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For One Day at Least, Long Live the King King Charles III shows us—but, really, congressional Republicans—what actual accountability looks like when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein.

"Johnson won’t swear in Grijalva. It is a reminder how much Trump doesn’t want those files released. It’s also a reminder that the Republican party is now a full co-conspirator in the coverup. Epstein has become a Republican problem, not simply a Trump problem."

www.thebulwark.com/p/for-one-da...

The media is about to blitz us with stories about how awful Maduro is and I want you to remember that even if they're all true, they are being issued solely for the purpose of manufacturing consent for invading Venezuela and killing innocent people.

Meeresbiologe Froese - „Den Dorsch haben wir verloren“ Der Ostsee-Dorsch ist vom Aussterben bedroht: Meeresbiologe Froese warnt, doch trotz gefährdeter Bestände gibt es Widerstand gegen strengere Fangquoten.

Eigentlich irre, wie das so eine Meldung unter vielen ist.

»Ein trauriger Tag für Deutschland. Wir haben einen Kulturgut, den Dorsch in der deutschen Ostsee, verloren.« www.deutschlandfunk.de/eu-fangquote...

Trump Keeps Attacking Americans. Why Does He Get Away With It? Republicans can insult half the country without consequence. Democrats say “deplorables” once and never hear the end of it.

Republicans scream about “deplorables” for weeks, so it becomes a story. Democrats don’t do this. trib.al/VP9jQ0D

This Statement of Legislative Intent requests the Office of Sustainability and Environment (OSE) to include evaluation of replacing parking in the City's right-of-way with trees in the development of OSE's Tree Canopy Equity and Resilience Plan (Plan) with such factors as estimates of capital and operating costs, trade-offs in terms of vehicle movement and parking capacity, strategies for reducing conflicts with utility infrastructure, and identification of locations in Seattle most suited/ready for replacing parking with trees. This SLI requests that OSE's Urban Forestry Team collaborate with City departments (Seattle Public Utilities, Seattle City Light, Seattle Parks and Recreation, Seattle Department of Transportation, Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections, and Finance and Administrative Services) to consider measures akin to those proposed by the City of Paris, France. The 2024-2030 Paris Climate Plan set a goal of replacing 60,000 parking spaces with street trees.

A budget amendment from Alexis Mercedes Rinck asks the Office of Sustainability and the Environment to study the replacement of on-street parking spaces with trees.

Seattle Spent Thousands on "Organized Retail Theft" Operation at Marshall's, Arresting Five and Recovering $400 in Merchandise - PubliCola By Erica C. Barnett Last week, the Seattle Police Department announced it had completed a successful “Organized Retail Theft Operation”…

12 arrests. $1,600 recovered. And if it was anything like the "organized retail theft" operation I wrote about two weeks ago, 10 or more cops dedicated to a daylong sting at a time when Seattle says it needs more cops to respond to and solve serious crimes.
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Over 71 million Americans are paid less than a living wage, and are forced into social safety nets like SNAP.

If you think too many people are receiving SNAP benefits, don’t shame them.

Shame their employers paying them poverty wages and forcing taxpayers to subsidize the rest.

With SNAP cuts looming, some suggest handing out nonperishables to trick-or-treaters Nonprofits and content creators are sharing helpful Halloween trick-or-treat ideas ahead of expected SNAP cuts.

Numerous organizations are calling on people to hand out nonperishable food items along with candy on Halloween as SNAP is set to expire and the Trump administration refuses to use emergency funds as a stopgap.

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again, try to imagine how much the complete destruction of all corporate oversight and consumer protection is worth

Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania's Supreme Court - Bolts The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.

Since winning a PA Supreme Court majority, Ds have:

- Erased GOP gerrymander
- Upheld mail voting
- Rejected Trump bid to overturn results

So you can imagine why Rs really want to seize the majority ahead of ‘26 + ‘28.

Which brings us to Tuesday’s crucial election: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

To Build Fast, Think Small | Sightline Institute How re-legalizing small apartment buildings would spur the homes city dwellers need now.

Allow small apartment buildings everywhere. Yes, everywhere.

www.sightline.org/2025/10/28/t...

Rob Saka wants to take money *directly* from transit service funding to pay for a new "Chief Transit Security and Safety Officer" at the City of Seattle.

That's despite the fact that King County is directly in charge of many of the things this new position would be trying to direct.

NIMBYing green energy infrastructure is quickly going to become (already is?) the main climate policy fight. Almost all the fossil fuel infrastructure that has ever been built already exists, so they and their Republican allies can just keep throwing up barriers and stand to profit.

What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.

Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.

Every big disaster, i think about how Katrina touched one person in my family, destroying her home, and how it rippled out from there, and how the results of those ripples are still visible today.

"Generational" is, if anything, too small a word.

Every car in your city represents $8-12K/year being sucked out of your local economy instead of being spent on housing, goods & services.

I wish more parking-obsessed retailers & elected officials understood this.

#WindshieldBias
#CarBlindness

Elon Musk PAC’s Lawyer Files for Congressional Seat in Texas (1) Chris Gober, an attorney that helped Elon Musk’s America PAC raise more than $250 million to support President Donald Trump in the 2024 election, launched a congressional campaign in Texas on Friday.

Gober aims to replace retiring Republican Rep. Michael McCaul in an Austin-area seat that was significantly redrawn by state GOP leaders this summer.

Of course. Chris Gober (a Republican who previously served as chief counsel for tech billionaire Elon Musk’s America PAC) announced his bid for Congress in Texas today.

As a reminder, when Biden announced student loan forgiveness—based upon a statute passed by Congress which explicitly said the President could do exactly that—Douthat called it "semi-Caesarist" because it was done "without consulting Congress."

Mike Johnson is still refusing to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva. She was elected more than a month ago.

For me argentina is the easiest one because there's 40 million people on SNAP and we're giving milei 40 billion. "The president could give every hungry family a thousand dollars right now but he's giving it to argentina instead for no reason at all. He hates america"

Documents show that Amazon is working towards automating 75% of the company’s entire operations.

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Walz: "They are paying contractors to pay down the East Wing but they're not putting money into the food bank. So if there's a sense of frustration in America, it's very real ... when the White House press secretary said their top priority is the ballroom, we could not disagree more."

Brücken zwischen Becken - Schwimmbaderweiterung in Wien von illiz architektur nbsp;

more pics of that gorgeous mass timber pool facility in vienna i mentioned a few weeks ago

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“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.”

www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...

They're demonizing SNAP and other recipients of federal aid on right wing media.

Of 21 million federal aid beneficiaries, ~70% work full-time and 39% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. Critics need to ask Amazon and Walmart why they won't pay enough for their employees to survive w/o food stamps.

I looked it up once. SNAP takes 2% of the US budget and 93% of the money goes to the actual poor people instead of to the bureaucracy. So it's kind of like if you paid $1000 in taxes, you spent $20 on the poor of which they got to keep $18.60, and you spent $166.66 on the military.

YouTube video by The YEARS Project Did Climate Change Cause This Hurricane?

Hurricane Melissa could be one of the most worst hurricanes on record for Jamaica...and it's a textbook example of how climate change is making hurricanes more dangerous: explosive intensification, slow movement, and massive rainfall.

If you know any there, please make sure they’re prepared 🙏

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.