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Google doesn’t understand they picked the wrong place in the wrong way. Finns do not play- especially when it comes to their environment. A Bezos Cocktail is incoming

The satellite that watches the eastern United States for storms went blind for 20 hours in July. NOAA cannot yet say why. Its backup sits weeks away from taking over. This is what a warning system looks like after the people who ran it were cut and its research arm marked for the axe.

Whole Nation Misses President’s Speech Because Jimothy: tinyurl.com/2tp3na55

In April, we published our first story about the surveillance machine at Madison Square Garden—an operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. Read that here:

Let’s check in on how Jared and Ivanka’s luxury Albanian resort is doing…

Given the news that Trump has just appointed Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence, it feels timely to revisit the three different episodes of financial impropriety by Pulte that I’ve reported on in the just last six months! Let’s recap:/1

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Drama drained

"We're gonna need a bigger ballroom"

The corruption is just stunning. www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...

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Why is Trump so enthusiastic about destroying Iranian civilian infrastructure? It won’t win the war. It is likely for another reason: to provoke an Iranian response that Trump can use for his own purposes. (2/17)

Servant of the people

I don’t know if you get more Seattle than this! “Blaine confirmed the modernized line will at least include the addition of a tiny man vaping in his tiny car.”

BREAKING: Democrats just flipped the Florida House district that includes Mar-a-Lago. Yes, Donald Trump is going to be represented by a Democrat. Our complete recap -->

I want to be clear: it would literally be IMPOSSIBLE to conduct a legitimate election in WA state in November 2026 in compliance with the SAVE Act. We cannot do it. No way, no how. Same for OR and other vote-by-mail states. Better to refuse to comply and confront the Constitutional crisis head on.

“He does not consider the wider implications of his decisions. He does not take responsibility when these decisions go wrong. Instead, he acts on whim and impulse, and when he changes his mind—when he feels new whims and new impulses—he simply lies about whatever he said or did before.” 👏👏👏 Anne!

Beautiful (nearly) spring day in Seattle

The nuclear winter and decimation of medical research in America. Murdered by RFK Jr and Trump regime. Next time you/your family suffers an illness, remember who killed our future cures and preventions. Never forget.

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 #UrbanTruth

I’ve been looking at this 8 year old’s photo for awhile. Thinking about careless power hungry men and the innocents they throw away

Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.

I thought I’d be tired of the Rubio couch memes by now, but nope.

😩 this is so horrible and unnecessarily cruel

“This could cripple the superyacht shipbuilding, AI brainwashing, and local datacenter resource sucking industries,” said critic Heywood. “If approved, a high school teacher who exceeded her expected lifetime earnings by a mere 50,000% may be subject to it and if you ask me, that’s just not right.”

This is a very big story. apnews.com/article/anth...

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This is great!

The people and leaders of Ukraine are heroes, fighting valiantly for their own freedom and to help protect ours. The Trump Administration has betrayed them (and by extension us) repeatedly and continues to do so.

In tonight's speech, the president did what he does best: celebrate himself. But if anyone was looking for leadership focused on easing their current economic pain, he made clear that they'll need to look elsewhere.

We've reached the Nazi part of Trump's speech: "The Somali pirates who ransacked Minnesota remind us that there are large parts of the world where corruption and lawlessness are the norm, not the exception. Importing these cultures through unrestricted immigration ... "

ICE whistleblower alleges that Todd Lyons cut training on split second decision making and use of force, and says recruits are taught to treat non-judicial warrants as a “permission slip to themselves” to force entry into homes, effectively normalizing constitutional violations.

It’s teeth grinding to interact with fembot

Her research laid the groundwork for the Global Positioning System, GPS, a technology that has made getting lost a thing of the past. wapo.st/4c3qzA5

When the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the president cannot simply declare sweeping global tariffs under emergency powers, it wasn’t a technical trade decision. It was a constitutional one.

Pleading with people to understand the scope of this. It won’t just be for immigrants. They will use these camps to detain anyone they deem as an “other”. The disabled. The homeless. Trans people. Political dissidents. Your tax dollars will be spent incarcerating people without due process.

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

“He also told a child that ‘since he was pardoned for storming the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, and he was being awarded $10,000,000 as a result of being a ‘jan 6’er’ ... that he would be putting him in his ‘will’ to take any money he had left over,’ according to the affidavit.”

Pam Bondi brought a document to the Judiciary Committee today that had my search history of the Epstein files on it. The DOJ is spying on members of Congress. It’s a disgrace and I won’t stand for it.

Emotional to see the reality of history. The perseverance!!

The 2 hour booming extravaganza on Sunday evening in Seattle a perfect test

This is absolute madness. mRNA vaccines a freaking modern miracle