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Apparently, this sort of painfully botched lethal ejection does not violate the 8th Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment because it’s not unusual.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 8h

Copilot? I'd just assumed the first AI to attempt to murder us would be Grok.

Screenshot of headline: "Copilot stabs captain on flight to Israel before passengers storm cockpit and stabilize jetliner"

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 11h

If I were Jack Smith I'd sue Sen. Schmitt for defamation.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 30/09/2026

To put this in perspective, one hour of wages at the federal minimum buys you about one pound of ground beef. One hour of wages at the Seattle minimum buys you about *three* pounds. Same ratio for a gallon of diesel.

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 29/09/2026

In 2027 Seattle's minimum wage will be $22.14 per hour. That's more than THREE TIMES the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour—a rate that hasn't been raised since 2009. And yet somehow we're not the jobless wasteland orthodox economics would predict. Weird.

seattletimes.com

Seattle announces 2027 minimum wage

The minimum wage in Seattle will increase 3.9% next year.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 29/09/2026

Great fuck MAGA move to have a mariachi band play the national anthem on Monday Night Football. Kudos, Chicago!

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 28/09/2026

“Our cash generation gives us the capacity to invest in the technologies that advance this transformation..." But instead we'll just use this money to pump up share prices. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/b...

nytimes.com

Nvidia Adds $150 Billion to Massive Stock Buyback, the Largest Ever

The increase comes four months after the chip giant added $80 billion to its buyback program, bringing the total remaining authorized amount to $235 billion.

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Evonomics: The Next Evolution of Economics @evonomics.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Zillionaire @nickhanauer.bsky.social and @goldy.horsesass.org: When we proposed a $15 minimum wage in Seattle, we were laughed out of rooms by serious, progressive economists. It violated the iron law. Raise wages, lose jobs. Basic supply and demand. Except: that iron law turned out not to be true.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 26/09/2026

One of the closures (9150 Rainier Ave. S.) just opened a year ago in custom designed new construction. This speaks to an expensive failure in management and forecasting to pull the plug on an investment this quickly.

seattletimes.com

Starbucks closures hit WA stores. Here’s the list

A store locator indicates at least six coffeehouses will close in Washington this weekend, as the coffee giant shutters dozens of shops across North America.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

why are the midterms any part of this decision might be a question

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 26/09/2026

That's good to hear. But Hobbs should also declare that WA will continue to refuse to use this flawed database in future elections even if The SCOTUS Six subsequently order states to use it. We run our elections. Not the White House. Not this corrupt Supreme Court.

seattletimes.com

Hobbs says WA won’t use Trump’s ‘flawed’ SAVE voter database

Washington won't tap into a Trump administration database aimed at purging noncitizen voters, with Secretary of State Steve Hobbs calling it flawed.

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Guy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Has any politician tried “AI is making mortgage rates high” yet Because if not, it’s coming

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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There is no low too low for this partisan, lawless Supreme Court majority. Using the underhanded emergency docket to give Trump a power the Constitution does not allow, a fat thumb on the scale of elections. Disgraceful, six people who would be better on the Russian Supreme Court than in a democracy

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 25/09/2026

Seattle Is Dying™ www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

Top 10 global cities for 2026, according to the 2026 Global Cities
Index
1. New York, US
2. London, UK
3. Paris, France
4. Seattle, US
5. San Francisco, US
6. Dublin, Ireland
7. Boston, US
8. San Jose, US
9. Tokyo, Japan
10. Zurich, Switzerland

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 24/09/2026

There are no norms. There is no rule of law.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 24/09/2026

If I got caught hacking into government computers I'd be criminally prosecuted. But when an AI does it, it's just "Oops!" and the company and people running they AI aren't legally culpable?

nytimes.com

OpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No Prompting

In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.

nytimes.com

A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees

Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.

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Joe Veyera @joeveyera.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A very interesting thing is happening across Seattle right now: As Starbucks continues its retrenchment in its hometown, small local shops and chains are taking over their old cafes. That feels like a story to me, and I'll write it if anyone is taking pitches. DMs are open.

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Pitchfork Economics @pitchforkeconomics.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What happened to a fair price? @lindsayowens.bsky.social has a simple answer: Big Tech. On this week's pod, we talk to Lindsay about her new book, "Gouged" and the reinvention of the rip off. You don't want to miss this one.

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Evonomics: The Next Evolution of Economics @evonomics.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

An inconvenient truth about neoliberal economics: it doesn’t like to talk about power. Here’s why. Listen to the podcast: pitchforkeconomics.com/episode/the-... @goldy.horsesass.org @nickhanauer.bsky.social

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The worst part of Bonta caving on the Paramount merger is that it's a big flashing signal to every other company that there is no antitrust enforcement in America and you can bully your way into getting whatever you want. It's a monumentally bad decision.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 21/09/2026

Very funny that the scenario with the least support is Trump dying in his sleep. Dying in a prison cell I’m sure would score much higher.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 21/09/2026

As a lifelong sufferer of shy bladder, nobody has benefited more from trans rights than I have. All-gender restrooms vs walls of communal urinals are a goddamn godsend! If better restrooms are the most material consequence of respecting the rights and needs of others, I’d say that’s a win-win!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 20/09/2026

Finally a President with the balls to do what it takes to protect our nation’s capital from the Houthis.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 18/09/2026

No doubt the administration will dismiss this report by claiming that these troops died *with* the war, not *from* it.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 18/09/2026

My daughter loved Wild Waves. But to be fair, it's probably not a bad idea to close all the water parks before RFK Jr assures that polio makes its inevitable US comeback.

seattletimes.com

A beloved WA amusement park has its final summer

Fans made the most of the final season at Wild Waves, a Northwest summer destination for decades.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 18/09/2026

Sure, Trump is a monster. But it's important to note that the entire Republican Party is rotten from the top down, its ranks filled with some of the most horrible and pathetic people on earth. There is no reforming the GOP. It must go the way of the Know-Nothings and the Whigs.

seattletimes.com

'It is a threat': Judge finds WA GOP lawmaker harassed constituent

Rep. Joel McEntire, R-Cathlamet, has been ordered to stop communicating with a healthcare worker, one of McEntire’s constituents a judge found he has harassed.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 18/09/2026

If Trump really wants his name on The Kennedy Center he should try earning it the way Kennedy did.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 18/09/2026

Flew SEA-PHL on 9/4 and PHL-SEA on 9/11. Diagnosed with Influenza A on 9/14. And I'm one of the few travelers who still mask up at airports and on planes. Mask up and get vaccinated.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 17/09/2026

If you want to learn more about the "new economics" that Nick is proposing I suggest you download our free booklet "Markets Built for Humans." www.marketsbuiltforhumans.org

marketsbuiltforhumans.org

Markets Built for Humans

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 17/09/2026

From @nickhanauer.bsky.social in the WSJ: "The golden rule of this new economics is inclusion. The more we include a broad swath of Americans as innovators, entrepreneurs, well-paid workers and robust consumers, the faster the loop spins and the more the economy grows."

wsj.com

Essay | America Made Me Very Rich. There’s a Pro-Market Way to Give Back.

To defend markets from radicals on the left and the right, it’s time to arm ourselves with a new economics.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 17/09/2026

As a Philly ex-pat, lifelong Eagle's fan, and recovering journalist (yes, Rob McKenna, Stranger reporters are technically journalists), I've long marveled at the size and health of the Eagle's press corps at a time newsrooms are evaporating nationwide—and wonder if this is a model for…something?

phillymag.com

The Biggest Game in Town: Inside the Eagles Media-Industrial Complex

30 news outlets. 250 stories (and TikToks and podcasts and posts and prognostications) a day, 24/7. Three hundred and sixty-five days a year. How much Eagles news can — or should — one city consume?

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 17/09/2026

They keep describing MGP as a "centrist Democrat" which implies that there are many Democrats whose voting records are to her right. There are not. She might be centrist in terms of the WA-03 electorate, but she is not at the ideological center of the Democratic Party or its voters.

seattletimes.com

Gluesenkamp Perez breaks with Dems to help Republicans again

Back-to-back defections by U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, of Washougal, demonstrate an unusual political calculus for the centrist Democrat.

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Prediction: the politics of capital income and wealth taxation is about to change. Concentrated wealth as an abstract concept doesn't animate voters as much as when that wealth is tied to a technology that voters are very concerned about.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 16/09/2026

What do the price of ground beef, the price of diesel, and mortgage rates all have in common? Luck sevens!

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