Nathan Rouse

Ten--count them-- ten SPD officers managed to break up this "organized" criminal operation, and recovered "three pairs of children’s shoes ($26 a pair), beanies ($7 each), cologne ($10), two sweatshirts (at $30 each, the highest-value items stolen), and a pet toy (price unknown)." 🙄

Seattle Spent Thousands on "Organized Retail Theft" Operation at Marshall's, Arresting Five and Recovering $400 in Merchandise - PubliCola By Erica C. Barnett Last week, the Seattle Police Department announced it had completed a successful “Organized Retail Theft Operation”…

Seattle Spent Thousands on "Organized Retail Theft" Operation at Marshall's, Arresting Five and Recovering $400 in Merchandise
The operation involved at least 10 officers and suspects were jailed for up to a week for stealing knit caps, sweatshirts, and a pet toy.
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Banishment Orders and Mandatory Addiction Assessments Haven't Helped Drug Users, Court Records Show - PubliCola By Erica C. Barnett Since the city reinstated an old law allowing judges to banish people from certain areas if…

Banishment Orders and Mandatory Addiction Assessments Haven't Helped Drug Users, Court Records Show

The city now sends public drug users to jail and releases them after a brief assessment, dropping charges if they avoid arrest for 60 days. This costly approach appears to be ineffective.

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

This article is 🫣🤯😬🤦‍♂️

Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them. Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.

NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.

By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.

Seattle voters, this is an important read! Take this into consideration when you vote for our next mayor. My personal view is that we need a mayor who will stay present and dogged in the pursuit of addressing our housing crisis.

Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them. Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.

This is fantastic local journalism 👏

Good to see @kromandavid.bsky.social hold Harrell to the fact he HIRED Diaz after bragging about firing him

Harrell repeatedly accusing Katie of dishonesty is offensive. I hope these moderators do their job.

Who did that question come from? Disappointing.

For the love of god PLEASE no one do this.

Capitalism, amirite?

Everything Is Political: Christian Sinderman Was Scrutinized for City Hall Contracts. Now He's on the SDOT Payroll. While a 20-hour-per-week consulting role with SDOT might not put Sinderman in the same seat of power that a roving office on the seventh floor of City Hall and an internal email once provided him, it'...

This SDOT contract was first reported in the @soseaemerald.bsky.social I believe: southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/....

Harrell’s campaign consultant got special access to City Hall this year Records show Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell's chief political consultant, Christian Sinderman, had special access to City Hall during his reelection year.

Way to go @glentalk.bsky.social!

“An independent journalist, Glen Stellmacher, requested some of the logs detailing Sinderman’s key card access to City Hall earlier this year and shared them with The Seattle Times after the newspaper published a Sept. 7 story about Sinderman.”

I continue to hear myths in Seattle about people moving here to be homeless, despite studies to the contrary, the obvious link to rising housing costs, and many heartbreaking stories like those Brian shares. Most homeless people in Seattle were housed in Seattle and we should not accept it.

No reason to fear the wrath of someone who will be out of power soon.

Frustrating ending! Hard not to think what could have been if Julio hadn’t got caught on that pickoff…

Yeah it’s really not okay. That gun range echoes across so much of the valley.

It's so exhausting to hear people talk all the time about how jail, loss of housing, or constant check-ins with a judge serve as great "accountability" tools when one of the most successful forms of accountability is peer accountability that doesn't have the threat of punishment behind it.

In an Era of Deep Polarization, Unity Is Not Trump’s Mission

Duh

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

Is this the year Seattle goes socialist? It’s sure looking that way Seattle mayoral candidate Katie Wilson says "yes, I am a socialist." But it's a softer socialism. Can it break through without fracturing the Democratic Party?

Notice what Westneat won't examine: How Harrell's corporate-friendly policies are working out.

Cut tenant assistance ✅
Eliminated shelter beds ✅
Diverted housing funds ✅

But sure, *Wilson's* plans are "unrealistic" 🧵3/3

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Nope.

Pioneering WA Supreme Court justice to retire Before joining the state's highest court, Mary Yu was a judge in King County Superior Court, where she performed Washington's first same-sex marriages.

Several retirements coming to the Washington Supreme Court. In addition to Justice Yu, there are two others that will have to retire in the coming years due to the constitution’s age limit.

Justice Yu - 2025 (per article ⬇️ )
Justice Johnson - 2026 (turning 75)
Justice Madsen - 2027 (turning 75)

Good time for folks who haven’t to pitch in to support the hard work Erica does for our city!

Seattle Council Greenlights Police Surveillance Expansion, Ignoring Community Objections » The Urbanist # This week, the Seattle City Council took a controversial 7-2 vote to greatly expand the Seattle Police Department’s surveillance pilot program, as proposed by Mayor Bruce Harrell. Public comment was overwhelmingly against the idea, and progressive candidates also criticized the move.

NEW // Seattle Council Greenlights Police Surveillance Expansion, Ignoring Community Objections

By Amy Sundberg

via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/11/s...

Harrell's repeated insistence that opponents have no right to criticize his policy priorities shows that he's on the defensive. It also highlights the tendency among this mayor and this city council to express high umbrage at the dissent their dissatisfied constituents have every right to express.