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I will never vote for Newsom or any dem who puts trans rights on the chopping block like this

A graphic emulating a baseball card titled Harrell's Big Business Backers with a headshot of Jeff Gow showing a dollar amount of $15K

WHO is contributing the mountain of cash to Bruce Harrell’s Super PAC? Billionaires, real estate titans, venture capitalists, and tech executives residing primarily in the tony precincts of Bellevue, Mercer Island, and Medina.

A handmade puppet display shows six sock puppets styled as Seattle City Councilmembers, seated behind a wooden bench-like structure. Each puppet has a nameplate in front of it. From left to right: “Kettle, District 7” with a white sock puppet wearing a blue tie and pink knitted hat; “Rivera, District 4” with a puppet that has long dark yarn hair and a red mouth; “Nelson, Position 9” with a green puppet with long blond yarn hair and patterned dress; “Saka, District 1” is has a label but is notably missing; “Strauss, District 6” is a pink worm puppet with big blue eyes and curly brown yarn hair; and “Juarez, District 5” is a gray puppet with glasses, pearl earrings, gray hair, and a black-and-white patterned dress, frowning. The display is set outdoors against a textured wall.

Tell Rob Saka and the other councilmembers to ACTUALLY show up for renters!

Today's your chance to get your photo taken with the famous puppets of @theseattlechannel.bsky.social! Seattle Solidarity Budget will be hosting a photo booth at City Hall at about 4pm ahead of the 5pm budget hearing!

Just watched One Battle After Another.

Definitely loved the car chase scene at the end. Never seen one shot with a telephoto lens like that

Seattle Mayor Harrell has repeatedly mocked his opponent, Katie Wilson, for saying she wants to add 4,000 new shelter beds over four years. Meanwhile, his administration was wasting millions keeping available hotel rooms empty.

I genuinely think experience counts for a lot.

I simply find it enraging when people pretend doing some normal private business job is somehow more qualifying for political leadership than organizing. It should be unnecessary for me to point out why that's problematic.

I know people complain about mastodon being difficult to use, but have they looked at how bsky decentralization works?

I can't seem to wrap my head around it – I understood mastodon pretty easily.

Join a server, add people using their unique handle, use your preferred app. Pretty simple.

"[T]he outcome of the city’s decision was that for nearly a year, Seattle paid for just as many rooms as before yet helped fewer and fewer people off the street with them."
- ProPublica on Mayor Harrell's mismanagement.

I will get results on homelessness: www.wilsonforseattle.com/homelessness

Video Store Day info and a fun mailbag here! 📽️ 🎁

The "Bruce Harrell for Seattle's Future" PAC has raised more money from Medina residents than the "Katie Wilson for an Affordable Seattle" PAC has raised overall.

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

I felt inspired during tonight’s mayoral debate

I installed Bazzite so I can play games on my PC tower around 5-6 months ago. Windows 11 was just being buggy AF and the AI features were being pushed more and more.

Bazzite has been pretty solid and was relatively easy to install.

Reminder that Harrell's biggest donors are big business and large real estate

So many of the political fights in Seattle are about embracing the actual urban character and place it is – vs trying to keep it trapped as some imaginary, characterless suburban village that it frankly hasn't ever been

The Making of Katie Wilson She’s coming for the mayor’s office.

What a great profile of @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social
So may reasons to look forward to her leadership and her commitment to serving the public good.
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/10...

I guess the people who run bsky are drinking out of the same well as Matt Yglesias?

Simultaneously thinking they know more than the more left folks, being very annoyed by them, but also don't have ability to admit they're being conservative

Imagining a scene where Lucius Fox designs the ultimate set of Depends for Bats

Basically there's no way out of this through the restoration of American Exceptionalism you see through the gross Liberal Currents people on this website. The way out will involve the US becoming Just Another Country, which also means ratifying all those treaties that every other country ratified

It’s weird that Harrell thinks he can handle Trump when he’s been consistently outflanked by Wilson.

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

Remote makes it so much easier.

Commuting is such a grind – I still remember my tech support job that got off at 10:30 and I'd have to take a 30-40 min subway ride back after.

Happy Oct 1 ✨🐈‍⬛🎃

It takes years of public outreach, activism & tons of money spent on studies to get good things put in.

Yet it takes only a few phone calls from specific people to have it all undone, regardless of what the broader public wants or needs.

Now it's easy to understand why we have all these crises

Boston Mayor’s Blowout Victory Jilts CEOs Seeking New Direction Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is coasting to reelection after her main opponent quit the race, giving her a commanding mandate that’s putting city business leaders on edge.

Don't sleep on Michelle Wu, one of this country's most quietly effective climate leaders, cruising to a second term in Boston. It's telling that business interests tried and failed to stop her and are pouting about it now

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New Bike Paths Connect South Park and Georgetown After Years of Community Advocacy Seattle's newest bike and walking paths link South Park and Georgetown, planting over 100 trees and creating safer routes for neighbors to connect.

Shout out to @sngreenways.bsky.social for this important work and small honorable mention to @poweredbylemonx.bsky.social for making great videos several years ago to help educate and promote this important connection!

southseattleemerald.org/news/2025/10...

Time to take down my pride flags I think – don't want them to get ruined during windstorm season

👀 #SEAelex