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Rita voted early this year because she’s a very good dog. She says, be a good dog too, and vote!

My Australian Shepherd Rita with a ballot at her feet , sitting in front of a ballot drop box

Vote-by-mail pro-tip: Sign up for USPS Informed Delivery, which emails you preview images of your incoming mail. That way if your ballot doesn't arrive you'll have a better idea of whether USPS might be fucking with ballot delivery.

The scanned image of envelope delivering my ballot along with a promo from King County Elections as emailed to me through USPS Informed Delivery.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 15/10/2026

All American voters deserve access to safe, secure, and convenient vote by mail.

Screen shot of text: “BALLOT ALERT Your ballot has been mailed. If you do not receive your ballot within 5 days, call
KC Elections at
206-296-8683. Happy voting!”

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 14/10/2026

Here's the thing: WA currently has the 2nd most upside down tax structure in the nation (we had long been number one before the capital gains tax knocked us down a peg below FL). This is because, with no income tax, we're force to over-rely on highly regressive sales & excise taxes.

Screen shot of ITEP chart showing the lowest 20 percent of WA households pay 13.9% of their income in state and local taxes while top 1 percent pay only 4.1%.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 13/10/2026

I'm sure these two housing issues have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Nothing to see here.

Screenshot of NY Times article with headline, "We Know How to Fix Homelessness"

Screenshot of NY Times article with headline, "The Rise of the Nine-Figure Listing"

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 11/10/2026

These are what I call "Will Baker Republicans." In 2004, Republican candidate for Washington State Auditor, Will Baker, received 32% of the vote despite being exposed as a repeatedly arrested "roadside flower salesman with a history of annoying elected officials." His Wikipedia entry is… colorful.

Screen shot of Will Baker's Wikipedia entry which includes the following tidbit:

On one occasion, in 1997, he continued his monologue after being booked into the Pierce County jail, even refusing to stop after jail guards left the door to his cell open "hoping he'd leave."

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 03/10/2026

Seattle Is Dying™ (Also, damn you $22.14/hour minimum wage!) wallethub.com/edu/best-foo...

A map showing the 30 “Best Foodie Cities in America” with Seattle coming in at number four.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 02/10/2026

I strongly encourage Republicans to run on this message!

Screen shot of a Fox News clip with Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett saying: "The higher mortgage rates are actually a good sign for the economy because corporations are borrowing money to build things like data centers instead of lending to homeowners."

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

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 · 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 · 05/09/2026

Rita is not only a good girl, she’s a perfect voter. Never missed election—not even a snowy February special election.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 03/09/2026

On Election Day there will be endless news reports from around the nation about voters being forced to wait in hours-long lines at polling places in order to exercise their right to vote. This will be the line at my polling place: #votebymail

My dog Rita, a blue merle Australian Shepherd, sitting in front of a Seattle area ballot drop box, with my ballot propped up against her legs.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 03/09/2026

This is a map of ballot drop boxes in WA state. If you live in a sparsely populated rural area in central or eastern WA, and you can't trust USPS to deliver your ballot, you might have to drive a couple hours to find a drop box. I've got 3 drop boxes walking distance from my home in blue Seattle.

Map of ballot drop boxes in WA state showing a clump of boxes in densely populated blue districts compared to relative handful of drop boxes scattered across vast distances throughout the rural red portions of the state.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 03/09/2026

"The rate of late ballots decreased in a handful of more urban counties, including King, Pierce, Spokane, and Clark." That's because we added ballot drop boxes in anticipation of USPS messing with ballots. And the closer the drop box the higher the turnout. esra.wisc.edu/wp-content/u...

Abstract

While evidence indicates that voting by mail (VBM) requirements increase voter turnout, there is not much evidence of the impact ballot drop boxes have on voting, despite that fact that voters in VBM states often prefer these boxes over voting via the postal service. This paper examines the impact of the installation of new ballot drop boxes on voter turnout in Pierce County, the second largest county in Washington State. To identify the causal effects of these boxes on the decision to vote, we exploit the randomized placement of five new ballot drop boxes in Pierce prior to the
2017 general election. We find that these additional drop boxes modestly increased voter turnout. Specifically, the likelihood of those voters located near one of these new drop boxes to vote, increased; and the more the new drop box reduced a voter's distance to his or her nearest drop boxes, the larger was the increase in probability that that voter would vote in the 2017 general election. For the group of voters affected by the new drop boxes, the mean change in reduced distance to their nearest drop box was 1.32 miles. We estimate for this voter, their probability of
voting increased by 0.7 percentage points.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 22/08/2026

TRUMP GROUND BEEF IS PEOPLE!

Screen shot from the film Soylent Green with Charlton Heston screaming "it's people!"

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 09/08/2026

Apparently, Jesus doesn't believe in paying for car tabs.

Photo of a car with expired license tabs with and with a bumper sticker that says "Jesus is the way, truth & life."

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 08/08/2026

Spoiler alert: it’s brisket.

Article with the teaser headline: “The Cut of Meat Buc-Ee’s Uses for Its Famous Brisket Sandwich” above a photo of a Buc-Ee’s restaurant.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 31/07/2026

I find it impossible to articulate how much I resent spam texts like these trying to guilt me into responding so that they can determine if I'm a live target. Way more intrusive than the actual spam trying to steal from me or sell me something.

A text message from an unknown number asking "Why do my calls keep failing when I try to reach you? Did you block me?"

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 31/07/2026

How stupid is our health care "system"? My insurance would only preauthorize a prescription through Accredo, the online specialty pharmacy associated with ExpressScripts. The "amount billed" was $4,376.96. (No way to know what insurer paid.) $67.07 at GoodRX, $40.26 from Cost Plus Drugs. WTF?

Billing information for a pharmacy claim on my insurance:

AMOUNT BILLED
$4,376.96
TOTAL PLAN DISCOUNTS AND PAYMENTS
$4,376.96
YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
$0.00

Screenshot of Standard GOODRX Price: $67.07

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 29/07/2026

"Freedom"...? There's a cost to barring guns at food truck festivals in terms of freedom? WTF? In defense of Danny, he doesn't write the headline or the kicker and this "freedom" concern doesn't appear in the column, so this disgrace is squarely on the editors. Do better, Seattle Times!

Seattle Times headline and kicker:

Bar guns from Seattle Center? That should be an easy one | Danny Westneat

There are costs to barring guns from Seattle Center at big events, in both freedom and finances. But it's still an obvious choice in gun-crazed America.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 28/07/2026

I mean, seriously, how great is vote by mail? Every American voter should have access to it.

Email alert from King County (WA) Elections:

KC Elections received your ballot.

Hello, DAVID GOLDSTEIN!

Your ballot has been received at King County Elections headquarters. It will now be processed and verified before being counted.

Learn more about how ballots are verified and counted at kce.wiki/process.

Thanks for voting!

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 27/07/2026

Rita says that the best protest vote against Trump is to simply vote. So if you're in WA, fill out your ballot and deposit it in a drop box by August 4.

My beautiful blue merle Australian shepherd, Rita, with a ballot leaning up against her, sitting in front the ballot drop box outside the New Holly community center in Seattle, WA.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 13/07/2026

Though this probably would've been sufficient.

Mitch McConnell's head mounted on the wall like a hunting trophy with a brass plaque identifying him as "Murder Turtle."

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 08/07/2026

It is with truly mixed emotions that I welcome the start of zucchini season.

A photo of a zucchinis (well, a Mexican squash and round cue ball squash) in the foreground on a cutting board with some snow peas, cucumbers, onion, and basil in the background.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 07/07/2026

How terrified is my dog of fireworks? Took my daughter to dinner and got a call from a neighbor telling me my dog was at the park by the lake. Come home to find she'd gone through the screen of an upstairs window onto the roof of an enclosed porch before breaking her fall on a giant boxwood.

My dog Rita showing me how she escaped the house by going through the screen of an upstairs window.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 06/07/2026

This is my life for the next six hours.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 01/07/2026

Granted, I'm a bit of a prude, but I'm assuming it's with your mouth?

NYT Cooking email subject header: "This is the only way to eat hot dogs!"

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 29/06/2026

For perspective, I've seen far bigger crowds on the Capitol Mall in the mud and rain in December than Trump's Great American State Fair is drawing on a sunny day during peak tourist season in June.

A photo from Dec 7 2011 of an organized protest on the Capitol Mall in some truly terrible worth. The entire mall is a giant mud puddle. There are tents in the foreground and you can see the Capitol dome in the distance.

A photo crowds of people on the Capitol Mall in the pouring December rain with the Washington Monument in the background.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 25/06/2026

Seattle Is Dying™ www.bea.gov/news/2026/gd...

US Bureau of Economic Analysis map showing WA state, at 4.5%, with the fast 2026 Q1 GDP growth in the nation.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 20/06/2026

We've traced the vandalism. It's coming from inside the house!

Photo of the White House with the East Wing being demolished.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 09/06/2026

Personally, I think it's best to conceive children out of love, but who am I to judge other people's kinks?

Screenshot of headline: "Charlie Kirk's killing convinced Vances to try for a fourth child, JD Vance says"

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 04/06/2026

To be fair, Rogan does have professional experience in NewsRadio.

Promotional photo of Joe Rogan and other cast members of the 1990s sitcom NewsRadio.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 04/06/2026

Personally not thrilled with Dems nominating the nazi tattoo guy, but my god the President of the United States is an ADJUDICATED RAPIST and Epstein Island pedophile, but instead the paper of record is going all in on Platner's sexting "scandal" and "unsettling" dating behavior? Fuck these guys.

NY Times headline:

Platner's Volatile Behavior
Three women who dated Graham Platner, the Maine Senate candidate, told The Times that his actions were unsettling.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 04/06/2026

Private equity is so busy buying up "owner-operated private businesses across the country" like local roofing companies that it doesn't even have the time to verify whether I actually own this owner-operated private business. (I don't.) And yes, local roofing companies are being consolidated by PE.

An email I received offering to buy from me the small owner-operated roofing company I don't own:

David, any interest in selling Apple Roofing?
Hey David, I represent a group of serious buyers looking to buy owner-operated private
businesses across the country.
Have you thought about selling your company in the next 1-3 years?
I can walk you through current valuations in your location and space.
Regards, Charles
Hedgestone Advisors
P.S. Want off? Reply "remove me" and we won't reach out again.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 01/06/2026

Murdered. The correct word is "murdered."

Headline: "The U.S. boat strike campaign has now killed more
than 200 people" with the word "killed" highlighted.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 20/05/2026

Just diagnosed w/ severe anemia, almost certainly from a GI bleed (it's a long story), and the GI PA and RN are trying to dump me off on the ER, claiming I could get an iron infusion far faster there. Good thing we don't have socialized medicine like Canada where I'd have to wait for treatment.

MyChart message from RN:

"I will pass this along to Sarah, but going to the ER is the safest option. The iron infusions nee prior authorization first, which can take a week, and our infusion department is scheduling ways out. It would be the safest to go the ER and you would be able to get the iron infusion the
quickest there."

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 16/05/2026

I don’t know what the big deal is. A lot of Ancient Greek amphora depicted figures from the Trojan War as black—for example, Achilles and Ajax below. So the casting a black Helen of Troy seems pretty authentic to me.

An Ancient Greek amphora depicting Achilles and Ajax playing a board game. The figures are painted in black on a reddish-orange clay background.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 14/05/2026

Seattle Is Dying™ www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Bar graph showing Seattle's population grew by 1.5% last year, the fourth fastest big city growth behind only Atlanta, Fort Worth, and Charlotte.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 12/05/2026

Frank Blethen shot his neighbor's dog. archive.seattletimes.com/archive/1996...

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 10/05/2026

Yes, the real story here is "Democrats in disarray!" not the collapse of the rule of law and representative democracy and the total corruption of the judicial system. Nice job being objective here, NY Times.

NY Times headline:
Virginia Redistricting
After a court struck down a map that was ratified by voters and favorable to Democrats, the party is struggling to respond.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 09/05/2026

The price of gas at my local Shell station in Seattle increased by another 15 cents per gallon over the past four days. In case you're wondering, that's an annualized rate of inflation of 759%.

A Shell station sign in Southeast Seattle displaying a price of $6.44 cash price per gallon for regular gas.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 28/04/2026

I know I'm not much of a draftsman, but here's a rough sketch of my proposed Trump Monument:

The chart of Trump's approval/disapproval polling turned on its side so it appears a kind of obelisk with a wide base at the bottom rising to a point at the top.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 26/04/2026

what's this about a revival of Assassins?

Image of a scene from the Stephen Sondheim musical Assassins.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 21/04/2026

Not sure what *my* cuisine is? The Eastern European Jewish cuisine of my grandparents, or the 1960s-1970s American cuisine of my childhood? Combining the two, and in retrospect, I'd say the worst food was this:

1970s era Fleischmann's margarine ad with the headline "Should an 8-year-old worry about cholesterol?"

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 20/04/2026

That wording makes it sound like the highway was closed due to two cyclists crashing into each other, but of course unmentioned in the headline is the vehicle that hit the two cyclists.

Seattle Times headline: "Southbound Highway 99 reopens after crash involving 2 cyclists"

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