Julian Swearengin

Local media is calling it: Katie Wilson will be the next mayor of Seattle.

Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger.

Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.

Amendment which strikes section which “allows senators who were legally subpoenaed during the January 6 criminal conspiracy investigation to get millions of dollars deposited into their bank accounts at taxpayer expense” voted down by Republicans

DHS takes credit for crime being down in Chicago. Data shows that was happening before they arrived. Immigration officials on Tuesday said a drop in crime numbers was thanks to their work. Police data show the decrease was taking place before federal agents arrived in the city.

Trump is a liar. Tear gassing kids in peaceful neighborhoods makes no one safer.

He cannot steal credit from our violence prevention and law enforcement efforts that have reduced crime for four years straight — long before his masked agents showed up. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Once again, if you wrote a story in which the jetsetting corrupt FBI chief took a government plane to the "Boondoggle Ranch" an editor would tell you to get a different job, because you're not cut out for writing believable stories.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

(Published October)

Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet.

New WSJ: After flying an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, FBI director Kash Patel took the jet to a private Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The Coolest Girl on Earth Seeks God Rosalía’s new album mirrors the modern quest for salvation, in all its thrilling and frustrating contours.

Rosalía’s awe-inspiring new album harkens back to an older tradition of Christian art, writes @skornhaber.bsky.social: the symphony written for the glory of God.

UCLA Rose Bowl Stadium Lawsuit Draws Comps to Yanks, Jets Cases Pasadena seeks a temporary restraining order to block UCLA from leaving the Rose Bowl and contend past cases involving pro sports teams help.

What do the New York Jets, New York Yankees and Minnesota Twins have to do with UCLA football?

They could be key to UCLA having to stay in the Rose Bowl. Decades ago, each tried to relocate to different venues. Each was told "no" by judges due to leases.

I discuss for @sportico.bsky.social:

even Ingraham, who is professionally obligated to treat Trump's every utterance as both true and fascinating, looks 1/2 gobsmacked, 1/2 bored

This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.

Really good piece.

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

Oh good I was worried some hungry people might get some food

Listen to this BS from Duffy. (Whose aviation-world experience = zero.)

I know 1000 times as many controllers as he's ever met. OK, maybe only 100 times as many.

This is offensive beyond belief.

Disgusting. You engaged in political gamesmanship using them as pawns knowing they would get harmed and now you question *their* patriotism because some of them aren't wealthy like you and didn't want to work a high stress job for no pay?

We have a severe shortage of ATCs, so let's put the bullseye on those who missed work for a highly stressful job they haven't been paid to do for five weeks. Road Rules dude is so effing inept. I'd rather somebody not show up for a vital job than show up (understandably) distracted.

Instead of funneling endless amounts of money into our bloated Pentagon budget while thousands of veterans face homelessness and hunger, let’s use those funds to truly take care of our veterans — ensuring every one has a home, food, and access to medical and mental health care.

Oh no. Who gave SCOTUS the wrong numbers? Will that person be fired?

Also: If entering into a tariff regime that would have to be litigated created the possibility of America not being "sustainable" then maybe they were unwise?

2, by Yalla Miku 10 track album

Oh I looooooove this record. Funky, groovy East African fusion yallamiku.bandcamp.com/album/2

New follower. You are hilarious. Good to find you here.

I think this clown needs to spend more time on Grindr and less time in front of cameras.

I don’t much care for this young lady’s music but i might have to buy one of her albums just to support someone with the metaphorical cajones to belittle Zuckerberg (in the audience) challenging the idea that a billionaire should exist, in public.

$27,397.76 per day for 100 years, that’s $1B

I just love Box o’ Wine being so proud of herself, not realizing that felony charge is going to get downgraded to a misdemeanor before he’s fully acquitted…

She really should slink out of town when nobody is looking, she’s an embarrassment

This concept is insane and needs to be thrown out before it can pick up steam.

No ‘average person’ can get ahead on a 50-year mortgage…

A $200K house at 6% would end up costing $631.6K, spending a little over $1,000/month for over triple the loan value.

Another housing/bankruptcy bubble…

No way. Bessent is “We, we, we have a plan, I’m a farmer, you don’t understand”.

Nutlick is “everything is about to go boom! Trump is the best!’

Hassett is “I just want to say it’s all fantastic, please believe me”

Kegsbreath would just say “Bomb SCOTUS warrior ethos!”

Bondi can’t sneer in text

🤡🤡🤡🤡 clowns have been awarded in our new 5 clown scoring system.

Saying you inadvertently backed the US into a “National Security Event” isn’t the flex he thinks it is.

When neighbors lost SNAP benefits, the internet stepped in to feed them People are influencing politics and increasingly finding food for their families by telling their stories of economic struggle online in ways that were not possible even a few years ago.

The government shutdown put extraordinary stress on 42 million people who depend on SNAP.

People turned to social media not only as a source of commiseration and political protest, but also found that going viral helped them pay for food.

Other than that, how was the quarter? 🤡

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