can’t stop thinking about how stupid this statement is. if boelter is “antifa”, everyone in that room on wednesday is. it doesn’t matter, of course, but holy shit these people are stupid.
the gunman in this instance was an obsessive listener of infowars, which employs nick sortor, who was at the white house circle jerk with pam bondi on wednesday
This mayoral race isn’t about personalities—it’s about whether symbolism becomes substance. What do “seats at the table” mean if the rest of us go hungry?
If Bruce Harrell's case for re-election is his management experience, what should we make of two separate instances in the last week of city decisions made under his watch being immediately reversed after huge community blowback?
it might've been, i was poll-watching around the primary but we don't have a lot of good local polling. but it also meshes with other proxy data, like how intensely mallahan hates harrell (lol) and the %age of out-of-town $$ support for his campaign relative to wilson's
i think the exit polls from the primary suggested (i'd need a lot more raw data to say this for sure) that voters who were more familiar with harrell's campaign were more likely to vote for wilson, even controlling for most other issues lol
CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball
Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.
Sara Nelson, correcting me in a debate, says Seattle's police cameras aren't monitored 24/7. I did report this and will correct myself—they're monitored 14/7. I still don't get her argument that a lack of live monitoring at predictable hours is evidence that mass surveillance is a good investment.
In his closing statement, Harrell said, "This is not the time for hope. Passion and great ideas and inexperience is just not going to get us there. Trump will walk all over a person without experience, period."
i am fully equipped to discuss his terrible politics. i am becoming better equipped to discuss his destructive vision of technology. but i will never be able to think of this dipshit without also thinking of michael bolton from office space
