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Crystal Fincher

@finchfrii.bsky.social
15K followers 3.2K following 4K posts

Personal account. Sportsaholic, geek, ASOIAF addict, relentlessly curious, award-winning political consultant. You know something I don’t. Currently: Strategic Communications Consultant to the Mayor of Seattle @HacksAndWonks.bsky.social (on hiatus)

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"If you get better, we dismiss your case" is a profoundly ignorant approach to recovery. There is no causal relationship between scary threats and a person's recovery from a brain disease, nor do people who talk like this ever explain how threatening someone into recovery supposedly works.
mynorthwest.com
‘Looking the other way is not a great option’: WA Sen. Jesse Salomon pushes for treatment backed by penalties to address Aurora drug use - MyNorthwest.com
Sen. Jesse Salomon urges for addiction treatment with penalties to tackle drug use and enhance safety on North Aurora Avenue.
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In Redmond? Do this! I’m a former planning commissioner, and it’s a hugely underrated way to shape your community. It may seem boring to some, but the decisions you make impact everything. Safety, taxes, climate, business, transportation, affordability, EVERYTHING.
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yikes!
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yep
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
❤️
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The Markup @themarkup.org · 04/10/2026
Consumers asked a major data broker for their files. What they got back shows interest in how fat they are, how much they drink, and how likely they are to get a mammogram, among many other characteristics.
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Who’s buying your personal data: Disney, GM, your insurer and bank. Here’s what they get – The Markup
Consumers asked a major data broker for their files. What they got back shows interest in how fat they are, how much they drink, and how likely they are to get a mammogram, among many other characteristics.
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Daniel Beekman @dbeekman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Blue surge could breach Cascades, reach Wenatchee in this WA race www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
seattletimes.com
Blue surge could breach Cascades in this Washington race
For more than 50 years, every Washington state lawmaker chosen to represent Chelan County has been a Republican. That might change in this November's election.
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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 01/10/2026
Wemby is something else, man
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m in.
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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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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Welp.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is delightful!
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is barbaric. End the death penalty.
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I was on the 7th floor of a seven-story building downtown. Initially, I thought I was just feeling dizzy and started to wonder about being dehydrated. Then I saw the handle and strings of the blinds swaying and figured out it was an earthquake.
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Across the peninsula but felt in Seattle.
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We just had an earthquake
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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…
nwprogressive.org
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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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People don’t understand how fragile our water infrastructure is. I’ve had contaminated water in the last six years. I’ve had my water co. hijacked for digital ransom. We are in perpetual near drought conditions... in NC, not AZ. AI boosters use pedantry about water use as an accountability shield.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is extraordinarily well written.
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It will be handled within the existing campaign finance systems. This essentially removes an exemption/loophole for paid online posting; it doesn't stand up something completely new.
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
More of this: CA now requires influencers to disclose paid political ads, with fines of up to $5,000 for each violation
techcrunch.com
New California law will penalize influencers who don't disclose political ads | TechCrunch
The new legislation adds teeth to disclosure requirements for online influencers who are paid to post about politics.
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good morning!
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My brain decided to wake me up to worry about the census. I’d much rather be sleeping.
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Me with my Bluesky mutuals
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Big Bird Office
Alt: A group of people in an office, some with laptops, sitting around a table with Big Bird also sitting at the table and taking notes.
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
👀
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Share the Cities Collective @sharethecities.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is a direct result of everyone with Real Change, Share the Cities & Transit Riders Union highlighting this priority for many years. We appreciate the Wilson Administration focusing on this. Several previous Mayors actively ignored this topic - remember that.
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It has been a good day.
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
More good things happening for renters in Seattle
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yep. Soooooo many things!
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
💰🌯
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s a busy Saturday but I JUST REMEMBERED I HAVE BURRITO INGREDIENTS HERE AT THE OFFICE! 🙌🏾
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So proud of this!
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
The ultimate you had one job
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yikes! 😳
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m 0% surprised. You’re in demand EVERYWHERE!
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Love that album!
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Important read here. The climate adaptation status quo is heading really bad places: mainstream insurance companies drop homeowners en mass, leaving them to scammy, unregulated companies that can declare bankruptcy and cut town after a major storm.
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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…
Screenshot of a KUOW article titled, “Seattle Mayor Wilson still rents. Can she help her fellow renters?” with a photo of Mayor Wilson. Screenshots from the articles that say, 
“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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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"Performance journalism". Great description. Great profile. "Like many of us, Pablo Torre has been making a living at what can feel like the end of journalism. Unlike most of us, he has made a new thing," writes @brucearthur.bsky.social. #GiftLink 🎁
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WRMS Traffic & Weather Reporter on the 2’s @carnegro.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026
I missed FAMU honoring Dolly Parton at Miami Friday night.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.
Ruby Bridges, age 6Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her schoolNorman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine. Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
D!
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Pay attention to this
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ballots rejected for late postmarks soared in the vote-by-mail states of Washington and Oregon after USPS changes
apnews.com
Ballots discounted for late postmarks surged in Washington and Oregon after Postal Service changes
New data show the number of ballots rejected for late postmarks has soared in the vote-by-mail states of Washington and Oregon.
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Longest Hotel Worker Strike in WA Is Still Going On in Seattle’s Pioneer Square
southseattleemerald.org
The Longest Hotel Worker Strike in WA Is Still Going On in Pioneer Square
At Embassy Suites, hotel workers, through UNITE HERE Local 8, have been on strike since June 18. It's now the longest hotel strike in Washington history.
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
💯
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This thread is spot on
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