Caleb Heeringa

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

When Stephen Miller hijacks the Major League Baseball social media account

As Trump ramps up National Guard threats, what’s crime really like in Portland and Seattle? Donald Trump has often name-checked both cities, describing them as dangerous. Here's what the numbers show.

I really wish media covering Trump's invasion of US cities would step away from this "Trump wants to fight crime, but how bad is it really?" framing. They obviously don't give a shit about local crime, but this manufactured narrative dominates all the coverage.

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

with Portland there's the depressing addendum that 90% of why this is happening is the right wing media grifter ecosystem got badly addicted to viral Portland content during the Trump years and they've been fiending for another hit ever since

Worth noting for WA, BTW:

"House Bill 1321, sponsored by Rep. Sharlett Mena (D-Tacoma), requires the Governor’s permission for National Guard troops from other states, territories or districts to enter Washington, unless they are mobilized by the president."

governor.wa.gov/news/2025/go...

this is so sweet

wrote this line yesterday:

"If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."

The suffering makes the joy hit that much harder.

Refuse to snooze.

the hardest part of living in Portland is having your house burn down every single night and then having to rebuild it during the day. the amount of money i spend just in drywall is insane.

Very happy that Gabe Speier has found a home in the Pacific Northwest, because he looks like the Oregon gas station attendant who screamed at me the first time I tried to fill up my own car.

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

Let’s try this again.

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Text card: Listen for dangerous words. Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary. #OnTyranny

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.

queen shit, rest in peace

It is unfathomable to me that we’re all just supposed to be okay with higher energy costs and more air and light pollution, in exchange for a machine that steals personal data and copyrighted material and produces slop and wage theft, and big tech can do this to our society unilaterally.

I’m glad the whole nation is getting to experience the excruciating torture that is Seattle Mariners baseball.

Crack of the bat, smell of the grass, things of that nature.

really odd the timing of this fixation on portland. sending the guard, sending the 82nd airborne, all these right wing influencers coming to stir up trouble, pam fucking bondi wading in and calling PPB antifa, all within like a week. 0-60. really feels like they just got bored with charlie kirk

George saying I gotta focus. I’m shifting into Mariners mode.

Time to get serious.

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

YouTube video by Katie Wilson for Seattle The Big Dumper’s City Needs Public Restrooms!

How many thousands of public bathrooms will she build in Seattle? www.youtube.com/shorts/V4VdJ...

“Members of the public have the right to document police operating in public spaces” is a core principle of First Amendment law and a pillar of the practice of journalism, and has been for decades. Sad but not surprising to see Tech titans quickly fold & “free speech warriors” mostly silent.

Maryland lawsuits against Big Oil should go forward A trio of local governments in Maryland have taken Big Oil companies to court to make them pay for deceiving the public about the dangers of climate

Maryland communities are fighting to hold Big Oil companies accountable for their climate deception and make them pay for the harm it caused. On Monday, the Maryland Supreme Court will consider whether the cases can advance.

CCI's @shannonmarcoux.bsky.social explained why the law is on their side.

Unprecedented water rationing to begin in WA’s Yakima Basin Reservoirs in the Yakima River Basin are expected to run out of water early next week.

Washington's drought is so bad state officials are turning off the water for an entire river basin.

I called an irrigator to talk about it and he said the cuts don't affect him. That's because he already ran out of water last month. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Pope Leo hits out at critics of global warming In his first major statement on climate change, the pontiff criticises those who minimise climate change.

"God will ask us if we have cultivated and cared for the world that he created for the benefit of all and for future generations, and if we have taken care of our brothers and sisters - what will be our answer, my dear friends?"

As private equity pursues public utilities, reports say BlackRock subsidiary wants to buy AES - Indianapolis Business Journal BlackRock’s interest in AES represents a growing trend of private equity firms investing in, or buying outright, public utility companies as artificial intelligence fuels increasing electricity demand...

The utility serving Indianapolis could be next to be swept up in BlackRock's spending spree on utilities, a prospect that has local ratepayer advocates "extremely concerned" www.ibj.com/articles/as-...