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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 1h

"antifa frog milkshake ducked" is a string I'm guessing hasn't been seen in the wild before.

Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 3h

I myself didn't get that framing, but clearly a lot of people did! I expect he regrets this framing (or, maybe he's enjoying the pushback, dunno).

We do in fact tax people w/o children at a higher rate, and IMO this is the right thing to do. But definitely not the right way to talk about it.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 4h

Didn't we all get pretty upset when the expanded child tax credit was allowed to expire? That was a tax benefit that people without kids did not get.

He is using different words to describe what we've said we wanted.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 7h

My most controversial take on this is probably that while I think reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct, I don’t really have any problem with additional taxes on (high income) childless people. Someone gotta pay into the pensions!

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Josh Linden @joshlinden.bsky.social · 1d

Every time this happens, I brace for a story like this. Just devastating, heartbreaking, beyond infuriating

The Banner Montgomery @bannermoco.bsky.social · 2d

5 years before her son died there, a mother tried to make an intersection safer

5 years before teen was killed crossing the street, his mom asked for safer roads

In September 2020, Caty Anderson typed out a short email to her state representative, lamenting that a woman was hit by a car near her family’s Kensington home.

buff.ly

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 6h

These things are so cool.

Todd Woody @toddwoody.bsky.social · 6h

New: A heat pump that can be installed in minutes is allowing Boston to quickly decarbonize a public housing complex for the elderly and provide air conditioning as climate change-driven heat waves intensify. The window heat pump is made by SF startup Gradient.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Boston Public Housing Upgrades Units With Window Heat Pumps

A pilot project aims to cut heating costs and provide air conditioning while reducing emissions.

www.bloomberg.com

Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 6h

I think letting the owner of this car know very clearly that if they violate the social contract with us, we are in no way bound by it either.

Start small, with some keying. See if they get the point.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 17h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 18h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 16h

i love this fucking city, i have been here ten years and if i am lucky, i will get at least another ten or twenty, but, today, this city made a fucking fool of the entire department of homeland security.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 17h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 18h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 16h

Drove past on the hightway on my way to yakima fresh hop fest last weekend, then had a good chat with the owner at the fest. :)

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 17h

They got the excellent Formula Brewing!

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 17h

That's the summary I was looking for and could not find!

I don't get why someone would make a claim like this. Seems like easy ammunition to hand to someone on the other side.

Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 17h

Juxtaposition. Two different priests being assaulted by ICE in two different incidents.

Two skeets in a row. The first has a pic of a priest at a protest being sprayed with pepper spray in Chicago. He is turning his face away, three ICE thugs are approaching him, one is holding out what I assume is a pepper spray device.

The lower pic is an ICE thug shooting a priest at a different protest in the head with a pepper ball, from a rooftop.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 18h

If you look closely at the car that the Fremont Troll has grabbed, it has california plates. :)

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 18h

Seattle used to love to say that it didn't want to become California (as it forced more and more traffic onto highways to commute to ever more distant suburbs, instead of just building housing close in).

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 18h

This is not even close to being true, as far as I can tell.

Is there some context I'm missing?

A quick search, which might be AI polluted, I don't know:

Chicago: ~17 per 100k
Dallas: ~12.5 per 100k
Houston: ~13 per 100k
Ft. Worth: ~12.4 per 100k
San Antonio: ~11.6 per 100k
Austin: ~6.8 per 100k

Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1d

Every major city in Texas has a higher murder rate than Chicago

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 1d

Incredibly slimy and dishonest, but also... yes?

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Shaun Barnes @scbesque.bsky.social · 1d

Important piece from @brianbeutler.bsky.social One feature of conservatives’ refusal to provide any reasoning in emergency docket orders is it allows to see which way the political winds are blowing when they finally rule on the merits & adjust outcomes as needed

open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 1d

Obvs it's not *for* me, I'm not the target audience, she's *wildly* successful at what she does, a cultural force the likes of which we rarely see, etc etc.

But I wonder if she might consider taking a year off to enjoy her success and give the creative juices some time to settle.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot believe these lyrics from the new Taylor Swift album are real

Pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes"

"You made a deal with this devil, turns out my dick's bigger"

"Everybody's so punk on the internet"

"So we all dressed up as wolves and we looked fire"

"Got me drеaming about a driveway with a basketball hoop - Boss up, settle down, got a wish list"

"Please, God, bring me a best friend who I think is hot"

"He dick-matized me and opened my еyes - Redwood tree, it ain't hard to see - His love was thе key that opened my thighs"

"Good thing I like my friends cancelled - I like 'em cloaked in Gucci and in scandal"

"Did you girl-boss too close to the sun?"

"Who's the baddest in the land? What's the plan? - You could be my forever night stand"

"They ripped me off like false lashes - And then threw me away"

"Her name was Kitty - Made her money being pretty and witty - They gave her the keys to this city - Then they said she didn't do it legitly"

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 1d

Listen: it's really important that all of our transit tax money gets spent on high capacity rail to Paine Field and Issaquah and is *not* spent on frivolous nonsense like getting people around the city.

The Needling @theneedling.com · 1d

Capitol Hill Commuters Hold Séance to Summon Next Bus: tinyurl.com/2s39kexw

Three people holding hands over table with candles and orca cards next to pentagram on ground beneath bus stop sign

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine punching down on smol bean Taylor Swift.

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 2d

It's easy to love fresh hop beer season in the Pacific Northwest, but a bit harder to see the labor and communities that make it happen.

For @vinepair.com, I offer a taste of the multicultural history that roots PNW hops, and the mistakes we can't seem to learn from.

vinepair.com/articles/wor...

Beneath the Bines: The Multicultural Roots of the Pacific Northwest Hop Harvest

”My dad gave me advice 60 years ago: The day that you think you’re any better than the lowest man on the job is the day you start going backwards.” Bill Coleman represents the fifth of seven generatio...

vinepair.com

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, I never looked into it that closely, but yeah, I kinda thought it didn't matter.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 1d

Well, in my case, my employer was paying for the pass, and I was happy to have more money flowing to ST, to pay for stuff. :)

Gets us 0.000001% closer to working escalators and train arrival signs, I hope.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno, lately I've had a monthly pass so it hasn't mattered.

But is there really that much savings when you ride from, say, Roosevelt to downtown, and you tap off?

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 1d

I think that might have been the thread that convinced me to unsubscribe. I was never a paying customer, but I got their free above the fold email regularly and I thought, wow she's *this* wrong, and is soaking up a lot of my gmail quota...

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 2d

Frog put the cookies in a box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.”

“But we can open the box,” said Toad.

“That is true,” said Frog.

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