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It’s bullshit for the Washington Post to call this looting of the Treasury a “deal“ and an “agreement.” The Trump regime is self-dealing to create an agreement between Trump and Trump, with no judge allowed to weigh in. It’s a dictator stealing from the people.

Remember that SPOG head goon Mike Solan laughed over the reckless killing of a Seattle resident. He shouldn’t be anywhere near elected office www.fox13seattle.com/news/opa-rel...

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real

Every week or so I think about the fact that the cops/government shot a white man, Alex Pretti, in cold blood and nothing has happened to his murderers. The murderers still have their jobs and the unarmed white man is a cautionary tale for white people to not challenge the white supremacist state.

Sorry to these two reporters, but this article is clearly something they were given a specific direction to write. You can tell because the body of the story keeps having asides that contradict the entire thesis: answer to headline is NO www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/us... cc @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

Roots is a bicentennial jawn so in 50 years we went from groundbreaking miniseries watched by the whole country to banning copies of the book

YES, exactly this! We are so lucky to have @theurbanist.org, for the intelligent reporting about our shared future and for hosting the larger conversation where we can learn together and find each other. This terrifies those who would rather retain exclusive power for themselves. Thank you Doug.

In First Shakeup, Mayor Wilson Gets New Chief of Staff After Conflict With Council Over Shelter Legislation Kate Kreuzer, the current chief of staff, will work on "special projects" while Esther Handy will take over the job on an interim basis.

The law has never been applied equally…but cash bail so blatantly shows us that the punishment system exists to discipline only those that can’t afford to buy their way out of a cage.

YES, exactly this! We are so lucky to have @theurbanist.org, for the intelligent reporting about our shared future and for hosting the larger conversation where we can learn together and find each other. This terrifies those who would rather retain exclusive power for themselves. Thank you Doug.

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

@adamsmith.house.gov want to explain the $105,051 in campaign contributions you received from #Palantir?

Seattle, look at this database and see all the money flowing from Palantir execs to our Adam Smith. One of ICE’s biggest contractors, part of the machine terrorizing our communities and disappearing our neighbors for profit. Yuck. Why does anyone support him? He has shown us who he is.

Stoking and channeling boiling contempt for the ultra-rich is a pretty essential element of what needs to happen if we're gonna get out of this. And folks, they've given us a lot to work with. Don't tone police that shit. When it gets out of control, remind people why that's happening.

This research is infuriating. The oil/auto/highway engineering lobby keep us from having alternatives. ‘over 80% of US transportation spending, public and private, goes to the auto, oil, and roadbuilding industries.’

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

Watching the budget talk with Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson and Budget Director Ali Pennucchi. Wilson is saying it's important to have a public discussion about the budget now due to the size of the deficit.

🔥HUGE🔥endorsement announcement!!! We are thrilled to share that Senator Saldaña has endorsed our campaign! Together, we have organized with workers to win fairer workplaces & end unjust labor rights exclusions. Thank you Sen. Saldaña for your support & trust in our pro-worker affordability agenda!

Hey the excellent film WTO/99 is being screened again at The Beacon Cinema in Seattle. Our city at its defiant and unruly best. You should go! May 15, 16, 19, 21 www.wto99doc.com

The people overwhelmingly want renewable energy, biodegradables, a clean environment. This is all possible right now. We don’t get that because we don’t live in a democracy, we live in a dictatorship of the capitalist owners.

Unfortunately, this piece on The Great Resegregation has aged well. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

TOMORROW, Thursday 4/30, we're officially kicking off this campaign to win a Washington we can afford! & we're celebrating everyone that makes the 43rd LD so special. Come for the flash tattoos, drag artists, a local DJ, Rep. Scott & CM Rinck, & more! Get tickets! secure.ngpvan.com/MfSWoc2MU0id...

Want to know more about proportional representation? boltsmag.org/mid-decade-r...

King’s warning about he “white moderate” should be ringing in every ear. Heading their “balancing” advice and placating their fictions of good faith where there is none and has never been - is how we got here - to this place where the republic has fallen, again.

We can be glib, but the fact is the Supreme Court destroyed the America the Civil Rights Movement built today. And I have no confidence whatsoever that the Dems will react w/ urgency to curb the return of Jim Crow voting. It is a dark day. And requires serious reflection on what is to be done.

"If we wait for the hyperrich to finally realize that their fates are tied to ours—for their children to contract measles, or for them to get cabin fever in their apocalypse bunkers—it will be too late for many of the rest of us." - @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

this is like a caricature of the small ball, no conviction, triangulating nonsense that many people associate with democrats

Bullseye. “In short, we are ruled by a class of people who seem either to believe or presume that war, disease, and apocalyptic destruction are things that will only ever happen to poorer and browner people.”

Highly recommend you follow the heroic work of @seattlecruisecntrl.bsky.social SCC is David v Goliath, doing excellent research and explaining how the Port of Seattle obfuscates, misrepresents, and greenwashes for the truly awful global cruise industry.

Seattle's cruise business - the ships plus the flights that bring most of the passengers to Seattle - now generates half as much climate pollution as the entire city of Seattle generates in a year. ☠️See seattlecruisecontrol.org/learn/greenh... for more details!

Great snapshot of how stunningly harmful cruise ships are. They destroy local ecosystems, pollute the ocean most egregiously, harm orcas’ ability to find food, exploit and underpay workers. And the Port of Seattle greenwashes, shills for the corrupt global cruise industry, and evades accountability.

So good Read this

"These allegations point to a novel form of monopoly power: the ability of a dominant platform to use algorithms to lift prices across an entire market. Amazon is doing so...by provoking and shaping the responses of rival algorithms, creating feedback loops that ratchet prices higher."

1. Boy, Amazon is in a heap of trouble. Evidence made public yesterday by California AG @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov shows blatant price fixing. And there are so many examples. Here's Amazon scheming with a pet food supplier to get Chewy to raise its prices.

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” Originally made as a screen print in 1990, we now offer this thought-provoking poster digitally printed on heavy cover stock.

“Noah Davis” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (or whatever they’re calling it now—they’re the HBO Max of museums) is essential viewing. It’s also really troubling. My take here: 4columns.org/d-souza-arun...

"We are working to make things better for everyone, on small scales and large." "Yeah, but will people who don't 'look like NYC' like that?" "Uh, yeah. Why the fuck wouldn't they? You idiot. You gigantic fucking moron." I am glad that someone more eloquent and charming than I am is in this role.

Zohran Mamdani on CBS — “Socialist politics can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country, and that is the working class. It’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what we’re doing, not in the appendix.” America’s Mayor can’t miss.

The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds. Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.

It's astonishing how wedded people are to the idea that refusing to name what's happening is how we overcome it.

Want.

Tax Day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it | Zohran Mamdani, Gabriel Zucman and Joseph Stiglitz