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A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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Since January 1, 2020, prices for goods, services, and labor have increased by 26%. But over the same period, #waleg has only allowed each jurisdiction’s property tax revenues to grow about 5% to 6%, plus the value of new construction.
It’s time to fix this.
Read my latest for the @inlander.com:
It’s time to fix this.
Read my latest for the @inlander.com:
Will 2026 be the year Washington allows municipalities to close their local budget deficits by lifting the property tax cap?
At the end of the year, when local governments are adopting their budgets for the coming year, I tend to get touchy about the way local media outlets report on
www.inlander.com
January 2, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Since January 1, 2020, prices for goods, services, and labor have increased by 26%. But over the same period, #waleg has only allowed each jurisdiction’s property tax revenues to grow about 5% to 6%, plus the value of new construction.
It’s time to fix this.
Read my latest for the @inlander.com:
It’s time to fix this.
Read my latest for the @inlander.com:
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Shockingly, this bill would have failed were it not for the 3 Democrat defections.
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
December 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Shockingly, this bill would have failed were it not for the 3 Democrat defections.
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Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
December 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
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Has your ballot been challenged? A significant number of ballots are in danger of not being counted. Don’t let your ballot be the one that tips the election to Harrell!
Make sure it’s counted here 👉 info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
Make sure it’s counted here 👉 info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Has your ballot been challenged? A significant number of ballots are in danger of not being counted. Don’t let your ballot be the one that tips the election to Harrell!
Make sure it’s counted here 👉 info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
Make sure it’s counted here 👉 info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
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The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
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Five days left to vote for a Seattle that works for all of us! Find your nearest ballot drop box at the link in my bio. Already voted? Remind five friends! Together, we can build an affordable Seattle.
October 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Five days left to vote for a Seattle that works for all of us! Find your nearest ballot drop box at the link in my bio. Already voted? Remind five friends! Together, we can build an affordable Seattle.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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I address the first scandal of my political life—Momgate.
October 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I address the first scandal of my political life—Momgate.
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Bruce Harrell's biggest selling point is his "experience," but these Seattle city employees want you to know that the price of this experience is too high, and Seattle can't afford to pay it anymore.
Guest Rant: Seattle Has Paid the Price of Bruce Harrell’s “Experience”
Three city workers have had the full "Bruce Harrell experience." They're done.
www.thestranger.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Bruce Harrell's biggest selling point is his "experience," but these Seattle city employees want you to know that the price of this experience is too high, and Seattle can't afford to pay it anymore.
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A new Idaho law makes it illegal for state and local governments, private businesses, employers, schools and daycares to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive any other “medical intervention.”
➡️ Read the full story: https://propub.li/4oz4JYj
➡️ Read the full story: https://propub.li/4oz4JYj
October 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
A new Idaho law makes it illegal for state and local governments, private businesses, employers, schools and daycares to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive any other “medical intervention.”
➡️ Read the full story: https://propub.li/4oz4JYj
➡️ Read the full story: https://propub.li/4oz4JYj
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The one big donation to Wilson's PAC so far is $75,000 from PROTEC17, the union that represents city employees. As Harrell likes to mention on the campaign trail as an example of his management experience, most city employees ultimately answer to him, and they're backing his opponent.
October 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The one big donation to Wilson's PAC so far is $75,000 from PROTEC17, the union that represents city employees. As Harrell likes to mention on the campaign trail as an example of his management experience, most city employees ultimately answer to him, and they're backing his opponent.
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NEW // Lake Washington Boulevard Safety Upgrades Fully Designed Before Mayor Pulled Plug
By Ryan Packer
via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/07/l...
By Ryan Packer
via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/07/l...
Lake Washington Boulevard Safety Upgrades Fully Designed Before Mayor Pulled Plug » The Urbanist
# A major intersection redesign near Seward Park was ready to go to construction with a Mayor's Office review the only impediment, records show. The exchanges reveal what was happening behind the scen...
www.theurbanist.org
October 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
NEW // Lake Washington Boulevard Safety Upgrades Fully Designed Before Mayor Pulled Plug
By Ryan Packer
via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/07/l...
By Ryan Packer
via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/07/l...
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“The emails and Microsoft Teams chats confirm that Parks and Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) staff continued to work on the upgrades for months after a December community meeting on the project…”
A major intersection redesign near Seward Park was ready to go to construction with a Mayor's Office review the only impediment, records show. The exchanges reveal what was happening behind the scenes as the public was kept in the dark about the upgrades.
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/07/l...
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/07/l...
Lake Washington Boulevard Safety Upgrades Fully Designed Before Mayor Pulled Plug » The Urbanist
# A major intersection redesign near Seward Park was ready to go to construction with a Mayor's Office review the only impediment, records show. The exchanges reveal what was happening behind the scen...
www.theurbanist.org
October 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
“The emails and Microsoft Teams chats confirm that Parks and Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) staff continued to work on the upgrades for months after a December community meeting on the project…”
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"Two hydrogen hubs—regional clusters of projects created during the Biden administration to accelerate production of hydrogen fuel from climate-friendly sources—in the Northwest and in California are losing $1 billion each." www.kuow.org/stories/trum...
Trump energy department axes funding for Northwest hydrogen hub
The Trump administration announced Wednesday night, the first night of the federal government shutdown, that it is revoking $7.6 billion in funding for clean-energy projects in 16 Democratic-leaning s...
www.kuow.org
October 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
"Two hydrogen hubs—regional clusters of projects created during the Biden administration to accelerate production of hydrogen fuel from climate-friendly sources—in the Northwest and in California are losing $1 billion each." www.kuow.org/stories/trum...
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A PAC supporting Bruce Harrell has now raised more than $1 million from wealthy donors, and soon they will use it to attack me so that our city stays unaffordable. With less than a month until election day, I want to make a few things clear. #thisisyourcity
October 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
A PAC supporting Bruce Harrell has now raised more than $1 million from wealthy donors, and soon they will use it to attack me so that our city stays unaffordable. With less than a month until election day, I want to make a few things clear. #thisisyourcity
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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.
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 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.
www.propublica.org
October 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Good piece by Greg Kim about the impacts of Mayor Harrell's policies toward unsheltered people, now scattered and destabilized by the city's sweeps team. The lede anecdote is about a woman who sees the same unhoused person over and over and, instead of talking to them, reports them to the city.
Seattle residents report encampments in record numbers
More than 50,000 reports of homeless camping were made in the first eight months of this year, a 66% increase compared to the same time period last year.
www.seattletimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Good piece by Greg Kim about the impacts of Mayor Harrell's policies toward unsheltered people, now scattered and destabilized by the city's sweeps team. The lede anecdote is about a woman who sees the same unhoused person over and over and, instead of talking to them, reports them to the city.
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If Bruce Harrell was elected in large part to figure out Seattle’s unhoused issues, he’s objectively failed. He’s not the right person for the job.
Good piece by Greg Kim about the impacts of Mayor Harrell's policies toward unsheltered people, now scattered and destabilized by the city's sweeps team. The lede anecdote is about a woman who sees the same unhoused person over and over and, instead of talking to them, reports them to the city.
Seattle residents report encampments in record numbers
More than 50,000 reports of homeless camping were made in the first eight months of this year, a 66% increase compared to the same time period last year.
www.seattletimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
If Bruce Harrell was elected in large part to figure out Seattle’s unhoused issues, he’s objectively failed. He’s not the right person for the job.
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Thank you @theurbanist.org @seattletru.bsky.social @sngreenways.bsky.social @transpochoices.bsky.social and every volunteer and advocate fighting for better mobility, connection, and safety on our streets. This is a shared win and something to celebrate.
October 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Thank you @theurbanist.org @seattletru.bsky.social @sngreenways.bsky.social @transpochoices.bsky.social and every volunteer and advocate fighting for better mobility, connection, and safety on our streets. This is a shared win and something to celebrate.
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This was done at the direction of Pam Bondi. The US government is now dictating what apps you can have on your phone.
The underlying threat here is if Apple didn't comply, they'd slap billions in tariffs on Apple products.
The underlying threat here is if Apple didn't comply, they'd slap billions in tariffs on Apple products.
October 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
This was done at the direction of Pam Bondi. The US government is now dictating what apps you can have on your phone.
The underlying threat here is if Apple didn't comply, they'd slap billions in tariffs on Apple products.
The underlying threat here is if Apple didn't comply, they'd slap billions in tariffs on Apple products.
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Seattle's clown mayor is trying out a brilliant new slogan for his re-election campaign
October 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Seattle's clown mayor is trying out a brilliant new slogan for his re-election campaign
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The policy change is bad, but the actual justifications provided by SDOT here are more worrying to me.
NEW STORY // What’s Easier than Adding a Bus Lane in Seattle? Deleting One
www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/01/w...
www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/01/w...
What’s Easier than Adding a Bus Lane in Seattle? Deleting One » The Urbanist
# The City of Seattle will be removing an East Union Street bus only lane set aside for the Route 2 this weekend, ceding to requests from nearby property owners who have complained about traffic chang...
www.theurbanist.org
October 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The policy change is bad, but the actual justifications provided by SDOT here are more worrying to me.
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Who did SDOT listen to? Business and property owners.
Why? Because drivers from *Madrona and the Eastside* are complaining about the new traffic pattern on Madison Street.
Why? Because drivers from *Madrona and the Eastside* are complaining about the new traffic pattern on Madison Street.
October 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Who did SDOT listen to? Business and property owners.
Why? Because drivers from *Madrona and the Eastside* are complaining about the new traffic pattern on Madison Street.
Why? Because drivers from *Madrona and the Eastside* are complaining about the new traffic pattern on Madison Street.
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NEW: Now that Tom Homan is border czar, his former business associate is continuing to work with companies actively seeking to land a chunk of the $45 billion Congress approved to spend on Trump's mass detention and deportation plans.
Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign
A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives sa...
www.propublica.org
October 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
NEW: Now that Tom Homan is border czar, his former business associate is continuing to work with companies actively seeking to land a chunk of the $45 billion Congress approved to spend on Trump's mass detention and deportation plans.