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Marco @madeingermany.bsky.social · 11h

I will legally change my cats name to Cheesy Gordito Scratch

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OrneryPiglett @ornerypiglett.bsky.social · 13h

PepToc is a hotline for inspirational, feel-good messages or life advice (!) from little kids! It's very cute.

SAVE PEPTOC HOTLINE

HELLO! We're Jessica Martin and Asherah Weiss. We're both teaching artists, and have volunteered our time to create Peptoc.3 years and 19 million calls later, Peptoc hotline just keeps going viral! ...

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Northwest Progressive Institute @nwprogressive.org · 12h

"Liberty Vote" cannot be trusted:

"Dominion Voting Systems, the election vendor that was falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election, is being sold and rebranded as Liberty Vote effective immediately [...] Dominion’s election products were used by millions of US voters across 27 states last year."

Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting Systems, says he’ll push for paper ballots | CNN Politics

Dominion Voting Systems, the election vendor that was falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election, is being sold and rebranded as Liberty Vote effective immediately.

www.cnn.com

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Marco @madeingermany.bsky.social · 11h

Welcome to partisan voting machines 🤯

Marco @madeingermany.bsky.social · 12h

Very well said, Marcus!

Mhgreen3000 @mhgreen3000.bsky.social · 17h

Who do we mean when we say “Black Seattle”?

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?

My latest column for the @soseaemerald.bsky.social

COLUMN | What This Mayoral Election Owes 'Black Seattle'

From City Hall to the Central District, Seattle's mayoral race raises deeper questions: Who speaks for "Black Seattle," and what does real representation look like beyond the ballot? Marcus Harrison G...

southseattleemerald.org

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Marco @madeingermany.bsky.social · 12h

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Political strategist Crystal Fincher, who's spent years organizing with and for underrepresented voters, starts with the basic truth this city keeps forgetting: "When we say 'the Black community' in Seattle, it's not the same community it was 10, 20, 30 years ago." Displacement dispersed families across South King County. Migration diversified our Blackness. "We're more diasporic than we've ever been," she said. "So a barrier is just being seen for who we are — not a monolith, not tokenized endorsements." She's weary of campaigns that put a Black face on a platform and call the work done. "Leaning too heavily on representation, on tokenization … to act like there is a Black face, therefore Black people are taken care of — it's just not reality."

Fincher's frustration isn't performative; it's practical. Policy in this city, she says, is routinely crafted as if Black people are a special-interest silo: Talk "Black issues," and folks jump straight to criminal justice and social services, ignoring how we're on the front lines of climate harm, economic shocks, and educational inequity. "All issues are our issues," she told me. Solve for us, and you tend to solve for everyone. We're the canaries who warn the whole mine.

Fincher argues that "best case" policy is a step, not a panacea. That means listening after the electoral victory; it means naming the harms your policy will cause and mitigating them, instead of pretending costless progress exists. It also means refusing the political habit of having us on speed dial when convenient (say, on increased surveillance in our neighborhoods) but losing our number when things go awry. "They always want our voice, but they don't want to protect our bodies," she said. Accountability, in other words, is not a one-time photo op. It's a practice.

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Howie Cohen @howiecohen.bsky.social · 14h

Great reporting by Alexa Peters @knkx.org showing the work done by Leigh Bezezekoff (of Tractor Tavern & WANMA fame) and all at WANMA for this first large census of the Washington Live Music industry. #WANMA #LiveMusic #Washington

KNKX Public Radio @knkx.org · 17h

#Washington state’s music industry contributes $6.4 billion to the state’s overall GDP and is an “economic powerhouse” for the state, according to a new census published by #WANMA, a trade organization for the state’s live music and nightlife workers.

New census highlights uncertain future for WA live music industry

Live music is bouncing back post-pandemic, but many Washington musicians are considered relocating due to rising costs.

www.knkx.org

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Marco @madeingermany.bsky.social · 17h

"Everybody hide, we're the most transparent administration in history!!"

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Rian Watt @rianwatt.bsky.social · 19h

Extraordinarily thoughtful and nuanced from one of Seattle’s best, Marcus Harrison Greene:

southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/...

COLUMN | What This Mayoral Election Owes 'Black Seattle'

From City Hall to the Central District, Seattle's mayoral race raises deeper questions: Who speaks for "Black Seattle," and what does real representation look like beyond the ballot? Marcus Harrison G...

southseattleemerald.org

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Marco @madeingermany.bsky.social · 3d

I enjoyed his books before I knew that...

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Marco @madeingermany.bsky.social · 3d

Card became a member of the U.S. Democratic Party in 1976 and has on multiple occasions referred to himself as a Moynihan or Blue Dog Democrat, as recently as 2020.[158][205][206]: 0:58:09 Card supported Republican presidential candidate John McCain in 2008,[207] and then Newt Gingrich in 2012.[208] In 2016, he followed the "hold your nose, vote Trump" hashtag and voted accordingly.[206]: 1:01:10 According to Salon, Card's views are close to neoconservative,[199] and Card has described himself as a moral conservative.[209][158] Card was a vocal supporter of the U.S.'s War on Terror.[210][211] In a 2020 interview with Ben Shapiro, Card stated that he was not a conservative because he has beliefs that do not align with typical conservative platforms, including desiring liberal immigration laws, gun control, and abolishing the death penalty.[206]: 0:58:49 In 2000, Card said he "believe[d] [that] government has a strong role to protect us from capitalism".[212]

Homosexuality
Card has publicly declared his support of laws against homosexual activity and same-sex marriage.

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Marco @madeingermany.bsky.social · 4d

Ice would do this, but this isn't a picture of what you think it is.

leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

Fact Check: Video Clips Do NOT Show ICE Capturing or 'Removing' Undocumented Foster Children For Deportation -- Scenes Include A Prank And Non-Immigration Detention Of Juvenile Suspects | Lead Stories

Does a viral video document ICE agents seizing undocumented children from foster care to deport them? No, that's not true:...

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Marco @madeingermany.bsky.social · 4d

My initial instinct was to reply with "good!"

Marco @madeingermany.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, the musk 🤣

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Tiffani @tiffanimc.bsky.social · 6d

I’m proud to cohost this fundraising event to support @wilsonkatieb.bsky.social campaign for Mayor. She is the Mayor and leader we need, and I’m also honored to call her a friend. Can you join us on Mon, Oct 6th at 6pm in West Seattle? RSVP here secure.anedot.com/kw4aas/wests...

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 4d

Hmm. We were still fighting in Afghanistan during Trump’s first term. How come we didn’t win “easy” then? Why did Trump sign a one-sided agreement with the Taliban that allowed them to take over?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Marco @madeingermany.bsky.social · 4d

It wasn’t ‘in jest.’ Here are 53 times Trump said he’d end Ukraine war within 24 hours or before taking office

Fact check: It wasn’t ‘in jest.’ Here are 53 times Trump said he’d end Ukraine war within 24 hours or before taking office | CNN Politics

He wasn’t joking.

www.cnn.com

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 7d

does alt text for video even work? Just in case:

[Patricia (@ldealPatricia) on twitter: "prosciutto before Italians harvest it from the sea"

Image is a video of a prosciutto looking sea slug swimming to italian restaurant music.]