Lowman Beach Park
December 14, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Lowman Beach Park
Reposted by Jim Demetre
Maritza Rivera got fewer TOTAL votes in 2023 (14K) than Dionne Foster's *margin of victory*. AMR's *margin of victory* was FOUR TIMES the total number of votes Rivera got. District elections were a bad idea that just made it way cheaper for corporate interests to buy elections
December 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Maritza Rivera got fewer TOTAL votes in 2023 (14K) than Dionne Foster's *margin of victory*. AMR's *margin of victory* was FOUR TIMES the total number of votes Rivera got. District elections were a bad idea that just made it way cheaper for corporate interests to buy elections
South Seattle stair spirit
December 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
South Seattle stair spirit
Reposted by Jim Demetre
I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
December 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
Reposted by Jim Demetre
What were the CIA-backed "Zero Units" in Afghanistan?
For a deep dive, read reporter Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
For a deep dive, read reporter Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
The Night Raids
CIA-backed operations killed countless Afghan civilians, and the U.S. hasn't been held accountable. A reporter returns to investigate her past and unravel the legacy of the secretive Zero Units.
www.propublica.org
November 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
What were the CIA-backed "Zero Units" in Afghanistan?
For a deep dive, read reporter Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
For a deep dive, read reporter Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
The Anti-Trans Playbook | Paisley Currah | The New York Review of Books share.google/qgT562Mib5it...
November 30, 2025 at 6:40 AM
The Anti-Trans Playbook | Paisley Currah | The New York Review of Books share.google/qgT562Mib5it...
Thinking of Ljiljana today on her birthday. I can't believe it's been two years since she left us.
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Thinking of Ljiljana today on her birthday. I can't believe it's been two years since she left us.
Autumn in South Seattle
October 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Autumn in South Seattle
Black Locust grove, Golden Gardens
October 15, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Black Locust grove, Golden Gardens
Cydonia oblonga 'Smyrna'
September 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Cydonia oblonga 'Smyrna'
Reposted by Jim Demetre
bruce's lack of action on the housing crisis is palpable
he has not opened the shelter beds he campaigned on 4 years ago
comp plan update is years late, inadequate, and incredibly anti-renter
literal face of opposition for social housing
permitting dropped off a cliff with no plan to fix
he has not opened the shelter beds he campaigned on 4 years ago
comp plan update is years late, inadequate, and incredibly anti-renter
literal face of opposition for social housing
permitting dropped off a cliff with no plan to fix
Statement from the Campaign on Bruce Harrell’s Election-Year Progressivism
September 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
bruce's lack of action on the housing crisis is palpable
he has not opened the shelter beds he campaigned on 4 years ago
comp plan update is years late, inadequate, and incredibly anti-renter
literal face of opposition for social housing
permitting dropped off a cliff with no plan to fix
he has not opened the shelter beds he campaigned on 4 years ago
comp plan update is years late, inadequate, and incredibly anti-renter
literal face of opposition for social housing
permitting dropped off a cliff with no plan to fix
Reposted by Jim Demetre
Democrats should feel free to oppose anything and everything Trump does. Their voters want and expect Dems to do so anyway. Don’t complain about distractions or hesitate. Fight back!
2 bits of data from new Economist/YouGov poll.....
13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/
13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/
August 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Democrats should feel free to oppose anything and everything Trump does. Their voters want and expect Dems to do so anyway. Don’t complain about distractions or hesitate. Fight back!
Reposted by Jim Demetre
One of the reasons that new housings starts have tanked is that Harrell’s administration sat on the comp plan for a year.
Property owners are treading water waiting for the new zoning.
Spare me the election season rhetoric that Harrell is the right person to make housing more affordable.
Property owners are treading water waiting for the new zoning.
Spare me the election season rhetoric that Harrell is the right person to make housing more affordable.
a man in a suit and tie stands in a field of flowers
Alt: a man in a suit and tie stands in a field of flowers. Waiting for the comp plan
media.tenor.com
August 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
One of the reasons that new housings starts have tanked is that Harrell’s administration sat on the comp plan for a year.
Property owners are treading water waiting for the new zoning.
Spare me the election season rhetoric that Harrell is the right person to make housing more affordable.
Property owners are treading water waiting for the new zoning.
Spare me the election season rhetoric that Harrell is the right person to make housing more affordable.
Reposted by Jim Demetre
It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo.
It’s cowardice.
It’s cowardice.
June 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo.
It’s cowardice.
It’s cowardice.
For the Wing Luke Museum, Storytelling Is a Path to Healing hyperallergic.com/1001316/for-...
For the Wing Luke Museum, Storytelling Is a Path to Healing
In the heart of Seattle’s Chinatown-International District, the only pan-Asian art and history museum in the country puts the well-being of its community at the core of its work.
hyperallergic.com
May 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
For the Wing Luke Museum, Storytelling Is a Path to Healing hyperallergic.com/1001316/for-...
Ai Weiwei's Waterlilies at SAAM
April 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Ai Weiwei's Waterlilies at SAAM