Charles Mudede
@mudede.bsky.social
Senior Staff Writer at The Stranger
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WTO/99 won the 2025 Seattle Film Critics Society Best Documentary Film award! Check out our coverage of the documentary @mudede.bsky.social says we all need to see right away.
WTO/99 Is a Documentary We Need To See Right Away
Despite being composed entirely of news/found/archival footage (no talking heads, no voice over), the documentary WTO/99 nevertheless has the aspect of a dream.
www.thestranger.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
WTO/99 won the 2025 Seattle Film Critics Society Best Documentary Film award! Check out our coverage of the documentary @mudede.bsky.social says we all need to see right away.
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Bi Gan @nytimes.com, disturbing soundtracks @thequietus.com, @mudede.bsky.social and Robinson Devor @screenslate.bsky.social, Radu Jude @eflux.bsky.social, new @filmquarterly.bsky.social, and more best-of-2025 lists and polls …
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
December 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Bi Gan @nytimes.com, disturbing soundtracks @thequietus.com, @mudede.bsky.social and Robinson Devor @screenslate.bsky.social, Radu Jude @eflux.bsky.social, new @filmquarterly.bsky.social, and more best-of-2025 lists and polls …
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
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Very thankful to have @mudede.bsky.social in this world so he can share the way he sees it. Lovely stuff!
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Transit Soles
In honor of the new light rail extension, Charles Mudede celebrates one thing that can't be seen as a pedestrian: shoes at rest.
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December 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Very thankful to have @mudede.bsky.social in this world so he can share the way he sees it. Lovely stuff!
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To celebrate @sound-transit.bsky.social big day, which, hopefully, will soon be followed by the completion of a key segment of Line 2 (Seattle/Bellevue), I decided to share with you my secret obsession: Shoes I have spotted on light rail trains over the years.
To celebrate @sound-transit.bsky.social big day, which, hopefully, will soon be followed by the completion of a key segment of Line 2 (Seattle/Bellevue), I decided to share with you my secret obsession: Shoes I have spotted on light rail trains over the years.
Transit Soles
In honor of the new light rail extension, Charles Mudede celebrates one thing that can't be seen as a pedestrian: shoes at rest.
www.thestranger.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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To celebrate @sound-transit.bsky.social big day, which, hopefully, will soon be followed by the completion of a key segment of Line 2 (Seattle/Bellevue), I decided to share with you my secret obsession: Shoes I have spotted on light rail trains over the years.
To celebrate @sound-transit.bsky.social big day, which, hopefully, will soon be followed by the completion of a key segment of Line 2 (Seattle/Bellevue), I decided to share with you my secret obsession: Shoes I have spotted on light rail trains over the years.
In Milton Friedman's Capitalism & Freedom, it's suggested that, once the government becomes minimal, the thing to do, if you want to create art or just survive, is befriend a billionaire. Though still unhelpful, this advice now sounds less nuts than it did when Friedman published his book, 1962.
December 1, 2025 at 1:06 AM
In Milton Friedman's Capitalism & Freedom, it's suggested that, once the government becomes minimal, the thing to do, if you want to create art or just survive, is befriend a billionaire. Though still unhelpful, this advice now sounds less nuts than it did when Friedman published his book, 1962.
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"While the rest of the world’s ocean creatures ... evolved to rely on phosphorus as their energy currency, the species in this desert oasis [subsists] on the same primordial, sulfur-eating bacteria that nourished them hundreds of millions of years ago."
@mudede.bsky.social @blaiseaguera.bsky.social
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Saving Mexico’s Lost World - bioGraphic
Microbes have lived in Cuatro Ciénegas for 500 million years. They’ve survived countless cataclysms and extinctions. But can they survive us?
www.biographic.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"While the rest of the world’s ocean creatures ... evolved to rely on phosphorus as their energy currency, the species in this desert oasis [subsists] on the same primordial, sulfur-eating bacteria that nourished them hundreds of millions of years ago."
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Old buildings imitated rather than reflected other buildings: mass-produced moldings of ancient pillars, brick-hard materials, formidable facades. The reinforced seriality of capital. Now money reflects other reflections of money like a universe that appears as endless because it's made of mirrors.
November 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Old buildings imitated rather than reflected other buildings: mass-produced moldings of ancient pillars, brick-hard materials, formidable facades. The reinforced seriality of capital. Now money reflects other reflections of money like a universe that appears as endless because it's made of mirrors.
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Took a brief break from the news to rip my horrible couch to shreds
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It Took Me Two Years to Ditch My Awful Couch, and for What?
My experience getting the couch should have tipped me off that it was not the couch for me and was in fact evil. But I really needed it.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Took a brief break from the news to rip my horrible couch to shreds
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Only an ignorance of economics can see this as something to write home about. Those prices are now stuck up there. They will not go down unless demand collapses (depression=deflation). And so the only solution at this point is to raise wages, which, obviously, will not happen. This is a distraction.
Trump Administration Lifts Some Food Tariffs in Effort to Ease Prices That Were Definitely Not Higher Because It Imposed Some Food Tariffs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/b...
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November 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Only an ignorance of economics can see this as something to write home about. Those prices are now stuck up there. They will not go down unless demand collapses (depression=deflation). And so the only solution at this point is to raise wages, which, obviously, will not happen. This is a distraction.
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- Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson Not Buying Starbucks Coffee
- We Really Don't Need the Release of the Epstein Files
- Trump Plans a 'US Economy Is Just Too Great' Tour
Get this news and more at The Stranger.
- We Really Don't Need the Release of the Epstein Files
- Trump Plans a 'US Economy Is Just Too Great' Tour
Get this news and more at The Stranger.
Slog AM: Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson Not Buying Starbucks Coffee, We Really Don't Need the Release of the Epstein Files, Trump Plans a 'US Economy Is Just Too Great' Tour
The Stranger's Morning News Roundup
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November 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
- Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson Not Buying Starbucks Coffee
- We Really Don't Need the Release of the Epstein Files
- Trump Plans a 'US Economy Is Just Too Great' Tour
Get this news and more at The Stranger.
- We Really Don't Need the Release of the Epstein Files
- Trump Plans a 'US Economy Is Just Too Great' Tour
Get this news and more at The Stranger.
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Trisha Ready Wastes No Words - Her Debut Novel, Nobuko, Strings 108 Vignettes Into a Narrative Philosophy
Trisha Ready's Debut Novel, Nobuko, Strings 108 Vignettes Into a Narrative Philosophy
Nobuko was released on FrizzLit Editions in August.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Trisha Ready Wastes No Words - Her Debut Novel, Nobuko, Strings 108 Vignettes Into a Narrative Philosophy
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Incredible write up on this past week's election results by @mudede.bsky.social
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
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Are We Watching the Death of Centrism in American Politics?
The centrists are sinking, one after the other. Why?
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November 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Incredible write up on this past week's election results by @mudede.bsky.social
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
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We waited for a train at Symphony Station for 40 minutes, after going to a Town Hall event Wed. night.
@sound-transit.bsky.social seriously. Your new CEO is asleep on the wheel. Link is basically down. For an hour. No info. No alerts. Nothing. People at the top are fast asleep.
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
We waited for a train at Symphony Station for 40 minutes, after going to a Town Hall event Wed. night.
@sound-transit.bsky.social seriously. Your new CEO is asleep on the wheel. Link is basically down. For an hour. No info. No alerts. Nothing. People at the top are fast asleep.
November 13, 2025 at 4:05 AM
@sound-transit.bsky.social seriously. Your new CEO is asleep on the wheel. Link is basically down. For an hour. No info. No alerts. Nothing. People at the top are fast asleep.
@kingcountymetro.bsky.social The 7 appears to be popping into existence rather than coming down Rainier Ave.
November 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
@kingcountymetro.bsky.social The 7 appears to be popping into existence rather than coming down Rainier Ave.
My god. He really is who he plays.
“When you drive a nail successfully, you feel like an absolute superhero. It’s incredible.” This is Nick Offerman delivering an endearingly earnest sermon about a hammer.
Nick Offerman Told Me That Swinging a Hammer Might Change My Life
Nick Offerman knows his way around a workbench, and he knows that DIYing is about more than saving a little money. Hear what he has to say about the humble hammer.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
My god. He really is who he plays.
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In less than a month, I'll be chatting alt weeklies with @ericacbarnett.bsky.social and @mudede.bsky.social at Elliott Bay books! We all worked at the Stranger, and Erica spent time at the Austin Chronicle. Come!!
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October 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
In less than a month, I'll be chatting alt weeklies with @ericacbarnett.bsky.social and @mudede.bsky.social at Elliott Bay books! We all worked at the Stranger, and Erica spent time at the Austin Chronicle. Come!!
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More like: falsely claims, @npr.org In your own words: "Still, the Trump administration's claim that domestic terrorism largely comes from the left has flown in the face of data."
October 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
More like: falsely claims, @npr.org In your own words: "Still, the Trump administration's claim that domestic terrorism largely comes from the left has flown in the face of data."
I visit Brooklyn more than I visit Ballard.
October 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I visit Brooklyn more than I visit Ballard.
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This is backup in our polling data as well. 65% of the respondents between 30 and 44 plan to vote for Wilson, and 59% of respondents 18-29. But it's all about turnout. When we narrow the sample just to likely voters, this race gets tight. www.thestranger.com/stranger-pol...
October 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This is backup in our polling data as well. 65% of the respondents between 30 and 44 plan to vote for Wilson, and 59% of respondents 18-29. But it's all about turnout. When we narrow the sample just to likely voters, this race gets tight. www.thestranger.com/stranger-pol...
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Seattle! In anticipation of the paperback release of The Freaks Came Out To Write, please join me and @ericacbarnett.bsky.social and @mudede.bsky.social, two veterans of alt weeklies to talk about the Village Voice and the importance of alt weeklies in journalism at Elliott Bay bookstore on Nov. 22.
October 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Seattle! In anticipation of the paperback release of The Freaks Came Out To Write, please join me and @ericacbarnett.bsky.social and @mudede.bsky.social, two veterans of alt weeklies to talk about the Village Voice and the importance of alt weeklies in journalism at Elliott Bay bookstore on Nov. 22.
And so we see the real here. Soon there will be no American capitalist not tied to Trump's funny money. This is the afterlife of neoliberalism.
Column: Yes, the pictures of the destruction of the East Wing were shocking, but not so shocking as all the things we don’t know about this project, which is being paid for by some of the wealthiest people and corporations on the planet.
Column | Demolition is part of Trump’s master builder image
By Thursday, the White House’s East Wing was gone. The speed of destruction, and the projection of power, are part of the strongman playbook.
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October 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
And so we see the real here. Soon there will be no American capitalist not tied to Trump's funny money. This is the afterlife of neoliberalism.