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While this is a move in the right direction, I’ll remind you all that Bruce Harrell is a pretty terrible corporate democrat with a lousy track record as mayor these past four years. Vote Katie Wilson if you want an actual progressive.
Yep, lived under this guy for a bit, made some surprising decisions immediately after getting elected in, like allowing a christian festival with clear links to gay conversion play in my beloved, very queer neighborhood of cap hill.
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2025/05/30/80080084/invading-antifa-land
E: I want to add that infighting is bad for us progressives, but stuff like the linked article are so stupid that I outright don’t get it.
Fully agree. He’s doing a lot of easy wins right now to make it seem like he’s good, but they’re all because he’s in an election race. Remember how he did fuck all while third ave deteriorated and stores closed.
States’ rights and all, y’know. Like the right to ban federal gestapo kidnappings.
Seattle is a city of immigrants. I lived in West Seattle for 20 years and my neighbors were mostly not from there…
Refuges from West Africa (dad is a doctor and he had to leave because religious nuts were killing everyone he knew), First generation Vietnamese, white lesbians (they had a huge garden and shared with everyone), Koreans who were both born in Seoul, and an older white couple raising their grandson who had a black father. They had been in the neighborhood the longest. I am Lakota, my grandfather’s family relocated after WWII.
I fucking loved it.
All good people and I miss them all. I moved to be closer to family and it’s been a difficult transition to be on the Eastside of the state which is majority white (lots of Eastern European immigrants, so that’s nice)
I am from the East Coast but what I find surprising having moved out here to Puget Sound is how much Chinese immigrant labor in particular built the west and how much that has been whitewashed away to “cowboy white guys built it”.
Thankfully this is a region that hasn’t completely forgotten how much it owes to indigenous and immigrant peoples, it is a landscape of ports and I think that lends itself to a healthier society than large landlocked stretches where people are never exposed to anybody who isn’t like them…
Will people only understand when it is too late that diversity is what gives you strength and that pushing for homogenity in times of perceived crisis is at a certain point an indistinguishable process from cancer?
Except local police can still wear face masks.
Why would they bother? It’s not like they’re gonna show up for anything.
Typical BIG LIBRUL GOVMENT!
-People who SUPPORT Trump’s Executive Orders!
So Seattle is next for invasion…
