And when the mayor and council got into a policy fight last week over universal free school meals, who won? Which side got the *entire city* furious at them and had to back down and admit defeat? It wasn't the mayor. Westneat and those 6 Councilmembers are not reading the room.

never forget that Preznit Fuckwit is an evil piece of shit who is perfectly willing to send an innocent person to prison in order to hide his own incompetence. thank you for your attention to today's extremely angry post. link is here: bit.ly/45moF9j

ask them what they're mad about. that she fired the police chief? that she took too long to hold a press conference because she had to wait for the police chief who was flying back from yet another conference? do you hear how that sounds when you say it out loud

Brett Hamil@bretthamil.bsky.social · 4d ago

It couldn't be clearer what's happening with local legacy media trashing Mayor Wilson: the reactionary centrist majority is about to melt away & they're trying to bake in a narrative that she has fucked up in some catastrophic--but also indefinable--way, to hamstring the coming progressive majority

Each time I rewatch Interstellar, the first gives me chills. it seems more and more prescient as time goes on.

Young Kwak@youngkwak.bsky.social · 4d ago

Photos for @apnews.com. Old Trails Fire, 8/1/26 in Spokane, WA. 1) People watch from W. Northwest Blvd. 2) Andrew Rowley, who evacuated, watches from 3) Dwight Merkel Sports Complex. 4) Police block W. Francis Ave. at N. Monroe St. as vehicles leave evacuation area. apnews.com/article/wild...

Used to be a once-every-couple decades thing. Then, once-every-few-years. Once-a-year. Now,

Alexandra (Alex) Duggan@alexdugganreports.bsky.social · 3d ago

The front page of this morning’s Spokesman-Review, Aug. 2, 2026, the day after one of the worst wildfires in Washington state history. More than 600 structures, mostly homes, have been lost in the #OldTrailsFire. Read local news.

The other thing Durkan did was, oh, just...deleting 8 months of texts with top officials during the most chaotic period in our city's modern history and she got off scot free. No charges for destroying public records, no recall. But please tell me more about your little tardy press conference

lol its so perfect that he's saying this *on fox news* while the chyron is about the pied-a-terre tax

Donie O’Sullivan@donie.bsky.social · 3d ago

"I am not going to be in the same party with Hasan Piker ... if he becomes a force in the Democratic Party, I am out of here," James Carville says on Fox this morning. Reminder: The Left Insurgency airs tonight on CNN at 8p ET.

get you someone who loves you like how much these pols fucking love shotspotter lol its all responsible fiscal stewardship and evidence based policy until it comes to policing, where theres just magic bean money for complete fairytale bullshit

Mike Fragassi@refrag.bsky.social · 3d ago

Alexi Giannoulias says: one thousand more Chicago cops, and bring back ShotSpotter www.reddit.com/r/chicago/co...

This is as upsetting as it is unsurprising.

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 4d ago

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

the seattle times hates people who aren't wealthy - and that hatred goes double for people who are able to get into positions of power it's gross

Brett Hamil@bretthamil.bsky.social · 4d ago

It couldn't be clearer what's happening with local legacy media trashing Mayor Wilson: the reactionary centrist majority is about to melt away & they're trying to bake in a narrative that she has fucked up in some catastrophic--but also indefinable--way, to hamstring the coming progressive majority

Over 600 structures have been destroyed near Spokane County, Washington, as numerous wildfires burn just north and west of downtown Spokane. Thousands of people are currently under evacuation orders. All three wildfires are human-caused and are 0% contained at the time of this post.

The devastation is unimaginable. I moved here 3 years ago knowing Spokane would be my home. I can’t explain how horrific this is. “It’s like a war zone,” people told me.

People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit

this is the internet scrolling experience

The Onion@theonion.com · 3d ago

Moment Of Silence Followed By Hot Dog Race

The Trump Administration is trying to destroy the National Park Service by stripping the rangers' mission to law enforcement. www.sfgate.com/national-par...

Three enormous wildfires are raging in Spokane. Thousands of people are evacuating, not knowing if they’ll come back to a home or nothing but ashes. Climate change isn’t some faraway threat. It’s happening right now, to our neighbors and friends. We have to fight for them.

Perimeters, not parameters. An excursion, not an incursion. Six genders, not cisgender. Insane asylums, not asylum. Transgender mice, not transgenic mice. The IQ of a potato.

If cops are having a hard time identifying this as a government vehicle, we have much, much bigger problems.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️@jgbollard.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Trump Administration is trying to destroy the National Park Service by stripping the rangers' mission to law enforcement. www.sfgate.com/national-par...

Have you voted? Your ballots are due in a ballot box by 8 pm Tuesday. Want help? Check out the REAL progressive voters guide for Seattle: electioncheatsheet.org

Lefty Cheat Sheet — Aug 2026 Primary

A quick guide on how to vote lefty using sources YOU trust!

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Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's time to post the current election turnout breakdown by age bracket chart again and remind you that ballots are due by Tuesday!

I can’t afford gas or groceries and Trump won’t allow disaster relief to my state because our governor is a Democrat. But at least the federal government is banning workplace heat protections.

Every single nimby who claims apartment buildings kill orcas has voted. Now it's time for the rest of us.

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's time to post the current election turnout breakdown by age bracket chart again and remind you that ballots are due by Tuesday!

A caucus of violent, drunk ex-husbands controls three branches of government and both chambers of Congress.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

What a batshit first sentence to an editorial excoriating the mayor of Seattle for removing a controversial police chief appointed by her predecessor, something our mayors have routinely done. The conspiracy brain at play: "How dare this scheming woman try to distract us from her incompetence!"

Read my July 18 story for the original reporting that the New York Times didn’t link to... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller

Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.

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Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social · last wk.

GOP House member--and fmr Trump advance man--allegedly -threw boiling water on his then-wife -held a gun to her head -broke his daughter's collarbone. She's 2 -abused abuse a fmr Trump WHer too When a reporter asked him about it , he threatened to block their # www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...

While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.

Troy was burned to the ground after its leaders made a series of bad decisions, but people are still talking about the city over 3000 years later. Could the same thing happen to the United States?

Seattle Fire and Police are currently responding to a mass shooting at the Seattle Center with at least six gunshot victims.

This is not to yell at Steve, it's to point out that this is not how the housing market works at all, which is a thing you'd hope a US Senator would know. There isn't a transitory property to housing.

Steven T. Dennis@steventdennis.bsky.social · last wk.

The Senator who formally blocked the unanimous consent request, Eric Schmitt, is probably the biggest supporter of mass deportations in the Senate. He told me a while back that the $70B for ICE and CBP was an “affordability” agenda because less demand for housing would depress prices.