This really struck me. If Uber were legally acknowledged as an employer, then it would be the biggest employer in the world, with over 9,000,000 employees globally. Think about how many taxes, wages, and protections are being lost b/c of their intransigence.

This Friday 11/14!

A Fistful of Loud: Seattle Neighbors Build Whistle Kits to Protect Immigrants From ICE

Seattle Neighbors Build Whistle Kits to Protect Immigrants From ICE share.google/Hrx677HzfH3v... "ICE relies on shock tactics and moving in very quickly … it turns [an] otherwise pretty silent abduction into a loud, highly visible opportunity for neighbors to rally." @wawhistles.bsky.social

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Seeking wealth is always a sign of cultural/emotional/spiritual impoverishment. Most people just want enough to be free from worry, have some fun, do only work we find satisfying, maybe travel. If you want wildly more than that, it's a real flag. #MuskMustFall #TeslaTakedown

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Love this! SUCH a smart effort from WAND (Washington Neighborhood Defense), helping small business owners keep ICE the hell away from their employees.

If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead. He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.

Concerned about climate, affordability, water, surveillance? Join us on November 19 and December 8 (6pm, Prospect Church) for the first two iterations of the People's Forum on AI. Come learn more about the dystopian trajectory the tech overlords have us on, and WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT!

My ballot was counted this year, but in a previous election is was rejected and I had to fix it — just took a couple of minutes. Make sure yours was counted Seattle! info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

Attn: @governorferguson.bsky.social!

Hot tip: save your local rapid response hotline to your Favorites WAISN (WA statewide): 844-724-3737 Eastside for All (East King County): 425-361-0808 LULAC SW WA: 503-388-5356

Concerned about climate, affordability, water, surveillance? Join us on November 19 and December 8 (6pm, Prospect Church) for the first two iterations of the People's Forum on AI. Come learn more about the dystopian trajectory the tech overlords have us on, and WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT!

This, right here, is the most important story not nearly enough people are paying attention to.

too big to fail speedrun

Attn: @governorferguson.bsky.social!

Fuck you forever, Elon Musk....and your little doge (minions) too.

If you haven't already watched this, take 17 minutes to get a refresher on just why you hate Elon Musk so much - one of the big (and under-told) stories in the world right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT...

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day. Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

Seattle! DROP OFF (ideally) or MAIL YOUR BALLOTS TODAY! Tomorrow may not count! "The U.S. Postal Service may not postmark returned ballots on the day they’re first collected"

Amazing piece by an organizer in Chicago. organizingmythoughts.org/they-came-fo...

Tomorrow!

This #FederalBuildingFriday support federal workers & immigrant community members - join our Halloween Costume & Sign Parade! Palmira Figueroa will share about the @ndlon.bsky.social Vigil being held on Saturday, November 1 vigil at Home Depot in SODO. #immigrantrights #troublemakers #goodtrouble

WA Neighborhood Defense (WAND) Business Mobilization efforts were detailed in the South Seattle Emerald last week. We want to equip every neighborhood with the information they need to handle ICE when they arrive in the Seattle area. #knowyourrights southseattleemerald.org/news/2025/10...

This #FederalBuildingFriday support federal workers & immigrant community members - join our Halloween Costume & Sign Parade! Palmira Figueroa will share about the @ndlon.bsky.social Vigil being held on Saturday, November 1 vigil at Home Depot in SODO. #immigrantrights #troublemakers #goodtrouble

We've learned from Chicago folks: If you see ICE lurking: Blow your whistle intermittently If ICE is kidnapping someone: Blow your whistle continuously If you hear a whistle: Get to safety if you need to OR Follow the whistle to form a crowd Stay nonviolent, don’t stay silent! #WAWhistles

This one broke the internet, then kept right on going into the mainstream news, too! This incredible fake ad was created by @laceyleavittgray.bsky.social with help from @troublemakers.bsky.social and a voiceover from the most excellent @alexwinter.com! #TeslaTakedownAwards #TeslaTakedown

We've learned from Chicago folks: If you see ICE lurking: Blow your whistle intermittently If ICE is kidnapping someone: Blow your whistle continuously If you hear a whistle: Get to safety if you need to OR Follow the whistle to form a crowd Stay nonviolent, don’t stay silent! #WAWhistles

When @defundmusk.bsky.social and @troublemakers.bsky.social showed up at Electrify Expo in Seattle, they needed a chant to encourage people to buy any EV... But not a Tesla. Our panel thought they nailed it 🤘 #teslatakedownawards youtube.com/shorts/adp2x...

THE WAIT IS OVER! It's time to VOTE in the #TeslaTakedownAwards. 150+ signs were nominated, and our volunteer panel had one helluva job narrowing it down to just 10 finalists. Check them out, then head over to vote for your faves in all categories awards.teslatakedown.kinsta.cloud/teslatakedow... 🧵

We've all heard the rumors that this was coming. Whether Amazon is truly replacing employees with AI, or just trying to show that that's what companies can do when they use AI...it's one of many reasons we're concerned about Amazon's use of AI, and why we're standing up. www.seattletimes.com

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

A rainy, yet energetic day down at the federal building! Huge thanks to everyone who came out, and for bringing your energy and commitment- rain or shine!✊🏼 Thank you, @wawhistles.bsky.social for distributing neighborhood defense whistles! #immigrantrights #federalbuildingfridays #dumptrump

Protect your neighbors! #AbolishICE

Mark your calendars, Seattle! We're excited to be part of this. As it stands, data centers are a climate disaster, an electricity & water justice disaster, & deeply problematic politically & socially. Let's make sure machine learning proceeds with the right guardrails!

again saying the political response of local police depts probably worth following given Trump's efforts to federalize policing

“You have this narrative that data centers are needed and will make us rich and thriving, but this is a real crisis.” 🧵

The way the AI companies treat these contractors tells us everything we need to know about the future of abundance, creativity, and leisure that they say they have in store for us. Their project is a monstrosity.

The clean tech world has been absolutely vibrating with excitement about this project, which (a) is being used as part of 'enhanced oil recovery', a system for increasing oil extraction and (b) is selling carbon offsets for its "avoided emissions", which are used by polluters to delay action

Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970 The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23 They constantly let America down

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

Some lovely Troublemaking happening here! Sign the pledge to boycott T-mobile (& Ting & @credomobile.bsky.social, which just switched TO the T-mobile network). They may all be sketchy, but anything enriching Musk is THE VERY WORST. tmobileboycott.org

Good advice! But we'll amend it to: DEFINITELY go to a No Kings protest.

Some lovely Troublemaking happening here! Sign the pledge to boycott T-mobile (& Ting & @credomobile.bsky.social, which just switched TO the T-mobile network). They may all be sketchy, but anything enriching Musk is THE VERY WORST. tmobileboycott.org

I shared this a year ago and it we keep getting more evidence why this is so important.

This is real. Chicago today.

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.