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Tim Gruver

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Reporter @washingtonobserver.bsky.social Sec. @spjwash.bsky.social. Words @Politico.com, @Pluribusnews.bsky.social, The Center Square, @Oregonian.com, @Metacritic.com

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Tim Gruver @timgruver.bsky.social · 1d

Katie Wilson’s running for Seattle mayor as a rebel with a short resume; someone the super-rich are blasting as a novice without a plan on the airwaves.📺💸

What can a six-figure ad blitz buy in '25? Mayor Bruce Harrell's allies hope it's an election.🗳️

washingtonobserver.substack.com/p/pro-harrel...

Pro-Harrell PAC comes after Wilson for inexperience

Plus Ferguson courts labor and some campaign cash tidbits

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Tim Gruver @timgruver.bsky.social · 5h

Mark Twain catching some vitamin D as he catches up on the adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Tumwater. He’s delighted how far baseball’s come this century.

No comment from Mr. Twain on how he’s liking the book so far.

An image of a life sized statue of American author Mark Twain sitting on a park bench in Tumwater, WA, dressed in a Seattle Mariners T-shirt and hat.

Tim Gruver @timgruver.bsky.social · 5h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

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Tim Gruver @timgruver.bsky.social · 7h

Can we stop equating an Islamic holy site with Western hangouts?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7h

The Japanese parent company of 7-Eleven is betting billions of dollars that it can expand its business in the U.S. by making its convenience stores more like the food meccas they are in Japan. nyti.ms/3KTwGve

A photo shows a 7-Eleven store with the headline: Is America Ready for Japanese-Style 7-Elevens?

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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 8h

Federal officials claim Portland's ICE facility closed down due to protests. Even federal judges acknowledged this as true.

So OPB decided to fact check it. Data show bookings at the building never stopped.

Portland’s ICE building closed for 22 days this summer, but immigration arrests and detentions hardly slowed

Justice Department attorneys argue the facility was “inoperable.” Some public functions were halted. Bookings were not.

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Tim Gruver @timgruver.bsky.social · 23h

Lovely mural in Third Place Commons honoring Octavia Butler, Lake Forest Park’s most famous resident, probably.

Designed by Stephen Crowe and painted by Katie Todaro, 2025. Butler was a frequent customer here, I hear.

A mural of sci-fi author Octavia Butler in Third Place Commons shopping mall in Lake Forest Park, Wa near Third Place Books where Butler was purportedly a frequent customer.

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 1d

"When we were at war with fascists in Europe, everyday people, everyone would have been an anti-fascist. Being an anti-fascist should not be a controversial thing. It should be controversial to be a fascist."

Wrote this five years ago. It shouldn't hold up this well.

www.hcn.org/articles/nor...

What really is antifa? - High Country News

Effie Baum, an ‘everyday anti-fascist,’ talks about President Trump’s threat to designate the movement as a terrorist organization, and corrects the record.

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Tim Gruver @timgruver.bsky.social · 1d

This decade taught us there’s a huge difference between a protest and a shindig with signage.

Tim Gruver @timgruver.bsky.social · 1d

Pro-Harrell PAC comes after Wilson for inexperience

Plus Ferguson courts labor and some campaign cash tidbits

washingtonobserver.substack.com

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Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Tim Gruver @timgruver.bsky.social · 1d

2025 energy is someone on a bus muttering “terrible, terrible, terrible,” doomscrolling on their phone.

Tim Gruver @timgruver.bsky.social · 1d

You could say alligators and fucks are Perfect Strangers.

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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 3d

#SundaySentence

"This is no new thing: Americans learn only from catastrophes and not from experience."

- Theodore Roosevelt, 1913

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Tim Gruver @timgruver.bsky.social · 3d

William Gibson’s description of the internet as a “consensual hallucination” in Neuromancer circa 1984 was a pretty bold prediction.

Tim Gruver @timgruver.bsky.social · 3d

We’re at a point when liberal and conservative don’t describe the Democratic and Republican parties anymore, aren’t we?

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Tim Gruver @timgruver.bsky.social · 4d

When they want something done, they hop to it.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5d

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who has become a symbol of democratic resistance against an increasingly authoritarian regime, even as she has been forced into hiding and barred from holding public office.

María Corina Machado, Venezuelan opposition leader, wins Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Prize committee recognized María Corina Machado, Venezuelan opposition leader in hiding, for keeping “the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.”

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Tim Gruver @timgruver.bsky.social · 5d

The progressive PAC money in the battle for Seattle this fall paints the race as Mayor Bruce Harrell's to lose. 🗳️

Friends of his opponent claim his first term's cost voters housing, cops, and more. Seattle, they say, is starving to eat the rich. 🎩 🍽️

washingtonobserver.substack.com/p/pro-wilson...

Pro-Wilson PAC comes out swinging for Harrell

Plus the mayor's race in Tacoma and other campaign news

washingtonobserver.substack.com

Tim Gruver @timgruver.bsky.social · 6d

Peoples give up their power first by believing they don’t have any.

Tim Gruver @timgruver.bsky.social · 6d

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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 6d

At a meeting of the Cabinet at the White House on Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she is “looking at new facilities to purchase” in Portland. She didn’t specify what kind of buildings, or for what use.

US Department of Homeland Security looking to purchase new facilities in Portland

At a meeting of the Cabinet at the White House on Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem didn’t specify what kind of buildings she wanted to buy.

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Tim Gruver @timgruver.bsky.social · 6d

You hear people wonder aloud, “What if AI goes rogue?”

I hear water short circuits computers pretty quickly.

Tim Gruver @timgruver.bsky.social · 7d

Live from war-ravaged Portland.

Tim Gruver @timgruver.bsky.social · 8d

Would this fly in your workplace?

OPB @opb.org · 8d

Over Oregon's monthlong special legislative session, lawmakers spent most it doing zero legislating.

But because state law dictates that members of the House and Senate must receive a $178 per diem when in session, they were paid anyway. To the tune of about $270,000.

Oregon’s special legislative session cost taxpayers $270,000

This year’s star-crossed special legislative session was the longest — and priciest — in more than a decade.

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Tim Gruver @timgruver.bsky.social · 8d

Cascade PBS circling the fundraising wagons again weeks after gutting its entire local newsroom.

Ken Burns and NOVA documentaries are apparently vital programs you and your neighbors depend on even more.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 8d

A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...

These 20 Apps Are Watching You—And You Probably Use Them Every Day

You might use these apps every day, but have no idea what they collect. These 20 apps are quietly harvesting your location, contacts, photos, and more—here's what you can do about it.

www.pcmag.com

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