The People I Remember On This Trans Day Of Remembrance
Elisa Shupe, Lia Smith, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, and so many more names are worth remembering today.
1. Nearly every transgender person walks this earth knowing people like us who are no longer with us.
In writing about transgender people every day, I hold in my heart the people who are now our ancestors, and I try to bring their light forward.
These are the people I'm remembering today.
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Biased journalism serves only the masters who fund its distribution. (6/6)
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Consider the victorious, historic tone in use. No discussion of political headwinds, but plenty of words on his own personal history, his arguments against his opponent, and no mention of previous Seattle Times endorsement Jenny Durkan's political follies. (5/6)
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Observe the quiet seething going on between the lines, the focus on political headwinds and personal inexperience. The only mention of her platform comes along side the insistence on the portions she will need to compromise upon. Compared to... (3/6)
13.11.2025 02:58 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
#1) Nov 12 2025, Katie Wilson elected Seattle's next mayor - archive.ph/3IqIU (2/6)
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Observe the quiet seething going on between the lines, the focus on political headwinds and personal inexperience. The only mention of her platform comes along side the insistence on the portions she will need to compromise upon. Compared to... (3/6)
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Good evening #Seattle! Your rhetoric lesson for today is a journalism compare-and-contrast exercise. Consider the following two articles published by Daniel Beekman in the Seattle Times: (1/6)
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Following up: It's worth adding that King County is much bigger than Seattle, and not all KC ballots are eligible to vote for Seattle's mayor.
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In order for Wilson to pull a comeback victory over the next few days, she will need 36,160 (56.5%) of those 64k uncounted votes to be for her. 3/3
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Screenshot of WA Secretary of State election ballot totals, including estimated uncounted ballots. Source: https://results.vote.wa.gov/results/20251104/turnout.html
Washington's Secretary of State election results page ( results.vote.wa.gov/results/2025... ) gives us a view into this by providing estimated totals of collected ballots yet to be counted. As of tonight (Tue Nov 4), approximately 64,000 ballots are yet uncounted in King County. 2/3
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OK Seattle, it's election night and the first batch of mayoral results have come in with Harrell leading Wilson (62,086 votes to 53,767). Of course, we know that Seattle frequently sees progressive-leaning swings as the final few days of election results are still counted. But by how much? 1/3
05.11.2025 06:29 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Watching the Seattle mayoral debate. Who did the set design here? What is that unlit thing in the middle of the debate floor? A turntable? A charcoal grill? Why??
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