Katie Wilson has been elected Seattle's next mayor www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Congratulations, Mayor Katie Wilson! ☺️

KING 5 has called it!

Wilson won over 66% of the votes counted today.

Daily Mail is having a day 😂

SEATTLE!!! We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!

🚨🚨 Just in: Katie Wilson has taken a narrow lead in the Seattle mayor race.

KATIE WILSON

Wooohoooooooo 🍾 🏳️‍🌈 Big sigh of relief. 🤓

Last night in Tampa, cops used a controversial and risky technique called a PIT maneuver while chasing a driver who'd sped away from a street race The PIT maneuver failed. The driver sped away, losing control, and crashing into an LGBTQ+ bar killing 4 people and injuring 13

BREAKING: Judge Immergut issues a permanent injunction against Pete Hegseth and the deployment of the National Guard to Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is incredible. King County elections is now saying they have 45,000 ballots left to count. If Wilson gets exactly the same margin of those as she got today she'll take the lead by... 20 votes!

Gonna need to figure out how to get progressives to vote earlier next time because this swing in results every day is too much for my anxiety

“We are 400 less controllers today than we were in the 2019 shutdown. And now they’ve been stretched so thin for so long, with so much going on, so much pressure on their backs, that they’re actually resigning from the profession.”

in light of sandwich guy I am contractually obligated to remind you that jurors can always prevent a conviction by choosing to say "not guilty" 🙂 the power to refuse to convict is espech important rn given the Trump admin's rampant criminalization and repression of dissent (and other freedoms, too)

Ellis: "Requiring the government to comply with its obligations under the Constitution, in particular the Fourth Amendment, is simply not a harm."

The Seattle Police Department's chief operating officer, Brian Maxey, and chief legal officer, Becca Boatright, were both sacked this morning. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Eleven more not guilties and America gets a free sandwich!

ICYMI with all the election results excitement: WA AG @nickbrownnow.bsky.social has signed on to an anti-discrimination lawsuit meant to protect the rights of trans kids to play sports in school. Barring kids from playing has negative impacts on the mental health & development of all kids.

🚨 🚨 As of 6:00pm today, King County Elections is reporting that turnout in the City of Seattle has reached 52.06% with 253,988 ballots received. That was a VERY big increase from ballot drop box votes yesterday, compared to the updates we were seeing earlier today.

Hate to say it but everyday community care and kindness is not only a solid political project but also deeply fulfilling

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published February)

NEW: Judge Gettleman just ordered ICE to improve "serious conditions" inside its Broadview facility in Chicago. Yesterday, people testified in court that they were crammed into overcrowded and filthy cells for days, with little access to lawyers, and pressured into deportation.

The fact that multiple people texted me about Lina Khan being on Mamdani’s transition team is how I know I am surrounded by the right people 🥰

Progressives are poised to flip the balance of power in Burien, with Sam Méndez poised to win the open seat, Rocco DeVito on track to beat incumbent Stephanie Mora, and the council's two left-leaning incumbents - Sarah Moore and Hugo Garcia - likely to retain their seats.

Kavanaugh stop at a day care

(Delayed post due to partying) We’re so back

Wishing a wonderful night to all my friends in New York, we will all understand if you call out sick tomorrow

ZOHRAN MAMDANI

Mamdani 51% Cuomo 40% Sliwa 8% 11% in, early vote mostly

Virginia has elected Ghazala Hashmi as the state’s next lieutenant governor, making her the first Muslim woman ever elected to statewide office in the United States. 19thnews.org/2025/11/virg...

Legacy Papers Have Been Weird and Hostile Toward Zohran Mamdani. The New York City mayoral candidate promises radical change that editorial boards don’t want, even if voters do. Read @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/leg...

NYT article about when polls close around the country & when we’ll hear their results includes VA, NJ, NYC, CA, Boston, Detroit, ME, MN, PA, and TX…. But not WA/Seattle :( East Coast friends, we shouldn’t have to tell you that Seattle is a bigger city than Boston or Detroit.

Ah. Who could have guessed this might become a problem? www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

All day on Election Day

Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.

Check out this great segment on something my team is working on

Here’s last night’s story about police chases, why the risks involved massively outweigh the benefits, and why people should be allowed to say “shit” on the news. We, as a nation, are well beyond the word “shit” destroying anyone’s innocence. Just…look around. youtu.be/wVFXUkFx5Y8

This week’s main story is about police chases – the incredibly dangerous practice made famous by O.J. Simpson, and kept famous by Sheriff John Bunnell and Pluto TV’s 24-hour car chase channel. But, because we are fun, this segment is also about how drivers doing donuts is awesome. Full stop.

Officials urge WA voters to use drop boxes for Nov. 4 election “Voters in some Washington counties noticed during the August primary that ballots weren’t always marked the same day carriers picked them up, MyNorthwest reported, citing a King County Elections spokesperson.” #WAelex

Check out @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com #Seattle #Elections #SeattleMayor newrepublic.com/article/2024...

This is what we mean when we say that abolition is a survivor led movement - survivors of sexual violence deserve more and better than this: prismreports.org/2025/10/09/d...

A blatant lie and major violation of the Hatch Act by the Republican-controlled Congress that the Republican-controlled Office of Special Counsel will not prosecute because the Republican Party will not stop until it has dismantled the constitution and every institution serving our needs

NEW: Trump has announced that the US will admit the lowest level of refugees ever at 7,500 in FY 2026. The US will only be admitting as refugees White people from South Africa and "victims of illegal or unjust discrimination," which leaked memos suggest means far-right Europeans.

New from 404 Media: someone managed to get into a Microsoft Teams call with phone hackers Cellebrite, who then detailed some of the company's hacking capabilities against Google Pixel phones. Also its capabilities against GrapheneOS, security-focused devices www.404media.co/someone-snuc...

“ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien.” Fun fact! This is bad.

"You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be, and you do choose how you want to think." – Grace Lee Boggs

This literally slays. Ms. Rachel, the goddess you are.

Do you hate me? Is that why you're making me join a Microsoft Teams meeting?