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Why turning off Seattle's safety cameras will do more harm than good | Editorial Seattle’s public safety cameras and new Real Time Crime Center are essential, modern-day tools to solve crimes and ensure safety in cities.

"Safety cameras" has to be one of the most chilling phrases I've heard in local politics. Like "necessary censorship" or "friendly wiretapping."

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This Week on PubliCola: February 14, 2026 - PubliCola Nine stories you may have missed this week. By Erica C. Barnett Monday, February 9 Bill Targeting Sex Buyers…

This Week on PubliCola: February 14, 2026

Nine stories from PubliCola you may have missed this week.

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Tulsi Gabbard and the Pro-Kremlin Belgian Businessman Gabbard’s 2024 Vatican visit, arranged by Pierre Louvrier, a Paris-based, pro-Russia financier, triggered a TSA security alert—not her opposition to Biden-Harris

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How does Barnes have a job?

You’re the best. Id be completely clueless without your efforts. And thank you for besting Sandeep all a the time!!!

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Thinking Clearly About the Global Authoritarian Movement Day after day we’re seeing more signs of Donald Trump’s slipping grip...

Any movement of civic democratic revival in the U.S. will be menaced by its continued existence. Now is the time to think about how a revived and revitalized civic democratic movement in the U.S. could combat it talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/think...

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

‘We’ve Found Our Voice’: Many in Twin Cities Emerge With a Sense of Power

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn We need to remake the US high court so Americans don’t suffer future decades of oligarchy-facilitating rule

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“Too often, though, liberals are responding with nostalgia for a court that cares about its high standing. There is a much better option: to grasp the opportunity to set right the supreme court’s role in US democracy.”

The Trump Bubble Is Impregnable for Now—but Boy, Is It Going to Burst The president is on a collision course with an accountability moment. Either he or our democracy will prevail.

The Trump Bubble Is Impregnable for Now—but Boy,Is It Going to Burst newrepublic.com/article/2063... via @newrepublic.com

Uh oh. Devolving 1850’s all over.

Two judges on the Fifth Circuit gave Trump exactly what he wants to enact mass detentions On Friday night, Judges Edith Jones and Kyle Duncan split with more than 150 judges who have ruled against the Trump admin's unilateral, harsh interpretation of a 1996 law.

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? Turn about. Fair play.

Check out how that ban is working in Germany

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.”

This is why we need to be telling our stories.

He’s referring to his own bankruptcy. He just doesn’t know he has a Rand Syndrome

Amazon pulls Melania from Oregon cinema after owner’s criticism as rumours mount over ‘fake ticket sales’ Owner of local cinema says Amazon is upset at way they marketed movie as some in US say healthy ticket sales are not reflected by empty seats

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I’ve also suffered our last dozen years with those pressures. Be gentle with yourself.

Trump’s toxic, racist video surpasses previous levels of debasement Video deleted by White House breaks through numbness barrier and raises further questions about fitness for office

“some may be beginning to wonder how much longer they can trust what LBJ called “the awesome duties” of..president to a man who spends his twilight hours posting memes that threaten to reopen wounds..the country spent generations & much treasure trying to heal”

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the formulaic billionaire white knight press baron doom cycle.

Exclusive | Classified Whistleblower Complaint About Tulsi Gabbard Stalls Within Her Agency Congress hasn’t seen the complaint, which was filed eight months ago with the U.S. intelligence community watchdog’s office.

Another little process of good government, mandated by law, broken by this administration’s whim. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

A reminder that the New England Patriots plane is flown by Omni air who contracts with ICE to fly people in chains to Africa and Asia several times per week.

Go Seahawks.

YouTube video by Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway Scott Galloway Proposes National Economic Strike

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A thread that is extremely disconcerting, challenging and, at the same time, absolutely necessary to read in full

Portland Mayor Statement on Federal Use of Chemical Munitions at Peaceful Protest Portland Mayor Keith Wilson: "Our nation will never accept a federal presence where agents wield deadly force against the very people they are sworn to serve."

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Thank you for being funny about this. Among the saddest of truisms.

That war between those states, post Yugoslavia, is one among a couple of cautionary tales. Argentina frightens as much.