Julia Paleski
@jul-pal.bsky.social
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looking at you, folks who scoff at wearing masks in, at the very least, indoor public spaces even as we watch the wanton destruction of our public health system & collapse of healthcare infrastructure.
Reject any motherfucker who tells you we need to abandon a vulnerable population or person. They’re either a fascist or a fascist-in-waiting.
December 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
looking at you, folks who scoff at wearing masks in, at the very least, indoor public spaces even as we watch the wanton destruction of our public health system & collapse of healthcare infrastructure.
Props to the protestors in the room that made it so each of these “yes” votes had to be given loudly over the chants of “jail killer cops” and “knees off our necks.” These CMs know what they’re voting yes for and have no regrets.
Final vote on SPOG contract:
Yes: Kettle, Rivera, Strauss, Hollingsworth, Juarez, Nelson
No: Lin, Rinck, Saka
The SPOG contract passes on a 6-3 vote.
Yes: Kettle, Rivera, Strauss, Hollingsworth, Juarez, Nelson
No: Lin, Rinck, Saka
The SPOG contract passes on a 6-3 vote.
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Props to the protestors in the room that made it so each of these “yes” votes had to be given loudly over the chants of “jail killer cops” and “knees off our necks.” These CMs know what they’re voting yes for and have no regrets.
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Every major US city is run by the cops. The fact that the public is fine with this is the only issue.
November 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Every major US city is run by the cops. The fact that the public is fine with this is the only issue.
The concept of having a mayor that relies primarily on public transit, is a renter, and is focused on making the city more affordable 🥲 I can’t wait!
Waiting for the L8 at 5th and Denny… Can’t wait to break out the red paint!
November 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
The concept of having a mayor that relies primarily on public transit, is a renter, and is focused on making the city more affordable 🥲 I can’t wait!
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This #BannedBooksWeek it is more important than ever to celebrate the freedom to read and step into roles that continue to fight for one of the last free spaces, libraries. We created a Friends of the Library zine so you can learn how! www.librariesforthepeople.org/resources#fo...
Resources — For The People
www.librariesforthepeople.org
October 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This #BannedBooksWeek it is more important than ever to celebrate the freedom to read and step into roles that continue to fight for one of the last free spaces, libraries. We created a Friends of the Library zine so you can learn how! www.librariesforthepeople.org/resources#fo...
Can’t stop thinking about this. The CMs that voted in favor clearly came into this meeting with their minds made up, zoned out for 2.5hrs of public opposition, called the public commenters privileged for giving comment (??) and then voted yes.
Seattle City Council voted to expand police surveillance in Seattle, despite two and a half hours of public comment opposing it.
CMs Rinck and Strauss voted against the two ordinances.
Solomon, Hollingsworth, Kettle, Nelson, Rivera, Saka and Juarez vote for them.
Story TK.
CMs Rinck and Strauss voted against the two ordinances.
Solomon, Hollingsworth, Kettle, Nelson, Rivera, Saka and Juarez vote for them.
Story TK.
September 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Can’t stop thinking about this. The CMs that voted in favor clearly came into this meeting with their minds made up, zoned out for 2.5hrs of public opposition, called the public commenters privileged for giving comment (??) and then voted yes.
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I love riding the bus so much.
September 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I love riding the bus so much.
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Great reporting by @divestspd.bsky.social, more info on how much police departments share surveillance data, including with the Feds, and how cops make up reasons to justify searching surveillance data for specific vehicles & people
www.divestspd.com/p/feds-wa-po...
www.divestspd.com/p/feds-wa-po...
Feds, WA police share surveillance data on an obscure SPD email list
As civil liberties groups warn that surveillance info can wind up in the wrong hands, the Seattle Police Department is already hosting a space for sharing data with little oversight.
www.divestspd.com
September 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Great reporting by @divestspd.bsky.social, more info on how much police departments share surveillance data, including with the Feds, and how cops make up reasons to justify searching surveillance data for specific vehicles & people
www.divestspd.com/p/feds-wa-po...
www.divestspd.com/p/feds-wa-po...
I’ve gotten this line of questioning as pushback to continued masking before and it always confuses me. We all learned an effective way to prevent respiratory illness from spreading - just because we weren’t doing it before, why wouldn’t we take those precautions now?
“DID YOU MASK BEFORE COVID” no bitch I was a dumbass before like don’t you people ever learn anything new and do things differently wtf.
August 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I’ve gotten this line of questioning as pushback to continued masking before and it always confuses me. We all learned an effective way to prevent respiratory illness from spreading - just because we weren’t doing it before, why wouldn’t we take those precautions now?
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It’s bananas to me that no one is talking about the CDC shooting. Relatedly, the Minnesota shooter was motivated by anti-vax/anti-covid violence. At least 1x/week I’m harassed for wearing a mask in NYC, and it doesn’t feel great!! The #1 thing you can do is wear a mask so there are more of us.
Two things had a huge influence on the CDC shooting:
1️⃣ The head of HHS spreading antivax rhetoric
2️⃣ Social media companies failing to address rampant antivax misinformation on their platforms
1️⃣ The head of HHS spreading antivax rhetoric
2️⃣ Social media companies failing to address rampant antivax misinformation on their platforms
August 16, 2025 at 3:41 AM
It’s bananas to me that no one is talking about the CDC shooting. Relatedly, the Minnesota shooter was motivated by anti-vax/anti-covid violence. At least 1x/week I’m harassed for wearing a mask in NYC, and it doesn’t feel great!! The #1 thing you can do is wear a mask so there are more of us.
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Wearing a mask is one of the easiest ways to ensure you are in solidarity with those most impacted by our authoritarian present. Taking action to prevent the spread of a deadly&disabling neuroinvasive vascular virus—among other airborne pathogens—as our institutions crumble is an antifascist choice.
August 2, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Wearing a mask is one of the easiest ways to ensure you are in solidarity with those most impacted by our authoritarian present. Taking action to prevent the spread of a deadly&disabling neuroinvasive vascular virus—among other airborne pathogens—as our institutions crumble is an antifascist choice.
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Not masking & cleaning indoor air sufficiently is our generations’ smoking habit. We will look back on it with shame & awe. I’m talking to you, Gen X & Millenials. Use some of that famous “nonconformity” and “undoing generational harms” productively on this v real, mundane, serious problem. Please.
July 13, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Not masking & cleaning indoor air sufficiently is our generations’ smoking habit. We will look back on it with shame & awe. I’m talking to you, Gen X & Millenials. Use some of that famous “nonconformity” and “undoing generational harms” productively on this v real, mundane, serious problem. Please.
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LOOK AT NYC IF THEY CAN DO IT WE ALL CAN
Primary every Democrat who is not meeting this moment. Get rid of them all.
June 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
LOOK AT NYC IF THEY CAN DO IT WE ALL CAN
@fixthel8.bsky.social there’s just no westbound 8s today?
May 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
@fixthel8.bsky.social there’s just no westbound 8s today?
Freedom is reliable public transit and not fearing for your safety as a pedestrian!
Yesterday the Pierce County Council approved a Vision Zero action plan by a 4-3 vote.
Ahead of the vote, County Sheriff Keith Swank railed against Vision Zero programs as having an "embedded" agenda focused on "forcing" people onto transit and "restricting their agency and freedom of movement."
Ahead of the vote, County Sheriff Keith Swank railed against Vision Zero programs as having an "embedded" agenda focused on "forcing" people onto transit and "restricting their agency and freedom of movement."
April 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Freedom is reliable public transit and not fearing for your safety as a pedestrian!
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And on the nearly one year anniversary of Google firing 50 employees for protesting their contract with the Israeli military (Project Nimbus), these companies are evil and these workers are courageous
Microsoft has fired two employees who interrupted the company's 50th anniversary celebration to protest its work supplying artificial intelligence technology to the Israeli military.
Microsoft workers say they've been fired after 50th anniversary protest over Israel contract
Microsoft has fired two employees who interrupted the company’s 50th anniversary celebration to protest its work supplying artificial intelligence technology to the Israeli military.
bit.ly
April 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
And on the nearly one year anniversary of Google firing 50 employees for protesting their contract with the Israeli military (Project Nimbus), these companies are evil and these workers are courageous
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For years, folks looked the other way as millions died or became disabled by Covid. They shouted “your health is not my responsibility” or “only the vulnerable” were at risk.
This callous disregard for human life has desensitized us. It helped pave the way for the current atrocities.
This callous disregard for human life has desensitized us. It helped pave the way for the current atrocities.
March 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM
For years, folks looked the other way as millions died or became disabled by Covid. They shouted “your health is not my responsibility” or “only the vulnerable” were at risk.
This callous disregard for human life has desensitized us. It helped pave the way for the current atrocities.
This callous disregard for human life has desensitized us. It helped pave the way for the current atrocities.
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not everything you love in your teenage years holds up but Green Day was cooking with American Idiot
February 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
not everything you love in your teenage years holds up but Green Day was cooking with American Idiot
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The heroes we need.
January 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The heroes we need.
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What is your plan tho?
Trump’s funding freeze is a direct attack on the American people.
Homeless veterans will suffer. Preschools will close. Kids will go to bed hungry.
He’s betraying poor and working families. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
Homeless veterans will suffer. Preschools will close. Kids will go to bed hungry.
He’s betraying poor and working families. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
Trump administration orders federal funding freeze on all public loans, grants and more aid
The freeze could have wide-ranging implications, with the White House noting that $3 trillion was spent in 2024 on federal assistance programs.
www.cbsnews.com
January 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
What is your plan tho?
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Now would be an excellent time to start wearing a respirator.
Do it as a show of solidarity with those who’ve spent five years being told they’re expendable
Do it for yourself. You don’t want to become disabled in the MAHA era
Your health is a gift. You have agency and resilience. Don’t waste it
Do it as a show of solidarity with those who’ve spent five years being told they’re expendable
Do it for yourself. You don’t want to become disabled in the MAHA era
Your health is a gift. You have agency and resilience. Don’t waste it
January 21, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Now would be an excellent time to start wearing a respirator.
Do it as a show of solidarity with those who’ve spent five years being told they’re expendable
Do it for yourself. You don’t want to become disabled in the MAHA era
Your health is a gift. You have agency and resilience. Don’t waste it
Do it as a show of solidarity with those who’ve spent five years being told they’re expendable
Do it for yourself. You don’t want to become disabled in the MAHA era
Your health is a gift. You have agency and resilience. Don’t waste it
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Palestine will be free 🇵🇸
January 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Palestine will be free 🇵🇸
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i wrote about bad bunny and studio album as musicology exercise and political rally point www.vulture.com/article/deb-...
Bad Bunny Phoned Home
His new album, a spirited homage to Puerto Rico, smokes its predecessor.
www.vulture.com
January 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
i wrote about bad bunny and studio album as musicology exercise and political rally point www.vulture.com/article/deb-...