caedmon
@caedmonc.bsky.social
Personal musings. Mostly sharing pieces that help me see the persistent problems more clearly or with a new lens. Seattle and Washington centric.
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Rick Steves' gift saves Lynnwood center for 'my homeless neighbors'
Rick Steves' gift saves Lynnwood center for 'my homeless neighbors'
Rick Steves buys ‘the most beautiful Christmas present’ for homeless neighbors
Five years after the Lynnwood Hygiene Center opened, serving hundreds in poverty, the landlord planned to sell. Steves stepped in to buy it.
www.seattletimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I love this.
Rick Steves' gift saves Lynnwood center for 'my homeless neighbors'
Rick Steves' gift saves Lynnwood center for 'my homeless neighbors'
Spoke about free speech and book bans at the Seattle Public Library last night and got to learn more about the amazing and critical resource Books Unbanned—that provides library E books and audiobooks to young people across the country. Book access saves lives! Support and share this resource.
Books Unbanned
Teens and young adults ages 13 to 26 living anywhere in the U.S. can access our entire collection of e-books and audiobooks.
www.spl.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Spoke about free speech and book bans at the Seattle Public Library last night and got to learn more about the amazing and critical resource Books Unbanned—that provides library E books and audiobooks to young people across the country. Book access saves lives! Support and share this resource.
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For the first time since 1993, the Trump admin has issued instructions *not* to commemorate World AIDS Day.
Erasing our history won’t erase the epidemic. Silence = Death.
Today, however, Lambda Legal honors the ongoing fight for the rights and dignity of people living with HIV. ❤️
Erasing our history won’t erase the epidemic. Silence = Death.
Today, however, Lambda Legal honors the ongoing fight for the rights and dignity of people living with HIV. ❤️
December 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
For the first time since 1993, the Trump admin has issued instructions *not* to commemorate World AIDS Day.
Erasing our history won’t erase the epidemic. Silence = Death.
Today, however, Lambda Legal honors the ongoing fight for the rights and dignity of people living with HIV. ❤️
Erasing our history won’t erase the epidemic. Silence = Death.
Today, however, Lambda Legal honors the ongoing fight for the rights and dignity of people living with HIV. ❤️
It’s not just Trump that’s getting this wrong. Local jurisdictions across Washington are increasingly hostile to harm reduction practices and policies that could actually reduce demand and make a real difference.
Opinion | I Am a Drug Historian. Trump Is Wrong About Fentanyl in Almost Every Way.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM
It’s not just Trump that’s getting this wrong. Local jurisdictions across Washington are increasingly hostile to harm reduction practices and policies that could actually reduce demand and make a real difference.
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As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
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If you want to know more about ICE’s third-country removals, I keep what I believe is the only public tracker of all of them here: hardghistory.ghost.io/tracking-all...
There are more than you probably think.
There are more than you probably think.
Tracking All of Trump’s Third-Country Removals (That We Know Of)
Bookmark this post, it will be updated.
hardghistory.ghost.io
November 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
If you want to know more about ICE’s third-country removals, I keep what I believe is the only public tracker of all of them here: hardghistory.ghost.io/tracking-all...
There are more than you probably think.
There are more than you probably think.
And many (most?) are being detained in these locations, confined with no end or plan for release. And unsurprisingly, it’s proven extraordinarily difficult to get them out.
ICE has now sent at least 72 people to prisons in African countries where they have no ties.
Via two ICE flights to Rwanda, two to Eswatini, three to Ghana and one to S. Sudan.
Some had US convictions but had finished their sentences. None have convictions in the places where they're now jailed.
Via two ICE flights to Rwanda, two to Eswatini, three to Ghana and one to S. Sudan.
Some had US convictions but had finished their sentences. None have convictions in the places where they're now jailed.
October 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
And many (most?) are being detained in these locations, confined with no end or plan for release. And unsurprisingly, it’s proven extraordinarily difficult to get them out.
We are not ok.
😲 SEATTLE: Shackled at his wrists and ankles, an elderly man struggles in the cold rain to mount the slippery stairs to this Avelo jet, which will fly him to another detention facility in Texas 👀
October 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
We are not ok.
Now is not the time to expand government surveillance.
The Seattle City Council has rushed this decision without fully engaging with the communities who are most vulnerable to the harm these technologies create.
It's time to say NO to expanding government surveillance, and invest in community-backed solutions that work.
It's time to say NO to expanding government surveillance, and invest in community-backed solutions that work.
September 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Now is not the time to expand government surveillance.
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Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
August 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.
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Here's what SPD's proposed expansion of CCTV looks like. It isn't expanding into just certain areas, its going citywide.
tinyurl.com/stop-cctv
tinyurl.com/stop-cctv
September 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Here's what SPD's proposed expansion of CCTV looks like. It isn't expanding into just certain areas, its going citywide.
tinyurl.com/stop-cctv
tinyurl.com/stop-cctv
OPINION | Tuan Phan and the Question of Redemption: When Second Chances Are Delivered in Shipping Containers and Shackles
southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/...
southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/...
OPINION | Tuan Phan and the Question of Redemption: When Second Chances Are Delivered in Shipping Containers and Shackles
After serving 25 years and transforming his life, Tuan Thanh Phan now sits shackled in a shipping container facing deportation to a country he's never known. In the Emerald's latest op-ed, Musa Abdul-...
southseattleemerald.org
July 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
OPINION | Tuan Phan and the Question of Redemption: When Second Chances Are Delivered in Shipping Containers and Shackles
southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/...
southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/...
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INBOX: More than 50 Washington State legislators and local elected officials have written an urgent letter to Gov. Bob Ferguson to demand he take all possible actions to help bring home Tuan Phan, a Vietnamese American who was deported to South Sudan and is currently in Djibouti.
June 24, 2025 at 5:35 AM
INBOX: More than 50 Washington State legislators and local elected officials have written an urgent letter to Gov. Bob Ferguson to demand he take all possible actions to help bring home Tuan Phan, a Vietnamese American who was deported to South Sudan and is currently in Djibouti.
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I flagged this in April and have been howling it into the void. Trump wants Black & Latino incarcerated U.S. citizens sent to CECOT in El Salvador, Congo, South Sudan. These are the “homegrown” Trump talked about with the Salvadoran PM.
Please. Take this seriously.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Please. Take this seriously.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners
Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners
open.substack.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I flagged this in April and have been howling it into the void. Trump wants Black & Latino incarcerated U.S. citizens sent to CECOT in El Salvador, Congo, South Sudan. These are the “homegrown” Trump talked about with the Salvadoran PM.
Please. Take this seriously.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Please. Take this seriously.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...