We have to do this to pay for billionaire tax cuts, militarized secret police kidnappings and murders, and forever wars in the Middle East.

I saw this and at first thought "no, there's no way 'we definitely had alternative leadership in mind for Iran but I blew them up alongside the schoolgirls using AI' is what the White House is actually saying, that's too clueless and evil to be real"

The city accepted a $500k grant for this project last December, and I would’ve sworn it said “sidewalk” at the time. Turns out it did! 🤔

Tomorrow, the Federal Way LUTC Committee will vote on requesting bids for a City Greenway Project from FWHS to the city center. The project will provide a 'designated shoulder, roadway signing & striping, traffic calming, and lighting improvements.' Who knows what a "designated shoulder" means!

Which WA legislator is going to sponsor legislation requiring online budget proposals work with with ctrl+f?

The Federal Way City Council hasn’t done much work in the time since they ousted the former council president. Non-consent agenda items in the subsequent two meetings include: - redo on council commission appointments - citizen commission appointments - co-living housing code amendment

the license criminalization scheme in Kansas...stripping immigrants of their legal status... all of this shows, and is meant to show, that the legal rights of disfavored groups are conditional and can be rescinded at will such discriminatory chaos is incompatible with a real inclusive democracy

A real live look into Cop Brain: 1. Driver hits a cyclist in a bike lane. The cyclist is knocked unconscious and receives multiple fractures 2. The attending cop follows the victim to the hospital to give a ticket for "cycling without a helmet" which does not exist 3. Driver gets off with no charge

Good morning, Olympia.

The guy who staged a failed coup last time is building a massive personal militia staffed with lawless thugs. At this point it’s just naïve not to see where this is going.

trump going on about corruption and then slandering somali-americans makes my blood boil

So far the legislature is not including the cut in their budgets. FTR, these are the WA House members, all dems, who voted for the cut: Ormsby, Gregerson, Macri, Berg, Bergquist, Cortes, Doglio, Fitzgibbon, Leavitt, Lekanoff, Peterson, Ryu, Springer, Stonier, Street, and Thai.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The WA Senate Dems' budget proposal includes at least a whopping $310 million in cuts to public education: ❌ $140M cut to transition to kindergarten ❌ $110M cut to Local Effort Assistance (meaning an immediate budget cut to school district operations) ❌ $60M cut to budget depreciation calculations

Found out by reading this that my daughter will likely lose her Birth to Three speech therapy services due to the proposed HB 2688 cuts. 🤬 Wrong and shortsighted in every way.

Had the area in the Seattle right in my head, but guessing the route number was pure luck. Wordle for transit nerds: www.routle.city/king_county_...

VARNEY: We are told that temperatures of 10 million Kelvin are bad for the human body, is that no longer true? BURGUM: It's true, but those temperatures are required for nuclear fusion, which powers sunshine. So are those temperatures dangerous or necessary for life? We know it's the latter.

As a former employee, I love to see these new Kaldi’s Coffee leaders. ✊

FW City Council this evening confirms this property at 320th & 1st Ave is no longer for sale by the property owner and thus no longer needs a rezone. The city development director said the property owner didn’t disclose why. With NIMBYs like these, I can imagine.

An entire community and family are left traumatized and devastated by a driver killing a pedestrian, and as a society we are okay with them walking free as long as they cooperate with police and aren’t detectably drunk/high? Link to the Reddit thread: www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...

They're all really letting their inner Nazi out for a little dance. Gestapo, camps, show us your papers, yellow stars...

Big year for transit improvements in Federal Way. These changes also include higher frequencies for the 181, I believe.

Not only do you get to walk away, you can continue to drive which begs the question of why we issue licenses at all.

Signs installed! I appreciate the tow scare icon. My confidence residents won’t continue to use it as their private parking lane: next to none. But maybe it will help Federal Way PD not argue with me that cars can’t park on pedestrian paths.

Literal Nazi shit

"I never want to see third and fourth graders have to run away from our own government."

Sitting here open-mouthed at this Sound Transit board presentation, because it was just explained that making Ballard Link's Seattle Center station "slightly trapezoidal" would save the agency a HALF BILLION DOLLARS.

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Drove to Angle Lake PNR and it’s quickly filling as of 6:30am. Godspeed to all of us who have to work downtown today.

Of all the mornings, @sound-transit.bsky.social. 🤦‍♂️

The old guard did it. Kochmar (the instigator), Walsh, Hamilton, and Honda voted Moore out. Susan Honda had nothing to say about it all, which is very out of character, and accepted the nomination and won Council President.

This cowardliness to defend our immigrant neighbors shown by some in leadership has done one thing and that is to bring neighbors together to organize. They are showing up and out tonight. I’ve met more neighbors over the last few weeks than I have since moving here in 2020. We are all pissed.

Happening now — The Federal Way City Council is deliberating their first potential action in response to ICE enforcement: Punish the council president and strip him of his position for posting on social media in support of student walkouts last week. www.youtube.com/live/KzXOCBl...

Federal Way residents: Show up and speak out against this blatant power grab by the conservative members of our council. You should also email the council: www.federalwaywa.gov/city-council IMO, CMs Assefa-Dawson & Honda are the two votes I am unsure of & need to hear from the community most.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past. It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.

There are only ~7k signed PRO for this right now vs ~30k CON.

You should read this entire transcript -- the judge has clearly lost his patience with DHS and DOJ -- but you should also read the government attorney's meltdown in the full context, screenshots below. drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...

Evergreen post.

This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.

LUTC committee passes the rezone to be docketed in future comp plan changes. Moves to full council business agenda on February 17. They sound weary and are not inclined to move forward, but we will see.

It's unsettling how traffic violence is reported in the US. If the driver was going this street's speed limit of 25mph, there's a 90% chance this woman would be alive. But that's unmentioned. The driver was "cooperative." There will be no follow up. There will be no convictions. A life is lost.

These kinds of human scale, mixed-use Midwest dive bars are illegal to open and operate in most American neighborhoods.

The developer is D.R. Horton, and they are planning the min required amount of income restricted units with apts + townhomes that will line the parcel boundary against SFHs. The location is very attractive and suitable for a multifamily II rezone.

this is repugnant, depraved anti-American language and it’s a sign of how far we’ve degraded ourselves that it barely registers as controversial in mainstream discourse

Evergreen.

Leading democratic politicians should make plans to be in Springfield on February 4th

I have been reliably informed by members of this government that losing access to twitter is one of the worst things that can befall a human being so this may be the single harshest consequence they have imposed on one of their own