Dr. Gupta is our shadow surgeon general, health secretary.

I would call Pete Hegseth a war criminal, but we aren’t at war. He’s just a mass murderer.

between this and a whole editorial waxing nostalgic about the wheat penny, the Seattle Times editorial board continues to be relevant and timely www.seattletimes.com/opinion/edit...

This Day in Labor History: November 25, 1865. Mississippi created the first of the Black Codes. Designed to recreate slavery in all but name, this signified the South’s resistance to the freeing of their labor force and the lengths to which it would go to tie workers to a place under white control.

This Day in Labor History: November 26, 1910.A factory in Newark, New Jersey caught on fire, killing 25 workers. This should have been led to workplace safety reform, but because wealthy people did not see the people making their clothing die, nothing happened. Triangle would be next year!!!

Announcing…our transition committees! Between now and Inauguration Day, this team of stellar community leaders will identify and connect with dozens of additional community advisors to gather the broadest possible range of input, skills, and knowledge from across our city.

Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.

Leavitt is really quite a piece of shit for someone so young

Trump never had a fan base. He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe. It’s as stupid as it sounds.

Why is Thanksgiving an excuse for America's worst food tendencies?

This week on PubliCola: An interview with Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson, a deep dive on the federal cuts that could leave thousands homeless, the city council adopts a budget that pushes off hard choices, and much more. publicola.com/2025/11/22/t...

I briefly thought the Seattle Times' "save print newspapers only" columnist was advocating for online news, but nope: The bill he supports would fund only websites run by print publications or nonprofit news outlets, setting a standard for online news that no print outlet has to meet.

If only ensuring healthcare to millions was as simple as sending $2K in the mail. You’ll keep hearing about HSAs from the likes of Rick Scott and Trump like its magic. It isnt. And its not remotely close to a serious plan to get people what they need: real health insurance

The new Ken Burns documentary is on PBS right now.

This is what happens when Mike Johnson gives them another day off. Ronny starts day drinking again.

Trump is now in that stage of dementia where he’s locked himself inside his house while blasting phantom of the opera music at the imaginary people outside

This Day in Labor History: November 14, 1903. Leading unionists and female reformers met in Boston to create the Women’s Trade Union League. This was an effort to support unions for women workers and to fight the plague of sweatshops that defined the lives of so many women in the years!!!

This Day in Labor History: November 11, 1942. The CIO began its annual convention. It created the Committee to Abolish Racial Discrimination, an official effort to combat racial discrimination on the job within the government, at the workplace, and among its own members.

My calculation for the 6,000 estimate (actually around 6,400) is [Signatures validated in Seattle] minus [votes cast in Seattle]. Of course, some people didn't vote in the mayor's race and there are also challenged ballots that could still be cured.

Absolutely foolish, nonsensical, and weak line of “attack” against the Affordable Care Acts. It improved the lives of 24 million people who didn’t have insurance. It didn’t do a single thing to worsen the already highly disorganized dynamics of American Healthcare.

We just won on Tuesday… JFC

Proud to partner with @couriernewsroom.bsky.social to launch “The Diagnosis” The suffering of Americans from this administration’s policies will not go untold. Hope you’ll tune in.

On Monday, RFK posted a rambling video on the HHS X account showing a series of graphs and directly stating that vaccines have had minimal impact on human health and saving lives. Today, in response, we brought our own graphs. We will not let his dangerous nonsense go unanswered.

This Day in Labor History: November 9, 1935. The Committee for Industrial Organization (later the Congress of Industrial Organizations) was created. Let's talk about the CIO and how it transformed the American labor movement!

Unions serve as the most powerful counterweight to concentrated wealth.

The Prez snaps up another McPounder

With another 56,000 votes counted in the Seattle mayor's race, Katie Wilson has narrowed the gap with incumbent Bruce Harrell to just 4,300 votes, and received just under 55 percent of the vote in the latest count, with perhaps 50,000 votes remaining to be counted. That's a solid turnaround.

As Mayor, Harrell Paid for Luxury Upgrades on City Trips, Including a $12,000 Flight and a $1,000-a-Night Hotel Now he wants voters to believe he represents the working class—and that his opponent, renter Katie Wilson, is an out-of touch-elite. publicola.com/2025/11/04/h...

This Day in Labor History: November 4, 1942. Copper miners in Butte, Montana went on strike to protest the use of Black miners on the job. Worse, these were members of the leftist Mine, Mill. Let's talk about hate strikes and white workers again choosing their racial identity over class identity!

Your vote in California is important. Vote YES on 50 today!

This Day in Labor History: November 1, 1879. The Carlisle Indian School opened in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. This school, central to the genocidal project to end Native American culture in the late nineteenth century, was replicated across the nation. Work was central to the genocidal project!

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

Hairy Woodpecker. Wisconsin. 2025. Photo by me. These woodpeckers are year-long residents of Wisconsin. Their diet is primarily insects, but they'll readily come to bird feeders. They especially love suet! #birdfacts 🪶 #birds #wildlifephotography #birding #nature #animals

City Official Used Internal Teams Chat to Solicit Department Directors’ Contact Info on Behalf of Harrell Campaign At least 21 department directors gave OED Director Markham McIntyre their contact information, which he used to solicit support for their boss’s campaign. publicola.com/2025/10/27/c...

This Day in Labor History: October 26, 1825. The Erie Canal opened, eight years after construction commenced. This engineering marvel would have enormous impacts on the future of American work, including spurring ever-greater industrialization. It also killed over 1,000 workers building it!

Great piece by Ben Hochman at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the Curt Flood Mural designed by artist Gregory Michael Carter. The mural is located at 3180 Gravois Avenue in St. Louis. archive.today/Q3pVD #STLCards #ForTheLou #FloodTheHall ⚾️

This Day in Labor History: October 27, 1948. An air inversion trapped the pollution spewed out by U.S. Steel-owned factories in Donora, Pennsylvania. The Donora Smog killed 20 people and sickened 6000 others. Let's talk about this horrible moment and how it spurred pollution controls!

The question of "why do people vote against their self-interest" is pretty self-explanatory when you look up the literacy rate in local schools. We have high schools with a literacy rate of 32%. Thirty-two percent...