Jonathan Choe
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Jonathan Choe
@choeshow
Discovery Institute Senior Journalism Fellow. NEWS TIP: [email protected], *Vids branded "DI" represent Discovery Institute. Other views expressed are my own.

Look at all the American flags and pride in our country in Seattle, Washington of all places today! 🇺🇸 The American hating radical leftists who live in that city are gonna have to go through months of therapy after the World Cup ends! 😂

This week @MayorofSeattle announced she would no longer tolerate open drug markets and stolen goods in the Chinese International District and North Beacon Hill. Tonight I saw the immediate impact firsthand. I met the dedicated lead officers working the 90-day emphasis and two sergeants who invited me on future ride-alongs to support outreach and treatment efforts. 👏🏼👏🏼 After a tough week, witnessing arrests of people passed out on drugs gave me real hope that lives will be saved and our parks will be restored. Great job @SeattlePD @SPOG1952 But will the criminal justice system work the way it’s intended?

HAPPENING NOW: Less than 24 hours before the first FIFA World Cup match is played in Seattle. But parts of the city look like a zombie apocalypse. Mayor Katie Wilson is accused of pushing homeless drug addicts outside of the downtown tourist corridor so fans do not get upset or inhale second hand fetty smoke. Problem is, the addicts have all been pushed to vulnerable minority communities like Chinatown-ID. And business owners are pissed. @MayorofSeattle|@weheartseattle

I had a raw moment in this video, and I’m owning it. Watching open-air drug markets operate freely in our neighborhoods while the city just sweeps people from one block to the next—putting everyone at risk, including families and children—frustrates me deeply. I apologize for the strong language; emotions run high when our communities are on the line. What pushed me over the edge? Learning that 11 babies have already died from fentanyl overdoses in Washington state this year alone. Yet there’s little appetite in Olympia to treat fentanyl possession as the eminent danger it clearly is—to users, to bystanders, and especially to innocent children. Some seem content to let babies be in proximity to this poison. The brave dads marching on Aurora against the pimp wars have fired me up. We can’t stay silent anymore. A woman confronted me for filming during a sweep (that, predictably, accomplished nothing). I pushed back: she had no right to smoke drugs on our public sidewalk, and families with infants have no business being pushed through an open-air drug market—oblivious to the danger all around them. This isn’t compassion. This is chaos. As a society, we must speak out louder against drugs taking over our parks, sidewalks, and public spaces. Treatment and accountability aren’t optional—they’re how we protect our kids and restore our neighborhoods. We Heart Seattle will keep showing up, documenting, cleaning, and demanding better. What will it take for real change? Let’s talk solutions.

HAPPENING NOW: Less than 24 hours before the first FIFA World Cup match is played in Seattle. But parts of the city look like a zombie apocalypse. Mayor Katie Wilson is accused of pushing homeless drug addicts outside of the downtown tourist corridor so fans do not get upset or inhale second hand fetty smoke. Problem is, the addicts have all been pushed to vulnerable minority communities like Chinatown-ID. And business owners are pissed. @MayorofSeattle|@weheartseattle

I had a raw moment in this video, and I’m owning it. Watching open-air drug markets operate freely in our neighborhoods while the city just sweeps people from one block to the next—putting everyone at risk, including families and children—frustrates me deeply. I apologize for the strong language; emotions run high when our communities are on the line. What pushed me over the edge? Learning that 11 babies have already died from fentanyl overdoses in Washington state this year alone. Yet there’s little appetite in Olympia to treat fentanyl possession as the eminent danger it clearly is—to users, to bystanders, and especially to innocent children. Some seem content to let babies be in proximity to this poison. The brave dads marching on Aurora against the pimp wars have fired me up. We can’t stay silent anymore. A woman confronted me for filming during a sweep (that, predictably, accomplished nothing). I pushed back: she had no right to smoke drugs on our public sidewalk, and families with infants have no business being pushed through an open-air drug market—oblivious to the danger all around them. This isn’t compassion. This is chaos. As a society, we must speak out louder against drugs taking over our parks, sidewalks, and public spaces. Treatment and accountability aren’t optional—they’re how we protect our kids and restore our neighborhoods. We Heart Seattle will keep showing up, documenting, cleaning, and demanding better. What will it take for real change? Let’s talk solutions.


Minor league baseball team in Pennsylvania cancels Pride Night game after players refuse to wear jerseys with rainbow sleeves. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/m…

Washington state Billionaire Gabe Newell (software giant Valve founder and owner) appears to be leaving for Florida, taking his estimated $11 Billion with him. This will be the 3rd billionaire in WA state to have moved away this year, leaving only 10 left. How much tax revenue and business do you suppose we've lost by chasing these 3 away? @ebsolomont | @WSJ 'Manalapan’s Hot Streak Continues With $70.8 Million Mansion Sale' Article: wsj.com/real-estate/lu…









