What's the big deal about who has access to the president's Twitter account? We already let Russian agents come into the Oval Office and take pictures.

@1: If I were a Twitter user, I would be concerned as to why some lowly customer support rep has enough power to delete whatever account he chooses.

What does that say about Twitter's security practices? What else do hundreds of entry level employees have access to over there? Your personal data, your location, etc.

@3

You should probably just change your pajamas.

If you want to know why Donald fucking Trump won, here ya go: http://thehill.com/homenews/media/358589…

@5: bitch, please. sanders signed the same agreement.

What it looks like when Trump doesn't lie:

"The saddest thing is that because I'm the President of the United States I'm not supposed to be involved with the Justice Department, I'm not supposed to be involved with the FBI, I'm not supposed to be doing the kinds of things I would love to be doing and I'm very frustrated by it. I look at what's happening with the Justice Department, why aren't they going after Hillary Clinton with her emails and with the dossier and the kind of money...?"

He wants to use the Justice System to persecute his political enemies. Sliding down the slope...

Can we be clear that daylight savings times ENDS on Sunday? Call me pedantic, but I want to keep believing that words mean something. Thanks.

@ fax2suport...,

You want the state to sue homeless people? Perfect.

@7: Rabid right-wing crackpot Elizabeth Warren seems to think the primary was rigged now:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-…

@11: come on, he's not a monster! I'm sure he'd settle for a pillory in Westlake.

@12: and? Sanders didn't sign a similar agreement with the DNC? this is the Right's counter-narrative to the Russia scandal, and Warren took the bait. that was dumb.

if republicans are so concerned about the Democratic nominating process, the can impeach HRC any time they want.

Twitter is just another diseased platform for spreading hatred, lies, bullying, and harassment. Delete all the Twits.

@14: So you are saying the vast right wing conspiracy got Donna Brazille to make up a bunch of lies, and also got Elizabeth Warren to back her up?

@15

So, pretty much exactly like the SLOG comments section, then?

I mean, I'm here because I'm kinda into stuff like that, but I do wonder about the rest of you all sometimes.

Most Seattle homeowners are trapped in their homes. Sure, you can sell your home in a matter of hours with multiple offers if it's priced right, but then you're instantly in a ten-way, escalating bidding war for your next place.

Also, decent trade-up houses that sold for $500K to $600K just four or five years ago are now asking $900K to $1.2 million, and no amount of mathemagic is gonna make that mortgage payment work. These homes almost always need new paint, roofs, kitchens, and bathrooms--hundreds of thousands of dollars on top of the already stratospheric sales prices.

There's nothing more life-affirming than looking around a million dollar house and thinking "Christ, whatta dump!"

The only people making out like bandits are the already rich who can pay whatever they want, and those who're cashing out and leaving for more affordable areas.

@ 17,

The Slog commenting culture has changed, unfortunatley. A ton of people were infuriated by The Strangler's appalling 2016 election coverage--for which they've yet to apologize and repent--and those folx never returned.

I really miss the long-form comments that used to roll in after the features. Sometimes they'd be loopy and weird, but many would be funny, insightful, and thought-provoking.

@10: You're not pedantic. You just naturally prefer accuracy in reporting.

These Post-n'-Go staffers don't even bother the check the comments anymore to see if we caught any of their errors.

@8 wow, I thought you made that up.

That's almost as ridiculous as openly admitting you fired the FBI director because you didn't like an investigation.

@2,
I used to work at a cooperative marketing database company that collected business transactions from hundreds of companies and linked that with easily accessible personal information sold by other companies. Our database held millions of records of people's personal information, location, income, political affiliation, marital status, etc., and transactional history with hundreds of retailers, publishers, hospitality industries, restaurants, etc. Really a gold mine of information on anyone who'd ever used a credit card.

Anyone in the company who knew a bit of SQL could easily access all of that information. Even entry level people on their first day on the job.

And that was just the little private company I worked for... there are hundreds of others out there with the same or even more easily accessed info.

I think it's funny that people are so concerned about privacy stuff on things like facebook and twitter. Everyone's personal info is already out there, cataloged and filed and accessible to almost anyone who really wants it. It IS concerning, but it's already too late to stop it.

@22 and cell carriers. The information they have on sale is terrifying.

And as far as I'm aware Facebook does not sell whole chunks of their data. Ad targeting of course, and you can extract information that way, but different scale than bulk purchase, and far less available for linking with other sources.

I'm not whatabouting that people should stop thinking about Facebook's data, but they should definitely think more about commercial transactional data and the vendors who fuse it all together into dossiers.

@24,

Yeah, the company I worked for bought data from Acxiom. I looked myself up in our database once. Not all the info was accurate but that's almost worse than if it all WAS accurate. In any case, it was a shitload of information. Along with all the standard demographic stuff I'd mentioned @22, it had probable likes and dislikes, probable travel destinations, probable days/times of highest activity, likelihood of moving and timelines, likelihood of changing jobs... pretty much everything you could imagine.

Meanwhile, The Stranger apparently didn't hear about Sawant's latest proposal to make life harder for landlords/easier for tenants:
http://crosscut.com/2017/11/kshama-sawan…

@16: nope, brazille said it. warrant said it. it's just not the bloody flag the RW wants it to be. it's too inside baseball to make Sandernistas not care about the Collusion.

what's that you always say? "this isn't going to turn out the way you want it to"?

Warren, not warrant.

@2: I am a Twitter user, and I am more concerned about the fact that so many of us place so much importance on this centralized service provided at the pleasure of a for-profit business who does not profit from its users. That "some lowly customer support rep" has the ability to stop me or Donald Trump from communicating on this private service is not at all surprising. Twitter have zero obligation to any of us besides their advertising customers to do or not do anything for anyone, orange admitted sexual predator TV star or garden variety computer geek.

Netizens avoided such centralization of power in the early days of the Internet. Since the September Never Ended, people seem not to know or care why it mattered. I used Identi.ca. I paid for app.net. Unfortunately, Twitter is where it's at.

Re @10 and @20: Correction was made and is appreciated.

@29: I don't expect anything to "turn out" from this, I just think Dems should actually be concerned with how broken and leaderless the DNC is.

But hey, just plug those ears and yell conspiracy. I am sure everything will just fix itself, and you know way more than people who are actually on the inside of it.

Oh, and we are capitalizing "the Collusion" now? That is hysterical.

@28. They already did that in Portland. Now every rent increase across the city is 9.99%.

Can't wait to see how many people it "helps" in Seattle.