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I remember these types of threads from Twitter; they are the pinnacle of the medium!

Employers underpay their workers by an estimated $50 billion every year through various forms of wage theft. That's more than every type of property crime COMBINED. DoorDash alone paid a $131.5 million settlement in New York City for underpaying their delivery drivers.

Seattle city council's District 5 has been held by pro-business backed candidates for a long time. Debora Juarez has held this seat on-and-off for nearly a decade. Cathy Moore won the seat in 2024, but resigned 18 months later. There is a special election *right now* to fill the seat until 2028.

If you've been paying attention to the news recently, you may be wondering: what's going on in City Hall? What you might not have heard is that we are doing the work and getting real results for Seattle residents.

District 5 residents! I totally forgot about vouchers because unlike a normal City of Seattle campaign season there aren't a lot of candidates looking for them/eligible. Please join me in assigning yours to Nilu Jenks here: neighborsfornilu.org/vouchers

Can we talk about this video as an example of excellent political communication that should be receiving national attention

I'm hearing some concerns up about implementing "no turn on red" as a default policy in Seattle, so it's worth remembering that allowing turns on red only saves "1-5 seconds" on average for 🚗 drivers, meanwhile it increases 🚶🏼 crashes 60% and 🚴🏾‍♀️ crashes 100%. Info sdotblog.seattle.gov/2023/05/04/n...

Puget Sound is rich in quality progressive media. I've created a BlueSky feed "Puget Sound's Only News" so we can follow them. Stop feeding the reactionary Seattle Times or the defanged Stranger. Details of who's included & support links at bit.ly/4vHTccZ Subscribe via the # or More Feeds links

When we pulled data using the same sampling criteria and timeframe, we found zero overlap between the official API and the other two methods in most cases. No videos in common. 😶

We got new research out today y'all--if you study TikTok, buckle up because we found something wilddddd... arxiv.org/abs/2608.09917 (accepted @ ICWSM 2027)

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Do y'all know about @electioncheatsheet.org? It's a nifty little customizable endorsement aggregator & makes it pretty clear who you should vote for in the **AUG 4 PRIMARY** (folks like @ronpdavis.bsky.social & @hannahsabiohowell.bsky.social) Go check it out: electioncheatsheet.org

Join us today at 2 pm if you can! In person or testify remotely. I wish we were voting on Phase 2 and adopting new neighborhood centers across the City today. 🤷🏻‍♂️ But hopefully we can at least pass legislation to minimize future harmful and unnecessary delays.

How should progressives in Seattle vote without using the Stranger? I just filled out my ballot, and this cheat sheet was how. I know a lot about most races. But where I didn’t, I looked at this site. Where there wasn’t consensus, I went to @theurbanist.org to read their excellent analysis.

Next year is the year of GOP cuts to Medicare and Social Security per Mike Johnson. It’s in Project 2025. Also, they wish to privatize the US mail, and follow endless plans to make more money for billionaires. I won’t do the analysis today, but who do you think pays the price?

Russell Vought is an evil man. This plan is nothing short of a personal take-over of federal grant making. It will affect ALL of us. Political commissars will now be in charge of all agencies, reporting to him. But we are not powerless. See what you can do below. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/poli...

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

Senator Murray is right. Trump’s SCOTUS nominees and their supporters own the overturning of Roe. Everyone knew what confirming Kavanaugh would mean for America, including Will Dreher, who campaigned to put him on the Supreme Court.

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

told Liberty Utilities (the small California company that services the region) that it will stop providing power after May 2027. The reason is NV Energy needs the capacity for data centers being built by Google, Apple, and Microsoft around the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center east of Reno.

Nearly 50,000 people on the California side of Lake Tahoe are about to lose the bulk of their electricity supply,not because of infrastructure failure or mismanagement, but because Big Tech wants the grid. NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades,

"The workers recently approved a decision to call for a boycott of the retailer’s anniversary sale, which will run from May 15 to May 25. They’re asking the public not to shop at REI over that time period." www.seattletimes.com/business/ret...

YouTube has removed one of my videos because I reported that women can still access abortion pills. I shared *factual & medically accurate* information about women's health—yet the platform says I'm "facilitating the sale of illegal drugs"

New update from the Humanitarian Archive Emergency Project! Check out their updated discovery form. www.datarescueproject.org/hae-census/

Best explanation of it I’ve read comes from Seb Franklin, in The Digitally Disposed. In the control society, to be human is to be friction, and thus noise to be eliminated.

One thousand percent. Having never actually read anything beyond new-atheism and airport psychology, they assume they’ve exhausted the supply of human ideas and possibility.

OED and @seattledot.bsky.social are making their decision this week on whether to allow The Ave For All - A Car-Free Pilot to go forward. Fill out this Action Network to let them know you want this to happen! actionnetwork.org/letters/the-...

Oh HELL no. With low snowpack, our hydro is becoming less reliable. Behind-the-meter power nearly always means gas. And for what? The suicide advice/porn-making/job-killing machine? Just: no. 🧵 1/5

Really appreciating the nuanced takes in this session on ethics, transparency and responsible (data) sharing. “What is ethical is what’s sustainable and scalable with available resources” #RDAP26

Listening to Data Rescue Project give the keynote at #RDAP26 and really enjoying it. Plus, this meme: Learn more about their work at www.datarescueproject.org

A good thread on craftivism and its place within the ecosystem of resistance tactics. #DHmakes

ICE must be held accountable for the existing laws they’re breaking. I don’t think they’re going to stop if Congress passes legislation making the same crimes SUPER DOUBLE ILLEGAL

"[S]everal international organizations had offered to buy or accept a donation of the contraceptives [possibly recouping taxpayer funds in the process]. Instead the administration decided to proceed with destroying the products, an operation that was estimated to cost $167,000."

When I say Dems are voting to ban trans rights, I mean they are voting to ban ALL trans rights. Included in the military funding bill are these provisions impacting trans people in the military: - A bathroom ban - A ban on correct gender markers on forms - A healthcare ban - A sports ban

Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.

If you're out and about in #Chicago today (where the weather is beautiful!), consider visiting the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley (www.nps.gov/places/rober...) and Pullman monuments (www.nps.gov/pull/index.htm) to take some pics for #SaveOurSigns- and don't forget to upload at saveoursigns.org

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

"this product is good because it's like having a pocket full of PhDs" just suggests to me you've never actually been in a room with a bunch of experts on a topic. You think you're going to come away with a quick, simple, easy-to-digest summary of their expertise? Think again.