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

City staff *clearly* took *great pains* to not editorialize in the staff report with these "pro and con" slides.

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 · 14/04/2026

SPD has also noted that drug offenses more than doubled last year, up to 89 in 2025 from 35 in 2024. Collins credited the increase to the "re-institution of our Special Emphasis Team," a unit designed to focus on quality of life and "crimes against society" — drugs, weapons and prostitution crimes.

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

Property crimes in Shoreline fell last year (1,864 crimes), and are the lowest they've been since 2019 (1,547 crimes). Commercial burglary fell off a cliff, from 184 in 2024 down to 75 in 2025. Motor vehicle theft, larceny, residential burglary and robbery have all fallen as well.

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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 · 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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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 28/10/2025

The federal government is punishing all of its citizens to cow political opponents.

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 28/10/2025

Just want to underscore these: The federal government has proudly killed 57 people. It has not provided a single piece of evidence justifying the killings. The president is also openly musing before assembled military about sending troops into Democratically-controlled cities.

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 06/10/2025

Baseball is best with a scorecard. GOMS

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 03/10/2025

El Segundo and neighboring Manhattan Beach are incredibly dense. And El Segundo is immediately adjacent to LAX. About 17,000 people live in El Segundo, and so many of them live so close to that refinery. North MB — El Porto and Tree Section neighborhoods — is bordered to the north by Chevron.

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 08/09/2025

Per @latimes.com, the Supreme Court has lifted an injunction that prevented federal agents from “snatching people off Southern California streets based on how they look, what language they speak, what work they do or where they happen to be.” This doesn’t bode well.

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 02/09/2025

“Without tariffs, this country is in serious, serious trouble…there is nothing so popular in this country,” Trump just said. It’s been about four months but per Gallup, people aren’t crazy about tariffs.

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 30/07/2025

“Microsoft sales smash Wall Street expectations, driven by cloud and AI,” reporting $27.2 billion in profit — the same quarter it laid off more than 6,300 employees. www.seattletimes.com/business/mic...

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 22/06/2025

“We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran” “NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!” goddammit.

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 09/06/2025

From my old colleagues at Spectrum News, the Trump administration will deploy 500 Marines from Camp Pendleton to Los Angeles “in light of increased threats against federal officers and federal buildings.”

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 07/05/2025

A photographer I know used to dress up her pets in elaborate, silly costumes every year to sell a calendar. Just popped into my mind this morning.

Two cats and a dog have posed to appear as if they’re dancing and dressed with wigs and costumes. The center cat has a blonde wig, and is wearing a gold-colored cone bra. The image has been altered to show the animals on a stage, in front of a ravenous crowd. At the top of the photo, a banner reads “Meowdonna.”

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 08/04/2025

Will Hermosa Beach goof up this opportunity?

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 30/03/2025

This post pops into my head every Christmas season.

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 28/03/2025

I love weird opening day ERAs. Sorry Leclerc.

A baseball box score snapshot of the Athletics pitchers from opening day, March 27. A’s reliever José Leclerc has an Earned Run Average of 81.00, owing to giving up three runs off of a walk and two home runs in one-third of an inning.

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 11/03/2025

Branding is clearly Trump’s greatest skill — and even that hasn’t saved him from a horror show of business failures. The fact that he’s made it this far, twice, is an indictment on our collective foolishness.

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 09/01/2025

I feel this in my bones. Really missing the Webex chats from Spectrum News right now. From @mattdpearce.com’s Substack: open.substack.com/pub/mattdpea...

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 05/01/2025

Looks like Bluesky is finally Twitter.

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 30/11/2024

This one is absurd: a council member was banned from a few local bars over a vote. He was then sued by the bar owner for trespassing, and demanded the city defend him in court. The best part of the complaint against him is in the screenshot (and its alt text). authory.com/DavidMendez/...

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 17/11/2024

Interesting. LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong seems to tacitly agree with a GOP PR operative that LAT reporters are not doing their jobs right by not adequately platforming conservative researchers for Trump policies. (Love the scare quotes around “experts.” Really screams “diversity of ideas.”)

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 17/11/2024

There is something deeply sad about this pair of tweets, on many levels. My “favorite”? This person wants her highly-processed bread to be made as she remembered it from more than 40 years ago. She presumably voted, in at least some small part, based on bread. Decades-old memories of bread.

A pair of Twitter posts. The first shows Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thanking Donald Trump for his appointment as HHS Secretary. It is followed by a reply from a user asking Kennedy to “make Wonder Bread soft, white bread again. Like in the 70’s and 80’s.”

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 16/11/2024

This is Nightmare King Cake Baby erasure and I will not stand for it.

A mascot, dressed as a baby with a grotesque face, a crown and a bib reading “I Heart Mardi Gras” stands on a basketball court, bearing beads.

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 27/10/2024

Petri’s work has been excellent forever and this is a top-notch humor column for the stupid moment we’re living in.

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 27/10/2024

lol. lmao, even. the weasely non-endorsement fiasco that LAT and WaPo are mired in is profoundly disappointing. the comment to NYT by Soon-Shiong’s daughter, apparently trying to take advantage for lefty political leverage, being shot down by her own father feels appropriately asinine.

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David Mendez @jdmendez.com · 19/09/2024

Well, this is fun. (I should probably use this platform more.)

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