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John Steies

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Proud public servant in Seattle | Views shared are my own #YNWA

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John Steies @johnsteies.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Great news! 🎉 Seattle Public Library sees record number of patrons in 2025 www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
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Seattle Public Library set a record in 2025
Seattle Public Library's 27 locations had more than 3.4 million in-person visits in 2025, the library said.
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John Steies @johnsteies.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Unsurprising, but a growing percentage of our greatest allies beginning to lean more towards depending on China than the U.S. From @politico.com:
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
1/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 jets with live ammunition were sent, and runways were to be blown up to prevent an invasion. ⬇️
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in: 2008: 0.3% 2024: 19% @nytimes.com #GildedAge www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
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Patrick Daugherty @rotopat.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Ruthlessly, cynically pursuing a record at all costs is literally what Kobe would have wanted
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Florian Hollenbach @fhollenbach.org · 07/03/2026
He seems like the only international leader with the guts to stand up for the right positions. And he is widely successful (so is Spain 🇪🇸). Maybe some of the other left-party/liberal leaders should follow his example instead constantly bowing to the right & Trump
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them. I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.
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Grace Panetta @gracepanetta.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Swear to god, so many of these uber rich guys who keep trying to intellectualize and sanitize white supremacy really are the dumbest motherfuckers alive. They constantly say word salad-y nonsense like this that would cause them to fail a fourth grade US history test.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/02/2026
If my followers have been inspired by the fierce resistance the Twin Cities has put up to ICE, you should make it a point to take a trip here (April through October 😬), enjoy the wonderful things MN has to offer and support our small businesses. It continues to be a really tough time for them.
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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 07/02/2026
hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this
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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Some of Monet's lilies were imported from Egypt and South America. He often defied local authorities’ objections to introducing foreign plants into the river system. 🌍
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 03/02/2026
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
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Michael Emonds @michaelje67.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Hugo Ekitike est incroyable 🇫🇷 ✨ #LFC #Liverpool #Redsky
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Even under SCOTUS's dubious reasoning in Trump v. U.S., there is no scenario in which maneuvering billions of dollars to an offshore account to keep it out of reach from Congress and courts is an "official act." This is all criminal and impeachable.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Jack Smith: "Rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power. President Trump attempted to induce state officials to ignore true vote counts…"
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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 21/01/2026
The cast and crew of ‘HAMNET’ dance to “We Found Love” by Rihanna to celebrate the end of production.
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John Steies @johnsteies.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
“On this MLK Day – a day American conservatives have hated since its inception in 1986 – know that the bully is not having a good time, and that pro-democracy Americans are slowly realizing that in these advanced stages of small-d democratic decline, only power can save us now. We're going to win.”
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John Steies @johnsteies.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Happy for this guy. Happy for Senegal! 🇸🇳 now for them to make some noise in the World Cup this summer! #YNWA
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 18/01/2026
Frey has been asked about this way more than Trump has been asked why he has invaded an American city based on false pretenses, where rogue secret police are kidnapping and killing people.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Never forget that without Trump, these are people who would never have been within a million miles of any job that carries serious responsibilities - and they know it.
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John Steies @johnsteies.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
But grandma better not fail to report all of her social security income or else!
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Reminder that you now live in a country where there are two classes of citizenship, & approximately 26 million of us are being reminded on a regular basis by the far right authoritarian party that we have the lesser kind.
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Report potholes on bike routes using the find-it-fix it app! The city repairs most within 72 hours. www.seattle.gov/customer-ser...
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Find It, Fix It - Service Request Mobile App - Customer Service Bureau | seattle.gov
“Find It, Fix It” is a smartphone app offering mobile users one more way to report selected issues to the City of Seattle.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Do political science profs have to explain to their students that, for most of American history, it was actually borderline unthinkable that elected officials and their spokespersons would constantly talk like trashy reality show contestants?
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Patrick deHahn @pdehello.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
"As of November 5th, it estimated that USAID's dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 18/07/2025
this is amazing. he might think harder about faith than practically anyone in public life
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Every statement by Trump exists only in the moment he says it and will almost immediately be replaced by another statement that he means equally as little. It’s why it’s so absurd watching news people trying to parse his claims in good faith
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Jeppe Mulich @jmulich.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I keep coming back to this James Baldwin quote these days. "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 13/07/2025
I think about this constantly
Tweet from user Jason C: 
“I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist.”

Quote from user Max Dubler:

“That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse.

True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer dance parties”
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
It’s almost like Americans were never fundamentally, inevitably “anti-immigration” and Democrats never had to just put their hands up and meekly chase Republicans (and lose), and affirm all their anti-immigrant positions that helped get us here at all!
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John Steies @johnsteies.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
www.cnbc.com/2025/06/29/t... "Payments available for withholding include the federal taxes collected from the paychecks of state employees, as well as grant payments owed back to the federal government."
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To fight Trump's funding freezes, states try a new gambit: Withholding federal payments
The novel and untested approach has been introduced by Democratic lawmakers in at least four states.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
They’ve destroyed American medical research, the American education system, the American university research system, and the aid system that protected millions of lives, and they’ve given our anti-immigrant masked paramilitary police force a budget the size of a nation
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I would like for wealthy people excited for tax cuts to sign a piece of paper acknowledging that every dollar they get in tax breaks is going to be paid for by someone else…either someone not getting healthcare or SNAP or some future person paying higher taxes to pay the interest on our new debt.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
More of this please.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
These people are heroes
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Also, surely this should be the core media narrative about this war - they’re not doing it for any reason they can articulate! There’s no intelligence supporting their claims, Trump himself seemed to think it was a bad idea a week ago, but no one’s in charge and Trump is an easily-pressured fool
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 22/06/2025
If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.
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Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Iran S04 E06
Dailymotion video by L3arnTV
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Jeremy David Engels @jeremydavidengels.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh’s message is particularly relevant today— There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. #plumvillage
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
What the actual fuck! Trump's ICE Gestapo hangs out in strip malls and then pounces on American citizens for the crime of having brown skin. These fucking Nazis drive around in unmarked vehicles and like fascist cowards, hide their faces behind masks. 😡👇
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 19/06/2025
It’s extremely telling that oligarchs are all “we love New York” and #NewYorkStrong until someone might make them pay one cent more in taxes and then they’re instantly like “this place is a shithole, we’re outta here”
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Which in turn will cause people to not get health care/health insurance, which makes everyone worse off (expensive emergency care, communicable disease, etc.)
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 10/06/2025
a confident nation doesn’t require the spectacle of a military parade
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/06/2025
what i like about this post is it is an illustration of one of the most distinctive qualities of williams' work and mainstream punditry in general, which is a belief that history began a decade ago
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Daily Stoic @daily-stoic.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
“I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid.” — Cato
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