Josh Feit
@joshfeit.bsky.social
When they go low, go for the jugular. Author of 2 indie-press poetry books (Shops Close Too Early & The Night of Electric Bikes) https://www.joshfeitpoetry.com/. City planning columnist & cofounder (w/ @ericacbarnett.bsky.social) at https://publicola.com.
The Comey/James ruling. Sick Burn defined.
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The Comey/James ruling. Sick Burn defined.
Poet Adrienne Rich from her 1961 poem "Artificial Intelligence."... "while I/concede the victory, bow,/and slouch among my free associations." It gets even better/scarier/sadder... read the whole thing, only don't feed it to the data centers. www.autodidactproject.org/other/Artifi...
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: Adrienne Rich: "Artificial Intelligence" (1961)
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November 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Poet Adrienne Rich from her 1961 poem "Artificial Intelligence."... "while I/concede the victory, bow,/and slouch among my free associations." It gets even better/scarier/sadder... read the whole thing, only don't feed it to the data centers. www.autodidactproject.org/other/Artifi...
The old nativist-left alliance between socialists and NIMBYs has been broken. This is promising.
Learning that Annemarie Gray (no relation) of Open New York, NYC's YIMBY group, has been appointed to Mayor-elect Mamdani's housing transition team. This is FANTASTIC news!
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The old nativist-left alliance between socialists and NIMBYs has been broken. This is promising.
@tromano.bsky.social wrote an oral history of the Village Voice. @ericacbarnett.bsky.social & I will be interviewing her tonight at Elliott Bay. 7pm. Free. Here's the Village Voice from the week I was born. Stokely Carmichael's original "Black Power" exhortation and also the Beatles on the cover.
November 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
@tromano.bsky.social wrote an oral history of the Village Voice. @ericacbarnett.bsky.social & I will be interviewing her tonight at Elliott Bay. 7pm. Free. Here's the Village Voice from the week I was born. Stokely Carmichael's original "Black Power" exhortation and also the Beatles on the cover.
I'm All Lost In ... the 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.
I’m All Lost In, #110: A new blue suit at Men’s Wearhouse; free transit in Iowa City; and Simit at Trader Joe’s. — Josh Feit's Poetry
The most remarkable innovation in Mesopotamian civilization is urbanism.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I'm All Lost In ... the 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.
It's great that my post quoting Mayor-elect Katie Wilson's war-on-cars remark is racking up LIKES as if it's that movie shot where someone wins the slots jackpot. But juxtaposed w/ the crickets on a post I did yesterday about antisemitism. Well. Predictable. But. Makes it more obvious than usual
November 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
It's great that my post quoting Mayor-elect Katie Wilson's war-on-cars remark is racking up LIKES as if it's that movie shot where someone wins the slots jackpot. But juxtaposed w/ the crickets on a post I did yesterday about antisemitism. Well. Predictable. But. Makes it more obvious than usual
As a Jew who's alarmed about antisemitism these days, I'm comforted by Dem leaders like AOC who still see the bad guys of my inherited trauma as the defining, universal example of humanity's bad guys. Eloquent AF per usual from AOC.
AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM
As a Jew who's alarmed about antisemitism these days, I'm comforted by Dem leaders like AOC who still see the bad guys of my inherited trauma as the defining, universal example of humanity's bad guys. Eloquent AF per usual from AOC.
FYI. I released an electronic music project last month.
Collapse of a House Party
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November 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
FYI. I released an electronic music project last month.
Hell yes. Mayor-elect Wilson: We need to make it possible for more people to live in this city without owning a car. Not just for people who don’t own cars. As more people move to Seattle, we have limited space. It’s just not possible to keep adding cars to the road. publicola.com/2025/11/20/s...
Seattle Nice Interviews Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson! - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett We had Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson on Seattle Nice this week for a wide-ranging interview about her…
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November 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Hell yes. Mayor-elect Wilson: We need to make it possible for more people to live in this city without owning a car. Not just for people who don’t own cars. As more people move to Seattle, we have limited space. It’s just not possible to keep adding cars to the road. publicola.com/2025/11/20/s...
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Just went through spam and saw a pile of emails from Dawn Mason, a longtime Bruce Harrell ally he brought onstage at his election party, calling me "white trash" and a "petty thief," and claiming I went to her house one time univited (a bizarre falsehood she keeps repeating.) Such strange behavior.
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Just went through spam and saw a pile of emails from Dawn Mason, a longtime Bruce Harrell ally he brought onstage at his election party, calling me "white trash" and a "petty thief," and claiming I went to her house one time univited (a bizarre falsehood she keeps repeating.) Such strange behavior.
Talk about the promise of "Affordability" as a winning rejoinder to the Republicans nazi populism. There's certainly a metaphor in the 118% ridership increase.
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Talk about the promise of "Affordability" as a winning rejoinder to the Republicans nazi populism. There's certainly a metaphor in the 118% ridership increase.
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ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Minnesota for soliciting sex from a minor
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say
According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.
www.cbsnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Minnesota for soliciting sex from a minor
Want to, but can't seem to work this line (pilfered from a transit pal who just visited Tokyo for the first time) into a poem: "The trains don't arrive every minute, they arrive every 60 seconds."
November 19, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Want to, but can't seem to work this line (pilfered from a transit pal who just visited Tokyo for the first time) into a poem: "The trains don't arrive every minute, they arrive every 60 seconds."
@ericacbarnett.bsky.social "I took a deep dive..." LOL. Every. Day. @publicola.bsky.social ... Support this hard work: publicola.com/support/
November 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
@ericacbarnett.bsky.social "I took a deep dive..." LOL. Every. Day. @publicola.bsky.social ... Support this hard work: publicola.com/support/
Okay. I'm 100% late to this. But Mamdani quoted Nehru in his acceptance speech? Hell, yes. Love.
November 18, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Okay. I'm 100% late to this. But Mamdani quoted Nehru in his acceptance speech? Hell, yes. Love.
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Ryan, I'm kind looking forward to it. 4 years of getting to poke fun as they slip on their own doozies and comeuppance.
Can't say I'm looking forward to at least four more years of this type of disingenuousness.
The disingenuous whiners at the Seattle Times ed board actually suggested that Katie Wilson—mayor-elect and the founder of the Transit Riders Union (who used to do outreach at the bus stop on Third and Union)—doesn't know that the county, not the city, runs the buses. Cry harder, losers
November 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Ryan, I'm kind looking forward to it. 4 years of getting to poke fun as they slip on their own doozies and comeuppance.
Wilson doesn’t fit the old social justice stereotype where socialists and NIMBYs align in a reactionary, almost nativist left coalition. Wilson is too 21st century, more AOC than Bernie Bro, for such hokey self righteousness. www.joshfeitpoetry.com/blog/im-all-...
I’m All Lost In, #109: The tea shop upstairs; implausible names; Sweetgreen. — Josh Feit's Poetry
I couldn’t be more excited about the advent of the Katie Wilson Liberal Activist Layer.
www.joshfeitpoetry.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Wilson doesn’t fit the old social justice stereotype where socialists and NIMBYs align in a reactionary, almost nativist left coalition. Wilson is too 21st century, more AOC than Bernie Bro, for such hokey self righteousness. www.joshfeitpoetry.com/blog/im-all-...
Seattle's bumping. In the last 48 hours I've been at packed coffeeshops, 2 different crowded restaurants, on packed light rail trains & buses, at 2 packed bars, and out on the jumping streets. I'm not saying this is about Katie Wilson. But she IS more of a match for what's happening in our city.
November 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Seattle's bumping. In the last 48 hours I've been at packed coffeeshops, 2 different crowded restaurants, on packed light rail trains & buses, at 2 packed bars, and out on the jumping streets. I'm not saying this is about Katie Wilson. But she IS more of a match for what's happening in our city.
The 3 things I'm obsessed with THIS week. I couldn't be more excited about the advent of the Katie Wilson Liberal Activist Layer.
I’m All Lost In, #109: The tea shop upstairs; implausible names; Sweetgreen. — Josh Feit's Poetry
I couldn’t be more excited about the advent of the Katie Wilson Liberal Activist Layer.
www.joshfeitpoetry.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The 3 things I'm obsessed with THIS week. I couldn't be more excited about the advent of the Katie Wilson Liberal Activist Layer.
Field Trip to Snohomish Co. this AM.
November 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Field Trip to Snohomish Co. this AM.
Katie Wilson has bodyguards. Love.
November 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Katie Wilson has bodyguards. Love.
LOL. Given that we named the Stranger Election Control Board (ECB) after @ericacbarnett.bsky.social, you mean?
NYT writing about how The Stranger became a political powerhouse without talking to @ericacbarnett.bsky.social @joshfeit.bsky.social or @mudede.bsky.social is extreme journalistic malpractice. Before they came along, it was a nightlife weekly with funny sex advice
November 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
LOL. Given that we named the Stranger Election Control Board (ECB) after @ericacbarnett.bsky.social, you mean?
The hair stood up on my neck when I heard Vance's line about immigrants. They're such Nazis. And well, yep.
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
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November 14, 2025 at 5:30 AM
The hair stood up on my neck when I heard Vance's line about immigrants. They're such Nazis. And well, yep.