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jaz @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social · 6h

Someone phonebanked me at the exact time I was expecting a call from a friend whose number I didn’t have yet and I picked up so now I guess I’m going door knocking. Bamboozled

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PubliCola @publicola.bsky.social · 1d

SPD Chief Puts Cop Who Called 2020 Protesters "Cockroaches" In Charge of East Precinct
Mike Tietjen, who was promoted over a gay acting commander, the subject of multiple complaints in 2020, including an incident in which officers taunted a trans woman.
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SPD Chief Puts Cop Who Called 2020 Protesters "Cockroaches" In Charge of East Precinct - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett The Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct, located at 12th Ave. and East Pine St. in the…

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jaz @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t believe we’ve been blessed with the best reporting by the best reporter in the state for a decade!!!

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 1d

Ten years ago today I published my first story at @theurbanist.org. 886 stories later, here we are. What a wild ride.

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jaz @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social · 2d

A perfect Monday

Baseball, brewers, brews and books with the babe in Bremerton

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jaz @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social · 2d

A perfect Monday

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.

By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.

Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them.

Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.

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jaz @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social · 3d

Why are these so much

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jaz @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social · 3d

Aren’t yall glad I went

jaz @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social · 4d

FINE GUYS, I’m gonna go

jaz @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like I might need to get a ticket for tomorrow

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jaz @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social · 3d

Had a great time, definitely worth it!!!

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jaz @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social · 3d

Taking credit for that

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Dylan Jenkins @thedeejenks.bsky.social · 3d

Surely that's not the same Rick Reilly. Surely.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

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jaz @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social · 3d

I mean, I guess the ballpark is in District for TMo

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jaz @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social · 4d

FINE GUYS, I’m gonna go

jaz @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like I might need to get a ticket for tomorrow

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jaz @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social · 4d

It also dropped $50 since like the 8th inning lmao

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jaz @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social · 4d

Gametime lmao

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jaz @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social · 4d

Convince me that this would be a worthwhile investment of $200

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jaz @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like I might need to get a ticket for tomorrow

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 6d

Proud of us.

Sunset on 12th and Madison where the bus lane was just saved

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jaz @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social · 6d

The People’s Councilmember

Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 6d

I saw @councilmember-amr.bsky.social out on the street getting some facts this morning. Thank you Councilmember!

Councilmember taking to SDOT crew member in truck

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Sanders Lauture @golf1052.com · 7d

Good news, the Elliot Bay bike trail has reopened early at Terminal 91!

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Noah, some kind of engineer 🚎💻 @noahsbwilliams.com · 7d

When Councilmember AMR heard about this issue from her constituents, she left her office, went to the site, and produced this video with less than a one-day turnaround.

She recently won her primary by nearly 80%.

Electeds, take notes! 😎

Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck @councilmember-amr.bsky.social · 7d

I was just as shocked with the news about the route 2 bus only lane as you. We are working on it. We need to prioritize pedestrian safety and not go backwards on our transit investments.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 8d

Why has a crypto engineer and failed city council candidate spent more than $130,000 of his own money to elect anti-housing candidates in Woodinville?

@typewriteralley.bsky.social investigates for @theurbanist.org.

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Cash Wave Seeks to Tilt Woodinville Elections Against Housing Growth » The Urbanist

# Nearly $200,000 in outside spending from a political action committee started by one Woodinville tech worker has upended local politics in the quiet suburb. The goal? Taking down a pro-growth counci...

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jaz @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah it’s been open since Labor Day

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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 12d

Oh my god, upzone Queen Anne already.

James everything is analog @analogist.net · 12d

Red = faster to downtown by car
Yellow = about equal
Green = faster to downtown by public transit

Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 12d

improved seattle map

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