Laura moving to Burien

@seattleisbeautiful.bsky.social

(she/they) Find me wandering somewhere in WA State. Bass guitar, rabble rousing, worrying … Posts from here for mutuals mostly.

KUOW, the station the originally platformed Christopher "Haitians are eating cats!" Rufo repeatedly, are really going on air saying "Don't listen to bLoGgErS"? Come on now

It seems like Bruce Harrell just didn’t care if his top police officials (Sayles was appointed as a highly unusual second deputy chief by Barnes) put down roots here and live in the state full time. Barnes and Sayles both have their permanent homes in the Midwest.

The thing is that being a more informed voter just feels so great! And most voters don’t vote because they are overwhelmed with the research needed to make an informed decision!

Laura moving to Burien@seattleisbeautiful.bsky.social · 6d ago

I just voted using @electioncheatsheet.org! been voting since mom brought me to ballot box as a toddler & I punched holes @ big machine … not sure if I am more informed but it does feel damn good to use the website to see endorsements all at once! I didn’t even agree with it all! But it was cool.😎

Last week of voting Seattle! Get your ballots in! In the past week our volunteers have messaged many groups to confirm, clarify, or correct updated endorsements. If you find an error or if you know an endorsement has been updated by an org, we want to know about it!

Like any community, we're allowed to disagree, debate, and bring different politics, priorities, experiences, class & gender dynamics, and visions for the future. None of that makes anyone less authentically Black. A community of 52,000 people isn't required to think alike, and shouldn't have to.

There are more than 52,000 Black people in Seattle. That's larger than the population of 255 cities in Washington. So can we please stop talking about "the Black community" as though it's a monolith?

If every life has equal value, every loss deserves equal mourning. My latest column examines why Seattle rallies after some tragedies but too often looks away when violence strikes Rainier Beach, Hillman City, Brighton, and other South Seattle neighborhoods.

COLUMN | Gun Violence Didn't Move to Seattle Center. Our Attention Did.

Seattle rallied when gun violence struck its "civic living room." Marcus Harrison Green asks why South End deaths have so rarely received the same urgency.

southseattleemerald.org

It was really exciting to mobilize people through Habitat for Humanity’s advocacy platforms for the SEPA bill in Seattle. And it was wonderful to see so many of you sharing our action alert letter. We ended up with like 1750 letters being sent from Habitat-aligned advocates! Thank you.

It was really exciting to mobilize people through Habitat for Humanity’s advocacy platforms for the SEPA bill in Seattle. And it was wonderful to see so many of you sharing our action alert letter. We ended up with like 1750 letters being sent from Habitat-aligned advocates! Thank you.