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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 29/09/2026

Hey folks, we're at the Shoreline City Council meeting, where there's a few interesting items running through the agenda. One of note is an ordinance that just passed. It authorizes a new Sales Tax in Shoreline, which the council effectively approved to get in line for the money before King County.

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 12/09/2026

Shoreline schools may be closed Monday if the district and the staff union are unable to reach an agreement by Sunday night. www.ospreynews.net/p/shoreline-...

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Shoreline school staff may strike starting Monday

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 18/08/2026

We're ⚡️LIVE⚡️at the Shoreline City Council meeting tonight, where the council will discuss an ordinance opposing IL26-638 and IL26-001. The two measures, scheduled for the November ballot, are all but explicitly designed to target transgender kids in Washington public schools.

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 10/08/2026

A councilmember asked King County Sheriff Patti Cole-Tindall if deputies would respond to a call about an arrest by someone claiming to be an ICE agent. “We could go out and say, ‘Hello…can I see your credentials?’ And they could say ‘pound sand,’ and that’s what we would do,” Cole-Tindall replied.

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 05/08/2026

A handful of federal immigration agents surrounded a man in Shoreline Tuesday, saying that they had gotten into a “fender bender” — one in which agents apparently rear-ended a driver as he was moving through a four-way stop on his way to work. www.ospreynews.net/p/ice-agents...

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ICE agents surround man on Shoreline side street after 'fender bender' crash

Witnesses reported the incident to Shoreline Police, but it's unclear if SPD investigated the call

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 05/08/2026

king county's various politics reporters are so anxious for tonight's early results to post that they're vibrating

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 05/08/2026

c'mon king county, we want the digits

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Katie Campbell, KUOW @katiecampbell.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

No es falta! Flopa!

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Kathleen Gier @kgier.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Not to keep bringing ✨women✨ into it, but calling this "the most important match in U.S. Soccer history" is crazy work.

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 07/07/2026

Listen, this has been a rough World Cup to enjoy on a spiritual level, especially after Mexico was knocked out. But that was a nice first 10 minutes.

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Roger Cormier @themetsnewsletter.com · 26/06/2026

Read the damn room, Mr. Met.

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Lizzy Lawrence @lizzylawrence.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...

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Eli Lilly gave extraordinary obesity drug access to a 79-year-old patient. Who was it?

Exclusive: STAT has learned that Eli Lilly and the FDA allowed a 79-year-old to gain extraordinary access to an experimental obesity drug through the agency’s “compassionate use” program.

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 23/06/2026

Witnesses to an averted arrest of a woman by federal immigration agents shared their accounts, and demands for action, before the Shoreline City Council this evening.

A sign, posted at a median along Aurora Avenue North in Shoreline, near 175th Street NW, indicates where a person was arrested by federal immigration officials on June 20, 2026. The sign itself, in black text over a white background, reads "ICE abducted our neighbor here 6/20/2026." The word "abducted" is underlined in red.

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 21/06/2026

Tunisia is getting absolutely dogwalked at this point. (This statement could have been posted at any point in the match.)

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 12/05/2026

Hey folks, we're back at Shoreline City Council! This week, they'll be discussing placing a measure on the Nov. 2026 ballot to set up a metropolitan park district to build and operate a regional swimming pool. Shoreline last asked voters to fund building a pool in 2019. That measure failed.

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 28/04/2026

Hey folks, we’re (virtually) here at the shoreline city council meeting. I’m under the weather today, so the blow-by-blow is going to be a bit limited today. First up, adoption of the ban on civil immigration enforcement on city property.

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Andrew Walsh @walsh.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The Mariners are a poison that you should give to your enemies.

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 14/04/2026

Hey folks, we're here at tonight's meeting of the Shoreline City Council. Tonight's agenda: discussion of amendments to the 2025-'26 final biennial budget, and discussion of the 2025 Shoreline Police Service Report. Shoreline has budgeted $36.5M toward police, about 24.33% of the total budget.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 13/04/2026

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

a screenshot of the "New Bestsellers" list from Substack, with Andrew Tate in the #1 position

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 07/04/2026

We're live at Shoreline City Council! Two items of interest here tonight, but neither are "final action" items. First, the city will discuss an ordinance seeking to ban civil immigration enforcement from city property. Final approval would come on April 27. shoreline.granicus.com/MetaViewer.p...

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 05/04/2026

Jo Adell is a machine and he MUST be stopped.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Civil Rights Icon, Dolores Huerta, Concealed Two
Children After Cesar Chavez Raped Her

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Brendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I thought this bit, on football clubs creating value for a community versus extracting value from it, was particularly interesting

excerpt from an interview with USLPA executive director Connor Tobin, linked below

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 05/03/2026

Weird that the Mariners have given up three touchdowns today, but good on them for blocking an extra point I guess

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 05/03/2026

So, in English: Noem is fired and will be demoted to running point on Trump's spin on the Monroe Doctrine, where he's going to try and keep Latin American countries from building relationships with China.

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

A LWV member in Hawthorne, CA (one of the first women admitted to the bar in Los Angeles County), will not be able to vote if the SAVE act is passed. 🧵

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CNN @cnn.com · 25/02/2026

Dozens of FBI witness interviews from the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein appear to be missing from the files released by the Department of Justice last month, according to a CNN review – including interviews related to a woman who accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her decades ago.

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Dozens of FBI records apparently missing from Epstein files, including Trump accuser interviews | CNN

Three interviews related to a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her decades ago appear to be among the missing files in the DOJ release.

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The Osprey @ospreynews.net · 24/02/2026

Hey folks, @jdmendez.com is at the Shoreline City Council meeting tonight! A few interesting matters are on the agenda this evening, including a resolution on the city's response to federal immigration agents in Shoreline and discussion on speed cameras in school zones.

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 20/02/2026

I am a fan of both the Phoenix Suns and the Seattle Mariners, so this is my lot in life.

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 10/02/2026

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

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‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer

Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 10/02/2026

Hey folks, tonight we're at Shoreline City Council, where there's a pretty full house. Based on the list of public comments sent into the council, we're in for a lot of comments on the city's policies related to ICE. As you might remember, federal agents have already detained folks in Shoreline.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Kind of gives away the whole game that all the crypto ads this year have been replaced with gambling and AI ads.

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 09/02/2026

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” MAGA wanted you to boycott this.

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 09/02/2026

Anyone else moved by the halftime show? That ending, the shoutouts across the Americas, got me.

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

This kind of thing does point out a real ethical dilemma: block or mute?

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Resting Witch Face @amandalc.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

This was the most fun thing I wrote this year. It’s not my first trip back to the 19th century, but I really immersed myself in it and enjoyed digging up the story of the very first baseball team in the northwest. www.nwbaseballhistory.com/19th-century...

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The Pioneer Base Ball Club and the Beginning of Northwest Baseball in the 1860s

The origins of baseball in the Northwest took root in Oregon in the years immediately following the Civil War with a team whose legacy still echoes today.

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Tenacious Lee @tenaciouslee12.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Look who I found on pdf page 80 with a big ol' redacted box

A contact book page, full of redacted boxes underneath names. "Trump, Donald" features on the top, left side with a big redaction box beneath. He's a fascist racist rapist.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The Epstein Files, everybody!

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

BREAKING: The Justice Department has released *some* of the Epstein files. All of the files will not be released today, in violation of the law. www.justice.gov/epstein

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Department of Justice | Homepage | United States Department of Justice

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 30/11/2025

Hasn’t Ben Garrison always been filed under “don’t even read this, not even for comedy value, it’s complete trash”?

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 25/11/2025

Considering the last week has had me sick, and taking care of sick kids, all while I’ve been worrying about stories that are growing increasingly cold…this is me.

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 20/11/2025

For context: Trump’s post is responding to an article about Dems who are reminding soldiers that they are required to follow lawful orders and can be prosecuted for following unlawful orders. So…it seems Trump’s calling reminders to follow the law “sedition” and calling to execute opponents.

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