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Alex Gallo-Brown

@alexthegb.bsky.social
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Writing, labor organizing, politics, poetry. "Variations of Labor." You can find my creative writing at www.alexgallobrown.com. The labor organizing exists in various places, beyond me, in the world.

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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 04/10/2026
Graham Street station is a win for south Seattle and equitable transit in our city. Thank you to the community coalition that organized for this station over many years and to King County Executive Zahilay and my other colleagues on the Sound Transit board who voted to support making it a reality.
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Alex Gallo-Brown @alexthegb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Very sorry to hear.
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's interesting that budget chair Strauss doesn't think providing food is a "charter responsibility." I wonder how recently he's read the charter. Politicians love to say "public safety is our number 1 charter responsibility," but actually the charter lists "health" first, followed by "safety."
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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 29/09/2026
One of Mayor Wilson's best hires is Aly Pennucci, who is quietly but crucially doing an absolutely amazing job driving a bulldozer through years of calcified budget and process morass. The mayor is down in the weeds on this as well and they are an excellent team.
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Northwest Progressive Institute @nwprogressive.org · 28/09/2026
Seattle is starting to see results from recently elected Mayor Katie Wilson’s push for a more responsive city government Workin… www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2026/0…
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Seattle is starting to see results from recently elected Mayor Katie Wilson’s push for a more responsive city government
Working with progressive Council allies, the Emerald City's newest chief executive has begun delivering changes residents can see and feel, but her first budget proposal raises harder questions about sustaining public services and meeting the city’s needs.
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 28/09/2026
Over the past months, I've heard from so many young people across our city. What they say they need is simple: safe places to be and a future they can count on.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 25/09/2026
I was delighted to host Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, two brilliant thinkers who have inspired so many, at Town Hall last night to discuss their new book, “End Times Fascism.”
Three people standing side by side in front of a brightly colored mural featuring flowers and abstract shapes. All three are dressed in professional attire and facing the camera.
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Julia Grant Reed @juliareedwa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For example, the @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social article on the Mayor Wilson budget says that Bruce Harrell first proposed using jumpstart to fund homeless services. That’s not true. Harrell used Jumpstart to generally close his $230 mill deficit (which gets no mention in the article…)
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Julia Grant Reed @juliareedwa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Once again just has the @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social fired all of their fact checkers and editors and if @ericacbarnett.bsky.social @ericacbarnett.bsky.social and I are gonna do the job can we get a stipend?
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 20/09/2026
We banned rental junk fees! Starting July 1st, 2027, the price you see is the price you pay — no pet rent, no admin fees, no lease renewal fees. Step by step, we’re building an affordable Seattle. Thanks to City Attorney Evans and Councilmember Foster, and to the Stay Housed, Stay Healthy Coalition!
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 19/09/2026
Listening sessions will take place between September 26th and September 30th in south, central, and north Seattle. Space is limited, so please register now: www.sngi.org/listen
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Seattle Neighborhood Group - Building Safer Communities
Join Seattle Neighborhood Group in fostering crime-free communities through integrity, inclusiveness, and collaboration. Help us make a difference!
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 18/09/2026
The Right talks a lot about fiscal responsibility and efficiency, but for decades, that’s been code for something else: cutting essential programs and services.
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 15/09/2026
Seattle will not accept gun violence as inevitable, and neither will I. This weekend, I spent time with Cathie Wilmore from “Rainier Beach: A Beautiful, Safe Place for Youth,” to hear about the important violence intervention and community building work she has been doing for decades.
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 14/09/2026
Thanks for asking, KUOW! Yes, we are winning for renters: from banning pet rent and other rental junk fees, to adding density throughout our City, to SEPA reform, to my Executive Order streamlined permitting, our renter majority city is seeing real improvements to affordability…
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“Zohran Mamdani lives in Gracie Mansion. Karen Bass lives in the Getty House. The mayors of Portland, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Chicago all own their own homes.

But Katie Wilson, mayor of Seattle, still rents in the same century-old brick apartment building as before the election last year.

Property records say it's 700 square feet, but the original listing said 650, according to Wilson.

This year, Wilson has banned "junk fees" like pet rent and required landlords to be upfront about other fees, signed legislation or issued executive orders to cut through red tape or overcome procedural roadblocks to building housing, and moved toward upzoning, parts of the city to allow taller, denser buildings.”
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 12/09/2026
Congratulations to UNITE HERE Local 8 members and Hilton Hotels on reaching an agreement to end the Embassy Suites strike and return to work!
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Also, Seattle's homicide rate is minuscule. Baltimore's miraculous turnaround brought its homicide rate down to about 23 per 100,000 residents. The national average is around 6.9. In 2024, Seattle's was 2.6 and the trajectory has been downward.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Obviously, crime rates are down relative to the pandemic for reasons that apply in cities everywhere; spikes and valleys aren't caused by mayors. But if you think they are (because you're dumb), then isn't it odd that only Katie Wilson gets this kind of "shut the fuck up" reaction?
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Maritza Rivera Overstates Gun Violence, Pushes Mayor to Pre-Commit to Handpicked "Focused Deterrence" Contractor Rivera said there were 541 homicides in Seattle in 2024. There were 21.
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Maritza Rivera Overstates Gun Violence, Pushes Mayor to Pre-Commit to Handpicked "Focused Deterrence" Contractor - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett City Councilmember Maritza Rivera misrepresented the number of fatal shootings in Seattle by an order of…
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 09/09/2026
Today, Seattle's kindergartners took their very first steps into Seattle Public Schools, joining their fellow scholars for a brand new year! This year, every single one of them - from kindergarten through 12th grade - starts the year with something new: free breakfast and lunch for each student.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Seattle Times' crusade against Katie Wilson, and its stenography for council members who oppose everything she says or does before she says or does it, is getting out of hand.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"I'll say that fatal shootings in 2012 were 211, and in 2024 there were 541. And post-pandemic, it increased exponentially," Rivera said. None of these things are true. There were 26 fatal shootings in 2012 and 55 in 2024.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I have seen other press report this as "mayor delayed press conference" and can only conclude that they literally did not read the documetns and put together a timeline before posting and taking off for the weekend
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 03/09/2026
If you've been paying attention to the news recently, you may be wondering: what's going on in City Hall? What you might not have heard is that we are doing the work and getting real results for Seattle residents.
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Northwest Progressive Institute @nwprogressive.org · 28/08/2026
Melinda Jacobson and Dale Osterud’s non-recall of Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson was a media stunt that the mass media fell for Two disgruntled constituents had no legally sufficient grounds to start a recall of the Emerald City's chief executive, but Seattle newsrooms rewarded their ploy for…
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Melinda Jacobson and Dale Osterud’s non-recall of Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson was a media stunt that the mass media fell for
Two disgruntled constituents had no legally sufficient grounds to start a recall of the Emerald City's chief executive, but Seattle newsrooms rewarded their ploy for publicity with weeks of credulous coverage anyway.
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 25/08/2026
Not anymore 🚌💪
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Holy shit we’re flying like a bat out of hell. #Acceler8
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I hope that one day we'll look back on the hysterical derangement with which the mainstream press targeted a young female mayor and feel deep embarrassment mynorthwest.com/mynorthwest-...
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Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson's 'impromptu boogie' with Seattle rapper draws public safety criticism - MyNorthwest.com
You may have seen the video on Instagram, originally posted by Seattle rapper Y2K. Wilson stands next to him at a sports field and bobs to his anthemic track "SEA."
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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Saka & Rivera bout to lose by double digits. Juarez not even elected. Hollingsworth will have to face the 2nd most progressive electorate in the city after signing off on everything Sara Nelson dreamt up & running council like a Republican from Broadmoor. These are dead enders flinging poo. Ignore.
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South Seattle Emerald @soseaemerald.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
COLUMN: The victims of the Seattle Center shooting deserve the city's grief and attention. So do the South End families who have endured years of overlooked violence. Marcus Harrison Green examines whose grief becomes a civic emergency — and whose does not: soseaem.org/4x7A9ZT #Seattle
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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.
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 03/04/2026
you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:
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FEMA Official Says He Teleported to Waffle House. Experts Are Dubious.
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Alex Gallo-Brown @alexthegb.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
lol
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Common Power @ourcommonpower.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Common Power is endorsing @wilsonforseattle for Mayor because she represents exactly what this moment calls for: fearless action, the ability to turn out young voters, and a platform focused on affordability. We’ll be sharing more about opportunities to take action with us 🤜 #seattle
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Your City @yourcityseattle.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
WilsonForSeattle.com
“I'm voting for Katie Wilson because I care about people's health, and also the health of the systems that support us. I want good public transit, more shelters and services for unhoused people, and a budget and taxes that support us workers!”
Paul Hlava Ceballos
SEIU 925
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David Kroman @kromandavid.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Quite an impressive feat to apparently create 1,000 new emergency units in the 12 days between when these two ads dropped
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Seattle has its own Zohran v Cuomo mayoral race going on: A young charismatic upstart who actually wants to make the city cooler vs an establishment dinosaur who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a road rage incident. www.theurbanist.org/2025/06/29/o...
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Op-Ed: Katie Wilson is the Zohran Mamdani of Seattle » The Urbanist
# Progressive mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s victory in Tuesday's Democratic primary is a watershed moment for New York City, and Seattle is on the cusp of its own watershed moment with the opport...
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
At a press conference at City Hall this morning, the Working Families Party and PROTEC17—the largest union of City of Seattle workers—endorsed Katie Wilson for mayor. The city union's endorsement is especially monumental because for most of these workers, incumbent Bruce Harrell is their boss.
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John Trupin @johntrupin.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I love my city, my neighbors, & every moment I get to be at the ballpark. Whether you grew up here like me, or see Seattle as your best chance to live safely & happily, you deserve an affordable home you're proud of. I loved talking about home & Cal Raleigh homers w/ @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social
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John Trupin @johntrupin.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Only thing better than a 3-0 lead is a 6-0 win! Had a fantastic time talking with @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social about the Mariners, what makes us proud about Seattle, and how she intends to build a more affordable city for more folks and families to enjoy.
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Your City @yourcityseattle.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Sneak peek! It was wonderful to have teriyaki with local celebrity chef and food writer @kenjilopezalt.bsky.social to talk restaurants, affordability, & the state of the city. There’s no food more Seattle than teriyaki, and Kenji’s on a mission to visit every shop in the city. Video soon!
Katie and Kenji outside Teriyaki MadnessKenji and Katie having a conversation over teriyaki.Katie and Kenji have a conversation over teriyaki
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Alex Gallo-Brown @alexthegb.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Very excited to have a poem including in the forthcoming anthology, “I’ll Get Right On It,” edited by The Land and Labor Collective, from Fernwood Publishing. Preorder here! fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/ill-get...
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I’ll Get Right On It: Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis
Poetry by and for working people making a living under conditions of climate disaster.
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Your City @yourcityseattle.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
“I believe in some very basic things. Things that in this world of plenty, should not be hard…“ – Katie Wilson WilsonforSeattle.com
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Northwest Progressive Institute @nwprogressive.org · 22/05/2025
Katie Wilson 36%, Bruce Harrell 33%: NPI’s May 2025 Civic Heartbeat poll finds statistical tie in Seattle mayoral race Eight candidates filed for Mayor of Seattle during Filing Week 2025. Of the field, only incumbent Bruce Harrell and challenger Katie Wilson of the Transit Riders Union have raised…
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Katie Wilson 36%, Bruce Harrell 33%: NPI’s May 2025 Civic Heartbeat poll finds statistical tie in Seattle mayoral race
Eight candidates filed for Mayor of Seattle during Filing Week 2025. Of the field, only incumbent Bruce Harrell and challenger Katie Wilson of the Transit Riders Union have raised six-figure sums for their campaigns so far. NPI and its pollster simulated a hypothetical general election matchup between the two and found Wilson at 36%, Harrell at 33%, and 30% not sure.
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Alex Gallo-Brown @alexthegb.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
(Awkwardly, because I've never posted on here before) I wrote a piece about @cathylinhche.bsky.social's stunning new collection of poems, Becoming Ghost, for Poetry Northwest. Check it out here: www.poetrynw.org/we-give-it-t...
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We Give it to Ourselves: On Cathy Linh Che's Becoming Ghost | Poetry Northwest
"For Che, the erasure of her parents and the other Vietnamese refugees . . . speaks to the larger silencing of Vietnamese people from histories of American imperialism and immigration."
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Your City @yourcityseattle.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Big business is eroding the very essence of our community. Corporations have turned to abusing the levers of power, for personal gain. Disentangling and asking them to pay their fair share is the way forward. Join us: WilsonForSeattle.com
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