NEW: Advocates pressured Seattle City Council to propose a 365-day moratorium on data centers. But they've seen how the Seattle Process usually works in favor of corporations and the otherwise rich and powerful. The real work is just beginning! www.theburnerseattle.com/post/seattle...

NEW: Guest writer and DSA organizer Patrick O'Neill discusses the immense power of working people and invites you to Cal Anderson at 12pm May 1!!! www.theburnerseattle.com/post/may-day...

NEW: SPD appeared to use banned knee-on-neck restraint on pro-Palestine protester. Now community groups and elected officials want accountability. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/spd-use...

NEW: Reporters in Idaho and Washington are ready to strike, but they need your help take on the bosses!! www.theburnerseattle.com/post/idaho-a...

It's important to remember that, yes, sometimes good things still happen. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

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ICYMI: Seattle officials are considering a moratorium on data centers after more than 60,000 people sent them letters demanding the City stop four companies eyeing Seattle for five new data centers. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/seattle...

NEW: While the JRDs to block bulldozers and bombs to Israel ultimately failed, more Democrats supported the measures than ever before, including both of Washington State's Senators (yes, that means Cantwell) www.theburnerseattle.com/post/both-wa...

NEW: Advocates accused Mayor Wilson of failing to turn off a surveillance camera near a Planned Parenthood. She did in fact turn off a camera, but not the whole installation as advocates expected based on how she has previosuly counted cameras. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/did-may...

NEW: When the Senate considered blocking weapons to Israel in July, WA Sen. Murray voted "yes" for the first time. Now, as the Senate considers this again, advocates want to get Sen. Cantwell to flip on her previous votes supporting Israeli military www.theburnerseattle.com/post/call-yo...

Well, here's some news. Going forward, the Seattle City Attorney's Office will have a full-time attorney devoted to working on wage theft and worker rights violations. On the one hand, I can't believe we didn't have this before. But otoh, it's a positive change.

NEW: Masked ICE agents arrested an asylum seeker outside of his court hearing, marking a return to the predatory practice of lurking the halls of Seattle Immigration Court for the first time since summer 2025. It is unclear if it will become routine again. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/masked-...

NEW: Your landlord isn't just raising your rent, they are nickel and diming you with Ratio Utility Billing System. But Seattle Ban RUBS campaign says we are not helpless if we organize. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/guest-p...

NEW: Here are the emails that allegedly got UW professor removed from position as director of the university’s Middle East Center in full. Haven't seen the full text anywhere else yet... www.theburnerseattle.com/post/here-ar...

NEW: Airport workers planned a rally for health insurance, but Port of Seattle cops blocked them from delivering their demand letter and kicked them out. To some this shows the unionized cops limited solidarity, but others say the Port is the real enemy www.theburnerseattle.com/post/port-of...

NEW: The grassroots organization that Katie Wilson founded sent her a letter demanding she cut surveillance tech. They join a contingent who feel betrayed by Wilson who says she TECHNICALLY didn't break a campaign promise with surveillance switch up. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/the-adv...

NEW: Sound Transit CEO "absolutely determined" to get light rail to Ballard after considering plans to cut the station. It's just unclear when, how, with what money, etc. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/sound-t...

NEW: Renaming César Chávez Park to honor Dolores Huerta feels obvious, but a park can only be named after someone who has been dead for 3 years. That's not to say community members shouldn't keep pushing for it --- the City has made exceptions before. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/parks-r...

NEW: Mayor Wilson will "pause" part of the surveillance program expansion she opposed during her campaign, but the people who pulled off her underdog victory are not satisfied with an audit and axing one camera. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/mayor-w...

Bob Kettle pronounces the 'L' in Salmon, which comes up repeatedly as he talks about the Salmon Bay tiny home village

NEW: The same people who got Katie Wilson elected are collecting signatures for a letter demanding she turn off the surveillance tech she campaigned against. You have until March 17 to sign on. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/the-gra...

NEW: Sen. Pedersen voted against clawing back the estate tax, which he initially supported. He told The Burner that shrinking the estate tax was part of the horse trade for millionaires tax. His caucus had the votes to shrink it without him so he got to vote with his district.

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typo in headline has been corrected. it just doesn't reflect that in link. annoying!

NEW: 11 Dems in the WA House and Senate voted against the Millionaires Tax. Some can use the purpleness of their district as an excuse, but in all 11 cases, their constituents support taxing the rich more than they do their representatives as candidates www.theburnerseattle.com/post/taxing-...

Good op-ed here. There's no reason to take this "deal" with big corporations anyway. They are trying to get a huge tax cut at the expense of our public schools, while quietly hoping (and maybe even encouraging) right-wing activists to put it on the ballot and kill the millionaire's tax anyway.

OP ED: Lawmakers want progressives to clap for their corporate-friendly income tax, but with the House striking the bill's $550 million corporate handout, Tech4Taxes activist Fatema Boxwala urges you to tell your reps to pick the people over big biz www.theburnerseattle.com/post/the-mil...

shockingly people are capable of simultaneously, 1. Hating their government 2. Hating the people who bomb and sanction their country, making regular life impossible and murdering members of their family, even more

UPDATE: Mysteriously the day after advocates decided to register their disgust with the Mayor of Hunts Point for profiting off of the abduction of our neighbors, the City posted the agenda, cancelling the meeting!

NEW: Advocates want to pack the room at a City Council meeting in a tiny Lake Washington town and they aren't going to talk about pot holes. The Mayor of Hunts Point is also the president of the company that may soon lease office space to ICE in Tukwila www.theburnerseattle.com/post/ice-s-p...

The sales tax cut that was included in the Millionaire's Tax right before it passed off the Senate floor would result in a $157 million hit to King County in its first two years, hitting Metro and other departments including housing and mental health programs.

Washington’s budget has actually declined by 60% overall. Even though the state’s yearly budget grew from $22 billion to $37 billion (adjusted for inflation) over the past 30 years, it didn’t keep up with our state’s capacity to invest. Learn more: opportunityinstitute.org/blog/post/wa... #WALeg

BREAKING: A group of WA House Democrats is FINALLY taking a stand against the half billionaire corporate giveaway in the millionaires tax. They urge the House Finance committee to pass the tax WITHOUT a sweetner for big business on Friday www.theburnerseattle.com/post/group-o...

For the record, all staff at EOI are in strong support of the Millionaires Tax.

QUICK: Can I tap to pay for 545 bus?

NEW: Republicans point to more than 100k sign ins against the millionaires tax to prove its unpopularity. But supporters noticed something fishy. One of the co-sponsors of the bill signed in con --- twice. Now they allege almost 40k sign ins may be fake www.theburnerseattle.com/post/republi...

NEW: Mayor Katie Wilson needs money to pay for her ambitious 1000 shelter unit promise. Advocates write that she should look no further than the millions the City wastes every year on cruel and ineffective sweeps. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/if-mayo...

GUEST POST: Guest writer and advocate BJ Last breaks down the pro-surveillance propaganda in Mayor Katie Wilson's recent speech www.theburnerseattle.com/post/guest-p...

WA could pay for all these edu programs they plan to cut and MORE if they just didn't repeal the 2025 estate tax expansion...

Mayor Wilson Opens Mind to Adding Surveillance Cameras After Hearing They Can Help Find Lost Dogs: tinyurl.com/j8fhe8fd

ICYMI: In all three hours of the Senate's floor debate over the millionaires tax, not a single Democrat mentioned a half billion dollar corporate hand out baked into the text, let alone proposed an amendment to remove it www.theburnerseattle.com/post/no-one-...

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

that'll fix it!

NEW: Lawmakers removed widely agreed upon fact that an Israeli sniper killed Seattle activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi and the resolution calling for an investigation still got snubbed by 17 Republicans and 2 Democrats in State Senate www.theburnerseattle.com/post/washing...

NEW: Wilson signaled her most moderate posture yet on the controversial surveillance expansion she once opposed at her state of the city address. She used to argue that cameras don't improve safety, now she's "moved" by families impacted by gun violence www.theburnerseattle.com/post/mayor-k...

NEW: 3 Senate Democrats opposed the millionaires tax, employing their best progressive populist rhetoric to argue it doesn't do enough for working people. However, none of them attempted to increase sales tax relief or eliminate corporate handouts baked in www.theburnerseattle.com/post/moderat...

NEW: In change of heart (or at least re-election strategy) SW WA's Marie Gluesenkamp Perez votes with Democrats against the voter suppression bill she previously supported. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/as-elec...

OP ED: Sen. Jamie Pedersen push for his corporate-tax-break-riddled Millionaires Tax and no other progressive revenue reveals his continued allegiance to corporations over working people, DSA organizer Patrick O'Neill argues. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/wa-sen-...

NEW: No one has heard from Seattle organizer Frank Gabriel Yzaze Yegres since Friday when he said he would be deported this weekend. ICE lookup system says he's in custody, but won't say where. Advocates demand WA congressional delegation step in www.theburnerseattle.com/post/seattle...

Bob Kettle is a piece of shit.