Brett Hamil

Great job by everybody who let their state reps know a $550M tax break for the biggest corporations in the world shouldn’t have been part of an historic income tax bill.

This was a fight, and working Washingtonians won.

The Spectre of Lynnwood

Flock camera outside around trees and blue sky

Lynnwood Removes Flock Cameras to Protect Identities of People Who Have to Live in Lynnwood: tinyurl.com/tjabcmbk

Zooming out & putting technical stuff aside, here’s my simple summary:

>4 yrs ago, we were like let’s update our land use to plan for growth & help our housing crisis! Today OPCD says we can only plan to make buildings slightly taller 1.5 more blocks away from transit in 2 more years.

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eddie munster lookin ass fascist

haha true

This illustrates the Carceral vs Restorative approaches in a nutshell. The sign doesn't actually deter anyone (& could in fact encourage poo/pee because it makes you look like a weird creep). The Poo Can advances a solution, signals neighborliness & provides infrastructure to mitigate the problem.

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Tired: little free libraries
Wired: sidewalk poo bag bin

Chad vs Virgin, dog poop edition

I posted this on TikTok and the comments are just 100s of ppl tagging their friend who Sharted 🥹🤣

previously
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"anyone who disagrees with me is misinformed" is BY FAR the number one go-to for the reactionary centrists on council, and the one that has been definitively disproven the most

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also, almost as disturbing, the fact he said his district is in danger of becoming a "Starbucks desert"

Modest proposal: A surveillance camera directly outside of Kettle's residence with a public live-stream.

What's good for citizens is good for council members.

(same size differential but reversed)

watching A Knight of the 7 Kingdoms i understand what it's like to be a squire because i take my kid to hockey

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you're eliding most of the substance of the thread to center your own op-ed from a year ago and also you're not my editor

I'm aware of your response. The fact remains her framing of these & similar issues is a large part of why we have her as mayor & not Harrell II. Grappling with whether or how that is a net good for the left is kinda the whole point of the thread (& where to go from here)

That's so clearly not what the post says and I oppose both of those things

ps There'll never be a better time to make the case to claw back surveillance (even normie libs get the dangers of ICE/Trump/Noem) AND council could do the right thing & clean up the peril they created instead of foisting it on Wilson (they don't have the votes but AMR, Foster & Lin seem onboard)

If you can comprehend that the SPD & their legacy media partners are basically a mob-style grift (Seattle is Dying-->23% raises & budget bumps stolen from housing $$) you can give Wilson some grace. But the clock is ticking. She's rhyming with the Harrell Admin on those grounds far too much lately

No doubt. If that shit isn't in process of being moved to the front burner very quickly it's gonna be a pretty hostile left to contend with. But then what--for her AND us?

As a Pragmatic Leftist I can admit that staring down the police protection racket & shrieking legacy crime porn media in yr first 6 months has gotta be terrifying. Anyone who's been paying attention understands the culture of impunity they represent. Ok then. Do some other big shit! Placate us x100!

It's like, ok you didn't run as an abolitionist or something so it's not like a total betrayal for any but the most benighted lefties. Fine then. So Start doing all the other big stuff you promised. Lk WA Blvd is a perfect example that would also directly placate me personally 🤫

I don't have answers for how she can keep normie libs onboard but it's clearly her prevailing impulse rn. I hate the panopticon to my core. My advice would be: pedestrianize Lk Wa Blvd, make a superblock or 2 & burnish some other shared bonafides til we can talk about the fucking cameras more calmly

Katie Wilson correctly ascertained this over a year ago & it's a large part of why she's mayor now imo. Unfortunately it seems to come w/the additional menu item of vouchsafing the surveillance panopticon, which could be a bridge too far for the much of the left
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