A trove of nearly 3,200 disclosure records, which ProPublica made public this week, reveals a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they help regulate.
it's preemptively giving
Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.
She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
(Published June 2025)
A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
NEW: Clemency for Tina Peters would be unprecedented, based on my analysis of Gov Polis' 25 commutations. Peters hasn't shown remorse, taken accountability, or sought to restore harm. No Polis commutation was for a harsh sentence alone and Peters' would be the shortest by 30+ yrs
I love the obvious behind-the-scenes discourse of PR folks for fast food chains telling their CEOs “Okay, all you have to do is take a bite out of our burgers and not visibly grimace”
Spoiler alert: They're winning too.
Just to be clear, companies like Microsoft and Amazon are actively fighting regulations meant to do precisely this.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.
Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.
A quick thread:
starting to think this guy might now be a very reliable source for snowpack insight
Get your umbrella handy, find those wool mittens, and look for your skis.....an extended period of cool, wet weather is ahead. Let's start with the predicted precipitation (below). The western U.S. is going to be very wet. The predicted totals through next Tuesday afternoon are impressive, particularly over California. But Washington and Oregon get their share.
Expect several feet of fresh snow in the Cascades and a radical improvement in the snowpack, with the reservoirs remaining in excellent shape. What will the media, such as the Seattle Times Climate Lab, have to say about this reversal of the meteorological situation?
a map of Washington's current snowpack levels and conditions are dire across much of the state
Cliff Mass shot(s) and chaser
Really important context re: Jared Polis hinting at clemency for Tina Peters.
If Polis is interested in people who were over-sentenced and/or are unjustly incarcerated, well, he’s had eight years to act on that. And he has lots of prime, non-Peters opportunities waiting now right in front of him:
For context, a series of atmospheric rivers hammered Washington in December, the devastating floods that followed caused an estimated $180m in damage to public infrastructure alone, prompting state and federally declared emergencies.
Zuck’s new home is worth approximately one (1) natural disaster
Dude
a man, clearly annoyed because someone wants to monkey with the copy in his story, places his hands on his hips and somewhat scowls
hey good story just need to rework your lede a bit
A story in three words: Big Tech won.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Everything I know about MrBeast I know against my will. And now he's so big that I can't ignore this monstrosity.
What hath we wrought
Too big to fail, too big to be regulated, too big to be asked to pay for their own electricity to spare the public from higher costs. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/03/02/i...
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.
From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
Publicly, big tech companies like Microsoft and Amazon aggressively cultivate images as good neighbors and environmental stewards. Privately they fight — hard — against any new regulations on their booming data center industry
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
“I mean, billions of dollars of capital, right?” one tech lobbyist said, referencing all the money tech companies are pouring into the data centers. “You’re going to be protective of it.” www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
If not war, why war shaped?
Very little snow across the West during a winter that has brought record warmth
Sierra Nevada: 66% of avg
Upper Colorado River region: 66%
Oregon: 34%
"Projections show that our winters are going to look a lot more like this in the future."
www.latimes.com/environment/... @coveringclimatenow.org
So ready for the next Gout Epidemic
and i’m right every time
We’re at our first @pwhltorrent.bsky.social game tonight and every man they show on the Jumbotron @kayah.bsky.social turns to me and says “that’s Macklemore”
@ DEA
They spelled my name as Congraf in a text message. That is not my name.
that’s a first for me, please wish me congrafulations
A federal judge said the IRS broke the law by disclosing confidential taxpayer information ''approximately 42,695 times" to ICE.
i think we can just say it's a lie! that he's told literally dozens of times for the last several months!
