This is a hopeful outcome in #Burien. With a progressive majority on the council there is a greater chance to 1) overturn the city's camping ban, 2) Restore funding to REACH, and 3) replace the current city manager election-results-pdf.kingcounty.gov b-townblog.com/burien-polic...

On Mon, ICE violently kidnapped several folks in #Redmond while they were working. During one of these arrests, they broke their vehicle windows and dragged them out. This comes amongst a trend of rising #ICE activity, including here on the Eastside. www.king5.com/article/news... 1/

This hilarious video has been circulating in the comment sections of news articles about the race in #Woodinville, where one person (Jeff Lyon) is spending big $$ to buy seats on the council. The creator of the video is unknown. Background: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

It's been quite the year in local politics. Jeff Lyon is trying to buy an election in #Woodinville & in #Kirkland, the Cherish Kirkland-backed slate was recently endorsed by Judy Nicastro, the former council member involved in #Strippergate in '06. www.seattleweekly.com/news/nicastr... 1/

This is a great write-up from @typewriteralley.bsky.social at @theurbanist.org about the #Kirkland City Council candidates and their starkly contrasting differences, which will determine whether or not the council moves towards a reactionary direction. www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/28/k... 1/

With ballots due in just over a week, $$ continues to be dumped into the #Kirkland race. Michael Dunn, the President of Dunn Lumber & Discovery Institute board member, donated the maximum amount to Catie Malik & Ken MacKenzie's campaign's: www.pdc.wa.gov/political-di...

Who says local politics are boring? The man in the video who drove drunk and crashed into his neighbor's yard is #Bothell City Council Candidate, Mark Swanson. Warning: Strong language ⬇️ youtube.com/shorts/hAKbP...

Check out who our local Republicans are endorsing...the entire Cherish Kirkland, conservative slate for City Council. 1/

Cherish Kirkland has been spreading ugly rumors about 2 of the progressive candidates. Not only are these folks donors of the conservative slate, but some of them (including Jenifer Ohayon) have created multiple accounts, with which they respond to each other. ⬇️ www.reddit.com/r/Kirkland/s...

Just as community members & advocates warned would happen, CBP has accessed Flock camera data from multiple police jurisdictions, including #Renton & #Auburn, allegedly through a "back door". Despite these risks, #Seattle still voted to expand their use: www.king5.com/article/news...

An update on this. Since yesterday, the name of the voters' guide has changed from "Alt Progressive Voters Guide" to "Kirkland Voters Guide". There's also 2 ads being run for this, with a prominent Cherish Kirkland member, Jill Stoddard, paying for them.

It looks like "Sanity Kirkland" has rebranded to "alt progressive voters guide" and paid for it to be sponsored. They also have these yard signs plastered everywhere in #Kirkland. None of this is free, and printing alone can cost thousands. bsky.app/profile/alyc... 1/

What kind of supporters a candidate attracts says a lot about them One of Catie Malik's endorsers and a prominent Cherish Kirkland member, Jennifer Ohayon, who is also a Lake WA SD PTSA volunteer, has some very bigoted & hateful beliefs, including Islamophobia ⬇️

Local election🧵 This year's elections in #Kirkland are an important one. It will help determine whether the city continues to move towards the direction of being an inclusive community, or if it stays an exclusive place where only the wealthy can afford to put down roots. 1/

Both We 💚 Seattle's board member, Tom Wolf, & WHS are publicly calling for #Trump to send the national guard in to invade San Francisco. It's not funny, and it's not a game, yet here we are. It took only 10 months for We 💚 Seattle to be all in for authoritarianism.

Today #ICE kidnapped 3 community members in #Burien. No matter what happens, we must protect each other and look out for our neighbors. #ICEalert #AlertaICE #CommunityDefense #DefensaComunitaria #KnowYourRights #ConoceTusDerechos #Not1More 1/

#Kirkland City Council candidate Catie Malik decided to use the city's Safe Parking Program, which serves families, as a way to create tension around La Quinta She not only gave false info about the program, but was unaware that its founder has long advocated for PSH. 1/

The "debate" co-hosted by We 💚 Seattle was today. Katie Wilson's campaign was not there (they said she's feeling unwell), and Harell had a VERY friendly crowd. ECB live bluskyed the event, and captured what Harrell said about "unmasking antifa".

So far, 2 candidates have officially dropped: Alexis Mercedes-Rinck and Dionne Foster. None of the candidates were told that We 💚 Seattle was involved, and some weren't even asked beforehand. As of this writing, they haven't taken Dionne Foster off the advertisements.

Brandi Kruse & Let's Go WA were denied use of Tumwater Middle School's facilities for their anti trans initiative event, after giving them only 3 days' notice. They had it anyway, right outside, & called community members who showed up to protest them "violent terrorists" 1/

This is just awful. WIC was a lifeline for my family when my son was little. When I could no longer breastfeed due to health issues, WIC paid for the formula (which is even more expensive today). Now the program may run out of funding in less than 2 wks washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/10/01/w...

Kristine Moreland, who runs the More We Love, and Tom Wolf, a right-wing recovery influencer and We 💚 Seattle board member, were both participants at a Cicero homeless policy summit recently. Cicero has direct connections to JD Vance www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/08/hous... 1/

This is at least the second time Brandi Kruse has talked about "race wars" and "race riots" against white folks. That's not even a dog whistle; it's just straight-up white supremacist talking points, yet @kuow.org has her on anyway, which only gives justification to this racism.

After weeks of protests, critical reporting, pushback, and a sit-in at the CEO's office last month, Microsoft has finally announced it's cutting off the Israeli military's access to its cloud services. www.geekwire.com/2025/microso...

Cardi B didn't say that word with the hard R, and she's also black....But I guess we're at a point in time where it's cool again for white folks to say the word publicly, and laugh about it, with no repercussions. The video in question is from a Cardi B meet & greet at a mall. 1/

I have not heard any disagreements about this from those who call themselves "free speech warriors". Ultimately, "free speech" was always a smoke screen for censorship and retribution. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/t...

It took Brandi Kruse barely 24 hrs after Trump's "antifa" announcement to try to turn a local Indivisible group into the FBI.....a group that tends to skew white & older.

The opposite of anti-fascism is what?.... Yep #fascism. Welcome to McCarthyism 2.0 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We 💚 Seattle has been openly courting people with very racist beliefs. Voeten, a Dutch photojournalist who was just shown around by WHS, has open white nationalist beliefs (ex: believes in white genocide).

Thanks to the right-wing hysteria around a statement the North Creek HS Principal in #Bothell made about Charlie Kirk's death in the context of gun violence, there was a "protest' this morning outside the school. 2 grown men spent their morning screaming at staff & students 1/

"Just kill them". This was said on live TV regarding unsheltered people with mental illness. If the public looks away & normalizes this kind of genocidal rhetoric, it will quickly turn into genocidal policy, and we know what happens after that... www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

It's one thing to be shocked or appalled at how Charlie Kirk was killed, but that doesn't mean canonizing him or glossing over the awful things he said and did. He was a white nationalist who hated women, LGBTQ, and black/brown folks. This is his legacy www.thenation.com/article/soci...

There is NOT a race war and certainly not against white folks as Brandi Kruse is arguing here. A "race war" being perpetrated by black/brown folks against white folks is straight up a white supremacist talking point & core tenet of those beliefs. www.splcenter.org/resources/st...

According to @divestspd.bsky.social's reporting, DHS & ICE have direct channels to request data from FLOCK cameras from local PD's via obscure email lists run by SPD, without any oversight. Despite all of this, Seattle seems poised to expand FLOCK's use www.divestspd.com/p/feds-wa-po...

This is just shady Alexis Mercedes-Rinck was never even asked before Julius and We 💚 Seattle stuck her face and name on this event. That is NOT how candidate debates work. @ericacbarnett.bsky.social @claudiaforkcexec.bsky.social @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social

Catie responded to the question about this today and proudly said she stood by it. She's proud to say that trans girls and women are just "men pretending to be women". This kind of bigotry isn't what we need on Kirkland City Council. @fusewashington.org @thestranger.com

And there it is, We 💚 Seattle not only supports the armed invasion of cities by #Trump but blames the "crime" on "foreigners". Why is the City of Seattle giving *any* resources or access to a group that hates immigrants and sides with fascists? www.capitolhillseattle.com/2025/07/seat...

Melissa, the wife of beloved local veteran and long-time anti-war activist Zahid Chaudhry, who was abducted by #ICE, posted some updates on her Substack. He is still in detention, but finally moved from solitary confinement after 6 days. #AbolishICE melissa4congress.substack.com/p/what-kind-...

Kind of wild that these two inexperienced and harmful orgs (TMWL & We 💚 Seattle) keep getting contracts in the city, while established and trusted non-profits are getting pushed to the side. 1/ publicola.com/2025/07/07/t... www.capitolhillseattle.com/2025/07/seat...

WA DOL has finally stopped giving ICE access to their database, but only after auditing revealed that ICE had used this info to detain at least one immigrant driver for deportation. This is a massive violation of both Keep WA Working & public trust. www.king5.com/article/news...

This is just wild... Alexis Mercedes Rinck's campaign responded today that they were not sent an RVSP to this debate event before these advertisements went up. Foster and Zahilay said they RSVPd, not knowing We 💚 Seattle was involved. @ericacbarnett.bsky.social

Rally to #FreeZahid, a U.S vet and anti-war activist, is happening now outside the #ICE detention center in #Tacoma. His wife, Melissa, is speaking to the crowd about how his mental health is suffering b/c of the isolation they are keeping him in. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/08...

Reminder: Allies will be rallying tomorrow @ 2pm outside of the #ICE processing center in #Tacoma, demanding that they free a longtime anti-war activist & veteran, Zahid Chaudhry. Show up to support Zahid. #FreeZahid

Yikes, hope some of these candidates reconsider their attendance at this debate co-hosted by We 💚 Seattle. Progressive candidates shouldn't be helping them rehab their image, especially when they believe things like this ⬇️ facebook.com/1060545012/pos… 1/

Another beloved member of our local community, Zahid Chaudhry, who is a vet, was kidnapped by #ICE after a naturalization interview. Allies are holding an Emergency protest outside NW Detention Center in #Tacoma @ 2pm on Sun 8/24. #FreeZahid www.thestranger.com/news/2025/08...

Lake City Fred Meyer is one of my regular shopping stops. It's a small, caring, and vibrant community (which is a big reason why I shop there). This is such a crappy move by Kroger, and it feels almost like retaliation for the retro pay & wage increases gained in the new contract.

We 💚 Seattle, who gets a ton of uncritical news coverage despite their behavior, is turning their attention towards Lake City. Despite raising millions from corporate donors, they're asking for the public to give them $100k to act as "park ambassadors". www.fox13seattle.com/news/we-hear...

In a now-deleted FB post, Northshore School Board candidate, JoAnn Tolentino, likens teachers and their unions to Nazis. She also admitted to attending the Jan 6th insurrection. Calling her an extremist is an understatement. progressivevotersguide.com/washington/2... @fusewashington.org

We 💚 Seattle allying up with Chris Rufo is harmful, yet unsurprising. For context, Rufo has been on a multi-year quest to abolish the Department of Education and gut the Civil Rights Act. He now has a friendly ear in the White House. www.vox.com/23811277/chr...

Seen today by the #Seattle Center. #abolishICE