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DivestSPD @divestspd.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The Seattle Public Library hired a cop to run security. It's going about how you would expect. New article from DivestSPD editor Justin Ward: www.theurbanist.org/2026/02/23/s...
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Seattle Library Workers Raise Alarm About Security Crackdown Hitting Homeless People » The Urbanist
# Some library staff say that a new enforcement crackdown led by the Seattle Public Library’s new head of security is turning librarians into part-time cops, and they’re not happy about it. Justin…
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 23/02/2026
“These are repeated acts of dehumanization.” I am demanding that ICE immediately review Rodney Taylor’s request for release. What he and others are experiencing in detention is absolutely horrifying.
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US lawmakers seek release of double amputee from Georgia ICE detention
Congress members write to Kristi Noem to express ‘grave concern' over detention of Georgia barber Rodney Taylor
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
We will do a 2,500 page environmental review on a new highway that we know will lead to more traffic, and then rule out a bus lane with analysis that is done on the back of a napkin.
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Xander @greenditch.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Yikes
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 13/11/2025
Here’s the thing about healthcare premiums about to skyrocket: they will never come back down, short of a complete overhaul of our system for universal healthcare. Which clearly won’t happen bc of all the money tied up between health and politics.
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Xander @greenditch.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Huge win for our democracy voucher system also!
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Kraig Peck @kraigpeck.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
SEATTLE: If you know someone who lives in Seattle and guess they probably voted for Katie Wilson for Mayor, your contribution to this fight is to text them this information about making sure they voted with their signature on the envelope! TEXT them NOW.
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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
this dork lol
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
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Your City @yourcityseattle.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This race could come down to your vote! As of yesterday, we were just 91 votes ahead. Additional votes will be counted today. Do your part and check on your ballot with King County ASAP: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
If information is free, why do the articles I need to read cost $34.99 to rent for two weeks?
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francis @dilfkink.kindboys.online · 15/10/2025
happy werewolf transgenderism wednesday to all who celebrate
A Supernatural screencap in which Dean is holding a large case file titled "He-Wolf/she-wolf: A study in werewolf transgenderism"
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natou @tichatnwa.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
they been doing this shit but yeah
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Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Sometimes you do need to beat a dead horse
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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 16/10/2025
We encourage you to follow "#ShakeOut" tomorrow to see a wide variety of #earthquake and #tsunami preparedness content, and also visit mil.wa.gov/preparedness to learn more about how to become "2 Weeks Ready" for future emergencies in the state.
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Preparedness
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
At this rate Duffy is going to bring back leaded gasoline.
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Carl Ott @bubba687.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 16/10/2025
Here is a Reddit threat that explains how to disable Copilot in Windows, which I've just followed: www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHel...
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From the WindowsHelp community on Reddit: DISABLE WINDOWS COPILOT AI - Windows 10 and 11
Explore this post and more from the WindowsHelp community
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
McConnell is so senile he had to step down from party leadership but is allowed to remain a US senator for some reason
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Larisa Aitch @llarisah.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
You know it’s coming
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Xander @greenditch.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
begging crying screaming throwing up wishing that this guy's face wasn't all over the promo material so people would go and see Greta Lee in her 9 inch nails action movie about freedom in love and life being the logical choice over dehumanization and fascism
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SquidTips - Aj/Alex/He🏍 🦑🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @squidtips.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Yo this man is trying to disarm trans people, and he covers a LOT of people in WA as Pierce County Sheriff komonews.com/news/local/p...
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Pierce County sheriff under investigation for controversial posts about transgender people
Pierce County Sheriff Keith Swank is under investigation by the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission (WSCJTC) following a series of controversi
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Xander @greenditch.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
buddy from Kirkland was telling me earlier today that a lot of families moved from seattle to the east side in the 60s and 70s because they were terrified of black people and desegregation & that this split can still be seen today
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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/10/2025
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-pe…
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately
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Your City @yourcityseattle.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Now is not the time to reelect a mayor who refuses to take responsibility for the failures of his administration. We have lost shelter beds every year of the mayor’s term, and more people are sleeping outside as a result. We are a national outlier on unsheltered homelessness.
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Your City @yourcityseattle.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Seattle deserves real action, not embellishment. I am running to bring real solutions to our homelessness crisis — not fudge the numbers. #thisisyourcity
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”
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Mike Maguire @mike-m1967.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Dear god somebody help us. The frogs are multiplying, call in the airforce, call in the marines. SOMEBODY CALL SEAN HANNITY!
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
NoKings.org
NO
KINGS,
For the love of America.
October 18 • NoKings.org
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Xander @greenditch.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
tron ares is extremely good unfortunately
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year. The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 09/10/2025
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/10/2025
George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 09/10/2025
Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.
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Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury
Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.
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Xander @greenditch.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Unfortunately- it DOES get more authoritarian!
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
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Xander @greenditch.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
There are some very simple things that could be happening to make street level and public areas in new constructions simply nice to be in that are completely avoided because cities are so terrified of homeless people moving in to anything remotely bearable
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Xander @greenditch.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
They're going to get so many people killed
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Erica @erohealthcomms.com · 06/10/2025
Just a few days ago, the UN warned that 24 million people in Sudan are suffering from acute hunger, 630,000 are on the verge of famine. Yet not a single major outlet or activist has spoken up. Ask yourself why.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Storming an apartment complex by helicopter, deploying chemical agents near a public school, handcuffing a city council member at a hospital. Immigration agents are using increasingly combative tactics in Chicago. apnews.com/article/chic...
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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...
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Xander @greenditch.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
sorry to ramble, one of those things I'd love to talk to someone about for hours.
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Xander @greenditch.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Idk I feel like this is one of those things that gets effectively astroturfed to make developers easy money. I like urbanism & I like green space- we have different infrastructure and environmental needs than a lot of the european models people point to.
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Xander @greenditch.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Road dust gives kids permanent lung problems. NY congestion pricing is a good example & a model of what can be done before we pave over everything. Heat waves surrounded by concrete are 10-20 deg F hotter where green microclimate buffers make shit easier for everybody for no infrastructure buy-in.
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Xander @greenditch.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
(also I think it's really funny when someone who can afford 4k/mo in rent/mortgage gets upset when five people next door are splitting that between them & all get the benefit of having a garden and a yard)
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Xander @greenditch.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
imo zoning is the first issue. Areas around universities that get rezoned go from "single family homes" to 6 unit apartments w shared kitchen without any infrastructure changes & get to keep green space. Shared public amenities also allow for much smaller unit size to prioritize density.
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Xander @greenditch.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Used to work by their stormwater facility. Extremely weird the idea that we should be paving over habitat that filters air & water & takes at least several decades to "reconstruct" when there's giant parking lots and vacant commercial buildings everywhere.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 05/10/2025
ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 05/10/2025
Trump’s treatment of immigrants is cruel, inhumane and unacceptable. And as they pump money into ICE and for-profit detention centers it will only get worse. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-moral-...
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The “Moral Monsters” Among Us
Immigrants are dying now. Will people of good conscience speak up?
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