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A "just all right" source of protein

Perfection.

My fellow Washingtonians, 2025 might be an off-cycle election, but we've still got some important measures to weigh in on! Remember to have your ballot in an election drop box by 8:00 pm Tuesday!

More resources, including drop box location and in-person registration & ballot casting, at votewa.gov

Post Office Delays Could Result in Uncounted Ballots; Harrell's Budget Increases Graffiti Spending 36 Percent - PubliCola 1. Mail processing delays could result in more invalidated mail-in ballots this year, and elections officials are advising voters to…

PSA for Seattle procrastinators: If you're voting today or tomorrow, USE A DROP BOX, NOT THE MAIL! The USPS won't guarantee your timely ballot is postmarked on time.

Locations of ballot boxes: cd.kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...

More details: publicola.com/2025/10/03/p...

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

If you see someone stealing groceries, no you didn’t

"CSS is awesome" printed within a box, where "awesome" is overflowing said box.

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

CHICAGO — WGN News editor/producer Debbie Brockman grabbed by Trump’s ICE goons.. who then intentionally ram a bystander’s car as they peel away.

More: www.fox32chicago.com/news/wgn-new...

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The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

Quinnipiac, no

The app development will continue until morale improves.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

The free press in the PNW takes another hit: Cascade PBS shutters its newsroom, putting sixteen staff out of work Among those who have been let go are editor Megan Burbank, city hall reporter Josh Cohen, and state politics reporter Laurel Demkovich. Meanwhile, CEO Rob Dunlop's executive compensation, at over half a million a year, is not being reduced.

The free press in the PNW takes another hit: Cascade PBS shutters its newsroom, putting sixteen staff out of work

Among those who have been let go are editor Megan Burbank, city hall reporter Josh Cohen, and state politics reporter Laurel Demkovich. Meanwhile, CEO Rob Dunlop's executive…

Ben is right (🧵). Also, subscribe to The Onion. The paper is such a treat. membership.theonion.com

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards."

www.wired.com/story/uncann...

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Pursuing A More Perfect Union Hagmaier, Colt Mon 9/15/2025 1:06 PM Friends, This nation was once no more than idea. Courageous whispers of dangerous thinking; a wild experiment to organize and preserve government not by despotism or dynasty, but through the continued consent of the governed. Like a hardy willow, our Republic endures upon a trunk of federalism that is both fixed and flexible. Unity, not unanimity, is our strength - we are not stymied by our differences, we are made resilient by channeling those differences into public good. Our words matter. We ought to choose them carefully, stand behind them, and offer them with empathy and kindness. My faith in our nation, like our liberties, is secured by strong, prudent, and principled democratic institutions. Institutions administered by public servants sworn to place that public good above their own. We persevere not because our Union is perfect, rather because we never stop pursuing a more perfect one - together. That is what I see here at FEMA every day. Each of you sustaining the integrity and function of our federal government. You bring hope to the hopeless and relief to the suffering. Your work is never easy, rarely appreciated, and often misunderstood or mischaracterized, but it is essential. Not only to those benefiting from it, but to the fabric of who we are as a people and a reflection of the humanity that unites us. Your effort is purposeful, noble, and compassionate. It has been my life's honor to serve alongside you in this virtuous mission of helping our communities and neighbors in their times of need. Now, it is time for me to start a new path away from federal service. This has been an incredibly difficult decision over which I have reflected, prayed, and temporized. I care immensely about FEMA's mission and for you who deliver it every day. I am blessed to have worked alongside so many passionate, hardworking, and talented people throughout my FEMA career.

Breaking — FEMA Acting Chief Counsel Colt Hagmaier just resigned in an email to staff. He's worked at the agency for more than a decade.

Hagmaier's resignation comes immediately after two FEMA employees were placed on leave for comments about Charlie Kirk.

Text of his email shared with me:

Which system? I'm curious what sort of priors or heuristics led it to UKR before the more recognizable choices.

marco rubio trying to impose sanctions on brazil but he can't because his propeller beanie keeps falling off and getting caught in his tricycle

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

They don't want to create, they want to have created something.

I was going to post about how amazing it was that I can now ride from Beacon Hill to South Park to Georgetown to downtown almost entirely in PBLs. But instead I’ll post this picture of a guy who smashed into the bike lane seconds after I rolled through:

Published over 6 years ago.

so close! that is a field

need people to understand that accepting or conceding that he has the authority to do these things is tantamount to giving him the authority, and so your preemptive dooming is actively counterproductive