Josh Rosenau
@joshrosenau.org
Science belongs in politics. Nature-poker, cephalopods fan, conservationist, climate hawk, evolution fan. PTA dad. he/him
Build parks and community!
Elected to city council in Lake Forest Park, WA https://joshforlfp.com
Build parks and community!
Elected to city council in Lake Forest Park, WA https://joshforlfp.com
The Senate doesn’t work and should be abolished.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The Senate doesn’t work and should be abolished.
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
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“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
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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!
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!
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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!
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!
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A complete, connected, comfortable network of protected bike-lanes is a climate mitigation strategy. It’s a healthy cities strategy. It’s a social equity strategy. It’s an affordability strategy. It’s an economic devt strategy. It’s a smart mobility & space saving strategy.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
A complete, connected, comfortable network of protected bike-lanes is a climate mitigation strategy. It’s a healthy cities strategy. It’s a social equity strategy. It’s an affordability strategy. It’s an economic devt strategy. It’s a smart mobility & space saving strategy.
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Great. Let the 8 splitters unite with the rest of the party and elect competent leadership to keep the party united rather than tolerate these fractures.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Great. Let the 8 splitters unite with the rest of the party and elect competent leadership to keep the party united rather than tolerate these fractures.
North King County used to be pretty typical GOP-friendly suburbia. My election will bring a solidly progressive majority to our council, after similar flips in basically all the neighboring cities in recent years. The local Dem party has been a powerful aid to those shifts.
In my old town the GOP had run basically without serious challenge for decades. A bunch of us "millennials" joined the local Dem party and basically asked to help.
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
“Rather than taking over the Democratic Party the same way the right took over the Republican Party, we should take the easier route and just start up a new party ourselves!”
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
North King County used to be pretty typical GOP-friendly suburbia. My election will bring a solidly progressive majority to our council, after similar flips in basically all the neighboring cities in recent years. The local Dem party has been a powerful aid to those shifts.
Remembering that the Syrian civil war started with a drought.
In case you're not aware, Tehran is a city of ~10 MILLION people. "Rivers and reservoirs are running dry, while groundwater sources have been overexploited to sustain agriculture and urban growth."
www.newsweek.com/evacuation-w...
www.newsweek.com/evacuation-w...
Evacuation warning for Iran's capital city
President Masoud Pezeshkian warns Tehran faces a historic water crisis with shortages and possible evacuations.
www.newsweek.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Remembering that the Syrian civil war started with a drought.
So they’ve declared themselves against press, assembly, petitioning the government for redress of grievances, free exercise of religion, jury trials, due process, judicial warrants, and in favor of cruel and unusual punishment. I feel like there may be constitutional issues there.
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
So they’ve declared themselves against press, assembly, petitioning the government for redress of grievances, free exercise of religion, jury trials, due process, judicial warrants, and in favor of cruel and unusual punishment. I feel like there may be constitutional issues there.
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“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
“We made it a major national issue and then made clear we don’t actually care about it.”
Senators need to learn how the media environment works.
Senators need to learn how the media environment works.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
“We made it a major national issue and then made clear we don’t actually care about it.”
Senators need to learn how the media environment works.
Senators need to learn how the media environment works.
Called my Senators ( @murray.senate.gov and @cantwell.senate.gov ) and told them I’m upset about the vote to cave on ACA subsidies and that it reflects a failure of Sen. Schumer’s leadership and that they should replace him. You can call yours too.
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Called my Senators ( @murray.senate.gov and @cantwell.senate.gov ) and told them I’m upset about the vote to cave on ACA subsidies and that it reflects a failure of Sen. Schumer’s leadership and that they should replace him. You can call yours too.
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Also just finished sending short but vehement emails to both @cantwell.senate.gov and @murray.senate.gov for them to hold the line.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Also just finished sending short but vehement emails to both @cantwell.senate.gov and @murray.senate.gov for them to hold the line.
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Mamdani got 1,036,051 votes and had 108,000 volunteers. One out of ten people who voted for him also built the campaign. Amazing.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
November 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Mamdani got 1,036,051 votes and had 108,000 volunteers. One out of ten people who voted for him also built the campaign. Amazing.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
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How Toronto killed Sesame Street. My column on the retreat from allowing shops in neighbourhoods
& other watering down of good ideas.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
& other watering down of good ideas.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Shawn Micallef: How Toronto killed ‘Sesame Street’ with its heritage rules — and how we can bring it back
In the face of opposition from even small groups, the city ends up watering down even the best ideas.
www.thestar.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
How Toronto killed Sesame Street. My column on the retreat from allowing shops in neighbourhoods
& other watering down of good ideas.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
& other watering down of good ideas.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.
So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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The Trump administration is gutting critical services. John Burbank argues that Gov. Bob Ferguson should immediately call a special state legislative session to fund services that have been cut by taxing corporations and billionaires.
Guest op-ed by John Burbank: www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/08/o...
Guest op-ed by John Burbank: www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/08/o...
Op-Ed: Ferguson Must Back ‘Stand Up to Trump’ Rhetoric with Funding » The Urbanist
# The Trump administration is gutting health care, child care, and food stamps. John Burbank argues Governor Bob Ferguson should immediately call a special session of the Washington State Legislature ...
www.theurbanist.org
November 9, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The Trump administration is gutting critical services. John Burbank argues that Gov. Bob Ferguson should immediately call a special state legislative session to fund services that have been cut by taxing corporations and billionaires.
Guest op-ed by John Burbank: www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/08/o...
Guest op-ed by John Burbank: www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/08/o...
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In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
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It is my reluctant duty to fact check this joke.
Non-flying cars kill 41,000 Americans each year, not counting air-pollution deaths, which add another 50,000 plus, for a total of like 250 people per day.
Since 9/11 attacks killed more than ten times that number, we rate this joke: MOSTLY TRUE
Non-flying cars kill 41,000 Americans each year, not counting air-pollution deaths, which add another 50,000 plus, for a total of like 250 people per day.
Since 9/11 attacks killed more than ten times that number, we rate this joke: MOSTLY TRUE
we are never going to have flying cars on account of how there would be a 9/11 every day
November 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It is my reluctant duty to fact check this joke.
Non-flying cars kill 41,000 Americans each year, not counting air-pollution deaths, which add another 50,000 plus, for a total of like 250 people per day.
Since 9/11 attacks killed more than ten times that number, we rate this joke: MOSTLY TRUE
Non-flying cars kill 41,000 Americans each year, not counting air-pollution deaths, which add another 50,000 plus, for a total of like 250 people per day.
Since 9/11 attacks killed more than ten times that number, we rate this joke: MOSTLY TRUE