Que feras-tu, France, quand Macron nommera encore un PM de droite ? Ils s’attendent à ce que tu manifestes, que tu fasses des graffitis, peut-être que tu rejoignes LFI. Fais plus que ça. Organise-toi. Crée un mouvement populaire, hors des partis, pour raviver le débat civique à tous les niveaux.

I feel bad for you, America. it hasn't even been a whole year & dear leader is sending shop troops to kidnap people, beat them & gas them in places he doesn't like. Then he gets Fox to lie to your grandparents about why it's good that ICE is attacking the nicest vegans you'll meet in Portland.

If the US can be rescued from dictatorship, the first thing to do will be to jail each and every one of Trump's secret police.

So you're telling me that the legislative branch is shut down, the executive has unchecked power, & he's having the military "use [American] cities as training grounds" and America is still a democratic republic? I don't think so.

Coucou les Français. 👋 Vous pouvez voter pour un parti politique, mais un parti n’est pas un mouvement. Un mouvement est dirigé par le peuple et pour le peuple. Si un seul parti ou une seule personne te dit qu’ils ont toutes les solutions, ils mentent.

"Fuck your hope. Fuck your needs. What you need is a center-right neolib joke of a mayor who talks more about sports than anything substantive who will sell you out to the Trump regime at the drop of a hat "

La France a besoin d’un vrai mouvement populaire, en dehors des partis politiques, des syndicats, etc. Un mouvement du peuple, avec la participation des partis, des élus & des syndicats, mais lancé & dirigé par un peuple large et divers. Où est ce type de mouvement ? Franchement, je ne le vois pas.

I swear to god, I see zero grassroots political or community organizing nor any avenue for ongoing direct substantive participation in democracy in France. It's fucking wild. Somehow, Americans are better at that shit. Go figure.

Trump and his army can get the fuck out of Cascadia.

The assertion that the American democratic party is radically left is nothing but a ploy from the right to normalize radically right wing ideals, to suppress even moderate, fairly timid ideas & to silence dissent. Dems are not radical. They are center, at best. You are being lied to.

I'm antifascist. I'm American.

Great job Mariners. I watched the last 2 innings & felt like a kid again.

To be fair, the 🥖 from the bakery downstairs from my apartment can be used in tandem w/ a 🍕 shield from the pizza place at the end of the block. It's pretty terrifying when unsafe outside agitators™️ go to battle with the corner grocery using these items. Living w/ everything w/in proximity is scary.

There is no free speech in the US. I'd argue that we haven't had truly free speech since the Patriot Act, but it's definitely over now.

I'm so glad to only be tangentially following along w/ this. What a terrible way to put together a consent package & a great way to ensure more progressive policies fail. Consent packages should be vehicles for moving a variety of policy, not just as a way to vote all at once for "the easy stuff."

Imagine if Roosevelt, Truman, & Eisenhower were imploring people to feel bad for nazi politicians & calling for people to be hunted down for calling them nazis.

It's maybe a bit of my American side coming out, but I feel like the French political system, even locally, would benefit a lot from activist electoral organizing. People need to feel energized. They need to feel like they're part of something. I've not met one French person who feels that way.

The political spectrum in the US is so skewed that daily violence perpetrated by the right wing & their policies is just normal, that people who *want" to be as violent & oppression as nazis are venerated. This hasn't all happened since January, but boy has it accelerated.

I live in one of the major leftist cities in France. People are very active protestors here. I see no smoke. No fire. When you see the few images circulated around the media, remember that they're pushing a narrative. Just as they did w/ CHOP in Seattle ("the communist hellhole™️", as you may recall)

Macron is so politically inept & willing to ignore the will of the people that he'll likely call another snap election or appoint a far right PM over doing the right thing & appointing a PM from NFP since, you know, they hold the most seats in the Assemblée.

This is how socialism works in the city that I live in. It's how it works in many French cities. It can and will work in the US if you elect socialists who focus on building a city on a foundation of solidarity, social cohesion, and meeting people's everyday needs.

Trump is testing his form of military dictatorship on city after city, getting more brazen about his contempt for American citizens with each new occupied free American city. LA, DC, Chicago. Who, where, & what is next? A traitor to the US. A warmonger abroad & at home. This is your president.

Real substantive international collaboration results in policy action. 4 years ago, @tammymorales.bsky.social & I came to Nantes to learn how we could make Connected Communities, now Roots to Roofs, happen. It's finally happening. The antidote to Trumpism & Macronisme is real actionable solidarity.

45 years ago, Seattle & Nantes entered into a Sister City Partnership. In that time, the 2 cities have had a lasting cultural & policy exchange. It is one that I participated in & one that led me to live here. In 2025, the 2 cities are very different politically. One leftist. One center-right.

Lol Miami, even w/ the Barca boys & after spending all that money are still just a bunch of losers. Just another MLS club that the Sounders can beat. Sore losers are still losers. Good job boys. #ebfg. Seattle doesn't need superstars. We only need each other.

I was at 3 out of 4. Gonna be fun to see the Sounders show Miami why we *actually* qualified for the CWC, even if I'm watching all the way from France this time.

I used the new bike parking at the Nantes train station the other day. It has tons of amenities, incl. a vending machine w/ 🚲 essentials. The payment system still needs work & the cargo bike area doesn't have anchors like at Commerce but the train connection was seamless. Overall a good experience!

People, please stop glorifying Gavin Newsom. Just because he sucks less than Trump doesn't mean he doesn't also suck. He's a corpo, center-right opportunist Dem. Don't be tricked into thinking *this* is the left.

American politicians would rather smother you with exhaust than do what Nantes has successfully done, which is to reduce driving while maintaining the rate of use on arterials. Give people various options & they'll use them. It's not rocket science. It barely takes any kind of critical thinking.

I saw a slight haze + smelled a stale smell in the air yesterday & knew that we were getting some wildfire smoke from far away. Coming from a place that became wildfire prone & inundated w/ smoke within the last 10 years helped me develop this sad sixth sense.

Trump is doing what every big city Democrat mayor has been doing for years now. Dump these two parties. Embrace a true left & a social movement that works for all people.

The American president now has a clandestine para-military force that kidnaps people based on their names + how they look & sends them to camps AND a federalized police force. When is this guy going to the Hague?

Here's the problem w/ American cities. Livability is a luxury. American electeds are more than happy to let anyone w/out tech salaries to live in auto dependent food, service, job, & climate deserts. It's easier than building convenient universally affordable neighborhoods & that's fucking sad.

This is a grudge Bruce will hold with him all the way back to his Bellevue condo. This man cannot fathom competing with, let alone losing to, a woman. He's going to get very toxic before this is all over & he'll still end up an incredibly sore loser. Bye bye misogynist mayor.

Time for Seattle to point out that a conservative Dem lying about being the only dem endorsed candidate to show their "lefty" bonafides means they're actually pretty conservative. The Democratic party is cernter-right. It's ok to say it out loud. Katie has support across Seattle's political spectrum

There's a special place in hell for judges like this, who have considerable privilege inside & outside of their little fiefdoms known as the courtroom. I've sat in on a lot of eviction proceedings & the only ones where tenants are treated like humans w/ value are when they have representation.

My kid used to play in this park every day. This photo sums up America, their obsession w/ deadly heavy equipment masquerading as a mobility option, the City's real environmental policy, & their absolute ddisdain for children in public spaces in just 3 photos. Parks authorizing this is a sick joke.

I mean I wanted 9-0 but 7-0 ain't too bad. #ebfg

The previous version of this legislation had two years of resident co-development w/ a large roundtable of community leaders representing 1000s of constituents from a myriad of affected communities across the political spectrum. Like last time, Maritza just doesn't like it on vibes alone.

Man, I really miss working on policy. Sometimes it's very hard to know that I live in a city w/ a pretty open ear to innovative new policy & all I can do is...nothing. There's no policy development-driven resident dialogue. I can't even get an interview w/ my decade of experience. I can't even vote.

Former American policy developer here from the tiniest of left wing minorities & with a track record of developing policies that make peoples' lives better & of standing up to Trump just sitting here being denied job after job. Just saying. Hire me. 👋

I was committee clerk for a Council committee responsible for 21 boards & commissions - more than double the next committee at the time. We inherited a big backlog of appointments & it slowed down the committee schedule but we got them done. Moore had a handful of committees. There's no excuse.

Carl Hanglund - yes THAT Carl Haglund - you know, the one with a law named after him because he's a fucking slumlord, wants Bruce to be mayor again.

I'm just a dude that used to want to take his kid to Lake Washington, but LWB was too unsafe since I can't operate a car. We tried walking & biking. Both were unsafe. The "pedestrian upgrades" will do absolute zero to increase safety. The mayor's words are never not hollow.

This is really frustrating, but not surprising. I'm sorry, D2. We tried really hard to make this space safer & more accessible to ppl w/ varying mobility needs. The Mayor, his SDOT, & Parks fought us every step of the way. The writing was on the wall years ago, but now we have our nail in the coffin

Let's take from the best thing we have to prevent homelessness & give more money to cops to harass people for being homeless. Sara Nelson is neither genuine nor remotely good at her job. Moreover, She fired or scared off some of the best legislative staff in the US just so she can peddle this shit.

Goddamn these people are useless. I'll give you this one for free: Rescind the law that makes graffiti a property owner's responsibility & then offer a (cheap as shit) city program people can request for cleanups. These fuckers are so eager to criminalize anyone & everyone.

Zero surprises. Harrell's Parks dept essentially wasted $ (twice) that we budgeted for actual physical safety improvements via misappropriation & insincere community outreach. This mayor will sacrifice lives in order to not hit stop signs, lights, or slow down in the slightest for several miles.

Alright, so this morning during school dropoff, I saw a guy wearing a Georgi Minoungou Sounders jersey dropping his kid off at the class next to my kid's, so I asked him if he was from Seattle. No, turns out he's Georgi's brother!?! 2 Sounders players with a Nantes connection? Seriously small world.

Here's hoping the conservative council doesn't kill it again. The lowering of affordability standards to 50 years & 25% of overall project space reserved for affordable homes will hopefully make this more palatable. Wishing the best of luck.