#Seattle

A comment on the collapse of oil prices. Most pushing for divestment from fossil fuels are motivated by the immorality of profiting from destructive activity. But when one looked just
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The Seattle Mariners started 2020 with a bottom-5 roster because of a lack of proven talent, pitching stability, and the fact it was going to be a developmental year for
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The City of Seattle is promising to spend $100 million on addressing systemic racial inequity. On the surface, it sounds like veiled reparations. But here's my guess what this is
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I'm a font of unpopular opinions today, so here's one that's been burning. I was queasy a decade ago when adult women started reading YA books, but I couldn't articulate
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This analysis of housing and suburban zoning issues by Alan Mallach deserves careful consideration. It summarizes a lot of critiques of YIMBYism in the progressive imagination. I think there is
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Important info from organizers of the #BlackLivesMatter march:1) The driver who struck the protesters didn’t act alone. Accomplices at large.2) Police had left 1 on-ramp open3) An officer had
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If we’re going to keep electoral organizing in our toolbox, let’s invest in socialist candidates who are non-white and whose experiences/work are grounded in the communities they hope to serve
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Last week, I announced that every Thursday I would be featuring a small business, or people who are helping themI decided that just a “highlight” wasn’t enough… I now wanted
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We’ve started the most awesome lockdown odyssey. Watching every single #TomHanks movie, because if Tom Hanks isn’t in a movie, is it worth watching. We are excluding anything that relates
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I really want this to be true -- I had that vicious bronchitis in January -- but I really doubt it.I also don't want it to be true, because I
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This video went viral. Everyone loves it. Except me. I hate this video. It's bad, & not for what it says but for what it doesn't say. And I think
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Things are moving fast and a lot is happening, so you may have missed this in my reports on homelessness and COVID: While LA is snapping up 15,000 hotel rooms
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Yes, the nation doesn't pay attention to facts & easily duped by hysterics. No state is performing as bad on the Covid-19 metric as New York. And no city as
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"I live in Seattle, so I make jokes about police brutality to help cope with being surrounded by police brutality."I get it. Times are tough. Normally, I'm not one to
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In early February, the CDC picked 6 U.S. cities to find the coronavirus before it spread. They were “sentinel” cities. But it took a month or more to getting going,
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I’m replaying Last of Us Part II and wanted to be able to list some things I noticed as I go, so let’s go on a spoiler filled adventure! (Thread)
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