Sandeep Kaushik @skaushik100 Twitter profile

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

10 months

@cruickshank I mean, this official timeline is an absurdist joke. NINE FUCKING YEARS of planning?!?!??!!! Followed by FOUR FUCKING YEARS of design, and then 12 FUCKING YEARS of construction?!?!??!!! To get to FUCKING BALLARD?!?!??!!! Like, what is wrong with us as a region?

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2 years

Very cool!

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2 years

Rothenberg at Roll Call picks @MGPforCongress as the biggest upset win of the year! "Gluesenkamp Perez is the clear choice in this category. She wasn’t just a long shot. She was a 'no-shot' who won." And she was an authentic candidate who fit her district.

Rothenberg’s best and worst of 2022 - Roll Call

Columnist Stu Rothenberg looks back on the year that was and hands out awards to candidates, campaigns and pollsters.

rollcall.com

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

10 months

@cruickshank 2041 to Ballard is batshit insane. Then again, 2035 to Ballard was batshit insane. And I say that as someone who did the campaign to pass ST3 in 2016.

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@skaushik100

1 year

This looming NIMBY-ish decision by the City Council - to kill hundreds of units of proposed affordable housing around the stadiums even though their EIS analysis found it wouldn’t harm the industrial economy - deserves way more scrutiny than its getting.

Restore proposed mixed-use housing near Seattle stadiums | Op-Ed

With some creative thinking, Seattle can preserve maritime and industrial jobs while also addressing the need for workforce housing.

www.seattletimes.com

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

8 months

When COVID hit, we treated it like the public health emergency it was. But this public health disaster? Business as usual. It's a scandal that we have no urgency, no real plan to address the fentanyl crisis ravaging Seattle's streets, one commensurate w the scale of the problem.

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@skaushik100

6 months

Left Twitter is right, the comp plan proposal doesn't add enough housing. Arguably keeps pace with growth but won't make housing more abundant/affordable. Seattle (8792 res sq mi) isn't even half as dense as San Fran (18,635). We can add housing faster.

How Harrell’s new housing density plan could transform Seattle

The idea is to have 24 new “neighborhood centers” within 800 feet of transit and commercial areas where apartments as high as six stories could be allowed.

www.seattletimes.com

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

5 months

Eliminating HCC (instead of making it more equitable) is idiotic. The people running SPS have good intentions, but their blind ideological commitments to reducing standards in the name of equity is hurting kids. So glad my HCC kid is graduating this year.

Why Seattle Public Schools is closing its highly capable cohort program

The Seattle district is overhauling its gifted education program. In its place, SPS is offering a new classroom model in an effort to make the program more equitable.

www.seattletimes.com

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@skaushik100

8 months

"the capital gains tax... applies to the sale of stocks and bonds exceeding $250,000..." Not accurate - the tax applies to PROFIT on sales of stocks/bonds over $250K. Big difference. Don't mean to pick on @seattletimes bec this is common, but it's wrong.

Effort to repeal WA capital gains tax, other initiatives move forward

The six initiatives pursued by Let's Go Washington are part of a larger effort to push back on legislation passed by the Democratic-controlled Legislature.

www.seattletimes.com

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

2 years

Maybe not under-the-radar much longer! A great video story from More Perfect Union about @MGPforCongress , Marie’s campaign to stand up for rural residents and working families, and what’s at stake in this race, is finally starting to draw serious national attention.

More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

2 years

NEW: This is the most important under-the-radar congressional race in 2022. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a working class auto shop owner, is taking on a white-nationalist sympathizer in rural Washington. An unconventional approach has her on the verge of a stunning upset.

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4 months

Every time I read one of these left lane candidate announcement stories in the Stranger, my main immediate takeaway is that Seattle's activist left has learned a sum total of nothing from the last two election cycles.

The Stranger 🗞

@TheStranger

4 months

Another challenger has entered the race for Tanya Woo's seat. Tariq Yusuf is a scoot-riding, cat-rearing tech bro. But don't cringe! He might be one of the Good Ones.

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@skaushik100

2 years

Why don't more Democrats sound like @MGPforCongress ? If they did, we'd win more, and in more places.

Alex Wagner Tonight

@WagnerTonight

2 years

'Bring back the trades': Rep-elect Marie Gluesenkamp Perez talks "right to repair" and restoring the vitality of trade schools and technical education. ( @MGPforCongress

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

11 months

@Yascha_Mounk The core social project of American liberalism since the ‘60s was to expand the definition of “American” to cover once excluded identities (like mine). It was quite successful, tho of course not perfectly so. But identitarian elites deemed it a bust, and now essentialism is back.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

3 months

Seems noteworthy that a left lane Seattle Council candidate is calling for metal detectors and “increased police presence” in our schools. For my quippy rejoinder I’m going with “the times they are a-changin’” over “you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”

Alexis Mercedes Rinck

@Alexis4Seattle

3 months

I spent this morning with Garfield parents and students. I heard clear action steps from metal detectors, increased police presence, bigger speed bumps, and mental health support for students. We need to fully fund our city services. It is heart-wrenching to me that (1/2)

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@skaushik100

5 months

Support for greater density in Seattle continues to rise rapidly. The Chamber's new Index poll shows a net 11 point increase in pro-growth sentiment from just six months ago: 58% now say "growth and development have been a positive for my area." Two years ago that number was 49%.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

1 month

Everyone knows that newspapers should only be owned by tech moguls and Old $ families.

Sydney Brownstone

@sydbrownstone

1 month

I have a lot of questions about a politician buying a newspaper and installing an editor in chief. Wouldn’t be a good look if Walkinshaw hires pals from his political circle and tries to influence Stranger endorsements. Journalists are paying attention.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

4 months

What a shit show. One might even say the school board fucked around, and now we’re finding out. Seattle could close about a quarter of its elementary schools

Seattle School Board OKs proposal that could close a quarter of its elementary schools

The Seattle School Board voted unanimously to approve a plan that could eventually close 20 elementary schools in an effort to curb a more than $100 million annual budget gap.

www.seattletimes.com

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

6 months

Seattle School Board should take note, shortcuts to equity that water down educational offerings and standards in the public schools are not well received, even by progressive voters.

San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle

6 months

San Francisco voters sent a decisive message to the city’s school board Tuesday, demanding through Proposition G that the district bring Algebra I back into middle schools. More than 85% of votes backed the measure in the first election returns:

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

10 months

They’re about to close a bunch of schools, parents are pulling their kids out of the schools and they refuse to ask why, the academic performance of SPS kids has plunged, yet the school board prez is taking a gloat-y victory lap celebrating the victory of the status quo. Oy vey.

Melissa Westbrook

@TheMelWestbrook

10 months

This is how the president of the Seattle School Board talks about candidates who run for the Board against the people he likes? Wow. ⁦ @seattletimes ⁩ ⁦ @SeaTimesOpinion ⁩ ⁦ @skaushik100 ⁩ ⁦ @thehoffather ⁩ ⁦ @alley_post ⁩ Buckle up,it’s gonna be rough in SPS

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@skaushik100

10 months

Incoming Seattle City Council (and every other local institution where performative virtue signaling has become de rigueur), take note… this is wise advice. Just Stop Making Official Statements About the News

Just Stop Making Official Statements About the News

A simple answer for every CEO, school president, and City Council.

nymag.com

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@skaushik100

1 year

@mattyglesias Oh, they'll build it - in 2039! Think I'm exaggerating? Here's the official timeline: voter approval was in 2016, followed by 7 years of planning (one more to go!), 4 years of design, and 12 years of construction. Just to get to Ballard. The process BS in Seattle is truly absurd.

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@skaushik100

1 year

This is telling about how divorced much of Seattle's political ruling class is from where Seattle's voters are actually at.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

7 months

The most plausible explanation is that Katie Wilson spiked the water coolers at the Seattle Times with Molly today.

Pass bill limiting rent hikes to help stabilize households | Editorial

Frequent high rent increases each year have forced some tenants out of their homes, creating revolving doors in some neighborhoods.

www.seattletimes.com

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

2 years

If I was a Republican consultant, I'd be looking at the Kansas result tonight and saying, "Oh shit."

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@skaushik100

7 months

@Tyler_A_Harper A related fixation on "lived experience" (authentic, deeply felt) over trad expertise (synthetic, callously indifferent) is being embedded in culturally prog orgs. Like, in Seattle, we put formerly homeless people in charge of technical oversight of HUD grants. It didn't go well.

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@skaushik100

6 months

WA’s 3rd CD @RepMGP lives in the real world, delivers results, and isn’t afraid to stand up to her party on behalf of her blue collar constituents. While opponent Joe Kent remains a wacko living in a weird fantasyland where light rail is an antifa plot.

Aging Bridge Is a Flashpoint in Competitive Washington State House Race

Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is running on fixing one of the busiest bridges in the region. Her far-right opponent calls it an “Antifa superhighway.”

www.nytimes.com

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

4 months

What went wrong with NPR? Why are they hemorrhaging listeners? Thx to @KUOWRadke and Week in Review for not only having me on, but giving me a platform to criticize NPR’s off-putting turn, in the name of diversity, towards a suffocating identitarianism.

Week in Review: density, endorsements, and NPR

Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Insider’s Katherine Long, Geekwire’s Mike Lewis, and Political and public affairs consultant Sandeep Kaushik.

www.kuow.org

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@skaushik100

4 months

We are watching, in real time, the slow motion implosion of the agency tasked with dealing with what the public considers the region's top problem. What a freaking mess.

Hannah Krieg

@hannahkrieg

4 months

INBOX: CM Cathy Moore wants to pause the search for a new KCRHA CEO after two of three finalists withdrew yesterday. "We can’t afford to have our choice made by default," she said.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

3 months

In Seattle we’ve become fixated on what I’d call “equity reductionism.” Reductionist in two senses: one, rather than see equity as one of several goals, we take the reductionist view that equity must be the only goal. Two, we then reduce standards as a short cut to get there.

benmaritz

@benmaritz

3 months

@loganb We have this instinct in the SPS board majority which has dismantled honors math programs to the point where it’s not possible for Seattle public school kids to gain the prerequisites for the UW computer science program. All in the name of equity of course. Maddening since I

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@skaushik100

9 months

@TheFIREorg @Penn I suspect elite university presidents are going to take the opposite lesson from this: that Magill got pushed out for being too pro-free speech. And that the best pathway for self-preservation is to crack down on any speech that offends powerful constituencies.

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@skaushik100

2 years

Major must read piece from the New York Times’ Michelle Goldberg confirms that the congressional race in WA03, pitting @MGPforCongress against MAGA extremist Joe Kent, is a bellwether race about the direction of our national politics & democracy. Go Marie!

Opinion | The Midterm Race That Has It All (Published 2022)

This congressional race in Washington State shows the November elections in microcosm.

www.nytimes.com

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

4 months

Last Sept Seattle School Board candidate Ben Gitenstein wrote an op ed calling out SPS' myopic leadership for hiding the ball on looming school closures. Ben lost a close race, unfortunately, but his op ed is even more relevant now, so I'm reposting:

School Board Candidate: Don’t Close Seattle Schools

Seattle faces a budget crunch for its schools, but the secret case for closing schools and saving money is flawed.

www.postalley.org

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

4 months

Apropos of nothing, but every day I see fresh examples of how destructive social media is. Its unparalleled ability to spread bad info that ratifies the preconceptions of stupid people and assholes in ways that validate/empower their narrow self-righteousness is a real problem!

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

6 months

I really miss the invaluable, in depth muni governance coverage that @SCC_Insight provided, and the important watchdog role that Kevin Schofield played. So it's great to see this super informative dive into the City's budget woes from Kevin. MORE, PLEASE!

The City of Seattle is Staring at a $230 Million Deficit. How Did We Get Here?

In short, there are no quick and easy fixes that fully address, in a sustainable way, the City’s general fund deficit. The Mayor and City Council have an impossible task this year.

www.postalley.org

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@skaushik100

2 months

Wow, the young lady at the Taco Bell drive thru just asked me if I wanted the senior discount. God help me but yes, I did.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

6 months

Great Slow Boring piece focusing on the Blue Dog chairs (inc our own @MGPforCongress ) and the example they set for how Ds can compete in red districts. Hint: it's anti-partisanship plus blue collar populism. Democrats should try harder to win tough races

Democrats should try harder to win tough races

What we can learn from political outliers and the legislative story of their electoral success

www.slowboring.com

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@skaushik100

2 months

Revealing, no bullshit New York mag interview with @RepAdamSmith about where things stand currently with the Replace Biden effort. It's a must read. I for one really appreciate that Adam stepped out early on this and said what had to be said.

An Early Democratic Critic of Biden on What Changed So Fast

Congressman Adam Smith says Nancy Pelosi has “played a huge role.”

nymag.com

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

2 months

Trump’s clearly insane. Like, batshit insane. A pathological fantasist living in a hallucinatory dreamscape. That’s what I got. Whatever we think of Uncle Joe and this performance, Trump is, beyond any reasonable doubt, an unhinged lunatic. God help us.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

2 years

Death Plow for Cutie.

Mike Lindblom

@MikeLindblom

2 years

Help name WSDOT’s new tow plow via @seattletimes

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

19 days

Man, think of how different the country would be today if Hillary had squeaked out the win in 2016. It’s mind boggling to contemplate. Oh, and by different I mean better.

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@skaushik100

6 months

Why, it’s almost like if you turn the radical chic left progressive ideological posturing down just a notch or two, you can still be liberal but not stupidly performative and counterproductive. But hey, welcome to fuckin’ Seattle.

Michael Jonas

@bostonjonas

6 months

Few have noticed, but Boston has had almost no homicides in 2024, an extraordinary start to the year for a US city of 650,000 people.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

4 months

The Complete Communities Coalition - which includes @FuturewiseWA and affordable housing developers at Housing Development Consortium ( @HDCSeaKC ), as well as @SeattleChamber and commercial developers ( @NAIOPWA ) in its leadership - is what a politically savvy urbanism looks like.

Josh Cohen

@jcohenwrites

4 months

New: 50+ groups called on Harrell to greatly increase density in the comp plan update, arguing if he doesn't plan will exacerbate housing shortage. Lots of big players on the list including the Chamber, affordable housing developers, community groups, realtor orgs, businesses

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@skaushik100

2 months

@HistoryBoomer Like MAGA on the right, educated left progressivism has morphed from an ideology into a full blown, separatist counterculture, self-defined as much by its rejection of cultural traditionalism - the world of unenlightened normies - as by its political divide from conservatism.

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@skaushik100

2 years

@HistoryBoomer @SarahGrynpas That total objectivity is unattainable doesn't discredit objectivity as a worthwhile goal and useful yardstick to measure journalistic work. Peace on earth is unattainable too, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try, or we shouldn't judge things by whether they further the goal.

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@skaushik100

3 months

This is right. SPS' math on school closures makes no sense; even closing 20 schools isn't remotely enough to close the deficit. SPS continues to mask reality behind a screen of "well resourced schools" bullshit spin, but w/o a bailout from Oly, large scale teacher layoffs loom.

Robert Cruickshank

@cruickshank

3 months

The mass school closure plan from @SeaPubSchools will not solve their financial needs. It won't leave the remaining schools better off. Closures at best save $40M, their deficit is $129M. SPS cannot solve this themselves. We need to instead go to #waleg .

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@skaushik100

5 months

@RoweReport @gwinnma It’s maddening, There are structural inequities built into the entry pipeline for HCC, but those could be fixed. Instead of doing the work to identify the poor/minority kids who should be getting into HCC, it’s easier to eliminate it and virtue signal about how equitable we are.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

1 year

My read of last night’s Seattle results: not much sign of a mod backlash wave building against the excesses of a too left Council (the ‘21 dynamic). That said, there’s zero appetite now for rad left changes to city institutions (always exaggerated by social media noise). (1/2)

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@skaushik100

2 months

Time to drink myself into a stupor.

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@skaushik100

2 years

This makes me sad. I was 11 when Carter was sworn in, old enough to recall his presidency was marred with controversies and failures. Still, I admired him then, though lots of people didn't. And his life post-presidency cements his claim to greatness imo.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

18 days

51 votes! Out of more than 1.9 million cast. The last couple weeks have been a roller coaster ride, but what a win for @DaveUpthegrove ! And what an incredible curing effort across WA from 350+ volunteers. Their tireless efforts made the difference. Hand recount, here we come…

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

8 months

Fentanyl is a big challenge. It's way more lethally addictive/socially destructive than heroin. But there are things we can do that aren't either bluntly punitive or radically permissive, but strike a balance between proactive interventions and better pathways of diversion.

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@skaushik100

2 years

It’s not just Kansas. Looking over the results in WA, I’d say Dobbs really shifted the political landscape here. In the spring the leg race polling for Ds was grim. But if you extrapolate tonight’s results to the general, Dems might actually gain a House seat. Wow, big shift!

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@skaushik100

7 months

The fiscal note is out for I-2109, the repeal of WA's limited cap gains tax, which only applies to annual profits on sale of stocks/bonds above $262K. 99.8% of households don't pay it, but we'd lose $5.66 billion for education through 2029 if it passes.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

3 months

Pushing out well off families is not just bad economics, it's destructive academically for the disadvantaged kids SPS seeks to boost: "Decades of research have shown that low-income students have better academic outcomes when they attend economically diverse schools..." (1/2)

benmaritz

@benmaritz

3 months

@exante_me @calmate48 @seattlehallpass Remember the mindset behind the cuts is that the district is better off without well off families. The option schools that such families prefer are absolutely going to be first to be cut. The theory is that well of families “hoard resources” which could otherwise go to

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@skaushik100

10 months

@mattyglesias You’re not the ideal target demographic - it really is perfectly pitched for teenagers to read. It impacted my high school age self in a way it wouldn’t now. Still, it’s canonical (for a reason!), and beautifully written, and for the sake of cultural literacy you should read it.

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@skaushik100

7 months

First time as a guest Fri on KUOW's Week in Review. Topics: is Seattle regressing to its "Mayberry with highrises" days (maybe). Should protestors get a free pass on disruptive behavior (no). Did the Left smear Sara Nelson on even year elections (yes).

Week in Review: bar inspections, school board resignations, and housing and homelessness

Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Sandeep Kaushik, Lex Vaughn, and Enrique Cerna.

www.kuow.org

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@skaushik100

2 years

It’s now all over for MAGA Joe Kent’s congressional ambitions except the official call, which will happen with the Clark County drop tomorrow. WA-O3 has flipped!

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

7 months

Way way too much of the limited journalistic attention paid to the Seattle schools reads like this. Is it any wonder, then, that this is what the district’s leaders care about, as opposed to, say, across-the-board efforts to improve educational outcomes?

Students rally for more representative classes, staff in Seattle schools

Many students of color say they don’t feel supported by the administration at Seattle Public Schools.

www.seattletimes.com

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

4 months

OTOH, "Yusuf told The Stranger he’s not sure he’s the right guy for the job, but he’s angry enough to try" certainly seems like a, um, unique and unconventional opening campaign gambit, so there's that.

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@skaushik100

3 months

The wide promulgation in culturally progressive spaces of this idiotic, offensively essentialist, and crudely counterproductive Tema Okun claptrap has done a lot of harm to institutions and bureaucracies in Seattle, undercutting their internal cohesion and functionality.

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@skaushik100

5 months

@HistoryBoomer That was my starting position but man, there are quite a few tweets! Which vividly paint her as an orthodox Silicon Valley/Hamptons rich cosmo progressive, one w zero consciousness of her class biases, even when she's performatively tweeting about her class and racial privilege.

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5 months

Ha! LOL, I’m part of the “extreme left” now!

Shift Washington

@ShiftWA

5 months

It appears the extreme Left has selected its man to continue the Democrat Party's mismanagement of Washington's public lands. The extremists count on @DaveUpthegrove to do to the state what he has done to King County. Rational voters have other options, like @HerreraBeutler .

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He was a legendary three-term mayor, but that was before my time in Seattle. I’ll always remember him as The King of Pioneer Square. He taught me so much about Seattle and its politics. I guess I have to forgive him now for his sketch taste in bourbon.

Charles Royer, Seattle’s longest-serving mayor, dead at 84

Royer guided the city from 1978-1990 as it first began to grow into a major urban area, complete with big-city problems downtown like homelessness.

www.seattletimes.com

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@skaushik100

7 months

I’m rooting for Taylor Swift to win the Super Bowl tomorrow.

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@skaushik100

2 months

I keep writing tweets and then deleting them before posting because they're all so bleak and pessimistic.

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@skaushik100

5 months

@cruickshank Exactly. If my kids were still in elementary school we’d be pulling them out right now bec we have the means to send them to private school. It’s what’s happening across Seattle and it’s disastrous, because economic diversity in classrooms leads to better outcomes for all kids.

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@skaushik100

3 months

@benmaritz I don't think policymakers in Seattle have grokked the housing construction cliff that we are about the fall over, and the enormous negative implications that holds for near and mid-term housing affordability in the city.

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@skaushik100

5 months

This 2020 quote from a then-school board director that @cruickshank highlights is infuriating. The idea that minority parents wanting their kids to get the best possible education are acting as “tokens” for whiteness is a form of racial essentialism I find deeply offensive.

Robert Cruickshank

@cruickshank

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@skaushik100 @benmaritz Yep. They don’t care. Chandra Hampson after all denounced parents of color who spoke up for HCC as “tokens”.

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@skaushik100

2 years

With this underwhelming (for Joe Kent) drop of Cowlitz ballots (he got 58 pct, and needed more like 70 pct), his slim chances of flipping the race against @MGPforCongress eroded even further. The race could essentially be over once Clark County reports this evening.

Troy Brynelson

@TroyWB

2 years

Update in #WA03 , with Cowlitz County reporting nearly 5,000 ballots: @MGPforCongress : +2,053 @joekent16jan19 : +2,818 Net here is R+765. A narrow gain for Kent, who trails ~5,000 votes. Some 20,000 more ballots from Clark County expected today. #waelex #MidtermElections2022

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

1 year

Seattle Public Schools merits a lot more skeptical - but fair-minded - scrutiny. The coverage they get is so limited, and what little mainstream media coverage there is is often written according to the framing and perspective of the district.

Melissa Westbrook

@TheMelWestbrook

1 year

In Seattle Schools, the Superintendent and the school board are slowly but surely creating a stealth governance model. Leading them in this effort is @ajcrabill7 who recently opined that effort should go further. It’s things like:

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

2 months

Biden’s voice in the Stephanopoulis interview was still too whispery and old, but his answers/energy were way better. And he’s hit the tanning booth too. He’s now Trumpishly orange! But his bravado that he’s on track to beat Trump and all is well, the polls be damned, is wack.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

2 years

Hey, unhealthily obsessed local politics goofs (you know who you are): I'm moderating a panel on Seattle's evolving political culture w some of Seattle's best political minds: @ericacbarnett , Michael Charles, Dean Nielsen, and @zachariahsilk . Info here:

Seattle Politics Transformed: All Blue But Deeply Divided | FOLIO SEATTLE

Folio invites you to join us for the second panel in our Transforming Seattle series. It wasn’t all that long ago that the political left was largely marginalized in municipal politics. But now, that...

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

2 years

1/ Last week David Wasserman ( @Redistrict ), the House editor at @CookPolitical Report told Crosscut what it would take for Marie Gluesenkamp Perez to win the race in WA's 3rd CD. He said Marie "would need likely several million dollars...

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

1 year

Good WaPo story about Seattle’s efforts to deal with post-tech boom retrenchment, but I call BS on the passing reference to our “famed food trucks.” This is false color; PDX is famous for food trucks, we aren’t. Most WaPo readers won’t notice, but c’mon.

Seattle, hit by tech cuts and pandemic, tries to reboot

The city, which has sustained rapid tech growth, is looking for its next act.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

2 months

What the hell?!?!? Such shocking, tragic news. I’m stunned. I can’t believe Matt is gone. He called me just a couple weeks ago. He was so engaged on the phone. We talked Gen X documentaries, and his big plans for the TNT ed page. What a loss. So so sad.

‘Someone who never stopped caring.’ TNT columnist Matt Driscoll dies unexpectedly at 43

“It was all about amplifying the voices of the underdogs and serving the community by telling these stories,” his wife said Monday.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

2 years

A surprise is brewing in WA’s 3rd CD, now that J Herrera Beutler got bounced in the primary. Outside the rabid MAGA base, voters see conspiracy theorist Joe Kent as the dangerous extremist he is. While moderate small biz owner Marie G Perez has raised $600K in Aug and now leads.

Josh Kraushaar

@JoshKraushaar

2 years

👀 #WA03 : Trump and Thiel-endorsed Republican Joe Kent trailing Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, according to a new internal poll from her campaign. Kent defeated impeachment supporting GOP Rep. Herrera Beutler in the Republican primary.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

2 years

3/ On Saturday @MGPforCongress ' campaign reported raising $2.2 million in Q3, and more than $2 million since the Aug. 2 primary. And this morning, the campaign went up with this ad featuring Jaime Herrera Beutler voters crossing over to vote for Marie.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

8 years

Cruz's hyperpartisan oratory, delivered with hypersmug smile and hypersmarmy intonation, is a useful reminder he's even worse than Trump.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

1 year

Print edition of @seattletimes today has front page story, "Seattle voters support Harrell. Council? Not so much, poll finds." Offers some fresh poll data. But, weirdly, the story isn't posted on the Times' website, so can't link it. Never seen that before. Deliberate? A mistake?

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

4 months

A little late to this, but @BGitenstein ’s op ed on school closures is worth the time to read. We have a Seattle school district - and board - that spins and obfuscates, that privileges performative ideological purism over results. No wonder public education in Seattle is a mess.

Benjamin Gitenstein

@BGitenstein

4 months

I wrote this for the Times because I believe Seattle Public’s plan will leave us not with “well resourced” schools, but impoverished ones.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

3 months

@pschofie79 As an undergrad, a couple of my favorite profs were conservatives. I learned so much from them in large part because they had a worldview so different from mine, and from almost all of my SLAC peers. Plus I was a callow youth, and they were really smart and knew a lot!

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

5 months

@benmaritz @cruickshank They seem totally averse to confronting the flawed results stemming from their privileging of ideological purity over outcomes. Over and over, they chose to do what makes them feel virtuous over what works, and then they whitewash (so to speak) the negative outcomes that result.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

2 years

In the new Seattle Nice episode, @ericacbarnett and I, with the evil goading of @hyded , come to the conclusion - based on careful analysis of the available evidence - that Seattle is full of "rich assholes" and that dog owners here are the biggest assholes of all. #winningfriends

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@RealSeattleNice

2 years

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

1 year

Whoa, holy shit, today's D3 ballot drop! 6977 votes counted, @alexforSeattle gained 2981 votes, or 42.7% of the drop. Hollingsworth got 30.9%. That's a net 20 pt shift to Alex from Tues and Thurs! Joy is now ahead by only 161 votes; Alex should pass her tomorrow. Welcome to D3!

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

2 months

@cruickshank Harris' fav/unfav is really bad, though: 29/49. Not quite as bad as Biden's (34/58), but close. I think it's becoming increasingly clear Biden should step aside for the good of the country, but who should replace him at the top of the ticket remains an open question.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

9 months

@mattyglesias I would love to see this version of Lenny Bernstein made into a movie. And the “why?” question would be clear, since “radical chic” is making a serious comeback nowadays, and revolutionary violence is cool again.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

1 year

Bec of schedule issues, we've been lax recently about taping new @RealSeattleNice episodes. But @ericacbarnett and I just did one, w/o @hyded (!), who's away. In it we assess the fallout from the CC's 5-4 rejection of the drug poss law and ask: what next?

Seattle's drug law debate

In the most-anticipated podcast episode of 2023, Erica and Sandeep debate Seattle's drug law controversy. This episode was edited by Quinn Waller.Check out the

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

3 years

PubliCola’s Erica Barnett and I have decided to take our regular arguments about Seattle politics public in a new podcast, Seattle Nice, where our differences of opinion are moderated by reporter/producer David Hyde. We dissect the Sawant recall outcome on our pilot episode.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

11 months

Seattle schools are facing huge problems: deficits, enrollment decline, growing achievement gaps, lagging academic performance, looming school closures. Who we elect to the School Board this Nov matters. A LOT! So pls join me at this town hall w two stellar candidates next Wed.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

2 months

@Tyler_A_Harper Harris has never had a base in either the black or asian (yo, she’s mixed race!) communities. She rose in SF/CA politics not as a community leader but by building ties to powerful Dem pols. And her prez run flopped w black voters, ironically because she went too Twitter on race.

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@skaushik100

10 months

Big thanks to Patricia @RadioGirlMurphy and Vaughan @vjonesradio for having @ericacbarnett and I on KUOW's Seattle Now Casual Friday to talk Seattle (and Burien) election results and (more importantly) why Thanksgiving is the greatest holiday!

Casual Friday with Erica C. Barnett and Sandeep Kaushik

This week… We got a clearer picture of the new-look Seattle City Council. Is it a glow up? Time will tell. Seattle city employees got an email about how to save money in the midst of a fight for...

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

2 years

Ideologically and culturally, Seattle voters aren’t all that different from San Francisco’s. Seattle’s electeds and those in positions of authority would be well advised to take note.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

2 years

Holy shit, it’s 2023.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

7 years

Seattle’s 56th mayor - and second female mayor - just got sworn in. Today is a happy day!

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

1 year

Pioneer Square and C/ID also support this housing - half of it affordable housing - and the City's own EIS found it to be the "preferred alternative" which wouldn't negatively impact maritime activity, but so far the City Council disappointingly has sided with the NIMBYs on this.

Chris Daniels

@ChrisDaniels_TV

1 year

NEW: - @Mariners wanted it. - @Seahawks wanted it. - Housing advocates wanted it. - Labor advocates wanted it. So why did Seattle City Council halt a rezone for a 900-unit SODO housing proposal? The ILWU & Port objected. ⁦MORE: ⁦ @komonews ⁩

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

2 months

This is a debate between a pathological liar and lunatic fantasist and an enfeebled, semi-incomprehensible tongue-tied geriatric. It’s the stuff of nightmares.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

7 months

@RadioFreeTom Lot has changed since the ‘80s, inc the perception of rural whites re: their place in the economic/cultural order. They now feel fated to lives of despair by forces beyond their control. That Combs and Chapman see an affinity across our ideological and identity divides is cool.

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

1 year

@mattyglesias @RepMGP She’s forging a way for Ds to reconnect to the non-college, blue collar voters we’ve been hemorrhaging. But guess what? Winning back those voters means prioritizing their concerns over those of educated progressives (or Rs). MGP calls the question: are we a big tent party or not?

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

2 years

Democracy Vouchers have arrived, and I demand that you join me in fill yours out for Alex Hudson, running in District 3!

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Sandeep Kaushik

@skaushik100

10 months

@cruickshank @SeaPubSchools It pisses me off that Seattle school closures are getting some attention in the media a week after the school board elections, as opposed to a week before.

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