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Aimee Rawlins @aimeerawlins.bsky.social · 12h

I would give anything to understand what possessed WalletHub to put Seattle at #4 on the most "foodie" cities in America. While there are plenty of exceptions, on the whole, I find the food both underwhelming and wildly expensive. wallethub.com/edu/best-foo...

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Best Foodie Cities in America in 2026

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Sound Transit board just unanimously approved a $10 million budget amendment to advance a previously deferred 700 stall parking garage at Renton Transit Center. This project is expected to ultimately cost $142,857 per parking stall.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

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Caitlin McGlade @caitmcglade.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I, the only data reporter at the Charlotte Observer, am among the McClatchy layoffs in the bloodbath today. The HR person asked me not to talk about it! AMA. Anyway, here’s a link to one of my most important stories this year. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

charlotteobserver.com

A Black teen found hanged near Charlotte church was a suicide, police say. Questions remain

In May, 16-year-old Juliana Nzita was found dead in a Charlotte churchyard. CMPD called it a suicide. Her family isn’t so sure.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Hi there! I'm the Secretary of Agriculture in a nation where just about every single kind of food has been recalled because it will give you explosive shits and then kill you dead. Well, I'm here to tell you about how government regulation and oversight is baaaaaaaad."

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The renaming of this lake is so dumb and petty and should not be the focus of the news right now but … I cannot overstate enough just how sad and pathetic this update is for Google

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Country Universe @countryuniverse.net · 25/08/2026

That she accumulated so much wealth and goodwill and then gave so much of it back and in so many ways, it gives lie to the idea that wealth and power must corrupt. The corruption we see now among the billionaire class is *only who they choose to be*.

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A person so miraculous she made Siskel & Ebert agree ♥️

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Aimee Rawlins @aimeerawlins.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Truly cannot wrap my head around the reality that so many people are trying to make a case for cars at the market. The quotes are just beyond parody.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This is a factual sentence: Amid an outbreak of explosive diarrhea and with measles cases at a 35-year high, America’s top health official, who has an affinity for roadkill and guzzling raw milk, will soon start hosting a cooking show. My column, tragically: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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Move over, cyclosporiasis. RFK Jr. is hosting a cooking show. | Opinion

America's top health official, who has an affinity for picking up roadkill and guzzling raw milk, will soon start hosting a cooking show. Barf.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The conception of "Seattle residents" that excludes renters is even more absurdly insulting now than it was when Juarez was elected in 2015. A growing majority of Seattle rents their homes; the homeowners demanding "what the city is accustomed to" are not the only "people of the city."

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I think this kind of reaction is pretty outsized for a reasonable question—if a big-city police chief is out of town much of the time, including on weekends, holidays, and during the summer when violent incidents are more common, that's a matter of obvious public interest.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This story is indeed insane. They literally *discounted his correct answers* (on questions about the Constitution) so that a Trump supporting girl who wants to go to Hillsdale College could win $25K and be televised meeting Trump. So. Gross.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

matthew always brings the receipts

• A law called the "Food Traceability Rule," designed to make tracing contaminated food easier, was supposed to go into effect on January 20, 2026.
• Taylor Foods started paying Sidley Austin to lobby. on "regulation of food safety" in January of 2025.
• On March 20, 2025, FDA announced they were pushing back the implementation of the "Food Traceability Rule" by 30 months.
• On March 26, 2025, Taylor Fresh Foods Inc contributed $1,000,000 to MAGA Inc, a Trump-aligned super PAC.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

NEW: A second ex-wife of David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed Joan Durán Guerrero in Maine, Lucinda Brouillette, issued a statement this morning. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes." /

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

Gary K. Wolf •
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I've had to unfriend a few fans lately, all for the same reason. They made ridiculing, unkind, and in some cases outright cruel comments about pictures I posted of young women cosplaying Jessica.
More than a person, Jessica is a state of mind. To play Jessica, you need self -confidence, a sense of humor, and a Jessican -attitude-. There is no such thing as a Jessica cosplayer being too short, too flat chested, too heavy, too thin, too unattractive, too black, too Asian, or even too male!!! All Jessica, any Jessica, every Jessica is good Jessica.
I'm not giving any warnings or second chances. A single disparaging comment on a Jessica cosplayer, and I'm throwing you out of the rainbow colored Toontown Tent.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Now @apnews.com has a deeply reported story confirming the recently-hired ICE officer who shot a man in Maine had serious mental health issues and a long history of violence against women. This comes after ICE slashed hiring standards and rushed some into the field before background checks cleared.

By JACK BROOK, MICHAEL R. SISAK, AMANDA SWINHART and CLAIRE GALOFARO
Updated 7:59 PM EDT, July 16, 2026
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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood and never should have been given a badge and gun to patrol American streets, several of his close relatives told The Associated Press.

David Brouillette has a history of terrifying and violent behavior, according to those relatives. They accuse him of attacking women in his life over the years, and one shared a voicemail with the AP from last winter in which he told her that he thought someone should slit her throat.

Brouillette’s troubling past further challenges how thoroughly the Department of Homeland Security has vetted recruits as it went on a hiring spree to help carry out President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

At least 10 people have died in encounters with immigration agents since Trump launched the crackdown after retaking office, including 25-year-old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a Colombian national who was shot and killed by Brouillette on Monday while in his car near his home in the coastal Maine city of Biddeford.

DHS, which hasn’t released the name of the officer who killed Durán Guerrero, has said the “vehicle attempted to flee the scene and, fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon.”

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Aimee Rawlins @aimeerawlins.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Just watched an Amazon truck try to make it through a clearly too-narrow space, sideswipe a parked car, absolutely mutilate the mirror, and then drive off without leaving a note. 🫡

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Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 10/07/2026

For context, the I-5 Ship Canal Bridge (237K) and the Aurora Bridge (68K) carry a total of about 305,000 vehicles on an average day.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

“Sen. Collins was the deciding vote in appointing Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in 2018. Before casting that fateful vote, she assured Mainers that Roe was precedent and would not be disturbed, that Kavanaugh would honor the concept of stare decisis, that Roe was ‘settled law.’”

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Susan Collins is uniquely responsible for the fall of Roe | Opinion

The impact of the senator's vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court continues to be devastating for American women.

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J.E. Skeets @jeskeets.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"Belgium pressed the U.S. team from the opening seconds, and the response was not increased aggression but undeniable fear: The U.S. looked spooked. It was as if it felt the weight of the soccer world's anger all at once." ✍️ @williamfleitch.bsky.social bit.ly/3RnodEb

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The U.S. Team Crumbled Under the Weight of the Soccer World

A bruising loss to Belgium and a controversial Trump intervention threaten to overshadow the USMNT’s captivating World Cup run.

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 03/07/2026

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

When people say "bikes" they don't typically mean "just get on a bike and ride everywhere, loser." What they mean is that in a country where the more than half of all local trips are 3 miles or less, our government could do a lot more to make it safe for people to choose to bike if they want.

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Possom is ten years old and a HUGE lovebug, a staff favorite, and a bargain at $25 at the PDX Humane Society

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Animal Details

Details about each animal available at the Oregon Humane Society.

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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I love everything about this story, which shows what can happen if you can question or even abandon the defaults of the moment: “What we saw, underneath all of the horror, was something that looked more like the future that I want to be a part of.”

nytimes.com

This Restaurant Stopped Charging for Food. And Profits Are Up.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/06/2026

In case you forgot what it looks like when a real president gets the love at a game. You know, when the crowd actually wants the president there.

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I really enjoy EB White's take on New York and New Yorkers.

An excerpt from EB White's Here is New York
There are roughly three New Yorks there is first the New York of the man or woman who was born here who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence is natural and inevitable second there is the New York of the commuter the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night third there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last the city of final destination the city that is a goal it is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition it's poetical deportment it's a dedication to the arts and it's incomparable achievements commuters give the city its title restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion and whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors or a boy arriving from the corn belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart it makes no difference each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love each absorbs New York with fresh eyes of an adventurer each generates heat and light to dwarf the consolidated Edison company

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

There is literally no reason for cars to be able to 130 mph on a public road. None. But automakers choose to sell them, and the feds (i.e., NHTSA) sit on their hands.

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Highway 18 blocked after 2 killed in chase with car going over 130 mph

Two people inside the vehicle were killed and two people ejected have been taken to Harborview Medical Center, their conditions unknown.

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Aimee Rawlins @aimeerawlins.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

"There is no perfect material nor perfect diet; there’s only trying to tread more lightly." Very much appreciated @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social's latest post grappling with vegan vs. animal leather, given the harms of both. www.aliciakennedy.news/p/on-leather

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On Leather

Consider the material.

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Aimee Rawlins @aimeerawlins.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

This is such an embarrassing headline. As if "pretty good" is suddenly the gold standard and means we should just pack it in for ... forever?? (I also take real issue with calling the system "pretty good" to begin with...) www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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Maybe the light rail system we’ve got is good enough

Light rail is finally cooking in the Seattle area. It coincides with an existential crisis over building expansion lines for the future. At what point do we say "it's good," and stop?

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

“Here's a stat for you — If somebody abused women & girls with Jeffrey Epstein, they are literally more likely to be hired by Trump's administration than prosecuted by it”

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

ALTMAN: "WE SEE A FUTURE WHERE INTELLIGENCE IS A UTILITY, LIKE ELECTRICITY OR WATER, AND PEOPLE BUY IT FROM US ON A METER.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Opinion | Democrats are the real racists. Also, here’s why I support the Confederate slave states furiously redrawing their maps to replace all Black Democrats with white Republicans.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 09/05/2026

“We moved 4.5 million people off SNAP” is a crazy way to say you took food away from 4.5 million people, mostly needy families. And also crazy to think this works for them politically!

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

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Aimee Rawlins @aimeerawlins.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This is my favorite place in Seattle, my ideal of what a neighborhood bar should be. It would absolutely kill me to see it close.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

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Why Farmers Voted For Trump

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

They go fast when they want to go fast and slow when they want to go to slow and the decision is *always* an ideological one.

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Kim Lyons @kimly.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

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Julie K. Brown receives Pulitzer Prize special citation for her work on Jeffrey Epstein case

Brown's 2017 and 2018 reporting was cited at the awards ceremony. “Her work, and the government’s release of the Epstein files, continue to reverberate around the world.”

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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 04/05/2026

If schools have money for AI, I'd rather they use that to pay teachers more

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/05/2026

thank you sam alito for ending the unconstitutional racial discrimination against white conservatives and allowing them to obliterate federal representation for as many black people as they can manage, as the reconstruction congress intended

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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

On this day 70 years ago-May 1, 1956-the polio vaccine was first made widely available to the public. The vaccine’s developer, Dr. Jonas Salk, did not patent the vaccine so that it would remain available to as many people as possible in the US and internationally. Image: Harvey Georges/AP.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/04/2026

I have spent my entire career listening to FedSoc types complain about liberal “activist judges” who “legislate from the bench,” and none of them are going to say a single blessed thing about Sam Alito rewriting the Voting Rights Act to say what he thinks Congress ought to have said

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Six Conservative Activists Killed the Voting Rights Act

The Supreme Court's conservatives have spent their careers working to kill the Voting Rights Act. They just did it.

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