Jim Brunner (@jim_brunner) 's Twitter Profile
Jim Brunner

@jim_brunner

Seattle Times politics reporter. No longer posting on this hellhole. Also at: bsky.app/profile/jimbru…

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linkhttps://www.seattletimes.com/author/jim-brunner calendar_today14-04-2009 19:12:46

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Dominic Gates (@dominicgates) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Disaster dogged Boeing in 2024. Can it turn around in 2025? The panel blowout a year ago was not a fluke. Systemic factory issues contributed greatly Boeing must now claw back its reputation, public trust and regulatory standing by ⁦Lauren Rosenblatt⁩ seattletimes.com/business/boein…

JT Wilcox (@jtwilcox111) 's Twitter Profile Photo

WA has a different fire season & different risks but we are lucky that Reps. Kretz and Springer worked aggressively w Lands Commissioner Franz to increase funding for forest treatments and she aggressively pre-positions firefighting people and equipment for immediate attack.

Jim Brunner (@jim_brunner) 's Twitter Profile Photo

King County assessor John Wilson, who is running for county executive, was accused of stalking, harassment (via David Gutman) seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p… via The Seattle Times

Sam Stein (@samstein) 's Twitter Profile Photo

* Trump OMB puts out 2 page memo freezing all grants * Chaos, panic ensues * OMB puts out 1.5 page Q&A trying to clarify. * More confusion * Congressional Republicans defend it all after Dems go off. * WH blames media for confusion * OMB puts out one line memo rescinding freeze

Scott Bauer (@sbauerap) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to push out federal employees by offering them financial incentives. The ruling came hours before the deadline for workers to apply for the deferred resignation program. apnews.com/article/buyout…

Jim Brunner (@jim_brunner) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Great day for shady pols: Trump pardons Blagojevich; orders end to corruption probe of NYC mayor Eric Adams; guts whistleblower office & halts enforcement of law barring bribery of foreign officials.

Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This "large scale social deception" contract was: * first awarded under Trump * paid to Reuters' data division, not the newsroom * for researching *defenses* against deception * not revealed by "DOGE investigations"; was a public record, visible online for many years