Nathan Rouse
@nathanrouse.bsky.social
Public defender. End cash bail. Commentary on the criminal legal system, local politics, housing, transit, and cycling infrastructure. All opinions my own.
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Daw - look at her!
I'm so proud of Katie Wilson and everyone else who wouldn't just let the local Dem establishment/machine automatically give Bruce Harrell a second term. The desire for someone else was palpable and Katie was brave enough to step forward in a strong and focused way. Thank you!
I'm so proud of Katie Wilson and everyone else who wouldn't just let the local Dem establishment/machine automatically give Bruce Harrell a second term. The desire for someone else was palpable and Katie was brave enough to step forward in a strong and focused way. Thank you!
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Daw - look at her!
I'm so proud of Katie Wilson and everyone else who wouldn't just let the local Dem establishment/machine automatically give Bruce Harrell a second term. The desire for someone else was palpable and Katie was brave enough to step forward in a strong and focused way. Thank you!
I'm so proud of Katie Wilson and everyone else who wouldn't just let the local Dem establishment/machine automatically give Bruce Harrell a second term. The desire for someone else was palpable and Katie was brave enough to step forward in a strong and focused way. Thank you!
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Ten--count them-- ten SPD officers managed to break up this "organized" criminal operation, and recovered "three pairs of children’s shoes ($26 a pair), beanies ($7 each), cologne ($10), two sweatshirts (at $30 each, the highest-value items stolen), and a pet toy (price unknown)." 🙄
Seattle Spent Thousands on "Organized Retail Theft" Operation at Marshall's, Arresting Five and Recovering $400 in Merchandise
The operation involved at least 10 officers and suspects were jailed for up to a week for stealing knit caps, sweatshirts, and a pet toy.
publicola.com/2025/10/14/s...
The operation involved at least 10 officers and suspects were jailed for up to a week for stealing knit caps, sweatshirts, and a pet toy.
publicola.com/2025/10/14/s...
Seattle Spent Thousands on "Organized Retail Theft" Operation at Marshall's, Arresting Five and Recovering $400 in Merchandise - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett Last week, the Seattle Police Department announced it had completed a successful “Organized Retail Theft Operation”…
publicola.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Ten--count them-- ten SPD officers managed to break up this "organized" criminal operation, and recovered "three pairs of children’s shoes ($26 a pair), beanies ($7 each), cologne ($10), two sweatshirts (at $30 each, the highest-value items stolen), and a pet toy (price unknown)." 🙄
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Seattle Spent Thousands on "Organized Retail Theft" Operation at Marshall's, Arresting Five and Recovering $400 in Merchandise
The operation involved at least 10 officers and suspects were jailed for up to a week for stealing knit caps, sweatshirts, and a pet toy.
publicola.com/2025/10/14/s...
The operation involved at least 10 officers and suspects were jailed for up to a week for stealing knit caps, sweatshirts, and a pet toy.
publicola.com/2025/10/14/s...
Seattle Spent Thousands on "Organized Retail Theft" Operation at Marshall's, Arresting Five and Recovering $400 in Merchandise - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett Last week, the Seattle Police Department announced it had completed a successful “Organized Retail Theft Operation”…
publicola.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Seattle Spent Thousands on "Organized Retail Theft" Operation at Marshall's, Arresting Five and Recovering $400 in Merchandise
The operation involved at least 10 officers and suspects were jailed for up to a week for stealing knit caps, sweatshirts, and a pet toy.
publicola.com/2025/10/14/s...
The operation involved at least 10 officers and suspects were jailed for up to a week for stealing knit caps, sweatshirts, and a pet toy.
publicola.com/2025/10/14/s...
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Banishment Orders and Mandatory Addiction Assessments Haven't Helped Drug Users, Court Records Show
The city now sends public drug users to jail and releases them after a brief assessment, dropping charges if they avoid arrest for 60 days. This costly approach appears to be ineffective.
The city now sends public drug users to jail and releases them after a brief assessment, dropping charges if they avoid arrest for 60 days. This costly approach appears to be ineffective.
Banishment Orders and Mandatory Addiction Assessments Haven't Helped Drug Users, Court Records Show - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett Since the city reinstated an old law allowing judges to banish people from certain areas if…
publicola.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Banishment Orders and Mandatory Addiction Assessments Haven't Helped Drug Users, Court Records Show
The city now sends public drug users to jail and releases them after a brief assessment, dropping charges if they avoid arrest for 60 days. This costly approach appears to be ineffective.
The city now sends public drug users to jail and releases them after a brief assessment, dropping charges if they avoid arrest for 60 days. This costly approach appears to be ineffective.
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Who do we mean when we say “Black Seattle”?
This mayoral race isn’t about personalities—it’s about whether symbolism becomes substance. What do “seats at the table” mean if the rest of us go hungry?
My latest column for the @soseaemerald.bsky.social
This mayoral race isn’t about personalities—it’s about whether symbolism becomes substance. What do “seats at the table” mean if the rest of us go hungry?
My latest column for the @soseaemerald.bsky.social
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 5:37 PM
Who do we mean when we say “Black Seattle”?
This mayoral race isn’t about personalities—it’s about whether symbolism becomes substance. What do “seats at the table” mean if the rest of us go hungry?
My latest column for the @soseaemerald.bsky.social
This mayoral race isn’t about personalities—it’s about whether symbolism becomes substance. What do “seats at the table” mean if the rest of us go hungry?
My latest column for the @soseaemerald.bsky.social
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NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.
By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them.
Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.
www.propublica.org
October 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.
By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
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Seattle voters, this is an important read! Take this into consideration when you vote for our next mayor. My personal view is that we need a mayor who will stay present and dogged in the pursuit of addressing our housing crisis.
NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.
By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them.
Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.
www.propublica.org
October 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Seattle voters, this is an important read! Take this into consideration when you vote for our next mayor. My personal view is that we need a mayor who will stay present and dogged in the pursuit of addressing our housing crisis.
This is fantastic local journalism 👏
Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them.
Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.
www.propublica.org
October 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This is fantastic local journalism 👏
Harrell repeatedly accusing Katie of dishonesty is offensive. I hope these moderators do their job.
October 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Harrell repeatedly accusing Katie of dishonesty is offensive. I hope these moderators do their job.
For the love of god PLEASE no one do this.
"Connect Seattle"—no, not by getting to know your neighbors or volunteering to help people struggling to live here, but by adding your home porch cam (what, you don't have one! You haven't been watching enough local TV news!) to SPD's growing surveillance network.
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October 4, 2025 at 2:56 AM
For the love of god PLEASE no one do this.
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This SDOT contract was first reported in the @soseaemerald.bsky.social I believe: southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/....
Everything Is Political: Christian Sinderman Was Scrutinized for City Hall Contracts. Now He's on the SDOT Payroll.
While a 20-hour-per-week consulting role with SDOT might not put Sinderman in the same seat of power that a roving office on the seventh floor of City Hall and an internal email once provided him, it'...
southseattleemerald.org
September 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This SDOT contract was first reported in the @soseaemerald.bsky.social I believe: southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/....
Way to go @glentalk.bsky.social!
“An independent journalist, Glen Stellmacher, requested some of the logs detailing Sinderman’s key card access to City Hall earlier this year and shared them with The Seattle Times after the newspaper published a Sept. 7 story about Sinderman.”
“An independent journalist, Glen Stellmacher, requested some of the logs detailing Sinderman’s key card access to City Hall earlier this year and shared them with The Seattle Times after the newspaper published a Sept. 7 story about Sinderman.”
Harrell’s campaign consultant got special access to City Hall this year
Records show Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell's chief political consultant, Christian Sinderman, had special access to City Hall during his reelection year.
www.seattletimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Way to go @glentalk.bsky.social!
“An independent journalist, Glen Stellmacher, requested some of the logs detailing Sinderman’s key card access to City Hall earlier this year and shared them with The Seattle Times after the newspaper published a Sept. 7 story about Sinderman.”
“An independent journalist, Glen Stellmacher, requested some of the logs detailing Sinderman’s key card access to City Hall earlier this year and shared them with The Seattle Times after the newspaper published a Sept. 7 story about Sinderman.”
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I continue to hear myths in Seattle about people moving here to be homeless, despite studies to the contrary, the obvious link to rising housing costs, and many heartbreaking stories like those Brian shares. Most homeless people in Seattle were housed in Seattle and we should not accept it.
I've got some extra copies of There Is No Place for Us, and I'd love to give away 5 signed books.
Just repost, like, or comment to signal your interest. I'll pick names at random on Friday.
Totally optional: feel free to share how the struggle for stable housing shows up in your life or community.
Just repost, like, or comment to signal your interest. I'll pick names at random on Friday.
Totally optional: feel free to share how the struggle for stable housing shows up in your life or community.
September 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I continue to hear myths in Seattle about people moving here to be homeless, despite studies to the contrary, the obvious link to rising housing costs, and many heartbreaking stories like those Brian shares. Most homeless people in Seattle were housed in Seattle and we should not accept it.
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No reason to fear the wrath of someone who will be out of power soon.
MLK Labor has dual endorsed Katie Wilson, months after sole endorsing Bruce Harrell. Endorsements from elected who take the group’s lead, like Teresa Mosqueda, will follow
September 18, 2025 at 5:28 AM
No reason to fear the wrath of someone who will be out of power soon.
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It's so exhausting to hear people talk all the time about how jail, loss of housing, or constant check-ins with a judge serve as great "accountability" tools when one of the most successful forms of accountability is peer accountability that doesn't have the threat of punishment behind it.
September 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
It's so exhausting to hear people talk all the time about how jail, loss of housing, or constant check-ins with a judge serve as great "accountability" tools when one of the most successful forms of accountability is peer accountability that doesn't have the threat of punishment behind it.
Duh
In an Era of Deep Polarization, Unity Is Not Trump’s Mission
www.nytimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Duh
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Notice what Westneat won't examine: How Harrell's corporate-friendly policies are working out.
Cut tenant assistance ✅
Eliminated shelter beds ✅
Diverted housing funds ✅
But sure, *Wilson's* plans are "unrealistic" 🧵3/3
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Cut tenant assistance ✅
Eliminated shelter beds ✅
Diverted housing funds ✅
But sure, *Wilson's* plans are "unrealistic" 🧵3/3
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Is this the year Seattle goes socialist? It’s sure looking that way
Seattle mayoral candidate Katie Wilson says "yes, I am a socialist." But it's a softer socialism. Can it break through without fracturing the Democratic Party?
www.seattletimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Notice what Westneat won't examine: How Harrell's corporate-friendly policies are working out.
Cut tenant assistance ✅
Eliminated shelter beds ✅
Diverted housing funds ✅
But sure, *Wilson's* plans are "unrealistic" 🧵3/3
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Cut tenant assistance ✅
Eliminated shelter beds ✅
Diverted housing funds ✅
But sure, *Wilson's* plans are "unrealistic" 🧵3/3
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Several retirements coming to the Washington Supreme Court. In addition to Justice Yu, there are two others that will have to retire in the coming years due to the constitution’s age limit.
Justice Yu - 2025 (per article ⬇️ )
Justice Johnson - 2026 (turning 75)
Justice Madsen - 2027 (turning 75)
Justice Yu - 2025 (per article ⬇️ )
Justice Johnson - 2026 (turning 75)
Justice Madsen - 2027 (turning 75)
Pioneering WA Supreme Court justice to retire
Before joining the state's highest court, Mary Yu was a judge in King County Superior Court, where she performed Washington's first same-sex marriages.
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September 12, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Several retirements coming to the Washington Supreme Court. In addition to Justice Yu, there are two others that will have to retire in the coming years due to the constitution’s age limit.
Justice Yu - 2025 (per article ⬇️ )
Justice Johnson - 2026 (turning 75)
Justice Madsen - 2027 (turning 75)
Justice Yu - 2025 (per article ⬇️ )
Justice Johnson - 2026 (turning 75)
Justice Madsen - 2027 (turning 75)
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NEW // Seattle Council Greenlights Police Surveillance Expansion, Ignoring Community Objections
By Amy Sundberg
via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/11/s...
By Amy Sundberg
via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/11/s...
Seattle Council Greenlights Police Surveillance Expansion, Ignoring Community Objections » The Urbanist
# This week, the Seattle City Council took a controversial 7-2 vote to greatly expand the Seattle Police Department’s surveillance pilot program, as proposed by Mayor Bruce Harrell. Public comment was overwhelmingly against the idea, and progressive candidates also criticized the move.
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September 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
NEW // Seattle Council Greenlights Police Surveillance Expansion, Ignoring Community Objections
By Amy Sundberg
via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/11/s...
By Amy Sundberg
via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/11/s...
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Harrell's repeated insistence that opponents have no right to criticize his policy priorities shows that he's on the defensive. It also highlights the tendency among this mayor and this city council to express high umbrage at the dissent their dissatisfied constituents have every right to express.
September 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Harrell's repeated insistence that opponents have no right to criticize his policy priorities shows that he's on the defensive. It also highlights the tendency among this mayor and this city council to express high umbrage at the dissent their dissatisfied constituents have every right to express.
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Bruce Harrell could have used resources to address homelessness and crime. Instead, he has wasted that money pushing both around the Seattle. Now a kid was shot in my neighborhood.
Whose neighborhood will suffer next?
Elect Katie Wilson.
rondezvouswa.com/p/crime-comi...
Whose neighborhood will suffer next?
Elect Katie Wilson.
rondezvouswa.com/p/crime-comi...
Crime: Coming to a Seattle Neighborhood Near You
Courtesy of the Harrell Administration
rondezvouswa.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Bruce Harrell could have used resources to address homelessness and crime. Instead, he has wasted that money pushing both around the Seattle. Now a kid was shot in my neighborhood.
Whose neighborhood will suffer next?
Elect Katie Wilson.
rondezvouswa.com/p/crime-comi...
Whose neighborhood will suffer next?
Elect Katie Wilson.
rondezvouswa.com/p/crime-comi...
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They're looking at you to keep you safe, even if research shows it won't keep you safe. More on a vibes-based conservative council here.
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...
Seattle City Council Votes to Expand Police Surveillance Cameras
Let's say there's a dog in your neighborhood who can fire a taser using his mouth. To your knowledge, there's never been a dog like him where you live. Dogs of history, definitely. Dogs in other place...
www.thestranger.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
They're looking at you to keep you safe, even if research shows it won't keep you safe. More on a vibes-based conservative council here.
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...