Seattle will loosen restrictions on spending its big-business tax The Jumpstart tax was originally intended to raise funds for housing and climate projects. Now the door is open for the city to spend it freely.

The Jumpstart tax was originally intended to raise funds for housing and climate projects. Now the door is open for the city to spend it freely.

Amazon offers $334M for nuclear reactors to be built at Hanford The small modular reactor could reestablish nuclear power as an alternative energy source, with the Washington-based company as its biggest investor.

Tri-Cities is now the site is targeted to house four small modular reactors — the newest hot ticket in the nuclear industry for carbon-free energy. The money behind the energy development project is coming from an unusual source: Amazon, which already has a pretty big footprint in the Tri-Cities.

Oh nothing, just a person deeply integrated into the incoming administration’s center of power calling for the execution of one of his critics.

Who woulda thought Kristen, Jax, Brittany would be the last ones standing on bravo 😭 #pumprules #thevalley

Anyone, any entity, anywhere in the world can just pay him any amount (for anything he promises in return), and there's no disclosure of the payments, no oversight of any of it by anyone, and of course no potential bribery prosecution (of him) because... immune.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/u...

Black Mead football players were sexually assaulted in 'hazing' – RANGE Media Black football players held down and sexually assaulted by white teammates. Mead school dismissed it as ‘Horseplay,’ lawsuit claims. Black football players held down and sexually assaulted by white te...

A new lawsuit contends that white football players at Mead High School targeted their Black teammates for racial harassment and sexual assaults, while school officials who knew about it did nothing to rein in their behavior for months. Read the full story: rangemedia.co/black-mead-f...

This thread is a Sunday sermon.

Project 2025 is trumps agenda and the fact that anyone thought otherwise is insane

Those are excellent skills. Drugs and beanies will be important. You are in.

Them: My man won't let me….
The face I make:

Also: If you don't have money to buy my (or anyone's) books, and you live in the anglosphere, before you pirate them, try to get them from your local library instead. They have it or can get it, they pay for the books, and in many places writers get paid for their books being lent. Everyone wins!

Well, now I know we made the right decisions

Mine might be this piece I wrote for the LA Times about how the awards apparatus has failed Black women (it continues to fail them).

Thank you! This looks amazing. Can’t wait to start listening.

Brendan Carr is the guy that wrote the FCC Chapter in Project 2025 so of course Trump picks him to be Chairman of the FCC

between anti-abortion extremists and rfk the trump administration seems to be a targeted effort to increase maternal and early childhood mortality

No matter how terrible Mike is or was I would still choose him over Jake Paul any day of the week. That guy is an asshole.

Sorry, it was a farce. But they both got PAID. What a joke. On us.

The Shade Room and DJ Vlad seem to be on this app. I started this list because I do not want their foolishness on my feed. I felt like sharing.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

#blacksky

I hope it lasts 🤞🏼🤞🏼

Not an “original” myself, but it has been nice hasn’t it?