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David Cole

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I only get along with people who would've been lobotomized in 1945. ✊ Stands with 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ♾️ ASD/ADHD 🌲 Free Cascadia

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026
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David Cole @dsc-pnw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Damn. We didn't deserve her. 😢
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David Cole @dsc-pnw.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Dramatic thunderstorms might be the one thing I miss about the Midwest (although it stops being fun when the tornado sirens go off).
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Daniel Huppmann @danielhuppmann.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Heatwaves, fire, drought, extreme rain & flooding This all isn't a surprise or an "exceptionally bad year". This is fully consistent with the scientific literature assessed by the IPCC - and in line with the national IPCC-style assessment report that we released for Austria 🇦🇹 a year ago...
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
When it comes to better cities, some costs are actually cost savings. And the status quo often ends up costing us far too much. We need much smarter budget conversations. #UrbanTruth
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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Instead of a moral compass, I have a humiliation fetish
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The Seattle Times @seattletimes.com · 09/08/2026
By 2045, state law requires all electricity sold in Washington to be carbon-free. So why are utilities preparing to build a fleet of power plants fueled by natural gas?
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WA wanted clean energy. But utilities plan fleet of gas plants
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Guys if you are sharing a NY Post headline deliberately mischaracterizing an out of context Hillary Clinton quote from a podcast to make it sound like she's attacking the left, *she* is not the one who is hurting her own side
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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 09/08/2026
Oakland built a lot of housing in recent years and as a result is much more affordable than San Francisco...which has built barely anything in that time. Housing costs really are fueled by a housing shortage. Building more homes really does make cities more affordable.
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Two-bedroom apartments hit $6K for the first time in SF. The same apartment in Oakland is less than half that, but the clock is ticking.
While Oakland has long been a more affordable alternative, the rental gap between SF and Oakland is now at a staggering 128%. We break down why the East Bay deal might be changing as vacancy rates tig...
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 09/08/2026
This is such an important thread and as she notes, a thing people have been begging the institutional Dem establishment to address for decades. Literally remember the same conversations during W Bush. We need a pipeline. We need places to cultivate and maintain our experts while out of power.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I lost my job, my kids have measles, I can’t afford gas, I can’t breathe, and I can’t eat lettuce or strawberries without getting explosive diarrhea. But at least now schools are forbidden from celebrating Black History Month.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
if ai worked, wouldn't we be in a golden age of software feature development and bug elimination? yet quickbooks sucks harder than it ever has
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
We just keep being told the way out of fascism is to capitulate to its founding premises and repeated refrains.
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Sledge. Matt Sledge. 🟦 @mattsledge.xyz · 08/08/2026
Jungle Jim's is absolutely insane in a good way. Not only did he help pay my radio salary via advertising, you just have to see it to believe it. It's a literal grocery smorgasbord.
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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 01/08/2026
And when the mayor and council got into a policy fight last week over universal free school meals, who won? Which side got the *entire city* furious at them and had to back down and admit defeat? It wasn't the mayor. Westneat and those 6 Councilmembers are not reading the room.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
never forget that Preznit Fuckwit is an evil piece of shit who is perfectly willing to send an innocent person to prison in order to hide his own incompetence. thank you for your attention to today's extremely angry post. link is here: bit.ly/45moF9j
meanwhile, Donny and Dougie continue to be evil as fuck. they remain perfectly willing to send an innocent person to prison, rather than admit that they botched the job of refinishing the Reflecting Pool.

I don’t have to tell you just how fucking fucked up that is.

we should never normalize the idea of an entire government weaponizing itself against some innocent person, just because the president is a colicky piss-baby who can never admit culpability for any of his disasters.

what kind of shithole country arrests someone for touching water? kind kind of penny-ante fascist prosecutes someone for Grand Theft Paint Chips?

these vile shitweasels owe a huge apology to David Hearn.

they owe a huge apology to all of us.
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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 02/08/2026
Each time I rewatch Interstellar, the first gives me chills. it seems more and more prescient as time goes on.
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jad 📸 @aerojad.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Used to be a once-every-couple decades thing. Then, once-every-few-years. Once-a-year. Now,
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
lol its so perfect that he's saying this *on fox news* while the chyron is about the pied-a-terre tax
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Viral Mistry @viralmysteries.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
get you someone who loves you like how much these pols fucking love shotspotter lol its all responsible fiscal stewardship and evidence based policy until it comes to policing, where theres just magic bean money for complete fairytale bullshit
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This is as upsetting as it is unsurprising.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
the seattle times hates people who aren't wealthy - and that hatred goes double for people who are able to get into positions of power it's gross
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MyRadar @myradar.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Over 600 structures have been destroyed near Spokane County, Washington, as numerous wildfires burn just north and west of downtown Spokane. Thousands of people are currently under evacuation orders. All three wildfires are human-caused and are 0% contained at the time of this post.
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Alexandra (Alex) Duggan @alexdugganreports.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The devastation is unimaginable. I moved here 3 years ago knowing Spokane would be my home. I can’t explain how horrific this is. “It’s like a war zone,” people told me.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit
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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 02/08/2026
this is the internet scrolling experience
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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The Trump Administration is trying to destroy the National Park Service by stripping the rangers' mission to law enforcement. www.sfgate.com/national-par...
The Department of the Interior told SFGATE in an email that these changes are
"intended to improve immediate identification of commissioned law enforcement personnel and equipment by the public, partner agencies and emergency responders."
"Clear identification helps reduce confusion and supports coordination during incidents involving multiple responding agencies," an unsigned email from the Office of Communications read. "The changes reflect modernization of law enforcement identification standards across the National Park Service."
But retired national park rangers worry the changes aren't representative of park rangers' multifaceted jobs, which also include educating visitors, going on search and rescue missions, fighting wildfires and more.
"I don't like it," said Bill Wade, the executive director of the Association of National Park Rangers. "I confess that I'm of the old camp where I think rangers, at least of my era and I think for quite some time after that, prided themselves on being helpers and educators and not so much cops."
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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Three enormous wildfires are raging in Spokane. Thousands of people are evacuating, not knowing if they’ll come back to a home or nothing but ashes. Climate change isn’t some faraway threat. It’s happening right now, to our neighbors and friends. We have to fight for them.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/08/2026
Perimeters, not parameters. An excursion, not an incursion. Six genders, not cisgender. Insane asylums, not asylum. Transgender mice, not transgenic mice. The IQ of a potato.
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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
If cops are having a hard time identifying this as a government vehicle, we have much, much bigger problems.
dodge charger with police lights and the words US PARK RANGER on the side
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Andrew Engelson @andyengelson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Have you voted? Your ballots are due in a ballot box by 8 pm Tuesday. Want help? Check out the REAL progressive voters guide for Seattle: electioncheatsheet.org
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Lefty Cheat Sheet — Aug 2026 Primary
A quick guide on how to vote lefty using sources YOU trust!
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I can’t afford gas or groceries and Trump won’t allow disaster relief to my state because our governor is a Democrat. But at least the federal government is banning workplace heat protections.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Every single nimby who claims apartment buildings kill orcas has voted. Now it's time for the rest of us.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
A caucus of violent, drunk ex-husbands controls three branches of government and both chambers of Congress.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
What a batshit first sentence to an editorial excoriating the mayor of Seattle for removing a controversial police chief appointed by her predecessor, something our mayors have routinely done. The conspiracy brain at play: "How dare this scheming woman try to distract us from her incompetence!"
If Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson believed forcing out Shon Barnes as chief of police would put an end to questions about her leadership and lapses surrounding the Bite of Seattle shooting on July 26, she was very much mistaken.
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Abby Vesoulis @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Read my July 18 story for the original reporting that the New York Times didn’t link to... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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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.
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 31/07/2026
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Plume of White Tear Gas Rising from City Hall Signals New Police Chief Has Been Chosen
Within 24 hours of the Seattle City Council defunding the local police budget and Police Chief Carmen Best’s resignation, a plume of white tear gas emerging from a tiny chimney atop City Hall…
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Troy was burned to the ground after its leaders made a series of bad decisions, but people are still talking about the city over 3000 years later. Could the same thing happen to the United States?
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Seattle Fire and Police are currently responding to a mass shooting at the Seattle Center with at least six gunshot victims.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This is not to yell at Steve, it's to point out that this is not how the housing market works at all, which is a thing you'd hope a US Senator would know. There isn't a transitory property to housing.
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David Cole @dsc-pnw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
So much wasted space for circulation. What's the point of stacked townhouses when each unit could have an entire floor with windows on both ends? You'd have the same unit count with better air circulation, better views, better for accessibility, more living space, and less expensive to build.
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God @thegodshow.com · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham died the way he lived, as a minor distraction from Mitch McConnell
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Seriously, if you view American political norms of the last decade or so in this light it unlocks so much: American political norms have prioritized making Republicans feel strong and Democrats feel weak. Always apologizing, always reaching out a hand, always begging for acceptance.
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 12/07/2026
Thoughts and prayers to all defense contractors who lost their favorite warmongering lapdog.
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 12/07/2026
please show respect for the dead body of someone who didn’t respect your alive body
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