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🌐 Digital Strategist & Data Analyst. Following money and influence across political ecosystems. 🏔️ Rainier Valley (15+yr). Former AK fisherman. 🎵 Vinyl & decks. Networks, not narratives.
🏳️🌈👨❤️👨 = 🏳️⚧️ Ally
#WorkingDems
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🏳️🌈👨❤️👨 = 🏳️⚧️ Ally
#WorkingDems
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Exactly this. Republicans were exhibiting a classic hostage-taking strategy. Call them out on this. It's a monstrous thing to do to use starving kids as a political tool, but *especially* when you consider they did it to ensure that healthcare costs would go up. Truly evil shit.
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Exactly this. Republicans were exhibiting a classic hostage-taking strategy. Call them out on this. It's a monstrous thing to do to use starving kids as a political tool, but *especially* when you consider they did it to ensure that healthcare costs would go up. Truly evil shit.
🧵 Okay so yesterday's vote has me needing to share something.
I've been tracking these 8 Democratic senators for months, and yesterday's surrender on healthcare wasn't surprising—it was predictable.
Let me show you why:
#Healthcare #CorporateDemocrats
1/12
I've been tracking these 8 Democratic senators for months, and yesterday's surrender on healthcare wasn't surprising—it was predictable.
Let me show you why:
#Healthcare #CorporateDemocrats
1/12
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
🧵 Okay so yesterday's vote has me needing to share something.
I've been tracking these 8 Democratic senators for months, and yesterday's surrender on healthcare wasn't surprising—it was predictable.
Let me show you why:
#Healthcare #CorporateDemocrats
1/12
I've been tracking these 8 Democratic senators for months, and yesterday's surrender on healthcare wasn't surprising—it was predictable.
Let me show you why:
#Healthcare #CorporateDemocrats
1/12
NYC's new mayor beat billionaire-backed opposition. He put Lina Khan, who fought Amazon, Meta, and Big Pharma at the FTC, on his transition team.
This is what #WorkingDems looks like.
www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
#Seattle #SeaPol
This is what #WorkingDems looks like.
www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
#Seattle #SeaPol
Zohran Mamdani’s all-female transition team features familiar names
Fresh off his outsider campaign, New York’s mayor-elect introduced some insiders in a group that includes Biden, Bloomberg, de Blasio and Adams alumnae.
www.msnbc.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
NYC's new mayor beat billionaire-backed opposition. He put Lina Khan, who fought Amazon, Meta, and Big Pharma at the FTC, on his transition team.
This is what #WorkingDems looks like.
www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
#Seattle #SeaPol
This is what #WorkingDems looks like.
www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
#Seattle #SeaPol
Dems after winning: "Voters want us to fight!"
Dems during shutdown: "Let's negotiate with Republicans holding the government hostage."
Meanwhile, workers go unpaid. Federal services shut down. But bipartisan unity on... capitulation.
#WorkingDems demands better.
Dems during shutdown: "Let's negotiate with Republicans holding the government hostage."
Meanwhile, workers go unpaid. Federal services shut down. But bipartisan unity on... capitulation.
#WorkingDems demands better.
Establishment Dems: “We just had a sweeping win proving people want us to fight for them and that we can beat the fascists.”
Also Establishment Dems: “Quick, back to capitulating!”
What an utterly spineless and embarrassing political party.
Also Establishment Dems: “Quick, back to capitulating!”
What an utterly spineless and embarrassing political party.
November 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Dems after winning: "Voters want us to fight!"
Dems during shutdown: "Let's negotiate with Republicans holding the government hostage."
Meanwhile, workers go unpaid. Federal services shut down. But bipartisan unity on... capitulation.
#WorkingDems demands better.
Dems during shutdown: "Let's negotiate with Republicans holding the government hostage."
Meanwhile, workers go unpaid. Federal services shut down. But bipartisan unity on... capitulation.
#WorkingDems demands better.
ELECTION NIGHT: While Seattle counted votes, Harrell fired SPD's top civilian leaders.
Maxey & Boatright spent 10 years navigating federal oversight—Judge Robart specifically praised their accountability work. Replaced with "his own people" from Madison.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Maxey & Boatright spent 10 years navigating federal oversight—Judge Robart specifically praised their accountability work. Replaced with "his own people" from Madison.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Chief Shon Barnes fires top civilian leaders in Seattle police
The police department’s chief operating officer, Brian Maxey, and general counsel, Rebecca Boatright, were let go by Chief Shon Barnes, sources said.
www.seattletimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
ELECTION NIGHT: While Seattle counted votes, Harrell fired SPD's top civilian leaders.
Maxey & Boatright spent 10 years navigating federal oversight—Judge Robart specifically praised their accountability work. Replaced with "his own people" from Madison.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Maxey & Boatright spent 10 years navigating federal oversight—Judge Robart specifically praised their accountability work. Replaced with "his own people" from Madison.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
The astronauts have it right - most punditry IS out of touch.
Here's what's in touch: Working people need healthcare, housing,
& wages that work. Period.
I don't care if that's "left" or "center" - I care if it's real.
Whoever fights for working class dignity has my support.
Let's go. 💪
Here's what's in touch: Working people need healthcare, housing,
& wages that work. Period.
I don't care if that's "left" or "center" - I care if it's real.
Whoever fights for working class dignity has my support.
Let's go. 💪
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The astronauts have it right - most punditry IS out of touch.
Here's what's in touch: Working people need healthcare, housing,
& wages that work. Period.
I don't care if that's "left" or "center" - I care if it's real.
Whoever fights for working class dignity has my support.
Let's go. 💪
Here's what's in touch: Working people need healthcare, housing,
& wages that work. Period.
I don't care if that's "left" or "center" - I care if it's real.
Whoever fights for working class dignity has my support.
Let's go. 💪
First ballot drop: Wilson 46%, Harrell 53%.
We've seen this movie before.
Thread 🧵👇
We've seen this movie before.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
First ballot drop: Wilson 46%, Harrell 53%.
We've seen this movie before.
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We've seen this movie before.
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Douthat claims Republicans 'moved to the center', but look at actual policy, not rhetoric.
Trump's tax cuts benefited corporations and the wealthy. He rolled back labor protections, gutted environmental regulations, deregulated Wall Street. That's plutocracy with populist branding.
Trump's tax cuts benefited corporations and the wealthy. He rolled back labor protections, gutted environmental regulations, deregulated Wall Street. That's plutocracy with populist branding.
It is time to admit that Republicans won the 2024 election by running to the center.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...
November 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Douthat claims Republicans 'moved to the center', but look at actual policy, not rhetoric.
Trump's tax cuts benefited corporations and the wealthy. He rolled back labor protections, gutted environmental regulations, deregulated Wall Street. That's plutocracy with populist branding.
Trump's tax cuts benefited corporations and the wealthy. He rolled back labor protections, gutted environmental regulations, deregulated Wall Street. That's plutocracy with populist branding.
Seattle Times:
Young voters supporting affordable housing = "suicide bombers"
Politician raiding $287M from affordable housing = "pragmatic"
Then disabled comments.
This isn't analysis, it's gatekeeping declaring which voters are legitimate and which are extremists. Echoing the voice at the top.
Young voters supporting affordable housing = "suicide bombers"
Politician raiding $287M from affordable housing = "pragmatic"
Then disabled comments.
This isn't analysis, it's gatekeeping declaring which voters are legitimate and which are extremists. Echoing the voice at the top.
ummm holy shit - @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social published a David Horsey piece just casually likening young voters to suicide bombers (as opposed to property-owning boomers like him, who wisely and sagely fill the bubble for Bruce Harrell) www.seattletimes.com/opinion/seat...
Seattle voters are divided by age more than ideology
In a poll about the mayor’s race, Katie Wilson was the choice of young voters, while Bruce Harrell was the favorite of those in upper age brackets.
www.seattletimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Seattle Times:
Young voters supporting affordable housing = "suicide bombers"
Politician raiding $287M from affordable housing = "pragmatic"
Then disabled comments.
This isn't analysis, it's gatekeeping declaring which voters are legitimate and which are extremists. Echoing the voice at the top.
Young voters supporting affordable housing = "suicide bombers"
Politician raiding $287M from affordable housing = "pragmatic"
Then disabled comments.
This isn't analysis, it's gatekeeping declaring which voters are legitimate and which are extremists. Echoing the voice at the top.
Both miss the point. The debate over "participate vs boycott" keeps us fighting about HOW to engage rigged systems instead of WHY our participation never threatens wealth concentration. Real power comes from organizing workers, building alternatives, & disrupting profit extraction—not voting harder.
This whole argument is just, "The beatings will continue until morale improves."
When I explain that boycotting an election over an issue has never once forced a politician to embrace that issue, I'm not "scolding people to vote." I'm explaining reality.
Feel free to sit on your ass! Just don't pretend that your lazy apathy is somehow going to advance your agenda.
Feel free to sit on your ass! Just don't pretend that your lazy apathy is somehow going to advance your agenda.
October 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Both miss the point. The debate over "participate vs boycott" keeps us fighting about HOW to engage rigged systems instead of WHY our participation never threatens wealth concentration. Real power comes from organizing workers, building alternatives, & disrupting profit extraction—not voting harder.
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So ~strange~ that the Seattle Times didn't run an op/ed when most of the centrist candidates skipped the Seattle Human Services Coalition forum, presumably figuring it wasn't worth their time to hear from and speak to a more left-leaning audience.
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/seat...
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/seat...
Seattle's dysfunctional politics, from a voter's perspective | Op-Ed
A Seattle voter asks: Why wouldn’t the candidates show up for a debate? If we could dedicate our day to civic engagement, why couldn’t they do the same for us?
www.seattletimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
So ~strange~ that the Seattle Times didn't run an op/ed when most of the centrist candidates skipped the Seattle Human Services Coalition forum, presumably figuring it wasn't worth their time to hear from and speak to a more left-leaning audience.
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/seat...
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/seat...
Let's follow Seattle's money:
CUT: Rental assistance, 128 shelter beds, tenant services
RAISED: Police starting salary from $83K to $118K (42% in 5 years), surveillance budget by $3.1M
Homelessness rate? Unchanged. Just more aggressively policed.
CUT: Rental assistance, 128 shelter beds, tenant services
RAISED: Police starting salary from $83K to $118K (42% in 5 years), surveillance budget by $3.1M
Homelessness rate? Unchanged. Just more aggressively policed.
ONLY AT PUBLICOLA: New Police Contract Will Boost Starting Salaries to Almost $120,000—a 42% Pay Increase in Just Five Years
The contract reportedly includes only minimal concessions on police accountability. The city just bumped starting salaries to $104,000—the highest in the state—last year.
The contract reportedly includes only minimal concessions on police accountability. The city just bumped starting salaries to $104,000—the highest in the state—last year.
New Police Contract Will Boost Starting Salaries to Almost $120,000—a 42 Percent Pay Increase in Just Five Years - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett City negotiators have approved a new 2024-2027 contract with the Seattle Police Officers Guild that will…
publicola.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Let's follow Seattle's money:
CUT: Rental assistance, 128 shelter beds, tenant services
RAISED: Police starting salary from $83K to $118K (42% in 5 years), surveillance budget by $3.1M
Homelessness rate? Unchanged. Just more aggressively policed.
CUT: Rental assistance, 128 shelter beds, tenant services
RAISED: Police starting salary from $83K to $118K (42% in 5 years), surveillance budget by $3.1M
Homelessness rate? Unchanged. Just more aggressively policed.
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Bumping this out of thread because it's another example of taking a tax passed for a specific, targeted purpose (improving public health, particularly in poor and BIPOC neighborhoods) and converting it to an all-purpose slush fund to close a general-fund gap. This used to be a very big deal.
I actually am Old Enough To Remember when it was an extremely big deal that Jenny Durkan wanted to repurpose the city's soda tax to backfill the general fund. Harrell's budget casually uses $7.2 million from the soda tax to backfill the general fund. publicola.com/2019/07/19/w...
Will Durkan's High-Stakes Gamble With Soda Tax Revenues Pay Off? - PubliCola
On Monday, the city council is poised to pass legislation sponsored by council member Mike O’Brien that would require any…
publicola.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Bumping this out of thread because it's another example of taking a tax passed for a specific, targeted purpose (improving public health, particularly in poor and BIPOC neighborhoods) and converting it to an all-purpose slush fund to close a general-fund gap. This used to be a very big deal.
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From admins to agents: if you work for ICE, you're not a good person.
Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.
Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:
When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.
When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.
October 12, 2025 at 5:10 AM
From admins to agents: if you work for ICE, you're not a good person.
Powerful piece. The key insight: Harrell worth $15M told struggling Black entrepreneurs at Columbia Tower Club to stop asking for help and just "compete." Meanwhile he raids affordable housing $ for wealthy donors. Representation without material change is theater. We need accountability.
Extraordinarily thoughtful and nuanced from one of Seattle’s best, Marcus Harrison Greene:
southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/...
southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/...
COLUMN | What This Mayoral Election Owes 'Black Seattle'
From City Hall to the Central District, Seattle's mayoral race raises deeper questions: Who speaks for "Black Seattle," and what does real representation look like beyond the ballot? Marcus Harrison G...
southseattleemerald.org
October 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Powerful piece. The key insight: Harrell worth $15M told struggling Black entrepreneurs at Columbia Tower Club to stop asking for help and just "compete." Meanwhile he raids affordable housing $ for wealthy donors. Representation without material change is theater. We need accountability.
San Francisco's automated speed cameras after 6 months:
• 50% drop in extreme speeding
• 36% reduction in violations overall
• System PAYS FOR ITSELF through tickets
• Zero staff monitoring needed (fully automated)
• Revenue funds more safety improvements
This is what actual Vision Zero looks like.
• 50% drop in extreme speeding
• 36% reduction in violations overall
• System PAYS FOR ITSELF through tickets
• Zero staff monitoring needed (fully automated)
• Revenue funds more safety improvements
This is what actual Vision Zero looks like.
October 8, 2025 at 4:19 AM
San Francisco's automated speed cameras after 6 months:
• 50% drop in extreme speeding
• 36% reduction in violations overall
• System PAYS FOR ITSELF through tickets
• Zero staff monitoring needed (fully automated)
• Revenue funds more safety improvements
This is what actual Vision Zero looks like.
• 50% drop in extreme speeding
• 36% reduction in violations overall
• System PAYS FOR ITSELF through tickets
• Zero staff monitoring needed (fully automated)
• Revenue funds more safety improvements
This is what actual Vision Zero looks like.
Not lost on everybody, but the pattern runs deeper than irony. Remember when Ezra Klein interviewed Ta-Nehisi Coates about his book comparing Israel to Jim Crow? Klein kept asking: "Can you engage with Israeli democracy?" Coates kept answering: "I'm analyzing domination, not democratic processes."
Is the irony of the president’s friend buying something called “the free press” and immediately installing a government truth compliance officer lost on everybody?
Breaking News: Paramount is buying The Free Press for $150 million and appointing Bari Weiss, the news site's co-founder, as the editor in chief of CBS News. nyti.ms/4gUnu5D
October 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Not lost on everybody, but the pattern runs deeper than irony. Remember when Ezra Klein interviewed Ta-Nehisi Coates about his book comparing Israel to Jim Crow? Klein kept asking: "Can you engage with Israeli democracy?" Coates kept answering: "I'm analyzing domination, not democratic processes."
This is the playbook:
1) Manufacture crisis narrative
2) Deploy extraordinary power
3) Media debates if crisis justifies response
4) Actual abuse becomes footnote
5) Precedent set for next time. We're watching Step 3. Seattle is probably next.
1) Manufacture crisis narrative
2) Deploy extraordinary power
3) Media debates if crisis justifies response
4) Actual abuse becomes footnote
5) Precedent set for next time. We're watching Step 3. Seattle is probably next.
I really wish media covering Trump's invasion of US cities would step away from this "Trump wants to fight crime, but how bad is it really?" framing. They obviously don't give a shit about local crime, but this manufactured narrative dominates all the coverage.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
As Trump ramps up National Guard threats, what’s crime really like in Portland and Seattle?
Donald Trump has often name-checked both cities, describing them as dangerous. Here's what the numbers show.
www.seattletimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This is the playbook:
1) Manufacture crisis narrative
2) Deploy extraordinary power
3) Media debates if crisis justifies response
4) Actual abuse becomes footnote
5) Precedent set for next time. We're watching Step 3. Seattle is probably next.
1) Manufacture crisis narrative
2) Deploy extraordinary power
3) Media debates if crisis justifies response
4) Actual abuse becomes footnote
5) Precedent set for next time. We're watching Step 3. Seattle is probably next.
🧵 This New Yorker cartoon about time travel just became the most important political metaphor of our moment.
"Remember not to do anything that may alter things—you know what? Never mind. Go for it."
Let me explain why this matters:
"Remember not to do anything that may alter things—you know what? Never mind. Go for it."
Let me explain why this matters:
October 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🧵 This New Yorker cartoon about time travel just became the most important political metaphor of our moment.
"Remember not to do anything that may alter things—you know what? Never mind. Go for it."
Let me explain why this matters:
"Remember not to do anything that may alter things—you know what? Never mind. Go for it."
Let me explain why this matters:
The Seattle Times calls her a "policy-minded advocate." Working families call her the reason they got $15/hour. Transit riders call her the reason ORCA LIFT exists. Housing advocates call her the author of progressive taxes. Katie Wilson doesn't advocate—she DELIVERS. #KatieForSeattle
A policy-minded advocate for left-wing causes, Katie Wilson shrugged off the idea she might be better suited for a City Council seat, instead aiming for mayor.
Katie Wilson's name might be new to Seattle voters. She says that's good
A policy-minded advocate for left-wing causes, Katie Wilson shrugged off the idea she might be better suited for a City Council seat, instead aiming for mayor.
www.seattletimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The Seattle Times calls her a "policy-minded advocate." Working families call her the reason they got $15/hour. Transit riders call her the reason ORCA LIFT exists. Housing advocates call her the author of progressive taxes. Katie Wilson doesn't advocate—she DELIVERS. #KatieForSeattle
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The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation
October 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation
You voted to honor Charlie Kirk, a billionaire-funded propagandist. Then you wrote about "fixing democracy" without mentioning corporate money, lobbying, or any actual source of corruption. This is exactly the problem.
Congress has a duty to deliver for hardworking Americans and represent our communities' values – but too often, polarization and gridlock stand in the way.
@golden.house.gov and I want to build a more effective, independent, and reflective Congress. Read how ⤵️
@golden.house.gov and I want to build a more effective, independent, and reflective Congress. Read how ⤵️
Opinion | Reps. Gluesenkamp Perez and Golden: Now’s the time to make the House more representative. We’ve got ideas.
Those of us in Congress have a responsibility to listen to voters’ calls for change
www.msnbc.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
You voted to honor Charlie Kirk, a billionaire-funded propagandist. Then you wrote about "fixing democracy" without mentioning corporate money, lobbying, or any actual source of corruption. This is exactly the problem.
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27 choices you must make to succeed
October 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
27 choices you must make to succeed