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Episode 325: What’s The Matter With Seattle?
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Episode 325: What’s The Matter With Seattle?

With Blue City Blues
Dumb but pretty (Kerry Park/Getty Images)

This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by Blue City Blues co-hosts David Hyde and Sandeep Kaushik to discuss what the hell is going on in America’s most progressive major city. Featuring: drugs, homelessness, performative social justice, the tech-money “prosperity bomb,” a socialist mayor, a housing crisis, CHOP/CHAZ, Robin DiAngelo, Chris Rufo, and an equity agenda that hobbled Seattle Public Schools.

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