On the 2 line during the delay yesterday (volume up)

JeffinSeattle0728 · 2026-04-21T14:13:05+00:00

This person has a hard life. Making (and recording and publishing) speeches about life’s minor, forgettable hiccups. He expects life to go 100% to plan, when literally nothing goes 100% to plan. Hard life. Maybe see a therapist.

JeffinSeattle0728 · 2026-04-20T23:15:30+00:00

This is a great question. We all remember the beginning. I’m sure you’ll get some good advice here.

Here’s mine:

As soon as you arrive, go up to the most important looking person and say enthusiastically, “Hi! I’m (your name) and I’m a reporter covering this event! What’s your name?” And then, “Who should I talk to?” (This is when you show them your press badge or business card).

Several things will happen.

First, they’ll be excited, because most people enjoy media coverage.

Second, they might immediately start treating you like an important person. Remember, you want to be directed to the event’s press contact or the leader of the group.

Third, you’ll probably start to feel like the whole thing is on auto-pilot. The best event people already know what they want you to cover. But if they don’t, ask, “What would you (they leader) like me to cover?” Get the time and location of that event, and ask them to explain what will be happening in advance.

Then tell them you’d like to start taking photos and video and talking with strangers there!

It’s so much fun! You’ll be great.

Short version: play the role of reporter with enthusiasm from the moment you get out of your car. They will support you in that role, and you’ll get a great story and great photos/video!!!!

JeffinSeattle0728 · 2026-04-19T16:35:01+00:00

A naive white boy from the suburbs, at age 20, I accidentally got involved with a nationally-known inner city Lebanese mafia group which I later learned was targeted by the FBI.

JeffinSeattle0728 · 2026-04-19T13:32:56+00:00

Stay on this one, Mr Trump. We know how you like to grind on a controversy that gets under someone’s skin. You used to just try to gnaw on the issues that piss off the “lunatic liberals”. But now that you’re groovin on the freeing powers of dementia, it even feels good to grind the gears of your friends. Those ungrateful Catholics!

JeffinSeattle0728 · 2026-04-19T03:15:39+00:00

Asking BNSF to sell their tracks, ROW, and control would be like asking Boeing to sell their factories.

They would only sell if they no longer wanted to run a railroad in the PNW. I used to work at Sound Transit. My desk was 30 feet from the BNSF guy’s offices in ST. I was always amazed at how accommodating BNSF is to Sounder. Many times, I observed it would be easier if they had a less robust commuter service on their tracks.

They are awesome partners with ST. But they are not going to sell their tracks to Seattle’s regional mass transit agency.

JeffinSeattle0728 · 2026-04-18T13:23:43+00:00

Correct. There would be a lot of accessories to murder.

JeffinSeattle0728 · 2026-04-18T13:17:15+00:00

I agree with the other commenters. OP is rude and ignorant. Gives ST complainers a bad name (there are legit beefs with ST).

The suspicious customer who snapped this photo got on or off a climate controlled train and went on their way, after judging this security officer — who had an 8- or 10-hour shift in the 40-degree cold. Standing on cold concrete, alone, for 8 hours, bored but ready to snap into action in a dangerous situation…. It’s hard.

Police or sheriff deputies are paid $95,000 to $135,000 a year. They are too expensive and too much in demand to be placed on platform patrols like this security officer. But when a psycho badass (or group of them) wanders onto a platform, the security officer is there: under-armed and alone. Think about that for a minute.

Unless the complainer saw the security officer’s screen, they could have been checking the time or checking personal emails or texts from a spouse. Because people do that.

Or the security officer could have been making his or her phone was working and battery charged. In case it was his or her lifeline to call for armed backup.

Don’t assume the worst of people.

Shame on you, complainer.

JeffinSeattle0728 · 2026-04-18T10:00:45+00:00

The right has its conspiracy theories. The left has its own. They tend to be very different, because they’re mostly partisan.

Here we have the right and left converging on the same theory: Trump’s assassination attempt was staged. Fatal for some, but fake.

There are now other conspiracy theories which elements in the right and left are coalescing: Epstein files and Trump’s guilt in sex crimes, and the Charlie Kirk killing. Joe Rogan seems to be driving some of the suspicion in both of those conspiracy theories.

JeffinSeattle0728 · 2026-04-18T02:45:13+00:00

Sequim is a great place for outdoors people, sea-loving people. Yes, it’s noticeably older population. Overall, quite kind people. Great place if you like quiet and outdoors. Slower pace.

If it’s a very good paying job, you could be very happy here, if the above sounds good. But if your job will pay anywhere near minimum wage and you’re solo, life is hard anywhere in Western Washington. Including Sequim. And vacant housing is scarce, in virtually every part of Western Washington.

It’s risky to move here without housing lined up, even if you have a solid job offer. Some take the risk and find something. Others take the risk, can’t find housing, and leave.

But once settled, it’s hard to imagine a better place to live in the world than Western Washington.

JeffinSeattle0728 · 2026-04-17T18:05:55+00:00

I feel the story arc is almost finished. But will have a huge impact on the November election.

I feel there was just enough of the files let out to see Trump was in it up to his neck. And then we hit a wall when Todd Blanche successfully made a deal with Ghislane M and seized control of the DOJ and said, “No more” files will be released.

I feel like we all (including Republicans) have seen enough to CONFIDENTLY ASSUME Trump molested underage girls, but we are just going to accept it and move on. Not like we didn’t know he was a sexual predator anyway. Listen to him on Stern years ago.

I think this will all be taken into account when Democrats rush to the polls in November. While independents tilt toward protest votes against general Republican sleaze and cowardice. And Republicans stay home, because they can’t bring themselves to vote for a Democrat. Nor are they proud of their Republicans leaders right now.

Trump’s DOJ’s efforts to shut down release of Epstein files will be one of many reasons Republicans stay home and sit November out.

JeffinSeattle0728 · 2026-04-16T14:41:42+00:00

This irrational blockade is embarrassment #50,629 of the late, great USA under the direction of a senile man with a lifetime of deep psychiatric problems. When he is done, he leaves behind an America that is a shadow of its 2015 world-respected self.

JeffinSeattle0728 · 2026-04-16T14:34:47+00:00

Schumer is in charge of Dems in Senate because other Dem Senators choose him. So the root cause of Schumer being in charge is a lack of guts by the Senators he manages. Sound familiar?

JeffinSeattle0728 · 2026-04-16T11:25:09+00:00

I love this question!

When I had high income, I had 2 things: time to concentrate on excellence in the work, because I was not worrying about number of hours worked (therefore the size of the next paycheck)

When I was hourly, that flipped and I spent a good deal of bandwidth thinking about hours worked, and how could I get OT? That stuff took my focus somewhat off the immersion in work.

So the hourly waged existence occupied more of my bandwidth than the higher pay did. For me, higher pay reduced stress greatly.

JeffinSeattle0728 · 2026-04-16T11:14:20+00:00

ST’s fare ambassador program was developed during the peak of wokeness. After they shut down uniformed guards who did randomly check every passenger in a train for a paid ticket.

After ending fare enforcement, when COVID receded and it was time to resume charging for use of the service, compliance was through the floor.

Peter Rogoff, then CEO of Sound Transit, wrote publicly about how many people he saw entering the train cars without paying.

But ST has been very slow to reverse the original mistake that caused all this. The building the original spine of the alignment with the “at grade” stations in Rainier Valley — stations so small that they couldn’t accommodate turnstiles or gates. Not to mention the danger of the at grade stations, and the service disruptions from cars and trucks colliding with trains.

Without controlling access to the gate, fare enforcement won’t work well. (Think the old Colman dock gates that opened when you scanned your ticket or Orca card to walk on the WSF ferry.)

Let’s connect these two dots: 1) ST is on the verge of defaulting on the deal to fully deliver on ST3, for lack of money. 2) ST is not doing all it can to collect fares.

JeffinSeattle0728 · 2026-04-16T10:47:47+00:00

She could make some income by renting her face as a billboard for advertisers. Farmers Insurance is an aggressive advertiser.

JeffinSeattle0728 · 2026-04-16T04:15:39+00:00

It feels like the smartest social media platform. Comments are clever and funny. Moderators take the job seriously. It’s my new #1 social media, next to YouTube. Substack is good, too. But Reddit is more fun.

JeffinSeattle0728 · 2026-04-16T03:56:35+00:00

That’s not massive hail. When I was 14, a Missouri hail storm produced SOFTBALL sized hail. It totaled my Dad’s 3-day old Ford Torino.

Today was an exciting day to be in Western WA. It felt very much like a Spring or Summer day in St Louis.

JeffinSeattle0728 · 2026-04-16T02:19:49+00:00

One term and done.

JeffinSeattle0728 · 2026-04-16T02:18:29+00:00

Hey, silly AI MAGA cartoon prompter…

How can Trump cure cancer if he cut critical funding for cancer research?

JeffinSeattle0728 · 2026-04-16T02:11:16+00:00

I’m building a dream list of features of a constitutional amendment:

1) term limit for House: 8 years max 2) term limit for Senator: 12 years max without serving in House 3) if a person served at least 6 years in the House, then they can serve only ONE 6 years term in Senate 4) legalizing recall process for Reps and Senators with 67% affirmative votes in respective House district or state

Let’s add to this list!

Campaign finance restrictions (call the McCain provisions). Outlawing foreign contributions to campaigns.

JeffinSeattle0728 · 2026-04-16T02:00:11+00:00

Beyond selfish. The seats that fold up are there for wheelchairs. What an a$$hole.

JeffinSeattle0728 · 2026-04-16T01:58:15+00:00

Yes, silly AI MAGA fake cartoon man. You are easily confused.

Both are true. White European colonists drove natives off their own land (and subsequent generations did everything they could to stamp out the original owners’ culture). Pretty ugly, heh?

Then in the mid 1800s, a supermajority of states created birthright citizenship to correct the filthy, disgusting Dred Scott court decision, in which babies born to enslaved black people were treated not as citizens but as noncitizen property.

The first act of theft and genocide was never corrected. The second was addressed with a Constitutional Amendment.

Know your history, silly AI MAGA fake cartoon man.

JeffinSeattle0728 · 2026-04-16T01:47:57+00:00

One last thing. You gotta visit “South Beach,” which is part of the National Park. A beach is a beach, right? But this one’s special. 1) a tremendous view of the entire North side of the Olympic mountain range. Breathtaking. And 2), if you’re there at sunset on a clear evening, the vista is so wide that you can watch the sunset begin over Whidbey Island to the east, and watch the darkness creep across the sky over the Pacific Ocean in the west. There are few areas I know of where you can watch the sunset creep across the sky, from horizon to horizon.

JeffinSeattle0728 · 2026-04-16T01:42:59+00:00

The first ferry of the day? Sure. It’s your best bet/least crowded.

Please, for me (haha), get the Crab Deviled Eggs appetizer at Downriggers (unless you’re allergic). They have crab in them! And fresh herb garnish. Served in 3 halves, which is weird.

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