Had an absolute blast seeing WAKE UP DEAD MAN with a jam packed house at the Landmark Crest yesterday. People were so happy to be there and I didn't see a single phone out. Cinema!

A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving

took this stance real early on, have been paying close attention, and i have yet to see a single thing that manages to challenge that opinion even a little bit, rather than solidifying it into diamond-hard conviction

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

WA AG Nick Brown is suing HUD over changes to its homeless housing grant program that could put thousands of currently housed people on the street in the Seattle area alone. The changes eliminate most funding for permanent housing and impose right-wing ideological requirements on programs.

I’ve had one traditionally published book. No advance. First batch of royalties lasted abt 4 months. I live on a disability pension that covers my rent and a little for utilities. Food is scarce. I get a grant now and then, and when I don’t, it’s very rough. Meta stole the book to train its LLM.

Page One in Cincinnati: “.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.” #ICE

Jimmy Cliff, the legendary musician who helped popularize reggae around the world and paved the way for future stars of the genre such as Bob Marley, has died. He was 81. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Good. Instead of counting on the MSM to do the job for you, all of the Democrats at all levels on politics should be putting out their own media.

Surveillance does not increase safety 👇🏾

Ronaldo is the avatar of sportswashing scumbaggery. MBS should be in cuffs, frogmarched into a federal prison on capital charges. And Jamal Khashoggi's family deserves so much better than that grifting, grasping, child-raping, orange piece of trash who lives in what used to be The White House.

how many times have I said that finance learned the wrong lessons from the Great Recession? my addendum is that they *were allowed to* do so.

When you ask voters to choose between corporate profits and protecting our neighbors – it’s not even close. This year, Seattle voters chose the tax corporations to fund social housing (63%) and to pass the Seattle Shield Initiative to protect our neighbors (71%). Let’s keep it going!

It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning. The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.

Alice Wong, an activist and author who championed the rights of people with disabilities, has died.

I see no path forward between what people are saying they want and the Democratic party as currently constituted. No path.

NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body." Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness. I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.

Breaking from us: As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate. Nisqually Indian Tribe is saying no. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

We took on a powerful incumbent who was expected to coast to reelection. We faced more corporate PAC money than has ever been spent attacking a candidate in a Seattle election. We built a people-powered movement rooted in hope for our city’s future. And we won. This is YOUR city!

Earlier this week, all 74 of the Northwest’s endangered orcas gathered into what researchers call a superpod — a sort of all-inclusive family reunion.

I am *very* glad that we covered WA voters’ complete rejection of anti-trans attacks by conservative candidates. In fact, standing against anti-trans attacks is correlated with Dem over-performance in swing districts!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Katie Wilson has been elected Seattle's next mayor www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Unaffordable electricity is fast becoming a major source of insecurity in the U.S. AI data centers are devouring power—and causing light bills to skyrocket—while private equity giants like Blackstone buy up utilities to extract maximum profit. This really needs to be a bigger story.

Reposting this…for reasons.

Wilson's up 1,346 votes. This race is likely over.

JUST IN: Katie Wilson significantly extends her lead in the Seattle mayoral race. She now leads Mayor Bruce Harrell by 1,346 votes, or 0.5%. That's up from the squeaker-lead of 91 votes in yesterday's update). She won today's batch of nearly 6K ballots by 20% (!). Not much left at this point.

Both/And. Let's move beyond the dead-end of imagining there's no viable alternative to the two-party system. This... thing is going down. How about we try everything all at once?

Here is the link! It’ll take you 30 seconds to verify if your ballot has been counted.

Lenny Wilkens, godfather of Seattle basketball, dies at 88

we're facing a massive structural budget deficit that requires stealing 100s of million$ in housing funds every year, an historic homelessness & affordability crisis, steady rise in traffic deaths, & they're busy going after graffiti, boobs & tacos (3 of the best things btw) bsky.app/profile/bret...

Thread. This is what a moral panic looks like.

We’re on the right track! Make sure you track your ballot to confirm it is accepted, NOT challenged. Check our links in bio to do so! More votes will be counted on Monday!

"The average voter believes a SNAP recipient gets $20/day, more than 3 times the actual amount of $6."

Quite a headline.

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

"Mamdani is not a warning shot; he is a sign of things to come. Dem voters everywhere want transformative change. They’re furious at party’s leaders and suspicious of candidates backed by an establishment that gets everything wrong," writes @alexshephard.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2027...

Lina Khan, as she is announced as being part of Zohran Mamdani’s transition team: “I think what we saw last night was New Yorkers not just electing a new mayor, but clearly rejecting a politics where outside corporate power and money too often.”

Ohh if this isn't my soapbox. HELLO!

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

26 billionaires spent over $22 million to beat Zohran Mamdani. Why? Because regular people came together around an agenda that prioritized making life easier for more people. It beat big money. That is how we win.

This is just people fighting to control their workplace. It has nothing to do with the people, with voters, with policy. Thank you.

Woke up today to the news

Fascism really is here at the Federal level. You are living through that if you are in the U.S. It's really actually happening. Figure out how to band with others to help make it through.

Some people still seem to be sleepwalking and it's really time to get WOKE [in the original non coopted by reactionary white people sense of the word].

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.