South Puget Sound’s identity is a truce between Yankee order and Appalachian independence. From George Washington Bush to Chinese exclusion and timber unions, elites bent rules to protect stability for insiders. The result: pragmatic, regulated, exclusionary peace.
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Sitting on the Twitter Files Gang to sign into this one.
ICE’s Plan to Monitor Social Media 24/7
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Invasive blackberry bushes being sold at Costco
Do they sell daffodils?
28.02.2026 01:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
finally listened to the if books could kill episode on “the anxious generation” - outrageous how much this pop psych book & its shaky, error laden interpretations of data are driving policy & giving well meaning people wrong info about teen mental health. open.spotify.com/episode/3cxP...
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After years attacking “safe spaces,” Texas leaders backed a rule letting students avoid “unnecessarily controversial” topics, requiring syllabus disclosures and “balanced” views. The vague policy chills speech and undercuts the GOP’s past campus free-speech crusade.
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/24/t...
WA hit a record 23k eviction filings in 2025, up 57% from 2019. Growth slowed but remains high, with King, Pierce and Snohomish leading. Many cases end in default judgments despite the state’s right-to-counsel program, as renters don’t respond or appear in court
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It i possible to ignore someone making up claims about a kind of significant political media figure. But Candace Owens has been held up for years, despite just making stuff like this up. So now that she's taking swings at the legs of her own chair, let's watch.
www.thebulwark.com/p/candace-ow...
Taxing the advertising from digital monopolies is the best, most direct policy regarding social media platforms. Second to actually breaking up the digital advertising platforms.
Bipartisan effort to tax social media gains momentum
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Seattle CARE Chief Amy Barden says the police guild contract blocks unarmed crisis responders from most 911 calls, limiting them to 10 to 20 of 2,400 daily calls. Restrictions require police control and bar responses in many scenarios, leaving CARE at just 28% capacity
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WA GOP touts 100K+ “con” sign-ins against the millionaire tax, but the list is riddled with fraud, bots & 11K+ duplicate namesO. One person signed 140+ times. Sign-ins aren’t scientific public opinion, yet Republicans obsess over “winning” them anyway.
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Matt registered to vote on October 7, 2025, in Tarrant County, TX. Four months later, his registration is still pending. When he contacted the county, he was told that he was one of hundreds of thousands.
Check your registration, TX!
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
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When the battle seems far away and out of control, we need reminding the fight for justice remains local and ongoing.
After MLK’s assassination, Olympia confronted local racism. Black residents exposed housing discrimination and forced 1968 open housing laws.
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A murder warrant based on "possible" cause: "Person B bought aspirin. If they intended to poison a relative, it's a crime." This replaces evidence with a hypothetical, allowing a raid to find a crime that may exist.
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/i...
I believe the New York Times’ bad take on how long vote-by-mail states take to count ballots reflects its New York, precinct-voting lens. In Washington and Oregon, the only media figures who complain seem willfully obtuse about why counting takes time.
20.02.2026 20:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Misinformation thrives in a vacuum. If we don't explain why it takes 20 days (to verify signatures and allow for mail transit) people fill that silence with conspiracies. We shouldn't blame the voters. We should transparently defend the process.
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They aren’t wrong that bad actors exploit the delay to spread rumors. But the solution isn’t to disenfranchise thousands of people just to make the map turn colors faster on a Tuesday
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If anything, without the grace period in CA, late rejections would have spiked as the state transitions to vote by mail over the last decade plus.
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Voters don’t think about administrative grace periods. They just think about the deadline. If the rule is Vote by Tuesday, they vote Tuesday. They can’t see the 3-day mail lag or the week of processing that follows their drop-off.
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Then there's the signature cure. In WA, we have up to 21 days to fix signature issues. If your hand was shaky or your name changed, you have time to cure your ballot.
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In an all-mail system, the USPS is a variable. A receipt deadline punishes the voter for a logistical error they didn't cause. Our rules ensure your franchise isn't killed by a slow delivery.
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Most "fast" states use a Receipt Deadline, if your ballot isn't in their hands by 8 PM, it’s trash. WA and CA use a postmark deadline. If you mail it on Election Day, it counts. We treat the mailbox like a drop box to ensure your intent beats mail speed.
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The NYT claims there’s "no good reason" for slow vote counting in CA (and WA).
As a Washingtonian, I disagree. We prioritize voter accuracy over news cycles. The slow count isn’t a bug; it’s the system working
electionlawblog.org?p=154419
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Recent data from 2026 shows a sharp decline in youth approval for the administration. Younger voters are more sensitive to immediate stressors like grocery and housing costs. Without settled partisan loyalty, they are quickly rerouting their support to new architects. /4
20.02.2026 14:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Because the young brain is more plastic and less locked into habitual pathways, this group is highly volatile. We are seeing this now as young voters shift away from President Trump. The economic expressways they were promised in 2024 have not yet materialized. /3
20.02.2026 14:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Voting is a complex cognitive task. It requires the brain to integrate abstract policy with long-term consequences. Since the frontal lobe is the last to mature, the single most important factor in youth turnout is brain development. The highways are still being built. /2
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New neuroscience shows the brain is actually under construction until at least age 32.
This extended adolescence explains why voter turnout only begins to climb steadily as people enter their thirties and settle their neural pathways. /1
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Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition united multiracial, working-class voters with a left populist agenda, challenging big-money politics, so pundits caricatured him as radical, divisive or self-promoting to marginalize his movement.
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It’s a return to the fluidity of the past, upgraded with modern protections. Engelson argues for a world combining 1880s-style ease of movement with a 2020s-style guarantee of social services, tied to universal human rights rather than national borders.
www.cascadia-journal.com/imagining-ca...
WA Supreme Court ruled Amazon can be sued over its algorithm effectively built and promoted a “suicide kit,” bundling sodium nitrite with a suicide manual, scales, and Tagamet. The Court said a jury must decide if those algorithmic recommendations caused the deaths
www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/?fa...
