Paul Chapman

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I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

The mayor needs to get serious about getting rid of the SEEC's Wayne Barnett, and the governor needs to dump PDC director Peter Frey Lavallee. Now is not the time to be indulging these clowns, be serious, democracy is in grave danger and they're playing these little games

My first thought was Did Wayne Barnett of the SEEC get a promotion or something?

This was a needless elitism on Obama’s part. In the range of American restaurant cuisine, The Cheesecake Factory is *actually good food*, and reliably so. That’s why it has broad working class and petite bourgeoisie appeal. Better: “He’s got the White House looking like Saddam opened a Trump Casino”

Seattle: voting against its own self-interest for more than 100 years

The Copenhagen M3 line was approved in 2007, and opened its 17 stations 12 years later in 2019. I voted for ST3 10 years ago, and we'll be lucky if Ballard opens in another 15 years.

A landmarks board member opposing this because it “maximizes housing” should be grounds for immediate removal. @mayor.seattle.gov should step in. These seats are all mayoral selections. Remove this guy

It’s also useful to describe from their Mission, Values, or Diversity what they aren’t living up to (disinfo being a big one, but lots to choose from) www.kuow.org/about-kuow

Late stage American Capitalism: a company called Warhound grifts a $1.2B valuation to genetically engineer cloned dogs-as-a-service for the U.S. military. Despite the U.S. military using only a couple thousand dogs and despite Warhound not having any dogs.

It’s long past time for him to be fired.

This is appalling. Please email schoolboard@seattleschools.org to register your objection to closing any schools. This school board was brought to you by The Strangers endorsement committee, as if we need another reason not to trust them.

A helpfully clear exchange here Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028." Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"

Really the addition of campaign finance info to the Leftist Cheat Sheet : electioncheatsheet.org

Who would've thought that the same person who pioneered illegal eco-block placement in the public right of way would also disregard and violate campaign finance laws?

Washington State’s millionaires tax will fund universal free school meals for every public school student in the state. Unless voters repeal the tax. Vote NO on I-645!

Condos for cars on the waterway faces no environmental review, but a biking and walking trail nearish the waterway faces decades of review. Make it make sense, Washington State!

If you financially support @kuow.org, stop and tell them that platforming hate as they have done with Paul Guppy and Chris Rufo is the reason why

Tree Action Seattle seems to be taking a break from being anti-new housing to actually do some good — they protested Sand Point Country Club and want to daylight Matthew’s Creek! They should focus on turning Broadmoor Country Club next or taxing them accurately to get funds to plant more trees.

We do not take donations. We haven’t for years. We do this shit for free.

It’s like some personalities just cannot fathom that some of us might enjoy making civic web tools on basically $0 / month just like all other advocacy we do, don’t want fame or cred, nor well funded political consultants to easily launch individualized personal attacks! Unbelievable!

Another reason we have too many governments. All of these bonkers historical protection boards, towns of 500, etc simply don’t have the brain power to manage recording meetings

$64,000 poorly spent. Any WA politician using Sandeep is not progressive

We never said we wouldn’t include certain endorsements in the future but we are settled for this election cycle. The way we were approached about this by Eileen and Erica was unprofessional & aggressive, assuming a suite of motives that just aren’t relevant for the project at this point.

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No new golf courses ANYWHERE. Plain and simple.

Tonight the Issaquah City Council took statewide parking reform a step further and fully eliminated parking mandates throughout Central Issaquah, the growth center around Sound Transit's planned light rail station.

U-Haul is the worst. Absolutely shitty company. We need an anti-monopoly action against this terrible company

This is a classic textbook example of “concern trolling” — this fauxgressive says she supports progressive candidates but when actual progressives compile a list of aligned candidates she just rattles a dozen of many “concerns”. Okay, Boomer

a norwegian on Threads posted this and i just don’t know how much more clearly we can emphasize how much Americans are being ripped off by our system which is built to concentrate wealth at the top

Guys the Overton window has shifted so far to the right in American politics that you can listen to a video of Reagan talking about immigration and he sounds like today’s run of the mill Democrat. Calling some Democrats conservatives is accurate, unfortunately.

"Firefighter Peter Friedel and his wife have checked out some 20 to 30 houses over the past six months in their quest to move into a coveted school district." We need to build more affordable housing, sure. But how about if we also made all school districts good?

The next port commissioners election I'm a single issue voter for removing the golf cart from the pedestrian path at seatac.

There’s definitely for sure absolutely too few cops in North an America. It’s the only reason why “response times” are so long 🙄🤣

democrats in Congress really need to start building the case to lock Elon up and be ready to hand it to the next attorney general on January 20th 2029

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

We're looking at a chart that has 2025 police dept budgets/crime rates/size of force/etc, and what first jumps out to me is that since 2025, we've increased the SPD budget by $90 million. It's grown from $465 million in 2025 to $556 million proposed in 2027.

Leaders across the Northwest can help protect public health and reduce air pollution by incentivizing electric appliances. @Sightline.org www.sightline.org/2026/10/15/t...

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

Seattle police lieutenant Matthew Didier, caught on camera telling his fellow officers “We’re here to fuck people up” before SPD threw protesters to the ground and arrested them at an anti-trans rally last year, has been disciplined—with a verbal reprimand.

On Monday, SPD sent 20 cops to arrest a man who died while driving himself to the ER. And Bob Kettle pretends like they don’t have cops to spare

ICE is still using WA driver data in their arrests & detentions, while Ferguson fails to act to plug the data flow (New York state shows it's possible). I also wrote about a Bellevue incident showing ICE/DHS is using this data channel to identify local ICE observers.

Astounding. Not only is Will Dreher @willdreher.bsky.social STILL funded mostly by out of state AI money (which he facetiously says he’ll regulate) but the dude is a multimillionaire in his 30s. He’s out of touch with Seattle. Vote for Pollet

Police Guild President Kent Loux blames the low homicide clearance rate this year on "short staffing." There are 15 homicide detectives and 33 homicides. In case you're really bad at math, that's two cases per detective.

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NEW: Ex CM Sara Nelson's new dark money group just threw $30k behind D5 candidate Julie Kang with the explicit promise of anonymity for donors to avoid public backlash. Now a progressive PAC has filed complaints and is determined to daylight the donors. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/new-dar...

VOTE NO ON I-645! My partner just got this very misleading text from the repeal folks. Tell everyone you know to VOTE NO on all of Heywood’s initiatives