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I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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As we work to make housing more affordable, renters across the city need to keep speaking out. That’s why today we’re launching our Mayoral Renter’s Survey. forms.office.com/g/B1K37QsKtf

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JD Vance @JDVance X.com Today we remember the millions of lives lost during the Holocaust, the millions of stories of individual bravery and heroism, and one of the enduring lessons of one of the darkest chapters in human history: that while humans create beautiful things and are full of compassion, we're also capable of unspeakable brutality. And we promise never again to go down the darkest path.

Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it

Find a recipe for slow roasted salmon and cook it that way from frozen.

There's no ICE accountability without ending qualified immunity.

They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability.

My bill with @markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones.

Federal Funding Changes Could Create Thousands of New Homeless Seattle Residents - PubliCola The city and county are working on plans to offset potential federal funding cuts under the Trump Administration. By Erica…

Federal Funding Changes Could Create Thousands of New Homeless Seattle Residents

I took a deep dive into changes the Trump Administration is making to funding for homeless housing and services, and what local leaders and organizations are doing to prepare.

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“Most importantly, by standing together, local leaders can defend democracy, uphold justice and make decisions in the best interest of the public.”

To keep communities running, local governments are suing Trump — and winning King County, Washington is leading a coordinated legal response against the Trump administration’s attempts to impose political conditions on federal grants, which has resulted in a prelimina…

“We’re calling on other local governments to stand with us. The more united we are, the harder it is to divide us. Every jurisdiction that steps into this fight strengthens our position in court, protects more communities and reduces legal costs for everyone.”

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Hearing from a reader that part of the Bicycle Weekend route (this is the penultimate one of the year) is closed off to people walking and biking for what looks like a Rivian commercial shoot. Real classy, Seattle. We get only a handful of car-free days a year, and you give one to a car company.

Homelessness and Urban Destruction

@vanessawilliamson.bsky.social care to opine?

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

Chart shows health outcomes for HTH residents improved significantly

Chart shows 500 more houses will be built by King County

As the political right ramped up attacks on “housing-first,” a King County program quietly delivered housing for almost 1,900 formerly chronically homeless people since 2021. New data shows health indicators for residents — such as fewer ER visits and hospital stays — improved significantly.

So today:
- Trump says he’s “just giving you what they handed me” about Abrego Garcia.
- We learn Trump didn’t know Musk picked the IRS head.
- It’s reported that they didn’t mean to go to war with Harvard.

Perhaps staffing a White House with unqualified loyalists isn’t a great approach.

CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie).

Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

concentration camp, internment centre for political prisoners and members of national or minority groups who are confined for reasons of state security, exploitation, or punishment, usually by executive decree or military order. Persons are placed in such camps often on the basis of identification with a particular ethnic or political group rather than as individuals and without benefit either of indictment or fair trial. Concentration camps are to be distinguished from prisons interning persons lawfully convicted of civil crimes and from prisoner-of-war camps in which captured military personnel are held under the laws of war.

Amidst all of the horrors of the Trump administration, one stands above the rest: the trafficking of 270 men to El Salvador's CECOT prison.

Here is the definition of concentration camp from the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Charts from CNN’s After Hours Stock Market report showing that “extreme fear is driving the US market” and 4-6% drops in the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq futures.

Well, that’s not good.

It will never be enough. The goal is to break the University, not have them meet demands.

Taunting Columbia with the hope of compliance just sweetens the pot with humiliation.

A friend of my compared gutting of federal agencies to a wrecking a car: if you remove 30% of the parts of the car, it does not go 30% slower. It stops working.

Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

Wikipedia image of Major General (Ret.) Charles C. Rogers

Defense.gov google return: Medal of Honor Monday: Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers

Defense.gov 404 - Page Not Found

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/deimedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.

Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

Authoritarianism and Post-Truth Politics - Niskanen Center In response to the bizarre politics of 2016, the Oxford Dictionaries have selected as the word of the year "post-truth," a term that highlights how far we've come in the eleven years since Stephen Col...

Oddly though, that's not a direct quote, but a paraphrase from another author... At least as far as I can tell:

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Tweet from Senator Rollins, the Secretary for Agriculture: Secretary Brooke Rollins @SecRollins * CANCELLED: $600,000 grant to study "menstrual cycles in transgender men" Keep sending us tips. THANK YOU, @approject! The insanity is ending and the restoration of America is underway.

Let’s talk about this a bit.

TL;DR First and foremost - it’s a lie, that’s not what the study was for. And the lie is told as pictured because contrary to popular belief - these bigots do in fact know about and hate trans men.

This is not law. It couldn’t withstand legal scrutiny.

Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.

I want to quickly say how significant it is that after the last election, Dems have held relatively strong on trans rights, even on sports.

Senators in battleground states are not flipping.

Their one scuff was the NDAA, where some did flip.

Budget fight is next though.

U.S.A.I.D. Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to an agency whistle-blower.

Per senior USAID official, Trump Adm actions likely to cause
* up to 18m additional cases of malaria; 166k additional deaths
* 200k children paralyzed with polio
* 1m children not treated for malnutrition
* 28k new cases of infectious disease
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Frequently Asked Questions about the Holocaust - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum These answers are meant to assist with questions frequently asked by students when learning about the Holocaust.

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If you don't understand the attacks on transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming people right now, it's time to start educating yourself. (2)