A huge loss for Seattle. Politics is about not letting perfect be the enemy of the good. @Spottnik is a dedicated public servant and Seattle is a better city because of his leadership
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Music is the remedy. @LaceCadence blew my mind today with the Jazz Cruise Series Vol. 1 by Kelvin Momo, Stixx. I am so grateful for KEXP
Having worked on paid canvass teams, this is so inhumane. Of course Musk is behind this disgusting set-up
SCOOP: America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump.
WILD story from @JakeLahut: wired.com/story/elon-musk-am…
Another day in America. This is appalling and could happen to any woman
.@propublica found Texas women who died while having miscarriages because doctors wouldn't treat them until their fetus had no detectable heartbeat.
Treating them would be a "crime," they feared.
@Cassandrajar & @Ksurana6 have the horrifying story:
propublica.org/article/josse…
This council grifts more than SPD. Shame on you @CMRobSaka
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“SOAP comes in a long line of policies and practices of the State criminalizing sex work in our community. From the Page Act of 1875 to the massage parlor raids in recent years, moral claims about sex work have been used to harm our community, specifically immigrant women.”
"We write today to state our fierce opposition to SOAP and SODA and refuse to let @SeattleCouncil use the CID as a scapegoat to attempt to justify the further criminalization of Black, Brown, and poor people," writes the CID Coalition in an open letter. iexaminer.org/an-open-letter…
The alternate route for bikers led me to a highway in disguise with cars easily going 10-15 mph over the posted speed limit (40mph) with no protection…I was forced to turn around
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An important piece about violence against women in Kenya, much of which applies in Uganda as well. Rebecca Cheptegei isn't even the first elite female runner to be murdered by a male partner.
bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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Independent of the model itself, it's clear as day the electoral college is, to quote the great justice Jackson a national suicide pact. Just a wildly dangerous institution that undermines democracy but also creates all manner of rube-goldberg machinery to be attacked by bad actors.
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Sparta Prague returned to the Champions League for the first time in 19 years and this was their social media post... 😂
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A really wild thing is happening in Utah right now. Our state Constitution allows citizens, with incredible effort, to occasionally put a Measure on the ballot to vote in a law. In recent years, the majority of voters in our state have voted to legalize medical marijuana use,
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Minnesota Republicans haven't won a statewide office in nearly two decades and they've settled on "this place sucks, actually" as their pitch for 2024 minnesotareformer.com/2024/0…
