If I were a recount lawyer, I’d be making lots of calls and clearing my schedule for next week.

For all the progress Spokane has made, we still have an overwhelming amount of work to do to make our streets truly safe.

This an important piece for progressives to read. And take some time in the NYT’s comments! “Progressive” issue groups can and do achieve social justice ends, and can be stellar workplaces, without making it central to their missions. Let organizations specialize and forge unlikely coalitions.

AHAHA SUPREME COURT SAYS TOUCH THE STOVE

The Director of Spokane Public Libraries, which is a department of the City of Spokane, just sent an email to cardholders suggesting they email their Councilmembers to stave off possible budget cuts. This feels wildly inappropriate.

This race could come down to challenged or curable ballots. If you live in northeast Spokane and you voted in this election, please, please, PLEASE go to votewa.gov to confirm that your vote was accepted and tabulated.

In what is perhaps the wildest possible upset of this election, @sardixit.bsky.social is now AHEAD of Republican Jonathan Bingle by 60 votes for the Spokane City Council Position 2 seat! This seat has been occupied by Republicans for YEARS. For Sarah to flip it would be wild!

trump is racking up the L’s this week

literally going to scotus to deny food to millions electoral suicide

This is another reason counting should be faster.

There it is: after four days of counting (we need to count faster!), progressive Sarah Dixit has pulled ahead of conservative Jon Bingle by just 53 votes! Sarah Dixit: 5,732 (49.9%) Jon Bingle: 5,679 (49.5%) The machine recount threshold is 0.5%. The hand recount threshold is 0.25%.

Republicans criticisms of vote-by-mail counting timelines, while often levied in bad faith, ask good questions that we need to better address. Why should it take two weeks to count votes, aside from the ones that trickle in after the postmark deadline? What would it take to speed up the process?

I don’t love seeing this monoculture-ass development, but at least there’s a shared use path and it’s connected to the path network

I would laugh so hard if this is what kills the filibuster.

BRING BACK SIMPLE BRICK BUILDINGS

Interesting find: in 2016, when Seattle passed its $54 billion ST3 transit package, it expected: – West Seattle and Tacoma Dome Link extensions to be under construction by now – Stride BRT to be *OPEN* by now (!) – Federal Way Link to have been open for a year by now

Hell yeah. It turns out that maybe people actually like bold, ambitious, clearly communicated public infrastructure plans

Yes! Exactly this! Our crappy design standards are part of the reason condo builders’ liability insurance is so expensive!

Really solid work here to connect people with food. Share it.

Charge OpenAI with corporate manslaughter, and indict Sam Altman on felony murder charges.

Spokane voters appear to be approving a $450 million package of school and park projects, including: ✅ 2 new elementary schools, 3 renovated middle schools, 1 new high school ✅ 6+ all-weather lighted fields ✅ Indoor aquatics center ✅ 54 new playgrounds ✅ 85 new park restrooms ✅ much more!

After three days of counting, it appears the $450 million Spokane Together bond-levy package is headed toward voter approval. SCHOOLS BOND (60% required): Yes: 34,238 (61.2%) No: 21,749 (38.9%) PARKS LEVY (50% required): Yes: 29,210 (55.2%) No: 23,734 (44.8%)

WE HAVE A RACE! After the third day of counting, progressive Sarah Dixit is continuing to catch up to conservative Jon Bingle. They’re now separated by just 68 VOTES! Sarah Dixit: 4,826 (49.5%) Jonathan Bingle: 4,894 (50.2%) If elected, Dixit would be our Council’s sixth true progressive.

SNAP surveys SNAP users. Already half of them are saying they are skipping meals.

I think the WA-05 congressional district is winnable right now for Democrats with the right candidate focusing on the right issues. Here’s what I’d be looking for in a candidate:

google “jury nullification”

One significant factor driving this difference is America’s unusual habit of requiring two staircases in buildings taller than three stories. New research indicates that this practice increases costs without increasing safety.

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

If reversing the fertility decline were my thing, I would have this tattooed on my forehead.

I want to read commentary about why Seattle progressive electeds so often defer to seniority or “it’s their turn.” Teresa Mosqueda or Tammy Morales or Mike O’Brien or Brady Walkinshaw and many others could have run credible, interesting mayoral campaigns. What’s with the fear of confrontation?

Spokane is *THIS CLOSE* to investing more than $450 million in schools, parks, pools, and recreation facilities!

I want another day of counting on the school bond, which requires a 60% vote. But these results appear to be holding after Day 2. Actually, “no” has nudged down ever-so-slightly. Proposition 1 (SPS school bond) Yes: 60.8% No: 39.2%

After another day of counting, the race has tightened a bit, and Dixit and Bingle are separated by only 184 votes. Sarah Dixit: 4,468 (48.8%) Jon Bingle: 4,652 (50.9%) There are about 26,000 ballots countywide that are on-hand and still need to be counted, but a few more might trickle in.

I strongly believe that it is Islamophobic to call Zohran Mamdani antisemitic. His perspective—that the slaughter of innocents in Gaza is unjust and must stop—is completely anodyne, and no one would bat an eye if he were a white Christian dude.

33 is a terrific age to do unbelievably difficult things as well as you can. I dig this guy and I’m rooting for him

An incomplete list of cities where housing abundance was a major campaign issue & pro-housing candidates held or expanded majorities: - Bozeman, MT - Cambridge, MA - Durham, NC - Kalispell, MT - Littleton, CO - Manchester, NH - Missoula, MT - Salt Lake City, UT - Seattle, WA - Wilmington, NC 💪

This one's gonna be a nail biter for sure and the results would show District 1s appetite for a young, super progressive reps

Nithya Raman would be an absolutely incredible Mayor of Los Angeles.

But how quickly will they rule?

There would be whispers––and he’d have a credible case!––for a campaign as early as 2028, if he were eligible.

Zohran’s speech sounds like an Obama speech. If you can’t see that, you’re blind.

This is a very close race, and could come down to the next few days of returns: Sarah Dixit: 3,677 Jon Bingle: 3,879 Just 202 votes separate them!

Results are in in Spokane! And they’re quite good for progressives...

Very dumb politics (principles aside) for Gillibrand, Goldman, Schumer, and Jeffries to treat Mamdani like sour milk.

Compare how Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL responded to Zohran Mamdani winning the mayoral election in NYC to how he responded to the Heritage Foundation mainstreaming actual neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.

Prop 50 wins, in part because constitutional amendments in California only need 50%+1. (Which, from a democratic legitimacy perspective is *INSANE* but I’m willing to let it slide this once!)

Roughly 20 minutes until Spokane County results. I’ll be watching races for: Spokane City Council Prop 1 + Prop 1 (Spokane Together) CV School Board Mead School Board

the primary lesson from tonight is that dems should run more people who aren’t so old that they’re literally melting

AOC is sounding very, very, very presidential right now on MS NOW. 👀