Patrick Malone
Investigative journalist at The Seattle Times
- Seattle police violated records law, judge rules in @seattletimes lawsuit www.seattletimes.com/news/seattle...
- The US's only independent agency with an eye on nuclear weapons work could soon lose authority to recommend safer work after two presidents neglected to appoint members. Its work in Washington state led to $180M in corporate fraud settlements. @seattletimes.com www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
- Reposted by Patrick MaloneThe officers involved were acquitted.
- City of Tacoma to pay $6 million to settle a wrongful lawsuit brought by the family of Manuel Ellis, who repeatedly told police he couldn’t breathe. @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
- City of Tacoma to pay $6 million to settle a wrongful lawsuit brought by the family of Manuel Ellis, who repeatedly told police he couldn’t breathe. @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
- Reposted by Patrick MaloneIf you're in the 'Dead Dad Club,' consider this your permission slip to feel whatever you want to feel on Father's Day: Sadness over the loss, joy that he was in your life for however briefly, envy toward friends who still have their dads, even absolutely nothing. Worth a reshare come this weekend:
- Reposted by Patrick MaloneWhat flag they’ll bring to the function probably isn’t the top priority on the minds of most people at these protests “More than anything, these folks are out there trying to keep their families and friends from being illegally kidnapped by a secretive federal agency,” Lechuga said My story today:
- Reposted by Patrick Malone“As humans, we want to be seen and recognized by others. We care about what other people think about us,” said Sven Nyholm, a prof of the ethics of AI. “Other people have minds, whereas AI chatbots are mindless zombies” My story today, on the limits of AI companions www.huffpost.com/entry/mark-z...
- Reposted by Patrick MaloneThe WA businesses (including Microsoft, Amazon) & people who gave to Trump's inauguration (via @pmalonejourno.bsky.social) www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
- Reposted by Patrick MaloneMy mom volunteers with a group that does vision screenings for kids. Head Start is one of the places they go a lot. So many kids vision problems have been discovered and managed early because of Head Start. It would be hard to reach those kids without Head Start.
- Reposted by Patrick MaloneNEW: One of the largest federations of unions and several former officials have raised concerns about the possibility that Elon Musk and DOGE could potentially gain access to sensitive information shared with OSHA and the Department of Labor by whistleblowers at the centibillionaire’s companies.
- Reposted by Patrick Malone"Adolescence" is a terrifying, almost horror movie-level depiction of how incel culture and online misogyny can warp a child. I talked to therapists and incel researchers about what it gets right (and wrong) about how young men fall into the manosphere rabbit hole. www.huffpost.com/entry/adoles...
- Reposted by Patrick MaloneStaff of key regional food testing labs in San Francisco and Chicago were among hundreds of FDA food program employees fired yesterday “The F.D.A. as we’ve known it is finished," said its previous commissioner Robert Califf www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...
- Reposted by Patrick MaloneSince being given clemency by Trump, Braun has been accused of punching his wife and father-in-law in the head, groping a woman’s breast while touching himself, assaulting a nurse, and threatening a synagogue attendee who requested he be quiet during a service. Braun has ties to the Kushners.
- New from me: #Boeing faces a new wrongful death lawsuit, filed today by the family of John Barnett, a longtime #whistleblower who died last year by suicide. @seattletimes.com www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
- Reposted by Patrick MaloneI wrote about the disturbing resurgence of the R-word -- seemingly Elon Musk's favorite word -- and how it fits in with the politics of cruelty. A recent study out of Montclair State University found that the use of the slur triples on X when Musk tweets it. www.huffpost.com/entry/the-r-...
- Reposted by Patrick MaloneExclusive: Employees at a Russian-owned steel plant in Oregon bypassed tests meant to ensure armor plates regularly used on US Army Joint Light Tactical Vehicles could withstand enemy fire, an internal probe found
- Reposted by Patrick MaloneSCOOP: The new DOGE official seeking private taxpayer information at the IRS has ties to a sanctioned Russian oligarch considered part of Putin's inner circle. Sam Corcos is married to a woman who partnered w/ a VC firm handling Suleyman Kerimov's money. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
- Reposted by Patrick MaloneDonald Trump believes his trade war will only affect countries abroad, but his overly broad tariffs will hit Washingtonians hard. Slower exports could result in lost jobs, while more expensive imports may spur inflation.
- How premature was this? Signs were designed for this site with the expectation that in thousands of years humans will encounter it and need to be aware of the radioactive risks. This is/was a forever facility for this unique mission. This risks crimping nuclear weapon production and dismantlement.
- Reposted by Patrick MaloneThe DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️
- Reposted by Patrick MaloneWiped Off the Map. A federal clerk’s error put more than 90,000 acres of Yakama Nation land in the hands of Washington state. The tribe wants it back. grist.org/indigenous/s... #WA #Washington #Yakama #Tribe #Indigenous
- Seattle Times sues Seattle police, alleging public records violations www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
- Reposted by Patrick MaloneOn Jan. 5, 2024 - a year ago today - a panel blew out of a Boeing 737 MAX. Alaska flight 1282 passengers still struggle with hearing overhead planes or fire alarms, and feeling rushing air. After thinking you were going to die on a plane, how do you fly again? www.seattletimes.com/business/boe...
- Whistleblowers against Boeing, suppliers, FAA risk it all while most complaints go nowhere. @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social www.seattletimes.com/business/boe...
- Alaska Airlines crew, passenger injured during turbulence on flight out of Seattle. Via @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social www.seattletimes.com/business/boe...
- I had a great time talking with some smart co-panelists and host Bill Radke on KUOW's Week in Review today about Seattle's police chief scandal, taxing billionaires and public transit in light of a bus driver being killed on the job. With video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PulV...
- Reposted by Patrick MaloneNEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs. Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal. www.propublica.org/article/unit... 👇
- Reposted by Patrick MaloneEvery single school should have a library & a librarian, to help every single child find the books that will make them readers, and give them all the lifelong benefits of literacy. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER! #literacy #libraries #librarians
- Trump's expected Department of Transportation nominee upholds the status quo, ex-member and revolving-door Sean Duffy, who left Congress in 2019 to work for a lobbying firm. For @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social I examined the clout #Boeing collects this way. www.seattletimes.com/business/boe...
- The aerospace industry, including #Boeing, has also assembled insiders who left federal agencies to bend the whims of regulators their way. www.seattletimes.com/business/boe...
- Reposted by Patrick MaloneIt’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals and help readers find awesome books. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Me? I have a creepy tale about friendship, vengeance, old gods, and monsters from the deep. “Stunningly visceral.” — NYT www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
- Hard to separate the history that I exposed in this story last year - the FBI furiously trying to find and expel lesbians from the Manhattan Project - from current developments at the U.S. Capitol. www.seattletimes.com/news/oppenhe...
- Reposted by Patrick MaloneFifty years ago today, Karen Silkwood’s car was apparently forced off a quiet highway in western Oklahoma, where it crashed into a culvert, killing her instantly. Silkwood, 28, was employed as a technician at Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corporation’s plutonium fuel rod fabrication plant in Cimarron.
