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AMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Take action now against two harmful initiatives that will be on the Washington ballot in November! You can help by sharing this video, donating to No Hate in Washington State, or telling someone the truth about these initiatives. nohateinwastate.org

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Final two shows today for my currently running project "A Chorus Line" at the 5th Avenue in Seattle... Fantastic work across the board from all collaborators. If you are in town, there is still a matinee and evening opportunity to see our revisitation of this classic before it goes poof!

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mmm. And I DO like Brackets… (this is a very good, smart and funny, article)

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Losses like these always bring me right back to KEXP's human curated stream. Going to soak in it for a while. RIP Dolly.

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Seattle area re-share: ICE in Ridgecrest neighborhood. Seen at Shoreline Library at 7:55 on Wednesday 7/29. 8 agents in 3 SUV’s. Blue and black vehicles.

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Marc Auerbach @pugetopia.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Hey Seattle, The Stranger's endorsements have gone to shit, but have no fear! The Lefty Cheat Sheet is here! electioncheatsheet.org

electioncheatsheet.org

Lefty Cheat Sheet — Aug 2026 Primary

A quick guide on how to vote lefty using sources YOU trust!

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Amy LaZerte @amylazerte.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

NORTH SEATTLE PEEPS: Multiple ICE abductions this morning on or near highway 99. Shoreline, Lynwood, and Edmonds Community College (again). Please keep your eyes peeled while out and about, and put WAISN’s number in your phone!!!!! 1-844-724-3737.

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Ok. Just 10 live bands? Prompt needs way more constraints. How about just the LAST 10 seen? -Telehealth -Coral Grief -Buddy Wynkoop -The Wedding Present -Girl in a Coma -Skating Polly -Victor Viera-Branco Trio -Michael Shannon/Jason Narducy -Weakened Friends -Torch

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu. Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran? Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to President Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused.

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The Best Album of 2001 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The last two parts of @msmucker.bsky.social's Designated Cheerleader for INNOCENCE AND DESPAIR:

THE POWER OF THE COVER SONG
I love a cover. I especially love a cover that reinvents or re-contextualizes the original, bringing
new and different flavors and meanings, and you get to hold both the memory of the original
and the power of the reinvention at the same time. I work in theatre and we get to do this all
the time. This Hamlet gets added to that Hamlet, and when I see the new production I also re-
experience all of the other Hamlets I've ever seen in my life, stacked up in a lineage of
interpretation, riffing off of each other. The same thing happens to me hearing these recordings.
This work adds layers to Bowie, to Brian Wilson, to the Carpenters, to Wings. it doesn't take
anything away and really only makes them stronger.
That said, I also really love a cover that asserts its ownership, fully replacing the original,
negating any prior authorship. "Hurt" now belongs to Johnny Cash as far as I'm concerned.
"Respect" belongs to Aretha. "Superman" is REM's. And in this case, the definitive version of
"Desperado" absolutely belongs to Langley's 9-year-old Sheila Behman. Fuck the Eagles. It's
hers now. This is the only "Desperado" you ever need to hear ever again. Soak it in.

SUMMATION
I've gone on way too long here. That is obvious. This was just meant to be a short, quippy
designated cheerleader post, not a lengthy March X-ness style essay or the start of a doctoral
thesis, and I should have ceased a while ago. I'm glad this album and its twee, found-art flavor
is a part of the tourney and that I got to push it from fourteen noms to fifteen, and maybe a few
people who didn't know about it prior to this will discover it and incorporate it into their regular
listening. Honestly, l'll be surprised if it advances, knowing that it is not for everyone. It is kind
of a troll for anyone hung up on "recording dates" and "re-issues" and "covers" and "children"
and "things Fred Schneider likes." It's probably fitting that this DC is getting posted on April
fools day and maybe I'm the real fool here, even if it did beat Ben Folds in the Village Voice 25
years ago.
But perhaps, dear reader, maybe just maybe this recording is actually especially just precisely
right for you and what you need right now? Try it on. See how it fits.

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I wrote a thing. And shockingly, the contest this is relationship to remains surprisingly close!

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I mean there are some “bum notes” on the record in strict music-theory terms. But none of it feels like showboating. @msmucker.bsky.social’s DC is one of the very best I can recall reading here (or on the former site.) So glad this oh-so-quintessentially 2001 album made it into the tournament!

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

theguardian.com

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony

Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

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Mythic 🦊 @mythicalredfox.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads:

The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same...

- Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 28/02/2026

🎶 I don’t care if Monday's blue. God is dead. Or if Tuesday is utterly desaturated to the point where all choice is arbitrary, Wednesday too. Thursday, I will not make an effort to conjure you in my thoughts. I find you stupid and weak. It’s Friday, I’m in love. 🎶

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The Cure’s “Friday I’m in Love” for Nihilists

I don’t care if Monday’s blue. God is dead. Or if Tuesday is utterly desaturated to the point where all choice is arbitrary, Wednesday too. Thursda...

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

This was the kind of treatment the union activists got today from Oregon’s largest unions alongside coalitions like @jwjpdx.bsky.social. They fired projectiles and injured many demonstrators and broke out neighbors windows. Gas for a half dozen miles in each direction. #iceout

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Northwest Progressive Institute @nwprogressive.org · 27/01/2026

Not just happening in Minnesota

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I’ve never heard of a “law enforcement” agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And that’s because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as you’ll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

This quite literally should be all over the news‼️

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Our initial analysis is up. The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot. He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/01/2026

DHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars theonion.com/dhs-releases-watchlist…

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Jonathan Ross worked for Border Patrol before ICE

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

You know what to do folks, flood the phones: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

indivisible.org

CALL NOW: Tell your Representative to Stop Trump’s War in Venezuela

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

While I’m certain no one is clamoring for my opinions and I’m no music writer, I have time to kill at this airport and an existing top ten 2025 albums list (used in KEXP year end voting, where only half made the the final countdown) so I’m just going to share ‘em here so the other half get some love

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Little Drummer Boy challenge still a thing? Out just now 4:40 on Xmas eve, w a Spanish language version while enjoying tapas in Chicago

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ACLU @aclu.org · 22/12/2025

Gender-affirming care helps trans kids live happy, healthy lives. Health care decisions belong to families and our doctors, not politicians.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

m.youtube.com

Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica

YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Simpler times

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Can I technically boycott something that I already personally pay no attention to? (FIFA, looking at you and your participation trophy)

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 22/11/2025

They line up perfectly.

An Oval Office photo of Trump looking adoringly at Mamdani, while a portrait of Reagan looks on. Above the man-ignoring-his-girlfriend meme.

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Your City @yourcityseattle.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

After much deliberation and a grueling interview process, I’m pleased to announce that I’ve accepted a new job and will not need any financial support from my parents to cover the high costs of childcare going forward. #AmericanDream #ThisIsYourCity

an image of Katie Wilson standing in a button-up shirt and slacks riding the bus in the morning while holding on onto a rail

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

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jami lynne @lynnedrum.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

no joke Seattle: check your fucking ballots to make sure they were counted!! there are a Bunch of incomplete or invalid ballots in our age range right now, and it's a quick check to see if yours went through okay. it's not too late to fix it! info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

info.kingcounty.gov

King County Elections

Led by Director Julie Wise, King County Elections conducts accurate, secure, and accessible elections for King County's over 1.4 million registered voters.

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

“Next season on Slow Horses…”

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I wrote about my experience working with @wilsonkatieb.bsky.social at the MASS Coalition years ago to win major walking, biking, and transit improvements. Give it a read and let me know what you think: www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/co...

reddit.com

The Katie Wilson I knew at the MASS Coalition

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Good lord. The Decemberists at Benaroya Hall backed by the full Seattle Symphony. I spontaneously wept from the sheer beauty of it all on four separate occasions. (Catch them with PDX or SFO orchestras if you can on this short west coast symphonic tour)

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

"Only after the main campus was administrated, and the six thousand deans of the Provost’s Undead Committee gathered for their bi-hourly meeting did someone point out they had forgotten that there was an Arts Department. Twelve thousand vacant eye sockets turned their unseeing gaze up the hill."

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Signalgate 2.0, this time not about plans for attacking Houthis in Yemen, but sending the 82nd Airborne to Portland, Oregon

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

The posted meme is about a war movie filled with delusional madmen. Also remembering that T quote from the Stern show that venereal disease was his personal Vietnam. And further remembering that the US humiliatingly lost in Vietnam.

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