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Progressives Win in Seattle, Changing Directions on Public Safety - Bolts Voters ousted a mayor who oversaw a surge in encampment sweeps, and a Republican prosecutor who pursued punitive policies toward homeless people and drug users.

Confirmed: Katie Wilson will be mayor of Seattle, ousting the incumbent from his left.

And Erika Evans will be the new city attorney, ousting the GOP city attorney after promising to take the office in a more progressive direction.

What do progressives' win mean for law enforcement? NEW IN BOLTS:

This sounds like a private conversation between Elon and grok.

Pope Leo and Joyce Carrol Oates should start a super team.
(and possibly a podcast?!)

Because he provides them with children to abuse and they all believe they're beyond any form of accountability. They could care less about how weird his emails are.

Congratulations Seattle and the nation! We've got a Democratic Socialist mayor in the biggest city in the NE of the country and the biggest city in the NW of the country. Can't wait to see what they can get done together.

I knew there was a reason Republicans have been trying to stop the release of the Epstein files, but holy ****ing shit.

Finally!

Release the Epstein files!

When people declare themselves messiahs, and characterize anyone who opposes their will as demonic, the reaction of a normal society is to institutionalize them.

She married a cardiologist? That's a step too far!

It was working last Tuesday and in all of the polls since.

Doubtful. He's likely committed to playing "Jesus" in The Passion of The Christ 3.

This hidden provision is so crooked and selfish, it doesn't even apply to US Representatives. Just US Senators.

Himself in a mirror.

You're talking to yourself in a mirror to distract yourself. You know what's up. Schumer has to go.

Hell yeah! This neighbor across the Puget Sound from Seattle is ecstatic.

Vote batch added on 11/10: Ballots Counted: 272,041 * Registered Voters: 505,393 53.83% Mayor Katie Wilson 133,469 49.83% Bruce Harrell 133,378 49.79% Write-in 1,028 0.38%

#Seattle #Seattlemayor

Holy shit. After today's update, Katie Wilson is leading Bruce Harrel by 91 votes! Not a typo: NINETY ONE votes!

Atlético Ottawa top Cavalry FC in driving snowstorm to win 1st ever CPL title | CBC News Atlético Ottawa have claimed their first ever Canadian Premier League title Sunday night, beating Calgary's Cavalry FC 2-1 at home  in a driving November snowstorm  that players and fans alike said th...

It's definitely that time of year. This was what the final of inaugural Canadian Premier League championship looked like last night. It was an absolute mess.
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Trump Completes Jan. 6 Autocoup With Mass Preemptive Pardons For My Friends, Everything … Let the record show that President Donald...

Trump Completes Jan. 6 Autocoup With Mass Preemptive Pardons talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Wow, great timing. I was just thinking about how we need to elect more nepotistic aristocrats who have no connection at all to the struggles and concerns of the vast majority of Americans.

Eight Senate Democrats saw charts like these and decided "oh yes, now that public opinion is on our side and our opponent is facing electoral consequences for their policy choices, now is a great time to give up all of our leverage in health care negotiations" www.gelliottmorris.com/p/donald-tru...

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.

Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

That touch by Roldan was nasty.

@glork is this true?

AKA The Thing We Just Made Up To Briefly Placate Trump Award

Kakistocracy at every imaginable level.

I think it's both nil nisi bonum and inappropriate given the severity of his crimes against humanity. Silence is always an option.

She campaigned with and befriended both Liz and Dick Cheney during her failed campaign. It's one of the reasons she failed. If this were an isolated incident I'd agree, but it's not.

So many of these losers are coping by blaming Sliwa for the loss.

There's still 9% of the vote uncounted, but right now if you added every single Sliwa vote to Cuomo's total, Cuomo would still fucking lose by ~1.7%. Highly doubt that hypothetical margin will change much once every vote is tallied.

Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.