Jon Stahl

LinkedIn is starting to make me believe in dead Internet theory.

A complete betrayal of the public trust.

'Plain scary' is paying for health insurance for some WA businesses High premiums, wild volatility, weak coverage: Small businesses in Washington struggle to afford health insurance for employees.

It's like EVERYONE should band together into some sort of, I don't know, big group health plan or something.

www.seattletimes.com/business/wa-...

Pressure-cooked red beans and rice FTW.

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

If your business model depends on sub-minimum wage workers, you should probably not be in business at all. There is no “right to exploit labor.”

Ds can "speak with conviction about what they know to be right, wrong, and true. Rather than haggling over the precise words “abolish ICE,”" Ds "can stand for some basic principles: ICE is a catastrophic, irredeemable failure, and interior enforcement must be totally rethought from top to bottom."

What’s (not at all) shocking is how many authoritarians there are in the business world, even among those who see themselves as “liberal.”

People with a business model that relies on paying less than minimum wage are inherently engaged in exploitation. They shouldn’t be in business and I don’t feel bad for them.

I provided the list; MY ABUSERS INCLUDE but not limited to; @elonmusk @PrinceAndrew @BillGates @AlanDersh @kimbal @mayemusk Errol Musk, Ghislaine Maxwell, Thomas Webb, @PeterThiel, Mary Webb aka Molly Webb, leslie werner, EDWARD BANCROFT TOWNE III, LORIN GABRIEL ASHTON AKA @BASSNECTAR, Jules and Bianca MrSic

Here comes the names

Baby steps

They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.

Dear Ms. Wolfe, Petitioner-Appellee Rümeysa Öztürk submits this Rule 28(j) letter to advise the Court that on January 29, 2026, the immigration court held that the Department of Homeland Security had not met its burden of proving removability, and the immigration court thereby terminated removal proceedings against Ms. Öztürk.' This development underscores the dangers of the government's interpretation of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Under the government's view, it could punitively detain any noncitizen in retaliation for her speech for many months, so long as it simultaneously institutes removal proceedings—no matter how unmeritorious—all without any federal court review of the lawfulness of detention at any time. To be clear, the termination of Ms. Öztürk's removal proceedings does not moot her habeas case. (By contrast, as Ms. Öztürk has argued, this appeal is moot. Br. 18-20.) Without habeas jurisdiction and the bail order that is currently in place, any government appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals would again subject Ms. Öztürk to re-detention. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.6(a). For that reason, she continues to suffer the threat of continuing "now-or-never" First and Fifth Amendment harms. Br. in Opp. 55-57.

NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...

When will you be reading the important highlights into the Congressional Record?

Woody Guthrie, avoiding politics, opens Super Bowl with “All You Fasicsts (Are Bound To Lose)”

Neil Young avoids making political statement, plays “Ohio” followed by “Keep on Rocking In The Free World.”

Map of the 3 King County Conservation Districts.

Hey, voters in (most of) Seattle and Vashon: the 100% on-line election for King County Conservation District 3 seat is happening now through Tuesday at 8:00p.

If you’re a voter in the dark blue zone of this map, you can read candidate statements and vote here:

kingcd.org/about/board-...

I honor the Superb Owl by making wings.

If he just didn’t want trouble He could have sold it. Instead he chose to keep it and destroy it. That was an intentional choice. Quo vadis.

Democrats don't have the power to do this now, but every member of Congress and all the leading candidates for president should lean very hard into this message because it will crater ICE's already low morale, encourage defections and stop up their recruiting pipeline.

1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

False. Everyone knows the military runs on PowerPoint.

Sign on PRO for WA's millionaire tax
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Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him

Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him https://theonion.com/man-who-lost-everything-in-crypto-just-wishes-several-t-1848764551/

Let me explain the math behind why the destruction of the Washington Post isn't about money.

The paper is now losing $100 million a year. Jeff Bezos is worth $253 billion. This means he could self-fund the Washington Post for THE NEXT 2,000 YEARS and still have $53 billion LEFT OVER.

This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.

Stone-cold classic.

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s Democrat Challenger Sees Fundraising Surge After ICE Funding Vote Southwest Washington’s infamous moderate Democrat U.S. House Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez recently voted with the Republican caucus and just six other Democrats to give ICE $10 billion. The controvers...

NEW: After Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez got clowned on by a national audience for voting to give ICE $10 billion, her Dem challenger doubled his entire previous quarter of fundraising in just 10 days. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/marie-g...

Trump Drops Demand for Cash From Harvard After Stiff Resistance

"The White House’s concession comes amid sagging approval ratings for Mr. Trump, and as he faces outrage over immigration enforcement tactics and the shooting deaths of two Americans by federal agents in Minnesota."

Shame on all those institutions that caved pre-emptively last year.

Sir Iain and the Affront would be pleased. (Also that would be a good name for a band.)