COPE voting results are in: Washington State Labor Council announces federal and state endorsements for 2026 For the midterms, the federation is supporting a mostly Democratic slate for the Legislature along with every incumbent Democratic member of Congress except for Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. The…

In case you haven’t heard we are all boycotting REI until they respect the union. Please spread the word.

Happy Mother’s Day to this highly skilled, unpaid, under appreciated, and imperiously scrutinized labor force.

One student asked, “what do you mean sanitized?” and she answered, “well, voting is a lot safer and tidier than a riot”

My fav PoliSci prof called voting “the most sanitized mode of political participation,” explaining that voting is the only form of politicking that one does alone, as a discreet act. Politics is messy, she said, and it’s dangerous to let voting serve as our definition of political action.

vote, then demand. election day is just one skirmish in an ongoing war.

No public service (education, health care, public transit, postal service etc.) should be run like a business. Business only serves investors. Public services serve the people. All of them.

🚨Alert: APRIL 29 - SHELTON, WA Confirmed Immigration Activity #SHARE 📞We received information and documentation that ICE targeted multiple locations in Shelton, WA and detained at least 12 people. More Below 1/3

Happy May Day Brothers and Sisters

Getting AI to read to your kids is crazy. Don’t you want to do the voices???

Scoop: Gov. Ferguson’s sign-off policy is creating bottlenecks at state agencies, delaying public updates — including on bridge repairs, federal shutdown impacts and vaccine guidance. www.axios.com/local/seattl... #waleg

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

There are lots of verified details in this story and this is not the only allegation against Swalwell. Sexual harassment and assault is still far too common in politics until we take it seriously and hold people accountable.

Watching Sound of Music for Friday music night. We’re just starting Favorite Things, and the 9yo has already predicted with loud confidence that Rolfe & the Baroness are Nazis.

Using your debt, your search history, and your private data to decide how much you’re worth? Hell no. This is what happens when technology is built to serve profit instead of people. This is why every worker needs a union.

I genuinely do not understand management's refusal to agree to basic protections, like that they won't replace us with AI. It's baffling. Makes no sense. We're on strike to show management how serious we are about this, and how eager we are to get a contract done!

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

BREAKING: The ProPublica union is on strike today. The unionized staff at the non-profit outlet has walked out after two years of stalled negotiations. The workers core demands are AI protections, just cause employment provisions, layoff safeguards, and pay increases.

Lots of men have an irrationally over-inflated sense of their own aptitude for performing tasks they’ve never actually done. Some men insist they could win a fight with a goose. Me? I just know I’d be excellent at serving on a jury.

@joereid.bsky.social Ronin is a great movie. It is indeed very masculine. De Niro and Reno at their butchest (complimentary). Plus: Bean! Skarsgard! McElhonne! Pryce! All Mamet-ing at each other. And a car chase that weaponizes De Niro’s face by cutting to him looking legit scared as he drives.

My name is Séamas O'Reilly. Most of the time. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Movie night w/ the kids is West Side Story (1961). The (almost) 9yo is totally bought in. The 11yo is skeptical. “Why are they dancing? How do they know when to start snapping?” They both loved the abstract lines during the overture, w/ the match-cut to the manhattan skyline.

The shirts from @moxiest.art are here! My typical onstage look w/ the funk band is “blazer over political T” & I needed some new ones. These are gorgeous. I may need to get more…

Blue prince today: finally solved a puzzle involving a map w/ encoded directions, a book code, and anagrams! Solution points to *second* puzzle, requiring a contraption. Built contraption. Solved second puzzle! Revealing... …that a *third* puzzle is maybe more complicated than I thought.

An actual full time labor reporter job in the wild-- this is a great job if you're in the Northwest, very legit publication. nwlaborpress.org/now-hiring/

Pledged! Now I have a deadline for wrapping up the family D&D campaign by the time the physical copy arrives.

To my trans friends on Trans Day of Visibility: I wish you feel all the love and safety in the world, and more; but only as much actual visibility as you individually want.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Nichelle Nichols: Gene, you’re writing morality plays! Roddenberry: Shhh… they haven’t noticed that yet! Apparently some people never did.

Movie night w/ the kids is Last Crusade. Goodness, Harrison Ford knows how to wear a bow tie.

My spouse asks “do you feel seen by this?” and yes, yes I do. (She’s the one person in household the cat doesn’t bite daily)

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

Friday movie night w/ the kid is Charade. Wasn’t sure how it would go over, given its age. The 11yo finds it hilarious, appropriately. This is Cary Grant at like 80% of his peak powers, but he’s still impossibly charming.

I did not have a fire alarm on my #WaLeg sine die bingo card.

I played co-ed intramural soccer on a team that changed names each quarter, but somehow none were puns in this mode, and I now have some regrets.

“Affjordable” is A+ work. Thank you, Rep. Thomas. #WaLeg

Good for Rep. Street for reminding #WaLeg that, while the Sonics are indeed beloved, Seattle does currently have a multiple-championship-winning professional basketball team.

Good for Gen Z women for not having babies if their male partners aren’t going to share the work of raising them. Gen Z men? Listen up: The work of fatherhood is fulfilling, transformative, fantastic, meaningful. It’s hard, and it’s worth it.

I’m joining community & labor leaders to call for a state Millionaire’s Tax. To protect health care, housing, childcare & education, we need fair revenue – not more burden on working families.

What are your questions about the Millionaires Tax? I’m answering them here, live, this Thursday night at 7:10-8:00. Reply here with what you want to know! #AskWaleg

This is positive masculinity

I’m finally reading The Pushcart War, a book that somehow none of my elders put in front of me when I was a kid. Holy smokes. What a bracing, prophetic book. It’s about who gets to take up space on public streets, media manipulation, scapegoating, solidarity, & proletarian resistance.

NEW STORY // ICE’s Tacoma Detention Center Targeted in New Lawsuit Alleging Abuses Story by Amy Sundberg via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2026/02/18/i...

Earlier this year, @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social posted a poll that 61% of Washingtonians support a Millionaires Tax, including 71% percent of Democrats, 54% of Republicans, and 52% of third-party voters. People across Washington want this. #WALeg

Important to remember, in th context of the #WaLeg Millionaires Tax debate, that the wealthiest Americans are not the most generous.

Love Senator Pedersen reminding senators that the voters of WA approved of the cap gains tax on the rich, despite opponents’ hollering about it being an income tax. Voters didn’t just approve statewide: They upheld that cap gains tax in many of the districts represented by #WaLeg GOP senators.

Some personal news…

To be clear: these are rights that cisgender folks already have — they are, in fact, pretty basic to being human in this country. Expanding these protections to trans folks in no way hurts or limits my own rights, as a cisgender person.