Mike McCormick

KODX 96.9 Seattle, Curator, Videographer

All opinions are mine.

[Mike McCormick @PodTap]

The Pacific Northwest elephant in the room.

[Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action @GZCenterPoulsbo]

8 Trident Nuclear Subs
1300 Nuclear Warheads
20 miles from Seattle
1986 Train Derailment with High Explosive Rocket Motors Near Shelton (Unreported)
2003 Nuclear Missile Handling Accident (Unreported)
2012 Navy doubles explosives on Hood Canal but never conducts safety study.

[Alison Young @alisonannyoung]

On this day 10 years ago. Important to remember that concerns about biosafety/biosecurity breaches and government oversight didn’t begin with questions about the origin of Covid-19 … 1/

[Guy Oron @GuyOron]

BREAKING: Cuban immigrant and hunger strike leader Rogelio Bolufé has been deported by ICE to Ecuador. He was a key organizer of hunger strikes at detention centers in Torrance County, NM and Tacoma, WA, and helped found the group Unión de Secuestrados por ICE.

[Jon Wiener @JonWiener1]

On the Gates Foundation's dominance: "Why should one unelected billionaire be running global health policy for the entire world? That smacks of a kind of neocolonial arrangement" – Ben Tarnoff on @thenation podcast https://t.co/h5qthg7oxH – transcript at https://t.co/KTWSuXjNb9

[Daryl G Kimball @DarylGKimball]

Navy posts 188-page Draft Enviro Assessment (EA) and provides just 30-days to review and comment. Citizens should have more time to review a 50-year program costing over $60 billion for the nuclear-armed subs based at Bangor, Wash. See https://t.co/KEL3bpfi4E via @GZCenterPoulsbo

[Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action @GZCenterPoulsbo]

Stone carver Thomas Matsuda arrived at Ground Zero this morning (May 21st) with the Buddha statue that he carved.

[Tiffany Cabán @tiffany_caban]

Cop could’ve chosen not to arrest this 9-month pregnant woman for ‘trespassing’ on roof of her own building. DAs could’ve chosen not to prosecute the bullshit case. Judge could’ve dismissed the case. Sickening display of cruelty in the name of ‘safety.’ What a farce.

[Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽 @mssinenomine]

Can I just say how freaking mind-blowing it remains to me that this argument is *not* being made by Canada's so-called 'left.'

What is even the point of the left if it co-signs state-killing service of disabled? Has no class analysis on MAID?

https://t.co/9hzauHQmwV

[U.S. GAO @USGAO]

Nuclear Waste Cleanup: DOE Shortages in Mission-Critical Positions Have Continued to Increase https://t.co/M3ImwTNsrH

[Jon Reinsch @JonReinsch]

This is the English version of Jon Mitchell's FOIA investigation into the drop of an 18kg bag from a USMC helicopter over Okinawa. "The bag contained pyrotechnic flares - and, one year later, it still has not been found."
https://t.co/1tRci2gBf5 via @theokinawatimes

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Israel has kidnapped the sister of the president of Ireland.

[Jon Seidel @SeidelContent]

Chicago's federal court adopted a new rule this month that could help the public better understand how often grand juries reject cases brought by prosecutors.

The chief judge says it may be one of the first of its kind.

NEW from @Suntimes: https://t.co/keSHn7JclP

[Hans Kristensen (also on Bluesky) @nukestrat]

Looks like another US ICBM test launch scheduled for this week. @Marco_Langbroek has the plot. Comes after Russia’s ICBM flight test last week (events not directly linked).

[Hannah Krieg @hannahkrieg]

NEW: Seattle Police gave Elon Musk's Starlink 100k in grant money to support their internet needs during the FIFA World Cup. Now advocates are calling on the cops to cut all ties with the right-wing billionaire.

https://t.co/HN8Ww1I2CK

[Joe Veyera @JoeVeyera]

Seattle is testing a one-year pilot with four new free public restrooms in Pioneer Square, available 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.

Access is linked to a personal account via QR code, text or app, and is revoked from the system in the event of restricted behaviors (damage, etc.).

[Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb]

LATEST We've updated our story about CIA whistleblower James Erdman's bombshell testimony this week - that the agency suppressed findings that COVID-19 likely emerged from a lab-leak - to include more details from his written statement released yesterday https://t.co/Rh0sLnXdfg

[Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action @GZCenterPoulsbo]

Those modernization programs are “immoral on many levels,” Archbishop Wester said, beginning with the simple reality that “if these weapons that they’re modernizing were ever used, it would be the end of civilization as we know it.” https://t.co/aHzawWkp5j

[Hans Kristensen (also on Bluesky) @nukestrat]

Apparently, Russia managed a successful test-launch of its much-delayed new ICBM, Sarmat (RS-28, SS-29). A Russian MOD video allegedly shows the launch: https://t.co/V5fyAoYdnG (h/t to @krakek1 for first post).

Check back tomorrow for our new Russian Nuclear Notebook.

[Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action @GZCenterPoulsbo]

'Appearances of Navy submarines are rare and often designed to send a strategic deterrence message. One of 14 Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines, Alaska carries Trident missiles armed with nuclear warheads.'

https://t.co/dASr2SsBHJ

[pdx law grrrl @pdxlawgrrrl]

A Portland mother was falsely charged with theft. Misidentified because she and the suspect are both Black. She waited months for a public defender. 1,280 people in her county were waiting too. They lost jobs. Lost housing. Lost custody of their children. https://t.co/ENtGgKZIdm

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

Lying in a legal briefing would get you disbarred as a regular lawyer. But when you’re an unelected, lifetime appointee with powers to write decisions that completely undo & remake the Constitution, the decision gets to stand & you get to keep your lifetime position. Outrageous.