Lex Vaughn
@lex.vaughn.theneedling.com
Founder & Editor of @theneedling.com, Seattle's Only Real Fake News. Pulitzer Prize-winning real real news reporter.
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Daw - look at her!
I'm so proud of Katie Wilson and everyone else who wouldn't just let the local Dem establishment/machine automatically give Bruce Harrell a second term. The desire for someone else was palpable and Katie was brave enough to step forward in a strong and focused way. Thank you!
I'm so proud of Katie Wilson and everyone else who wouldn't just let the local Dem establishment/machine automatically give Bruce Harrell a second term. The desire for someone else was palpable and Katie was brave enough to step forward in a strong and focused way. Thank you!
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Daw - look at her!
I'm so proud of Katie Wilson and everyone else who wouldn't just let the local Dem establishment/machine automatically give Bruce Harrell a second term. The desire for someone else was palpable and Katie was brave enough to step forward in a strong and focused way. Thank you!
I'm so proud of Katie Wilson and everyone else who wouldn't just let the local Dem establishment/machine automatically give Bruce Harrell a second term. The desire for someone else was palpable and Katie was brave enough to step forward in a strong and focused way. Thank you!
Drives me nuts that @reductress.bsky.social won't post their stuff on here. 😂
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Drives me nuts that @reductress.bsky.social won't post their stuff on here. 😂
Can you please add to this story that the man you're quoting throughout it will still be making more than a half million dollars a year? This public data on exec compensation from ProPublica shows he made at least $516k last year alone. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
September 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Can you please add to this story that the man you're quoting throughout it will still be making more than a half million dollars a year? This public data on exec compensation from ProPublica shows he made at least $516k last year alone. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
The answer: $516k. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
September 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The answer: $516k. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
Public data shows the local CEO for Cascade PBS makes more than a half mil a year but just HAD to lay off the ENTIRE news team. Bullshit. Sure, the Trump admin is far from helping, but this sh has been f'ed up well before his 2nd term. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
September 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Public data shows the local CEO for Cascade PBS makes more than a half mil a year but just HAD to lay off the ENTIRE news team. Bullshit. Sure, the Trump admin is far from helping, but this sh has been f'ed up well before his 2nd term. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
Ah yes - KIRO is affiliated with CBS/Paramount and owned by Cox who are predictably also dicks:
September 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Ah yes - KIRO is affiliated with CBS/Paramount and owned by Cox who are predictably also dicks:
This is dangerous media consolidation that under any other even slightly sane administration would not let the FCC approve. (But let's get real: The concept of the FCC was always to control media too much. Thankfully it's so old-fashioned it still only controls TV and radio).
September 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This is dangerous media consolidation that under any other even slightly sane administration would not let the FCC approve. (But let's get real: The concept of the FCC was always to control media too much. Thankfully it's so old-fashioned it still only controls TV and radio).
Why have I not seen one Seattle news outlet localize what the Jimmy Kimmel thing means on the local level? Because it means a lot.
Sinclair - the company that did this to him - owns KOMO. And they're bowing to the FCC so they can merge with Nextstar/TEGNA, which just bought KING 5.
Sinclair - the company that did this to him - owns KOMO. And they're bowing to the FCC so they can merge with Nextstar/TEGNA, which just bought KING 5.
September 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Why have I not seen one Seattle news outlet localize what the Jimmy Kimmel thing means on the local level? Because it means a lot.
Sinclair - the company that did this to him - owns KOMO. And they're bowing to the FCC so they can merge with Nextstar/TEGNA, which just bought KING 5.
Sinclair - the company that did this to him - owns KOMO. And they're bowing to the FCC so they can merge with Nextstar/TEGNA, which just bought KING 5.
When will people learn that saying shit like this only further sharpens the knives coming for them? 😂
July 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
When will people learn that saying shit like this only further sharpens the knives coming for them? 😂
Is this driving anyone else nuts? Recently Microsoft Word keeps over-indenting the right margin and every time I correct it, it bounces back to that when I try writing again. There's no reason "Swim the Last" shouldn't be on the top line but it keeps popping to the 2nd etc. Final straw territory 😤
July 16, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Is this driving anyone else nuts? Recently Microsoft Word keeps over-indenting the right margin and every time I correct it, it bounces back to that when I try writing again. There's no reason "Swim the Last" shouldn't be on the top line but it keeps popping to the 2nd etc. Final straw territory 😤
Because all Dick Tracy villains look like that. See?
June 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Because all Dick Tracy villains look like that. See?
Gaddamn. Me pre-gaming in a Walmart parking lot before seeing Snakes on a Plane almost TWO decades ago? Fun fact tho: One person in this photo is a Pulitzer Prize winner, one is a reporter on Marketplace, and one is a senior privacy lawyer at OpenAI. Oh, the places we've gone since Snakes!
June 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Gaddamn. Me pre-gaming in a Walmart parking lot before seeing Snakes on a Plane almost TWO decades ago? Fun fact tho: One person in this photo is a Pulitzer Prize winner, one is a reporter on Marketplace, and one is a senior privacy lawyer at OpenAI. Oh, the places we've gone since Snakes!
Glad so many showed up to protect people's rights. Apparently 2 were detained. For the people who were released, what an awful and irrational thing to scare them with. People got texts yesterday afternoon to come from miles away to Tukwila today or risk deportation.
June 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Glad so many showed up to protect people's rights. Apparently 2 were detained. For the people who were released, what an awful and irrational thing to scare them with. People got texts yesterday afternoon to come from miles away to Tukwila today or risk deportation.
Police officers so often go home and beat their own families that new SPD Chief Shon Barnes has to say stuff like this to officers after a protest. I mean, I'm sure it does need to be said. But if there was any doubt about what these men consistently act like both on and off the clock ...
June 15, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Police officers so often go home and beat their own families that new SPD Chief Shon Barnes has to say stuff like this to officers after a protest. I mean, I'm sure it does need to be said. But if there was any doubt about what these men consistently act like both on and off the clock ...
I know it's not THAT surprising but FYI: Brandi Kruse is all aboard this "white genocide" thing.
May 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I know it's not THAT surprising but FYI: Brandi Kruse is all aboard this "white genocide" thing.
This headline is way funnier when it pops into your inbox as an e-newsletter title like this one just did.
May 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This headline is way funnier when it pops into your inbox as an e-newsletter title like this one just did.
Downtown Cheesecake Factory is closing permanently this weekend and I'm so disappointed in Seattle for not sending them out like this yesterday.
May 3, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Downtown Cheesecake Factory is closing permanently this weekend and I'm so disappointed in Seattle for not sending them out like this yesterday.
It's May Day and, look, I'm just saying, The Downtown Cheesecake Factory is closing anyway this weekend.
May 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
It's May Day and, look, I'm just saying, The Downtown Cheesecake Factory is closing anyway this weekend.
March 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM