@EmilyVBurns @TracyBethHoeg A hospital that's 2 blocks from me put up custom "masks required: respiratory season" signs in December. I don't think that's enforced, but it is expected.

@JimWalshLD19 You've seen this bill I suppose: SB 5688, to encourage state workers to disobey state and federal orders they think are unconstitutional. It goes against the centralization of power theme of bills like HB 1531. Is 5688 simply a response to Trump?

@kristenmag Guessing you've seen this. . .

@graceisforyou The concept is medieval; the tools used to realize the concept are not.

@tlowdon Yes--it's the Ioannou one. It covers more than 1 million people, and an older, sicker, male population--those supposedly most in need of vaccination.

@HomicideSeattle I guess you don't cover traffic deaths, but the timing on these early Saturday morning was remarkable.

@EileenChollet Secrecy was published circa 2000. Moynihan had chaired a committee that put out its own report as well, which is online. He describes absurd over-classification of gov't documents.

@EileenChollet Have you heard of a book, Secrecy, by Daniel P. Moynihan, the NY senator? He delves into the emergence of the security state in the '50s.

@cicero_mn Eggs have typically been above $10 a dozen in the Puget Sound area for a while.

@david_shane Not to pick out Boyle--she's just one example of it--but lots of people here say, "We need to require people to do this thing that I think they should do."

@DrIanWeissman "There have been 2,861 reported COVID-19 deaths in the world in the last 28 days, according to the WHO, with the U.S. making up 2,100 of those deaths." The U.S. is not 75% of all global covid deaths, so I disregard that sentence.

Fact sheet on reinstating U.S. soldiers discharged over covid vaccination:

@NWSSeattle Getting a rain/snow mix in NW Seattle at the moment. Mostly cold, driving rain, but there are snowflakes too.

@kristenmag Did you notice this type of headline? "Providing Support for Pregnant or Postpartum People | HEAR HER Campaign Last Updated: Jul 2024" I mean, the clash between the acronym and "people."

@hamill_law We'll see how long it takes for CDC web pages and guidance to change. @kristenmag noted the disappearance of "pregnant persons."

@RichardMeyerDC Over the past decade, the coal- to natural gas+ correlation is close to 1.

RT @PNSN1: In 2024 the PNSN located 3,272 earthquake within Washington and Oregon. Another pretty typical year for seismicity in the PNW. C…

@tlowdon Clinton's autobiography, My Life, is instructive here: governance and policy. He describes losing the governorship, then winning it back two years later, and how he did it.