The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Hey @adamsmith.bsky.social ClearCube Technology (Cedar Park, TX) sells classified TEMPEST equipment to DoD, State, Navy. Their employee Patrick McGaughan is publicly justifying ICE killing Renee Nicole Good. Contacted the company, no response. You have Armed Services oversight. Constituent concern.

Seattle: Join me at Federal Building downtown for a press conference and rally ICE must be destroyed

Sounds like we could use some Cost of Living protests, nah any excuse for oil. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

Silver lining to the racist Somali daycare spam flooding r/SeattleWA: makes it super easy to spot the astroturf accounts. Hit my block limit in a single thread. Thanks for self-identifying, I guess? Makes my job easier.

Booooo!

Day 2. SPD still won't release video from Othello. I'd see this guy around, clearly struggling, I'd avoid him. Police knew him too. 14-hour scene lockdown? Bullet holes at the bottom of the locker? What are they hiding? We failed him long before they shot him.

Happy Thanksgiving! 🌽🫛🥔🦃 Thankful for ancestors who looked at Scandinavia and said "not miserable enough."

Seattle: If you're struggling with food, here's a current list of some available options, arranged by day of the week It's not totally inclusive, so check the site below for more options, or to donate/volunteer! www.seattlefoodcommittee.org

. @adamsmith.house.gov voted YES on "condemning socialism." He was the ONLY Washington Democrat to do so. Suzan DelBene: NO Rick Larsen: NO Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: NO Kim Schrier: NO Marilyn Strickland: NO Pramila Jayapal: NO Even the moderates had more sense.

What these 86 Democrats just did: They voted to create a rhetorical weapon that can be used against: - Medicare for All - Public banking - Worker board seats - Wealth taxes - Social housing - Universal childcare Every progressive primary challenger just got their opposition research handed to them

One significant way to fix the federal deficit? Dramatically raise the minimum wage across our country. It will cause an increase in tax collections, much less people on federal assistance, and health outcomes will improve causing less reliance on federal health programs.

The need for independent sources of information and analysis from people in our communities has never been more obvious, so I put together a lil starter pack of people I’ve been following to stay connected to Cascadia politics for anyone else to grab from go.bsky.app/S9Vjn2k

Premiering a video now highlighting some dogshit reporting done in my State where the Washington State Traffic Safety Commission mouthpiece joined a local Fox News affiliate to misinform the public about Motorcycle safety www.youtube.com/watch?v=690E...

. @tasslefizney1.bsky.social You're either confused or deliberately dishonest. Bernie Sanders opposes AIPAC money in politics. Jewish Voice for Peace opposes AIPAC. IfNotNow opposes AIPAC. Are they antisemitic? No. Neither am I.

Disgust at nude beaches polls horribly in Seattle because Seattleites don't police other people's bodies. But millionaire donors do. And Harrell listened to them. Katie Wilson focuses on rent and healthcare. You know, things that actually affect working people. Thankful she's our mayor apparent.

You're right Golden's retiring. The others? Let's look at facts: Norcross: Problem Solvers member + US Chamber fundraiser attendee Gottheimer: $500K+ AIPAC, co-chairs w/ election denier Fitzpatrick Stevens/Craig: Problem Solvers = No Labels creation Individual accomplishments ≠ no corporate capture

FUKIN GOTTEM

Exactly this. Republicans were exhibiting a classic hostage-taking strategy. Call them out on this. It's a monstrous thing to do to use starving kids as a political tool, but *especially* when you consider they did it to ensure that healthcare costs would go up. Truly evil shit.

🧵 Okay so yesterday's vote has me needing to share something. I've been tracking these 8 Democratic senators for months, and yesterday's surrender on healthcare wasn't surprising—it was predictable. Let me show you why: #Healthcare #CorporateDemocrats 1/12

NYC's new mayor beat billionaire-backed opposition. He put Lina Khan, who fought Amazon, Meta, and Big Pharma at the FTC, on his transition team. This is what #WorkingDems looks like. www.msnbc.com/top-stories/... #Seattle #SeaPol

Dems after winning: "Voters want us to fight!" Dems during shutdown: "Let's negotiate with Republicans holding the government hostage." Meanwhile, workers go unpaid. Federal services shut down. But bipartisan unity on... capitulation. #WorkingDems demands better.

ELECTION NIGHT: While Seattle counted votes, Harrell fired SPD's top civilian leaders. Maxey & Boatright spent 10 years navigating federal oversight—Judge Robart specifically praised their accountability work. Replaced with "his own people" from Madison. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The astronauts have it right - most punditry IS out of touch. Here's what's in touch: Working people need healthcare, housing, & wages that work. Period. I don't care if that's "left" or "center" - I care if it's real. Whoever fights for working class dignity has my support. Let's go. 💪

First ballot drop: Wilson 46%, Harrell 53%. We've seen this movie before. Thread 🧵👇

Douthat claims Republicans 'moved to the center', but look at actual policy, not rhetoric. Trump's tax cuts benefited corporations and the wealthy. He rolled back labor protections, gutted environmental regulations, deregulated Wall Street. That's plutocracy with populist branding.

Seattle Times: Young voters supporting affordable housing = "suicide bombers" Politician raiding $287M from affordable housing = "pragmatic" Then disabled comments. This isn't analysis, it's gatekeeping declaring which voters are legitimate and which are extremists. Echoing the voice at the top.

Both miss the point. The debate over "participate vs boycott" keeps us fighting about HOW to engage rigged systems instead of WHY our participation never threatens wealth concentration. Real power comes from organizing workers, building alternatives, & disrupting profit extraction—not voting harder.

So ~strange~ that the Seattle Times didn't run an op/ed when most of the centrist candidates skipped the Seattle Human Services Coalition forum, presumably figuring it wasn't worth their time to hear from and speak to a more left-leaning audience. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/seat...

Let's follow Seattle's money: CUT: Rental assistance, 128 shelter beds, tenant services RAISED: Police starting salary from $83K to $118K (42% in 5 years), surveillance budget by $3.1M Homelessness rate? Unchanged. Just more aggressively policed.

Bumping this out of thread because it's another example of taking a tax passed for a specific, targeted purpose (improving public health, particularly in poor and BIPOC neighborhoods) and converting it to an all-purpose slush fund to close a general-fund gap. This used to be a very big deal.

From admins to agents: if you work for ICE, you're not a good person.

Powerful piece. The key insight: Harrell worth $15M told struggling Black entrepreneurs at Columbia Tower Club to stop asking for help and just "compete." Meanwhile he raids affordable housing $ for wealthy donors. Representation without material change is theater. We need accountability.

San Francisco's automated speed cameras after 6 months: • 50% drop in extreme speeding • 36% reduction in violations overall • System PAYS FOR ITSELF through tickets • Zero staff monitoring needed (fully automated) • Revenue funds more safety improvements This is what actual Vision Zero looks like.

Not lost on everybody, but the pattern runs deeper than irony. Remember when Ezra Klein interviewed Ta-Nehisi Coates about his book comparing Israel to Jim Crow? Klein kept asking: "Can you engage with Israeli democracy?" Coates kept answering: "I'm analyzing domination, not democratic processes."

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

This is the playbook: 1) Manufacture crisis narrative 2) Deploy extraordinary power 3) Media debates if crisis justifies response 4) Actual abuse becomes footnote 5) Precedent set for next time. We're watching Step 3. Seattle is probably next.

🧵 This New Yorker cartoon about time travel just became the most important political metaphor of our moment. "Remember not to do anything that may alter things—you know what? Never mind. Go for it." Let me explain why this matters:

The Seattle Times calls her a "policy-minded advocate." Working families call her the reason they got $15/hour. Transit riders call her the reason ORCA LIFT exists. Housing advocates call her the author of progressive taxes. Katie Wilson doesn't advocate—she DELIVERS. #KatieForSeattle

The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation

You voted to honor Charlie Kirk, a billionaire-funded propagandist. Then you wrote about "fixing democracy" without mentioning corporate money, lobbying, or any actual source of corruption. This is exactly the problem.

27 choices you must make to succeed

Publisher's claim: "only include the original Founding Fathers' docs, Amendments 11-27 came later" Decoded: "We prefer the version of America where: - Slavery was legal - Women couldn't vote - Black people were property - Presidents could serve unlimited terms - Democratic rights were narrower"

The same people threatening Jayapal are Charlie Kirk's audience, the people you voted to honor. You're condemning the violence while legitimizing the ideology that creates it. Pick a side. Jayapal voted against Honoring Charlie Kirk, grow a spine and fight for progressive ideals, not centrist meh.

The parallels between Kent State and Portland are chilling: 1970: Rhodes calls protesters "revolutionaries," "brown shirts" → National Guard shoots 4 students 2020: Federal agents in unmarked vans "kidnap" protesters 2025: Trump authorizes "FULL FORCE" with MILITARY 1/4

At this point, any Democrat who votes to keep this government open without extracting very serious concessions — RFK’s resignation, ICE rollback, Epstein Files release, etc — will absolutely face a primary challenger who will set fundraising records.

Who thinks the 2/3rds of Democrats who voted to Honor Charlie Kirk are part of the problem? The call is coming from inside the house.

42% of children lose health coverage at some point by age 18. This isn't a 'market failure', it's the system working exactly as designed to create medical debt and force families into expensive private insurance. Healthcare instability = healthcare industry profits. #HealthcareJustice #MedicalDebt