An excellent column by my colleague Naomi Ishisaka:

Today's column: "You may not have heard of the Working Families Party, but of the five Seattle citywide candidates endorsed by them, at least four won their Nov. 4 general election races: Eddie Lin, Erika Evans, Dionne Foster and Alexis Mercedes Rinck."

Today's column: "In the days since the (SNAP) cuts were announced, in Seattle and across the country, communities stepped into the breach."

"Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must to continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown."

"A number of Pride Place residents spoke about the ongoing danger of e-scooters and e-bikes in front of their building, with one resident saying that as a person with a disability, they were especially fearful they could be taken down just trying to walk down the street."

Today's story for @seattletimes.com: "Local journalist and author Ken Mochizuki believed that we could only paint a complete picture of our communities if we told our own stories with honesty and courage." @aajaofficial.bsky.social

By Lauren Girgis: "The Black Lives Matter street mural on Capitol Hill, the work of 16 artists that has both brightened a stretch of pavement and left an assertive cultural mark, has been defaced, with a letter with racist rhetoric found nearby."

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

“Earlier this year, Taylor told Seattle Times columnist Naomi Ishisaka that the information on the site had become even more valuable amid “a direct frontal assault on African American history.””

Rest in Power, Dr. Taylor Quintard Taylor, UW professor and Black history archivist, dies at 76

Today's column: "But in the days following the assassination, it became no longer enough to say you condemn the killing. No, you also had to praise and valorize Kirk, a man who was outspoken on his opinions about Black people, immigrants, transgender people and others."

Today's column for @seattletimes.com: "In addition to the concerns and stresses that everyone has, trans communities have to keep their “head on a swivel,” Jaelynn Scott said, anticipating when the next threat might come. #seattle

By Kai Uyehara in @seattletimes.com: "Gaza now has the highest number of child amputees per capita in the world, according to UNICEF. But Seba could not be treated with artificial legs in Gaza, Sosebee said." 📷: Jennifer Buchanan and Nick Wagner

Today's column for @seattletimes.com: "But for many others, Katrina affirmed what they already knew: The color of your skin and the size of your bank account determined whether you could flee or were left to die, or whether you could rebuild or were displaced." #katrina

Today's column on wrongful arrests and convictions: "As with everything else in the criminal legal system, the outcomes vary dramatically along racial lines."

“I used to think that across all nationalities and beliefs, if a child was wandering into the street in front of an incoming car, it was a core human instinct of every human adult to grab the child and get them to safety. Now, I know better.”

Today's column: “You feel like you’re living in a parallel universe, where this can’t be reality, where the bombs are being dropped on people that share the same name as me, or people that could have been me,” Sabrene Odeh said. #gaza

The moral path forward is as clear as daylight: Cease fire and restore unobstructed food and medical aid services to Palestinians. As ever, @naomiishisaka.bsky.social shares the message people need to hear. Via @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Today's column in honor of next week's Asian American Journalists Association @aajaofficial.bsky.social convention in #Seattle! Gratitude to Lori Matsukawa, Ron Chew and Frank Abe for founding our chapter 40 years ago!

Today's column: “From the sugar cane plantations, to the ranch, to the hotel resort, to those rich millionaires who came from the mainland,” Goo said, “It’s a miracle that any of that land, in some ways, remains in our family.”

Today's column: "But as quickly as the signs were raised, I saw a barrage of criticism from both right and left over the actions and their perceived uselessness. … From my perspective, both arguments betray a fundamental misunderstanding of movement building..."

"Mehdi Nakhjiri hasn’t slept well in days. He’s been refreshing his WhatsApp constantly and exhausting himself with the 24-hour news cycle. Nakhjiri, a 70-year-old engineer who lives in Kirkland, said he hasn’t heard from his extended family in Iran since Friday morning."

By Dan Beekman: "State Rep. Darya Farivar, the first Iranian American woman elected to the state Legislature, said she and other Iranian Americans are “bracing for impact” from a U.S.-Iran conflict."

Today's column: "Donald Trump has made no secret that he intends to do the same for other cities that he deems deserving, saying they will be “met with equal or greater force” as is being seen in Los Angeles."

By Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks: "Several Seattle-area companies and organizations are not returning as sponsors of the Seattle Pride Parade, including Boeing, the Expedia Group and Amazon’s LGBTQ+ employee resource group."

Today's column: "The new travel ban against mostly Muslim or African countries was not nearly the Trump administration’s first attack against immigrants, but Seattle’s Wazhma Samizay said, “This time, it’s hitting me a lot harder.”

😁 "The highly contentious “Uncle Sam Billboard” off Interstate 5 in Lewis County has a new owner: The Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation."

Today's column: "Five years later, in many ways it feels like the pendulum has swung back so far we are further behind than when we began."

Column: "In … Seattle, we would never let our faucets run all day and night or keep all our lights on, because not only would that waste precious natural resources, it would be socially unacceptable. But when it comes to the resource drain of AI, we expend tons of water and energy — and on what?"

Today's column: "May 5 might have marked the 2025 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People Awareness Day, but Abigail Echo-Hawk thinks about the missing every day."

From the always excellent @naomiishisaka.bsky.social www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Today's column: "Since January, the White House has taken a chain saw to a huge swath of scientific research, particularly work that could advance our understanding of public health, racial disparities, LGBTQ+ communities and climate change."

For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other items has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel. Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare. Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.

"All four men — all WA residents — were wrongfully convicted. All spent years, some decades, in prison before they were freed. They’ve since formed bonds, swapping phone numbers, comfortable in each other’s company, with stories and scars that, in this one environment, don’t need to be explained."

Local journalism: "Just as Devin Cabanilla’s family left the festival celebrating Filipino heritage Saturday in South Vancouver, a man driving a black Audi SUV accelerated toward the crowd."

By Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks: "Seattle Pride and other LGBTQ+ groups in the city have lost significant funding as corporate sponsors — including some that have backed celebrations for years — have scaled back their financial support."

Today's column: "While there has been lots of focus on what have been dubbed “food deserts” in the past few decades, some are challenging the “food desert” framing as oversimplified and instead are calling it “food apartheid.”

"I didn’t imagine this is what authoritarianism would look like if it got to our doorstep," writes Seattle Times columnist Naomi Ishisaka. @naomiishisaka.bsky.social

"“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” said Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, in a statement to the university" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

Today's column: "I didn’t imagine this is what authoritarianism would look like if it got to our doorstep."

Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.

"On at least three recent occasions, senior Trump press aides have refused to engage with reporters’ questions because the journalists listed identifying pronouns in their email signatures."

"The Trump administration canceled the visas of at least 15 current international students and recent graduates of Washington universities, the schools confirmed this week."

Todays column: "Without giving too much away, “Adolescence” is really about what we need to do to set boys up to feel the love and belonging necessary to become humans who are capable of emotional regulation, vulnerability and empathy."

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

"Opponents and critics of President Donald Trump gathered in large numbers in Seattle, Olympia and other parts of Washington and the U.S. on Saturday, rallying to protest the administration’s policies and actions on the economy, immigration, cuts to government agencies and democracy itself."

"Opponents of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk rallied across the U.S. on Saturday to protest the administration’s actions on government downsizing, the economy, human rights and other issues."