📣 This race isn't over folks! 📣 Make sure your vote counts! Tap the link below to check on your ballot. ☑️🗳️: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has a 7-percentage-point lead (53.3% to 46.2%) over progressive challenger Katie Wilson. But there is a very good chance he will end up losing. 🧵 1/7

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

If you've stopped masking in public for whatever reason, now is a really good time to start again

Regular reminder that Covid & chronic illness activists are doing this work for free and with many with low spoons

The MAGA cuts to health care are raising costs for everyone. Working people getting insurance from Obamacare are going to be paying over $1500 more per year for the same coverage! Trump stole these tax credits to give the $ to his wealthy backers. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

TOMORROW is your last chance to vote champions for repro rights into office in Boise, Idaho and across Washington state. 🫡 If you haven’t voted yet, we recommend heading to your nearest drop box or voting center to make sure your ballot is counted. #IDLeg #IDPol #WALeg (1/2)

are we allowed to talk about how communism is good again yet or is that still, like, off limits

As we consult newspaper endorsements while filling out our ballots, keep in mind that in 1911 the founder of the Seattle Times called Washington's new workman's compensation law the "worst the legislature enacted" because it would "prevent new capital from entering the state."

NEW: The self-described "pro-Jewish" PAC that opposed an anti-Zionist Jewish candidate in primary just spent $20k on the Seattle School Board election, races that don't typically see outside spending www.theburnerseattle.com/post/pro-jew...

SNAP ending on 10/31 means that almost 1M WA residents would lose their resources to getting groceries, adding pressure to an already-burdened food system. @wadshs.bsky.social + Economic Justice Alliance put together a helpful visual on the destabilizing impacts of the scope of losing SNAP in WA:

Good question: I’m referring to the cost of administering SNAP as an extant program under HR 1, which (unlike the current government shutdown) doesn’t eliminate the program entirely. Figure comes from estimate by Washington Office of Financial Management. ofm.wa.gov/budget/resou...

Very important to not fall for the feigned helplessness of neoliberals in control of blue state governments: Fully administering food stamps would cost Washington at most 1% of its entire budget, and I have to believe it’d be even less for New York, California, Illinois, et al.

Rep. Scott is right: 900,000 people in our state losing SNAP benefits is definitely an emergency. Image with alt text:

Today I'm calling on @governorferguson.bsky.social to declare a state of emergency: the expiration of SNAP benefits for nearly one million Washingtonians will be a disaster for the health of many, and for the economic health of the state. We must join other state governments and act swiftly.

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!

Jamaica is responsible for less than 0.03% of global CO₂ emissions but faces almost unimaginable loss and damage in coming days at the hands of wealthy nations. It's heartbreaking and utterly damning.

Praying for the Jamaican people tonight. www.nbcnews.com/weather/stor...

The Marxist writer and activist Mike Davis died three years ago today. His left us an example of how to live and fight as an “old-school socialist.”

"If the SNAP program shuts down, we will have the most mass hunger suffering we've had in America since the Great Depression."

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Amazon enjoys an estimated $11 BILLION in state and local subsidies, largely based on expectations of job creation. Leaked documents show Amazon is working to automate 75% of the companies operations, eliminating 600,000 workers.

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

we need to abolish this shit

The Trump Administration can only use the economic desperation of everyday Washingtonians as an ICE recruiting tool if we allow it to. Let's talk about it at my "Tax The Rich" town hall on Saturday 10/11 3:30 PM @ Seattle First Baptist Church.

This is why "defund the police" was so important.

The Trump Administration can only use the economic desperation of everyday Washingtonians as an ICE recruiting tool if we allow it to. Let's talk about it at my "Tax The Rich" town hall on Saturday 10/11 3:30 PM @ Seattle First Baptist Church.

Major corporations spend buckets of cash to lobby the state legislature because they know many politicians will bend the knee to big business. At my office's "Tax The Rich"-themed town hall on 10/11, we'll talk about how to beat them and win for working Washingtonians.

Worth noting for WA, BTW: "House Bill 1321, sponsored by Rep. Sharlett Mena (D-Tacoma), requires the Governor’s permission for National Guard troops from other states, territories or districts to enter Washington, unless they are mobilized by the president." governor.wa.gov/news/2025/go...

It was clear from the beginning that ICE staffing up was going to be a full employment program for racists, barroom bullies and wife beaters

Feds cancelling a whole raft of manufacturing & innovation projects in Washington state, because WA is blue & the federal government has declared open war on half the country.

Only a few days left! We have a real chance to jump into this moment and shift things—please do!

With mega corporations getting a huge tax break from the Trump Administration, it's time for Washington State to get serious about taxing the ultra-wealthy. I’ll be hosting a town hall to talk about it with lefty voices and community leaders before the 2026 Washington State legislative session.

Tonight the University of Washington community is mourning the loss of professor Quintard Taylor. His 1994 book “The Forging of a Black Community” is foundational reading about race, class, and urban planning in Seattle political history. He will be missed sorely.

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Come on out, Seattle! Now is a good time to be in community - come join your neighbors in standing up for science and all the ways it benefits people and nature.

Justice Yu was gracious both times I asked her for an interview. Here's one of those stories. www.kiro7.com/news/local/w...

Good news, Divesters! The wait is over. Print editions of our Bad Apple Baseball Cards are finally on sale! All proceeds will fund our exciting new project: a statewide police misconduct database. Buy here: tinyurl.com/DivestCards

Washington fire crews - already operating with fewer resources after the State Legislature cut $60m from its Wildfire Response Account this year - are now suffering border patrol raids. We all lose when local austerity echoes authoritarianism. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

State Representative Shaun Scott rallies community support for proposed First Hill crisis care center at town hall style meeting Scott was joined by Seattle City Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck, comedian Brett Hamil, and Kelly Rider, Director of King County's Department of Community and Human…

NEW: 69 elected officials sign letter condemning Big Beautiful Bill and committing to immediate action. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/no-call...

“I’m not gonna cross a picket line and perform for money when people are hurting” -LL Cool J

💸Reduced access to childcare for working families. 💸College less affordable for thousands. 💸Rollbacks to repro healthcare, cash assistance, and postpartum care. Washington did that in 2025 without the “big, beautiful bill,” in large part because Ferguson opposed a wealth tax.

Over 100 people are here for tonight's Tacoma DSA meeting, listening to an incredible opening discussion from Shaun Scott, the first Socialist elected to the WA legislature in over 100 years, and riding on the wave of enthusiasm from Zohran Mamdani's NYC primary win.

We have a chance to amplify the perspectives of Seattleites who - unlike some members of Seattle City Council - know a new King County mental health crisis center in Capitol Hill would be a great addition to a great neighborhood. Let's drink, laugh, and talk about it on July 7 @ 7PM at Vermillion.

You don’t want to miss this!

Yes, please!!!

Representative Shaun Scott is a working-class champion and my own representative in the 43rd. I’m honored to have earned his sole endorsement—and I look forward to fighting alongside him for bold, progressive policies in our city and state. @organizewithshaun.bsky.social

We have a chance to amplify the perspectives of Seattleites who - unlike some members of Seattle City Council - know a new King County mental health crisis center in Capitol Hill would be a great addition to a great neighborhood. Let's drink, laugh, and talk about it on July 7 @ 7PM at Vermillion.