notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

I. AM. SOMEBODY. ✊🏽 Rest in Power, Reverend Jesse Jackson. youtu.be/NTVwT3j_zqY?...

More dead bills: -abolishing solitary confinement -reducing sentences for youth -increasing access to free school lunch -ranked choice voting -surveillance pricing AI bill -fining NWIPC for not letting the health dept in for inspections -better collective bargaining rights for farmworkers

The interview with Talarico has been posted to YouTube: youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

You simply can't pretend to support immigrants who are under constant threat from ICE and simultaneously support throwing immigrants in jail for selling juice or tacos on the street. This is in Snohomish County, but King County (Seattle) is also obsessed with this. seattlered.com/washington-s...

hey housing folks - sign in pro for HB 1687, to include social housing PDA in WA's housing cooperation law (giving access to several benefits and exemptions) senate housing committee hearing for this 10.30 am on wed. feb 18th this is a big one folks, please boost! app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie...

You can't call every step of creeping fascism a distraction from kitchen-table issues and then punt whenever you have a chance to address the kitchen-table issues.

Good morning! 🌅☀️🕶️ Today would be a great day for #waleg to advance a bill that lifts the arbitrary 1% cap on levy increases, which is a MANDATED ANNUAL BUDGET CUT for local governments and school districts. Read about this issue here:

A million people turned out on the streets simultaneously. They went to cheer & scream for a team of football players who won #TheBigGame. Can we get a million people onto the streets of a city to sing & chant & hold signs in favor of our democracy? Y'all have practiced it now.

Per the Washington Post opinion page, it's "censorship" and "cancel culture" for some random private high school to rename one building guess this is what "focusing on personal liberties and free markets" looks like wapo.st/4bWkZzo

"The city’s new social housing tax, levied on lofty pay packages to pay for public housing, was due Jan. 31. The startling news was that it blew the projections out of the water."👏 www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Seattle fights back. @thestranger.com www.thestranger.com/news/2026/02...

Disband ICE and give their budget to the IRS Criminal Investigation branch. Surging these guys in the Hamptons and Palm Beach would reap the greatest benefits for the American public of any law enforcement action.

H.R. 1 dedicated $45 BILLION to detention center expansion and we know that ICE/DHS is ACTIVELY trying to expand their detention capacity in the Seattle area. That’s why I just introduced emergency legislation to institute a citywide moratorium to stop new or expanded detention centers in Seattle.

What are local electeds doing about conditions at the SCORE jail ? It is not enough to stand up to ICE while ignoring how our carceral state is failing to protect the health & safety of those impacted by system. SCORE Jail is in Des Moines; owned Auburn, Burien, Des Moines, Renton, SeaTac, Tukwila

K-Pod Yacht Hunters Chart with K-Pop Bop ‘Sunken’: tinyurl.com/43u47w72

I LOVE that the @mayorofseattle.bsky.social Instagram is crushing Bruce Harrell’s numbers when he had the account. Dude was using city social media as a campaign tool and couldn’t garner 1/10 the views of the People’s Mayor

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Right now, our state tax code asks the majority of us to pay far more of our income in taxes than the wealthiest. The Millionaires Tax would be the first step in fixing our upside-down tax code by having 0.6% of Washingtonians pay what they truly owe. #WALeg #TaxTheRich

Review Finds Multiple Police Failures Preceded Violent Response to Counteprotests During Anti-LGBTQ Event in May Police didn’t engage with community before the anti-LGBTQ event, weren’t familiar with Capitol Hill and its history, and referred to protesters as “transtifa,” the report found.

Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

Over two dozen Democrats decline to impeach Kristi Noem..the resolution- revealing intra-party divisions on tactics. We don't have a democratic party anymore...'half' of the Dems are for the People buuuut the rest are USELESS

Seattle Renters: join the fight for affordability! We are extending the deadline for the Seattle Renter’s Survey to February 20 and we want to hear from as many different communities as possible. Find all survey links below. English: forms.office.com/g/B1K37QsKt

A fact that sounds like bullshit but is actually true: There is more square footage of parking *per car* in the US than there is square footage of housing *per person.*

Back in 2018 we organized alongside @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social @carymoon.bsky.social @holz-bau.bsky.social Tiffani McCoy and AIA’s COHO folks around the Mercer Megablock. That land still sits empty! What will happen now?

What in the devil is this nonsense, Thriftbooks?! Looks like they'll never get my money again

have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship. Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

This should be deducted from SPD’s pension. Until cops pay for their crimes they’ll continue to abuse the public

NextDoor Creates Certification Program for Identifying Fireworks Versus Gunshots: tinyurl.com/mrwzrxwn

I said this before but Americans simply can not comprehend how much wealth there is. We constantly under project how much tax revenue we will raise from taxing the wealthy. The original estimate was $50 million.

Leon Botstein absolutely has to leave Bard College

It appears SPD deliberately failed to disclose its CCTV camera, located on the roof of a building near the East Precinct, as was required by Seattle’s surveillance ordinance.

I really need people outside of Seattle to know how much Krist Novoselic sucks

Tomorrow night the Federal Way City Council will hold a special meeting to potentially strip CM Martin Moore of his role as Council President, because of a Facebook post Moore wrote in support of a student walk-out opposing ICE. That post has been seized on by right wing media across the country.

Katie Wilson giving the Super Bowl champs the key to the city while Bruce Harrell stews on the couch of his lakefront mansion

They're torture camps

One way to judge a society's investments is asking: "what kinds of people and relationships will this investment create?" Sit with this question. Investment in repressive bureaucracies has become so normalized that we are desensitized to how far away from the best parts of humanity it takes us.

This moment demands a Democratic Party that breaks with politics as usual to take on the authoritarian in the White House and his goons terrorizing our communities. It’s time to turn the page on the Democratic Party that has failed to build the unified opposition this moment requires.

It’s been delightful to imagine how mad he must be that he doesn’t get to organize and lead a parade to celebrate the win.

it remains utterly delightful that @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social—who I bet has never watched an NFL game— gets to be Mayor Football and not the guy who constantly talked about his football career in the '70s, hired his football buddies, and dropped at least one football reference in every speech

For all his bro energy, Bruce Harrell in 4 years couldn’t deliver what Katie Wilson did in 6 weeks

it will never not be funny that Bruce "Football Reference" Harrell missed his chance to be the ultimate Mayor of Football www.instagram.com/p/DUcFCFUDHq6/

A growing number of U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) doctors, nurses, and officers are resigning rather than accepting deployments to the Trump administration’s expanded immigration detention operations at Guantánamo Bay. This story was published in partnership with @kffhealthnews.org.

Do you rent in Seattle? @mayorofseattle.bsky.social wants to hear from YOU! City Hall is conducting a renters survey to help inform policy, and deliver help where it's needed most. Share widely! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Wayne Barnett is putting his foot on the scale of justice hinder Wilson. Curiously he had to recuse himself from some Harrell ethics violations because his wife had been offered a job in the Harrell admin. Which explains a LOT. He is a walking conflict of interest

It’s on-brand for the conservative leaning @kuow.org that their promo for a discussion of the millionaire tax is “WA Dems want to tax every dollar of your income over $1M” That’s misleading & inflammatory to the point of a being lie. Truth is the tax is 10 cents of every dollar of income over $1M