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I interrupt your doomscrolling to bring you…

“Yacht attorney” as a thing that exists, and I honestly cannot stop laughing at it

So furious that I’m rendered speechless after hearing a woman on the reality TV show Housewives say “just two middle class girls acting fancy”. I…..

Hi
I am here to remind you, as a millennial, that you can in fact just call people you miss to talk for no reason. You don’t need a reason. You don’t. Need. A reason. To call.
I suck at this but am trying to get better and highly recommend.

Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

lol “developing—Tony, you have been in this school of thought for so long hahaha
But agreed!

I think—and it feels wild for me to say this—this is the first time I’ve EVER seen a mouth-open, angry-ish speaking photo used for a male elected official, especially a white male elected official. More of this, please. And less of the opposite.

A little different but this reminded me of an article earlier this week that described a woman in Chicago who had recently taken her oath of citizenship and her husband had just been detained by federal agents. Her husband had an immigration hearing next year.

How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis

Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.

Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Solar, LNG, Shipping, and Subsidies in 3 Graphics It might seem odd to use ships to compare energy sources, but it’s not.

Lots of chatter about LNG these days -- somethings to know

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More Black women are evicted every year than Black men are incarcerated. For profit prisons are one of the leading funders of lobbying against tenants' rights ordinances and for strict no-fault eviction laws. The reason is simple: eviction feeds the carceral state.

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row. Richard Randolph, now Malik Abdul-Sajjad, is scheduled to die tonight. His biological mother will never get a chance to meet him.

I wrote about the man Florida plans to kill tonight and how the death penalty impacts people in ways we might never imagine.

I really hope some news outlet covers the widespread threats & intimidation used by Harrell + his team to get orgs and individuals to not support Wilson, or to change their support. It’s just really trash behavior; it’s concerning how many people were scared of him.

You have no idea the extent to which I deliberately brake just for this (but not in a dangerous way lmfao)

I’ve seen enough. Congratulations @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social on becoming the 58th Mayor of Seattle.

KATIE WILSON LEADS BY 1,346!

Stadium District Zoning Change Declared Invalid After Port of Seattle Appeal » The Urbanist # The contentious proposal, approved by a 6-3 vote in March, legalized residential uses in a small slice of SoDo. But a state board pointed out several areas where the City cut corners ahead of that v...

Without speaking to the merits of the legal case against a specific proposal to allow housing near Seattle's stadiums, the Port has, does, and will always argue that creating housing for people anywhere near industrial zoning will kill jobs. www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/11/s...

You can check if your ballot is valid here or if you need to fix it here. Most of the issues are related to a lack of signature or the signature being different than that on your driver's license: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

Let them eat cake.

I don’t even view it as shortsighted. They were warned that this would happen and did it anyway. It was dismissal of a majority minority district and a reliance on less outcry.

There it is: after four days of counting (we need to count faster!), progressive Sarah Dixit has pulled ahead of conservative Jon Bingle by just 53 votes!

Sarah Dixit: 5,732 (49.9%)
Jon Bingle: 5,679 (49.5%)

The machine recount threshold is 0.5%. The hand recount threshold is 0.25%.

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Seattle politics nerds explaining the next week of ballot counting

HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.

This—agents driving around in circles and provoking the community—has gone on for hours at this point with no discernible goal other than to inflict terror.

They also just fired pepper balls at someone.

Federal agents in Chicago are aggressive everywhere but they elevate this in the SW Side. They don’t just snatch people and leave. They linger longer, march down streets with guns, interrupt traffic flows. The attacks feel concerted to instill as much fear & display power over immigrant mhoods.

Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.

Update (11:06 a.m.): After we published this story, Cuomo's spokesperson Rich Azzopardi reached out to us with a bone to pick. "It was an 8 point race. 42 percent on an independent line that was buried on the ballot. The difference between an 8 and a 10 point race is 41k votes and change. At least pretend to be honest with your readers," he wrote. Zohran Mamdani defeated Andrew Cuomo by an 8.8 percent margin. Hell Gate has updated the story to read that Cuomo "took an almost nine-point drubbing" on Tuesday night.

An important update to this story:

hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

This Virginia Election Was a Warning for Data Centers John McAuliff ran his campaign almost entirely on data centers — and won.

Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?

For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.

Per King County elections, expect around 30,000 ballots in Seattle's drop today. Seems likely this thing is headed to next week.

King County elections confirmed to me that so far they’ve only counted ballots up to those submitted Monday or early on Election Day, and none from drop boxes. Wednesday reflects basically a wrap up of what they started counting Tuesday.