President Gustavo Petro says purchase of warplanes is a 'deterrent weapon to achieve peace' amid 'messy' geopolitics.

Mike Solan, SPD guild president, issued a statement openly questioning the validity of the votes for Katie Wilson. Solan's embrace of the far right & SPD's history of aggression could make a dangerous situation if the national guard is sent to #Seattle. www.theurbanist.org/2021/01/12/b...

I’ve been extremely alarmed with the lack of national coverage in mainstream news regarding loss of Continuum of Care funding. Every single city and town across the US is gonna see huge spikes in homelessness. It’s an urgent emergency

In 2016, I naively thought all the pictures of Bill, Hillary, and Donald partying together might force Americans to see the duopoly as one big party behind the scenes.

Having only read the quote before, it's wild that he actually says this in a sing-songy Trump cadence and does the little hands-in-the-air pause thing.

Harrell's campaign was backed by MAGA money flowing through IEs. Even Westneat wrote about it prior to the 2021 election. Harrell clearly doesn't want to be known as a MAGA guy, but he didn't mind associating with them or taking their money.

Harrell’s PAC got 40% of its money from donors registered outside the city of Seattle. Nearly 10% were from extreme-wealth enclaves like Medina, Mercer Island, Bainbridge, or even Santa Monica and Los Gatos. This is an underestimate because many Seattle-registered donors are lobbying group orgs.

The WORST people in Seattle are crashing out about mayor-elect Katie Wilson. Frankly, you love to see it VERY funny that Andrea Suarez thinks the reason Bruce Harrell didn't win is because he didn't give her and her jackboots the key to the city lmaooooooo

BREAKING: Bruce Harrell swept out of Seattle, personal effects discarded, after losing job.

One of the few times 18-24 outnumbers 65+ in an election. Make sure your vote counts!

Incredible. Progressive challenger Katie Wilson now has a 91-vote lead in Seattle’s race for mayor. She had been steadily gaining on incumbent Bruce Harrell. There are about 8,000 ballots left to count.

Stanford neoliberal doing neoliberal things.

the minute flights got canceled, Dems folded like a house of cards, leaving me to wonder why the fuck this post made some of you so angry

Hens coming home to roost

Sick story dude. I mean a Muslim democratic socialist just became mayor of NYC but I'm sure they were totally gonna make second rate Yale philosophy professors the number one target. Truly the most persecuted amongst us. God I hate this loser shit.

from 2003

What a weird timeline.

They used to. The Republican St stairs used to connect Cascade and Capitol Hill. Then I-5 came a long and dropped a concrete curtain through the city. Today only the top 1/3 remain

Unfortunately he is the funniest president possibly ever

Erica Barnett is always complaining that other outlets use her reporting without credit. Here she is again using our reporting without credit. She links to KUOW and every other outlet in this story, but here she links to OPA We were the only ones to cover this

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

EZRA KLEIN: this is a thing I have been struggling with. I don't want to live in a country where people making under $30,000 per year are harvested for their protein, but we do live in a country where 40% of the people want exactly that. And I must admit, the long pork is indeed so tender and juicy

Fare enforcement isn’t about revenue. It’s about keeping the homeless off transit

When we have the power to do so, I think the strategy should be to aggressively go after on-street parking. We should be depaving and reforesting the curb zone to see who’s a genuine tree advocate and who’s just using it to block housing.

The strategy of this article as far as I can tell was: 1. Boost the right-wing narrative that Kirk was civil 2. Boost the right-wing narrative that the left is "competitively" sadistic 3. Boost the narrative that the left needs a lecture on not doing political violence Great work!

I thought people were exaggerating, but no, it really is the case that liberal politicians posting platitudes about the Nazi Youth youtuber never posted anything about Melissa Hortman

Remember, "centrist" Dems and their wealthy backers tried to recall Sawant for making flyers for a public meeting.

remember when obama killed an american teenager by he ordering a drone bombing of a wedding? yeah, i don't either. so anyways, trump's venezuelan boat thing is an outrageous expansion of executive power

We agree with the policing cartel and City Hall that the consent decree should end. It did little and cost a lot. Moreover, it was undemocratic, enabling a single judge to usurp power over police budgets and "less-lethal weapons" from elected representatives.

The Everglades Concentration Camp costs 3x one of these trains.

Sprawling police surveillance is coming to Seattle. The Council votes on Sept 9 DivestSPD’s Justin Ward and Stop Surveillance City’s BJ Last talk about what’s at stake this week on the Burner Podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/17ja...

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

Dutch FM quits in frustration. His government stands with the famine-makers.

Supporters say ICE has already removed Chaudhry from the building, potentially to be transferred to the Northwest ICE Processing Center. They are calling on Washington State elected officials to intervene on his behalf. Chaudhry has been fighting his immigration case for two decades.

Agents have detained Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry, a disabled U.S. military vet and outspoken critic of U.S.-led war, after his naturalization hearing today at the Tukwila, WA ICE office. His wife, Melissa Chaudhry, ran against Rep. Adam Smith last year on a pro-Palestine platform.

BREAKING: Current and former Microsoft workers have started an encampment at the company's Redmond, WA HQ to protest its ties to the Israeli military amid the war in Gaza. A recent report revealed that Microsoft servers store intercepted audio from 1 million phone calls a day made by Palestinians.

We should try the Everything Guy: a buffed transman in lumber jacket shooting a machine gun at oil pipelines while saying we need to tax billionaires, end wars and fossile fuels, and dethrone the oligarchy to restore our families, be those straight or queer.