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Nathan Rouse

@nathanrouse.bsky.social
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Public defender. End cash bail. Abolish ICE. Commentary on the criminal legal system, local politics, housing, transit, and cycling infrastructure. All opinions my own.

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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
wtaf
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fantastic book. The TV miniseries adaptation is good too
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Silly 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.com
Is Seattle’s homelessness fix going backward? This homebuilder says so
The head of Everett-based homebuilder Pallet says she sees "troublesome and concerning" changes, and chaos, in the response to homelessness.
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
nbcnews.com
Christa Pike is in critical condition after a failed execution in Tennessee, her lawyers say
At least seven needles were used to administer the lethal injection into Pike’s arm over the course of an hour, one of her lawyers, who witnessed the failed execution attempt, said.
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Inflicting 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.
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As 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.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nashville 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.”
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
en.wikipedia.org
List of botched executions - Wikipedia
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
apnews.com
Tennessee unable to carry out the execution by lethal injection of Christa Gail Pike, witnesses say
The judges said they want to review whether her allegations of sexual abuse and rape as a child were fully considered before she was sentenced to death.
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
nbcnews.com
Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyer says
Christa Pike, 50, was 18 when she murdered a classmate. She would be the first woman the state has executed in more than 200 years.
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Attorneys for Christa Pike say she's still alive an hour after she was administered lethal injection drugs the evening of Sept. 30.” www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...
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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 01/10/2026
There 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.
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Within 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.com
Supreme Court allows execution of Christa Gail Pike in Tennessee to go forward | CNN
The 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.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In 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.org
S.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.
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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A 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.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To be clear, Kettle is suggesting Seattle reduce its overall funding for affordable housing in order to fund more police.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bluesky 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.com
Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP
EP • Stevie Wonder
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
bring back the city council sock puppets
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
yeah it was unhinged. What a strange, grandstanding group of grumps
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
”The rest of the increase, about $12.6 million, will pay for 66 net new officers who were ’hired in 2026 but only partially funded’” by the previous mayor.
publicola.com
Mayor Wilson Rolls Out Small-C Conservative Budget that Addresses City's Structural Deficit - PubliCola
The proposal makes real cuts to close a $175 million gap—and reflects the conflict between campaign ambitions and a budget…
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
She increased SPD‘s budget by funding 66 additional cops, plain and simple. That’s not reform or accountability. It’s a political/policy choice. I‘m still a Wilson supporter, but let‘s call it what it is.
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@amysundberg.bsky.social is better equipped to answer questions on this topic, but my understanding is it would have been well within Mayor Wilson’s discretion to assign SPD less money. I think it was a political/policy choice to given them the money she did.
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m not aware of any legal requirement to fund the additional 66 positions. Maybe I’m missing something?
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Could be wrong, but I don’t think the CBA with SPOG required that she fund the additional cop positions.
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Sahat English @sahatenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Days 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.
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jane c. hu @janehu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the triumvirate (2026)
a woman stands with hands on her hips after driving a red SUV up train tracks into Seattle's Mt Baker light rail stationa white sedan drives on Seattle's I-90 pedestrian trail as a woman in a green shirt walks in front of ita black SUV stopped after driving down a flight of stairs at Seattle's Post Alley
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Me too
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I genreally resist reveling in schadenfreude, but this one is testing me.
apnews.com
Far-right British provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos arrested by US immigration enforcement
Immigration 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...
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Probably not super high given the case was in its infancy and it seems the petitioners did zero work to substantiate their claims with any evidence. Maybe $2,000? there’s a whole process the court does to establish a reasonable rate and a reasonable number of hours it should have taken to prepare.
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Making me reconsider my wish that Mayor Wilson had sought attorney fees. Compassion is a rare commodity in politics. Good for her.
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I think she should have sought fees. Apart from being entitled to them for defending against frivolous charges, it would have kept the baselessness of the allegations in the news. The petitioners should be grateful for her decency and grace.
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Andrew Engelson @andyengelson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
History will not look kindly on what King County allowed to happen at Boeing Field. @girmayzahilay.bsky.social
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Rachael @r343l.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A 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.
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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My latest on a proposed legislative package in Seattle about people living in RVs, including instituting a new one-time permitting program.
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
CM 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.org
Strauss Proposes Program Phasing Out Street Parking for RVs
RVs 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.
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Wow. Hopefully ”interim“ is the end of the road for Chief Sayles at SPD.
ericacbarnett.substack.com
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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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
No 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.com
Seattle Public Safety Survey - Voters Want Action Now
75% 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...
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I 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.com
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson's 'impromptu boogie' with Seattle rapper draws public safety criticism - MyNorthwest.com
You 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."
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carlfnelson.bsky.social @carlfnelson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The 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.
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
100% agree.
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Jay @jayspeidell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Seattle 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.
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Seattle Department of Transportation @transportation.seattle.gov · 17/08/2026
There is still work to be done on this project. Expect to see bike lane buffer curbs installed here.
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Sure. But it’s not incorrect to “claim” that they‘re charges. They are. Bullshit charges that won’t be sustained.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Crucially, 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.
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The statute refers to “charges“. it’s not misleading to say the petitioners are alleging charges. Whether or not they will move forward is a totally different story.
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Literally nothing. Aside from the fact idiots are willing to file baseless recall charges. GTFOOH.
seattletimes.com
Charges 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.
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Vivian McCall @vivmccall.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This 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.
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Done!
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
BEST NEWS EVER 😍😍😍
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Nathan Rouse @nathanrouse.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I assume it’s the pro-development aspect of urbanism, which necessarily involves corporate developers?
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