We won! Hundreds of thousands of people who are currently detained and separated from their families in lower-level cases will be released from jail every year. An incredible victory for liberty and public safety. You can read the historic decision here: civilrightscorps.org/wp-content/u...

Reminder: ICE is still kidnapping kids.

Exciting news in Seattle! Banning cars from Pike Place Market from 10am-4pm saw retail sales rise 9.2% and restaurant sales rise 10.2% last summer. Now, the city moves to make the pedestrianization more permanent.

We are so close to 1000 signatures. Help us get there today before the Sound Transit board meeting!

Flying down the street on a bike is one of the best feelings (obvi except for nearly getting hit by cars who blindly pull into unprotected bike lanes)

This is huge: Katie Wilson's office just announced a significantly expanded schedule for Bicycle Weekends on Lake Washington Boulevard, after years of the program being stifled under Bruce Harrell. In addition to more weekends, we're getting our long holiday weekends back.

It's not punishment to say that someone with power who has abused that power doesn't get to get more power. That's a consequence. Some of you are truly ridiculous.

Torture is routine in the US, and legal. We do it to prisoners.

Travel writer Rick Steves on Washington's newly signed "Millionaires Tax"

Advocacy may take a while but it does get results! I-90 ramps at Rainier finally have raised crosswalks and warning lights. @nondriver.bsky.social @jrock08.bsky.social @r343l.bsky.social

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Terrifying and terrible road design on the Waterfront! Please fix asap SDOT!

Over a couple generations, the neighborhood pattern will resemble the perimeter block with courtyard interiors that many people really appreciate. Seattle is going to grow. Why not set the zoning rules so we incentivize the kinds of urban housing that are super popular

Pleasantly surprised and loving the comments on this post #taxtherich

Senate Bill 6346, "establishing a tax on millionaires", just passed the Washington House on a 51-46 vote after more than 24 hours of floor debate.

Anyways.

Some local reporting background from @amelianews.bsky.social on the West Virginia jails at issue from earlier this month: westvirginiawatch.com/2026/02/05/a...

I think Seattle leaders know what steps to take to quickly build housing and help make our City affordable. But they haven’t done it yet. This brief about Sacramento shows that when a big city’s leaders actually *care enough to lead with the purpose of housing people*, they end up succeeding.

The reason I’ll be proposing an amendment to remove the $550M corporate giveaway in the income tax bill is simple: To avoid these cuts to K12 and other crucial services. Washington’s working families can’t afford to hand half a billion dollars to businesses that already got a tax break via HR 1.

“While not everyone can engage in risky frontline tactics, Sasha emphasized that there is a role for everyone in this work. “There’s a spot for literally every person who gives a shit about humanity to do something really useful,” she said.”

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

As promised, here is the ending of @vandanaslatter.bsky.social's powerful speech on the #WALeg Senate floor before voting to pass the Millionaires Tax:

SPS is in the hole $80M, but our spending on “purchased services” for “teaching/professional learning” has grown by $30M in just a few years. What the heck even is this category? The School Board needs to bring back its finance committee so these electeds get time for due diligence and oversight!

You need to watch The Alabama Solution. The bravery of these incarcerated men is beyond, esp. given how abhorrently they are treated. Solitary for years. Beaten or killed by guards. No medical staff, no protection. Retaliation for exposing the truth. The carceral state is rotten to its core. 1/

From the mouths of babes, at a south Seattle public school full of Black and Brown kids, many immigrants or children of them. #southseattle

“Imagine if all that money had gone into teachers instead.” Smaller class sizes, teachers paid a living wage — these are a couple of the things that work to help kids thrive in education. Gamified EdTech is NOT helping my kids, and I doubt they’re helping yours.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

The gun was removed by agents from his waistband - he was never pointing it at them. He was already disarmed when they fired "defensive shots," killing him. They then fired several shots at his lifeless body.

People can say they didn’t vote for this but people are liars

Another good resource from WAISN - "Rumor control: Spread power, not panic" - a quick list of questions to ask yourself in order to verify info so as to not create unnecessary panic, especially online waisn.org/resource/rum...

i don't understand why so many people are so adamant that what ICE is doing is not the same as law enforcement. i disagree and i think a lot of the arguments ring very hollow, but more to the point: what's behind the desperate need to protect police legitimacy right now?

I tried not to use too many all caps when I found my street and yelled into the wind that SDOT needs to BUILD THOSE SPEED BUMPS ON MY ARTERIAL!!!

New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” - MLK Jr. Attending this march is a small thing our family does, but we hope it helps our white sons build empathy, learn about anti-racism and collective action, and reflect on their privilege (with our guidance, of course!). #AbolishICE

This is an Underground Railroad style operation. This is what I mean that we should study UR history, tactics, and strategy.

Protect trans youth, and let the kids play sports! 🏳️‍⚧️ “Trans athlete bans not only reduce opportunities for young trans persons to pursue their interests but also open all other young female athletes to invasive challenges to their identity.“

Pass this bill #waleg! “If a judge determines someone has been rehabilitated in prison and is no longer a threat to their community, ‘leaving them in prison for decades, maybe even life, for the purpose of pure punishment—it’s not giving people hope or an incentive to engage in rehabilitation.’”

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

This anti-Semitic arson is a big deal and should be getting more press. This is the only synagogue in Mississippi’s *biggest* city, Jackson. Jackson is also one of the top ten metropolitans in the Deep South.

This is a cartoon about housing.

I got some crap after posting this, but this has worked out the only way it was ever going to work out: police arresting protesters while ICE kidnaps and executes people.

Prison guards are flocking to ICE jobs and frankly this makes sense. Those of us who have been anti-prison organizers for decades have been saying that fascism already existed within prisons/jails. Our best teachers for how to survive fascism are incarcerated people.

What ICE is doing to immigrants and now white Americans in Minneapolis is what US law enforcement has always done to Black Americans, indigenous people, and poor white folks in rural areas. Your outrage is justified and welcome but this fight didn't start this week.

Yesterday’s killing of Minneapolis mother Renee Nicole Good proves the dangers of Trump’s campaign of terror via ICE across our country. ICE officers appear to not only be acting with impunity, but the explicit approval and support of the president and his administration.

So lets be clear: Rn, IRL, as a practical matter, cops are "allowed" to kill ppl if they don't do what they say. George Floyd's death wasn't enough to change that. Perhaps this white mom's death will spur change. But whenever we finally say cops are "not allowed" to do this, it will be a new thing.

One thing I didn't fully appreciate until I sat on a jury and reviewed body cam footage for myself, is how cops yell contradictory instructions at people like "Don't move" "Put your hands up" "Get the fuck out of here" "Keep your hands where I can see them" etc. all screamed at your face with guns

READ ⬇️ “They want us to scatter in fear, to give up hope, and to give up on each other. But we will hold more tightly to one another, plan more strategically, and care even more deeply. We will resist the normalization of their violence, the immobilization of fear, and the sense of inevitability.”