Seattle will never forget we had you first, QOTSA... #QOTSA #ClimatePledge #SeattleScene

COOL. Cool, cool, cool. I'm not panicking, mostly because my C.E.R.T. training is still fresh in my head, but there will always be a part of me that remembers the 6.8 Nisqually Quake in February of 2001...

Reminder: Non-Jews telling Jews they aren't the "right kind of Jews" or are "doing Judaism wrong" is still one of the basic forms of antisemitism. As we say in Yiddish: I'm not talking to anyone specifically. If you think I'm talking to you, you are exactly who I'm talking to.

These headlines are two days apart. On Wednesday, a pastor and mayor in Alabama was outed for secretly dressing in drag. The condemnation was swift and severe. Today, he took his own life. Anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric has deadly consequences. Please join me in praying for his family.

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Great episode, Hacks & Wonks!

My partner @can_o_marx sent this to me last night and I haven't stopped laughing. Why did I immediately say "EEBY DEEBY" like a demon on helium?

"Makeshift" ? "Temporary" ?? You mean the 3 and a half year deep roots of native plants stewarded by a literal Stanford educated sustainable agriculture expert??? Girl.

Sorry, my four children. Mommy can't support you any longer today - Save the Children US has decreed their Year End Appeal as the *last chance* to support children this year. I'd expect this kind of messaging from Shit Nonprofits Say...

I'm about to brave my local Safeway a couple of hours before the Superbowl kicks off. If this is the last you hear from me, my dogs get everything I own. #SuperBowl2024 #INDvsAUS #SuperbOwl

Friendly reminder that a blue whale can hear another blue whale up to 1,000 miles away, can weigh as much as 30 elephants, can be more than 100 feet long, have a heart that weighs the same as a gorrila/tongue the same weight as an elephant and adds to my deep-ocean phobia.

I’ve seen a lot of crazy shit within chambers but today is pretty new imo. Not even the Burgess/Harrell/Bagshaw council would have called the cops today. When media dies, accountability suffers, faciam grows.

Through love, all is possible. #QueenBryce

Our budget is in crisis and this ordinance already resulted in city being sued. Just bad policy to have our limited resourced AND understaffed city have to spend staff hours on defending this lawsuit. When the focus should be on budget crisis.

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would effectively ban TikTok in the United States, violating the free speech rights of millions of Americans who use the platform daily to communicate and stay informed.

This is enough to solve homelessness and ensure that no one graduates college with debt, but as a country we've made the decision that allowing the rich to keep more than their fair share is more important than solving these solvable problems.

And this is who is proudly supporting Dave Reichert. I'll be voting for @BobFergusonAG, and hope you will too.

We must stop pitting our desperate need for affordable housing against our desperate need for market rate housing. We don't have nearly enough of either. In WA we need both to fix our broken housing market. We CAN walk AND chew gum, and it's past time we stop pretending we can't.

I am so psyched for my former co-workers! I know how much work went into this, and I wish them all the best as they bargain for their rights.