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COLUMN | What This Mayoral Election Owes 'Black Seattle' From City Hall to the Central District, Seattle's mayoral race raises deeper questions: Who speaks for "Black Seattle," and what does real representation look like beyond the ballot? Marcus Harrison G...

Who do we mean when we say “Black Seattle”?

This mayoral race isn’t about personalities—it’s about whether symbolism becomes substance. What do “seats at the table” mean if the rest of us go hungry?

My latest column for the @soseaemerald.bsky.social

YouTube video by Seattle Channel Seattle U Conversations: Mayoral Debate with Katie Wilson and Bruce Harrell

@seattleu.edu hosted a lively mayoral debate between incumbent Bruce Harrell & challenger Katie Wilson on Wednesday night. The two highlighted their differing views on issues ranging from homelessness and housing to public safety, federal overreach, transit and more.

If Bruce Harrell's case for re-election is his management experience, what should we make of two separate instances in the last week of city decisions made under his watch being immediately reversed after huge community blowback?

Opinion | They Saw Their Neighbors Taken Away by ICE. Then They Made a Plan.

Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo.

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Quite an impressive feat to apparently create 1,000 new emergency units in the 12 days between when these two ads dropped

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Young Leaders Are Ready To Take The Democratic Reins—Will The Establishment Let Them? This is the energy the Democratic Party needs

Democrats have hit historic lows in favorability with young voters. After years of being sidelined by establishment politics, these voters are demanding change. And now, a new generation of leaders is stepping up to answer the call. Will the party make space for them?

I tried Seattle mayoral candidate Katie Wilson's (husband's) bagels If this is going to be Seattle's next First Bagel, we need to know how good it is...

Seattle mayoral candidate Katie Wilson said her husband makes the best bagels in town. So I tried them…

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Together, we can build a Seattle that actually works for working families.

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Chris Hayes: Would you just, can we just stop there and can you just explain what AGI means? Karen Hao: Okay. AGI refers to artificial general intelligence, and this is an incredibly poorly defined term. The very hand wavy summary of what people typically describe it as is an A.I. system that can ultimately do anything that humans can do. But this is a really challenging measure because like what makes humans intelligent, doesn’t have any scientific consensus. And so, when you’re trying to capture in software, something that we don’t understand about humans -- Chris Hayes: Right. Karen Hao: -- you end up with lots of different opinions about how to do it, what it should look like, who it should serve, all of those things. And so, throughout the decades of A.I. research and development, all the way from the 1950s until present day, there have been just tons and tons of debates, egos clashing, opinions clashing about these kind of core questions of what A.I. and AGI ultimately is. The way that OpenAI has specifically defined it is highly autonomous systems that outperform humans in most economically valuable work. And so, they’ve specifically defined it as a labor automating machine. That is also really key, important dimension to understanding the truly deeply capitalistic nature of OpenAI.

Karen Hao: And, and also to understanding the trajectory that they’re taking as a company. Ultimately, they’re trying to build systems that they can sell to CEOs for a lot of money -- Chris Hayes: To replace humans. Karen Hao: -- to say -- Chris Hayes: To automate human work. Karen Hao: Exactly. To automate a way, yeah. If they’re trying to build systems that outperform humans at the thing that makes people want to pay you, you’re no longer going to be paid. They’re just going to opt for the AI.

Mind-blowingly revelatory point about AI as a socially & eocnomically disruptive technology, from @chrislhayes.bsky.social's recent interview with @karenhao.bsky.social on her new book Empire of AI on OpenAI:

They're DEFINING "artificial general intelligence" as AI capable of replacing human labor!

American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating Contrary to conventional wisdom, anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed 2017 in size, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.

This one is important. Share it widely. "Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful." wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...

Help Power KEXP's One-Day Drive

What a gift to turn on KEXP this morning, 24 hours into their 27 hour marathon for public radio, and hear the joy of Let's Go Crazy, followed by Born to Run. We are so lucky. Tune in live KEXP.org

"What does a human slowly going insane look like to a corporation?" Mr. Yudkowsky asked in an interview. "It looks like an additional monthly user."

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KEXP hosts 27-hour marathon broadcast to protest potential public media cuts The local radio station is holding the marathon broadcast to bring awareness to the public funding it, as well as many other stations, rely on from being cut as part of a Republican-led recession pack...

Happening all night at KEXP ! The Gathering Space will be open all night so stop by and say HI www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

The Strategic Logic of the No Kings Protests By Leah Greenberg, Indivisible Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director

Why another protest? What is it going to accomplish? Shouldn’t we be [insert alternate tactic] instead?

These are good-faith questions, and they stem from very reasonable concerns. So let’s take a step back and talk about the role of a peaceful mass mobilization like No Kings.

How can we actually make the rent go down?

Let’s talk about it with Katie!

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Despite what the NYT and @conordougherty.bsky.social want you to think, sprawl isn't our only option to address affordability. We can do things differently, and here in WA, we ARE doing things differently.

A quick recap of what's in WA's TOD bill (2/2)
• 10% of units affordable at 60% AMI unless the jurisdiction already has an inclusionary zoning program or already has zoned for the minimum density
• 20-year property tax exemption for new development to offset the cost of the affordability requirement

A quick recap of what’s in WA’s TOD bill (1/2)
• Minimum density of 3.5 FAR (~5-6 stories) within ½ mile of rail stations
• Minimum density of 2.5 FAR (~4 stories) within ¼ mile of bus rapid transit stops
• Elimination of parking requirements within those station areas

Still feels a bit surreal to see this pass. We started session estimating a 25% chance. But we plugged away with the policy work and organizing, and the success fed on itself. Still wasn't sure what would happen as early as Monday of this week. It's not over till it's over!

Democrat James Malone is projected to defeat Republican Lancaster County Commissioner Josh Parsons to represent Pennsylvania State Senate District 36 in a major upset in a district that comfortably voted for President Trump in November with 57 percent of the vote. thehill.com/homenews/cam...

Today ICE agents detained the prominent farmworker organizer Alfredo Juarez, also known as Lelo, in Washington State. Community groups allege that agents broke Lelo’s car window to apprehend him, violating his constitutional rights. They are calling for his immediate release.

The Vice President is a long time adherent of a bunch of self described monarchists, neofascists, and race realists and the press has never showed it an ounce of interest. Maybe 1/20th of the voting public has any clue. If you want to learn about it you have to go to podcasts and independent outlets

PubliCola Questions: Mayoral Candidate Katie Wilson - PubliCola “Harrell’s the status quo, and it’s not working,” Transit Riders Union leader Wilson says. By Erica C. Barnett Mayor Bruce…

PubliCola Questions: Mayoral Candidate Katie Wilson

"Harrell's the status quo, and it’s not working," Transit Riders Union leader Wilson says.

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Activist Katie Wilson enters Seattle mayoral race against Harrell She cited the passage of Prop 1A as helping convince her to run, saying she thinks voters want leaders who “govern in the interest of people in the city.”

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Katie Wilson Jumps In Seattle Mayor Race as Progressive Coalition-Builder - The Urbanist # Transit Riders Union leader Katie Wilson jumped in the race to be the next mayor of Seattle today. Our interview with Wilson covers what's motivating her to run and how she would deliver results whe...

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Progressive organizer joins Seattle mayoral race against Harrell She’ll enter the race against incumbent Bruce Harrell as an underdog — a fact she acknowledged — but she believes his perceived inevitability can be pierced.

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Katie Wilson Wants to Be Your Mayor Katie Wilson, the General Secretary of the Transit Riders Union and long-time local progressive organizer, is running for Seattle mayor.

Well, the cat is out of the bag. I'm running for mayor. Seattle residents can help me qualify for Democracy Vouchers (and anyone can donate) at WilsonForSeattle [dot] com. More press below. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/03...

Why Corporate DEI Is Such a Perfect Target for Trump It’s an attack on labor. But he can frame it as something else.

"The fact is, the battle over “DEI” has always been a fight about labor, work, and who has access to the jobs and political institutions that build and protect wealth. If we ever forgot that, we’re learning it again now."

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