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The Kavanaugh Stop

They say don’t meet your heroes but every one of these humans is spectacular. Thanks for the laughs & Brad for your kindness, Jen for your leadership in this space, and Angie for the ball knowledge. And thanks to the LL staff/readers for chipping in to buy these folks a well-earned drink #WhereIRoot

Sara Nelson and Bruce Harrell both leaned into the “Seattle is dying” KOMO tv narrative (komonews.com/news/local/k...) to win their elections. In the process of doing so they validated the right-wing narrative about Seattle, and hurt our city’s reputation. Short term expediency, long term damage.

The Portland Metro Chamber, which over the past five years has constructed the narrative that Portland is a crime-infested city where you can't go anywhere to feel safe, said in a press conference that Portlanders should fight against Trump's deployment of federal agents by purchasing more things.

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

"My house cost twice my salary!" is, uh, not what people are facing these days.

NEW: Mayor Bruce Harrell said he ended a three-year city contract with his campaign consultant Christian Sinderman in January to avoid blurring lines in an election year. "We put a big wall up" he said. Turns out the wall was not so high. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Surreal how naive City Council is around the real, serious abuse of cameras everywhere. evanstonroundtable.com/2025/09/24/f...

Time to start carrying an air horn I guess.

It’s absurd the blatant disrespect SPD has for safety rules. Can pull your phone out any time they’re at a red light because you can be sure they’ll ignore the “No Right on Red” sign.

Hang the banner.

AL WEST CHAMPIONS!!

CAL RALEIGH SIXTY HOME RUNS OH MY, OH MY!!!!

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yes - and with middling corporate democratic mayors cities like seattle have had - this is incredibly true! visionless transportation plan. visionless and inadequate comprehensive plan update. poor public space. inadequate housing levy. weak climate action plan. zero climate leadership.

It also remains interesting (if a bit predictable) that Harrell's entire pitch against Wilson seems to be that Seattle can't accomplish big things and must accept the inadequate status quo.

Get your own municipal and state tech stacks to run everything essential, secure your data. Open source and open standards all the way.

Also didn't he try and move away until his career came tumbling down in Iowa for pointing a gun at a pregnant woman?

Certain blocks downtown show what Seattle should be doing to have density and trees. (Hint: Shrink all the streets!)

I'll say that this comp plan discussion is by far the most overt example of a district-based city council leading to factionalism I've seen, with each member claiming final authority over "their" district and Sara Nelson abstaining on controversial votes in deference to the district representatives

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Far more dangerous than Trump, I think, is how quickly the last eight months have pulled back the curtain on America's elites and shown everyone how venal, how cowardly and how utterly mediocre the foundation of our society has been.

Allowing housing in EVERY neighborhood, rather than engaging in perennial piddly debates about tiny sections of Seattle, would greatly ease gentrification pressure in areas like the CD, CID, Southeast Seattle, and South Park because renters wouldn't be confined to tiny swaths of the city.

The whole thing with having Joy Hollingsworth as Comprehensive Plan committee chair was that she was going to put her foot down on last minute amendments... and then proposed a bunch herself.

Van Hollen went to El Salvador to meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, exciting folks to see Democrats actually doing something. So naturally Hakeem Jeffries’ office would mock that.

It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.

mayor 'better things aren't possible'

Ultimately, the argument for "quiet," "quaint" neighborhoods occupied entirely by car-based house owners is that cities are bad and Seattle shouldn't be a city. Cities have places to go, people on the street, opportunities to encounter people who aren't in your nuclear family. They want suburbs.

Bruce Harrell has an anger problem.

"Launching a toolkit" is a classic Harrell bit. AI skepticism is getting worse and worse, so naturally now the city wants to get onboard.

I am begging the Mariners to stop swinging at sliders in the dirt.

Conservatives continue to co-opt progressive language and a lot of average Seattleites just eat it up.

Districts were a bad idea.

Imagine getting a PhD just to fear monger and make up words.

I’m having what I call an “emergency casual meeting” for everyone to discuss all things light rail. Budget cuts, station alignments, political intrigue! Pop in any time after 5pm today with your questions and takes. I will be ready with a Seattle map and dry erase markers so let’s get into it!

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Not sure I've ever seen anyone's stock tank as much as Riq Woolen's has this half.

Interesting phenomenon is folks regularly claim "rich people will leave if we raise taxes too much!" and what we actually see is they will spend millions fighting back instead.

The legislature needs to force the consolidation of these tax-evading enclaves for the rich.

What level of service is this elevator?

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ALEX ROLDAN!!!

Prima Donna FC screaming at the ref whenever any call doesn't go their way is getting old real quick.

26' SOUNDERS GOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL! DE RO! SEA 1 | MIA 0 #SEAvMIA

Maybe ICE should spend their time in DC working on an actual invasive species: the spotted lanternfly.

it’s kind of annoying how complaining about transplants has become the new hipster xenophobia

Article after article comes out highlighting the complete failure of Harrell's administration to do anything meaningful for anyone except his rich donors.

High-income neighborhoods think that low-income people moving in will lower property values. Low-income neighborhoods think that high-income people moving in will raise rents. We have a class segregation consensus.

To the ICE agent in DC complaining the balaclava is "uncomfortable": You don't have to wear it!