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Science journal retracts widely cited study that claimed Roundup is safe The Trump administration, meanwhile, aims to shield its manufacturer from lawsuits.

That study the federal government relied on heavily to contend that Roundup is safe. Yeah, well, it was ghostwritten by Monsanto. In fact, the evidence suggests glyphosate causes cancer in humans. Here's a dispatch from our resident Roundup expert.

Yuletide Express at Snoqualmie Depot! @trainmuseum.bsky.social

Here comes the Snoqualmie Santa train at @trainmuseum.bsky.social

A new Lufthansa Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner in flight.

Brand new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner for Lufthansa (registration #D-ABPP) on a test flight over Edmonds today:

The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...

I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!

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ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

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many people were asking for it and now the full cut of the onion parody of jubilee debates is now up on youtube!

Dimon rightfully afraid of bribery charges and/or investor lawsuits down the road. Next administration should focus on prosecuting corruption.

A page from Mickey’s Christmas Carol including the line “Tiny Tim, who did not die” …

Can’t read this without hearing Gonzo’s voice

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Christmas tree’s going up today and the best thing we ever did was buy this super sturdy, no-hassle tree stand krinner.us/collections/...

Jim (me) smiling with a box of Hershey’s baking chocolate from 2000.

Fun holiday party game: Everyone gets one minute in the kitchen/pantry to find the oldest best-by date. I won at Thanksgiving with this 25-year-old chocolate buried in my in-laws’ freezer.

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Where is street parking now $8 an hour in Seattle? City code requires the transportation department to adjust prices seasonally. The department adjusts rates in 50-cent increments based on demand.

#Seattle charges the LOWEST parking rates needed to keep 1 or 2 spaces available on every block most of the time. That makes on-street parking easy to find. It also brings in a lot of cash for public services: $34.9 million in parking revenue in 2024.

The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time

People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"

100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money? Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say

Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?

Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst

The details in this story are enraging

A red 1988 E28 BMW 535is

This E28 I’ve seen driving around town needs a little love but I’m a sucker for analog BMWs and couldn’t resist taking a photo when I saw it parked

i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead

Nick Saban in a bright blue suit in front of someone in the College GameDay crowd holding a large sign reading “BOYCOTT STARBUCKS” in blue letters.

Woke 2 shows up at Game Day. #starbucksboycott

An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study—Then It All Fell Apart Aidan Toner-Rodgers shot to academic fame in a field hungry for new insights and revelatory research. But a computer scientist thought something seemed off.

Really interesting story. “There is no world where this makes any sense.”

An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study—Then It All Fell Apart @wsj.com

Exciting! I’ll be on the lookout. When spotted they’re usually down by the marina I believe.

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A Qatar Airways Cargo Boeing 777F in flight.

Today’s widebody shot over Edmonds: This Boeing 777F for Qatar Airways Cargo (registration #A7-BTC) flying for the first time on a test flight out of Snohomish County’s Paine Field.

ETH Zurich researchers develop microrobots for targeted drug delivery Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed microrobots that use magnets to navigate to blood clots and deploy drugs to dissolve them.

Medtech is the best tech right now! Lots of exciting advances like this out of ETH Zurich, where researchers developed injectable drug capsules that can be magnetically steered to a target for precision drug delivery. They've already tested clot-busters, antibiotics and tumor medication:

Oh god this is a true Smiling Man moment. The Era of Smiles begins