Distant World's coffee (formerly Wayward Coffeehouse) also shut down in 2025 ( www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/co... ).

RIP pre-covid Seattle? What's left?

Ashlee Vance was also supposedly a cohost on this livestream a few months ago: bsky.app/profile/ster... (see full image within article)

Im not trying to single out one company, but thinking of the broader challenge around what extraction & labor issues are happening for these energy transitions. bsky.app/profile/capi...

Have you written about slave labor conditions in other countries by the same automaker?

bsky.app/profile/sara...

Not sure where I stand on it, but felt like noting @miniver.bsky.social 's been talking about this for years: bsky.app/profile/mini...

🎵 'Cause the boysenberries in the hood are always hard
You come talkin' the Surge, we'll pull yellow 5 card

Related in dallas: bsky.app/profile/txne...

Takeaways From the Supreme Court’s Shadow Papers

So the Supreme Court limits Presidential power when Obama tries to regulate the Fossil Fuel industry.

BUT they expand Presidential power when Trump consolidates FF industry power and profits.

Too bad for all of us that the FF industry is essentially the 4th branch of the U.S. government. 2/3 🎁🔗

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

Can we retire the “Roberts is an institutionalist” line now?

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Happening now! I'm talking about Silicon Valley's long history of militarism on the @notechforapartheid.bsky.social "techlash" stream.

fired50.org/techlash/

Same, image isnt loading after trying multiple times, may want try reposting @austinkocher.com

The Undeadliest Protest In 1970, the legal heroism of a group of law students kept the peace and saved lives.

I wrote a thing dept: A 1970 antiwar protest in Austin right after Kent State could have turned out bloody. It didn't, thanks to a group of unsung UT law students.
law.utexas.edu/magazine/202...

Something notable here is this terrible comment by RFK Jr. was from July 2024, when he was still running as a presidential candidate.

Related on Bert the Turtle plushie: bsky.app/profile/nucl...

I had to do a double take when reading that, they corrected the title to 'reshuffled' rather than 'dissolved' and the universal EV platform is still happening.

Worth noting this thread on the load increases in far west texas that have already happened over the past several years along with the newly built infrastructure out there: bsky.app/profile/wald... (scroll up for Justin's photos)

The feds are moving forward with plans to wall off the Big Bend region. Some reports say walls are "off the table" in the state park, but DHS hasn't canceled construction contracts or restored the legal protections they stripped.

Nobody is crossing here. Look at those cliffs.

#3 goes in hand with increasing 'farmer bridge assistance' and insurance subsidies (that supposedly benefit large farms): bsky.app/profile/anne...

Doubled down on controversial herbicides (glyphosate)?

Tax Day 2026: The Average Taxpayer Paid $4,049 for War and Weapons - Institute for Policy Studies Tax Day 2026: The Average Taxpayer Paid $4,049 for War and Weapons

Report below estimates that the average household is spending $8.41 of their tax bill on the 2025 Iran bombing (with 2026 campaign yet to be tallied), $57.86 on aid to foreign militaries (genocide in Gaza), $79.19 on CBP and $39.91 on ICE.

www.ips-dc.org/2026-tax-day...

Somewhat related estimate on light pollution from the possible idea of SpaceX orbital data centers: bsky.app/profile/sund...

Regarding "liberal" and "far left" globbed together see:

- bsky.app/profile/vive...

- bsky.app/profile/jwbe... on FIRE (who the chartmaker is associated with)

- bsky.app/profile/lizt... (more on FIRE)

Excerpt from https://heri.ucla.edu/monographs/HERI-FAC2017-monograph.pdf "Overall in 2016–2017, 0.4% of faculty identify as far right, 11.7% as conservative, 28.1% as middle-of-the-road, 48.3% as liberal, and 11.6% as far left"

From looking at the actual HERI report from 2016-17, the chart maker decided to combine the 'liberal' & 'far-left' categories which were separate responses. Feels like a chart crime to frame a narrative.

Worth noting this response about the survey data after 2017: bsky.app/profile/jwbe...

"Outdoor recreation often slips into what I call an achievement-based relationship with nature. I’ve been guilty of it myself. Whether it’s “bagging peaks”, racing to finish the AT, or stamping the land with machines and monuments, the focus shifts from ecology to ego."

Tesla won't really build its own chip fab — Intel is going to do it Intel has joined Tesla, SpaceX and xAI's $25B 'Terafab' project, confirming what was already obvious: Tesla isn't actually going to build its own chip fab.

The other relations to hold in the Austin Terafab stuff missing in recent articles is:

- Intel's partnership in actually building it (see electrek.co/2026/04/07/t... )

- The fact that the US govt under Trump bought a 10% stake in Intel in August 2025: www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

🧵. Not sure what to make of Austin Council Member Ryan Alter's quote in the first article:

Some of my friends and community members at UT speak on their experiences here.

Interesting model outside of the realm/limitations of non-profit orgs. Wonder if such a thing could work in more politically mixed suburban areas.

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

Workers at an Amazon fulfillment center in Troutdale, Oregon, said they were told to keep working as a colleague lay dying on the floor.

“Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work,” Sam recalled the manager saying.