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New program helps incarcerated women get ink un-done - Gig Harbor Now The tattoo removal program at the Washington Corrections Center for Women helps remove traumatic symbols, thanks to Lissé Medical Aesthetics of Gig Harbor.

My latest story for Gig Harbor Now.

Thriving Generation group aims to get families to put their phones down - Gig Harbor Now Thriving Generation, a newly formed group, hosts a campaign kickoff on Oct. 10 and hopes families will participate in a phone-free weekend in November.

A local group called Thriving Generation, organized by educators, faith leaders and medical professionals, is trying to encourage kids to put down their phones and interact IRL.

A campaign kickoff event is scheduled for Oct. 10 at Gateway Park.
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BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Katharine Graham’s father bought The Washington Post in 1933. These 7 principles have basically been the bedrock of journalism, and still are for many. But, I wonder what she and her father would think of that paper now?

A refugees memories of Voice of America. What Trump is doing is monstrous.

ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

With Handmaids Tale people focus on the shock of the mass rapes in the book and the show.

But how the regime came to be in power in that book keeps me awake at night because it is playing out in very intricate detail in our real lives right now.

Don’t you just love how the people who wanted school open during the pandemic think we don’t need a Department of Education?

A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’ An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

Feel kind of like I did on 9/11. Am I supposed to write, and work, while the country is under attack? Except this time I’m not in an office, surrounded by co-workers feeling the same emotions. God help us all.

If you are looking for a good coming-of-age memoir that explores the many intricacies of family heritage, pain, and triumph, Both Sides of Then, by Jennifer Griffith delivers.

Jan. 4, 1925: Italy's Fascist regime gives police prefects orders to close down opposition newspapers and clubs, a day after PM Benito Mussolini vowed to rule as a dictator. Over the next few days officers aided by Blackshirt militia will raid hundreds of houses and offices. 1/2

Goals for 2025: Remain staunch. Make it count.

I continue to be deeply moved by this statement to the heavens by President Carter.

Doing well and doing good are more synergistic than many corporations think. It's not either/or...It's both/and.

Ringing in the New Year hits differently this year.

The Truth About Musk, From His Biographer A viral Bluesky thread introduced tens of thousands around the world to a first glimpse of a forthcoming biography of Elon Musk. Here—in a single essay—is some of what the world just learned.

ICYMI.

I had a Solstice party one year, and everyone brought something that they wanted to burn. We gathered in my back yard, each of us said a few words about our item, tossed it into the fire, and watched it all burn. Happy Solstice!

Toy Drive makes Christmas merrier for 975 local children - Gig Harbor Now 150 volunteers helped out with the Gig Harbor Peninsula FISH Toy Drive, which wrapped up this week.

150 volunteers and countless donors helped provide gifts for 975 Gig Harbor-area kids as part of the Gig Harbor Peninsula FISH Toy Drive, which wrapped up this week. Story by @staunchginger.bsky.social
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They won’t care. I’m not sure anyone could convince them, even if they are the ones dying. Covid showed that they will argue while gasping for that last breath. Cult members cannot face reality.

In South Korea, 10 days after attempting a coup d'état, president Yoon Suk Yeol is impeached. In the US, 4 years after doing the same, Trump is re-elected.

The president agreed to “step aside” after parliament voted to remove him, more than 200,000 showed up to make sure he didn't challenge it.

Since B-sky is all about norms, might I suggest one? If you write a “breaking news” post about legal news you wouldn’t know about but for the work of a journalist, you should credit that person, who actually bothered to (1) check the docket, (2) pay for the doc, (3) upload it, and (4) report on it.

No one who implements AI into their business gets to be called a working class anything except enemy.

Just a note: anyone who has a felony or misdemeanor cannot be an executor of a will in Washington state. I assume the same in all states. And yet, everyone seems OK with handing over national security to someone who has multiple felonies. My poor Libra sensibilities are anguished.

You had me wondering if any of my old clips are out there. Googled my byline name, and my 2001 story about 4/20 from my Sac Bee days is still out there. It’s the only story from the aughts, and before, I’ve seen reposted online over the years. What a legacy.

It's weird that we have to keep saying "They don't care about (debt, the law, healthcare, women, regular people, etc., etc.). The object of the exercise is to burn it all down, pick over the spoils, and sell the rest for scrap.

I worry that people don't understand this.

They. Don't. Care.