Chandra Wu

I hope you connect with your people or your environment and turn down the volume on terrorizing yourself (as I extend this wish to myself) 🩷

Photo of a poster on a utility pole with the text: COUNCILMEMBER JOY HOLLINGSWORTH IS WATCHING YOU

Spotted in the neighborhood this evening.

this is a great summation of how much the mayor watered down the comp
plan

How LA is uniting to provide mutual aid for those impacted by ICE raids Through fundraisers, grocery deliveries and ‘adopt a corner’ initiatives, Angelenos are coming together to support their immigrant neighbors.

I hope people read these stories and are encouraged to take their own action: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/la-u...

Averages are deceptive, and often used as right-wing talking points. "The average is just up a few degrees!"

*How often are extremes happening* is much more useful. And guess what, >90F Seattle summers have TRIPLED in frequency in the last 10 yrs, compared to 1945-2005 bsky.app/profile/anal...

Ravenna, Let’s Do Our Part A Guest Post by Rebecca Lavigne

Ravenna, Let’s Do Our Part
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I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.

🎯

You pay more while America loses the century

What a great deal

Pentagon Pizza Index - Real-Time OSINT Dashboard Track pizza popularity around the Pentagon as a geopolitical indicator. The conspiracy theory that's taking OSINT by storm.

In addition I think it's because he's not been seen for a few hours, hasn't tweeted in a few hours, and, for me, the pizza intelligence is blowing up:

www.pizzint.watch

The allegations include the Uber’s subsidiary not providing pay transparency for peak-time deliveries and failing to pay the full amount initially offered to drivers. Uber has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying for the repeal of Seattle’s gig labor regulations.

UPDATE: New Brunswicker stopped, handcuffed at U.S. border for travelling with ‘too much clothes’ Saint John resident Angela Daigle says she was trying to cross into the U.S. to visit her fiancée when she was handcuffed and detained

What the fuck?

“Saint John resident Angela Daigle says she was trying to cross into the U.S. to visit her fiancée when she was handcuffed and detained”

Homelessness Authority Director Under Investigation After Complaints Claiming Racial Bias, "Toxic Work Environment" - PubliCola By Erica C. Barnett Kelly Kinnison, the CEO of the King County Regional Homelessness Authority, is currently the subject of…

Homelessness Authority Director Under Investigation After Complaints Claiming Racial Bias, "Toxic Work Environment"

The agency's deputy chief and other executives raised concerns about hiring two new high-level staff, both white men, amid a budget shortfall and potential staffing cuts.

DC statehood now.

If someone claims to be scared of the subway but isn’t scared of being in a car on the highway—which is exponentially more dangerous + deadly—they are not a serious person

We can't even cancel that hateful turd in Seattle, way to go Kelowna

Today is the day Sean Feucht was spose to play in a public park in Kelowna but his permit was revoked and I am feeling a joy rooted in glorious spite I've never known.

#Exvangelical

You know the thing is, instead of irrevocably wedding yourself to past decisions and actions and defending them, you can choose to have principles that allow you to change your mind and behavior when you learn new information.

🚨 Mayor Wu faces criminal charges because she is decent. We all know what ⏰ it is. Of course you are going after a female POC first. She is a “suspicious person” in 2025.

FWIW, "yours for the restoration of the Republic" was a common salutation American fascists gave to each other in the 1950s and 1960s. This is from a 1952 letter by Ohio white supremacist terrorist Peter Xavier. The rest of the rhetoric here might be familiar too.

The "oh you won't compromise and abandon [marginalized group]? enjoy the nazi takeover!" argument rings pretty fucking false when you consider that the horrors of a nazi takeover begin with the abandonment of marginalized groups.

Microsoft employee arrested at headquarters while protesting Israel contracts 18 people have been arrested in total

So used to never being cited by people who use our reporting that I kinda dont know what to do when the opposite happens. Thank you to @theverge.com for reporting on this important story, and for embedding my @therealnews.com reporting. Really appreciate it 🙏🏽❤️✊🏽

www.theverge.com/news/763261/...

Hey look. It’s the worst economy since the last time Trump was in office.

Probably just a coincidence

Shut up you crazy uninformed hate filled bat!!🦇Stephen Miller!

Cool job alert: Director, Voice of Customer & Market for Amtrak

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One of the biggest open secrets of the 21st century is that most of the things people blame for workers not getting a fair shake -- technological unemployment, outsourcing -- aren't nearly as big a deal as the law continuing to become more hostile to the existence of unions.

look at how much the delay in pedestrianizing pike place cost vendors and producers

Fabric portraits of people in Illinois prisons to form one big activism quilt Advocates and family members of people in prison hope their quilt humanizes and commemorates loved ones behind bars.

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