@jeremycaney.bsky.social
John Waters likes to complain that today’s activists don’t have a fashion of their own. Transit Riders Union (@seattletru.bsky.social) and supporters of Katie Wilson’s campaign for Seattle mayor (@wilsonforseattle.bsky.social) are challenging that.
06.11.2025 21:53 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0You bought it for the stickers.
29.10.2025 06:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I’m worried for you—and us. Have you considered the possibility that he’s telling you the truth? So say we all.
29.09.2025 06:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0You can actually be both simultaneously. They aren’t at odds with one another.
28.08.2025 11:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I love transit. I hate selfies. What to do? 😱 (Fine, I guess I’ll find a car.)
28.08.2025 11:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Rory O’Sullivan, candidate for Seattle City Attorney. He didn’t make the top two needed to continue to the general election.
Balloons at the election watch party
Katie Wilson for Mayor yard sign.
08.08.2025 00:44 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Katie Wilson amongst the crowd.
Katie Wilson with a supporter.
Transit Rider’s Union merch. Katie Wilson in the background.
Seattle City Council member Tammy Morales, who represents District 2.
08.08.2025 00:44 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Supporters cheering as Katie Wilson takes the stage.
Crowd, including children, watching Katie Wilson discuss the primary results and her campaign.
Katie Wilson’s daughter, Josie, celebrating her birthday.
Katie Wilson immediately after receiving the first batch of primary results.
Some photos from the election night watch party when progressive candidate Katie Wilson (@wilsonforseattle.bsky.social) surpassed moderate incumbent Bruce Harrell in the top-two primary for Seattle mayor.
08.08.2025 00:44 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1Audio clip from The Opinions podcast episode to provide full quote and context. The entire topic is interesting, but this bit about the co-opting of the body positivity movement is one of my soapboxes, so I was happy to see some discussion about it.
02.08.2025 23:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“The body positivity movement… got co-opted by the wellness movement, and so people stopped using language like, ‘Oh, I’m doing this to be thin.’ And instead changed their language to: ‘I’m doing this to be healthy.’ But healthy was always synonymous with thinness…” — Jessica Grose via @nytimes.com
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Some interesting context from the researcher who coined the term, via the @nytimes.com Instagram post about the article.
02.08.2025 22:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That seems valid to me, even if Israel’s response is wildly disproportionate and inhumane. October 7th was a clear provocation. Both can be true. Acknowledging there’s also a historical context and foundation here that’s not irrelevant.
30.07.2025 23:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0No shade on this episode, but: Nobody should accuse this Supreme Court—and especially its conservative majority!—as consisting of “Radical Feminists”, independent of how “Trans Exclusionary” they may be. We too often use the term “TERF” when “transphobic” or just simply “bigot” are more appropriate.
04.07.2025 05:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I was just hoping to double dip. And, perhaps, get some relevant dating advice.
15.05.2025 18:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I love the characterization of ChatGPT as Bullshit as a Service. Though a close second is Mansplaining as a Service.
15.05.2025 18:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Spill it all out! We’re here to live vicariously.
14.05.2025 22:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Obligatory!
02.02.2025 08:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I’m happy someone—outside of domestic companies uninvolved in global trade—is making money off of this news!
02.02.2025 04:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cartoon of Trump painting over words like fairness, integrity, compassion, leadership, etc.
Was inspired to do my first political cartoon today, based on a NY Times photo I saw yesterday.
31.01.2025 21:06 — 👍 17 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 3Though, I suspect, the association of such rhetoric with Trump has just made it less fashionable to talk about on the Left, while making it more palatable in what was not long ago still referred to as the “Party of Free Trade”.
02.02.2025 03:55 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0If there’s a silver lining: It seems the protectionist faction of the Left peaked during Bernie Sander’s primary campaign, and perhaps Trump’s blatant mercantilism has inoculated the Left from such zero sum thinking.
02.02.2025 03:54 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
We won’t be surprised by this week’s news, as it was a top campaign promise.It’s nevertheless dispiriting.
What I responded to eight years ago pales next to what we’re seeing today—what I ever even imagined!—though it’s the culmination of increasingly protectionist rhetoric over the last decades.
