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Reporter @ Washington Observer | @Poynter + @ckinstitute '20 Fellow @SPJWash Board | Bylines @Politico, @WANewspapers, @PluribusNews | 📩 [email protected]

[timgruver.bsky.social ☕📰💻 @T_TimeForce]

The expansion of King County's leading trauma center is running short on cash and patience. 🏥💸

Between cost run-ups and political faux pas, getting the billion-dollar project back on track won't be cheap. 🏗️ #waleg

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[timgruver.bsky.social ☕📰💻 @T_TimeForce]

Jobless journalists and jobless coders will eventually lead to the best newsletters with the very best web design.

[timgruver.bsky.social ☕📰💻 @T_TimeForce]

Disclosure Day assumes the best and worst about TV news.

Spielberg apparently still lives in the Walter Cronkite era in which 100% of people believe broadcast journalists.

He also thinks TV news would run any video file handed to them with zero fact-checking just for ratings.

[Washington State DOT @wsdot]

WELCOME TO WASHINGTON, SOCCER FANS. Get acquainted with our state via this highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map.

[timgruver.bsky.social ☕📰💻 @T_TimeForce]

A GOP-backed initiative machine is pounding pavement to repeal Washington's millionaire tax. 🗳️💸

The millionaires are already paying a pretty penny to cut themselves a break this fall. 🐘 #waleg

https://t.co/cY6vBHH7ro

[timgruver.bsky.social ☕📰💻 @T_TimeForce]

As for the rubes complaining about earth’s 1st trillionaire, consider this: stash that $100 in a savings account. At 1% interest, you’ll be a trillionaire like Elon in 2,314.1 years.

Stop buying lattes. Invest in yourself. All it takes is 31 lifetimes to build obscene wealth.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The Justice Department has approved the merger of Warner Bros and Paramount.

[timgruver.bsky.social ☕📰💻 @T_TimeForce]

Hours of probing questions brought Rep. Tarra Simmons closer to ending an ethics case against her.

The Bremerton Democrat allegedly earmarked tax 💸 for her nonprofit + spent campaign 💰 to get her boyfriend a job. She said her piece this week. #waleg

https://t.co/prkvGH2xCx

[timgruver.bsky.social ☕📰💻 @T_TimeForce]

Someone from my student newsroom owes me $10 plus inflation. Right on the money about this.

[Melissa Santos @MelissaSantos1]

Not a single light rail line that Puget Sound voters approved in 2016 is on track to open on time.

Here are the dates that were promised back then, versus what they've slipped to now.

https://t.co/6OcSJUxaBE

[timgruver.bsky.social ☕📰💻 @T_TimeForce]

Gov. Bob Ferguson outlined his plan today to ban smartphone use by K-12 students from first to last bell. 🔔

He hailed his “Math, not memes” approach as long overdue. 🧮

But what about math memes?

[timgruver.bsky.social ☕📰💻 @T_TimeForce]

Nature is healing. Fingers crossed on an Oregon/Wa location.

https://t.co/TyykUY0hOQ

[Deadline @DEADLINE]

'Backrooms' Director Kane Parsons Calls AI "Genuinely Harmful" To Creativity: "Cultural And Economic Rot" https://t.co/w5DQi6EgnH

[timgruver.bsky.social ☕📰💻 @T_TimeForce]

@megataros @BeAfraid_Horror That Wisconsin furniture store that inspired the Backrooms meme is going to become the biggest tourist destination ever.

[timgruver.bsky.social ☕📰💻 @T_TimeForce]

The Washington GOP is reaching deep into its wallet in a hail mary to push the state's Supremes rightward. 🐘

Republicans are betting conservative justices slip under the radar via the oft misunderstood world of law. But we followed the money. 🗳️💸#waleg

https://t.co/SaCrF1aOlE

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

AMC had its highest May theater attendance since 2019 🍿

[timgruver.bsky.social ☕📰💻 @T_TimeForce]

Lego made Indiana Jones sets with literal Nazis

[GameVerse @TheGameVerse]

Fun Fact: A LEGO James Bond game was once pitched by TT Games, and it even had a trailer that later got leaked 👀

The project was scrapped because LEGO felt James Bond’s themes were too mature for a LEGO game.

This would’ve been PEAK 😭

[timgruver.bsky.social ☕📰💻 @T_TimeForce]

The subgenres of horror in the 2020s:

AI will kill us all
Billionaires suck
Am I the asshole?
Writing is hard

[timgruver.bsky.social ☕📰💻 @T_TimeForce]

Tonight!

[InvestigateWest @investigatewest]

Reporter @KelseyT98 was awarded first place for her reporting on Washington family courts, while Moe Clark and Andy Nystrom of @MIReporter received third for exposing failures by the Mercer Island School District to respond to teacher sex abuse. https://t.co/CTlvpWSYyC

[David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik]

Some veteran NPR journalists depart in buyouts & layoffs in aftershock of elimination of federal subsidies for public media.

Editor in chief Tommy Evans: "Today has been incredibly heavy." Cuts amount to 4% of content division.

My story:
https://t.co/UJDoveEUUL

[timgruver.bsky.social ☕📰💻 @T_TimeForce]

WA Democrats are hangry for a changing of the guard in Olympia where Laurie Jinkins could be losing her grip on the Speaker's gavel. 🫏

Several progressives are throwing their names in the hat and blame her leadership for sinking needed reforms. 🗳️#waleg

https://t.co/rpu8ZYGDjS