kinda miss the times when people asked me why the study of colonialism / imperialism was relevant tbh

A message for you all to carry through the year

Fact check: ✅Chicago's crime rate was already down ✅NG troops were never actually deployed in the city ✅Some did patrol a suburban immigration facility for just one day ✅We did have hundreds of federal agents here terrorizing the city & suburbs but Trump's guard plan in Chicago was foiled

The daycare that a kid in my family attends is being harassed. In Washington state.

Rep. Scott’s proposed progressive corporate tax — the Well Washington Fund — could prevent steep cuts to housing, health care and higher education in WA’s budget

One of the most important pieces I've read this year. A lot of journalists tried to capture what it was like on the ground, as Chicagoans resisted an onslaught of federal agents attacking our neighbors, and @melissagiragrant.com pulled it off.

Today I got a (late mailed) Christmas package with a misspelled street name, missing street direction, and wrong zip code. All hail #USPS

If you are not familiar with this man: he likes to give out fresh juice he makes all the time, he volunteers to teach children to cook, he's the kind of guy that makes you feel better about your neighborhood. Get a whistle. Get loud. Get organized. Thwart these kidnappers at every turn.

ICE snatched the man who runs the Dino Mart taco cart before Christmas. gofund.me/7d01b2f48

Biking home, I almost ran into a guy biking w no lights or reflective gear. I stopped, gave him some. He said he'd recently returned from incarceration, didn't have money, bike was his only transportation. @thestreettrust.org meets critical community needs, and we can't do it without your support.

A survey like this would have been eye-opening to me as a young queer person. That's why the opposition to it has been so full-throated.

regular US policing.

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” - Ray Goforth

this week's post is something i've been working on for a long time, and is a little guide to living the good life. Or it's early aughts punk nostalgia. Or it's my response to tradwife culture. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/the-punk-r...

You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check

This is the way. Shame these people for as long as they live.

@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov @governorferguson.bsky.social @atg.wa.gov We do not allow our WA neighbors to ne treated this way!

Washington State leaders need to intervene here.

Seattle Man Leaves Out Plate of Cheese for When St. Rat Comes Up Through Toilet Tonight: tinyurl.com/nhf8cr8s

Make the holidays extra gay if you can. Like make it uncomfortable.

One fun thing about the Japanese is we love the FUCK out of Christmas and have only the loosest concept of what is going on

just as a reminder, Seattle police already have a system where retail security officers can fully apprehend and file police reports directly, no $70-an-hour cops required. The only reason to have multiple officers doing big sting operations is to put out press releases like this one.

WA Dems who voted for the Laken Riley Act: * Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez * Kim Schrier * Dan Newhouse

My stocking stuffer this year is a whistle- everyone is getting one. You see ICE - you know what to do.

Happy holidays to Ras Baraka, Kat Abughazaleh & Brad Lander, to all the organizers, protesters & court escorts, to the pissed off wine moms, vets on scooters, grandmas with whistles …. to everyone who cares enough to risk themselves on behalf of their communities 🫡

These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

Hi, team! We need to find $1000 or so by the New Year. Money is a MAJOR obstacle in our mission to reunite families who’ve been kidnapped off the street by I.C.E. We love and appreciate all the help we can get: Venmo: @JohnathanPerk CashApp: $JohnathanPerk Last 4 mobile: 3450

Reminder that we are a year into aggressive ICE raids and concentration camps, and there’s not a single example of local cops protecting people against this violence, kidnapping, or death.

Ask yourself: why do cops have(not only) taxpayer funded PR departments, but ALSO shadowy corporate retail partnerships that push for a veneer of “legitimacy” ? *also don’t forget that Target 🚽

“It’s about reshaping how the police are perceived, without in any way questioning what the police actually do to produce that perception,” he said.

"Copaganda leaves the public in a vague state of fear. It manufactures suspicion against poor people, immigrants, and racial minorities rather than, say, bankers, pharmaceutical executives, fraternity brothers, landlords, employers, and polluters." www.commondreams.org/opinion/what...

if this was a PNW beach they would still have feet in them

disney should go back to making movies about how it’s ok to steal from rich people

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

NEW: US Vet Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry has been released after four months of unlawful detention at immigration prison. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/u-s-vet...

Now with subtitles!

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

i’ll just say that this isn’t the behavior of people who think their allies are on the verge of establishing a thousand year reich, much less holding control of the national legislature next year

For years now, moderates have decried the division of identity politics of Democrats, ignoring of course that the Republican Party was defined by identity politics itself — the identity of whiteness. Now that it’s explicit the inability to call it out and to cover it aptly is starkly disappointing.

“Flock’s Condor cameras are pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras designed to record and track people, not vehicles. Condor cameras can be set to automatically zoom in on people’s faces as they walk through a parking lot, down a public street, or play on a playground, or they can be controlled manually”

man if only we could get back to the Good FBI as it existed before Trump.

A tow truck driver who towed an ICE SUV that was blocking a driveway while the agents kidnapped Angelanos back in September was just found NOT GUILTY on the only charge against him (theft of government property). THAT'S ANOTHER WIN FOR "FUCK YOU; MAKE ME"

Telling my kids this is Jake Paul

ICE whistles work.

Rich people are such miserable fucks nowadays that we’re halfway in a recession and I don’t think poor people are even jealous of their lifestyle

The Jean Kim Center in Lynnwood, which offers showers and washer-dryers for our unhoused neighbors, was about to close after their building was put on the market. It was recently bought with money from our local philanthropist Rick Steves. myedmondsnews.com/2025/12/than...

As a public defender, I repeatedly learned that stranger danger is rare, but that fear of it shapes policy in a way that is literally making us all considerably LESS safe. This makes me think about all the things I don't know. What do you know from experience that you wish others knew?

an opportunity to reflect on where morality diverges from legality