NEW: People ages 65+ make up about 13% of the county population but almost half of the voting power. Get to the fucking ballot box, young people! www.theburnerseattle.com/post/young-p...

NEW: Gov Bob Ferguson is getting called the fuck out for his pathetic response to SNAP benefit cuts. And he deserves it! He's putting up like $2 per SNAP recipient a week, whereas Mayor Bruce Harrell is spending almost $14 a week per recipient. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/gov-bob...

INBOX: Harrell people are so excited that Katie Wilson felt the issue of encampments was more nuanced than a simple yes or no, but like she can't audibly hyperlink to the 3,000 word think piece she wrote about What The Left Gets Wrong About Homelessness that neuters this attack

NEW: The self-described "pro-Jewish" PAC that opposed an anti-Zionist Jewish candidate in primary just spent $20k on the Seattle School Board election, races that don't typically see outside spending www.theburnerseattle.com/post/pro-jew...

NEW: Katie Wilson doesn't have a fucking bed frame, stop acting like she's a champagne socialist lol www.theburnerseattle.com/post/katie-w...

Over on Insta - @joemallahan.bsky.social has a video that should disqualify Harrell from ever being in office again. We don't need someone who stands with abusers, time after time, and makes jokes to deflect responsibility for it. Vote for Katie Wilson

NEW: YOUNG PEOPLE GET YOUR BUTTS TO THE BALLOT BOXES. So far, only 10% of ballots come from voters under 35. And overrepresentation of older voters could be the difference between Katie Wilson and Bruce Harrell 2.0. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/voters-...

NEW: Mayor Bruce Harrell is taking a BIIIIIG victory lap over SPOG contract, but @DivestSPD writes that the City got fucking fleeced. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/city-ce...

NEW: Council President Sara Nelson wants you to think she's the candidate to fight Trump, but she's also the candidate courting his supporters. She's running her campaign ads on far-right channels Fox News and Newsmax. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/council...

HOLY FUCKING BASED: Eddie Lin proposes REPEALING sales tax hike and replacing it with capital gains, a tax that doesn't screw over poor people. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/council...

INBOX: I'm cackling. The Harrell campaign is pretending that the mean things progressives (including me) said against his policy of consistently defunding affordable housing are actually about Katie Wilson. A+, incredible crash out, I'm-rubber-your-glue. Honored to be nominated.

OUTRAGEOUS: City Council approved the Mayor's sales tax increase knowing full well we already have the highest sales tax in the country and they have a LIST of progressive options to choose from instead www.theburnerseattle.com/post/city-co...

UNFOLLOW ME

NEW: Amazon just fired a Palestinian worker. I'll give you one guess as to why... www.theburnerseattle.com/post/amazon-...

NEW: The Seattle School Board voted down a pilot program to bring a cop to Garfield High School, but they also foiled an internal plan to use education dollars to pay for 15 cops at Seattle schools, according to public records. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/seattle...

it's @hannahkrieg.bsky.social bday today!!!!!!! venmo her:https://account.venmo.com/u/hannahkriegg buy a subscription to The Burner!!!!! www.theburnerseattle.com

NEW: Sara Nelson is "fact-checking" attacks made by an IE backing her opponent, but she really can't do much more than deflect and "well, actually." www.theburnerseattle.com/post/fact-co...

NEW: Lawmakers allow rents to rise three times as fast as minimum wage --- if you're lucky enough to be subject to rent stabilization at all! www.theburnerseattle.com/post/washing...

AMR supremacy. Most popular City Council Member by miles. Pack it up, Kettle

THE BURNER IS 9 MONTHLY SUBSCRIBERS AWAY FROM ITS SEPTEMBER GOAL! If you have $6 a month to spare for local, leftwing journalism, please join the ko-fi today! Ko-fi.com/hannahkrieg

NEW: The IE supporting Mayor Bruce Harrell just hit $1 million, obliterating Wilson's sub $100k IE. Will the election go to the highest bidder or will Harrell's opposition generate enough outrage over the naked attempt to buy the election to backfire? www.theburnerseattle.com/post/the-ult...

NEW: Mayoral candidate Katie Wilson is boycotting KOMO until Sinclair reinstates Jimmy Kimmel. Instead of joining her, Harrell's calling her advocacy for free speech opportunistic and hypocritical. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/mayoral...

Mayor Bruce Harrell's budget proposal shows his priorities. He'll divert money from a fund earmarked for affordable housing, but no belt-tightening for the cops! www.theburnerseattle.com/post/mayor-h...

Brady Walkinshaw: hold my beer

NEW: Only three WA members of congress voted "no" on a political gotcha, posing as a condemnation of political violence, that mostly just praises Charlie Kirk. They all co-sponsor a different resolution that condemns all political violence. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/only-th...

NEW: WA Reps. Gluesenkamp Perez + Schrier betrayed their party to help Trump tighten his fascist grip around D.C. Gluesenkamp Perez also voted to try 14 year olds as adults in D.C. Don't expect them to protect us when the crackdown comes to the other WA. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/wa-dino...

NEW: Some hoped the KCE race would be an opportunity for two strong progressives to sharpen each other, but a recent poll suggests Grimay Zahilay will face the same tired, right-wing attacks tying him to "Defund" and Kshama Sawant. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/recent-...

Hi @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social, we're friendly, we've been on each other's shows. We both agree Kirk's murder is horrific. Q: was Kirk "practicing politics in exactly the right way" when he called for me to be deported because he didn't like my Covid views on MSNBC? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

NEW: Amazon suspends Palestinian worker for speaking out about the company's role in the genocide in Gaza. This comes after Microsoft fired four workers for anti-genocide actions. Seattle-area tech workers are fed up. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/amazon-...

It took Rep. Emily Randall like an hour to condemn the far-right extremist Charlie Kirk's killing, but it took her 1 year, 9 months, and 20 days to make a public statement condemning the "humanitarian crisis" in Gaza

war criminal :(

Even in the best case where the feds leave the data alone, surveillance is a tool of incarceration for many, petty crimes of poverty and illness, a system that works SO well

Kettle, Nelson, Rivera, Saka, Hollingsworth have followed their "Public Safety" mantra straight into compliance with fascists. They have put the lives and freedom of countless people in danger. Vote. Vote. Vote!

"After this vote, constituents should never again take their representative seriously when they finger wave at facism, when they beat their chest in the direction of D.C., when they trash talk Trump." Fantastic write up of yesterday's meeting and vote

NEW: The City Council will gaslight you, scold you, call you privileged if you disagree, but yesterday they didn't just expand an unproven surveillance program, voted to grease the wheels of fascism. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/the-sea...

GUEST POST: We are fucked when it comes to funding education between Trump's crusade against social programs and cowardice of WA Dems. A coalition of unions and advocacy organizations from childcare, K-12, and higher education are fighting back. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/we-real...

*shuffling through my Divest SPD baseball cards at the protest to see what cop just pepper sprayed the shit out of me*

NEW: The City Council is poised to pass a massive expansion to SPD's surveillance capabilities tomorrow. If they do, they're worse than do-nothing Dems in the face of Fascism. They useful idiots aiding in Trump's quest to disappear our immigrant neighbors. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/seattle...

NEW: The City Council is poised to pass a massive expansion to SPD's surveillance capabilities tomorrow. If they do, they're worse than do-nothing Dems in the face of Fascism. They useful idiots aiding in Trump's quest to disappear our immigrant neighbors. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/seattle...

Read Hannah's article! The Seattle Ethics Commissioner appears unconcerned that the City of Seattle's official media account is electioneering for Bruce Harrell. The Oct 1 Ethics Commission meeting will review an appeal of the decision. Submit your feedback to [email protected]

NEW: Mayor Harrell is facing charges of electioneering on the City's official social media after the City made a new Tik Tok fan page for him late July. The ethics czar initially dismissed the complaint, but now the commission will discuss the issue Oct. 1. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/ethics-...

NEW: As first reported by The Burner, the City made a new Tik Tok account almost exclusively featuring Harrell the day polling showed he was toast. Seattle Ethics Czar dismissed a complaint about electioneering, but the SEEC will discuss the issue Oct. 1. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/ethics-...

BREAKING: No Azure For Apartheid organizers say that Microsoft has fired two MORE workers over their occupation of the company president's office, a protest against the company's enabling of Israel's genocide in Gaza.

NEW: I would say Rep. Adam Smith was visited by three ghosts this weekend, but that seems too generous given the fact that he’s still not calling for a total arms embargo — just stopping the sale of “some offensive weapons systems.” www.theburnerseattle.com/post/rep-ada...

YES!!!

A patently superb thing that more cities and municipalities need to engage in. Rural Washington particularly suffers from high grocery prices and this sort of thing would be a meaningful counterbalance to corporate greed as the economy gets shittier.

As @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social correctly pointed out yesterday, the military commissary system is one functioning model of a public option grocery store. Wilson is absolutely right to explore this as a solution to what @joemiz.bsky.social wisely calls Kroger's "food foreclosures."

ICYMI: The municipal grocery store craze is headed to Seattle. Once a skeptic, mayoral candidate Katie Wilson says she will explore a public option grocery store to fill the food deserts created by corporate greed. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/mayoral...

BREAKING: Third place Mayoral candidate Joe Mallahan OFFICIALLY endorses Katie Wilson over incumbent Bruce Harrell, citing an "untenable" culture of misogyny in the current administration www.instagram.com/reel/DN3VRtk...

Thought I dreamed this thread when Wilson announced today that she would explore a "public option" grocery store