Join us for Budget Matters 2025, Nov. 12 at Northwest African American Museum, a policy summit focused on Keeping a steadfast vision for a just economic future. Learn more & register now: budgetmatters.org Más información sobre y registrarse ahora!: budgetmatters.org/inicio/

The pressure on KOMO 4/Sinclair advertisers is working. Seattle Theater Group and Seattle Opera say they are no longer advertising on KOMO. More info on companies that advertise on KOMO is here: www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...

We’ve raised over $50K in the last ten days for the Sameer Project 🙏🙏🙏 We are not and never will be a “501c3” We have no fiscal sponsor This has all been done by a small group of friends and comrades Don't underestimate what you can do with the people around you

From Open Books: ✨ New match! An anonymous donor has offered to match $2,500 in zakat. That's $5k for the Sameer Project to continue their urgent live-saving work! Share & support 🌿 to get this match met asap ✨✨✨ Donate from $10 here: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...

So there’s a lot to say on the EO, but there are so many vestiges of slavery in US society that are so central to the national project and I think we need to be even more clear about the stakes and being intolerable to these horrific and harmful policies.

Fun news: Evan Walker is re-joining our team as senior policy analyst! Evan helped build B&PC's policy work on legal financial obligations, and they're returning to our team to grow our criminal legal reform work - to support people impacted by the carceral system. Welcome back Evan 💙

i don't think we are giving enough smoke to george w bush, who created DHS, CBP and ICE

Dear Editors — If you’re considering publishing an article about issues related to transgender people, then perhaps you should consider assigning that article to a transgender journalist. Don’t have any transgender journalists in your newsroom? @transjournalists.org has several valuable resources:

We're so happy to be hosting this workshop with our friends at @refaatlibrary.bsky.social on December 15, 7-9pm EST, where they'll teach people how to start their own mobile liberation library! Proceeds to the @sameerproject / sign up here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/hif...

All proceeds will go the Sameer Project's Refaat Alareer Camp, which you can read more about and donate to here: tinyurl.com/sameerproject-central

I also want to be clear that it’s anti-capitalist, anti-imperial, anti-fascist, end US and all settler colonialism/imperialism, end genocide(s), and fuck Israel and Zionism over here too. And I’m a student of “beyond abolition” and Afropessimism. And fuck the Empire!! ✌🏽✌🏽🧡🧡

“America’s liberal democracy has always harbored fascism as its whip, noose, truncheon taser, rifle—wielded to motivate the South to embrace its liberalism, even as it maintains Blackness as capital.” ✍🏾: Yours Truly Read more at scalawagmagazine.org/2024/11/elec...

I’m not abandoning the Twitter hell flames, but I also don’t think this platform is store-bought.