shon Barnes was appointed by her and that SHE should have "worked out" his desire to travel constantly with him as part of his contract, when he was appointed by Bruce Harrell in 2024. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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.
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Agreed. She is not bombastic. She doesn't ape the mannerisms of men to "project" strength. She stands very firmly and confidently in her own power . . and that is what real strength looks like.
this motherfucker got $50k to come here, didn't really even do that, sucked at his job, got paid $300k to suck at it, and now gets $700k to fuck off while our stupidest council members are still screeching about "DeFuNd ThE pOLicE" the actual police are basically robbing the city of seattle
Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 5d agoSeattle police chief Shon Barnes is getting $700,000 in a settlement for leaving the department, PubliCola has confirmed.
If you don't want to empower right-wing fascist authoritarians right now, you should call both Kathy Hochul and Tish James and tell them to suspend enforcement the SAFE act immediately Tish James ☎️: (800) 771-7755 Kathy Hochul ☎️: (518) 474-8390 bsky.app/profile/chim...
Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈@chimeracoder.bsky.social · last wk.This means that it would be trivial for law enforcement to run queries to find the real-life identities of people who do things like post about ICE, or abortion, or Palestine, or being queer, or any other group they want to target.
Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.
A Polish-born woman in Des Plaines who “had done everything right” has been in ICE custody for the past year. Green Card for 20 years, sought citizenship. “And it didn’t matter.” www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/27/i...
Illinois woman with green card has been detained by ICE for 12 months. Her daughters plead for her release.
ICE arrested Beata Siemionkowicz, a Poland native and green card holder of more than two decades, last year while she was gardening in her daughter’s backyard in Des Plaines.
chicagotribune.com
waiting for the substacks that call dhh a visionary, actually. he told yall who he is YEARS ago. here we are.
Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.
Seattle Fire and Police are currently responding to a mass shooting at the Seattle Center with at least six gunshot victims.
A letter from the mother of Alex Pretti, six months after he was murdered by ICE.
An important and surprising discovery arriving the same week policy leaders in Washington tell us we no longer need federal investment in the biological and life sciences.
Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 2w agoCan a cancer become a new species of parasite? Here's my story on the discovery of a transmissible cancer lurking in Vermont catfish. Gift link: nyti.ms/4whfi6v
An Instagram post about Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to wealthy communities in Marin County, CA, turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash point. The students say they were just doing their homework.
A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out
An Instagram post turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash point. The students say they were just doing their homework.
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Holy hell Katie Wilson is on fire here.
Crystal Fincher@finchfrii.bsky.social · 2w agoSeattle, the World Cup brought possibility. Let’s build on it