My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

Costco buys their spines in bulk. www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

Increasingly concerning that the Trump Admin is obliterating data so we can’t document what they’re destroying. In this case, gold standard tracking of health care access, insurance coverage and costs. It’s a study that will help us understand the impacts of the Big Beautiful Bill.

i'm actually struck by how pete hegseth isn't just a cowardly man but a capital-c Coward. a guy who gets off on abusing and hurting people he thinks are weaker than him and then tries to run and hide when there might be consequences

Submit your resume today here or at the link in my bio: www.seattle.gov/mayor-elect #thisisyourcity

Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators

It's almost like when you tax the rich in a place you get to make that place a better place and even the rich just looking out the windows of their limos at most of that place in passing prefer to think "oh, that looks nice" rather than "I must prepare my bunker for the impending apocalypse"

Reminder that Trump’s guest at the White House the Saudi prince MBS is not only involved in the murder of a US journalist but he is also part of the Jeffrey Epstein Network.

Trump’s racial profiling ICE goon army is ripping parents from kids

No notes. Chef's kiss.

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal." JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"

There are 1,700 ballots that need signature confirmation. That is enough to change the election. Go. Check. Your. Ballot. komonews.com/news/local/s...

“After a year spent organizing to try to convince the Democratic Party to unify and oppose this regime, here’s where I am: The time for convincing is over. We need new leadership.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social Demand that your Dem senators call on Schumer to step aside: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

@thecinechick.bsky.social directed and we co-wrote this piece, narrated by @alexwinter.com and created by a fantastic group of Seattle filmmakers. Was a pleasure to help support a cause I feel strongly about as a former Tesla owner, as well as a lot of fun to joyfully resist with great creatives!

Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?

Trump tries to build a fake wall of inevitability around everything he does. Today, voters - literally from sea to shining sea - broke through all that, and this is just the beginning.

Good things are possible and we don't have to settle.

The absolute shit storm that is going to come for Mamdani, Muslims, anyone even remotely left of establishment Dems etc etc is going to be absurd. They will try to divide us. They will use race and religion as cudgels. Do not let them. The people united will never be defeated.

I don’t know if there’s a more perfect illustration of the utter fucking nonsense that creative pollution by AI will produce than this choice to illustrate the power of Paramount’s new “localization” and “customization” technology by face-swapping Brad Pitt into the lead role of GET OUT

Zohran Mamdani on MAGA billionaire, Bill Ackman, donating to the campaign against him: "He's spending more money against me than I would even tax him. Everyday is like a million dollars, I'm like, I don't even want that much."

“Companies sending representatives to the East Room event include Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon.com and Palantir Technologies, according to the White House.”

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode. Pedal to the floor.

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play go fuckin Huskies Nazi UW students fuck off

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

Suggestion: A strike of musicians, writers, hosts, actors, lighting, electricians--everyone, shutting down all TV studios, until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. This is the kind of action we need, instead of sitting around just waiting to be gutted.

Exactly this

Billionaire Trump donor Elon Musk owns X. Billionaire Trump ally Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post. With this acquisition, both CNN and CBS News would be owned by billionaire Trump donor Larry Ellison. Oligarchs’ monopoly over our media is spiraling out of control.

It is truly horrifying what is being alleged against the Trump administration in the Ghana case. Here is from an affidavit filed in the case today: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

WASH POST shows Republicans saying you can’t trust the CBO… after previously using the CBO to support their arguments 🤷🏼‍♂️

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When I met Ryan Coogler several years ago, we were standing in a group of people chatting, when a woman with visible hearing aids walked up, and he casually began to sign the whole conversation so she could participate. She mouthed “thank you”. He nodded and just kept doing his thing.

80-90% of polled voters say Direct File is a good thing. It is quite literally one of the most popular government programs in America. If Democrats cared more about winning than making their donors happy, they could win 8-10 House seats next year just with ads showing off this tweet.

Easily the best news I've seen in weeks. www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/26/i...

They need NYC and other large cities to be hotbeds of ethnic hate because places where most people go along to get along despite significant differences undermines their arguments and weakens their stranglehold on autocracy

A secret, never-mentioned fact is that the people who voted for Zohran are also taxpayers. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Watch this. Because this is the way: Local officials using their platform right, reaching out to the community. Ambrocio “Enrique” Lozano, affectionately known as “the popsicle man,” was reportedly abducted in broad daylight in Culver City. Masked man. White van. Cart left behind in the street.

This study on the impact of NPR and PBS stations, released by U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., highlights stations serve 13 million people in areas threatened by hurricanes, tornadoes, disasters where the stations are an important source of information. https://loom.ly/GzzWg0M

Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. www.wired.com/story/ice-de...

my dudes there's no such thing as "too late" to regulate AI, that's a fake idea. AI models aren't untouchable data gods, they're algorithms hosted in cloud storage. Saying we can't regulate AI is like saying we can't deplatform Child P*rn bc "it's already out there". Like, 1s and 0s can be deleted

Great point from @amandamarcotte.bsky.social: If Dems want to win back young men, one approach might be to stand up for what you believe. Even when, or especially when, they disagree with you. On the pod, Amanda is excellent on Dems and authenticity. Transcript: newrepublic.com/article/1971...

Schrier to RFK Jr: You gave Cassidy the answer he needed to hear in order to get his confirmation vote, then as soon as you were secretary you turned around & fired all 17 members. You lied. I also want to be clear that I will lay all responsibility for every vaccine-preventable death at your feet.

Marco Rubio needs to be asked whether he believes his grandfather who remained in the U.S. after receiving a deportation order from our govt should have been treated the way the father of 3 Marines was treated by ICE this weekend in California. ASK HIM. Make him confront his lack of character.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

U.S. spies and a U.S. intelligence agency—including Trump's own Director of National Intelligence—told the president that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon. He ignored them, preferring to listen to Israel and Fox News, and has now ordered the U.S. military to strike Iran.

My latest @theurbanist.org on the expansion of Flock license plate readers in WA state...and how the data is being used to assist ICE/DHS and search for people who have received abortions. An audit of the King County Housing Authority's Flock data shows it's likely been accessed for both purposes.

I’m struck by how little coverage there’s been of this story, because it’s a big fucking deal. jessica.substack.com/p/judge-repe...