literally this guy

I was probably always gonna vote for Girmay but the fact that he was smart enough to not endorse Harrell (and i'm sure he got sweated hard for an endorsement) made it a very easy choice

This is true for most if not all of the progressive Harrell endorsers. IMO it probably cost Balducci her election (lol i'm serious) but most of them will face no consequences at all for their cowardly behavior, and an election this close really underscores how f'd up it is to operate like that

WA Bikes should be relentlessly ridiculed for using their influence to back the guy who doesn't care about bikes in an insanely close election. At bare minimum their board should resign en masse

Beacon Hill News with Dan Hurwitz is one of the hands-down Union favorite segments and it's been a while since we've had one. Also Juno is one of our perennials. And Burl is gonna be enlist the audience in creating a backstory for his almost-stepson's stuffed dragon. This'll be a good one.

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tbh this council feels more like the status quo of a suburban Ohio swing district in 2003

Ppl have been warning for years that all the affluent tech bros moving into the city will ultimately change the demographics & push our politics to the right. But alas, that doesn't account for the fact that our "centrists" just really do suck that bad. They have no new ideas!

I have a better win % than the Seattle Times over the past decade

D3 is gonna be a very winnable seat for the left. Hollingsworth's first big move on council was to try & relitigate 15Now by creating a permanent subminimum wage, a move that horrified even normie lib voters. Since then she's been just as draconian as all her suburban-boomer-coded colleagues

From last night's show. Katie Wilson explains to Burl Dirkman why she's not more self-aggrandizing on the campaign trail

Wilson's win means an end to heavy-handed corporate patronage in the mayor's office going back to 2013, a lineage running from the serial child predator who resigned in disgrace to the mayor who inherited all his donors & teargassed the city, to the guy who supported both of them to the bitter end

I know someone who can help Bruce pack his shit...

FUKIN GOTTEM

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ahem

this dork lol

Oh lord. Some friends of mine seem to be traveling on this path, for real. The specificity of it! 😩

ACTION ITEM: GO do this, takes 30 seconds, civic duty

FROM THE VAULT: Seattle Moderates Support Group (from 2022)

2500 more people voted against Kshama's recall in a *December special election* than voted to elect Hollingsworth in a general.

i could srsly just make it about Rob & Curby every week and no one would complain

a great loss to the local satire community tbh

ahem

I hope every elected Dem politician who automatically endorsed Harrell before he even had a credible challenger takes a moment to reflect on these results. Harrell was still sending out mailers with Pramila Jayapal's picture on them right up til election day despite the fact she later dual-endorsed

Another L on the way out for Sara Nelson

Beacon Hill News with Dan Hurwitz is one of the hands-down Union favorite segments and it's been a while since we've had one. Also Juno is one of our perennials. And Burl is gonna be enlist the audience in creating a backstory for his almost-stepson's stuffed dragon. This'll be a good one.

ACTION ITEM: GO do this, takes 30 seconds, civic duty

Post-Election Vibe Check with Rob #DOOMLOOP #seattle #curby

Joketellers Union is BACK this coming Wednesday. We've got JUNO MEN plus the glorious return of BEACON HILL NEWS WITH DAN HURWITZ, along with Burl and @emmettmontgomery.bsky.social and all the Union Traditions! clockoutlounge.com/tm-event/emm...

Today's DOOM LOOP for @soseaemerald.bsky.social: "Post-Election Vibe Check" See the whole thing here: southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/...

I know someone who can help Bruce pack his shit...

Joketellers Union is BACK this coming Wednesday. We've got JUNO MEN plus the glorious return of BEACON HILL NEWS WITH DAN HURWITZ, along with Burl and @emmettmontgomery.bsky.social and all the Union Traditions! clockoutlounge.com/tm-event/emm...

LIMITED TIME OFFER: Get $3 off the complete run of BALD KNOB (the story I've been serializing on Insta) when you use the coupon code "SHADSACK." Read it in all its explicit, uncensored, ink-on-paper glory as intended: bretthamil.bigcartel.com/product/bald...

A little cartoon reportage from the @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social election night party southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/...

My cartoon in the new Seattle's Child magazine

SPD did this the day after they put a 30-day ban on teargas in 2020.

I want Katie Wilson to win as quickly and expeditiously as possible, but I also want Bruce Harrell to lose as slowly and painfully as possible

My cartoon in the new Seattle's Child magazine

A little cartoon reportage from the @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social election night party southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/...

Everyone chill and wait for the votes to come in. The later batches (Thurs/Fri) are gonna be like 60+% for Wilson

We got this. She had 46% on primary night and ended up 10+ on Harrell

If Wilson is within 5 points of 50 tonight it's over. She could even build on her primary lead. I think ppl are sick of Bruce's shit: "Now is not the time for hope" smdh. Oh and I saw a green haired person walking away from the ballot drop today so that's good luck

only one of these will do anything to help rent-burdened Seattleites

Remember:

LIMITED TIME OFFER: Get $3 off the complete run of BALD KNOB (the story I've been serializing on Insta) when you use the coupon code "SHADSACK." Read it in all its explicit, uncensored, ink-on-paper glory as intended: bretthamil.bigcartel.com/product/bald...

"The Fancy Hummus" #DOOMLOOP #Seattle

ahaha