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Lisa Garbrick

@garblisa.bsky.social
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Retired ER doctor enjoying a regular bedtime and so very much more. I bike for transportation and community in Seattle. Got pretty good at making pizza last year; still learning spoon carving. Grandchild of immigrants.

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kelabe.bsky.social @kelabe.bsky.social · 7h
October 19th 2013. My older cousin was killed in a rollover accident on 23rd just south of Jackson.
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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What would your life be like if you couldn't drive? This week is #WeekWithoutDriving which is all about understanding what it's like to be a nondriver. @devinsilvernail.bsky.social & I launched @nondriverpodcast.bsky.social to share these stories. Search for 'nondriver' wherever you watch/listen
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30% of people in the US & Canada can't or don't drive. nondriver is a podcast about the lives and stories of those people, hosted by Anna Zivarts and Devin Silvernail. Every episode, we talk to peopl...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6h
If you can stomach it, here's a detailed reported story from @dropsitenews.com on the schoolchildren that the US bombed in Iran. However angry you are, it's not angry enough.
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Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave
The bombing of an Iranian school, killing 120 children, is one of the worst U.S. war crimes since Vietnam. Drop Site spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, and witnesses. This is their story.
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PubliCola @publicola.bsky.social · 1h
SPD Overpaid Officers By $13 Million. Now the City Wants It Back. Officers got retroactive paychecks that were as much as $32,000 too high. If the city wants to recover the money, they have to cut a deal with the police union.
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SPD Overpaid Officers By $13 Million. Now the City Wants It Back. - PubliCola
. By Erica C. Barnett The Seattle Police Department overpaid police officers, management, and civilian staff a total of more…
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It should alarm us that the civilian head of the military gathers together troops to give them a political speech in which he calls the free press treasonous. He should be removed from office for doing so.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fiji is experiencing an alarming HIV outbreak at a time when we have more tools than ever to diagnose, treat and prevent HIV. It is a warning that progress against HIV is not self-sustaining and to end the epidemic we cannot become complacent bktitanji.substack.com/p/hiv-is-not...
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HIV Is Not Done With Us
Fiji’s rapidly growing epidemic is a warning about what happens when complacency, vulnerability and retreating resources give the virus an opening
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Lisa Garbrick @garblisa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Next up on my re-read list. (While I wait for the new book!)
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"
Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.
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Tanya Huff @tanyahuff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
THE QUARTERED SEA( bk 4 in the Quarters Quadrology) is a Kindle Daily Deal for $1.99 in the US and Canada today. I love the world building in this, she said modestly. www.amazon.com/Quartered-Se...
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Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 30/09/2026
We just hit 1 million Fremont Bridge bike trips so far this year #SEAbikes #Seattle
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We just hit 1 million Fremont Bridge bike trips so far this year
Data through September 29. Sometime Monday evening (September 28), somebody rolled across the Fremont Bridge and registered the one millionth bike or scooter trip so far this year. The old bike counter display had both a daily count and a thermometer-style counter that filled up over the course of the year. That thermometer maxed out at one million. When the city first installed the counter with sponsorship from Cascade Bicycle Club, one million was seen as an aspirational number. Seattle just hit that figure before October. Last year, the bridge didn't reach the 1 million mark until mid-December.
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Reselsnark @reselsnark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The inversion of status quo by SCOTUS to mean “let government continue to act illegally” rather than “pause the government action to return the situation to before the government acted” makes the entire US legal system a laughing stock to anyone that ever studied law anywhere in the world.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I read this with great interest www.bcbs.com/about-us/ass...
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BCBSA Analysis How AI Coding Tools Affect Healthcare Costs
Analysis of BCBS claims data found growing use of AI coding tools contribute to higher hospital billing costs and increased healthcare spending.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Among the “red lines” noted in the statement was technology transfer, which it said must be voluntary and on mutually agreed terms" So basically if there is another pandemic, wealthy countries want to be able to not share tech and resources even if it means people in poor countries die as a result.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A global pandemic killed an estimated 20 million people and still countries cannot agree to come together for the collective good. The US and EU objected en bloc to the UN declaration on future pandemics. www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...
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US, EU object to UN declaration on future pandemics
The objections prevented UN member states from endorsing a political declaration that aims for better international coordination.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On Wilson's Budget, the Council Parts Ways With Reality An early look at how the council is reacting to the mayor’s deficit-busting budget.
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On Wilson's Budget, the Council Parts Ways With Reality - PubliCola
An early look at how the council is reacting to the mayor’s deficit-busting budget. By Erica C. Barnett Last week,…
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
But if trans girls are "cheating" by playing women's sports, what else are the sneaky trans people cheating about. They're also coming for Title IX. They don't care about women in sports. They want women out of sports. Please, I am begging you, stop falling for this shit.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People don’t understand how fragile our water infrastructure is. I’ve had contaminated water in the last six years. I’ve had my water co. hijacked for digital ransom. We are in perpetual near drought conditions... in NC, not AZ. AI boosters use pedantry about water use as an accountability shield.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If your kink is consensual non-consent, OK, but if participating in this kink is basically a necessary professional networking requirement whether you share this kink or not, that is deeply problematic for the women who are being delivered to men in a small, close-knit tech community
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Are Black Democrats not a thing or…
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My belief: This election isn’t about the economy in 2027. It’s about the economy in 2060. Prosperity comes from institutions like the rule of law, markets, a free press, and capitalism (not crony capitalism) newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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We Spend So Much Time Talking About Gas Prices
But is that what we really want to focus on? Also: Is the U.S. economy really the envy of the world?
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Stone Way not having even a painted downhill bike lane is a huge missing piece of Seattle‘s bike network. Stone provides a critical connection between Fremont, Wallingford and Green Lake
People biking and scoot
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
someone blessed the skyline with this yesterday and i'ma start using it liberally. youtu.be/hskk57Q_SJw?...
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Mind Your Business Challenge!
YouTube video by Prince Tai
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tragic. “”None of us have any experience treating this disease, because up until a couple of months ago, it didn’t occur,” said Dr. John Goldman, an infectious disease expert at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The learning curve among doctors, he said, is “very steep.””
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Indeed
A bicycle traffic sign with a white bicycle icon on a blue circular background, and someone has turned the wheels into eyes and drawn a smiling mouth underneath, turning the sign into a smiley. The sign is mounted on green posts, with a view of a paved area and trees in the background.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Your taxpayer dollars are being illegally spent to air a literal Trump 2024 campaign ad.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
gotta say there’s something almost poetic about Trump incentivizing less fuel efficient vehicles as the Iran war keeps pushing up the price of gas
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bless the memory of Stanislav Yevgrafovich, the Man Who Saved the World. At a moment when it mattered, he chose humanity.
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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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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...
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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels
Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is... troubling. SCOTUS is allowing the Trump administration to use an error-ridden tool that relies on inaccurate data. This tool has already led to false allegations of non-citizen voting. Now, it could "accidentally" remove legal voters from the rolls, causing real disenfranchisement.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I will note quickly that "deployable officers"—the smaller number of officers that aren't out on longterm disability or admin leave, in training, etc.—is a metric SPD started using post-pandemic to suggest we are dangerously low on cops. Could find almost no references to this prior to 2020.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
BEFORE AND AFTER (not ai). Barcelona has in recent years shown the possibilities for greening and reurbanizing the public realm.
Carrer de Cristóbal de Moura via Google street view. Photo by me. Lush greenery on a shared street. Person on a bike.
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Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“I don’t think any of us, in our wildest dreams, expected this many fish this quickly to repatriate that area" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/c...
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Salmon Are Thriving After Klamath Dam Removals, Study Finds (Gift Article)
The first fall runs of chinook salmon since the project in California and Oregon was completed have surpassed researchers’ expectations.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Republicans are the cause of your problems not the solution” is a winning message every election but they’re bringing literal receipts now
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/09/2026
Love to see the federalist society rebranding themselves as the “actually no, fuck federalism” society.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Insisting on cameras at the specific site of a one-time tragedy is exactly like making everyone take their shoes off at airport security. It's responding to the last incident as if every future incident will be identical.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just a reminder, since Rob Saka keeps saying otherwise, that there ARE ALREADY CAMERAS AT SEATTLE CENTER and that they WERE TURNED ON. There has never been a plan to add specific POLICE cameras at Seattle Center, a sprawling open campus, despite Saka's insistence that they're necessary there.
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KOMO News on Instagram: "Seattle City Councilmember Rob Saka wants the city to add public surveillance cameras to the Seattle Center campus immediately. A lack of cameras at the campus - which hosts ...
144 likes, 43 comments - komo4 on September 24, 2026: "Seattle City Councilmember Rob Saka wants the city to add public surveillance cameras to the Seattle Center campus immediately. A lack of camera...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sometimes i google Ally McBeal — that 90s legal drama where all the bathrooms were unisex and nobody cared except to think it was so cosmopolitan and cool — just to make sure i didn’t make all that up.
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Economic Opportunity Institute @eoionline.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A top-paid public-school teacher in Olympia making $180,000 per year would have to work for 278 years to earn $1 million in annual pension benefits – this is impossible.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“She nearly lost her home to foreclosure and her teenage daughter was entrusted with running her household. Her college-age son left a football scholarship to return home and help with costs around the home. Mason has three children and also raised four of her brother’s children.”
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction upbraiding ICE for mass arrests that have strained detention facilities and forced detainees all over the country into "overcrowded, squalid, and degrading rooms for excessive periods of time" www.nysd.uscourts.gov/sites/defaul...
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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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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am going throw myself into the sea
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Isn’t it obvious that selfishness on the road changes us as a society? The belief that a driver should be allowed to do whatever they please, regardless of the impact on others, mounts the pavement and travels deep into our lives." Via @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot
In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or conscience. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
Vought holds one of the most powerful jobs in D.C., and he’s used his position to wage a quiet war to change the shape of the entire U.S. government. Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president. (Published Oct. 2025)
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What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who ...
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