📣 HAPPENING FRIDAY!! King County Parks, Wastewater, and Public Defense workers show up for King County every day. Yet, King County's Office of Labor Relations keeps saying no to their reasonable proposals. Join us on July 10 for a Solidarity Rally at Marymoor Park. RSVP here: bit.ly/rally4KCparks

Show your support for King County @seiu925.bsky.social workers' fight for a fair contract!! ✊✊✊ Join them for a rally at ➡️ 📍Marymoor Park 📆Friday, July 10 ⏰4:00 p.m. BE THERE!

If you’re in leadership in your dsa chapter, this is one of the most historic opportunities we will ever get as socialists. Take it seriously !

How can state officials proclaim their commitment to the Keep Washington Working Act and still allow federal immigration authorities to use DOL data to arrest Washington residents? @nickbrownnow.bsky.social @governorferguson.bsky.social @wadol.bsky.social @organizewithshaun.bsky.social

Capitol Hill is really where its at for #Pride in #Seattle

I still can't believe that King County is spending $22 million to mandate a RTO policy that will cost both taxpayers and employees far more, whereas Island County has cut the work week for employees by eight hours and saved $2 million in the process.

Today is DivestSPD's 6th birthday! Six years of relentless watchdog reporting Six years covering DVs, DUIs, and deadly shootings Six years of giving SPOG presidents heartburn. Help keep us going for six more years by subscribing to our Ko-Fi ko-fi.com/divestspd.com

This article from @ericblanc.bsky.social on Milwaukee's "sewer socialists" feels relevant today as DSA expands its influence in cities across the US. This passage reminds me of what socialists are facing in Portland right now.

I would argue for "Heartbreak City" by @organizewithshaun.bsky.social as something of a definitive history of Seattle through the lens of its sporting history, which has, since its founding, proven a pretty comprehensive metaphor for the municipal vibe as a whole

Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.

The people who preserve, protect, and care for our King County parks have been working hard to negotiate with King County management for the first meaningful wage increase since 2009. Please let King County Parks leadership know that Parks employees deserve a living wage! bit.ly/parkslivingwage

Jumpstart brought in a record high $400M last year, meaning companies are spending several BILLION dollars more per year on compensation in Seattle than when it was passed in 2020. This “report” is a crime against arithmetic.

#OnThisDay in 1968, the University of Washington Faculty Senate endorsed the development of a Black Studies curriculum. The action resulted from demands placed by the Black Student Union. www.historylink.org/File/1455

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Seattle DSA's (@seattledsa.org) Unionize for Trans Rights campaign is hosting a screening of Pride (2014), about the miner strikes in the 1980s UK. The screening will be Sunday, May 24 at 11am at the Beacon Cinema. Registration link: actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...

This session we saw the historic passage of the Millionaires Tax. We also saw a supplemental budget that disappointingly balanced by budget maneuvers and preventable cuts. Read our insights in our latest blog post: budgetandpolicy.org/schmudget/th...

I wouldn’t bet on it. The staggered implementation (collections begin 2028; revenue comes in 2029) has to do with the immense collection infrastructure needed to make the tax operable. Admin costs will exceed $100M annually. Big win for WA, but we’ll have to keep fighting austerity budgets.

Extremely niche surfer take, but for Surfer Magazine to run an article about the coming El Niño that doesn't salivate over the potential for monster surf but instead focuses almost entirely on risk to human life feels like a significant inflection point.

It's International Long COVID Awareness Day. I feel so many things. I mourn those we have lost. I mourn those of us who are bedbound or housebound and pushed from society. I mourn the lifeline research, funding, and services that have been cut by this administration.

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

#OnThisDay in 1937, the State Legislature passed Senator Pearl Wanamaker's School Equalization Fund Bill. historylink.org/File/9221 #WomensHistoryMonth

Everyone: Send mail to your reps here! app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...

In the next 24 hours, we can stop a proposed estate tax rate repeal in the Washington State Legislsature. Senate Bill 6347 would cost $200M in funding to early learning and childcare. Tell your state reps you don’t support balancing the budget on the backs of working families. Let’s kill SB 6347.

What a phenomenal book. Reminded again that Reconstruction didn’t fail, it was actively destroyed by people hell-bent on preserving the racial hierarchy of the antebellum South.

That the removal of a corporate tax break which would have cost the state $550M survives in this final income tax proposal is great news for everyday people of our state. As more Washingtonians make use of popular programs, we must continue pressing the issue of taxing corporate and personal wealth.

Explicitly capitalist media again shares a new piece that Long COVID is concerning, has no cure and again, embarrassingly, is doing better public health comms about this than most public health orgs. www.forbes.com/sites/omeraw...

Big technology companies scored a win in Olympia on Monday, as a sweeping bill to regulate data centers lapsed in the Washington state Legislature. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/03/02/i...

#OnThisDay in 1964, Marlon Brando joined local Native Americans for a fish-in protest at the Puyallup River. historylink.org/File/5332

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Great job by everybody who let their state reps know a $550M tax break for the biggest corporations in the world shouldn’t have been part of an historic income tax bill. This was a fight, and working Washingtonians won.

Just realized that if Democrats leave this corporate tax break in then Brian Heywood will cite it to try and get normie Democrats to oppose a tax on millionaires. It's a trap Senate Dems are laying for themselves and should be taken out.

Today I'm joining 12 of my colleagues in the State House of Representatives to deliver a message to the House Finance Committee: Washington can't afford to hand the world’s largest corporations half a billion dollars. Let's pass an income tax on millionaires without a massive big business giveaway.

An actual socialist running for bourgeois office has to have a plan for what to do when bumping up against that bourgeois order. If it’s always gonna be “aw shucks well I work for the state so I have to follow the state line” then I’m even less bullish on electoralism than I already was.

I think this means my bill to put a moratorium on new/expanded detention centers and jails is AOC approved! Council is voting on this 3/3.

State bill could end tax break for large digital lenders A proposed Washington State bill that aims to replenish lost wildfire prevention funding could end up removing a tax break currently benefiting large digital lenders.  Processing Content Rep. Shaun Scott, a Democrat from the Seattle area,…

ICYMI: In all three hours of the Senate's floor debate over the millionaires tax, not a single Democrat mentioned a half billion dollar corporate hand out baked into the text, let alone proposed an amendment to remove it www.theburnerseattle.com/post/no-one-...

The reason I’ll be proposing an amendment to remove the $550M corporate giveaway in the income tax bill is simple: To avoid these cuts to K12 and other crucial services. Washington’s working families can’t afford to hand half a billion dollars to businesses that already got a tax break via HR 1.

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men. This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries." "Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife" abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

In sum: Trump pushed and Congress approved a revenue bill that sawed Lincoln Tunnel-sized holes in the income tax with no replacement because of <<magic>> (tariffs they never approved), the imposition of which combined with a general belligerence nuked our relationships with our closet allies.

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

really sad about the death of rev. jesse jackson this morning and i'm gonna be writing something about it for @theringer. but in the meantime, a couple of recommendations. 1. @jamellebouie.net's piece from 2016 about Jackson's groundbreaking presidential campaigns. www.slate.com/articles/new...

If you simply disenthrall yourself from your financially crippling addiction to fairly basic food and beverages you too can one day own a house.

Own Edgar Lin explains the legal theory behind the Universal Constitutional Remedies Act, the law that states can adopt to protect the constitutional rights of residents against violations by federal agents. Watch and read more: https://protdem.org/3M2GO5W

Women in the West Bank face daily harassment by Israeli settlers and troops. While Israel often paints itself as more forward-thinking on women’s rights, its occupation crushes Palestinian women’s autonomy and exposes them to violence.

Republicans’ tax cuts shaved billions off Amazon’s tax bill, new government filings show. The company says it ran a $1.2 billion tax bill last year, down from $9 billion the previous year — even as its profits jumped by 45 percent to nearly $90 billion. More on Amazon's 87% drop in taxes👇

MomsRising member leader Salia spoke out in the WA State House Finance Committee in support of HB 2100 to generate millions in new, progressive revenue for child care, health care, and more. Thank you for your powerful advocacy, Salia! #waleg

Progress to be proud of on 3 bills I’ve prime sponsored in the state legislature: 1️⃣ The Wildfire Alleviation Support Act, which restores funding to wildfire mitigation with a tax on big banks. 2️⃣ NLRB trigger legislation. 3️⃣ The Well Washington Fund corporate tax to mitigate the impact of HR 1.

"state legislatures can authorize lawsuits against federal officials for violating the Constitution" @steveinskeep.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Starting last autumn we also saw student debt reduction offered in exchange for joining ICE. A country that provided these freedoms to everybody - actual affordable housing and free higher education - would’ve already removed the economic incentive to participate in a modern day slave patrol.