@bluecitypodcast @realseattlenice Formerly, politics reporter NPR affiliate @KUOW
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Joined February 2009
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The newish Blue City Blues podcast I'm working on with @skaushik100 features smart guests talking about the problems facing urban America and how to fix them. Recent guests include @fakedansavage @RepMGP @pescami @celindalake @MattMahanSJ @petersgoodman and other luminaries.
Check out this audio doc about homelessness. It's full of fascinating archival audio. Deeply reported, conversational, sound-rich. I'm about two-thirds of the way through the series, and it's one of the best things I've listened to in a long time about one of the biggest problems facing blue cities.
Hey look, Episode 2 of my miniseries, Street Fight, is out now!
You can listen wherever you get your podcasts (I have always wanted to say this)!
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I co-moderated 'millionaires tax' debate last night with Joyce Taylor @KING5Seattle. Barbs were traded! youtu.be/hcC7kAlMN5Y?si=BjW8…
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It's the Seattle podcastpalooza event of the season!
You should join us on 𝐓𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 29𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐭 6 𝐩𝐦 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐮𝐦 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐮𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐰𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 to unpack the good, the bad and the ugly of how the rise of the tech economy has transformed San Francisco and Seattle in recent decades, and upended the two cities' political and power dynamics. A gusher of prosperity, yes, but at what cost? And how have the two cities differed in handling all the tech-driven change?
Joining us on an all-star panel are:
𝐕𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐅 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐫, who has been covering the tech industry since he became the LA Times' first Silicon Valley reporter in 1990, and is now the author of a fantastic new book, 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘥𝘨𝘦: 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺, 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘢𝘯 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰;
𝐔𝐖 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐎'𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐚, author of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘥𝘦: 𝘚𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘯 𝘝𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢, who has written extensively about how technology has reshaped culture and society in cosmopolitan America for the New York Times' opinion pages;
And 𝐆𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐖𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨-𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐨𝐤, who near as I can tell knows everything there is to know about Seattle's tech world.
@hyded and I will moderate. It's going to be a fun, fascinating conversation. Tickets are available at the Nordic Museum website, or follow the link in the next tweet.
Apparently DOGE wasn’t tracking ketamine misuse
Does paying $40k to overdose sea lions on ketamine seem crazy to you? That's because it is. And I've got a bill to fix it. It lets tribes exercise their ancestral rights and protect our salmon.
I love the phrase "quixotic wrath" to describe Ron Davis tilting at The Stranger over an endorsement he didn't get. But is the quest to slay the Stranger delusional? Look forward to the answer next week.
We don't hear enough about the powerful @washrealtors and their awful political views and efforts. Credit to the always-excellent @Jim_Brunner for landing a quote for this story.
"Christina Janis, state director for the Washington Realtors Association, said in a statement she's already seeing bad impacts of the tax firsthand ..."
A statement that dodges taking a position on repealing one of the only checks on our regressive tax system is easy. How about an actual interview instead @washrealtors
Gov. Bob Ferguson vows to fight an initiative that would kill the state's "millionaires tax." seattletimes.com/seattle-new…
How optimistic should we be about the reemergence of sewer socialism in blue cities like Seattle and New York?
Zohran Mamdani promised to replace "the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism."
He—and other DSA politicians—aren't offering Soviet-style socialism: not seizing the means of production, but socializing the cost of consumption.
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The meltdown over this year’s Stranger endorsements of the ‘wrong’ progressive candidates reminds me a bit of the time Cliff Mass led a fire-breathing protest against KUOW. Lots of angry rhetoric that will almost certainly amount to nothing, even though The Stranger’s picks (Dreher over Davis, Pedersen over Sabio-Howell) surprised some progressive insiders. Most Stranger readers will never hear about the outrage.
What the NPI article doesn’t explain, though, is exactly why Ron Davis was passed over for the endorsement when he’s so clearly aligned with their politics. Someone please answer that question.
Fun conversation sparked by Sherman's poem, Ode to Tonya Harding
Sherman Alexie joined us on the latest Blue City Blues. We talked Tonya Harding, the white working class, and threw in some politics because we couldn’t help ourselves. @skaushik100 @hyded
Thanks @skaushik100 it’s one of my favorite podcasts: deep dives into history and total esoterica, that somehow feels like you’re eating a big bowl of ice cream. Hoping to hear you on @omnibusproject soon!
This is a very fun listen: my podcasting partner in crime @hyded joined host John Roderick on John's excellent @omnibusproject pod (which John created with Jeopardy host @KenJennings) to tell the improbable story of the Astor Place Riot in NYC in 1849.
It's an amazing tale of class and cultural conflict as hard-bitten Gangs of New York Bowery Boys engaged in violent rioting (at least 22 people died) over... Shakespearean theater and acting styles. Really! It's a very strange-but-true, undeservedly obscure slice of American history, entertainingly told.
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Worth reading on why you can't trust Maine polls. But here's the thing bugging me: now if Platner loses, do we learn anything about populist left candidates? Was it the sexts? The tattoo? Some weird Maine thing?
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The latest BCB episode (link to follow) primarily consists of three aging Gen Xers yelling, “get off my lawn!”
But in between our “kids today don’t know how rough we had it!” nostalgia trip with John Roderick, front man for legendary Seattle indie rock band The Long Winters and now host of the excellent (and omnivorous) @omnibusproject podcast (which John founded with Ken Jennings), we discuss what makes a city authentically cool.
And we dissect how the cultural and economic conditions in America 30 plus years ago that made blue cities like Seattle, Portland and New York cool have shifted, and why Gen Z, rebelling against the simultaneously censorious and affirming culture of the Millennials, may be about to invent their own version of urban cool.
