@greywulff.bsky.social
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” Retired Seattle lawyer/exec director. Was hoping to spend retirement doing anything other than this. Married 🏳️🌈, bad ☸️, fly fisher, photographer, stolen bike ninja, dog wrangler.
Well, Cory Booker did support Charles Kushner for ambassador.
I’m going to get back to keeping up this weekly tradition faithfully again. The replies are always such chicken soup for the soul.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Found your calling or found a lost sock, both work. Just something good.
This week, I learned that due to thousands of years of co-evolution, dogs want to sleep in our beds because being next to us at night is their safest space in the world. And I teared up bc after 2 years my abandoned, starved rescue dog has finally taken to sneaking onto my bed at night. ♥️🐾
I find this whole situation with Kushner appalling for a number of reasons but I'm wondering how you think Kushner's status differs from that of other Presidential Envoys who have been appointed in the past by many other Presidents?
@nytimes.com She was assassinated, not just killed. The framing matters. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/w...
Which I don't understand bc this would affect maybe 1 million trans folks but nearly 70 million women and it would disenfranchise a greater % of older &/or conservative women than younger more liberal women - who are less likely to change their name upon marriage than older/conservative women.
I appreciate the impact of this on Trans folks, but the impact on them is not disproportionate compared to the 75-90% of married women who took their spouses name & don't have either a birth certificate with their married name or a passport. This is the real focus of the law. Disenfranchising women.
It wasn't quashed because she had no evidence of crime. The subpoenas were quashed because there was overwhelming evidence they were issued for an improper purpose - trying to coerce the Fed. Subtle but important distinction.
@governorferguson.bsky.social @murray.senate.gov How you are preparing to counter Trump's efforts to take over elections? As a vote by mail state, we are particularly vulnerable. At a minimum, we need to exponentially expand ballot drop boxes throughout the state to bypass US Mail postmark issues.
I think it also might be an effort to undercut the US dollar.
As an employment lawyer, I used to explain that employers can legally fire someone for a good reason, a bad reason or no reason at all BUT they can't fire someone for an illegal reason. Same principle here. You can't issue a grand jury subpoena just to coerce the Fed into lowering interest rates.
Senator, I appreciate you and this sentiment, but Trump no longer has the ability to stop the war. He started it but it requires both sides to stop it. Congress must assert itself to stop our part of this war and then deal with the ongoing consequences.
Seriously disgusting take worthy of a block.
Unbelievable. We are being governed by the worst people in American history. Aggressively stupid, arrogant, dishonest and corrupt.
His wife’s reported comments are really bizarre - he doesn’t have knowledge about the alien bodies at Rozwell and maybe he got abducted? Maybe look at her.
This is a bad take. Sports records stand or fall on the basis of the athlete's achievement. If Adebayo had tanked passing Bryant's score, then Bryant's record would have been subject to an asterisk. Second or third most points - doesn't matter in evaluating the overall greatness of a player.
YES! Demand:
No masks
Badges with identifiable information: name/number/agency
Judicial warrants
No stops based on race, color, language or employment
No detentions in violation of the 4th Amendment
Cooperation with states on investigations
Training for all immigration enforcement officers
Ah, but it's military spec ribeyes.
Ahh, it's their safe space.
Yeah but with Pentagon prices plus inflation that only got them a dozen crab, 15 lobsters, two dozen ribeyes and a couple salmon fillets.
Easy answer - Dems are afraid because this bill would disenfranchise millions of legitimate US citizen voters to address a problem that does not exist. Better Q: Why does the GOP want to disenfranchise millions of legit US citizen voters? B/c Trump says the GOP can't win without doing so?
This exact scenario was recently reported on NPR. The Navy doesn't have the capability & it wouldn't necessarily entice owners to risk their ships transitting the strait. It is also being reported that we apparently no longer have mine sweepers in the Gulf as of December or January.
I used to think exactly the same thing. I'm a retired lawyer, trained mediator, not exactly a flamethrower but seeing the daily disregard for the rule of law from this admin, I believe we are in extraordinary times that demand moral clarity - not capitulation. Bipartisanship is dead, for now.
Well, I guess the entire state of Washington shouldn't bother voting in Presidential elections because our votes are almost never determinative. Our elected representatives should be voting to represent the views of their constituents whether those votes are determinative or not. Meaning≠success.
After all the lies, manipulation and blatant constitutional violations, do you really think the GOP or this administration is capable of doing ANYTHING in good faith. I'm a middle of the road, rank & file Dem and I don't want my Senator voting to confirm anyone. We are not in normal times.
These Senators will never get a dime from me ever again - directly or indirectly. And I mean NEVER. I will not be donating to the DSCC again. I really don't think Dems understand how this administration has radicalized your average rank & file Dem. We need to start primarying incumbents.
Thank you @murray.senate.gov for NOT voting to confirm this nominee. If Dems keep voting for Trump's nominees & legislation in the face of the administration's blatant constitutional violations, they will absolutely lose people like me - a lifelong Dem voter, donor & volunteer. Consequences matter.
"I had a dream:
Democracy in which the corrupt are afraid again.
In which the powerful take responsibility again.
In which a political office is not a self-service shop.
The ancient Greeks were more advanced than we were - and that's why I want their rules back."
Accountability matters. He physically assaulted and seriously injured a private citizen while interfering with an arrest. He should be charged with assault, interfering with police and expelled from the Senate. I don't expect any of that to happen but I hope that Marine sues the cr*p out of him.
