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Mark Hamann @ki7bda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I went to see what people thought about the Wilson budget today. I spent the day doing it. Just sitting there observing. Then at the very end, @cmdanstrauss.seattle.gov thought I might have something to add. "No thanks. I'm good" I said. I'm happy that he recognized my interest, though.

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Mark Hamann @ki7bda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They're might be a Brewer's lunch, but whether it's a Brewer's evening is yet to be determined.

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Mark Hamann @ki7bda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Broken bat throwing a monkey wrench into the game... 😑

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Mark Hamann @ki7bda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm only 1/3 of the way into it so far, but Man in the Mirror by Anand Giridharadas is really really good. He goes deep into the whole context surrounding the eventual encounter between Jordan Neely and Daniel Penny.

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Mark Hamann @ki7bda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

LOL! More INTs than yards.

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Mark Hamann @ki7bda.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm on top of Capitol Hill and didn't feel it.

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brianmoore2.bsky.social @brianmoore2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We must never let him forget this

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Mark Hamann @ki7bda.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I never realized how much budget time in Seattle was so contentious. I'm paying a lot more attention now than I used to, though.

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Mark Hamann @ki7bda.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

CM Strauss repping the time limit rules...

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Mark Hamann @ki7bda.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Reading a bio of Thomas Cromwell. What a fucker! But what a dude!

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Mark Hamann @ki7bda.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Met a guy with a 3 piece suit. Spent many minutes with him and his wife (10yr anniversary) about it. Got advice. It's time to start elevating our clothes, maybe...

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Mark Hamann @ki7bda.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Checking into the Denny-Blaine meeting, and I'm the only one who public commented using my full name... Yes, I like to sit under the shade tree on the nice grass and read a book. That is not allowed because you can only take off your clothes where the grass is crappy....

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 17/09/2026

There’s a lot going on right now, and Susan Collins is hoping voters won’t notice that she was the deciding vote in confirming another anti-abortion Trump judge to a lifetime appointment.

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Susan Collins Casts Major Anti-Abortion Vote 6 Weeks Out From Election

The Maine senator voted in favor of a Donald Trump judicial nominee who served on the board of an anti-abortion pregnancy center.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026

We really can't let ourselves get accustomed to this. He's telling the people of NC that he's going to let them die if they don't vote how he wants.

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Mark Hamann @ki7bda.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Tonight, instead of CityNerd, I saw Sarah Longwell and JVL.... He introduced her by doing the thing!

Sarah Longwell at Third Place Books on her book tour for How to Eat an Elephant One Bitter at a Time.

After the event. It's actually my second copy, but this one is autographed.

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026

btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.

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Mark Hamann @ki7bda.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'll go to bed soon. 25 years ago, I went to bed expecting to wake up to normality. Instead I woke up to something that the kids of today don't even get.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh wait, someone has thought of this before!

18 U.S. Code § 597 Expenditures to influence voting U.S. Code

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Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote- Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

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Mark Hamann @ki7bda.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We'll, the E bus just shut down on Aurora and they can't let us off.

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Mark Hamann @ki7bda.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Starting @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social's book.

How To Eat An Elephant by Sarah Longwell and a coffee. Picked up today at Elliott Bay Books in Seattle.

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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 03/09/2026

If you've been paying attention to the news recently, you may be wondering: what's going on in City Hall? What you might not have heard is that we are doing the work and getting real results for Seattle residents.

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Mark Hamann @ki7bda.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Mayor Wilson has taken a lot of bullets for the sin of getting her sea legs, but she's not afraid to move fast and break things.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

National Highway System streets in Seattle: Madison Street 1st Ave S Airport Way 15th Ave S Fauntleroy Way Columbian Way 35th Ave SW Delridge W Marginal Nickerson Westlake Dearborn Jackson MLK 23rd Fremont Pike Pine Eastlake Greenwood Roosevelt Ravenna Blvd Denny Boren Rainier and 2nd fucking Avenue

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I remember learning in kindergarten that HOMES was a useful acronym for remembering the five great lakes. A bit on the nose to change it to SHAME, isn't it?

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Mark Hamann @ki7bda.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Because the GF's family had a very bad experience with a certain lauded celebrity, and we had an encounter with an Irish bartender, that celebrity is now referred to us as Oliver Cromwell.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 22/08/2026

The Pentagon on Friday fired the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes and a top reporter for insubordination after they spoke publicly against any interference by the Defense Department in the military news outlet that has a long history of editorial independence. to.pbs.org/4wD4qzj

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Stars and Stripes editor, reporter fired for insubordination after doing CBS interview

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

He’s going to…bomb the bond market?

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Interim Police Chief Sayles Filed Complaint Against Hate Crimes Detective for Speaking At Pro-LGBTQ Rally “Any further investigation would violate [the detective’s] constitutional rights and open the city to a lawsuit,” an investigator concluded when dismissing Sayles’ complaint.

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Interim Police Chief Sayles Filed Complaint Against Hate Crimes Detective for Speaking At Pro-LGBTQ Rally - PubliCola

“Any further investigation would violate [the detective’s] constitutional rights and open the city to a lawsuit,” an investigator concluded when…

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Fix the L8 @fixthel8.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We were so excited to stand with the Mayor to make the 8 GR8! The bus lane will be installed this weekend. Thank you to everyone who helped make this possible!!

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 19/08/2026

Along with benefits to safety and quality of life, self-driving cars present new public policy challenges that should be addressed with regulation. Banning Waymos to deal with traffic is like limiting residential density and requiring garages in an attempt to keep on-street parking uncongested.

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Mark Hamann @ki7bda.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

About to binge Ted Lasso with the GF. We have 3 seasons of DVDs from Seattle Public Library.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/08/2026

Fox News graphic claims falsely that the average price of gas one year ago was $4.13, lower than it is right now. It was actually $3.14!

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

BREAKING: Trump just directed Pete Hegseth to "substantially reduce" joint military exercises with South Korea — citing his "very good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un."

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Mark Hamann @ki7bda.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

If you started reading Hannah Arendt's On the Origins of Totalitarianism and petered out before section 3, slog through and get there. It gets better. Which is to say it gets worse.... It gets more relevent to today and puts Trump squarely into the "genius" of Hitler and Stalin.

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