I bought a ferry and I didn’t even have to go to Florida to get it (that one is for the transit nerds) ⚓️⚓️⚓️

Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology

JD. You've been Catholic for like 10 seconds. So maybe don't tell the *Bishop of Rome and the successor to Saint Peter* how to do theology, ok bro?

Pope Leo to Trump: "Thank you, next."

Besides just colossal hubris, I can’t help but feel he stuck himself front and center because he can’t go on tour promoting his Catholicism book/soft launching his presidential until the war ends cause the POPE has essentially excommunicated him. And he definitely thought he could solve that.

i think people have forgotten that vance is quite possibly the least experienced person to *ever* serve as vice president of the united states

the funny thing about sending jd vance out to do sensitive diplomatic negotiations is he has literally no experience. like, none whatsoever. he doesn't even have related experience in lawmaking or some executive role.

I’m old enough to remember when even State Department gruntlings (ie me) knew you don’t send the VICE PRESIDENT to the negotiating table until the deal is basically finalized because negotiations are complex and hard and you want to avoid looking incredibly incompetent in public if possible.

Watch out, Seattle. I'm hearing reports that Conan O'Brien is walking amongst us today. Keep an eye out for red hair and big Irish heads. #Seattle

“We are an Easter People and Alleluia is our song!”. We are not looking for a shallow joy but rather a joy that comes from faith, that grows through unselfish love, that respects the “fundamental duty of love of neighbour, without which it would be unbecoming to speak of Joy” Happy Easter!

Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.

I said, “I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW HE WAS DEAD”

Sometimes readers are skeptical when I tell them that retailers would rather pay for self-checkout kiosks and product lockup systems and all manner of other questionable in-store tech rather than staffing because of an ideological preference for capital spending over labor spending and, well,,,

Yeah what…. The hell… is this?

lol. May the Rizzo Lord be with us all today 😂

Trump insane Easter post

Mamdani warm and gracious easter greetings

One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’’ll never guess which one!

What do the birds know….

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” --Anne Lamott

“Better to die in Iran for your country and your pride,
Then to live in a nation that would ask you to be kind.”

Thank You Jesse Welles!

Mmm nah, probably just matryoshka dolls (but inside the tiniest final one is a little anti-aircraft missile)

That’s too many nickels! Yikes, I’m glad she’s ok

Two Bluesky posts in a row: Capital Weather Gang said: While you slept last night: ~100 million birds took to the skies The Mid-Atlantic saw heavy traffic moving north/northeast, with migration hotspots from the Southeast to Ohio Valley and Southern Plains. The overnight rush continues this weekend. Details at cwg.live [USA map image with a whole lot highlighted for bird location] Walter Hickey said: i'm in a bar with television sound off and they're playing mets-giants and every four minutes the cameras cut to a massive swarming flock of birds right field and can someone plea me what the hell is happening

Thanks, Bluesky, for telling me about the Birds in Jeopardy order

I’ve also seen people suggest validated parking if you buy something from a. Vendor at the garage that is attached and the market owns

Calhoun’s theories have made a dramatic comeback with Trump, whose policies are guided by an unmistakable racial determinism. Trump warns that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” and that many immigrants have “bad genes,” telling a white Fox News host that “they are not exactly your genetic.” Trump has focused his ire on immigrants from “third world” countries. He has virtually reimposed the eugenics-inspired immigration restrictions of the early 20th century, while instituting a Jim Crow–style system for refugees that prioritizes white South Africans. Trump’s reasoning for what he called a “permanent pause” in “third-world migration” was that instead of people from countries such as Norway or Sweden, we “always take people from Somalia,” which he called “disgusting.” The Democrats of Calhoun’s day, similarly, were not anti-immigrant, so long as only white people could naturalize. After all, the protection of slavery required white men, even those born in Dublin or Berlin. In January, the Trump adviser Stephen Miller posted something even more revealing on X: “Plenty of countries in history have experimented with importing a foreign labor class. The West is the first and only civilization to import a foreign labor class that is granted full political rights.” Miller’s disgust here is not with the “importing” of a “foreign labor class.” It is with such a class having the same rights as he does.

The birthright citizenship case shows how Trump-era Republicans have embraced the convictions of the proslavery Senator John C Calhoun, who believed America was a “white man’s government” and the integration of nonwhites onto the polity would destroy the country www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

But they, the friends of the market, absolutely not a special interest group.

In theory, sure, but practically something that narrow would be tough to pass because the majority of legislators just… wouldn’t care. Now a county law on the other hand….

I desperately want to meet these local grocery shoppers who drive their cars to Pike Place to buy meat. Bring them to me.

“While foot traffic and revenue are up” because of pedestrianization, Friends of the Market still wants cars to be able to run you over when you’re taking your grandma to Pike Place.

I’m going to guess this was written with the help of an LLM that made a number up…

More trains!

Simply delighted to announce my first endorsement of the 2026 election cycle -- the Washington State Nurses Association PAC! Nurses are the very backbone of our healthcare system and it's my honor to serve them in the legislature.

Agree! A must do!