Charles Mudede

Minneapolis and the Rise of Care Activism What ICE has done is actually strengthen, rather weaken, the bonds between urban dwellers.

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Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS Is the Most Beautiful Film of our Times Kahlil Joseph is famous for his role in Beyonce’s Lemonade, and directing music videos for Flying Lotus and Shabazz Palaces. He was born in Seattle, and is known for images that are in every way bold,...

Kahlil Joseph's new film BLKNWS: Terms and Conditionsis beautiful from start to finish. Read @mudede.bsky.social's review here and see it at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social this weekend.

Judging from the footage, ICE needs to perform drug tests on its thugs.

Is there a higher level of this master plan that I'm not seeing? Bringing normal whites, Asians, Latinos, and blacks closer together? How is this winning for MAGA?

We lost a VA nurse to a bunch hired thugs.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

YouTube video by strangervideo Is this the ugliest apartment building in Seattle?

Charles is asking the hard hitting questions, like why are modern apartment buildings so ugly? This is Stranger Places with @mudede.bsky.social

Erudite and thoughtful as ever, @mudede.bsky.social

My good friend, @mudede.bsky.social, thank you for this lovely review of “What Is Intelligence?” in @thestranger.com. Always enjoy reading your reflections grounded in personal history—from your early years in the U.S. to your Sundays with Sagan in Zimbabwe.

My Top 3 Books of 2025 This year, I read 70 or so books. All of them were great because, to be honest, I no longer have the time or energy to read bad books. The bulk of what I read in 2025 will not interest the general pub...

Honored to receive this review from @mudede.bsky.social. Read the full piece here: bit.ly/4qgYQjO

Explore “What Is Intelligence?” (out via @mitpress.bsky.social & Antikythera): bit.ly/3H1p8F6

WTO/99 Is a Documentary We Need To See Right Away Despite being composed entirely of news/found/archival footage (no talking heads, no voice over), the documentary WTO/99 nevertheless has the aspect of a dream.

WTO/99 won the 2025 Seattle Film Critics Society Best Documentary Film award! Check out our coverage of the documentary @mudede.bsky.social says we all need to see right away.

The Greatest Science-Fiction Soundtrack Ever Avex Ensemble’s performance will be synchronized with the 1982 version of the film.

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A ghostly audience gathers in front of a blank screen in Bi Gan’s RESURRECTION.

Bi Gan @nytimes.com, disturbing soundtracks @thequietus.com, @mudede.bsky.social and Robinson Devor @screenslate.bsky.social, Radu Jude @eflux.bsky.social, new @filmquarterly.bsky.social, and more best-of-2025 lists and polls …

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Transit Soles In honor of the new light rail extension, Charles Mudede celebrates one thing that can't be seen as a pedestrian: shoes at rest.

Very thankful to have @mudede.bsky.social in this world so he can share the way he sees it. Lovely stuff!
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Transit Soles In honor of the new light rail extension, Charles Mudede celebrates one thing that can't be seen as a pedestrian: shoes at rest.

www.thestranger.com/transit/2025...

To celebrate @sound-transit.bsky.social big day, which, hopefully, will soon be followed by the completion of a key segment of Line 2 (Seattle/Bellevue), I decided to share with you my secret obsession: Shoes I have spotted on light rail trains over the years.

In Milton Friedman's Capitalism & Freedom, it's suggested that, once the government becomes minimal, the thing to do, if you want to create art or just survive, is befriend a billionaire. Though still unhelpful, this advice now sounds less nuts than it did when Friedman published his book, 1962.

Saving Mexico’s Lost World - bioGraphic Microbes have lived in Cuatro Ciénegas for 500 million years. They’ve survived countless cataclysms and extinctions. But can they survive us?

"While the rest of the world’s ocean creatures ... evolved to rely on phosphorus as their energy currency, the species in this desert oasis [subsists] on the same primordial, sulfur-eating bacteria that nourished them hundreds of millions of years ago."
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Old buildings imitated rather than reflected other buildings: mass-produced moldings of ancient pillars, brick-hard materials, formidable facades. The reinforced seriality of capital. Now money reflects other reflections of money like a universe that appears as endless because it's made of mirrors.

It Took Me Two Years to Ditch My Awful Couch, and for What? My experience getting the couch should have tipped me off that it was not the couch for me and was in fact evil. But I really needed it.

Took a brief break from the news to rip my horrible couch to shreds

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Only an ignorance of economics can see this as something to write home about. Those prices are now stuck up there. They will not go down unless demand collapses (depression=deflation). And so the only solution at this point is to raise wages, which, obviously, will not happen. This is a distraction.

Slog AM: Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson Not Buying Starbucks Coffee, We Really Don't Need the Release of the Epstein Files, Trump Plans a 'US Economy Is Just Too Great' Tour The Stranger's Morning News Roundup

- Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson Not Buying Starbucks Coffee

- We Really Don't Need the Release of the Epstein Files

- Trump Plans a 'US Economy Is Just Too Great' Tour

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Trisha Ready's Debut Novel, Nobuko, Strings 108 Vignettes Into a Narrative Philosophy Nobuko was released on FrizzLit Editions in August.

Trisha Ready Wastes No Words - Her Debut Novel, Nobuko, Strings 108 Vignettes Into a Narrative Philosophy

Are We Watching the Death of Centrism in American Politics? The centrists are sinking, one after the other. Why?

Incredible write up on this past week's election results by @mudede.bsky.social

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We waited for a train at Symphony Station for 40 minutes, after going to a Town Hall event Wed. night.

@sound-transit.bsky.social seriously. Your new CEO is asleep on the wheel. Link is basically down. For an hour. No info. No alerts. Nothing. People at the top are fast asleep.

@kingcountymetro.bsky.social The 7 appears to be popping into existence rather than coming down Rainier Ave.

WTO/99 Is a Documentary We Need To See Right Away Despite being composed entirely of news/found/archival footage (no talking heads, no voice over), the documentary WTO/99 nevertheless has the aspect of a dream.

www.thestranger.com/arts/2025/11...

My god. He really is who he plays.

In less than a month, I'll be chatting alt weeklies with @ericacbarnett.bsky.social and @mudede.bsky.social at Elliott Bay books! We all worked at the Stranger, and Erica spent time at the Austin Chronicle. Come!!
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