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Seems like this should be a bigger deal. 🤷🏼 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

National Highway System streets in Seattle: Madison Street 1st Ave S Airport Way 15th Ave S Fauntleroy Way Columbian Way 35th Ave SW Delridge W Marginal Nickerson Westlake Dearborn Jackson MLK 23rd Fremont Pike Pine Eastlake Greenwood Roosevelt Ravenna Blvd Denny Boren Rainier and 2nd fucking Avenue

France experienced a surge in deaths during the hottest week of a record heat wave last month.

“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”

A pair of powerful earthquakes rocked Venezuela, tearing down buildings, closing the country’s main airport and sending panicked residents of the capital pouring into the streets. At least 146 have died, the acting president said Thursday, warning that the toll was expected to rise.

I'm sitting in on the Pioneer Square preservation board meeting this morning, set to discuss SDOT's scaled-back plan to add bike and scooter corrals within intersection daylighting zones. www.theurbanist.org/sdot-retreat...

Did you know our state has five active volcanoes? Congrats. You are now part of volcano awareness month. There’s lots of events this month, both in-person and online hosted by USGS, us, Pierce County, State Parks & others. Find details in the link: mil.wa.gov/news/volcano...

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Bloomington police announce arrests in sex trafficking bust: "Rashad Johnson out of Maple Grove. This is the most disturbing arrest that we've had here. He is a backgrounder for ICE, Homeland Security, and federal agencies."

SEATTLE CHUD ALERT: Robert Anthony McDonell of Spokane, WA Trespassed from public schools in Walla Walla back in 2024 for harassment Seen recently at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) Hates when people identify him and call him out by name www.union-bulletin.com/news/local/e...

Liam Ramos, a preschooler ICE detained the five-year-old Minnesota boy as he returned home from school and transported him to a detention center in Texas.

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket. He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War. Notice the suppressors 1/2

MINNEAPOLIS — Hmong homeowners know their rights… randomly looking for Hmong & Asian families… a racial terror campaign, nothing less…

This is an image of a federal agent shooting chemical munitions at a crowd at point blank range in Minneapolis on the day Renee Good was executed Whatever your feelings on law enforcement, understand they don't apply here whatsoever because ICE categorically *has nothing to do with law enforcement*

Agents like this should be identified and their name and picture posted on a searchable web site with videos and content like this linked to their names

These 10 companies stand to rake in $1 billion by 2027 by helping ICE track down and round up immigrants. Cashing in on cruelty.

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According to my sources, the FBI was initially open to a concurrent investigation with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency that would do this investigation). Trumpy U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen heard about this and intervened, barring the FBI from cooperating with local police.

UPDATE: survivors of serial rapist & child sex abuser Sean Williams will get $30 MILLION from JOHNSON CITY after police failed to investigate and let it go on for years. An insane, sick story that should’ve gotten more attention. More: www.wjhl.com/news/crime/w...

"Wer'e too close to the debris": A stunning data viz showing how SpaceX rockets put passenger planes at risk, by @heathervogell.bsky.social and Agnel Philip w/ graphics by @lucaswaldron.bsky.social

This is infuriating. The FBI is covering up for the ICE murder. This is obstruction of justice.

Seattle: Join me at Federal Building downtown for a press conference and rally ICE must be destroyed

❌WHAT'S NOT METAL: The CEO of Starbucks making 6,666 times more than his average worker - a pay gap bigger than any company in the S&P 500. ✅WHAT *IS* METAL: Starbucks baristas just won the 666th union election! Congratulations to workers in Little Rock, AR! 🤘

Quincy, WA’s rapid transformation of farmland to Microsoft data centers. They’re also scooping up the farm land around the data centers. The electric rates these companies pay is roughly 1/4 the rate an average WA household pays.

SPD Invites Officers in "Officer Involved Shootings" to Attend Billy Graham Evangelical Ministry Retreat The fundamentalist ministry, run by Donald Trump ally Franklin Graham, is anti-LGBTQ and anti-choice—and teaches that a woman's place is in the home. publicola.com/2025/12/15/s...

How Your Private ChatGPT And Gemini Chats Are ‘Sold For Profit’

Another first with the Meta sponsor just added to the Turning Point USA mega conference

UPDATE: I've heard from Jose's family. He's apparently been transferred to an ICE detention center in TX, but it's been days since they've been able to speak with him. He needs medical care and to be able to speak with his family and lawyer. This obscene cruelty helps no one.

Despite a well-recognized housing emergency in Puget Sounds, cities continue to wield their emergency powers in ways that are related to...anything but that crisis. A latest example: Bellevue is considering an emergency control tonight to protect the "character" of Old Bellevue from development.

WA Attorney General Sues HUD for Slashing Homeless Funds

how many times has the Seattle Times run a "compassion is great, but" editorial arguing for a lack of compassion at this point? we get it, you think homelessness should be illegal, find literally anything else to talk about. (Also, no Seattle neighborhood has been "destroyed," good god.)

“11/25/25👺ICE abducts two Americans; eight hospitalized after chemical munitions & police beatings in St. Paul, MN. This is not public safety-it’s state violence” Hart ‘28 Dem 🇺🇸🙏

Federal Funding Changes Could Create Thousands of New Homeless Seattle Residents I took a deep dive into changes the Trump Administration is making to funding for homeless housing and services, and what local leaders and organizations are doing to prepare. publicola.com/2025/11/17/f...

Seattle owns and contracts the monorail and streetcars. Seattle has the Seattle Transit Measure. Seattle directly oversees Sound Transit. Seattle has oversight influence on King County Metro and Puget Sound Regional Council. The Seattle Times Editorial Board has really jumped off the deep end.

The Christian right has become an increasingly powerful force in American politics at every level, from school boards to the presidency. Its roots trace back decades. By @phoebepetrovic.bsky.social (Published Oct. 2024)

Crazy how DOGE wasn’t around to sniff out this in-your-face trifecta of waste, fraud, and abuse

Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵

One CEO called the idea a “disgusting insult” and “economic genocide against the Gen Z generation.” 👀 @newsweek.com $XHB www.newsweek.com/50-year-mort...

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

So, negotiations not good?

“This was a very very bad vote”

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Trump Pardons 75+ Alleged Coup Plotters in Second-Most Obscene and Corrupt U.S. Presidential Pardon Ever, After His Pardon of 1,600+ Insurrectionists; New Pardon Is Confirmation That President Is Traitor to the United States

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

ICE agents. You go into states and use unnecessary force. You will be prosecuted. No, you DO NOT have immunity. The federal government cannot give you immunity regarding STATE LAWS. And Trump cannot pardon you either for state crimes. That’s why you are covering your face.

"The male colleague had been investigating allegations of wage theft at the Royal Esquire Club, a Black men’s social club in Columbia City. Harrell, board chair of the club at the time, had called the investigator and made him uneasy." www.kuow.org/stories/ethi...

Has your ballot been challenged? A significant number of ballots are in danger of not being counted. Don’t let your ballot be the one that tips the election to Harrell! Make sure it’s counted here 👉 info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...