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Gaviidae
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@IndConservat_ve @camhigby but he said steal it. idk if thats gonna hold up in court.
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🚨 Trans activist at Seattle City Hall just attacked me and stole my hat after I was repeatedly pushed, grabbed, and blocked.
“Take it! Take it! Steal it!”
Militants repeatedly told me I wasn’t safe at City Hall. Katie Wilson refuses to reign in trans violence in her city.
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@PramilaJayapal Imagine having a congresswoman that actually worked on these things instead of just complaining about it.
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Imagine your child, parent, or loved one getting a life altering diagnosis, and the first thing they have to think about is money. Not if it could save their life - just if they can afford it. That is what we accept as normal in this country. Medicare for All would end that. Every single person covered. No exceptions. 💜
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@BrandiKruse @choeshow Now follow Elon and Con Jr around when they’re using
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@tesla_hillbilly @PrimePremise @thehoffather Ari quoted him exactly. Ari isn't saying Pratt will send them here. Only that the mayor will welcome them here.
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@PrimePremise @thehoffather Ari is full of shit. He never said he’d send them to Seattle. They would end up there due to the city welcoming them.
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NEW: Spencer Pratt says he is going to send LA's homeless to Seattle.
"They're not homeless, they're drug addicts... These people have been bused in by scam rehabs, scam NGOs, scam homeless nonprofits."
"They're all going to Seattle, where the mayor will welcome them."
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@DivestSPD There are other reasons people live on the streets while the government pays for their (unused) home. It’s a legit issue in Seattle and KCRHA opposes landlords calling these unlived in units abandoned. Another example is the lady from the Ballard encampment Wilson put in tnyhome
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These clowns treat a hoarder (rare type of OCD), who can’t stay inside because her apartment is full of stuff, like she’s typical of homeless people.
Choe feigns concern while trying to get her to say she’s on “fetty” (she doesn’t). Sick, depraved people.
Brandi Kruse@BrandiKruse
Anyone who tells you homelessness is a housing crisis is just a flat-out liar. Here is a woman living on the streets of Seattle despite having a TAXPAYER FUNDED APARTMENT just blocks away.
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@SukritGanesh @buildhomez Market rate units will be emptying quickly once the amenities are removed because of the SSHD’s unfortunate choice of the first residents. I don’t see their coffee machine sticking around. And their “rooftop” area is going to have to change. Why pay market rent and live there?
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@buildhomez This is good though - it doesn't cost the city any money (revenue neutral due to the market-rate units), it's far cheaper and quicker than building BMR from scratch, and it's mixed-income rather than 100% BMR.
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Congratulations to the current tenants of this building! They get frozen rent and get to run an organization that gets 50M per year.
Not the mayor, the city council, but the tenants of this building control everyone’s money!
Guy Oron@GuyOron
BREAKING: The Seattle Social Housing Developer has announced its first acquisition, a 150-unit apartment building near Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle, for the cost of $60.9 million. It plans to convert half the units to be affordable for low and middle-income tenants.
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@DivestSPD @Gramsterwheel We’ve tried your “solution” for 21 years in Seattle. Why are you so opposed to new ones? I don’t agree with jail but the Seattle left opposes discussion about actual solutions to our homelessness so don’t know what we are left with
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@Gramsterwheel How many open jail beds do you think are in this state? How many in King County even?
None of you will ever admit that your “solution” is unworkable as it would require the state to spend every dollar earmarked for hospitals, roads, basic services, etc.
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It costs $70,000 a year to “house” someone in jail. That’s just below the median income in Seattle—and there are drugs in jail.
If you proposed giving someone $200 a day these people would flip. But spend that much to punish them: totally fine.
Chris Gorman@XStillCensors
@DivestSPD No drugs, free food, free healthcare, a place to sleep. Sounds like housing to me.
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@DivestSPD We want them in homes. We don’t want them to behave in disruptive ways when they are in homes. Local governments right now allow them to harass neighbors without much consequence.
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@itsC4RL @GaryWilliamsIT @GunloverClub1 If they don’t want to get killed by a drone they can go home to their own country
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@GaryWilliamsIT @GunloverClub1 I was wrong Gary, with hindsight I agree the use of drones isn't a war crime. Just a reality of war, just feels off seeing it in 1st person, but then it's going too isn't it.
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Imagine a soldier who trained his whole life, mastered hand-to-hand combat, and ran 5 miles a day, only to get killed by a geek sipping a Sprite Zero in an air conditioned room. Modern warfare is wild.
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@benmaritz @buildhomez Weyerhaeuser had that issue in Aberdeen. None of the managers wanted to live there. So there was no one in leadership fighting to keep the mills open. People in Aberdeen bragged about how white collar people didn’t want to live there. Then they lost jobs.
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@buildhomez The bosses generally don’t want to live in Nashville. So everyone has to live in Seattle. Until they don’t.
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One thing I don’t get, is why don’t normal large companies in HCOL cities just always move to LCOL cities entirely? Why have a Seattle based accountant instead of a Nashville based one?
Regardless of tax policy
The Seattle Times@seattletimes
Starbucks’ latest round of layoffs is affecting 252 employees at the company’s Seattle headquarters. #Echobox=1779133273-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">seattletimes.com/business/starb…
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@hannahkrieg @gregorykennedy If you want to look at it solely on elections it dipped after Sawant won recall. It went up when the left got booted in 2023. It then plummeted when the far left won the council and mayor elections.
That's simplistic but if you're just wanting to look at who is in office.
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@gregorykennedy the graph shows the dip starting in 2022, not in response to Mayor Wilson supporting anti-AI policies a few weeks ago
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1. What did Katie materially do to make tax base flee
2. Is tax base fleeing? How much?
3. How is that connected to these crimes?
4. Are these crimes actually going up since whatever inciting Wilson incident?
Seattle Police Officers Guild@SPOG1952
“...the rape, the assault, the murder. This is Katie’s Seattle, and it’s only going to get worse. As the tax base flees Seattle, public safety resources will dry up, and then people will be really unsafe.” Kent Loux - President, Seattle Police Officers Guild @MayorofSeattle @jasonrantz seattlered.com/crime/seattle-… . .
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@hannahkrieg @gregorykennedy Startups form where people are optimistic about the future. Wilson has said multiple anti-business and startup things. She has said it would be good if there were less tech people in Seattle. Vibes matter when you're taking a risk in building a future in a city.
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@benmaritz @loganb What is saddest is they have actually done a lot. I’ve seen the city spend a lot of time and resources in Little Saigon. But they aren’t willing to do what’s needed so it’s just wasted money for the most part.
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One of the problems with progressive-socialism being mostly the politics of wealthy white people, is that they smuggle in the interests of the affluent under the guise of equity, and place all the homeless shelters far away from themselves.
Local “right wing” media noticed, lmao
Charlie Harger, KIRO Newsradio@KIROCharlie
This morning's commentary is about how the city and its elected leaders keep placing these shelters and villages in the poorest neighborhoods. They don't have the means to fight back. Can you imagine the uproar if this happened in Magnolia? Story👇
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@CowboyThree @DarrenDMullen You outright lie and then claim THEY have shady practices? Look in the mirror maybe first.
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@DarrenDMullen One thing I do teach them is to Google Darren. Yes, their profits were around 2B but they have been known for many years to employ shady tax practices to avoid paying taxes…
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Starbucks profited 38B in 2025 and paid 600M in taxes so cry me a fucking river Howie and fuck all the way off 😒
Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion
Seattle turns hostile to the great businesses it made. Starbucks is moving jobs from Washington state to Tennessee, and it isn’t alone in looking elsewhere, writes @HowardSchultz on.wsj.com/4uCiVCD
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@CowboyThree They didn't profit $38 billion that was their revenue. Their profit was only $2.5 billion. Why are you making things up?
investor.starbucks.com/news/financial…
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Looks like Reddit mods took down that video from the link I posted earlier today about the murder at the UW student. Here is that video.
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@smg1664 @hannahkrieg @superfunket She did that over a month before she became mayor. After she was elected but before she became mayor. Horribly out of touch speech but it wasn't her first day of office.
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On her first day in office she called for a boycott of Starbucks! That'd be enough for ALL the other large businesses to start location shopping in other states, but to the Starbucks CEO she is telling him she's his opponent. Her increasing taxes affects Starbucks' bottom line which will need to be explained to the board and shareholders etc. Christ, she has staff jump in if she's asked a question that isn't pre planned making you wonder who is in charge. I just wonder who was stupid enough to vote for her in the first place
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Howard Shultz blaming his departure on Katie Wilson when she has not passed a single tax or anti-business policy should trigger a wellness check
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@hannahkrieg @CFThomas2 Too many people in Seattle are surprised that experience does matter. Turns out you learn stuff when you have experience doing it.
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@CFThomas2 I think this is another case of Mamdani's strength in communication. He made this high gloss video celebrating his legal obligation and with an audience that probably has never followed city budget for the most part, that sounds historic (the tax stuff is probs impressive tho)
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Stupid question about everyone praising Mamdani budget: does New York need to have a balanced budget like we do? This seems like normal budgeting stuff to me lol
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