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Joe Veyera @joeveyera.bsky.social · 4d

Lumen Field Event Center will serve as a King County vote center on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday to assist those who need help completing their ballot, as well as register new voters and update current voter records.

Lumen Field King County Election Center | Lumen Field – LumenField.com

Nov 01, 2025 - Nov 04, 2025 / Seattle, Washington / Buy Tickets

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King County Elections @elections.kingcounty.gov · 4d

Vote Centers are open tomorrow! If you need in person assistance with registering or voting, visit one of seven locations across the county where staff will be on hand to help. kce.wiki/VoteCenter has times and locations.

Vote centers - King County, Washington

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Catherine Hinrichsen @chinrichsen.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you for your reporting on this. When I heard about the firings, I was worried about who had been fired. Your story confirmed what I was concerned about.

Catherine Hinrichsen @chinrichsen.bsky.social · 4d

I’m a property-owning boomer constantly vexed by how awful Horsey is. Why should young people read or subscribe to the Times if this is what the opinion staff thinks of them.

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Catherine Hinrichsen @chinrichsen.bsky.social · 7d

We have such a great #votebymail system. I’m always relieved when I see my vote’s been counted. Thank you @kingcountywa.bsky.social Elections.

Only 7 more days till we maybe get some good news & much-needed change (except let’s keep @alexis4seattle.bsky.social) 🤞🏼🗳️

Screen shot of King County Elections web page showing the steps in tracking a ballot and confirming the ballot was counted.

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Joe Veyera @joeveyera.bsky.social · 7d

The Crocodile and King County Elections will host "Croc the Vote" on Sunday from 4 to 8 p.m., turning the Belltown venue into an official ballot drop location, with music from rock band Balcony Bridge starting at 6 p.m.

thecrocodileseattle on Instagram: "Belltown! We’re teaming up with @kcelections and turning The Croc into an official ballot drop location on Sunday 11/2! Stop by wit…"

Belltown! We’re teaming up with @kcelections and turning The Croc into an official ballot drop location on Sunday 11/2! Stop by with your ballot between 4-8pm for drinks, music, and democracy in action 🍻🎶 🗳️View all comments

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jseattle @jseattle.bsky.social · 7d

In race for Seattle Mayor, Katie Wilson addresses ‘Momgate’

Half-jokingly referring to it as “the first scandal of my political life,” Bruce Harrell challenger Katie Wilson has produced a smart video response to what she is calling “Momgate” after the incumbent’s campaign seized on last week’s report from KUOW … Continue reading →

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AMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social · 8d

We deserve better. Dehumanizing our neighbors by using photos of them on their worst days without their consent is unacceptable. We have a lot of work to do to address homelessness, but this only moves us further from that goal by othering real people in an attempt to score cheap political points.

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Catherine Hinrichsen @chinrichsen.bsky.social · 12d

Such a lovely event, with inspiring award winners and a room full of generous community members!

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Catherine Hinrichsen @chinrichsen.bsky.social · 17d

30 years ago this week! It was always such fun to see the High Fiven’ White Guys running around 1990s Seattle. 😂

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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 17d

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 24d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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Catherine Hinrichsen @chinrichsen.bsky.social · 23d

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Point Blank Sandwich Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 24d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 25d

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

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Catherine Hinrichsen @chinrichsen.bsky.social · Oct 5

So did I, this morning! Probably the fourth time. Such a gem.

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Catherine Hinrichsen @chinrichsen.bsky.social · Oct 3

Thanks for the heads up, AI! We’ll all be watching at 1 a.m. Seattle time. 🙄 #mariners #ALDS #MLB

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · Sep 30

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

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Catherine Hinrichsen @chinrichsen.bsky.social · Sep 30

Thankful you both are ok. But that’s terrible!

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All Aboard Washington @aawa.us · Sep 29

Imagine your life without driving. We are joining organizations across Washington State to celebrate the #WeekWithoutDriving! Will you be participating by #AmtrakCascades or #SounderRail ? Check out our guide to rail and transit connections at www.aawa.us/week-without... Post your stories!

Connect between rail and transit during the Week Without Driving Monday, September 29 – Sunday, October 5, 2025

www.aawa.us

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Catherine Hinrichsen @chinrichsen.bsky.social · Sep 29

No it hasn’t.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · Sep 27

ME ON A TRAIN: Oh no, I accidentally clicked a video with sound! Oh god, people heard a second of loud sound from my phone. I have torn the social contract.

EVERYBODY ELSE ON TRAIN: Shit yeah, train time, time to watch the loudest TikToks

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · Sep 24

How it's going / How it started

Screenshot of op-ed header:

Opinion
Bret Stephens

Now the Left Cares About Free Speech Again
Sept. 23, 2025

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I Called Bret Stephens a Bedbug. Then He Tried to Squelch My Freedom of Speech. What a Day.
This, after embarrassing himself on Twitter and on national television.

By David Karpf Published: Aug 27, 2019 6:51 PM EDT

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · Sep 24

The greatest minds of the right wing intellectual dark web think tank cannot -- or won't -- distinguish between "comic gets yelled at in comedy club for telling shitty joke about trans people" and "federal government forces corporation to pull comedian off the air for mocking President"

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · Sep 24

I will not link to it. I just want to reiterate that thousands of books have been banned by the right. And American Dirt sold millions of copies.

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Catherine Hinrichsen @chinrichsen.bsky.social · Sep 24

Historic. Everyone needs to be able to watch this! Even If they live in a “blackout city” like we do in Seattle, where the craven Sinclair is refusing to air it. #JimmyKimmel youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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