@bluecitypodcast @realseattlenice Formerly, politics reporter NPR affiliate @KUOW
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The newish Blue City Blues podcast I'm working on with @skaushik100 features smart guests talking about the problems facing urban America and how to fix them. Recent guests include @fakedansavage @RepMGP @pescami @celindalake @MattMahanSJ @petersgoodman and other luminaries.
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It's the Seattle podcastpalooza event of the season!
You should join us on ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฌ๐๐๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ 29๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ญ 6 ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ง ๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐๐๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ค๐ฐ๐ข๐ซ๐ ๐ฉ๐จ๐๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ to unpack the good, the bad and the ugly of how the rise of the tech economy has transformed San Francisco and Seattle in recent decades, and upended the two cities' political and power dynamics. A gusher of prosperity, yes, but at what cost? And how have the two cities differed in handling all the tech-driven change?
Joining us on an all-star panel are:
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๐ฃ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐ญ๐ก๐๐ง ๐๐๐๐๐ซ, who has been covering the tech industry since he became the LA Times' first Silicon Valley reporter in 1990, and is now the author of a fantastic new book, ๐๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ฆ: ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐บ, ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ช๐ด๐ค๐ฐ;
๐๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง ๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ญ ๐'๐๐๐ซ๐, author of ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฆ: ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข, who has written extensively about how technology has reshaped culture and society in cosmopolitan America for the New York Times' opinion pages;
And ๐๐๐๐ค๐๐ข๐ซ๐ ๐๐จ-๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ซ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ก๐ง ๐๐จ๐จ๐ค, who near as I can tell knows everything there is to know about Seattle's tech world.
@hyded and I will moderate. It's going to be a fun, fascinating conversation. Tickets are available at the Nordic Museum website, or follow the link in the next tweet.
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I love the phrase "quixotic wrath" to describe Ron Davis tilting at The Stranger over an endorsement he didn't get. But is the quest to slay the Stranger delusional? Look forward to the answer next week.
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We don't hear enough about the powerful @washrealtors and their awful political views and efforts. Credit to the always-excellent @Jim_Brunner for landing a quote for this story.
"Christina Janis, state director for the Washington Realtors Association, said in a statement she's already seeing bad impacts of the tax firsthand ..."
A statement that dodges taking a position on repealing one of the only checks on our regressive tax system is easy. How about an actual interview instead @washrealtors
Gov. Bob Ferguson vows to fight an initiative that would kill the state's "millionaires tax." seattletimes.com/seattle-newโฆ
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How optimistic should we be about the reemergence of sewer socialism in blue cities like Seattle and New York?
Zohran Mamdani promised to replace "the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism."
Heโand other DSA politiciansโaren't offering Soviet-style socialism: not seizing the means of production, but socializing the cost of consumption.
theatlantic.com/magazine/202โฆ
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The meltdown over this yearโs Stranger endorsements of the โwrongโ progressive candidates reminds me a bit of the time Cliff Mass led a fire-breathing protest against KUOW. Lots of angry rhetoric that will almost certainly amount to nothing, even though The Strangerโs picks (Dreher over Davis, Pedersen over Sabio-Howell) surprised some progressive insiders. Most Stranger readers will never hear about the outrage.
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What the NPI article doesnโt explain, though, is exactly why Ron Davis was passed over for the endorsement when heโs so clearly aligned with their politics. Someone please answer that question.
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Fun conversation sparked by Sherman's poem, Ode to Tonya Harding
Sherman Alexie joined us on the latest Blue City Blues. We talked Tonya Harding, the white working class, and threw in some politics because we couldnโt help ourselves. @skaushik100 @hyded
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Another example of pragmatic progressivism from @MayorofSeattle, who is also a big soccer fan.
BREAKING: Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, citing โcredible threatsโ to safety and security of World Cup says CCTV cameras will be activated in Stadium District.
@komonews
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Thanks @skaushik100 itโs one of my favorite podcasts: deep dives into history and total esoterica, that somehow feels like youโre eating a big bowl of ice cream. Hoping to hear you on @omnibusproject soon!
This is a very fun listen: my podcasting partner in crime @hyded joined host John Roderick on John's excellent @omnibusproject pod (which John created with Jeopardy host @KenJennings) to tell the improbable story of the Astor Place Riot in NYC in 1849.
It's an amazing tale of class and cultural conflict as hard-bitten Gangs of New York Bowery Boys engaged in violent rioting (at least 22 people died) over... Shakespearean theater and acting styles. Really! It's a very strange-but-true, undeservedly obscure slice of American history, entertainingly told.
omnibusproject.com/episodes/โฆ
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Worth reading on why you can't trust Maine polls. But here's the thing bugging me: now if Platner loses, do we learn anything about populist left candidates? Was it the sexts? The tattoo? Some weird Maine thing?
There's been lots of people pointing to the polls to allay concerns about Platner. But polls have underestimated Republicans by an average of 4 points in Maine since 2014.
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The latest BCB episode (link to follow) primarily consists of three aging Gen Xers yelling, โget off my lawn!โ
But in between our โkids today donโt know how rough we had it!โ nostalgia trip with John Roderick, front man for legendary Seattle indie rock band The Long Winters and now host of the excellent (and omnivorous) @omnibusproject podcast (which John founded with Ken Jennings), we discuss what makes a city authentically cool.
And we dissect how the cultural and economic conditions in America 30 plus years ago that made blue cities like Seattle, Portland and New York cool have shifted, and why Gen Z, rebelling against the simultaneously censorious and affirming culture of the Millennials, may be about to invent their own version of urban cool.
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Super fun conversation about "Solid B cities" and world class city snobs with reporter @halbennet of slowboring.com on our latest @bluecitypodcast
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Unfortunately the same thing can be said for some news organizations that changed their approach unevenly and without announcing it. But I would quibble and call it the pursuit of objectivity.
Some academics who denounced the idea of objectivity and declared themselves activists are for some reason shocked that policymakers and the public now view them not as trusted, objective scientists but as...activists.
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