In 2013, when a skronky lil tune called “Thrift Shop” topped the charts, Seattle-based rapper Macklemore, AKA Benjamin Hammond Haggerty, tweeted an “OFFICIAL” announcement that he would run for Mayor in 2025. Well, here we are, two studio albums and four Seattle Mayors later, on the filing deadline for the 2025 election without Haggerty signed up to run. Barring some drastic change of heart (and international tour schedule) in the next few hours, it looks like City Hall “Can

Brooks sees a parallel between how the cops treated her over the weekend with how they bully people living unhoused in Seattle, or those using drugs on the street, or sex workers in Aurora, or the student at the University of Washington who occupied the Boeing-funded building on campus.  She understands not everyone can risk arrest, but she wonders what would have happened to her Sunday if a few more people had stood with her and refused to put their clothes back on.

While the news from the student paper to national broadcasts talk about the action, supporters for the first time got to hear from protesters for the first time.