Marc Auerbach

@pugetopia.bsky.social

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Pizza lover. Union guy. Small ball fan. Brooklyn kid living in Seattle. Crabby AF. Bella, ciao!

Nearly9 acres of a former industrial fuel terminal on Salmon Bay waterfront near the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks in Ballard will undergo a transformation into an extravagant car collector garage, superyacht marina and private community called Terminal One Motor + Yacht Club Realogics Sotheby's International Realty is leading the marketing and sales of the 10c commercial condominiums. The garage spaces will range in size from approximately 850 to 1,250 square feet and have nearly 20-foot ceilings The condos will start at around $600,000 and exceed $1 million. said Dean Jones owner of Realogics Sotheby's International Realty, while the slips, or parking spots for yachts, could go for up to several million dollars.
At the Red Rocks Ampitheatre in Morrison, CO. Photo of a dramatic, reddish and angular rock formation lit up at dusk, with a crowd of concert goers in the foreground and a deep blue sky in the background.
"The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will... They are splendid riders, first-rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace." - William Tecumseh Sherman
Photo of a guillotine, looking up from the ground to the pristine blade. Bright blue sky in the background.
Video of Mount Rainier from southbound I-5, just south of Seattle.
Pre-game view of T-Mobile Park, looking North from the 300 level. The Seattle skyline is visible beyond the stadium, with the Space Needle to the North and the Columbia Tower to the south.
Panaoramic view of the baseball field in T-Mobile Park from the center field bleachers.
Screenshot from an ESPN article quoting Team USA pitcher Paul Skenes... National League Cy Young Award winner Paul Skenes has all the motivation he needs heading into the World Baseball Classic, courtesy of Team USA's success at the Winter Olympics. "Winning gold is the biggest thing," the Pittsburgh Pirates' ace told reporters after his first spring training start Wednesday in North Port. Florida. "Yeah, men's hockey, women's hockey, all the other golds that we won in the Olympics. We're America, we've got to assert our dominance over everybody else. That's what we do. It's going to be fun. "USA wins, it's what we do. Got to keep it going." https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/48036553/pirates-paul-skenes-had-golden-motivation-team-usa-wbc
Screenshot of text from the Jerusalem Declaration in Antisemitism. "What is particular in classic antisemitism is the idea that Jews are linked to the forces of evil. This stands at the core of many anti-Jewish fantasies, such as the idea of a Jewish conspiracy in which "the Jews' possess hidden power that they use to promote their own collective agenda at the expense of other people." Source: https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/
Trump post on Truth Social: The Iran National Soccer Team is welcome to The World Cup, but 1really don't believe it is appropriate that they be there, for their own life and safety. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP 641 ReTruths 2.59k Likes 3/12/26, 8:00 AM
Still photo from the scene in “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946). Depositors crowd the community bank, demanding their money after they lose confidence in the bank's health. Banker George Bailey (played by Jimmy Stewart) is saying to them, “No, but you … you … you’re thinking of this place all wrong! As if I had the money back in a safe. The money’s not here.”
A group of North American looking people wearing stereotypically western clothing (cowboy hats, boots, jeans, western shirts) and doing country western line dancing.
My old friend's message after I posted a Haaretz story about the Israeli military adopting Gaza casualty numbers that match the official death toll Israel has long claimed is fake -- "You're a dumb fking asshole Where's your posts about the children that were murdered and women that were raped and elderlv that were brutally murdered by sick terrorists because they want to kill Jews. You're a self depreciating Jew. Shame on you. You were always a pussy, Now I know for sure. Go live in Gaza. They'd be happy to rapeand kill you and your wife you useful idiot."
Meme of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland from the 1939 movie Babes in Arms. The text says, "HEY KIDS LET'S PUT ON A SHOW!"
Meme of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland from the 1939 movie Babes in Arms. The text says, "HEY KIDS LET'S PUT ON A SHOW!"
Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cockoo's Nest
Kevin Costner as John Dutton from the TV series Yellowstone.
Screenshot of JD Vance speaking crudely and cartoonishly edited to dress him in a KKK robe with a cross burning behind him. NewsNation chryo reads: "NOW: VANCE SPEAKING AT AMERICAFEST"
Ms. Wiles made the comments in a series of extraordinarily unguarded interviews over the first vear of Mr. Trump's second term with the author Chris Whipple that are being published Tuesday by Vanity Fair. Not only did she confirm that Mr. Trump is using criminal prosecution to retaliate against adversaries, she also acknowledged that he was not telling the truth when he accused former President Bill Clinton of visiting the private island of the sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. Over the course of 11 interviews, Ms. Wiles offered pungent assessments of the president and his team: Mr. Trump "has an alcoholic's personality." Vice President JD Vance has "been a conspiracy theorist for a decade" and his conversion from Trump critic to ally was based not on principle but was "sort of political" because he was running for Senate. Elon Musk is "an avowed ketamine" user and "an odd, odd duck," whose actions were not always "rational" and left her "aghast." Russell T. Vought, the budget director, is "a right-wing absolute zealot." And Attorney General Pam Bondi "completely whiffed" in handling the Epstein files.
Photo of a portion of an MS Now chronicles with a picture of George W Bush and Liz Cheney, and the text: "Coming Up: George W. Bush, Liz Cheney"
Screenshot from a video of Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson giving a press conference, standing at a podium with two colleagues standing behind him on either side. The close caption reads. "I don't know the details about that."
Marc (the poster), holding a clipboard with a half-sheet flyer reading, "KATIE WILSON: MAKE SEATTLE AFFORDABLE." A small apartment building is in the background.
View of a large blue Dutch oven filled almost to the brim with meat chili.
White text on Grey background that reads You've been kidnapped Your kidnappers allow you to keep posting on social media to pretend everything is alright. What would you post that would alarm your followers, without the kidnappers knowing you're asking for help?
A group of heavily armed people kitted out with military style clothing, gear, and automatic rifles.
A container full of strawberries that are mostly covered in fuzzy white mold.
Close up photo of TV scoreboard in tonight's Padres-Mariners game, showing the numerals 666 (because the game is tied at 6 in the top half of the 6th inning).
Picture of the author (well, the author's arm) wearing a black t-shirt and flipping off the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit building in New Orleans.
Photo of a row of cement "eco blocks" placed on a Seattle street, likely to prevent people from parking RVs they live in. Photo from Steve Ringman, Seattle Times
A picture of Peter Sellars as Chauncey Gardner in the 1979 film, Being There. The character of Gardner is a childlike, middle-aged man who grows up isolated and experiencing the world largely through television. Through a series of random chain of events he comes to be viewed by the ailing U.S. President (Gene Hackman) as a sage adviser.
Unions 1199SEIU 32BJ SEIU Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Building and Construction Trades Council District Council 9 of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades Hotel and Gaming Trades Council (HTC) LIUNA NY Local Union No. 3, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers NYC FDNY EMS Unions Local 2507 & Local 3621 New York City Coalition of the International Union of the Operating Engineers
A masked ICE agent stands guard outside as federal officers raid Las Cuatro Milpas in Minneapolis, Minnesota Tuesday, June 3, 2025. (Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer)
Shareable image posted by SEIU 1199NW, promoting a march and rally in Seattle to Free David Huerta & End ICE Raids MONDAY 6/9/25 11:00am march @ SEIU775 215 Columbia St Seattle 11:15am rally@ Seattle CityHall 600 4th Ave,Seattle The image includes a picture of David Huerta, President of SEIU California, who was roughed up and arrested protesting ICE raids in California. It also includes the logos of four Washington-based SEIU union locals sponsoring the protest; SEIU 1199NW, SEIU 775, SEIU 6, and SEIU 925.
The May Day march in Seattle, shot from behind. A red and white picket sign says. "We are many, they are few. Strength in solidarity. SURJ" (SURJ stands for Showing Up for Racial Justice)
As the crowd gathers for May Day in Seattle's Cal Anderson Park, UFCW 3000 members show off their union banners with a graffiti style May Day logo.
Screenshot of a Google-generated question and the answer from Wikipedia: "Is America a left-wing country? "Although left-wing politics came to the United States in the 19th century there are currently no major left-wing political parties in the country"
Picture: a very large grain of salt. Text over picture: I'll take that with a grain of salt.
Screenshot of part of a Fox News story, titled: Trump wins golf championship a day after ordering strikes on Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen Trump said the win is likely his 'last' By Paulina Dedaj Fox News Published March 16, 2025 4:03pm EDT It was a big day on the green for President Donald Trump Trump announced in a Truth Social post on Sunday that he won a golf tournament at his club in Palm Beach County, Florida - noting that it would likely be his "Iast." PHOTO: President Donald Trump on the practice range during the pro-am prior to the LIV Golf Invitational at Trump National Golf Club on July 28, 2022, in Bedminster, New Jersey. (Charles Laberge/LIV Golf via Getty Images) "I just won the Golf Club Championship, probably my last, at Trump International Golf Club, in Palm Beach County, Florida. Such a great honor! The awards dinner is tonight, at the Club," the post read.
Pride flag with the words "ABIDE NO HATRED" in large block letters hanging from a front door in a residential neighborhhood.
Seattle #HandsOff rally packed
Adam Hochschild Adaner Usmani Allison Stanger Andrew Moravcsik Andrew Solomon Anne Applebaum Anne-Marie Slaughter Anthony Grafton Anthony Kronman Arlie Russell Atul Gawande Bari Weiss Bill T. Jones Caitlin Flanagan Caroline Weber Cary Nelson Cathy Young Chloe Valdary Claire Bond Potter Coleman Hughes Cornel West Cynthua Tucker Dael Orlandersmith Dahlia Lithwick Damon Linker Daniel Kehlmann Daryl Michael Scott David Bromwich David Brooks David Frum David Greenberg David W. Blight Deborah Solomon Deborah Stern Debra Mashek Deirdre McCloskey
Steven Pinker Susan Madrak Susannah Heschel Susie Linfield Taufiq Rahim Thomas Chatterton Williams Todd Gitlin Uday Mehta Wendell Steavenson Wendy Kaminer Wynton Marsalis Yascha Mounk Zaid Jilani Zephyr Teachout Zia Haider Rahman
Photograpg: A white man with a holstered pistol oversees a chain gang made up of African American laborers doing heavy manual labor.
Subject: Bullet points Dear Elon, Here's what I accomplished last week: - Fuck off - Fuck off - Fuck off - Fuck off - Fuck off Sincerely, Fuck off!
Screenshot of a tweet by Prem Thakker @prem thakker: A woman who's mothered Elon Musk's children (and another who claims to) have had to tweet at him to get his attention, while Elon is busy calling an astronaut "fully retarded" and waving a chainsaw around, saying "I am become meme' at the Conservative Political Action Convention
Black and white photograph of Adolph Hitler wearing shorts and high socks, leaning against a tree.
Judge Reyes: EO 14183 adopts the definitions of a separate executive order called Defending Women from Gender Ideology, Extremism and Restoring biological Truth to the federal government. And that EO states, "sex shall refer to an individual's immutable biological classification as either male or female." And it states that, "It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female." Do you see that or do you remember that? Jason C. Lynch:l willtake the court's word for it. Judge Reyes: You understand, as a matter of biology, it's just incorrect that there are only two sexes, right? Jason C. Lynch: Do I understand that to be incorrect as a biological matter? Judge Reyes: Yes. It is incorrect as a biological matter. You understand that, right? Jason C. Lynch: I don't understand that to be incorrect. Judge Reyes: You understand that not everyone has an xx or an xy chromosome, right? Jason C. Lynch: Honestly, no, I don't. Judge Reyes: It's actually kind of a really important point because this executive order is premised on an assertion that's not biologically correct. There are anywhere near about 30 different intersex examples. So someone who does not have just xx or xy chromosome is not just male or female. They're intersex. And there are over 30 potential different intersex examples. We've got genetic differences. We have people with xxx chromosomes. We have androgen insensitivity, xy genetically, that may have female external sex characteristics and internally have testes. There's a five alpha reductase deficiency that causes changes in testosterone metabolism, xy that may have female external genitalia or ambiguous genitalia. The point being, and I'm happy to have you guys brief this more if you want, but I'm telling you right now that there are people who are neither male or female. And so the premise of the executive order is just incorrect.
REYES: [The order] calls an entire category of people dishonest, dishonorable, undisciplined, immodest, who lack integrity, people who have taken an 0ath to defend this country, people who have been under fire, people who have received medals for taking fre for this country. I want to know from the government whether that language expresses 'animus.' Does that express animus? DOJ ATTORNEY: Not in any constitutional REYES: in commonsense way. This is policy- from the President of the United States affecting thousands of people ... to cal an entire group of people, lying dishonest people who re undisciplined, immodest and have no integrity. How is that anything other than showing animus? DOJ AT TORNEY: I don't have an answer for you. REYES: You do have an answer, you just don't want to give it...People can make solid arguments as to why some or even most transgender people shouldn't be in the mililary . We're dealing with unadulterated animus. We are dealing with the president of the United States dealing with a group of people serving their country ... calling them liars (Reyes then said she changed her courtroom orders to bar people who graduated from UVA law school from appearing before her because "they're alliars and lack integrity and are undisciplined and can't possibly meet the high rigors of benign a lawyer for the government" She made the DOJ lawyer sit down on that basis, then after he did, she called him back up and asked whether that was a display of animus.)