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.

We feed you. They hunt us.

My good friend has given so much of themselves to communities in WA State and made our world better. Now their world is kind of falling apart and it’s time to give back. If you want to know more about this fundraiser or ChrisTiana’s situation please let me know.

Excited for tomorrow night’s 43rd LD legislative town hall on Saturday 5/31 at Bulldog News at 6PM. Come thru! ✊🏾🏛️

Excited to join 43rd LD residents, advocates, and organizers at a district town hall I’m hosting on 5/31 at Bulldog News in the University District. We'll review the 2025 legislative session, discuss current local fights for the left, and preview next year in Olympia. Come thru!

Excited to join 43rd LD residents, advocates, and organizers at a district town hall I’m hosting on 5/31 at Bulldog News in the University District. We'll review the 2025 legislative session, discuss current local fights for the left, and preview next year in Olympia. Come thru!

Speaker Emeritus Frank Chopp passed in March and would’ve turned 72 today. He set an inspiring example for the Seattle left: you can be an organizer and a protestor who makes a real difference. I wrote a retrospective of his career in public life. www.thestranger.com/guest-editor...

Speaker Emeritus Frank Chopp passed in March and would’ve turned 72 today. He set an inspiring example for the Seattle left: you can be an organizer and a protestor who makes a real difference. I wrote a retrospective of his career in public life. www.thestranger.com/guest-editor...

Washington's rent stabilization bill, HB 1217, is now law.

Say it with me: Disabled people deserve to live even if they can’t work.

Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.

All this to keep our 13 billionaires and hundreds of millionaires (thousands?) from having to pay what they owe for the state and the workers they profit off of. All of this, on our backs, to keep them comfortable.

Today Governor Ferguson signed my document recording fee bill into law. By closing a big bank loophole, HB 1858 will raise $60m annually for shelters, low income housing, and homebuyers’ assistance for Black and brown families. Taxing the rich works and we should do more of it.

One of the first of many ‘no’ votes on austerity measures and cuts I look forward to taking as the 2025 Washington State Legislative Session comes to an end.

Washington State mega corporations are pouring money into a new neoliberal propaganda PAC, but it’s a shame all the cash can’t buy a better name: The “WA Coalition for Responsible Spending” should say what they want to defund: Higher ed? Behavioral health? Transit? All of it?

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.

Rep Scott says "Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper". Something that some of my colleagues could take into account. #waleg

Researching something and I just think that baseball people should stop talking about the people they're drafting as if they were racehorses. Idk, it just feels a little eugenics-y when they start talking about the bloodlines of people. Just, ew.

I am so thankful for Shaun’s leadership. We can be a better state with the proper resources to build back a social safety net.

ACTION Send a comment to your legislatures app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/2045 Make sure HB 2045 "passes in its most robust form, without huge exemptions for big corporations." We need billionaires (and corps making over $250,000,000) to pay their fair share!

Now that Governor Ferguson is on record opposing a wealth tax, the stakes for HB 2045 are even higher. Passing this corporate tax with no exemptions for billion dollar big businesses means fewer cuts to education, to healthcare, to the social safety net in Washington State.

Heads up WA peeps.

The "Boeing Break" went into effect after a special legislative session in September like 13 years ago, after Boeing threatened to take jobs out of state. They got the tax break and took a chunk of jobs out anyway. It's time to get that money back. Tax Boeing. Tax corporations. Tax the rich.

Boeing can afford to pay taxes. Please sign in pro!

Signing in pro is an easy action to take!

University of Washington is so pretty right now!

This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.

Did you know that Washington's #waleg House Democrats are proposing $1.9 billion in cuts to Health and Human Services funding? Neither did I!

No billion dollar mega-corporation deserves a tax break from Washington State at the expense of health and human services. Sign in 'Pro' and tell your reps to pass House Bill 2045 without a corporate giveaway that everyday Washingtonians can't afford: TinyUrl.com/WA2045

so, see how bernie is passing the torch to the younger generation? see how he's creating space for AOC by using his name, then allowing her to lead? see how SOME older people act like caring elders, and others act like half-dead, out-of-touch narcissistic control freaks? be more like bernie.

We’re tracking an increase in corporate cash flow as some big corporations look to block a potential tax increase led by Dems in #waleg. Also, another departure in Gov. Ferguson’s office, a response to our public-records request & a dive into a bill that could make it easier to build condos.

Happening now: The #WALeg Senate Dems are holding a press conference on their proposals to fund programs and avert harmful cuts on essential services by making the wealthy pay what they owe in taxes!

NEW from @stephenlerner.bsky.social: The riskiest course is to stay the course. To meet today’s threats, the labor movement needs a new infrastructure built for struggle.