Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Silly to pose this question to the CEO of a for-profit company that just went out of business. Of course this is going to be their answer.seattletimes.comIs Seattle’s homelessness fix going backward? This homebuilder says soThe head of Everett-based homebuilder Pallet says she sees "troublesome and concerning" changes, and chaos, in the response to homelessness. 150
Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Inflicting a brain injury by poisoning a person is unquestionably cruel and unusual punishment, even under the milquetoast interpretation afforded to the 8th Amendment. It‘s bonkers to me that, under that same interpretation, it’s not cruel and usual if the poisoning was meant to execute the person. 150
Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026As if the government rushing a person to the hospital for life-saving medical care after deliberately trying to kill them weren’t unfathomable enough, just wait for the part where they try to kill her again in a few months. 020
Reposted by Nathan RouseBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.” 691715606
Reposted by Nathan Rouse🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 01/10/2026There is no possible articulable reason for this decision except sheer bloodthirstiness. Something has gone deeply, deeply wrong with the basic moral structure of the American right wing. 001
Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Within the next 3 hours, the State is planning to kill Christa Pike as punishment for something awful she did when she was 18 years old. The death penalty is cruel and inhumane. Abolish it now.cnn.comSupreme Court allows execution of Christa Gail Pike in Tennessee to go forward | CNNThe US Supreme Court is allowing the execution of Christa Gail Pike to go forward, overturning a last-minute stay on Wednesday that was issued by an appeals court hours earlier. 141
Reposted by Nathan RouseErica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In San Francisco, Lurie's RV ban—on which Dan Strauss' similar proposed ban in Seattle appears to be modeled—hasn't gotten people into shelter, but it has pushed them outside city limits, often after losing their RVs and becoming unsheltered. Is this what "success" will look like here?missionlocal.orgS.F. cracked down on RV dwellers. A year later, many have left the city altogether.Data shows that a year after San Francisco's RV ban, 1/3 of RV dwellers using city aid have moved outside city limits. 1327080
Reposted by Nathan RouseAmy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A big failure. The argument about streaming the traffic cameras into the real-time crime center was that all the feeds were publicly available anyway, a fact that we now know to be untrue. That this happened at all erodes public trust in city government, and in surveillance cameras specifically. 17427
Reposted by Nathan RouseErica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026To be clear, Kettle is suggesting Seattle reduce its overall funding for affordable housing in order to fund more police. 24014
Reposted by Nathan Rousethe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...music.youtube.comSongs In The Key Of Life - The EPEP • Stevie Wonder 542054655
Reposted by Nathan RouseSahat English @sahatenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Days after the NFL fined him for wearing Hind Rajab’s name, Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair returned to the field with another Palestinian child on his eye black: 8-year-old Wafaa Akila. Wafaa was killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza on September 6 — her first day of school. 81344325
Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I genreally resist reveling in schadenfreude, but this one is testing me.apnews.comFar-right British provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos arrested by US immigration enforcementImmigration officials have arrested British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos in New Orleans. The Department of Homeland Security says he was detained at Louis Armstrong New Orleans Internationa... 062
Reposted by Nathan RouseAndrew Engelson @andyengelson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026History will not look kindly on what King County allowed to happen at Boeing Field. @girmayzahilay.bsky.social 13716
Reposted by Nathan RouseRachael @r343l.bsky.social · 24/08/2026A fair few of my neighbors in North Beacon Hill who live in houses park their RVs on the street. They don't have room to park them off street and hardly move them. Guessing this law won't be enforced fairly. 0101
Reposted by Nathan RouseAmy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026My latest on a proposed legislative package in Seattle about people living in RVs, including instituting a new one-time permitting program. 23611
Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 24/08/2026CM Strauss’s proposed RV legislation, aka ”A thinly veiled trap for the government to seize shelter from vulnerable people and force them to accept services they didn’t ask for.”theurbanist.orgStrauss Proposes Program Phasing Out Street Parking for RVsRVs have been a safety valve for people experiencing homelessness, but Councilmember Dan Strauss is proposing to add a RV safe lot and phase out street parking for them across Seattle. 083
Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Wow. Hopefully ”interim“ is the end of the road for Chief Sayles at SPD.ericacbarnett.substack.comInterim 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. 150
Reposted by Nathan RouseErica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 20/08/2026No one is proposing old-timey cop-on-your-block foot patrols. Seattle is meeting its 7-minute 911 goal. We already prohibit "camping" and sweep people pointlessly from place to place. And crime is down. But if you ask people leading questions that imply lack of action, you get the result you want.publicsafetysurvey2026.seattlechamber.comSeattle Public Safety Survey - Voters Want Action Now75% back public safety cameras, 90% want patrols where problems persist, 86% want a measurable 100-day plan - but only 34% are confident the City has an effective plan. A Seattle Metro Chamber & Chall... 913428
Reposted by Nathan RouseErica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I hope that one day we'll look back on the hysterical derangement with which the mainstream press targeted a young female mayor and feel deep embarrassment mynorthwest.com/mynorthwest-...mynorthwest.comSeattle Mayor Katie Wilson's 'impromptu boogie' with Seattle rapper draws public safety criticism - MyNorthwest.comYou may have seen the video on Instagram, originally posted by Seattle rapper Y2K. Wilson stands next to him at a sports field and bobs to his anthemic track "SEA." 1627941
Reposted by Nathan Rousecarlfnelson.bsky.social @carlfnelson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The Mayor looks joyous and authentic here. You're an absolute anhedonic ghoul if you think there's anything bad about this. Again, the criticisms (she pays for childcare!) reveal a group of bitter, bad-faith losers who are furious they don't have a rich guy on speed dial in that office anymore. 26115
Reposted by Nathan RouseJay @jayspeidell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Seattle cameras connect to the SPD Real Time Crime Center, which is Axon Fusus, a direct competitor to Flock. This makes the cameras in the stadium district effectively worse than the mass surveillance ALPR "Flock" cameras everyone worries about. 2121
Reposted by Nathan RouseSeattle Department of Transportation @transportation.seattle.gov · 17/08/2026There is still work to be done on this project. Expect to see bike lane buffer curbs installed here. 141
Reposted by Nathan RouseRyan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Crucially, the Seattle Times did not cover this story until *after* a Superior Court Judge ruled the recall could proceed...something that has not yet happened and likely won't, given the substance of the petition. 116915
Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Literally nothing. Aside from the fact idiots are willing to file baseless recall charges. GTFOOH.seattletimes.comCharges were filed to recall Mayor Wilson. What does that mean?The charge filing is the first of multiple steps required before a recall effort reaches a petition stage and qualifies for a ballot. 0130
Reposted by Nathan RouseVivian McCall @vivmccall.bsky.social · 13/08/2026This is awful thing to say, for many reasons, but I'll say this: Coming out as trans is economically devastating to most of the trans people I have met, and if you look at any statistic on the economic standing of trans Americans, you will see they are poor. 38316
Reposted by Nathan RouseGuy Oron @guyoron.net · 16/02/2026A supposedly blue county in Washington State is criminalizing immigrants who may be working in precarious or even coercive informal economy jobs. This is happening amid ICE’s violent crackdown on immigrants. Instead of going after those who exploit, the county finds it easier to attack the victims. 0184
Reposted by Nathan RouseLex Vaughn @lex.vaughn.theneedling.com · 05/02/2026Despite wide public support for the Millionaire's Tax, 30k people have signed CON on this legislation getting its first hearing this Friday, outnumbering those in the PRO column four to one. It's really easy to sign PRO - do it now! 78770
Reposted by Nathan RouseAmy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 02/02/2026In the coming days you might well hear arguments that surveillance is the answer to the tragedy of gun violence, and therefore Seattle shouldn't turn off SPD's cameras. I urge you to interrogate this framing. 29941199
Reposted by Nathan RouseAlex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 30/01/2026And for those who are in Washington and think things might be better here, please learn about how we don’t have parole in our state and haven’t for years. And yet, as the ACLU states, we aren’t safer for taking parole away. www.aclu-wa.org/news/no-seco... 2/aclu-wa.orgNo second chances - ACLU of WashingtonHow Washington abolished parole and its failure to make communities safer 132
Reposted by Nathan RouseAlex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 30/01/2026You need to watch The Alabama Solution. The bravery of these incarcerated men is beyond, esp. given how abhorrently they are treated. Solitary for years. Beaten or killed by guards. No medical staff, no protection. Retaliation for exposing the truth. The carceral state is rotten to its core. 1/ 151
Reposted by Nathan Rouseemi koyama @eminism.org · 28/01/2026They say you can't make sex work safe so the only option is to abolish it. I say you can't make police and prisons and borders safe so the only option is…? 1135
Reposted by Nathan Rouseemi koyama @eminism.org · 28/01/2026i spoke out against KCPAO’s exploitative and gratuitous use of a series of photos of brutalized and bloodied women survivors in my public comment before the presentation even started, because I saw them posted on the city’s website before the meeting. i thought perhaps … 254
Reposted by Nathan Rousefunky nat king cole medina @notmylinkedin.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Great thread from an absolutely astounding morning at Seattle City Council. It appears that losing allies on the council has not made Bob Kettle or Maritza Rivera behave in more normal ways. 0122
Reposted by Nathan Rouseemi koyama @eminism.org · 27/01/2026My public comment to the Seattle Public Safety Committee this morning before the pornified KCPAO presentation. 0297
Reposted by Nathan RouseErica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 27/01/2026He's turning an actual debate into a moral issue, chastising people like me and actual experts on sex work like Emi Koyoma for suggesting that aggressive prosecution and pointless, potentially violence-inciting "john letters" are stupid, wrong, and have "psychological problems." 18910
Reposted by Nathan RouseErica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Kettle is also criticizing people in chambers - today, longtime sex worker advocate Emi Koyoma - who argue against the carceral state and the "john letters" the police send to men. He says "the people who come in here and yell at us" are being hypocrites on Epstein. 2784
Reposted by Nathan RouseErica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 27/01/2026The King County Prosecutor's Office is currently doing an exceptionally exploitative presentation about sex trafficking to the Seattle City Council that includes slides of identifiable bloodied, brutalized women and identifiable women who are nude or nearly nude. 1629485
Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Good journalism from the Seattle Times about a disturbing practice that’s deliberately hidden from the public. As an attorney who’s worked in this particular hospital, I’m not the least bit surprised.seattletimes.comWhen medical workers cover patients’ heads with hoods, no one is watchingMany medical facilities across the U.S. use hoods on psychiatric patients to block them from spitting. Experts say the practice is traumatic and can be dangerous. 040
Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Shut down the government, tank the economy, who tf cares. Not another cent to DHS. Abolish ICE, abolish CBP, tear it all apart. Leadership right now is civil disobedience, zero complicity, no bargains. 0151
Reposted by Nathan RouseBrett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 25/01/2026This should be a top legislative priority 17012
Reposted by Nathan RouseGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/01/2026BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it. 26101442814