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JUST IN: Katie Wilson is now ahead of Mayor Bruce Harrell in the Seattle mayoral race.
Stay tuned for details on today's count.
Stay tuned for details on today's count.
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
JUST IN: Katie Wilson is now ahead of Mayor Bruce Harrell in the Seattle mayoral race.
Stay tuned for details on today's count.
Stay tuned for details on today's count.
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Keep thinking about the words of wisdom from @bradlander.bsky.social that the divide in Democratic politics right now is between folders and fighters.
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Keep thinking about the words of wisdom from @bradlander.bsky.social that the divide in Democratic politics right now is between folders and fighters.
I see there’s discourse happening today about whether households were poorer or wealthier in the past.
Just want to caution ppl that stats on household income aren’t good at comparing single earner family wage homes with dual earner households.
Just want to caution ppl that stats on household income aren’t good at comparing single earner family wage homes with dual earner households.
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I see there’s discourse happening today about whether households were poorer or wealthier in the past.
Just want to caution ppl that stats on household income aren’t good at comparing single earner family wage homes with dual earner households.
Just want to caution ppl that stats on household income aren’t good at comparing single earner family wage homes with dual earner households.
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This is very good framing from @gelliottmorris.com. It adds more data to what I've been arguing. Would only add that *attacking Trump* produced these reversals among nonwhite working class (see my piece and thread below).
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
November 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is very good framing from @gelliottmorris.com. It adds more data to what I've been arguing. Would only add that *attacking Trump* produced these reversals among nonwhite working class (see my piece and thread below).
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
Turnout in Seattle was exceptionally high. Still hoping to see @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social pull out a win.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E-M...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E-M...
Latest election results for Seattle's mayoral race: Bruce Harrell still leads, but many votes left
YouTube video by KOMO News
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November 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Turnout in Seattle was exceptionally high. Still hoping to see @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social pull out a win.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E-M...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E-M...
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Impossible to repost or discuss this chart too many times. A tale of two crises & two policy responses. One of them we still inexplicably talk about as a success, & one we still inexplicably talk about as a failure. 1.5 years of modestly high inflation did a number on us.
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Impossible to repost or discuss this chart too many times. A tale of two crises & two policy responses. One of them we still inexplicably talk about as a success, & one we still inexplicably talk about as a failure. 1.5 years of modestly high inflation did a number on us.
With AI we're seeing a whole new layer to the 'coercive laws' of competition in capitalism. These companies are all racing ahead without guardrails out of a fear that another company will win.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
With AI we're seeing a whole new layer to the 'coercive laws' of competition in capitalism. These companies are all racing ahead without guardrails out of a fear that another company will win.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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So: Lomborg spent the 2010s pretending that he just wanted to see cheap clean energy, and is spending the 2020s attacking the hell out of it because it's cheap and accessible
Gates is just claiming all the victories of the policies he fought against as his own.
Climate vultures.
Gates is just claiming all the victories of the policies he fought against as his own.
Climate vultures.
October 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
So: Lomborg spent the 2010s pretending that he just wanted to see cheap clean energy, and is spending the 2020s attacking the hell out of it because it's cheap and accessible
Gates is just claiming all the victories of the policies he fought against as his own.
Climate vultures.
Gates is just claiming all the victories of the policies he fought against as his own.
Climate vultures.
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Folks, saying ABOLISH ICE isn't hard. Quite easy. The water is warm here. Jump in. Mainstream it. People will follow.
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Folks, saying ABOLISH ICE isn't hard. Quite easy. The water is warm here. Jump in. Mainstream it. People will follow.
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Holy shit, this is kinda huge if you're into the social sciences
Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”
In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Holy shit, this is kinda huge if you're into the social sciences
I chuckle thinking of Ezra Klein's interview with Coates just, like, one month ago where he concluded that the way forward is to cave. Just a month later and all around people stood firm during a day of mass protest, and many more took to the ballot boxes.
November 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I chuckle thinking of Ezra Klein's interview with Coates just, like, one month ago where he concluded that the way forward is to cave. Just a month later and all around people stood firm during a day of mass protest, and many more took to the ballot boxes.
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gotta say this whole business about ‘electing a muslim mayor is basically pissing on the graves of 9/11 victims’ is just…just shockingly racist stuff i mean what else is there to say about it
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
gotta say this whole business about ‘electing a muslim mayor is basically pissing on the graves of 9/11 victims’ is just…just shockingly racist stuff i mean what else is there to say about it
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our neighbors are our caregivers: our teachers, our home health aides, our chefs, our deliverers, our builders, our nannies, our beautifiers - everyone who works to take care.
and our neighbors are organizing because we HATE this attack on community fabric.
and our neighbors are organizing because we HATE this attack on community fabric.
this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."
November 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
our neighbors are our caregivers: our teachers, our home health aides, our chefs, our deliverers, our builders, our nannies, our beautifiers - everyone who works to take care.
and our neighbors are organizing because we HATE this attack on community fabric.
and our neighbors are organizing because we HATE this attack on community fabric.
Once again just going to remind people that Bill de Blasio delivered on universal pre-K which is something that mountains of research shows provides returns for children, families, and pretty much anyone who is hanging around those kids and families.
November 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Once again just going to remind people that Bill de Blasio delivered on universal pre-K which is something that mountains of research shows provides returns for children, families, and pretty much anyone who is hanging around those kids and families.
Full throated support of this! In the academic labor market the rightwing wokeness frustration is a symptom of a different problem: how difficult it is to get on the tenure track.
The obsessive wokeness panic is about elite labor market competition and prestige. People use a lot of fancy words to obscure this, and offer some substantive criticisms as well, but that’s ultimately its driving force.
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Full throated support of this! In the academic labor market the rightwing wokeness frustration is a symptom of a different problem: how difficult it is to get on the tenure track.
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This Day in Labor History: November 5, 1916. Cop thugs opened fire on a group of IWW organizers and workers attempting to land in Everett, Washington. Let's talk about the horrors of the Everett Massacre and the murderous ways of cops.
November 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 5, 1916. Cop thugs opened fire on a group of IWW organizers and workers attempting to land in Everett, Washington. Let's talk about the horrors of the Everett Massacre and the murderous ways of cops.
Today is a good today to remind people of the work of the Costs of War project at Brown University:
costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/papers/how-d...
costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/papers/how-d...
How Death Outlives War: The Reverberating Impact of the Post-9/11 Wars on Human Health
Anthropologist and Costs of War Director Stephanie Savell (Senior Fellow, Brown University) examines how war’s destruction of economies, public services, infrastructure, and the environment leads to d...
costsofwar.watson.brown.edu
November 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Today is a good today to remind people of the work of the Costs of War project at Brown University:
costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/papers/how-d...
costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/papers/how-d...
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Two of the most significant politics editors in Teen Vogue’s history were working class trans people from Ohio and Philly, and their tireless, fearless work is a huge part of why so many people are mourning its demise now. @satansjacuzzi.bsky.social and @leximcmenamin.com you will always be famous
November 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Two of the most significant politics editors in Teen Vogue’s history were working class trans people from Ohio and Philly, and their tireless, fearless work is a huge part of why so many people are mourning its demise now. @satansjacuzzi.bsky.social and @leximcmenamin.com you will always be famous
Yesterday I was watching some WA state committee hearings from 2023 for some research I'm doing on an unemployment law. Boy, was that a reminder that some our lawmakers just mail it in with completely inane policy arguments.
November 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Yesterday I was watching some WA state committee hearings from 2023 for some research I'm doing on an unemployment law. Boy, was that a reminder that some our lawmakers just mail it in with completely inane policy arguments.
Ezra Douthglesias is so good it's the new Kavanaugh Stop
👇🎯
These candidates actually existed.
The Democratic Party actually had a platform. Ezra Douthglesias could still go read it. They choose not to, or to pretend it didn't exist: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/20....
Just have the courage of your convictions, please: bsky.app/profile/will...
These candidates actually existed.
The Democratic Party actually had a platform. Ezra Douthglesias could still go read it. They choose not to, or to pretend it didn't exist: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/20....
Just have the courage of your convictions, please: bsky.app/profile/will...
November 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Ezra Douthglesias is so good it's the new Kavanaugh Stop
If you actually listen to Mamdani's policy agenda, then you know that he built a significant portion of it on a *recent* two-term mayor. He literally is saying that he will continue the work that de Blasio initiated -- especially in the care sector.
November 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
If you actually listen to Mamdani's policy agenda, then you know that he built a significant portion of it on a *recent* two-term mayor. He literally is saying that he will continue the work that de Blasio initiated -- especially in the care sector.
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Are we all going to be banned for being happy Cheney is dead too?
November 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Are we all going to be banned for being happy Cheney is dead too?
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Wake up, Dick! I want you to see droves of New Yorkers voting in a Muslim socialist as mayor!
Dick?
Dick?
November 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Wake up, Dick! I want you to see droves of New Yorkers voting in a Muslim socialist as mayor!
Dick?
Dick?
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The willingness to use every weapon to block an agreement to reduce emissions, is another point for the theory that part of the economic base of Trumpism is a group of capital-owners who’ve decided that a rational response to climate change would involve an unacceptable loss of prerogatives.
November 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The willingness to use every weapon to block an agreement to reduce emissions, is another point for the theory that part of the economic base of Trumpism is a group of capital-owners who’ve decided that a rational response to climate change would involve an unacceptable loss of prerogatives.
I see the discourse is addressing a silly Matty Y take on the climate crisis. Important to note that climate is one issue where young and old Republicans have a large gap in reported preference. So the argument could easily be that dems when moderate and bipartisan by focusing young republicans.
November 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I see the discourse is addressing a silly Matty Y take on the climate crisis. Important to note that climate is one issue where young and old Republicans have a large gap in reported preference. So the argument could easily be that dems when moderate and bipartisan by focusing young republicans.