Lisa Edge
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she/her 😷 Forever storyteller | ⏪ Seattle arts reporter; TV news lady | PNW via MYR
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The photographs that defined 2025 – and the stories behind them
The photographs that defined 2025 – and the stories behind them
The wars in Ukraine and Gaza and the migrant crisis continued, and demonstrations became ever more violent. But there were also incredible moments of sporting glory and light relief. Photographers recall the moments when they took these era-defining photos
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:19 AM
The photographs that defined 2025 – and the stories behind them
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CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.
“An American Nightmare”: Three Men Deported to CECOT and Their Families Reflect on Their Monthslong Ordeal
For months, Carmen, Lina and Doris awaited news about their loved ones, who were sent to a maximum-security Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration. Now that the families have been reunited, the...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.
Best news I've heard all week. | The Lynnwood Hygiene Center is the only hygiene center in south Snohomish Co. It provides free showers, restrooms, clothes and food to people experiencing homelessness. Since it opened in 2020, the center has provided 53,000 showers.
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South SnoCo’s only hygiene center secures support to stay open | HeraldNet.com
Travel writer Rick Steves announced Wednesday he is buying the Lynnwood property and allowing the Jean Kim Foundation to continue using it rent-free.
www.heraldnet.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Best news I've heard all week. | The Lynnwood Hygiene Center is the only hygiene center in south Snohomish Co. It provides free showers, restrooms, clothes and food to people experiencing homelessness. Since it opened in 2020, the center has provided 53,000 showers.
www.heraldnet.com/news/south-s...
www.heraldnet.com/news/south-s...
Winds from the Pacific accelerated Saturday evening, knocking out electricity for tens of thousands and whipping towns on the Washington coastline
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Gusts up to 77 mph knock out power for 134K around Western WA
Well over 100,000 customers had lost electricity by Saturday night in the Puget Sound area. In Grays Harbor County, gusts topped 70 mph.
www.seattletimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Winds from the Pacific accelerated Saturday evening, knocking out electricity for tens of thousands and whipping towns on the Washington coastline
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Looking at the calendar like
October 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Looking at the calendar like
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i'm actually a big believer in drafting by hand. i think it helps you think in a different way then typing on a screen
So far, the main businesses that have been financially benefited from AI have been the producers of blue books
www.wsj.com/business/cha...
www.wsj.com/business/cha...
They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.
Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.
www.wsj.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
i'm actually a big believer in drafting by hand. i think it helps you think in a different way then typing on a screen
😆 SAME
Hiring somebody to kill me is insane… just take my glasses
Just as effective
Just as effective
June 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
😆 SAME
Since 2018, 38% of Washington’s adult day health centers have closed. Without Full Life’s Everett location, only 12 centers will remain for the entire state.
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‘I’ll lose everything’: Snohomish County’s only adult day health center to close | HeraldNet.com
Full Life Care in Everett, which supports adults with disabilities, will shut its doors July 19 due to state funding challenges.
www.heraldnet.com
May 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Since 2018, 38% of Washington’s adult day health centers have closed. Without Full Life’s Everett location, only 12 centers will remain for the entire state.
www.heraldnet.com/news/ill-los...
www.heraldnet.com/news/ill-los...
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Ok.
Then let it die.
Because theft is theft.
And even worse if you’re profiting from the crime.
Then let it die.
Because theft is theft.
And even worse if you’re profiting from the crime.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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May 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Ok.
Then let it die.
Because theft is theft.
And even worse if you’re profiting from the crime.
Then let it die.
Because theft is theft.
And even worse if you’re profiting from the crime.
“It’s class-neutral ground to meet up with somebody you’re connected with through work or some other setting,” Mr. Wilmers said. “If there’s only really fancy restaurants or fast food, you don’t have the social infrastructure for having comfortable meet-ups.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/d...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/d...
Where Will We Eat When the Middle-Class Restaurant Is Gone?
www.nytimes.com
May 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
“It’s class-neutral ground to meet up with somebody you’re connected with through work or some other setting,” Mr. Wilmers said. “If there’s only really fancy restaurants or fast food, you don’t have the social infrastructure for having comfortable meet-ups.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/d...
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“We hear from people who skip meals. We know people who dilute their medication or cut their pills in half. People take drastic measures like pulling all their savings out or dissolving their 401ks,” he says. “We know folks that have been driven into homelessness.”
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apnews.com/article/stud...
Older people in crosshairs as government restarts Social Security garnishment on student loans
As the Trump administration resumes collections on defaulted student loans, hundreds of thousands of older Americans with decades-old debts are now at risk of having their Social Security checks garni...
apnews.com
May 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
“We hear from people who skip meals. We know people who dilute their medication or cut their pills in half. People take drastic measures like pulling all their savings out or dissolving their 401ks,” he says. “We know folks that have been driven into homelessness.”
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apnews.com/article/stud...
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
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New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
www.nbcnews.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Sometimes when we borrow words from other languages, English can become delightfully redundant.
April 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Sometimes when we borrow words from other languages, English can become delightfully redundant.
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If Dems were unwilling to fight over cabinet nominees and unwilling to fight over the budget/shutdown, it’s safe to assume they’re not going to fight over anything.
March 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
If Dems were unwilling to fight over cabinet nominees and unwilling to fight over the budget/shutdown, it’s safe to assume they’re not going to fight over anything.
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The media can (and should) reject the Right's deceptive frame. This is not about "references to diversity, equity, and inclusion."
It is a neosegregationist attempt to erase everyone but white males from the nation's history.
It is a neosegregationist attempt to erase everyone but white males from the nation's history.
Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website, part of an effort across the Defense Department to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.
Arlington Cemetery website scrubs links about Black and female veterans
Pentagon leaders have ordered that their websites and social media pages remove articles and images that “promote” DEI.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The media can (and should) reject the Right's deceptive frame. This is not about "references to diversity, equity, and inclusion."
It is a neosegregationist attempt to erase everyone but white males from the nation's history.
It is a neosegregationist attempt to erase everyone but white males from the nation's history.
Several advocates said the move does not make sense if cost-cutting is the goal.
"We help people avoid homelessness," said Maureen St. Cyr, the head of the Massachusetts Fair Housing Center, which is a plaintiff in the lawsuit. "This work saves taxpayers money."
www.npr.org/2025/03/15/n...
"We help people avoid homelessness," said Maureen St. Cyr, the head of the Massachusetts Fair Housing Center, which is a plaintiff in the lawsuit. "This work saves taxpayers money."
www.npr.org/2025/03/15/n...
HUD choked funding to enforce fair-housing laws. Legal aid groups may not survive
Most housing discrimination claims are handled by local nonprofits around the country. They say the Trump administration has hobbled them, and are challenging the cuts as unlawful.
www.npr.org
March 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Several advocates said the move does not make sense if cost-cutting is the goal.
"We help people avoid homelessness," said Maureen St. Cyr, the head of the Massachusetts Fair Housing Center, which is a plaintiff in the lawsuit. "This work saves taxpayers money."
www.npr.org/2025/03/15/n...
"We help people avoid homelessness," said Maureen St. Cyr, the head of the Massachusetts Fair Housing Center, which is a plaintiff in the lawsuit. "This work saves taxpayers money."
www.npr.org/2025/03/15/n...
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"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...
$75 million was awarded to plant trees in places that badly need them. In anti-DEI push, that's over
The U.S. Forest Service has terminated $75 million awarded to the Arbor Day Foundation to help disadvantaged communities plant trees.
apnews.com
March 2, 2025 at 1:24 AM
"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...
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By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine
February 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine
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The media is still calling it “cost-cutting” and “finding waste” when Musk’s crusade is obviously ideologically-driven
February 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The media is still calling it “cost-cutting” and “finding waste” when Musk’s crusade is obviously ideologically-driven
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Today marks our final sunset in the 4 pm hour until November.
5 pm sunsets start tomorrow!
5 pm sunsets start tomorrow!
January 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Today marks our final sunset in the 4 pm hour until November.
5 pm sunsets start tomorrow!
5 pm sunsets start tomorrow!
❤️💚❤️💚 Nadine McKinnor began writing holiday jingles in her head — she called them “homemade poetry turned into songs,” — as she delivered the mail.
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A Chicago mail carrier wrote ‘This Christmas,’ delivering an enduring holiday anthem
The simple origins of the song date back to the 1950s, and a young Nadine McKinnor’s trip from the South Side to State Street, where the elaborate window displays at Marshall Fields sent her imagin…
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December 26, 2024 at 2:37 AM
❤️💚❤️💚 Nadine McKinnor began writing holiday jingles in her head — she called them “homemade poetry turned into songs,” — as she delivered the mail.
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