Sound Transit conceded what it can no longer afford to build. Mayor Wilson lost the lead advisor on her shelter expansion. Meta laid off 1,400 Seattle-area workers on the same day Mark Zuckerberg's yacht pulled into Lake Union.

What dehumanizes us ultimately results from a misguided relationship to technology and economics — a ‘tendency to let the logic of efficiency, control and profit alone shape personal, social and economic life.’

“Shame on (the council) for denying up to 1,000 homes, all those jobs and spaces for small businesses,” she said. “We have a housing affordability crisis going on. I just can’t understand.”

Democrats have been using the ‘c” word for most of Trump’s second term, occasionally (correctly) calling it “blatant.” But something important changed last week with Trump’s Justice Department’s creating an “anti-weaponization” fund.

If you believe you have been harmed by Biden’s weaponization of the law, fill out this application form to be considered for your share of the slush fund.

They all had stories. It seemed to me, even as a kid, their stories helped them contain something they couldn’t or wouldn’t dare let loose. But there was this one guy whose story got away from him, and he could never get it back.