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Sep 7, 2022 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
In October, the #ZimKingston spilled 109 shipping containers near the WA/BC border. Debris has floated north ever since, onto beaches on Vancouver Island, then Haida Gwaii, then SE Alaska, and most recently the Kenai Peninsula (top of the Gulf of AK).
A debris thread… 1/n
Much of it is worthless, waterlogged garbage: kids’ bike helmets, soft-sided suitcase sets, urinal mats... (pics of barnacle-encrusted helmets afloat near Craig, Alaska, by Kathy Peavey). 2/n
Nov 5, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
You, the people, do not elect the president of the United States. At least not directly.
The president is elected by the Electoral College, which has 538 members.
Nov 4, 2020 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
This is reporter Casey Martin @caseyworks out following a Black Lives Matter/ Seattle Evening March through South Lake Union. Speakers at Cascade Park, where march began, said they're just as dissatisfied with a Biden win as they'd be if Trump is re-elected.
"Shut it down," the crowd chants as we near the intersection of Fairview and Denny Way.
Nov 3, 2020 • 20 tweets • 8 min read
I’m reporter @joshuamcnichols. I will post what I see on Election Day for KUOW in this thread. So far, very quiet at Seattle’s Garfield community center drop box on a wet morning.
Lots of commuters in a hurry, but this family savoring the moment dropping off their ballots at Seattle’s Garfield Community Center.
Oct 30, 2019 • 39 tweets • 39 min read
Proposition: The homelessness crisis is killing Seattle.