the hemming and hawing about whether or not this is MVP or not is missing the forest for the trees, this is incredible and needs to be appreciated as such

I just hope ESPN once again airs wall to wall coverage of the chase for the all-time American League home run record like they did a few years ago

Speaking officially as the host of Jeopardy!, Cal Raleigh is the correct MVP vote.

CHOTINER: So You created us right GOD: Yes CHOTINER: In Your image GOD: Yes CHOTINER: And sometimes we do bad things GOD: Oh Yes CHOTINER: And then you send plagues and floods GOD: OK I think I see where you are going with this

SDOT has updated their post about Denny Way bus lanes and have uploaded the full traffic study, which you can read below. In short, it's a 516 page document that does not mention mode shift or alternate routing a single time. seattle.gov/documents/De...

We don’t call everyone who disagrees with us a Nazi, JD, just the ones doing Nazi shit like: -masked secret police kidnapping people off the street -creating concentration camps -attempting to eradicate trans people -banning/burning LGBTQ/opposing viewpoint books -murdering fishermen in open waters

I am proud to be running alongside leaders like Michelle Wu, Zohran Mamdani, Omar Fateh, and others across the country who share a vision for affordability, reliable public transit, and affordable, abundant housing. Together, we can show the path forward for our country. Join our campaign today!

If you think the status quo in Seattle is great, Bruce Harrell is your candidate. If you know Seattle can be even better, can truly live up to our stated values in this moment of national crisis, and be a home for people of all kinds, @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social is your candidate (and mine).

shit ain’t over til it’s over

The Seattle City Council bullied District 2's elected council member into retirement, appointed their hand picked successor, and then scheduled the most important votes of the year for a day he told them a month and a half in advance that he wouldn't be able to make. So anti-democratic.

UPDATE: I got this reply from CM Solomon's staff regarding his absence for yesterday's votes. He was at a previously-scheduled conference in Vancouver, WA:

It is really gross and disappointing that the only three members of WA's delegation to oppose this are also our only three women of color. Shame on Democrats Adam Smith, Kim Schrier, Rick Larsen, Suzan DelBene, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.

I honestly can’t believe city council didn’t delay the votes today to allow Solomon to be there. They disenfranchised our entire district.

We need money and political will to do those things Bruce, not smarter computers www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/18/h...

Guys I’ll just say this and then I’m out for the night: if you can’t stomach the risk of nonpublicly attaching yourself to a huge protest, it doesn’t seem like you have much ground to criticize execs and college presidents who couldn’t stomach the risk of being specifically targeted by the admin

Donald Trump is a feebleminded, frail old bigot with no redeeming qualities, who is unsuited for any office, let alone the presidency. I am superior to him in every respect, as is every person I’ve ever met. Anyone who treats him as a model of virility or statesmanship ought to be laughed at.

The response to this from pro-housing politicians needs to be to commit to legislatively addressing this.

Maritza Rivera literally tried to downsize three neighborhood centers in her district earlier today. She is straightforwardly against housing! Why can't these people at least admit they don't want new housing?

Seattle is governed by scared idiots.

So disappointed!!! Come on folks. These neighborhood centers are great places for adding density. We say we care about housing costs and homelessness, climate change and trees and businesses, and then we repeat the same mistakes!! Exclusionary zoning is a root cause of so many of our problems.

Want to see how your City Councilmembers really feel about fixing Seattle's housing crisis? Read this thread and weep.

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I know it's gauche to acknowledge this as an advocate, but you really cannot work with the current council. They are openly hostile to change and will not actually work with you in good faith.

It is OK to call fascists fascists.

MLK Labor has dual endorsed Katie Wilson, months after sole endorsing Bruce Harrell. Endorsements from elected who take the group’s lead, like Teresa Mosqueda, will follow

How do they keep making these videos and forget to leave off the part where they say "and that's why I will refuse to fund the government until Trump removes troops from our cities, dismantles the concentration camps, fires RFK, and disburses funding we have already approved?"

Probably worth us all saying: Charlie Kirk was a bad person, who said bad things and had bad values.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

A good day to launch a Democratic Party-aligned think tank devoted to attacking the ACLU.

WOW -- a screaming Patel crashes out in response to Schiff's questions about Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and calls him "the biggest fraud to ever sit in the United States Senate" and "an utter coward" and "political buffoon"

It truly cannot be restated enough that earlier this year Trump pardoned everyone involved with J6, the largest event of political violence in the US in my lifetime. They have absolutely no credibility here and deserve to be confronted with this fact whenever they're in public.

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

Question for the white liberals who have written columns praising Charlie Kirk in the name of "free speech." Where are you columns actually DEFENDING THE FREE SPEECH of people who are being fired for [checks notes] quoting Charlie Kirk? (Which most of you white praisers didn't have the guts to do)

this supercut of Mayor Bruce Harrell talking over and interrupting his challenger, Katie Wilson, delivers the vibe of the half-hour debate in a concentrated 20-second blast

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be. Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

i find the “maybe kash patel isn’t fit to lead the FBI” stuff to be very funny. yeah, no shit!

I encourage folks (after reading my piece, of course! Or while reading!) to watch this debate for themselves. It's short and if you're ADHD you can watch it on 1.5 speed like I did! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9ky...

Great post by @ronpdavis.bsky.social summarizing Harrell’s history as a Do-nothing Democrat™️. Every project Mayor Harrell sticks his nose in gets delayed, watered down, or worse. Comp plan, Transportation Levy, safe streets, Sound Transit, shelter beds, you name it. rondezvouswa.com/p/harrell-co...

On my personal authority as the Chairman of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, I have determined to defy the Governor’s order that our colors be at half staff through Sunday on behalf of Charlie J Kirk. 1/4

it is obscene to treat the unfortunate but (as he himself pointed out) routine murder of this Nazi shithead who believed that Jewish gelt was corrupting the blood of white Americans like a national tragedy

Dowd should simply read, verbatim, the things Fox hosts are saying, and then change the names in them. And then give his gofundme URL.

Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.

The Harrell-aligned Seattle City Council majority is selling us out to Trump. Malicious? Dumb? Either way, we need new leadership. ✅️ VOTE BY NOV 4 ✅️ Katie Wilson (Mayor) Erika Evans (City Attorney) Dionne Foster (Council) Alexis Mercedes-Rinck (Council) Ed Lin (Council)

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

A lot of people have been calling me the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social of Seattle. But where Zohran is charismatic, telegenic and stylish, I've spent my whole adult life looking pretty dumpy. To look more mayoral, I enlisted my friend Andrew Ashiofu, who took me to one of Seattle's premier boutiques.

Not worrying about a data breach is how you get a data breach. Really tired of the majority of the Seattle city council selling us out to the Trump administration. If you hate your constituents so much you should just quit like Cathy Moore did.

It’s pretty clear President Trump raped children and should be in federal prison but instead he’s running the country and murdering civilians in international waters.

This is a lame duck city council. These reactionary centrists will all be gone in 3 years. They shouldn't be deciding ANYTHING with long term implications for the city, especially the further entrenchment of a police surveillance panopticon that'll be used by ICE & Trump to target Seattle residents