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Now: Cascade PBS Board Then: Emmy-Winning Political Reporter for KIRO7Seattle Always: NW Emmys’ Silver Circle, SeattleNABJ, #StarTrek, #StarTrekDiscovery

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Every Big Story Has a Pacific Northwest Connection…

@repricklarsen.bsky.social:

“Our heads are exploding over the news that DoD reportedly shot down a Customs and Border Protection drone using a high risk counter-unmanned aircraft system,” Larsen and the other representatives wrote.

27.02.2026 03:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Yes!
Also, if I first reach your article via a social media site like Bluesky, please give me a button that switches to your app. The @washingtonpost.com does this, @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social does not.

24.02.2026 20:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Still, in the UK, a former Prince and a current Lord have been ARRESTED in the wake of the latest Epstein Files revelations.

23.02.2026 23:57 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

22.02.2026 21:48 👍 21143 🔁 5930 💬 594 📌 293

I have friends in Puerta Vallarta at the moment... and they are very nervous. Lots of smoke rising from the streets, visible from their apartment.

22.02.2026 20:24 👍 140 🔁 49 💬 7 📌 2
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Honored to meet Civil Rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson a few times during my reporting career.
His death was reported today, 2/17/26.
Condolences to his loved ones.

17.02.2026 10:15 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Slavery exhibits must be restored at President's House Site in Philadelphia, judge orders The National Park Service must restore the slavery exhibits to the President's House Site in Philadelphia, a judge orders.

Slavery exhibits must be restored at President's House Site in Philadelphia, judge orders.

16.02.2026 19:50 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 0

Every Big Story Has a Pacific Northwest Connection…

11.02.2026 23:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A message from the airport book section…

10.02.2026 14:24 👍 23 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0

This continues to be the most West Seattle thing imaginable.

09.02.2026 04:35 👍 166 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 1
12 flag above the Space Needle

12 flag above the Space Needle

Good night, Bluesky!

Go 'Hawks!

12th Man flag atop the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington
📸Jamie and Judy Wild
www.art.com/gallery/id--...

08.02.2026 03:10 👍 555 🔁 83 💬 13 📌 4

On May 31, 2014: “You should come see my office. and bring” her, Nathan Myhrvold appears to have written, referring to a woman or girl by name. “i am going to leave her there,” Epstein replied. Myhrvold sent back a smiling face emoticon.

07.02.2026 20:00 👍 62 🔁 22 💬 3 📌 3

Useful!

Also, most libraries offer free access to The Athletic (and New York Times)

04.02.2026 17:41 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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TikTok creator on viral Dr. Pepper jingle and helping to develop a primetime commercial Romeo Bingham became an overnight sensation for creating a catchy Dr. Pepper jingle, which they shared on TikTok in December. It ended up catching the attention of the beverage brand. Bingham speaks t...

Every Big Story Has a Pacific Northwest Connection...

Bingham: "I'm from Seattle."

TikTok creator on viral Dr. Pepper jingle www.cbsnews.com/video/tiktok... via @cbsnews.com

04.02.2026 17:09 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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As seen in Seattle.

02.02.2026 17:49 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Every Big Story Has a Pacific Northwest Connection…

30.01.2026 04:28 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Seattle CHOP verdict: City must pay $29 million to family of slain teen A King County jury found Seattle was negligent in its response to the fatal shooting of a teenager in the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone in 2020.

Seattle CHOP verdict: City must pay $29 million to family of slain teen

29.01.2026 22:19 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Tom Homan and the Case of the Missing Fifty Thousand Lawmakers and ordinary citizens have to keep asking about the bag of cash, or accept an executive branch without any accountability.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

29.01.2026 13:55 👍 9901 🔁 3904 💬 417 📌 163
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Police Told to Be ‘as Vague as Permissible’ About Why They Use Flock The documents show law enforcement sees themselves as being consistently and universally under threat from the people it is supposed to protect.

NEW: Police officers are being told to “be as vague as permissible” about why they are using the Flock surveillance system in order to not leak sensitive information via public records requests, according to records obtained using a public records request.

27.01.2026 14:46 👍 345 🔁 162 💬 6 📌 11

"The Times’ lawyer argued the city, and specifically its police department, have afforded scandal-plagued leaders the cover of time."

27.01.2026 04:13 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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I first saw the gun in this DHS post on X at 9:31a PT on Saturday.

26.01.2026 03:48 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Some headlines know who fired the shots.
Some headlines don’t.

24.01.2026 17:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I don’t appreciate threats.
But then I’m not Patricia.

22.01.2026 19:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Do I have to read this if my name’s not Patricia?

21.01.2026 22:31 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Even though PBS and NPR are still in existence, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he “heard they’re closed up.”

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20.01.2026 21:52 👍 726 🔁 239 💬 113 📌 43
A cityscape shrouded in a later of fog with mountain in the distance

A cityscape shrouded in a later of fog with mountain in the distance

Seattle this morning
📸 Jen Grand

20.01.2026 01:14 👍 2502 🔁 317 💬 70 📌 13
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Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

19.01.2026 18:00 👍 27292 🔁 9631 💬 550 📌 502
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I know it’s supposed to be raining in January. But it’s hard to complain.

18.01.2026 18:48 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Just listened. Excellent conversation.

15.01.2026 16:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal. One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.

Done.
And highly recommend her account of how the story took over her life. (It's a tale that everyone who's ever been in a romantic relationship with a reporter will also recognize).
wapo.st/49BQBrh

14.01.2026 17:08 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0