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Kaiden Cook @kcook2720.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This is a huge victory for South Seattle! ☀️

A rally for Graham Street Station with elected officials and transit supporters.

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Eddie Lin @edclin.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Happy Easter. This is America. 25th Amendment and Impeachment now.

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Eddie Lin @edclin.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Class act and a model of how to run a positive and thoughtful campaign and how to concede with grace.

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Eddie Lin @edclin.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

If you’re a Seattle resident and haven’t used your democracy vouchers, now is the time to do so! Ballots are dropping next week and there’s only 3 and 1/2 weeks until election day. Also, some candidates have maxed out on vouchers, but our campaign hasn’t yet! www.linforseattle.com/vouchers

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Give your vouchers — Eddie Lin

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Eddie Lin @edclin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Interesting article. The sentiments here track much of what I’ve been hearing. I do think the lack of progress on homelessness is a major factor why many voters are leaving Bruce. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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The voters ditching Seattle’s mayor, and the voters sticking by him

Some onetime supporters of Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell are now backing his opponent. They're playing a role as Katie Wilson looks to unseat the incumbent.

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Tech 4 Housing @tech4housing.org · 14/08/2025

The Massachusetts millionaire tax is a great example of how raising taxes does NOT cause wealthy people to leave.

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Eddie Lin @edclin.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Great Nerd Farmer Podcast episode about housing with @natebowling.com and @jessdbateman.bsky.social We are so lucky in WA to have Sen. Bateman’s bold leadership on this critical issue! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

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Podcast Episode · Nerd Farmer Podcast · 07/07/2025 · 47m

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Eddie Lin @edclin.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Something I find interesting/curious is that City Council is required to have open public meetings and to regularly hear open public comments but there isn’t really a similar requirement for the Mayor even though the Mayor arguably has greater power.

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

the fundamentals of development right now are *terrible* tarriffs, high interest rates, labor pool being kidnapped. permits in seattle at lowest level in terms of percentage or even number since the '08 recession. and mayor's comp plan won't fix it's not good, folks. bsky.app/profile/holz...

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David Kroman @kromandavid.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Inbox: The items that should have gotten votes in yesterday's housing committee -- including 14 appointments to the city's renter's commission that Cathy Moore urged her former colleagues to delay -- will now get them in the full Seattle City Council meeting.

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

just as a reminder - seattle's permitting has fallen off a cliff the number of homes permitted in june of this year is the lowest level in a decade - lower than at any point during covid. this is not good news, folks.

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New Units Permitted by Issue Date

showing a nearly 50% drop over last year

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Eddie Lin @edclin.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Had the opportunity to chat with Katie Wilson @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social a bit yesterday and here’s what I appreciate most about her. It’s clear how genuine, caring, thoughtful and trustworthy she is. She’s kind of the opposite of an egocentric politician. She’s also extremely strategic….

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Northwest Progressive Institute @nwprogressive.org · 19/07/2025

Seattle’s democracy vouchers deserve renewal on August 5th This summer, Seattle's innovative campaign finance program is up for renewal. A decade of data points to its success.

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Seattle’s democracy vouchers deserve renewal on August 5th

This summer, Seattle's innovative campaign finance program is up for renewal. A decade of data points to its success.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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Eddie Lin @edclin.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Locals need this too!! Lots of Seattleites do not know where or which direction Angle Lake is.

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Eddie Lin @edclin.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Let’s go! Couldn’t agree more CM Solomon. We should absolutely pass a statewide income tax, with broad exemptions for peope below a certain income threshold. We should also actually give tax breaks to our lowest-income neighbors by expanding the Working Families Tax Credit.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

District privilege systems are bad and Seattle shouldn't implement one IMO

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Traffic safety advocates are at Rainier and Charles this morning to mourn the people who are expected to be killed by traffic violence - if the city continues to maintain the existing dangerous conditions in this rapidly growing area close to future light rail.

Folks gathered around a white coffin filled with flowers, holding while shovels

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Guy Oron @guyoron.net · 15/07/2025

Community alert: The King County Regional Homelessness Authority has activated its severe heat protocols through Friday morning. Here’s a list of cooling sites throughout the Seattle area:

Seattle Cooling Sites

The Salvation Army

Jefferson Day Center (4th & Jefferson)

White Center Community Center

Seattle Indian Center Day Center (624 S. Dearborn Street)

Compass Day Center (77 S Washington St.)

Elizabeth Gregory Home (1604 NE 50th St.) women only

Immanuel Community Services

(1215 Thomas St.)

YouthCare - youth only (ages 12 to 24)

Orion Center (1828 Yale Ave)

UDYC (4516 15th Ave. NE)

South Seattle (9416 Rainier Ave S)

Mary's Place Day Center (1830 Ninth Ave) single women

Mary's Place: Allen Family Center - (3190 Martin Luther King

Jr Way S) Families with children only

Chief Seattle Club Day Center (410 2nd Ave. Ext S.)

Aurora Commons (8914 Aurora Ave N.)

Bread of Life Mission (97 South Main St.)

Immanuel Lutheran: (1215 Thomas St.)

Street Youth Ministries (4540 15th Ave NE)

New Horizons Ministries (2709 3rd Ave)

Christ Spirit Church (6115 Beacon Ave S.)

North King County Cooling Sites

Bothell:

Northshore Senior Center (10201 East Riverside Drive)

Bothell Library (18215 98th Ave NE)

Kenmore:

The Hanger (6728 NE 181st St, Kenmore, WA 98028)

Kenmore Library (6531 NE 181st St, Kenmore, WA 98028)

City Hall (18120 68th Ave NE)

Lake Forest Park:

Third Place Commons (17171 Bothell Way NE)

Shoreline

Shoreline Library (345 NE 175th St)

Skykomish:

Skykomish Library (100 5th Street N)

Woodinville:

Woodinville Library (17105 Avondale Rd NE)

More Information

More places to beat the heat:

Local malls

The Outlet Collection in Auburn

Westfield Southcenter Mall in Tukwila

Northgate Station in Seattle

Libraries

King County Library System

Seattle Public Libraries System

Most libraries will be open and can be used as cooling spaces.

Check for locations and times.

Movie theaters

Community Centers

This information changes throughout activations.

For a full list of up-to-date resources including operating hours, scan this code or visit kcrha.org/severe-weather

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Eddie Lin @edclin.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

We’re lucky to have amazing folks here in Seattle like @nondriver.bsky.social and Disability Rights Washington helping us create a more safe, affordable, accessible and inclusive community. And, as noted in this great thread, their work is having positive impacts nationally and even globally!!

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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

In 2021, I was trying to figure out a way to bring attention to how disabled community members who couldn’t drive or couldn’t afford to drive navigated their communities and decided to launch a “Week Without Driving.”

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Eddie Lin @edclin.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Interesting article with some good quotes from @nondriver.bsky.social

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Eddie Lin @edclin.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Cities have existed much longer than cars. But over the last century older cities were redesigned to accommodate cars and many newer cities were built around them as the primary mode of transportation. The more “car-centric” a city is, the less livable it is and less character it has.

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Eddie Lin @edclin.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

If Seattle and every jurisdiction in the region followed Bothell’s lead, we could make an enormous difference in housing affordability, creating more walkable and livable neighborhoods, and transitioning away (as we must) from subsidizing and over-reliance on vehicles for daily transportation.

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Eddie Lin @edclin.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Awesome job Bothell and @masonthompson.bsky.social! Let’s legalize corner stores and cafes everywhere in Seattle and let’s stop taxing housing with parking mandates!

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The Bothell City Council just voted 5-1 to drop all minimum off-street parking requirements at the same time that they approved the legalization of neighborhood cafes and corner stores everywhere in the city.

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Naomi Ishisaka @naomiishisaka.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Today's column: “From the sugar cane plantations, to the ranch, to the hotel resort, to those rich millionaires who came from the mainland,” Goo said, “It’s a miracle that any of that land, in some ways, remains in our family.”

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The history of Hawai‘i you may not know

More Native Hawaiians now live in the continental U.S. than in Hawai‘i, with Washington having the second highest continental population behind California.

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Eddie Lin @edclin.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Deeply troubling story. A former SPD officer for 33 years who was about to get fired got elected Sheriff in Pierce County. Need to get him recalled asap! www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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Pierce County sheriff’s effort to partner with ICE sets up conflict

A feud in Pierce County over the sheriff's desire to partner with ICE may have bigger consequences for Washington's "sanctuary" law.

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Eddie Lin @edclin.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

This is unbelievable. So now the US can drop off someone wherever they want? To a wartorn country where the US advises travelers not to go!!

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 05/07/2025

The Trump administration just dropped 8 immigrants — who they were previously holding in a shipping container in Djibouti — into war torn South Sudan. Cruel. Inhumane. There aren’t words to describe how disgusting this is. We’ll keep fighting. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/trump...

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Trump administration deports 8 migrants to South Sudan

The migrants were the subject of a lawsuit that halted their deportation to South Sudan and diverted them to a U.S. military base in Djibouti.

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Eddie Lin @edclin.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Any updates on who might be applying?

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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

One of my favorite annual @democracynow.org traditions is that we always play this video of James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass's speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?" If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.

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James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass Speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"

YouTube video by Democracy Now!

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 03/07/2025

This is bad, but it's made worse by @governorferguson.bsky.social and #waleg having rejected a proposal to raise $3 billion per year for WA's public schools earlier this year and made schools more vulnerable. Once again: we cannot protect our state from Trump unless we're willing to tax the rich.

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‘Stunning’ federal cuts could put WA schools in ‘extreme’ distress, Reykdal says

Millions of dollars hang in the balance for education and students in Washington as actions in D.C. dial up the uncertainty over school funding.

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Eddie Lin @edclin.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

It will also add trillions in additional debt from the party who claims to care about the debt and will threaten and cause government shutdowns over the debt limit whenever a Dem is President (and when spending is for working people), but happily run up the debt to cut taxes for billionaires.

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 29/06/2025

Democrats in #waleg and @governorferguson.bsky.social should call a special session to pass new taxes on the rich and big corporations to backfill federal cuts especially to health care. The rich and big corporations can clearly afford it - it’d essentially restore the rates they’re paying now.

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Eddie Lin @edclin.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Under Trump’s proposed tax cut give-away to the wealthy, “Top income-earners would see about a $12,000 tax cut under the House bill, while the package would cost the poorest Americans $1,600, the CBO said.” More reason for us to tax the wealthy in WA! #waleg www.seattletimes.com/business/sen...

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Senators prep for a weekend of work to meet Trump’s deadline for passing his tax and spending cuts

The Senate is expected to grind through a rare weekend session as Republicans race to pass President Donald Trump’s package of tax breaks and spending cuts by his July Fourth deadline.

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 27/06/2025

Homelessness is a policy failure, not a personal one—and we cannot criminalize people for a failure of the government that continues to let rents skyrocket while wages stay the same. That’s why today, I was proud to introduce the Housing Not Handcuffs act with @frost.house.gov.

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Eddie Lin @edclin.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I now have 2 neighbors with Tesla Cybertrucks on Beacon Hill! Something is very wrong. 😩😬😵‍💫

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Eddie Lin @edclin.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Interesting to compare notes with what’s happening in the Bay Area.

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Rian Watt @rianwatt.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Smart, sensible, progressive proposal out of @alexis4seattle.bsky.social’s office. * 76% of businesses now paying tax would pay no tax; * 90% would see their tax bill go down * $90 million in new progressive revenue

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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 25/06/2025

The Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development has kicked off planning for the Graham Street infill station area in Southeast Seattle. Project Page: www.seattle.gov/opcd/station... A public survey is open through July 20: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8345627/G...

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Washington State Budget and Policy Center @budget-policy.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The state revenue forecast shows that projected Near General Fund revenue through 2029 increased by around $8 billion from the March 2025 forecast. But b/c that estimate is lower than what lawmakers assumed in their budget, the governor’s office is already calling for more cuts to the budget. (1/3)

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Guy Oron @guyoron.net · 24/06/2025

INBOX: More than 50 Washington State legislators and local elected officials have written an urgent letter to Gov. Bob Ferguson to demand he take all possible actions to help bring home Tuan Phan, a Vietnamese American who was deported to South Sudan and is currently in Djibouti.

June 23, 2025 The Honorable Bob Ferguson Governor of Washington State PO Box 40002 Olympia, WA 98504-0002 Dear Governor Ferguson, As elected officials from across Washington, we are committed to a nation and a state where all people are equally protected under the law, including immigrants and people of color. Washington State is proudly home to diverse immigrant and refugee communities – some who have lived here most of their lives, others who recently arrived. This is the time for us to stand up. It is incumbent on us, as Washington state’s elected leaders, to do everything in our power to protect the immigrant communities that now face unprecedented threats to their lives at the hands of the Trump administration. We are writing to you with three requests: 1. We ask that you take immediate action to protect Washington resident Tuan Phan, whose life is currently in peril at the hands of the Trump administration, by granting him a pardon. 2. We ask that you use the power of your office to speak out against the cruelty of the Trump Administration’s mass deportation agenda. 3. We ask that you continue to work with the state Legislature in resolving the Washington state Department of Corrections (DOC) cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). For weeks, Tuan has been detained virtually incommunicado by U.S. authorities on a military base in Djibouti where he is being held in a shipping container and shackled by the feet. The Trump administration seeks to deport him to South Sudan, currently one of the most violent countries in the world, where he will be in danger. Tuan is from Vietnam. He came to the United States as a refugee when he was nine years old and grew up in Tacoma. At the age of 18, he was convicted of a crime and sentenced to 25 years in prison. He completed that sentence in March of this year, after which DOC officials transferred him to ICE.

We call on you to immediately pardon Tuan. Doing so would save his life. It would allow him to be freed from U.S. custody, restore his lawful permanent residency, and return home to his wife and family in Tacoma. Over the past few months, the Trump administration has resorted to inhumane cruelty in carrying out its mass deportation agenda. It has blatantly violated court orders to spirit people away to dangerous countries and foreign prisons to perhaps never be seen or heard from again. It has sent plain clothes immigration officers into courtrooms, workplaces, commercial stores, and onto school and university campuses to arrest people simply for exercising their First Amendment rights. In raids in Southern California this past month, ICE wielded tear gas and flash-bang grenades to make arrests, denied lawyers access to their clients, and attacked protesters. In an unprecedented escalation, the administration has now deployed the National Guard and Marines on the streets of Los Angeles, all in the name of the expulsion of immigrants from our communities. In every way, the Trump administration is using its mass deportation agenda to kick down every guardrail in our democracy against the excesses of executive power. It is deliberately inflicting cruel and unusual harm on the people in their custody. They are succeeding, and we are letting them. These actions are unjust, dangerous, and in direct violation of the values and laws we hold dear. They undermine the very idea of equal protection and human dignity — and they threaten the rule of law in every state, including our own. We call on you to join us in using the power of your office to daylight these issues. For the sake of immigrant and refugee communities across Washington who are the fabric of our towns and cities — we urge you to act: show up at places where immigrants are vulnerable — in courthouses, near day laborer sites, and wherever ICE is present. As signatories of this letter, we undersigned elected offic…

Sincerely, State Representative Sharlett Mena 29th Legislative District State Representative Davina Duerr 1st Legislative District State Representative Timm Ormsby 3rd Legislative District State Representative Lisa Callan 5th Legislative District Seattle City Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck Position 8 State Representative Natasha Hill 3rd Legislative District State Representative Zach Hall 5th Legislative District State Representative Strom Peterson 21st Legislative District State Representative Beth Doglio State Representative Lisa Parshley 22nd Legislative District State Representative Tarra Simmons 23rd Legislative District State Representative Steve Tharinger 24th Legislative District State Representative Cindy Ryu 32nd Legislative District State Representative Mia Gregerson 33rd Legislative District House Majority Leader Joe Fitzgibbon 34th Legislative District State Representative Liz Berry 36th Legislative District State Representative Chipalo Street 37th Legislative District State Representative Mary Fosse 38th Legislative District State Representative Alex Ramel 40th Legislative District State Representative My-Linh Thai 41st Legislative District State Representative Shaun Scott 43rd Legislative District State Representative Roger Goodman 45th Legislative District State Representative Debra Entenman 47th Legislative District State Representative Osman Salahuddin 48th Legislative District State Representative Monica Stonier 49th Legislative District State Senator Bob Hasegawa 11th Legislative District State Senator Yasmin Trudeau 27th Legislative District State Senator Noel Frame 36th Legislative District State Senator Liz Lovelett 40th Legislative District King County Councilmember Jorge L. Barón District 4 Kenmore City Councilmember & Mayor Nigel Herbig District 4 Seattle City Councilmember Joy Hollingsworth District 3 Port of Seattle Commissioner Toshiko Hasegawa Position 4 22nd Legislative District State Representative Greg Nance 23rd Legislative Dis…

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 22/06/2025

The American people do not want to begin a war with Iran, and Trump does not have the unilateral authority to start one. I'll keep speaking up on behalf of my constituents, the overwhelming majority of whom don't want to be dragged into another forever war.

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Senator Murray Statement on Trump Strikes on Iran - Senator Patty Murray

Washington, D.C.— Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s recently announce...

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Eddie Lin @edclin.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Wow. Congrats @shasti.bsky.social!!! Just the right person to help lead the party right now.

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