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.

NEW: CM Kettle + Seattle's State Leg Affairs Director lobbied Olympia for a huge exemption from a bipartisan bill regulating Automatic License Plate Reader tech. So the City cares less about civil liberties than half of the Republicans in the State Senate! www.theburnerseattle.com/post/seattle...

NEW: Mayor teased an announcement for last week about the surveillance system community members want scaled back amid ICE's nationwide campaign of terror. The week came and went, no announcement! www.theburnerseattle.com/post/mayor-s...

GREAT NEWS: This very dumb, conservative moral panic bill that would make us all show ID to any website that's 30% adult content in the name of The Children TM, is dead. No need to worry about it for the rest of session. Context: www.theburnerseattle.com/post/biparti...

NEW: Only four WA State Senators haven't signed on to the millionaires tax. It's the usual moderate suspects, but they're borrowing progressive rhetoric to explain their hesitancy. Best of both worlds! www.theburnerseattle.com/post/almost-...

What's happening at the Post is a larger version of what happened at Crosscut IMO: New owner gets excited about the *idea* of journalism so invests big up front. But when it inevitably doesn't deliver riches and glory, they cut bait. Journalism has to be seen as a public good, not a fun project.

This is pretty revealing: WA Senate Dems leader suggests that they nixed a statewide payroll tax (like Seattle's JumpStart) in order to help get big biz to neutral on the millionaires tax. I wonder if the Washington Roundtable also demanded no money from the millionaires tax go to public schools.

NEW: After Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez got clowned on by a national audience for voting to give ICE $10 billion, her Dem challenger doubled his entire previous quarter of fundraising in just 10 days. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/marie-g...

The Renters’ Commission urges the City of Seattle to ban Ratio Utility Billing Systems (RUBS). RUBS undermines consumer protections for renters, lacks transparency in utility billing, and makes Seattle less affordable for renters. See our letter here: www.seattle.gov/documents/Bo...

"As journalists, we must remember that our responsibility is not to present both sides evenly; it is to make a determination about the facts that helps audiences understand a chaotic world." www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

one mimosa deep at lost lake smiling about how much I love CHS. idk I just feel that way about it

NEW: Katie Wilson announced her first steps to combating ICE in Seattle. Notably missing: community demand to scale back surveillance tech. Her office says an announcement is coming next week! But here's what she's doing for now. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/mayor-k...

NEW: Many WA Dems lived through the consequences of the Bush admin, now they have a chance to do the right thing and safeguard WA from Trump's devastating budget cuts. @SeattleDSA's Patrick O'Neill urges democrats support a new payroll tax on big biz. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/guest-p...

If the Democrats approve the unprecedented DHS and ICE funding package (3x 2024’s already record budget!) based on these meaningless and, in any event, unenforceable “reforms,” it will be among the greatest moral betrayals and strategic failures of the modern era.

ICYMI: Watch Out, ICE! Gov. Bob Ferguson’s Sending Strongly Worded Letters And Having Meetings... www.theburnerseattle.com/post/watch-o...

For Harrell haters out there: What's positive about this interview is that it is the exact kind of shit you say when you intend to never run for public office again

NEW: ICE abducted a father in Shoreline in front of his young son. Here's a chilling, firsthand account from the man who drove his car away from the scene, the abducted man's packed lunch still warm in the passenger seat www.theburnerseattle.com/post/ice-abd...

NEW: Washington's own Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is one of just seven Democrats to join the Republicans and vote for a huge funding bill for DHS, giving ICE $10 billion. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/wa-rep-...

Negotiations are ongoing for how long the data retention for ALPRs will be. Note in New Hampshire, it's three minutes. I reported on Monday that law enforcement suggested they need at least 30 hours. Big difference between 30 hours and 21 days.