Susan Clark
@sclark206.bsky.social
Likes: cats, tacos, books, walkable cities, transit.
Housing is a Human Right
Housing is a Human Right
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The Texas Supreme Court said in October that judges may decline to perform marriages based on their religious beliefs.
In response, Denise Hernández, a queer Latina judge, threw a Big Gay Wedding Party. With the @19thnews.org, we sent a fabulous photographer.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/10/b...
In response, Denise Hernández, a queer Latina judge, threw a Big Gay Wedding Party. With the @19thnews.org, we sent a fabulous photographer.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/10/b...
‘Love is the Only Motherf****** Way’: Big Queer Wedding Party Celebrates LGBTQ+ Joy and Resilience in Texas
the flower-filled Austin event honored the queer community’s commitment to “hold each other up” in dark times.
thebarbedwire.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The Texas Supreme Court said in October that judges may decline to perform marriages based on their religious beliefs.
In response, Denise Hernández, a queer Latina judge, threw a Big Gay Wedding Party. With the @19thnews.org, we sent a fabulous photographer.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/10/b...
In response, Denise Hernández, a queer Latina judge, threw a Big Gay Wedding Party. With the @19thnews.org, we sent a fabulous photographer.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/10/b...
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Somebody somewhere
Needs flowers tonight
Needs flowers tonight
November 17, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Somebody somewhere
Needs flowers tonight
Needs flowers tonight
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This is great news (although the city should never have gone back on its word); the sad news is that, per WiB, at least (meaning almost certainly more) 228 unsheltered people have died this year, including many by violence. That is an appalling and shameful number.
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is great news (although the city should never have gone back on its word); the sad news is that, per WiB, at least (meaning almost certainly more) 228 unsheltered people have died this year, including many by violence. That is an appalling and shameful number.
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A Women In Black update includes the news that Tent City 4 will be staying at the Lake City Community Center through next May (their original plan). After months of work planning the move to the site, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell suddenly deemed it not "appropriate" earlier this year.
After Tumultuous Relocation, Tent City 4 Contemplates Its Next Move - PubliCola
Although Councilmember Cathy Moore and Mayor Bruce Harrell expressed surprise that Tent City 4 planned to stay in Lake City,…
publicola.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
A Women In Black update includes the news that Tent City 4 will be staying at the Lake City Community Center through next May (their original plan). After months of work planning the move to the site, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell suddenly deemed it not "appropriate" earlier this year.
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North Helpline, which serves residents in North Seattle, shares how people can help food banks after funding for the federal food assistance ran out over the weekend. #snap #foodbanks #seattle
As SNAP funding confusion continues, a Seattle food bank’s tips on how to help
North Helpline, which serves residents in North Seattle, shares how people can help food banks after funding for the federal food assistance ran out over the weekend.
www.knkx.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
North Helpline, which serves residents in North Seattle, shares how people can help food banks after funding for the federal food assistance ran out over the weekend. #snap #foodbanks #seattle
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A democratic sweep was the perfect way to honor Dick Cheney's death. Well done, everyone. See you tomorrow.
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
A democratic sweep was the perfect way to honor Dick Cheney's death. Well done, everyone. See you tomorrow.
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“Three men in black vests entered a NY restaurant claiming to be ICE agents. Inside, they tied a worker’s hands and pulled a garbage bag over the person’s head. Another, believing the burglars’ story, surrendered themselves, only to be kicked to the ground and tied up as the intruders robbed an ATM”
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
“Three men in black vests entered a NY restaurant claiming to be ICE agents. Inside, they tied a worker’s hands and pulled a garbage bag over the person’s head. Another, believing the burglars’ story, surrendered themselves, only to be kicked to the ground and tied up as the intruders robbed an ATM”
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Paramount Global, CBS, and 60 Minutes literally sold their credibility and their integrity for CEO bonuses and shareholder value. Trump rubbed their noses in their own shit last night and they sat there and took it, because the Press has been a collaborator with Trump from the beginning.
November 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Paramount Global, CBS, and 60 Minutes literally sold their credibility and their integrity for CEO bonuses and shareholder value. Trump rubbed their noses in their own shit last night and they sat there and took it, because the Press has been a collaborator with Trump from the beginning.
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NEW STORY // The View From Nathan’s Bus: The Harder Thing
Story by Nathan Vass via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/01/t...
Story by Nathan Vass via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/01/t...
The View From Nathan’s Bus: The Harder Thing » The Urbanist
# Nathan Vass shares a vignette gleaned from driving buses for King County Metro in Seattle, talking with passengers, and absorbing street life happening around the bus route.
www.theurbanist.org
November 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
NEW STORY // The View From Nathan’s Bus: The Harder Thing
Story by Nathan Vass via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/01/t...
Story by Nathan Vass via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/01/t...
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I'm not a Nobel winning economist, but it seems to me the world's largest retailer and the worlds largest delivery services laying off hundreds of thousands right before the busiest retail and delivery season of the year is perhaps not an optimistic indicator of Trump's promised "Golden Age"
November 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I'm not a Nobel winning economist, but it seems to me the world's largest retailer and the worlds largest delivery services laying off hundreds of thousands right before the busiest retail and delivery season of the year is perhaps not an optimistic indicator of Trump's promised "Golden Age"
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Less than a week to cast your vote! Get those ballots turned in, preferably at a drop box. The federal shutdown is affecting postal delivery! Please vote and then help 5 friends to vote! You can find your nearest drop box here. kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...
October 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Less than a week to cast your vote! Get those ballots turned in, preferably at a drop box. The federal shutdown is affecting postal delivery! Please vote and then help 5 friends to vote! You can find your nearest drop box here. kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...
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We deserve better. Dehumanizing our neighbors by using photos of them on their worst days without their consent is unacceptable. We have a lot of work to do to address homelessness, but this only moves us further from that goal by othering real people in an attempt to score cheap political points.
October 28, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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My bff paid $3600/month for childcare from pretty much age 1-5 at a daycare center in Seattle. I would assume lots of people get help with childcare or paying for it from family because it’s so insane.
And as a reference, I’m not that old, but tuition for a year at UW for me was $3900.
And as a reference, I’m not that old, but tuition for a year at UW for me was $3900.
October 24, 2025 at 12:07 AM
My bff paid $3600/month for childcare from pretty much age 1-5 at a daycare center in Seattle. I would assume lots of people get help with childcare or paying for it from family because it’s so insane.
And as a reference, I’m not that old, but tuition for a year at UW for me was $3900.
And as a reference, I’m not that old, but tuition for a year at UW for me was $3900.
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Remember when we learned Harrell was holding open a bunch of shelter rooms @$4700 a month EACH while people are dying on the street because his team DOESN'T LIKE the leader of the org providing (world-renowned) care?
Experience? Bah.
Malfeasant, incompetence.
www.propublica.org/article/seat...
Experience? Bah.
Malfeasant, incompetence.
www.propublica.org/article/seat...
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 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Remember when we learned Harrell was holding open a bunch of shelter rooms @$4700 a month EACH while people are dying on the street because his team DOESN'T LIKE the leader of the org providing (world-renowned) care?
Experience? Bah.
Malfeasant, incompetence.
www.propublica.org/article/seat...
Experience? Bah.
Malfeasant, incompetence.
www.propublica.org/article/seat...
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ICE accessed license plate readers at 30 WA police agencies, including Renton and Auburn.
A month ago, city council voted to expand surveillance despite warnings that something like this would happen.
A month ago, city council voted to expand surveillance despite warnings that something like this would happen.
October 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
ICE accessed license plate readers at 30 WA police agencies, including Renton and Auburn.
A month ago, city council voted to expand surveillance despite warnings that something like this would happen.
A month ago, city council voted to expand surveillance despite warnings that something like this would happen.
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I don't know about you, but what I get from Trump's social media posts is that he could easily be replaced by AI slop and literally no one, including his wife and kids, would notice the difference.
October 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I don't know about you, but what I get from Trump's social media posts is that he could easily be replaced by AI slop and literally no one, including his wife and kids, would notice the difference.
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Instead of No Kings I gave a bunch of my money to drag queens at brunch. Seems like a fair expression of disapproval.
October 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Instead of No Kings I gave a bunch of my money to drag queens at brunch. Seems like a fair expression of disapproval.
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October 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Is anyone in Seattle making and distributing whistle kits? I want to help do this locally
ICE is already here and snatching people, but nowhere near the scale of Chicago or LA. Yet.
For Seattle 3D printers, the WA hotline number is 844-724-3737 (@waisn.bsky.social)
ICE is already here and snatching people, but nowhere near the scale of Chicago or LA. Yet.
For Seattle 3D printers, the WA hotline number is 844-724-3737 (@waisn.bsky.social)
3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!
October 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Is anyone in Seattle making and distributing whistle kits? I want to help do this locally
ICE is already here and snatching people, but nowhere near the scale of Chicago or LA. Yet.
For Seattle 3D printers, the WA hotline number is 844-724-3737 (@waisn.bsky.social)
ICE is already here and snatching people, but nowhere near the scale of Chicago or LA. Yet.
For Seattle 3D printers, the WA hotline number is 844-724-3737 (@waisn.bsky.social)
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Solidarity with the strikers!!
BREAKING: 45,000 health care workers just launched the biggest strike of the year.
Workers at Kaiser Permanente on the West Coast and in Hawaii have walked out to secure a contract.
These essential workers are fighting for patient care, good wages, and decent staffing.
Workers at Kaiser Permanente on the West Coast and in Hawaii have walked out to secure a contract.
These essential workers are fighting for patient care, good wages, and decent staffing.
October 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Solidarity with the strikers!!
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What is with the half-assed paint job on the light poles downtown? Are they going to finish painting them or leave them like that?
October 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
What is with the half-assed paint job on the light poles downtown? Are they going to finish painting them or leave them like that?
Raining now in Lower Queen Anne. Tortilla soup for dinner.
October 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Raining now in Lower Queen Anne. Tortilla soup for dinner.
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In Trump's America, you're an order of magnitude more likely to get attacked on the street by ICE and the National Guard than by any foreign gang member.
October 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
In Trump's America, you're an order of magnitude more likely to get attacked on the street by ICE and the National Guard than by any foreign gang member.
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If Chicago wanted to make those Texas soldiers feel at home, they'd wait for a blizzard, then turn off all the power and go to Cancun for the weekend.
October 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
If Chicago wanted to make those Texas soldiers feel at home, they'd wait for a blizzard, then turn off all the power and go to Cancun for the weekend.