Pieminder

Side note - the loser in that 1906 race has quite a colorful story: www.seattle.gov/cityarchives...

Thank you!!

THANK YOU for holding the line!

HOLD THE LINE on the shutdown - no deal without an ACA fix! Dems need to stand strong. The country is on our side - don’t betray us!

Seattle Municipal Archives: mailchi.mp/f5482e526b57...

Welp. That one’s gonna hurt for a while.

Love love love this team, though. Bring back Naylor and let’s run this shit back.

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

Geno Suarez hits a Grand Slam to put the Mariners up 6-2 and seal Game 5 of the ALCS!

"The City is Shaking!"

#SeizeTheMoment

Someone PLEASE tell Jeter to pick the Blue Jays today #GOMS

They also are the administrative head of the legislative department, which matters a lot to the city staffers who work there

Saw a stack of the Washington edition in a little free library this morning on my dog walk 👍

An Interview With the Creator of the Seattle City Council Sock Puppets - PubliCola By Erica C. Barnett City Hall has been speculating for months about who’s behind a series of short Youtube videos…

OK, just one more before I'm officially on vacation! Enjoy.

An Interview With the Creator of the Seattle City Council Sock Puppets

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Seattle voters reject Bogue Plan for city development and elect Georg On March 5, 1912, Seattle voters overwhelmingly defeat the ambitious "Plan of Seattle" for comprehensive city development proposed by civil engineer Virgil G. Bogue (1846-1916). However, voters acros

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Slick Watts knighting Jean Godden

The Seattle Municipal Archives is wild. Like what do you mean there's a photo of Jean Godden being knighted by Slick Watts.

Magnetic Tapes Hold Decades of Our History, and They’re Disintegrating Libby Hopfauf and Annalise Nicholson are in a race against time, and against tape.

📼🎉 www.thestranger.com/arts/2025/05...

The Original Moorhead Dairy Queen An icon of the Fargo-Moorhead area, the Moorhead Dairy Queen is one of the oldest original stores in the entire franchise. A visit here is like stepping back into the 1950s. You get to walk up to the ...

You know about the rogue Moorhead DQ, right? www.fargomoorhead.org/listing/the-...

bloomberg: ~90% of deported migrants to el salvador had no criminal record

Woman holding protest sign reading “so bad even the introverts are here”

From Seattle

Oh how I miss Paul Wellstone

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Wait Minnesota, yall got a skating potato 🥔 too???

The National Archives is nonpartisan but has found itself targeted by Trump As President Donald Trump moves to overhaul the federal government with astonishing speed, he has wreaked havoc on one agency long known for its nonpartisanship and revered for its mission: the Nation...

The National Archives is nonpartisan but has found itself targeted by the current president 📜
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One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

Seattle folks: there is a massive fundraiser this weekend supporting immigrant rights nonprofits. Lots of local restaurants and businesses are donating a portion of their profits. Eat good food, help a good cause: bit.ly/m/seattlefun...

Wow! None here.

Where my art majors at

Trump Says He’ll Replace the National Archives Leader The president-elect’s suggestion that he plans to replace the head of the agency comes after her predecessor raised alarms about his handling of presidential records.

Archives services have to have independent leadership. Political leaders shouldn’t be able to influence retention of archives through service leadership. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/u...

Long ago, I saw someone on a political round table on TV say, “Justice is not supposed to be vengeance. It’s an intervention to prevent vengeance,” and I think about it *a lot*.

Why don’t archivists digitize everything? Today on the blog we’re tackling one of our most frequently asked questions: “Why don’t you digitize everything?” and its related runner-up, “When will you be putting all your records o…

I wrote this because of this common question. peelarchivesblog.com/2017/05/31/w...