Amelia Showalter
@ameliashowalter.bsky.social
Data nerd, Seattleite, elder Millennial. Co-Founder and CEO of Pantheon Analytics. Obama campaign alum, and still a believer in hope.
Mamdani clearly has a maxed-out Charisma bonus, so straight nat 20s weren't required... but yeah he definitely rolled at least a few.
Zohran met the campaign's final boss and won without a fight by rolling 10 straight nat 20s on persuasion checks, that's all I can figure
November 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Mamdani clearly has a maxed-out Charisma bonus, so straight nat 20s weren't required... but yeah he definitely rolled at least a few.
The "Trump is senile" narrative is about to get a huge boost on the right.
November 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The "Trump is senile" narrative is about to get a huge boost on the right.
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Great news that the Senate has passed the bill forcing the DOJ to release its Epstein file. Now Bondi must comply. But our work cannot stop there. We need to force the Treasury to release the Epstein bank records too. I have a bill to make that happen. FOLLOW THE MONEY.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Great news that the Senate has passed the bill forcing the DOJ to release its Epstein file. Now Bondi must comply. But our work cannot stop there. We need to force the Treasury to release the Epstein bank records too. I have a bill to make that happen. FOLLOW THE MONEY.
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Jim Jordan begged someone to not rat out the sexual assault that was happening at Ohio State. He was crying on the phone. Groveling. This man threw out all his dignity to try and cover for horrifying crimes of sexual abuse. Think about that for a moment.
November 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Jim Jordan begged someone to not rat out the sexual assault that was happening at Ohio State. He was crying on the phone. Groveling. This man threw out all his dignity to try and cover for horrifying crimes of sexual abuse. Think about that for a moment.
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The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Fuse Washington's progressive voter guide is superior in every way to the Stranger's endorsement list. I appreciated the Stranger's endorsements when I was 20. But their snark just isn't that helpful, and as @robertcruickshank.com mentions, their downballot choices are sometimes ill-considered.
Maybe this is controversial, but I think it is fundamentally unhealthy for a progressive movement to have our most influential endorsements come from a newspaper. I love the Stranger, often they get it right. But when they get it wrong, the consequences can be massive, like in our public schools.
How a Seattle Alt-Weekly Newspaper Became a Progressive Kingmaker
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Fuse Washington's progressive voter guide is superior in every way to the Stranger's endorsement list. I appreciated the Stranger's endorsements when I was 20. But their snark just isn't that helpful, and as @robertcruickshank.com mentions, their downballot choices are sometimes ill-considered.
As long as it's someone else's 14-year-old, they never care. I'm not saying she should be let off the hook, but there's no stopping the cognitive dissonance.
Everyone who posts this should note that Megyn Kelly has a 14-year-old daughter. Do not let her off the hook on this.
This was always where this was headed.
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
As long as it's someone else's 14-year-old, they never care. I'm not saying she should be let off the hook, but there's no stopping the cognitive dissonance.
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Wow. While we wait for the few remaining ballots to be counted, we feel like we have won this race. The recent drop put us nearly 1,400 votes ahead, just under the .5 percent threshold for a mandatory recount.
November 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Wow. While we wait for the few remaining ballots to be counted, we feel like we have won this race. The recent drop put us nearly 1,400 votes ahead, just under the .5 percent threshold for a mandatory recount.
Capitulator? I hardly know her!
November 11, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Capitulator? I hardly know her!
This is why there needs to be a hi-cap cohort school in West Seattle. Selfishly I'd love it to be at Lafayette, but Alki would make more sense -- their new building will be twice as big as what they need. It could accommodate two tracks just like Thurgood Marshall.
Made a map for Albert's analysis, showing difference in enrollment by school between the 2014-15 and 2024-25 school years. thebethocracy.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant...
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This is why there needs to be a hi-cap cohort school in West Seattle. Selfishly I'd love it to be at Lafayette, but Alki would make more sense -- their new building will be twice as big as what they need. It could accommodate two tracks just like Thurgood Marshall.
Yeah why is this a question that even needs to be asked. It's an all-time great album. This elder millennial discovered it thanks to VH1 Behind The Music!
November 9, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Yeah why is this a question that even needs to be asked. It's an all-time great album. This elder millennial discovered it thanks to VH1 Behind The Music!
Let’s convince some religious zealots that AI is a tool of the devil. Not kidding. I feel like this would be enough to generate a wave of scrutiny. A satanic panic, but for good! (SAItanic panic?)
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Let’s convince some religious zealots that AI is a tool of the devil. Not kidding. I feel like this would be enough to generate a wave of scrutiny. A satanic panic, but for good! (SAItanic panic?)
Perfection
November 8, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Perfection
Wow, nailbiter indeed. Can't wait to see what happens on Monday with the next ballot drop.
NEW Seattle Numbers---
The Mayor's Race is razor tight.
Harrell 50.74
Wilson 48.86
A little over 4000 vote difference
Wilson just made up a lot of ground.
@komonews
The Mayor's Race is razor tight.
Harrell 50.74
Wilson 48.86
A little over 4000 vote difference
Wilson just made up a lot of ground.
@komonews
November 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Wow, nailbiter indeed. Can't wait to see what happens on Monday with the next ballot drop.
I mean, Ross Douthat still has a job, so I'm thinking we did not ruin the workplace enough. Let's get on that, ladies.
November 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I mean, Ross Douthat still has a job, so I'm thinking we did not ruin the workplace enough. Let's get on that, ladies.
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I just don’t understand how they thought “ha ha ha this loser can’t afford child care in the city I’m currently mayor of” would be a good look.
I address the first scandal of my political life—Momgate.
October 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I just don’t understand how they thought “ha ha ha this loser can’t afford child care in the city I’m currently mayor of” would be a good look.
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This weekend, I received notice of the 21st death of a person in ICE custody since Trump took office.
These mostly private, for-profit detention centers put their profits over people’s health and safety. There must be increased oversight and accountability.
These mostly private, for-profit detention centers put their profits over people’s health and safety. There must be increased oversight and accountability.
October 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
This weekend, I received notice of the 21st death of a person in ICE custody since Trump took office.
These mostly private, for-profit detention centers put their profits over people’s health and safety. There must be increased oversight and accountability.
These mostly private, for-profit detention centers put their profits over people’s health and safety. There must be increased oversight and accountability.
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Tear gassing random residential streets is just absolutely psychotic behavior.
Video from today's first gas attack.
Saturday morning in Chicago.
Saturday morning in Chicago.
October 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Tear gassing random residential streets is just absolutely psychotic behavior.
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Right: he's treating Treasury accounts like slush funds to pay military personnel, he's buying luxury jets for cabinet members with our $$, he's using state power to extort bribes to fund his stupid ballroom, and now he wants to help himself to a 9-figure sum while fed workers aren't getting paid.
sorry, man, but this is breathtakingly, shockingly corrupt in every fucking way it can be, and an open and shut and uncomplicated case for impeachment. he didn’t even pay for these lawyers, his donors did, for fuck’s sake.
ask every republican in congress whether they think the treasury should pay donald trump almost a quarter billion dollars while federal workers are in their third week of not getting paid
October 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Right: he's treating Treasury accounts like slush funds to pay military personnel, he's buying luxury jets for cabinet members with our $$, he's using state power to extort bribes to fund his stupid ballroom, and now he wants to help himself to a 9-figure sum while fed workers aren't getting paid.
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When the conflict expands in scale & scope, the good feelings help propel people to do hard things. Shitting on the public rallies is fucking dumb. It's also ahistorical and lacks any serious engagement with the history of social movement successes in the US. It's just trashy demobilization.
October 19, 2025 at 1:49 AM
When the conflict expands in scale & scope, the good feelings help propel people to do hard things. Shitting on the public rallies is fucking dumb. It's also ahistorical and lacks any serious engagement with the history of social movement successes in the US. It's just trashy demobilization.
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I looked at 38 papers. The NYT was one of only a few not to have it as the top story and photo
The handful of exceptions were pretty much all places with a big D1 football game
I genuinely don't understand why the NYT is so reticent to give coverage to one of the largest protests in history
The handful of exceptions were pretty much all places with a big D1 football game
I genuinely don't understand why the NYT is so reticent to give coverage to one of the largest protests in history
October 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I looked at 38 papers. The NYT was one of only a few not to have it as the top story and photo
The handful of exceptions were pretty much all places with a big D1 football game
I genuinely don't understand why the NYT is so reticent to give coverage to one of the largest protests in history
The handful of exceptions were pretty much all places with a big D1 football game
I genuinely don't understand why the NYT is so reticent to give coverage to one of the largest protests in history
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Seattle No Kings from the monorail
October 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Seattle No Kings from the monorail
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago
Chicago
October 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago
Chicago