TR Bridge
@bridgewords.bsky.social
Fiction, essays and other durable ephemera from the shores of the mighty Lower Fraser.
I have the modest goal of 12 books in 2026. Finished KSR's Ministry for the Future last week, which took 6 wks. Then picked this up by @lizmoorebooks.bsky.social. Read it in three days. Been a while since I had that "can't put it down" compulsion. Very different books. Highly recommend both.
February 16, 2026 at 3:06 AM
I have the modest goal of 12 books in 2026. Finished KSR's Ministry for the Future last week, which took 6 wks. Then picked this up by @lizmoorebooks.bsky.social. Read it in three days. Been a while since I had that "can't put it down" compulsion. Very different books. Highly recommend both.
February 13, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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Ok maybe not zoning, but #newwest council definitely described this as the municipality wanting not to be an administrative barrier to good thing.
February 13, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Ok maybe not zoning, but #newwest council definitely described this as the municipality wanting not to be an administrative barrier to good thing.
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From Steve Sack, now retired but for a long time the cartoonist of the Mpls. Star-Tribune.
February 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
From Steve Sack, now retired but for a long time the cartoonist of the Mpls. Star-Tribune.
Re Fuentes:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
"Since Fuentes appeared on Tucker Carlson’s podcast at the end of October, Republican leaders have started to ask themselves just how much sway he has over the party...."
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
"Since Fuentes appeared on Tucker Carlson’s podcast at the end of October, Republican leaders have started to ask themselves just how much sway he has over the party...."
I Watched 12 Hours of Nick Fuentes
The white-supremacist influencer is laying the groundwork to go even bigger.
www.theatlantic.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Re Fuentes:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
"Since Fuentes appeared on Tucker Carlson’s podcast at the end of October, Republican leaders have started to ask themselves just how much sway he has over the party...."
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
"Since Fuentes appeared on Tucker Carlson’s podcast at the end of October, Republican leaders have started to ask themselves just how much sway he has over the party...."
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Fuentes then fantasizes about “breeding gulags”: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.”
February 12, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Fuentes then fantasizes about “breeding gulags”: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.”
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Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
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HUGE news for @thetyee.ca.
Our founding editor, Dave Beers, is retiring.
Who will fill these big shoes?
thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...
Our founding editor, Dave Beers, is retiring.
Who will fill these big shoes?
thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...
The Tyee Is Recruiting Our Next Editor-in-Chief | The Tyee
Founding editor David Beers is passing the baton to a new leader. Is it you?
thetyee.ca
February 10, 2026 at 2:33 AM
HUGE news for @thetyee.ca.
Our founding editor, Dave Beers, is retiring.
Who will fill these big shoes?
thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...
Our founding editor, Dave Beers, is retiring.
Who will fill these big shoes?
thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...
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Kingfisher of the Day:
Blue-capped Kingfisher
📷 Chaiyan Kasorndorkbua
Blue-capped Kingfisher
📷 Chaiyan Kasorndorkbua
February 12, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Kingfisher of the Day:
Blue-capped Kingfisher
📷 Chaiyan Kasorndorkbua
Blue-capped Kingfisher
📷 Chaiyan Kasorndorkbua
1/ Another one from KSR's Ministry, Ch. 97, a voice from the future looking at the gains made in biodiversity & reciprocity with the Earth.
February 12, 2026 at 4:43 AM
1/ Another one from KSR's Ministry, Ch. 97, a voice from the future looking at the gains made in biodiversity & reciprocity with the Earth.
Just catching up. AI says:
"A purity spiral is a form of groupthink where members of a group compete to demonstrate superior commitment to a shared value, leading to increasingly extreme views, "moral outbidding," and the punishment of nuanced or moderate opinions."
"A purity spiral is a form of groupthink where members of a group compete to demonstrate superior commitment to a shared value, leading to increasingly extreme views, "moral outbidding," and the punishment of nuanced or moderate opinions."
February 12, 2026 at 4:07 AM
Just catching up. AI says:
"A purity spiral is a form of groupthink where members of a group compete to demonstrate superior commitment to a shared value, leading to increasingly extreme views, "moral outbidding," and the punishment of nuanced or moderate opinions."
"A purity spiral is a form of groupthink where members of a group compete to demonstrate superior commitment to a shared value, leading to increasingly extreme views, "moral outbidding," and the punishment of nuanced or moderate opinions."
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🖼 The Break of Dawn, Yrjö Ollila.
February 11, 2026 at 7:11 AM
🖼 The Break of Dawn, Yrjö Ollila.
Love this from page 459 of Kim Stanley Robinson's 'The Ministry for the Future.' (One of the most important books I've read in the past 10 years, and a bit of a marathon. Only ~100 pages to go)
February 11, 2026 at 5:51 AM
Love this from page 459 of Kim Stanley Robinson's 'The Ministry for the Future.' (One of the most important books I've read in the past 10 years, and a bit of a marathon. Only ~100 pages to go)
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Tax cuts for giant corporations and the super rich.
Paid for by cuts to the social safety net for everyone else.
Trickle-up economics.
Paid for by cuts to the social safety net for everyone else.
Trickle-up economics.
February 7, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Tax cuts for giant corporations and the super rich.
Paid for by cuts to the social safety net for everyone else.
Trickle-up economics.
Paid for by cuts to the social safety net for everyone else.
Trickle-up economics.
There is no justification for a masked enforcement agency. FBI agents, police, government officials, all are exposed to bad actors but do not hide behind masks. “ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence."
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
The real meaning of those ICE masks, as blurted out in a WA hearing
A county sheriff, a rare MAGA elected official around Puget Sound, told state legislators he wants to mask up his deputies simply to defy authority.
www.seattletimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:55 PM
There is no justification for a masked enforcement agency. FBI agents, police, government officials, all are exposed to bad actors but do not hide behind masks. “ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence."
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Just watched 'Dark Waters' w/Mark Ruffalo about Bob Bilott's 20-yr battle with DuPont over their knowingly poisoning of an entire town, & the global population at large, with "forever chemical" PFOAs. On Netflix. Well done & highly recommend
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvAO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvAO...
DARK WATERS | Official Trailer | In Theaters November 22
YouTube video by Focus Features
www.youtube.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Just watched 'Dark Waters' w/Mark Ruffalo about Bob Bilott's 20-yr battle with DuPont over their knowingly poisoning of an entire town, & the global population at large, with "forever chemical" PFOAs. On Netflix. Well done & highly recommend
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvAO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvAO...
Stopped at the Lummi Seafood Market on the way back from Port Townsend & bought what I thought was a coho salmon but turned out to be a white King, a rarity. Brown sugar & coarse salt dry brine overnight, smoked it today outside. A bit saltier than I hoped, but delicious.
February 8, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Stopped at the Lummi Seafood Market on the way back from Port Townsend & bought what I thought was a coho salmon but turned out to be a white King, a rarity. Brown sugar & coarse salt dry brine overnight, smoked it today outside. A bit saltier than I hoped, but delicious.
1/ Gilded Age II brings us back to the good old days of the late 1800s, & we remember how good those were for women, working people, & anyone who wasn't white.
www.history.com/articles/gil...
www.history.com/articles/gil...
How the Gilded Age's Top 1 Percent Thrived on Corruption
Corruption was widespread during America's Gilded Age.
www.history.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:10 AM
1/ Gilded Age II brings us back to the good old days of the late 1800s, & we remember how good those were for women, working people, & anyone who wasn't white.
www.history.com/articles/gil...
www.history.com/articles/gil...
As in the first Gilded Age, in this one there appears to be no shortage of bootlickers.
Breaking — Will Lewis out at the Washington Post. He just sent this email to staff (shared with me by staffer):
February 8, 2026 at 12:16 AM
As in the first Gilded Age, in this one there appears to be no shortage of bootlickers.
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February 7, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it
February 7, 2026 at 11:41 PM
When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it
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Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."
February 7, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."
Downtown Port Townsend. I've seen these folks and chatted with them every time I've been down here in the past 18 months.
February 6, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Downtown Port Townsend. I've seen these folks and chatted with them every time I've been down here in the past 18 months.