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mattoak.bsky.social
Holy crap we actually got rid of Bruce Harrell lol eat shit loser
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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goldy.horsesass.org
Congratulations Seattle Times for a clean sweep in the 2025 election—for mayor, city attorney, and city council, all of your endorsed candidates lost!
November 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao

x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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katherinemitchell.bsky.social
You can, and should, just do stuff that nobody else is
guyoron.net Guy Oron @guyoron.net · 19h
I mean Wilson literally did say that if she didn't challenge him, no one would. And now she's the likely next mayor
www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/10...
Real Change: Why did you decide to run for mayor? Katie Wilson: I made this decision in February and the precipitating event was the Feb. 11 special election on social housing. Honestly, up until Feb. 11, I had no notion of running for office. I’m a big supporter of social housing. I believe it’s an important part of the answer to our housing crisis. And when I saw Prop 1A pass in the landslide, I was very excited. But then immediately after that, I was very worried because, as we know, our current mayor Bruce Harrell was the face of the opposition campaign, the Prop 1B campaign, which was funded by Amazon and Microsoft and the Chamber of Commerce, and was really designed to undermine this funding measure for our social housing developer. There are a number of things that Harrell has already done in office to undermine social housing. And my immediate worry seeing the victory was if he is reelected and is in office for another four years, he could easily continue to try to undermine this project and it could easily fail. I believe social housing needs strong support and partnership from the city, from the mayor’s office. And for that reason, I began thinking, “Wow, it’s really important that someone challenged this guy.” I was aware of the political situation where a lot of progressive institutions, including the labor leadership of many of the labor unions, were bought into his reelection for various reasons — some good, some bad. And so it quickly became clear to me that it was unlikely that a viable progressive challenger would jump into the race because of that political dynamic. And I thought it was very important that someone viable challenge him and realized that I might be in a position to do so. So that’s why I jumped in.
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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bretthamil.bsky.social
The last time we elected a grassroots-backed mayor was McGinn in 2009! Since then every mayor we've had has been heavily backed & influenced by Amazon, Expedia, Comcast, CenturyLink, Starbucks, Uber, Vulcan, WA Assoc of Realtors, the Chamber of Commerce, the billionaire owner of the Mariners, etc.
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
beev.bsky.social
What's a recent book that broke you?

Two days ago I finished the audiobook of Parable of the Sower ( by Octavia E. Butler) narrated by Lynn Thigpen.

I'm distraught, I'm literally asking strangers to talk about it. Almost unsure if reality or the book is real.

What book has recently done you in?
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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alexis4seattle.bsky.social
Congratulations to Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson! @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social

I’m looking forward to working together in building a city that is affordable, safe, and thriving for working families!
November 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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oowm.org
I’ve seen enough. Congratulations @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social on becoming the 58th Mayor of Seattle.
November 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
beev.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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ericacbarnett.bsky.social
UPDATE: The city declined to provide a breakdown of internal costs for Mayor Bruce Harrell's slickly produced budget video, which largely duplicates his campaign talking points, after initially saying that they would. 1/2
September 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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lhjseattle.bsky.social
Good list. I’d also add pedestrianizing a bunch of Seattle streets for the World Cup. It might have to be quick with planters, with more permanent changes later.

Namely the areas around Occidental, along with 1st Ave, Ballard Ave, University Way, 4th and Pine, and 10th and Pike in Capitol Hill.
pushtheneedle.bsky.social Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 1d
A batch of things Wilson can bring in her first year:

—paint bus only lanes
—end design review
—redesign Aurora & Rainier Ave
—take comp plan further
—pick a slew of new directors
— OPCD (planning)
— SDCI (permitting)
— SDOT (transportation)
yonahfreemark.com Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 1d
Katie Wilson is leading in the Seattle mayor's race!
November 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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llarian.net
Good reminder that the Seattle Times doesn't deserve a dime of your money.
ericacbarnett.bsky.social Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 1d
Seattle Times' business columnist is having a normal one. (From comments on a gracious post about a potential Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson by former mayor Greg Nickels).
Facebook comment by Jon Talton, a Seattle Times business columnist, from November 10: "She'll ruin the city."
November 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
From a Washington Post story titled "How women feel about Trump’s presidency"
Judith Wishnia, a retired professor of history and women's studies in New York says: "I'm 94, and I told my doctor I hope I live to see him in jail."
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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wilsonforseattle.bsky.social
SEATTLE!!!

We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
A photo of Katie Wilson seated in a wooden chair beside a white brick fireplace smiling at the camera with her hands folded an image of the election results from King County
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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finchfrii.bsky.social
Katie took 55.57% and Bruce took 44.13% of the 38,391 ballots tallied today.
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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goldy.horsesass.org
Katie Wilson won 55.57% of today's ballot drop, giving her a 91 vote lead over incumbent Bruce Harrell out of 272,041 ballots tallied so far in Seattle's mayoral race. So... she likely wins.
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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qagggy.bsky.social
!!!!!!!!
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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qagggy.bsky.social
Stoners Seattle voters
🤝
Waiting for 4:20
November 2025 General Election Results - King County, Washington
cd.kingcounty.gov
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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mattoak.bsky.social
Mine was counted.

Please check. Please. Bruce Harrell is a fuckin prick man.

Don't check if you voted for Harrell also smack yourself in the face.
baseball-broad.bsky.social Claire @baseball-broad.bsky.social · 2d
Here is the link! It’ll take you 30 seconds to verify if your ballot has been counted.
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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unavaleable.bsky.social
so currently defectors are:

Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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chriswarcraft.bsky.social
Expel the yes votes from the party and cut off all their access to fundraising, then remove Schumer from leadership. Anything less is mealy-mouthed coward bullshit.
kenmartin.bsky.social Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 2d
As this vote moves to the House, I stand with Democratic leadership as they refuse to rubber stamp the full-scale Republican assault on Americans’ health care and I am proud of the majority of Senate Democrats who opposed this vote.
Statement from DNC Chair Ken Martin on Senate Shutdown Vote. For 7 weeks, we have stood firm and spoken with one voice: we must save health care for millions of Americans. Donald Trump has made it impossible for families to make ends meet, forcing them to choose between putting food on the table or paying their medical bills. The last thing Americans can afford is their health insurance premiums doubling overnight. Let me be crystal clear: Donald Trump and the Republican Party that orchestrated this betrayal of the American people are responsible for the men, women, and children who will suffer because they cannot get the health care they need to survive. These are the same people who rushed to vote for tax breaks for billionaires. It is clear whose side they are on. As this vote moves to the House, I stand with Dem leadership as they refuse to rubber stamp the full-scale Republican assault on Americans’ health care and I am proud of the majority of Senate Dems who opposed this vote.
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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laurelpowell.net
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM