Ron Davis
@ronpdavis.bsky.social
Husband, dad, progressive policy and politics guy who wants to fix our cities. Will never give into MAGA weirdos. Follow my newsletter at https://rondezvouswa.com/
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Ron Davis
@ronpdavis.bsky.social
· Jun 18
It is time for state and local governments to arrest masked officers who won’t produce warrants and who have no proof someone is undocumented.
Kidnappers should be arrested and indicted and tried for kidnapping and serve the many years such sentences carry.
Kidnappers should be arrested and indicted and tried for kidnapping and serve the many years such sentences carry.
This is an absolutely bonkers take
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 AM
This is an absolutely bonkers take
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Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being Vaishnavi Jayakumar testified the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the trafficking of humans for sex.
“You could incur 16 violations and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended"
time.com/7336204/meta...
“You could incur 16 violations and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended"
time.com/7336204/meta...
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being Vaishnavi Jayakumar testified the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the trafficking of humans for sex.
“You could incur 16 violations and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended"
time.com/7336204/meta...
“You could incur 16 violations and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended"
time.com/7336204/meta...
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If SDOT took their entire $8 million budget for Low Pollution Neighborhoods and just used it to figure out how to make retractable bollards work, that would be worth it.
November 21, 2025 at 4:28 AM
If SDOT took their entire $8 million budget for Low Pollution Neighborhoods and just used it to figure out how to make retractable bollards work, that would be worth it.
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If joking about Charlie Kirk is considered “violent rhetoric,” how do we describe open calls to hang members of Congress?
November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
If joking about Charlie Kirk is considered “violent rhetoric,” how do we describe open calls to hang members of Congress?
Dems are told we should pander to billionaires like Benioff because that will help us win. It hasn't, but it has got us champions like this guy, posing with an Attorney General--who is dismantling the rule of law--at an event for a guy who had a journalist murdered.
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www.kron4.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Dems are told we should pander to billionaires like Benioff because that will help us win. It hasn't, but it has got us champions like this guy, posing with an Attorney General--who is dismantling the rule of law--at an event for a guy who had a journalist murdered.
www.kron4.com/news/technol...
www.kron4.com/news/technol...
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Amazon originally promised 25,000 jobs to Virginia for the cost of up to $750 million in taxpayer subsidies.
Amazon currently employs fewer than 8,000 at the campus. www.seattletimes.com/business/ama...
Amazon currently employs fewer than 8,000 at the campus. www.seattletimes.com/business/ama...
Amazon slows forecast on HQ2 job growth
The company had already been veering off its planned road map for growth in Arlington: In early 2023, Amazon halted its plans to break ground on the largest part of the new headquarters.
www.seattletimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Amazon originally promised 25,000 jobs to Virginia for the cost of up to $750 million in taxpayer subsidies.
Amazon currently employs fewer than 8,000 at the campus. www.seattletimes.com/business/ama...
Amazon currently employs fewer than 8,000 at the campus. www.seattletimes.com/business/ama...
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When Amazon 1st announced they would open a 2nd HQ outside of Seattle, the usual WA conservatives gloated that progressives making wealthy corporations pay what they owe in taxes had backfired.
Flash forward 8 years and Amazon's HQ2 is a bust & Seattle's Jumpstart tax is keeping our services afloat
Flash forward 8 years and Amazon's HQ2 is a bust & Seattle's Jumpstart tax is keeping our services afloat
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
When Amazon 1st announced they would open a 2nd HQ outside of Seattle, the usual WA conservatives gloated that progressives making wealthy corporations pay what they owe in taxes had backfired.
Flash forward 8 years and Amazon's HQ2 is a bust & Seattle's Jumpstart tax is keeping our services afloat
Flash forward 8 years and Amazon's HQ2 is a bust & Seattle's Jumpstart tax is keeping our services afloat
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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It's all talk until it's not.
Martha Blackburn defends Trump's call to arrest (and execute) Democratic elected officials
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
It's all talk until it's not.
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What an abomination. Almost 2,000 Coast Guard personnel died fighting fascism in World War II.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
What an abomination. Almost 2,000 Coast Guard personnel died fighting fascism in World War II.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CONGRESS should be pressed about Trump calling for their colleagues to be killed
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CONGRESS should be pressed about Trump calling for their colleagues to be killed
Gee, if only someone could have seen this coming.
the U.S. President is calling for the execution of U.S. lawmakers who made a video reminding the military that they don’t have to follow unlawful orders.
November 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Gee, if only someone could have seen this coming.
The one upside to the Justice Department getting staffed by hacks and lackeys looking to exact political revenge is that they suck at the work.
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The one upside to the Justice Department getting staffed by hacks and lackeys looking to exact political revenge is that they suck at the work.
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The tenuous decorum between Bruce Harrell’s office and Sara Nelson is evaporating, as Nelson goes after Harrell’s political consultant with new proposed legislation. Harrell’s team and consultant Christian Sinderman call it a misguided priority by a sore loser
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Sara Nelson wants to restrict political consultants at Seattle City Hall
Outgoing Seattle Council President Sara Nelson is proposing a bill that would restrict access to City Hall.
www.seattletimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The tenuous decorum between Bruce Harrell’s office and Sara Nelson is evaporating, as Nelson goes after Harrell’s political consultant with new proposed legislation. Harrell’s team and consultant Christian Sinderman call it a misguided priority by a sore loser
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Just the president of the United States rationalizing that a Washington Post reporter was basically asking to be murdered and cut to pieces with a bone saw because of his reporting.
As he sits next to the thug who ordered it.
As he sits next to the thug who ordered it.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Just the president of the United States rationalizing that a Washington Post reporter was basically asking to be murdered and cut to pieces with a bone saw because of his reporting.
As he sits next to the thug who ordered it.
As he sits next to the thug who ordered it.
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Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
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Trump on the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi: "Things happen"
November 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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My crazy idea for incorporating public feedback into city planning: You let residents vote for representatives in city government, and those people are empowered to implement the policies they promised while campaigning.
At Land Use (again) and it's literally all the same people it always is (myself included)...like who are we fooling that the same 75 people showing up every time is "the will of the people"? What a sham public process is sometimes, sadly
November 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
My crazy idea for incorporating public feedback into city planning: You let residents vote for representatives in city government, and those people are empowered to implement the policies they promised while campaigning.
Not to mention that Seattle controls the RIGHT OF WAY for buses.
Meanwhile the Seattle Times weighs in, apparently not knowing that the City of Seattle actually plays a substantial role in bus service via the Seattle Transportation Benefit District, which provides a significant amount of $$ to Metro and thus giving the City a say in how Metro operates
November 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Not to mention that Seattle controls the RIGHT OF WAY for buses.
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Meanwhile the Seattle Times weighs in, apparently not knowing that the City of Seattle actually plays a substantial role in bus service via the Seattle Transportation Benefit District, which provides a significant amount of $$ to Metro and thus giving the City a say in how Metro operates
November 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Meanwhile the Seattle Times weighs in, apparently not knowing that the City of Seattle actually plays a substantial role in bus service via the Seattle Transportation Benefit District, which provides a significant amount of $$ to Metro and thus giving the City a say in how Metro operates
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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 5:54 PM
Can't say I'm looking forward to at least four more years of this type of disingenuousness.
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Seattle owns and contracts the monorail and streetcars. Seattle has the Seattle Transit Measure. Seattle directly oversees Sound Transit. Seattle has oversight influence on King County Metro and Puget Sound Regional Council.
The Seattle Times Editorial Board has really jumped off the deep end.
The Seattle Times Editorial Board has really jumped off the deep end.
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 6:08 PM
Seattle owns and contracts the monorail and streetcars. Seattle has the Seattle Transit Measure. Seattle directly oversees Sound Transit. Seattle has oversight influence on King County Metro and Puget Sound Regional Council.
The Seattle Times Editorial Board has really jumped off the deep end.
The Seattle Times Editorial Board has really jumped off the deep end.
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the ST ed board has been out of step on... basically everything - especially related to politics, cities, mobility, housing - since i moved here 20 years ago.
they endorsed rossi three times.
they endorsed rossi three times.
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 6:17 PM
the ST ed board has been out of step on... basically everything - especially related to politics, cities, mobility, housing - since i moved here 20 years ago.
they endorsed rossi three times.
they endorsed rossi three times.
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Hey @washingtonpost.com? Fuck off and leave us alone. We don't give a shit what your band of sweaty billionaire fluffers thinks about our politics.
Opinion | Seattle’s coming socialist experiment
The mayor-elect has little experience but plenty of bad ideas.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Hey @washingtonpost.com? Fuck off and leave us alone. We don't give a shit what your band of sweaty billionaire fluffers thinks about our politics.
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When you ask voters to choose between corporate profits and protecting our neighbors – it’s not even close. This year, Seattle voters chose the tax corporations to fund social housing (63%) and to pass the Seattle Shield Initiative to protect our neighbors (71%). Let’s keep it going!
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
When you ask voters to choose between corporate profits and protecting our neighbors – it’s not even close. This year, Seattle voters chose the tax corporations to fund social housing (63%) and to pass the Seattle Shield Initiative to protect our neighbors (71%). Let’s keep it going!