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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 6h

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 11h

SDOT plans to make improvements to Occidental Ave in advance of the World Cup, but we definitely can't change parking on the street, so we're going to get a "walkway" between the road and parked cars.

Graphic showing cars parked on Occidental facing the buildings with the location of a "walkway test" between the road and the cars

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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 10h

There is no compromising with this.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 8h

Gee if only some one could have seen this coming.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Fix the L8 @fixthel8.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you for your support, @cmtmosqueda.bsky.social!

Page 1 of letter from Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda in support of bus lanes on Denny Way

Page 2 of letter from Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda in support of bus lanes on Denny Way

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 9h

The notion that the market pays what someone is “worth” ignores the fact that a few policy changes make that “worth” change dramatically.

What someone is economically “worth” is not some fact of the universe. It’s contingent on a million things we can impact.

Jemma Forte @jemmaforte.bsky.social · 15h

1970's: CEOs earn 20 x more than average worker
2025: CEOs earn 122 x more than average worker
The richest 1% own 50% of entire country's wealth.

Obscene inequality has been normalised.

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 10h

Tell everyone you know in Seattle!

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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 10h

That is INSANE that in this climate he’s at a friendly event with the discovery institute! Gross.

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 16h

Will DM you!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

• New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said that Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, "want to ... repeal the Affordable Care Act and elim nate protections for preexisting conditions." It's unclear what Trump would do, since he hasn't released a plan to replace the ACA. He said he would do so, if "we can come up With something that's better."

Schumer, meanwhile, was wrong to
say, as he did on the Senate floor April 28, that the bill goes "back to the day when insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."

perorats and Republicans have made
competing claims on whether the latest version of the GOP health care bill maintains protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. President Trump has said, "Pre-existing conditions are in the bill. And I mandate it." Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has said that
"insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."
Neither of those comments quite gets it right. The latest version offers lesser protections than the Affordable Care Act, but it doesn't allow insurers to deny coverage to someone with a health

Who's right? Like everything else in health care, it's complicated.

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 1d

We can take much larger donations.

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 1d

Exactly. If Harrell is re-elected, nothing will change on homelessness, on housing costs, and so much more. He will take it as validation of what he's done so far.

Katie Wilson for Seattle @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social · 1d

Now is not the time to reelect a mayor who refuses to take responsibility for the failures of his administration. We have lost shelter beds every year of the mayor’s term, and more people are sleeping outside as a result. We are a national outlier on unsheltered homelessness.

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Andy Randles @andyrandles.bsky.social · 1d

What is even the purpose of SEPA if a 594-stall parking garage is able to receive a "determination of non-significance"
www.djc.com/news/ae/1217...

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jcwalseth.bsky.social @jcwalseth.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for the heads up @ronpdavis.bsky.social ! I’m in.

Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 1d

Donate to the PAC to defeat Harrell and elect a brilliant mayor who shares our values! Seattleforkatie.com

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone wonder why @bruceforseattle.bsky.social
Is so popular with MAGA aligned groups?

Elect @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 1d

Harrell Says King County Public Health is "Failing Us," Talks Tough on Trump, and Muses About an AI Wall Where You Can Ask MLK What He Had for Breakfast

The mayor talks to a friendly audience at event sponsored by Seattle's police union, We Heart Seattle, and the Discovery Institute.

Harrell Says King County Health is "Failing Us," Talks Tough on Trump, and Muses About an AI Wall Where You Can Ask MLK What He Had for Breakfast - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett As readers may know, I’ve spent much of the last month attending Seattle mayoral debates and…

publicola.com

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone wonder why @bruceforseattle.bsky.social
Is so popular with MAGA aligned groups?

Elect @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 1d

Harrell Says King County Public Health is "Failing Us," Talks Tough on Trump, and Muses About an AI Wall Where You Can Ask MLK What He Had for Breakfast

The mayor talks to a friendly audience at event sponsored by Seattle's police union, We Heart Seattle, and the Discovery Institute.

Harrell Says King County Health is "Failing Us," Talks Tough on Trump, and Muses About an AI Wall Where You Can Ask MLK What He Had for Breakfast - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett As readers may know, I’ve spent much of the last month attending Seattle mayoral debates and…

publicola.com

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 1d

Donate to the PAC to defeat Harrell and elect a brilliant mayor who shares our values! Seattleforkatie.com

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats to Harrell who has finally built more shelter than he lost.

13 units in four years.

He promised 2000 & says he built 3000. The Seattle Times shows he is lying, taking credit for others’ work, & for moving tiny homes (counts each move as an opening!)

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell says he added 3,000 housing units. Did he?

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell is seeking reelection partly based on the claim he’s responsible for adding 3,000 emergency housing units. A deeper look reveals that’s an embellishment.

www.seattletimes.com

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 3d

Harrell has repeatedly chased bad public policy at the behest of rich backers, who he’s scared of upsetting. See the South Lake Union Sound Transit fiasco.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 3d

"No one bullies me. Remember, I was a linebacker," Harrell says, talking about Trump, to warm laughter in the crowd.

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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 1d

For a guy who ran on dashboards, the dashboards certainly have not been kind to Bruce

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The Seattle Times @seattletimes.com · 1d

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell is seeking reelection partly based on the claim he’s responsible for adding 3,000 emergency housing units. A deeper look reveals that’s an embellishment.

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell says he added 3,000 housing units. Did he?

www.seattletimes.com

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Katie Wilson for Seattle @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social · 1d

Seattle deserves real action, not embellishment. I am running to bring real solutions to our homelessness crisis — not fudge the numbers. #thisisyourcity

The Seattle Times @seattletimes.com · 1d

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell is seeking reelection partly based on the claim he’s responsible for adding 3,000 emergency housing units. A deeper look reveals that’s an embellishment.

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell says he added 3,000 housing units. Did he?

www.seattletimes.com

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats to Harrell who has finally built more shelter than he lost.

13 units in four years.

He promised 2000 & says he built 3000. The Seattle Times shows he is lying, taking credit for others’ work, & for moving tiny homes (counts each move as an opening!)

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell says he added 3,000 housing units. Did he?

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell is seeking reelection partly based on the claim he’s responsible for adding 3,000 emergency housing units. A deeper look reveals that’s an embellishment.

www.seattletimes.com

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 2d

Super interesting as a concept, hard to know whether its capaciousness is useful or just imprecise.

Sascha Benjamin Fink @sfink.bsky.social · 2d

A press release by Aarhus University on our paper on the multiple generator hypothesis (Kirkeby-Hinrup, Fink, & Overgaard 2025)

neurocampus.au.dk/display/arti...

Daily Neuron comments on The Multiple Generator Hypothesis

In a recent paper published in Neuroscience of Consciousness, researchers Asger Kirkeby-Hinrup, Sascha B. Fink, and Morten S. Overgaard propose a paradigm-shifting alternative. They reject the old ass...

neurocampus.au.dk

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 2d

Couldn’t agree more!

www.thestranger.com/guest-editor...

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