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trunks @trunksahoy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Where’s that goddamn cat?!

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’m gonna be real, thanks to climate change, jokes about Seattle rain just make me sad We’ve been in a drought for a very long time. Mount Rainier is losing its glaciers. The Olympic Mountains don’t have snow. It’s just not funny

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I think The Urbanist is such a singular organization in the way it combines journalism, advocacy, and community building. It’s a big part of why Seattle is transforming so rapidly (mostly in good ways!), and it’s why I’ve been a member for years. Consider doing likewise!

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trunks @trunksahoy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

gonna be smuggling Bausch + Lomb eye saline across the Canadian border like it’s fucking Prohibition so I don’t die of listeria

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Now that the bus lanes are helping bus riders and not substantially impacting drivers...it's not a news story at all.

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

Today, Seattle's kindergartners took their very first steps into Seattle Public Schools, joining their fellow scholars for a brand new year! This year, every single one of them - from kindergarten through 12th grade - starts the year with something new: free breakfast and lunch for each student.

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

The L8 bus is now the G8 bus! Amazing what a bus lane can do for speed and reliability! Life changing for thousands of bus commuters in our City!

Group of people racing the 8 bus and losing!

Alexis and Noah Williams riding the 8 bus home.

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trunks @trunksahoy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Seattle has had the most amazing summer weather I have ever experienced this year.

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trunks @trunksahoy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

the whole economy is fraud now so, if you think about it, age verification is a kind of economic stimulus that is why i, your democratic congressman, will be voting for KOSA

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trunks @trunksahoy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is really, really bad. USPS is a load-bearing pillar for US democracy and the sabotage is working.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Any given specific NIMBY argument—about infrastructure capacity, or home values, or aesthetics—is nearly always just a shell game masking generalized opposition to anything changing, and which is why it's a waste of time to engage with NIMBYs on details.

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trunks @trunksahoy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

ngl the ai was cooking here. this is the best artistic rendering of Marco Rubio’s career i’ve ever seen

AI slop of Marco Rubio clutching a bitten Pop-tart, peeking out from behind a pillar and jealously watching two happy men enjoying what he never could

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trunks @trunksahoy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

11.4% interest rate = “insane” 7.4% interest rate = “bold, practical” inspiring.

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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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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."

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Worse On Purpose @worseonpurpose.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

How car ownership got expensive: A mandate is priced by what it costs to fit. Nobody prices what it costs to keep. Automatic braking costs $21 to install. The windshield recalibration it requires costs consumers $3-5bn a year, forever. Essay 2/4 on the American car market: tinyurl.com/4z4xkes6

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Cheap To Mandate, Expensive To Own

A $354 million safety rule created a $3 billion annual repair bill. This is how car ownership got expensive.

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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 02/09/2026

An Important Message for Seattle’s Families: Every child in Seattle deserves to be supported, fed, and cared for, no matter what is happening between adults at the bargaining table. SPS and the Seattle Education Association have not yet reached a contract agreement.

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trunks @trunksahoy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I’ve been out of organizing work for a few years but still occasionally get a Median Voter Gut-punch like today’s doozy from the security guard: “So, wait, what exactly is ICE?”

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trunks @trunksahoy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My mom still has tapes of me, age 3, singing Jolene (yes in hindsight everyone should’ve known then 💅). As both artist and human, Dolly was simply the best, a role model for us all. RIP.

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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 25/08/2026

We’re delivering a fast, frequent, and reliable Route 8. Community members have fought for years to make Denny Way better. We thank them. Now, we’ll unlock the capacity of this important street to move more people. Irresistibly good bus service is finally coming to Route 8.

Mayor Wilson speaks into a microphone next to Fix the L8 and Seattle Streets Alliance members under a sign that reads "Right Lane: Buses Only, bicycles OK."

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24/08/2026

important piece of how journalism works right here www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/never-apol...

The Post, a truly immoral scumbag tabloid that is simultaneously the most skilled tabloid journalism publication in America in a way that we can all learn from, ran the story, and then it was picked up over the next few days by other right wing outlets making essentially the same “hey this left winger is a rich kid” joke, and then yesterday the story was picked up by the New York Times, which had profiled Gordillo earlier, and once that happened it instantly became acceptable fodder for non-right-wing reporters and pundits. This is a textbook case of how to shepherd a shallow partisan smear into the mainstream news cycle. You may find it distasteful, but you should admire its efficacy. Any competent cutthroat political communicator must be able to replicate this process on demand.

(When I worked at Gawker, we frequently played a similar but less political role in this general process, by writing about stories that the Times was interested in but considered disreputable, which would then allow them to write follow-ups framed as “People are talking about this thing,” which provides them an entry point to feed their readers salacious news while still maintaining an analytical, hands-off pose. Once you understand this dynamic you will see it all the time.)

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AMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Mayor Wilson, Councilmember Foster, Councilmember Saka and I are teaming up to ban surveillance pricing at grocery chains in Seattle. Surveillance pricing is a harmful practice where your data is weaponized against you to price gouge. (1/2)

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Seattle Gay New reported today that at a meeting of the LGBTQ Commission on Thursday, Mayor Katie Wilson's office told them I was writing about a complaint the interim police chief filed against a detective, and that the complaint alleged she had said she worked for SPD or was representing them./1

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SGN:: Mayor’s office announces another $250,000 for Queer and Trans refugees; Interim Chief Sayles files OPA complaint against detective for pro-Trans views

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson attended the Seattle LGBTQ Commission meeting on Thursday, Aug. 20 at Seattle City Hall, where she announced that her team was able to secure an additional $250,000 worth of...

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Fix the L8 @fixthel8.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Is your Boop a little lonely? Do you think it needs another transit plushie to keep it company? Pre-order a L'Eighty for your boop! We're celebrating the installation of bus lanes with our a Blushie to commemorate our campaign! Initial shipment expected to arrive early October. fixthel8.com/merch

A Boop plushie next to a Fix the L8 bus plushie

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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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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trunks @trunksahoy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

we built a trebuchet in high school. the principal came out during the late construction and climbed off the ladder onto the rickety-ass frame, and if we want to get technical, you don’t have to die to be a ‘casualty’

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trunks @trunksahoy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Breaking my elbow has been such a nightmare. It’s looking likely I won’t get full range of motion back. It’s really pushing me towards risk-aversion, and making me consider ditching biking (inside Seattle at least). The potential of those daily near-misses feels much more real.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/08/2026

These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.

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trunks @trunksahoy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

tbh this is me but with the New Flyer Xcelsior trolley bus

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La Resistencia @laresistencianw.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In this video, it was midnight and people still had not eaten dinner. When the food came, it was horrible food which was rejected.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026

I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"

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K.H.I. @sheridesabike.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Harrell's SPD allowed an ax murderer to run around my nabe for *weeks* and said nothing to us. Council did said nothing. Hollingsworth: "It was an active investigation and I know that our SPD has been working extremely hard to solve different cases given the current staffing resources they have."

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Ernest Penfold @penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026

the media when the centrist loses by 1% vs the media when the leftist loses by (less than) 1%

bluesky post by Politico saying "Progressives didn't get the big election night they wanted" referring to Abdul el-Sayed defeating Haley Stevens in the MI Senate primary and linking to their story with that headline.

bluesky post by Politico with the text "The far left hits a wall" referring to David Crowley defeating Francesca Hong in the WI Governor Primary and linking to their story with that headline

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Garrett Petersen @gpetersen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

A huge part of Democratic Party angst can be traced to the fact that Millennials are the single largest part of the electorate and even more so in the Democratic Party and we have been shit on our entire lives and are simply done with this shit and are activating.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/08/2026

Is any high-profile media outlet going to run a story contrasting how Platner was treated by the Democratic Party (run out on rails) with how Max Miller is being treated by the GOP (protected, supported) and drawing the obvious conclusions?

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

1. A new Popular Information investigation reveals that Senate Republicans have recently launched at least six fake news sites in key states.

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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 06/08/2026

I would like to see more companies admit this - being a public company no longer means running a successful, thriving business. It strictly means delivering growth to investors, every single quarter, who do not care at all about the product the company sells or the people who produce it.

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trunks @trunksahoy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Been on a mission to find the best khao pad in Seattle and I think Araya’s Place wins it, but The Patio and Kin Dee are both very strong contenders.

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Scott Alspach @salspach.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Literally a week after Barnes was fired the hours of the CARE team were expanded from 12:00 PM - 10:00 PM to 6:30 AM - 1:00 AM. Firing Barnes got results fast! www.instagram.com/p/DboFnMosVVJ/

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PubliCola @publicola.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Issues With Former Police Chief Barnes Weren't Just About His Travel or Where He Lived In a frenzy to condemn the mayor, her opponents seem to have forgotten why Barnes' future at the city was tenuous to begin with.

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Issues With Former Police Chief Barnes Weren't Just About His Travel or Residency - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett Mainstream media outlets and many Seattle City Councilmembers have expressed outrage over Mayor Katie Wilson’s decision…

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trunks @trunksahoy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Voted yesterday when returning my library books to the Seattle central library. Voted YES on Prop 1, naturally, but @electioncheatsheet.org was a big help for the judicial races in particular.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

What a batshit first sentence to an editorial excoriating the mayor of Seattle for removing a controversial police chief appointed by her predecessor, something our mayors have routinely done. The conspiracy brain at play: "How dare this scheming woman try to distract us from her incompetence!"

If Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson believed forcing out Shon Barnes as chief of police would put an end to questions about her leadership and lapses surrounding the Bite of Seattle shooting on July 26, she was very much mistaken.

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Matthew Pfab @matthewpfabwx.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Heads up, #Seattle...smoke from massive fires in Eastern Washington and Southern British Columbia will move into Western Washington starting early Monday, getting denser through Tuesday and Wednesday. Prepare for an extended period of degraded air quality. #wawx

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 31/07/2026

Today Mayor Katie Wilson announced she’s already fired Seattle’s next police chief after he somehow teargassed Capitol Hill, deleted public records, hired someone to have an affair on the job with, and threatened to fight a reporter all before 9 a.m.

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Julia Grant Reed @juliareedwa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I was at the vigil organized by community members from gun violence prevention groups tonight at #Seattle Center. Some folks came and heckled @mayor.seattle.gov. Friends. I know you’re angry and scared. But if I may, let me offer you some better people to yell at. Yell at me. And I can say why 🧵

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trunks @trunksahoy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

90% of these are PACs buying your data from brokers, usually public ones. It comes from public voter files, DMV, etc., which is why stop2quit doesn’t work - they just add you back next week. There are services you can pay for which do persistent remove requests to brokers. I rarely get these now!

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trunks @trunksahoy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I am still trying to reconcile that we went from Kshama Sawant to Joy “Child-Starver” Hollingsworth. It’s still far more unthinkable to me than “Trump is President”.

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