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a graph of seattle link light rail ridership, shown as a rolling 12M average

a graph of seattle link light rail ridership, shown as a rolling 12M average

US transit data is out today, and Seattle's Link remains one of the fastest-growing rail systems in the nation, with ridership up 9% in the wake of the extension to Federal Way

Ridership should increase even further at the end of this month when the 1 & 2 lines are connected๐Ÿงต

07.03.2026 02:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 89 ๐Ÿ” 21 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Bodycam video contradicts ICE claims in fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas Video of last year's fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez obtained by CBS News appears to contradict claims that Martinez was shot by an ICE agent because he "accelerated" and "intentionally ran over"...

DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."

But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."

07.03.2026 00:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 1311 ๐Ÿ” 679 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 32 ๐Ÿ“Œ 50
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Guardian points out reporter Estefany Rodriguez โ€œproduced reports that were unflattering to ICEโ€ โ€” and she and her husband were in a marked Nashville Noticias vehicle when they grabbed her๐Ÿค”

She is reportedly being held in Alabama

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

07.03.2026 01:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 319 ๐Ÿ” 176 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Iโ€™ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administrationโ€™s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.

I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

05.03.2026 13:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 9004 ๐Ÿ” 2555 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 451 ๐Ÿ“Œ 104
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I was on @donlemonofficial.bsky.social this morning to talk about the 4 Democrats who voted "NO" on the War Powers Resolution. We have a war hawk caucus in Congress much larger than the 4 members who did their bidding and we need to primary them all.

07.03.2026 01:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Per Airwars โ€” ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ & ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ hit 4000 targets in Iran in 4 days, โ€œunparalleled in modern conflictโ€

Your tax dollars at work

But we canโ€™t afford health care

airwars.org/record-pace-...

07.03.2026 01:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 411 ๐Ÿ” 138 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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06.03.2026 20:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 4997 ๐Ÿ” 1290 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 231 ๐Ÿ“Œ 90
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Oh.

โ€œWe have agreedโ€ โ€” how nice of them! Surely theyโ€™re doing this work pro bono right?

07.03.2026 01:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 1515 ๐Ÿ” 608 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 115 ๐Ÿ“Œ 64
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"The only ones who need to be worried right now is the Iranians who think they're gonna live"

-Pete Hegseth, Very Normal Guy

07.03.2026 00:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 446 ๐Ÿ” 129 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 98 ๐Ÿ“Œ 144

The fact that he's melting down this hard at Doocy of all people means they're in so far over their heads

07.03.2026 01:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 104 ๐Ÿ” 15 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Metaโ€™s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other peopleโ€™...

โ€œThe workers in Kenya say that it feels uncomfortable to go to work. They tell us about deeply private video clips, which appear to come straight out of Western homes, from people who use the glasses in their everyday lives.โ€

www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...

07.03.2026 01:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 56 ๐Ÿ” 21 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Trump will visit Dover for the return of U.S. soldiers who died during his war in Iran

07.03.2026 01:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 82 ๐Ÿ” 19 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 62 ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Itโ€™s not a regime change itโ€™s a change regime, duh ๐Ÿ™„

06.03.2026 16:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 215 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Culdesac Is the First Car-Free Neighborhood and Conspiracy Theorists Hate It | The Daily Show
Culdesac Is the First Car-Free Neighborhood and Conspiracy Theorists Hate It | The Daily Show YouTube video by The Daily Show

WATCH: Think 15-Minute City conspiracy theorists are just unhinged tin-foil hat nut jobs ranting about global overlords? Well, drop everything and watch this hard-hitting story by the @thedailyshow.com to be provenโ€ฆ umโ€ฆ #UrbanTruth

Congrats @culdesac.bsky.social

(ps, walkable cities can have cars)

06.03.2026 17:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 91 ๐Ÿ” 34 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

BREAKING: BlackRock has put limits on withdrawals from a flagship private credit fund after a surge in redemption request, per Reuters

06.03.2026 17:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 148 ๐Ÿ” 45 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20 ๐Ÿ“Œ 28
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Rep. Mark Alford on spiking gas prices: "I think we all know that when you have a kinetic conflict like this -- whether you want to call it a war or not -- it is going to take a little bit of sacrifice on the part of Americans"

06.03.2026 16:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 1036 ๐Ÿ” 244 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 775 ๐Ÿ“Œ 435

Following this story's publication, a local reporter found that Rakhi Israni only recently registered as a Democrat from โ€œNo Party Preference" in Nov. 2025 and infrequently voted.

Someone else tipped me off to the fact that she was endorsed by the 4th largest donor to MAGA Inc/

05.03.2026 16:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 399 ๐Ÿ” 160 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15 ๐Ÿ“Œ 12

lol come on this cant be real, stop it

05.03.2026 21:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 295 ๐Ÿ” 41 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Quite an opening paragraph.

06.03.2026 09:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 1056 ๐Ÿ” 424 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 42 ๐Ÿ“Œ 91
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Satellite images from NASA Worldview on March 5 reveal the extent of the blackout in Cuba. A failure at the most important power plant, combined with the US blockade on fuel shipments in the country has left nearly 70% of the island's inhabitants without power.

06.03.2026 09:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 251 ๐Ÿ” 134 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

madness

06.03.2026 06:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 226 ๐Ÿ” 24 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

kind of a sign of just how worried GOP are that they're frightened of losing a seat in MT.

06.03.2026 07:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 22 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesnโ€™t exiโ€ฆ

05.03.2026 20:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 7414 ๐Ÿ” 2148 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28 ๐Ÿ“Œ 65

correct

there is no reason for a single one of them to vote for Mullin (yes, Mr. Fetterman, that means you) and they should make this as embarrassing as possible - which, given Mullinโ€™s extensive track record of putting his foot in his mouth, shouldnโ€™t even be that hard

05.03.2026 20:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 2572 ๐Ÿ” 507 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25 ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal โ€ข 6h
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The Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk part in our Milan exercise.
We were the hosts.
I am told that as per protocol for this exercise ships cannot carry any ammunition. It was defenceless.
The Iranian naval personnel had paraded before our president.
The attack by the US submarine was
premeditated as the US was aware of the Iranian ship's presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute, presumably with this operation in mind.
The US has ignored India's sensitivities as the ship was in these waters because of India's invitation.
We are far from politically or militarily responsible for the US attack.
Our"responsibility" is at a moral and human plane.
A word of condolence by the Indian Navy ( after political clearance) at the loss of lives of those who were our invitees and saluted our president would be in order.

Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal โ€ข 6h X The Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk part in our Milan exercise. We were the hosts. I am told that as per protocol for this exercise ships cannot carry any ammunition. It was defenceless. The Iranian naval personnel had paraded before our president. The attack by the US submarine was premeditated as the US was aware of the Iranian ship's presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute, presumably with this operation in mind. The US has ignored India's sensitivities as the ship was in these waters because of India's invitation. We are far from politically or militarily responsible for the US attack. Our"responsibility" is at a moral and human plane. A word of condolence by the Indian Navy ( after political clearance) at the loss of lives of those who were our invitees and saluted our president would be in order.

Some context to the Iranian boat that was targeted by US off Sri Lanka coast

Former Indian FM: โ€œUS was aware of the Iranian ship's presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minuteโ€

05.03.2026 13:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 782 ๐Ÿ” 453 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 68 ๐Ÿ“Œ 104

You can use this tool to contact your lawmakers: badinternetbills.com

05.03.2026 22:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 827 ๐Ÿ” 898 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Her resume is gonna be padded with so many fake jobs.

06.03.2026 06:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The list of ICE and Customs and Border Protection sex offenders and sex pests is now up to 62.

06.03.2026 04:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 480 ๐Ÿ” 202 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13 ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
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๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ

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