Josh Rosenau
@joshrosenau.org
Science belongs in politics. Nature-poker, cephalopods fan, conservationist, climate hawk, evolution fan. PTA dad. he/him
Build parks and community!
Elected to city council in Lake Forest Park, WA https://joshforlfp.com
Build parks and community!
Elected to city council in Lake Forest Park, WA https://joshforlfp.com
Reposted by Josh Rosenau
Interesting development: The Tribal Council of the Colorado River Indian Tribes recently granted personhood status to the Colorado critmanatabamessenger.com/articles/new...
Colorado River wins personhood status from Arizona tribal council
Personhood status creates a powerful new mechanism for protecting the eponymous river that makes life possible in their arid homelands.
www.azcentral.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Interesting development: The Tribal Council of the Colorado River Indian Tribes recently granted personhood status to the Colorado critmanatabamessenger.com/articles/new...
Reposted by Josh Rosenau
Got my first email addressed to Councilmember-elect Rosenau.
And the property tax measure on my city’s ballot is 20 votes from passing. Still a few votes to count. We could do this! By a whisker, but still!
And the property tax measure on my city’s ballot is 20 votes from passing. Still a few votes to count. We could do this! By a whisker, but still!
November 12, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Got my first email addressed to Councilmember-elect Rosenau.
And the property tax measure on my city’s ballot is 20 votes from passing. Still a few votes to count. We could do this! By a whisker, but still!
And the property tax measure on my city’s ballot is 20 votes from passing. Still a few votes to count. We could do this! By a whisker, but still!
Reposted by Josh Rosenau
Seattle media, tonight, is going as close as possible to saying Katie Wilson won the mayoral race — without phrasing it as entirely final. (Which is all very defensible at this stage.)
Seattle is shaping up to be the left's second big mayoral win, a sort of West Coast companion to NYC.
Seattle is shaping up to be the left's second big mayoral win, a sort of West Coast companion to NYC.
November 12, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Seattle media, tonight, is going as close as possible to saying Katie Wilson won the mayoral race — without phrasing it as entirely final. (Which is all very defensible at this stage.)
Seattle is shaping up to be the left's second big mayoral win, a sort of West Coast companion to NYC.
Seattle is shaping up to be the left's second big mayoral win, a sort of West Coast companion to NYC.
Reposted by Josh Rosenau
"Katie Wilson, if nothing else, has had an audacious rise from a little-known progressive activist..."
"Little-known" only if you're not paying close attention to City Hall. Wilson has been at or near the center of almost every major policy battle in the city for the last 10 years.
"Little-known" only if you're not paying close attention to City Hall. Wilson has been at or near the center of almost every major policy battle in the city for the last 10 years.
It's starting to look like a socialist is going to Seattle City Hall
Plus Airbnb goes back to the mattresses, some recommended reading, and it's time to sign up for our Re-Wire Policy Conference
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"Katie Wilson, if nothing else, has had an audacious rise from a little-known progressive activist..."
"Little-known" only if you're not paying close attention to City Hall. Wilson has been at or near the center of almost every major policy battle in the city for the last 10 years.
"Little-known" only if you're not paying close attention to City Hall. Wilson has been at or near the center of almost every major policy battle in the city for the last 10 years.
Reposted by Josh Rosenau
If there's one thing I would like everyone over 25 to know, it's that way more of the government is run by the people who just decided to show up to meetings than you realize.
Attend a couple city commission meetings yourself, and they lose a lot of the mystique.
Attend a couple city commission meetings yourself, and they lose a lot of the mystique.
Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
If there's one thing I would like everyone over 25 to know, it's that way more of the government is run by the people who just decided to show up to meetings than you realize.
Attend a couple city commission meetings yourself, and they lose a lot of the mystique.
Attend a couple city commission meetings yourself, and they lose a lot of the mystique.
The Senate doesn’t work and should be abolished.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The Senate doesn’t work and should be abolished.
Reposted by Josh Rosenau
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
Reposted by Josh Rosenau
“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
Reposted by Josh Rosenau
SEATTLE!!!
We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
SEATTLE!!!
We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
Reposted by Josh Rosenau
A complete, connected, comfortable network of protected bike-lanes is a climate mitigation strategy. It’s a healthy cities strategy. It’s a social equity strategy. It’s an affordability strategy. It’s an economic devt strategy. It’s a smart mobility & space saving strategy.
Etc. Etc. Etc.
Etc.
Etc. Etc. Etc.
Etc.
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
A complete, connected, comfortable network of protected bike-lanes is a climate mitigation strategy. It’s a healthy cities strategy. It’s a social equity strategy. It’s an affordability strategy. It’s an economic devt strategy. It’s a smart mobility & space saving strategy.
Etc. Etc. Etc.
Etc.
Etc. Etc. Etc.
Etc.
Great. Let the 8 splitters unite with the rest of the party and elect competent leadership to keep the party united rather than tolerate these fractures.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Great. Let the 8 splitters unite with the rest of the party and elect competent leadership to keep the party united rather than tolerate these fractures.
North King County used to be pretty typical GOP-friendly suburbia. My election will bring a solidly progressive majority to our council, after similar flips in basically all the neighboring cities in recent years. The local Dem party has been a powerful aid to those shifts.
In my old town the GOP had run basically without serious challenge for decades. A bunch of us "millennials" joined the local Dem party and basically asked to help.
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
“Rather than taking over the Democratic Party the same way the right took over the Republican Party, we should take the easier route and just start up a new party ourselves!”
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
North King County used to be pretty typical GOP-friendly suburbia. My election will bring a solidly progressive majority to our council, after similar flips in basically all the neighboring cities in recent years. The local Dem party has been a powerful aid to those shifts.
Remembering that the Syrian civil war started with a drought.
In case you're not aware, Tehran is a city of ~10 MILLION people. "Rivers and reservoirs are running dry, while groundwater sources have been overexploited to sustain agriculture and urban growth."
www.newsweek.com/evacuation-w...
www.newsweek.com/evacuation-w...
Evacuation warning for Iran's capital city
President Masoud Pezeshkian warns Tehran faces a historic water crisis with shortages and possible evacuations.
www.newsweek.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Remembering that the Syrian civil war started with a drought.
So they’ve declared themselves against press, assembly, petitioning the government for redress of grievances, free exercise of religion, jury trials, due process, judicial warrants, and in favor of cruel and unusual punishment. I feel like there may be constitutional issues there.
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
So they’ve declared themselves against press, assembly, petitioning the government for redress of grievances, free exercise of religion, jury trials, due process, judicial warrants, and in favor of cruel and unusual punishment. I feel like there may be constitutional issues there.
Reposted by Josh Rosenau
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
“We made it a major national issue and then made clear we don’t actually care about it.”
Senators need to learn how the media environment works.
Senators need to learn how the media environment works.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
“We made it a major national issue and then made clear we don’t actually care about it.”
Senators need to learn how the media environment works.
Senators need to learn how the media environment works.
Called my Senators ( @murray.senate.gov and @cantwell.senate.gov ) and told them I’m upset about the vote to cave on ACA subsidies and that it reflects a failure of Sen. Schumer’s leadership and that they should replace him. You can call yours too.
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Called my Senators ( @murray.senate.gov and @cantwell.senate.gov ) and told them I’m upset about the vote to cave on ACA subsidies and that it reflects a failure of Sen. Schumer’s leadership and that they should replace him. You can call yours too.
Reposted by Josh Rosenau
Also just finished sending short but vehement emails to both @cantwell.senate.gov and @murray.senate.gov for them to hold the line.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Also just finished sending short but vehement emails to both @cantwell.senate.gov and @murray.senate.gov for them to hold the line.
Reposted by Josh Rosenau
Reposted by Josh Rosenau
Mamdani got 1,036,051 votes and had 108,000 volunteers. One out of ten people who voted for him also built the campaign. Amazing.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
November 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Mamdani got 1,036,051 votes and had 108,000 volunteers. One out of ten people who voted for him also built the campaign. Amazing.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
Reposted by Josh Rosenau
How Toronto killed Sesame Street. My column on the retreat from allowing shops in neighbourhoods
& other watering down of good ideas.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
& other watering down of good ideas.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Shawn Micallef: How Toronto killed ‘Sesame Street’ with its heritage rules — and how we can bring it back
In the face of opposition from even small groups, the city ends up watering down even the best ideas.
www.thestar.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
How Toronto killed Sesame Street. My column on the retreat from allowing shops in neighbourhoods
& other watering down of good ideas.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
& other watering down of good ideas.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Reposted by Josh Rosenau
I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.
So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.
Reposted by Josh Rosenau
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...