smpaine

What a nightmare!

Senate confirms Jan. 6 denier Joseph Kent to head counterterrorism center

This system is critical to Americans’ health. We must defend it.

Just a minor side effect of car dominance.

@electroberts.bsky.social is a terrific candidate for the Assessor position. Take a look!

Edmonds mayor names candidate for next police chief | HeraldNet.com If the City Council approves Assistant Chief Loi Dawkins’ appointment on Tuesday, she will begin her term as chief Aug. 1.

Great news for Edmonds!
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On Dobbs anniversary, Senate Democrats aim to restart abortion conversation Sen. Patty Murray (D-Washington) says the GOP is moving toward a “national abortion ban behind the scenes” and hopes a staged hearing will spotlight the threat.

Thank you @murray.senate.gov for your leadership. #prochoice

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Oh.

Watch a special conversation with Juneteenth icon Opal Lee on WFAA The conversation aired during an hour-long special on WFAA at 9 a.m. Saturday, June 18.

www.wfaa.com/article/news...

"REFUSING TO GIVE UP"

Happy Juneteeth

This Day of Freedom and Justice

Please listen to Opal Lee, 98 Years Strong
This Great ICON of Civil Rights

I am thinking of Opal right now
Her thoughts of today and these TUMULTUOUS TIMES

So much more to be done

This is possibly a suicide based on how it was reported.

Please don’t let the feds take over the prosecution.

Not a shut out!

#FIFACWC in Seattle
Thanks @aliciainedmonds.bsky.social

Washington crash deaths dropped 10% in 2024 Traffic deaths dropped from a 33-year high, but remain above pre-pandemic levels, safety officials say.

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Every independent analysis is clear: the budget bill passed early this morning by the House GOP will gut essential programs like Medicaid and SNAP for working Americans, and make the ultra-wealthy richer.

We must do everything we can stop this bill in the Senate.

Time to play their game better than them. If they don’t want to do it… we will. #washingtonstate #waleg

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

2-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Deported ‘With No Meaningful Process,’ Judge Suspects A federal judge in Louisiana said the deportation of the child to Honduras with her mother, even though her father had filed an emergency petition, appeared to be “illegal and unconstitutional.”

It looks like ICE is becoming Trump’s Gestapo. Nobody is safe. We must take the offensive. It will soon be too late. Even Trump-appointed judges are voicing alarm.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

Daniel Bice Daniel Bice is a columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Watchdog team.

Shoutout to Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, who’s been on the Judge Dugan story all week. You can catch up on his coverage here www.jsonline.com/staff/264800...

Waiting to hear how SCOTUS responds …

Melting Arctic sea ice spurs gray whale die-off along West Coast The mighty gray whales depend on ice for food. They're skinnier than ever.

Awful news about our gray whales.

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My dad was a scientist and had loads of post docs. It would be an enormous headache. I hope the researcher is able to finish their work, unhindered, and not treated like a commodity.

Can move their work to a different university where there is support? I know it would be a headache but the work sounds transformative in this field of study.

New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:

—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.

Read it.
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Thanks for covering our Council meeting.

State Budget Cuts Could Slash Puget Sound’s Passenger Ferry Service - The Urbanist # The Washington House and Senate aren't in alignment on whether funding for extra passenger ferry trips should continue. Dozens of weekly trips across the King County Water Taxi and Kitsap Fast Ferry...

The House and Senate transportation budgets disagree on whether to continue providing supplemental funding for Kitsap and King County passenger ferries. Dozens of weekly trips to Bremerton and Vashon Island are on the line.
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Edmonds launches technology to destroy PFAS | HeraldNet.com EDMONDS — Edmonds is the first city in the country to implement new technology at a wastewater treatment facility that eradicates “forever chemicals,” otherwise known as PFAS. Within the next week, th...

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I have the SCOTUS phone number on my call list because CJ Roberts is complicit.

YouTube video by MSNBC Stephanie Ruhle: We are facing a crisis of confidence

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You can find all of them on a list called “Washington for the people” on @cascadiaresistance.bsky.social profile. Also OR and CA too. It has a huge compilation of orgs, unions, non profits and activists for all 3 west coast states

This is a very cool list! And I love that it’s local. Thanks