This election fixes a weird problem Seattle has had for a while. Seattle has municipal courts. One of its muni judges, Pooja Vaddadi, is an ex-public defender. Unlike the judge she replaced in 2023, she doesn’t just take the word of police and requires the City Attorneys to prove their case.

like i think we want to imagine they're at least good at being evil, because it's humiliating to really accept that sharp and perceptive people can be creative and work hard and still be crushed by the unthinking weight of simple accumulation. but that is the situation

No, *not* ICE. Illinois State Police/Cook County Sheriff Officers/Broadview Police Department.

if the cubs winning sent us into the darkness I will accept a sox win blessed by the pope to bring us back to the light

at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.

he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.

situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.

Its a never ending metro sprawl of 10 million, there's a ton of ways to split us up, none change that its all one big place being impacted by the same thing

oh shit it's a lake baby they look cute but you gotta throw it back or else you're stuck raising them for decades!

huge if true