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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

People who work for ICE are domestic terrorists. Abolish ICE.

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Everytown for Gun Safety @everytown.org · 09/10/2026

Oscar Belgal, 28, was shot in the neck by federal agents during a targeted operation in New York City while his 5-year-old son was in the car. Though the child was not physically injured, he will carry the trauma of this experience for a lifetime.

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ICE Agent Shoots Man During Arrest Attempt in New York Neighborhood

The man was in a car with a 5-year-old in the back seat when he was shot and wounded, the authorities said. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the Trump administration was “terrorizing our city.”

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yes, I’m aware. I’m thinking years down the line. Like, a family is touring southend high schools and only 1 out of 3 have metal detectors. What does that family make of that? Do they perceive the one with a detector as less safe? How does it affect their decision? A wondering!

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Question about this… will the perception of the schools with detection now be “schools that are unsafe” because they have weapons detection, which could affect enrollment? I have a wondering about that.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh gosh, don’t get me started about how there are lights at tennis courts and skateparks and some ballfields but not at playgrounds (I also take my kids outside in the winter 😆). I also recognize lighting is not free!

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The elementary school is asphalt. I don’t know if there had been a dog problem before at Rainier Beach track; field is also turf so less of an issue than grass. I also can’t think of another southend high school track that’s locked on weekends. Such a bummer!

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can’t tell if I’m behind the times or if all of these “tricks” for basic arithmetic are detrimental. Like my kid was just working on 15 - 8 but the section was “find a 10 and then find the difference” … so it would be 15 - 5 =10 and then (8-5=3) so then 10-3 =7 so then 15 - 8 =7. I’m so annoyed.

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

At the time when they told me this, I had one kid at the school & another future student. The school’s enrollment was (is) poor and they struggled with having families feel welcomed. We hoped caregivers could stay after school at the playground to meet each other. Admin wouldn’t agree. Dumb!

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Rainier Beach high school has a beautiful new track. It’s a track that community used a lot before it was redone. Now it’s locked and never available to the community. An admin at another school said locking playground was important to ensure it was preserved for their students 🙄

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I see this type of “math discovery” in math curriculum and it feels like not enough is spent on ensuring basic building blocks. “Whether it’s a tie knot or algebra, you need to learn how to do it first, then practice it until you’re fluent, and then you can explore.”

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I just don’t understand the issue, and why paid parking doesn’t already exist in both places. There is paid on-street parking in Columbia City, which is a smaller business district than both the Junction and upper QA. And businesses are thriving.

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Horrific. Abolish the death penalty. It is cruel and unusual punishment.

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I wish these folks spent energy addressing real needs in the southend. Like we need crossing guards down in Rainier Beach, really badly!! We have lots of spots approved but people don’t apply. Our schools need tutors, and playground and recess supervisors, and bus drivers.

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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Within the next 3 hours, the State is planning to kill Christa Pike as punishment for something awful she did when she was 18 years old. The death penalty is cruel and inhumane. Abolish it now.

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Supreme Court allows execution of Christa Gail Pike in Tennessee to go forward | CNN

The US Supreme Court is allowing the execution of Christa Gail Pike to go forward, overturning a last-minute stay on Wednesday that was issued by an appeals court hours earlier.

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She was quoted in Seattle Times again, and yet has a track record of bad claims based on poorly done research. Be skeptical!

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Seattleites are most concerned about traffic safety because we all experience it regularly: narrowly missing getting hit while walking in a crosswalk, seeing people using center turn lanes as their personal speedway, etc. Most people also know someone who has died or been seriously injured:

Info graphic showing most people will know 6 people who die in a car crash and 28 who have major injuries

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We were there too! And my kid said, “The ‘Renton Sounders’ does not sound good.” Hope they stay in Seattle!

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

(Clarifying that it felt more gender balanced at least at Ballard when I was there. But again, hazy memory from eons ago.)

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Whoa!! But also tracks with my personal memory which is far longer ago than 15 years ago 😭🤪

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thank you for this! It’s an interesting trend I’d never heard of, and was noticing specifically in some high schools (so the middle school all-girls examples don’t impact this). It makes me wonder how long this trend has been trending. Do you have a sense?

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yes! It would be good opportunity for student leaders to consider polling all the students tho—truly representing their fellow students :)

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I like it in theory… until you have a bad-fit and/or poor performing principal and/or one who doesn’t represent the school community — or only represents the small, vocal minority. I’m sure the majority of principals are great! But some students and families are just then unlucky and that stinks.

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

An incredible resource to help groups, coalitions, people to navigate through difficulties that often emerge. Feels particularly useful for the coalitions of people/volunteers who aren’t part of formal orgs—like all us caregivers advocating for better public school funding!

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Rian Watt @rianwatt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nobody — not teachers, not retirees, nobody — will be taxed under the Millionaires Tax unless they make more than a million dollars per year, and voters will always have the final say on any changes to that threshold. Anyone who says otherwise is lying to you.

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Honestly my first thought was that maybe girls/females skew more toward higher test scores and greater academic achievement and tend to want to / be admitted to private schools at a greater rate 🤷‍♀️?

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I observed this during COVID—my son’s 2 year old class was more 50/50 and then when they reopened fall 2020, his preschool class was 10 boys and 2 girls. I wondered if it was occurring as a trend all over and, if so, was it to protect daughters but not sons. Or other reasons :)

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And also I continued to be surprised at how low enrollment is for our middle schools. Whitman was like 1200 kids when I was there!

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Okay, Beth. I have never looked at this before (and gender is a spectrum) but what is with so many high schools skewing super male? Cleveland, Lincoln, Nathan Hale… Are private high schools skewed more female? Do we just have more male high school-aged kids? So interesting.

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 22/09/2026

And @mayor.seattle.gov Katie Wilson just brought this to Seattle!

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

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Tom Vásquez @tomvasquez.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"It’s hard to imagine anyone who embodied social justice more than KL Shannon. "If you attended a protest or action related to racial or social justice in Seattle over the past few decades, it’s highly likely Shannon was there with you." www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

seattletimes.com

‘A great, immeasurable loss’: Seattle social justice organizer dies at 59

Organizer, activist and community leader KL Shannon left a long legacy of fighting for social and racial justice in the Seattle area, writes Naomi Ishisaka.

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Brave people continue to show up even if it might be personally dangerous for them. We should all be willing to do this in the name of justice and human rights. Abolish ICE.

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And I get why folks leave some schools or leave SPS all together. Moving super slow through curriculum and not finishing it all, no accelerated learning unless you test 99.9%, only remedial homework, and asking for the bare minimum (‘just read any book!’) — these things aren’t good for any kids.

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s definitely not to the same extent, but the ‘soft bigotry of low expectations’ is something I’ve witnessed by adults in some of our southend schools, and I really don’t see enough will or effort by SPS to acknowledge and change this. People don’t know how good they have it in other schools!

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That’s really helpful context. Our experience of near misses while crossing an arterial in a crosswalk has been what appears like caregivers trying to quickly turn left (no protected left) to get kids to school. I think Rainier has that but also just commuters.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Why did Seattle's former City Traffic Engineer sigh with exasperation in this tweet from 2019? 🧵

Dongho Chang: "Sometimes we agree to disagree, the best we could do here (sigh)"

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Are they taking suggestions for which intersections they should do their focused patrols? Ahem, Rainier & Cloverdale, or honestly anywhere along Rainier!

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So many reports on shelves, collecting dust

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I can’t believe it. And I saw one painted blue (!!) So maybe we get concrete barriers pained Rainier Beach Vikings 💙🧡 colors. A girl can dream 😆

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

@transportation.seattle.gov delivering protection for people who ride bikes!!! Thank you!! Just yesterday on my walk home from light rail I saw three cyclists on Henderson (two on Lime bikes). People are biking and scooting in Rainier Beach, and pretty soon they get to feel safe while doing so.

Two-way protected bike lane looking west on S Henderson Street. It’s empty because it’s not yet open.

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh no, well that’s not okay. I also realize that my children are those who have to be told to slow down, take smaller bites and not wolf their meals, and that not all kids are like that ha!

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

But half of our schools have been doing this out for years. Maybe the new schools with free lunch or those who are struggling could learn from the experienced ones? I am having a hard time believe the school lunch crunch is happening system wide.

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Rainier greenway has only worked for us to commute like < 1 mile within the neighborhood—like to friend’s houses, the ballfields, and the playground. If we adults need to commute to work or business areas, we’re taking a different, direct route. We need infrastructure for both.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yeah. Wrote a whole book about it. We make issues salient in discourse through consistent effort. It’s an empirical fact but folks acts like political issues& issue attitudes are sprung from a “kitchen table” cabbage patch. We should argue for what we want. Again & again. Until it’s common sense.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13/09/2026

This has got to be the move. You've got to start calling it out, explicitly, every time it happens. Make them embarrassed to do it.

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

SPS can and should improve its delivery of services, particularly special education services. But the state needs to fund its paramount duty: K-12 public education. This year, SPS expects to spend ~ $300 million this year providing special ed services, while the state funds only $180 million of it.

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A gorgeous day for a bike ride on LWB! A great opportunity to help our kids practice safe bicycling behavior. I’m very proud of my 6 year old today for saying “on your left” early and loudly! #seabikes

One adult and two kids bicycling on Lake Washington Boulevard on a sunny day where the boulevard is closed to vehicle traffic.

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