2 out rally?

Yesterday’s unanimous committee vote to ban predatory rental junk fees is a key step toward greater transparency and fairness for renters. -Mayor Katie B. Wilson and Councilmember Dionne Foster

Humorous to me how, when a Dem candidate is a centrist, the narrative is about how leftists have to grow up and support them. When the candidate is a leftist, the question is whether they can rally adequate support. So some people are responsible for running a winning campaign, you say? Interesting.

Issues With Former Police Chief Barnes Weren't Just About His Travel or Where He Lived In a frenzy to condemn the mayor, her opponents seem to have forgotten why Barnes' future at the city was tenuous to begin with.

Issues With Former Police Chief Barnes Weren't Just About His Travel or Residency - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett Mainstream media outlets and many Seattle City Councilmembers have expressed outrage over Mayor Katie Wilson’s decision…

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Watch @natogreen comedy special!! It is so insanely good!! Free on YouTube! youtu.be/_er-hJ8nZh0?...

Nato Green - The Darkest Hour | Full Comedy Special

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Personally I would love to see Bluesky expand. It shouldn’t just be the app for leftists who can’t stand Matt Yglesias! It should also be the app for liberals who can’t stand Matt Yglesias. And apolitical folks who can’t stand Yglesias. And, yes, even conservatives who can’t stand Matt Yglesias!

Fucker is still dead.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d ago

Co-host of Charlie Kirk’s podcast whose book was blurbed by DJT, Jr and JD Vance. Don’t call them fascists though.

My taxes paid for our military and Claude to bomb a school in Iran, to arm Israel for their genocide in Gaza, and also paid Trump and Friends to build a bunch of concentration camps and paid the Gestapo to shoot innocent people in the street. I'm fine with folks getting cheaper food on my dime

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...

‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech

"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...

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Seattle! Vote in a ballot box by tomorrow at 7:59 pm 👀 Use @electioncheatsheet.org and it will take less than 10 minutes.

"I was chair of the relevant committee and I did not have all the information. But when I found out (how unpopular my uninformed position was) I kinda changed it, but not really. But I still got in the photo. Yay!" - CM Maritza Rivera (D4)

L. Harrison Jerome@lhjseattle.bsky.social · 2d ago

Update: she did vote against it

Katie Wilson gets the work done. Seattle's Do Nothing Party, led by the Seattle Times, does not like it and that's why they are talking shit every day all day.

Mayor Katie B. Wilson@mayor.seattle.gov · 2d ago

We’re delivering all‑day, year‑round preschool, universal free school meals, free mental health care for teens and young adults, and clear pathways to good jobs. @cmmaritzarivera.bsky.social

today in "headlines you'd see on a background TV in a disaster movie" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Rhine Falls to Lowest Since 1880, Disrupting European Trade

The Rhine River’s water levels dropped to the lowest in nearly 150 years as hot, dry weather grips Europe, threatening to disrupt a crucial route for transporting coal, fuel and industrial commodities...

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Hundreds turned out in Ohio to oppose racist round-ups of working-class Haitian neighbors who recently lost TPS status. People were forced to report to an ICE office and fit with an ankle monitor tracking devices. Fascist sick shit. www.wcpo.com/news/local-n...

Hundreds protest outside ICE facility in Blue Ash amid termination of TPS for Haitians

Hundreds of people protested in Blue Ash on Sunday outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility as Haitians were called in for check-ins at the facility, organizer Ignite Peace said.

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Probably best to get your ballot in a drop box at this point, since I’m not sure how long it’s taking USPS to process things these days. Not sure where your closest drop box is? Click here for a map and a list! www.sos.wa.gov/elections/vo...

You know what doesn’t get shut down when heatwaves and droughts dry up the rivers? Wind and solar.

It's fucking galling how insular and arrogant the Week in Review lineup is. The worst of Old Seattle.

Robert Cruickshank@robertcruickshank.com · 3d ago

Erica has been reporting on City Hall for at least the last 25 years. She is one of the city's most knowledgeable journalists. To call her an "influencer" is insulting. I don't think Seattle's establishment media understands the level of anger building at them right now.

This week on PubliCola: Ten original stories, two podcasts, and a brief response to @kuow.org, whose guests this week maligned my reporting to their tens of thousands of listeners, calling it "unfair" and belittling me as an "influencer"who "hung out a shingle" and called myself a "news person."

This Week on PubliCola: August 2, 2026 - PubliCola

Police chief resigns, Burien city manager fired, school meals resolved, and much more. By Erica C. Barnett It was a…

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Love this! #freeDC

Zach Everson@zacheverson.com · 3d ago

Rain does not stop the “Free DC!” chant at the 51’ of @washingtonspirit.com game #nwsl #woso #thatsthespirit #freeDC

If the Mariners trade Randy I will really miss watching him take pitches.

Important thread on The Seattle Times' Trumpian campaign to delegitimize Mayor Katie Wilson. We just fucking ELECTED her and they're acting like she's out of line just for acting like.... Mayor. Remember when the knock on Katie was she wouldn't be tough enough? Haters gonna hate.

Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 3d ago

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!"

Isn't it kind of odd that this story isn't being treated as particularly newsworthy outside of financial media? If the Times or the Post picked it up, I can't find it.

Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe

The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to the president's family business.

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@willdreher.bsky.social is running a cynical campaign claiming that —without experience or skills —he’s going to regulate AI because he thinks it’s top issue for WA. But he’s gotten a ton of maxed out $2400 contributions from AI employees. The math doesn’t math www.pdc.wa.gov/political-di...

Will Dreher@willdreher.bsky.social · 3w ago

Rob has been an incredible thought partner as I launched this campaign. I deeply admire his work at the Transparency Coalition advocating for the regulation that is so desperately needed. Thanks for the support, Rob!

fwiw, if you want to criticize AIPAC in a way that actually damages the org, the best thing to do is emphasize its *weakness*, not its strength. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/aipac-does...

AIPAC Does Not Control the Democrats

Overstating AIPAC’s influence only helps AIPAC

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Nope. A supporter of abortion rights would not have cast the critical vote to put Kavanaugh on the bench.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4d ago

Senator Susan Collins of Maine, a Republican who supports abortion rights, endorsed Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court in 2018. That has emerged as a major issue in her first re-election campaign since Roe v. Wade was overturned. nyti.ms/4xatnT9

Let's just cancel the post-season, let the Dodgers buy the championship for a billion dollars, and put the money in a revolving loan fund to build social housing in every MLB city with a shortage of affordable housing.

Katie Wilson is getting shit done. - Free school meals for all kids - Tiny home villages to get people off the streets - Major transit improvements - Collaboration with the Seattle Social Housing Developer The Seattle Times and Council President Joy Hollingsworth are looking to kneecap her.

"She's inexperienced!" Bruce Harrell was so experienced he personally presided over the largest increase in homelessness & housing costs in the history of the city! Every single current crisis, from affordability to police legitimacy, is part of his 16-year legacy of "experienced" leadership.

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