Seattle

SOURCE: seattletimes.com

SOURCE: seattletimes.com

This is the final post covering candidate responses to questions during a recent forum hosted by urbanism organizations.

8 candidates will be on Seattle’s August 5 primary ballot (register to vote or update your registration address online)

Ry Armstrong, Clinton Bliss, Bruce Harrell, Joe Mallahan, Joe Molloy, Isaiah Willoughby and Katie Wilson attended the forum.

Only Thaddeus Whelan didn't attend.

Rally and march, starting at Cal Anderson Park in Seattle. More info: https://seattleindivisible.com/events/2025/6/1/seattle-no-kings-june-14th/

In case you haven't to been to one of these protests before, this is a big, mainstream one. Think strollers and old ladies, although I'm sure there will be some signs with naughty words on them. So it's a good way to ease into protests and do something if you've finally gotten to the breaking point after seeing the shit going on in L.A.

EDIT: Seattle Times, which is known for undercounting protests, reports that this one was >70k people. That's over 9% of the population of Seattle! (Of course not everyone there was from Seattle.) SPD also reports the march itself was 1.5 miles long.

SOURCE: seattletimes.com

"Democratic U.S. Reps. Pramila Jayapal and Emily Randall of Washington and Maxine Dexter of Oregon said they showed up unannounced...."

"GEO Group, the private corporation that runs the facility " ...

used to be called 'Wackenhut', founded as a 'security company' in 1954 that became infamous in California decades ago.

"Thirteen runs of salmon and steelhead are threatened with extinction in the river basin. Hydropower supplies are pushed to the brink.

And climate change is intensifying all of these problems on the great river of the West."

• 2025 State of the West Symposium at Stanford