Pinned
🔘 the built-in voter suppression that is the electoral college, and that originated from trying to protect slave owners/slave states
🔘 gerrymandering
🔘 all of that combined with the accumulation of wealth for a few people who also control media with vested interest in fossil fuels and war
🔘 gerrymandering
🔘 all of that combined with the accumulation of wealth for a few people who also control media with vested interest in fossil fuels and war
Hi
I am here to remind you, as a millennial, that you can in fact just call people you miss to talk for no reason. You don’t need a reason. You don’t. Need. A reason. To call.
I suck at this but am trying to get better and highly recommend.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
I am here to remind you, as a millennial, that you can in fact just call people you miss to talk for no reason. You don’t need a reason. You don’t. Need. A reason. To call.
I suck at this but am trying to get better and highly recommend.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
November 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Hi
I am here to remind you, as a millennial, that you can in fact just call people you miss to talk for no reason. You don’t need a reason. You don’t. Need. A reason. To call.
I suck at this but am trying to get better and highly recommend.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
I am here to remind you, as a millennial, that you can in fact just call people you miss to talk for no reason. You don’t need a reason. You don’t. Need. A reason. To call.
I suck at this but am trying to get better and highly recommend.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
I think—and it feels wild for me to say this—this is the first time I’ve EVER seen a mouth-open, angry-ish speaking photo used for a male elected official, especially a white male elected official. More of this, please. And less of the opposite.
November 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I think—and it feels wild for me to say this—this is the first time I’ve EVER seen a mouth-open, angry-ish speaking photo used for a male elected official, especially a white male elected official. More of this, please. And less of the opposite.
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A little different but this reminded me of an article earlier this week that described a woman in Chicago who had recently taken her oath of citizenship and her husband had just been detained by federal agents. Her husband had an immigration hearing next year.
November 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
A little different but this reminded me of an article earlier this week that described a woman in Chicago who had recently taken her oath of citizenship and her husband had just been detained by federal agents. Her husband had an immigration hearing next year.
Reposted by Kelsey Hamlin
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Reposted by Kelsey Hamlin
Reposted by Kelsey Hamlin
More Black women are evicted every year than Black men are incarcerated. For profit prisons are one of the leading funders of lobbying against tenants' rights ordinances and for strict no-fault eviction laws. The reason is simple: eviction feeds the carceral state.
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
More Black women are evicted every year than Black men are incarcerated. For profit prisons are one of the leading funders of lobbying against tenants' rights ordinances and for strict no-fault eviction laws. The reason is simple: eviction feeds the carceral state.
Reposted by Kelsey Hamlin
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
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I wrote about the man Florida plans to kill tonight and how the death penalty impacts people in ways we might never imagine.
At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.
Richard Randolph, now Malik Abdul-Sajjad, is scheduled to die tonight. His biological mother will never get a chance to meet him.
theintercept.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I wrote about the man Florida plans to kill tonight and how the death penalty impacts people in ways we might never imagine.
Reposted by Kelsey Hamlin
I really hope some news outlet covers the widespread threats & intimidation used by Harrell + his team to get orgs and individuals to not support Wilson, or to change their support. It’s just really trash behavior; it’s concerning how many people were scared of him.
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I really hope some news outlet covers the widespread threats & intimidation used by Harrell + his team to get orgs and individuals to not support Wilson, or to change their support. It’s just really trash behavior; it’s concerning how many people were scared of him.
Reposted by Kelsey Hamlin
I’ve seen enough. Congratulations @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social on becoming the 58th Mayor of Seattle.
November 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I’ve seen enough. Congratulations @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social on becoming the 58th Mayor of Seattle.
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KATIE WILSON LEADS BY 1,346!
November 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
KATIE WILSON LEADS BY 1,346!
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Without speaking to the merits of the legal case against a specific proposal to allow housing near Seattle's stadiums, the Port has, does, and will always argue that creating housing for people anywhere near industrial zoning will kill jobs. www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/11/s...
Stadium District Zoning Change Declared Invalid After Port of Seattle Appeal » The Urbanist
# The contentious proposal, approved by a 6-3 vote in March, legalized residential uses in a small slice of SoDo. But a state board pointed out several areas where the City cut corners ahead of that v...
www.theurbanist.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Without speaking to the merits of the legal case against a specific proposal to allow housing near Seattle's stadiums, the Port has, does, and will always argue that creating housing for people anywhere near industrial zoning will kill jobs. www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/11/s...
Reposted by Kelsey Hamlin
You can check if your ballot is valid here or if you need to fix it here. Most of the issues are related to a lack of signature or the signature being different than that on your driver's license: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
King County Elections
Led by Director Julie Wise, King County Elections conducts accurate, secure, and accessible elections for King County's over 1.4 million registered voters.
info.kingcounty.gov
November 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
You can check if your ballot is valid here or if you need to fix it here. Most of the issues are related to a lack of signature or the signature being different than that on your driver's license: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
Let them eat cake.
Oh, this is wild.
DOJ went to SCOTUS *before* we got the First Circuit's administrative stay denial. (We know this because DOJ just filed a letter at SCOTUS about the admin stay denial.)
So, DOJ went to SCOTUS b/c the First Circuit did not meet its less-than-seven-hour "deadline" for a ruling.
DOJ went to SCOTUS *before* we got the First Circuit's administrative stay denial. (We know this because DOJ just filed a letter at SCOTUS about the admin stay denial.)
So, DOJ went to SCOTUS b/c the First Circuit did not meet its less-than-seven-hour "deadline" for a ruling.
November 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Let them eat cake.
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There it is: after four days of counting (we need to count faster!), progressive Sarah Dixit has pulled ahead of conservative Jon Bingle by just 53 votes!
Sarah Dixit: 5,732 (49.9%)
Jon Bingle: 5,679 (49.5%)
The machine recount threshold is 0.5%. The hand recount threshold is 0.25%.
Sarah Dixit: 5,732 (49.9%)
Jon Bingle: 5,679 (49.5%)
The machine recount threshold is 0.5%. The hand recount threshold is 0.25%.
WE HAVE A RACE!
After the third day of counting, progressive Sarah Dixit is continuing to catch up to conservative Jon Bingle.
They’re now separated by just 68 VOTES!
Sarah Dixit: 4,826 (49.5%)
Jonathan Bingle: 4,894 (50.2%)
If elected, Dixit would be our Council’s sixth true progressive.
After the third day of counting, progressive Sarah Dixit is continuing to catch up to conservative Jon Bingle.
They’re now separated by just 68 VOTES!
Sarah Dixit: 4,826 (49.5%)
Jonathan Bingle: 4,894 (50.2%)
If elected, Dixit would be our Council’s sixth true progressive.
After another day of counting, the race has tightened a bit, and Dixit and Bingle are separated by only 184 votes.
Sarah Dixit: 4,468 (48.8%)
Jon Bingle: 4,652 (50.9%)
There are about 26,000 ballots countywide that are on-hand and still need to be counted, but a few more might trickle in.
Sarah Dixit: 4,468 (48.8%)
Jon Bingle: 4,652 (50.9%)
There are about 26,000 ballots countywide that are on-hand and still need to be counted, but a few more might trickle in.
November 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
There it is: after four days of counting (we need to count faster!), progressive Sarah Dixit has pulled ahead of conservative Jon Bingle by just 53 votes!
Sarah Dixit: 5,732 (49.9%)
Jon Bingle: 5,679 (49.5%)
The machine recount threshold is 0.5%. The hand recount threshold is 0.25%.
Sarah Dixit: 5,732 (49.9%)
Jon Bingle: 5,679 (49.5%)
The machine recount threshold is 0.5%. The hand recount threshold is 0.25%.
Reposted by Kelsey Hamlin
Seattle politics nerds explaining the next week of ballot counting
a man is writing on a whiteboard with the words it 's simple math written below him
Alt: a man is writing on a whiteboard with the words it 's simple math written below him
media.tenor.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Seattle politics nerds explaining the next week of ballot counting
Reposted by Kelsey Hamlin
HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.
November 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.
Reposted by Kelsey Hamlin
This—agents driving around in circles and provoking the community—has gone on for hours at this point with no discernible goal other than to inflict terror.
They also just fired pepper balls at someone.
They also just fired pepper balls at someone.
Border Patrol is out and about in Little Village this morning.
November 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This—agents driving around in circles and provoking the community—has gone on for hours at this point with no discernible goal other than to inflict terror.
They also just fired pepper balls at someone.
They also just fired pepper balls at someone.
Reposted by Kelsey Hamlin
Federal agents in Chicago are aggressive everywhere but they elevate this in the SW Side. They don’t just snatch people and leave. They linger longer, march down streets with guns, interrupt traffic flows. The attacks feel concerted to instill as much fear & display power over immigrant mhoods.
November 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Federal agents in Chicago are aggressive everywhere but they elevate this in the SW Side. They don’t just snatch people and leave. They linger longer, march down streets with guns, interrupt traffic flows. The attacks feel concerted to instill as much fear & display power over immigrant mhoods.
Reposted by Kelsey Hamlin
Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.
Reposted by Kelsey Hamlin
November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
This Virginia Election Was a Warning for Data Centers
John McAuliff ran his campaign almost entirely on data centers — and won.
heatmap.news
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
Reposted by Kelsey Hamlin
Per King County elections, expect around 30,000 ballots in Seattle's drop today. Seems likely this thing is headed to next week.
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Per King County elections, expect around 30,000 ballots in Seattle's drop today. Seems likely this thing is headed to next week.
Reposted by Kelsey Hamlin
King County elections confirmed to me that so far they’ve only counted ballots up to those submitted Monday or early on Election Day, and none from drop boxes. Wednesday reflects basically a wrap up of what they started counting Tuesday.
The general wisdom is that Wednesday is a continuation of election night and Thursday is when the lefty trend shows up. Nonetheless, this gives Harrell a bigger cushion heading into tomorrow and Friday.
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell gained another point on progressive challenger Katie Wilson in today's ballot drop, which added about ~21,000 ballots. She trails by 8 points.
Expected bigger counts tomorrow and Friday, which are typically more progressive-favoring. Comeback still possible.
Expected bigger counts tomorrow and Friday, which are typically more progressive-favoring. Comeback still possible.
November 6, 2025 at 12:15 AM
King County elections confirmed to me that so far they’ve only counted ballots up to those submitted Monday or early on Election Day, and none from drop boxes. Wednesday reflects basically a wrap up of what they started counting Tuesday.
Reposted by Kelsey Hamlin
When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government.
We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide:
www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...
We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide:
www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...
How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government
The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), owned by major U.S. airlines, collects billions of ticketing records and sells them to the government to be searched without a warrant. I managed to opt-out…
www.404media.co
November 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government.
We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide:
www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...
We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide:
www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...