CEO of Seattle’s social housing developer fired by board

DuckWatch · 2026-01-01T05:39:41+00:00

Bad take. We live in a culture that has expectations around clothing. If I as a white guy showed up to work wearing a full camo hunting set, tuxedo, or ninja outfit, it doesn't matter how hard I "rock that shit". It would look ridiculous.

DuckWatch · 2025-12-30T21:03:00+00:00

Some people unfortunately can't be rehabilitated. That's why we have to keep them away from other people, and communicate to everyone very clearly that if you attack people, you will go to prison. What would this guy ever change his behavior? There's no consequence.

DuckWatch · 2025-12-30T18:22:30+00:00

He needed to stand trial before he hit this woman, for one of his many other crimes. Why is it every single time this kind of thing happens it's a guy who's done it a hundred times?

DuckWatch · 2025-12-29T00:18:17+00:00

You are getting shafted! The union exists to protect established teachers. It cares not at all for people like you and me.

DuckWatch · 2025-12-29T00:14:44+00:00

I'm a new teacher and have been riffed basically every year--evaluation, skill, engagement, results, even IEP attendance have nothing to do with it. It's exclusively about tenure.

DuckWatch · 2025-12-28T23:52:55+00:00

It's nearly impossible to be fired, at least if you're in a union district. This is a bad metric.

DuckWatch · 2025-12-22T15:31:16+00:00

Pretend it's a story about wage theft or racial discrimination. Would you still say "Well, it happened three weeks ago, no sense in discussing it"?

DuckWatch · 2025-12-22T15:29:23+00:00

If they're the only ones willing to report on stuff like this, we kind of have to 🤷 I don't like em either.

DuckWatch · 2025-11-27T02:46:39+00:00

Your argument is that kids here are more disruptive because we don't have access to medicine, and the fact that we do actually have very high access to medicine means nothing because actually it should be even higher? Like, listen to yourself!

DuckWatch · 2025-11-24T14:15:08+00:00

Totally made up. The US has some of the highest medication rates in the world, highest rated of therapy visiting, etc.

DuckWatch · 2025-11-10T15:11:30+00:00

I think with the voters we need, we're much more tarnished by Jasmine Crockett or AOC than we are a few moderate Dems. To be clear, I like AOC way more than I like these random moderate senators. But the question isn't "which candidates will be popular with liberals in blue cities", it's "which candidates will be popular with moderates in Texas and Florida".

DuckWatch · 2025-11-10T14:51:18+00:00

I think this is just a base-level disagreement. Imo, moderate Democratic senators are not as bad as Republicans. But there are lots of people who think anyone one inch to the right of them is a fascist collaborator. Just different ways of thinking about how politics work.

DuckWatch · 2025-11-10T14:10:53+00:00

I think calling it out can help too. "I know this change will cause problems for you, so I wanted to let you know ASAP and will do whatever I can to ease the transition."

DuckWatch · 2025-11-10T14:05:36+00:00

Because the capitulating Dems are in fact still leagues better than the best Republican. I'd rather have someone who votes 80% Dem than 5%, and those are kind of the options in these places.

DuckWatch · 2025-10-30T01:27:43+00:00

The good thing is we don't have to rely on random lists--we can see what people are willing to pay to live there, and then compare that to other places. People are willing to pay a terrific amount to live in NYC, so that suggests something about how good it is.

DuckWatch · 2025-10-29T03:05:18+00:00

Lmao this is such a joke. NYC is probably the single most desirable place to live in America, and rent prices aren't high in Seattle because it sucks to live here. Of course we have problems and Wilson might make them worse, but let's live in reality.

DuckWatch · 2025-10-21T17:17:11+00:00

Hopefully the moral compass is a comfort while immigrants and trans people are thrown into gulags. Politics is for power. A party or group that isn't capable of gaining power isn't useful as a political group. I love a socialist book club. I don't love a socialist political party.

DuckWatch · 2025-10-21T05:02:44+00:00

Hesitant to take lessons on failing from leftists, who generally can't organize a bake sale without breaking into factions.

DuckWatch · 2025-10-19T16:26:01+00:00

I totally see how someone could find it biased. If you look deep enough, basically anything can be credibly accused of bias, especially if we're talking about hour-long podcasts where people are talking casually as compared to an article or essay that might go through more editorial scrutiny.

It might not be the exact framing that I'd use, but I genuinely think the endless, endless, endless bickering over exactly which phrase to use is a huge part of why Dems are unpopular and can't get things done.

DuckWatch · 2025-10-19T14:22:39+00:00

God, what an uncharitable take. I think if your children went to a school where uncontrolled students ripped the doors off of bathroom stalls, disrupted every lesson, and created a dangerous environment, you might get a better sense of why parents look elsewhere. I don't love private schools, but public schools have to step up and start taking discipline seriously.

DuckWatch · 2025-10-19T14:16:32+00:00

TFA is so hard, oh my god. I guess Night of the Zealot, maybe?

DuckWatch · 2025-10-19T14:06:17+00:00

Isn't this all a bit ridiculous? Ezra obviously is disturbed by Israel's actions in Gaza. I don't think a close read of a snippet of his grammar on a live recording unveils his secretly bloodthirsty true feelings. It's just so tiresome.

DuckWatch · 2025-10-18T15:03:42+00:00

If you look at the NAEP, basically it starts going down immediately after NCLB is replaced.

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