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King County Council — what issues are you tracking? What should we be paying attention to? What’s happening in the South End, Eastside, and rural areas we should be paying attention to for tenant rights, land use, progressive taxation, and protecting human rights?

PacMed Building Not Haunted, Just Has Resting Tower-of-Terror Face: tinyurl.com/2h7fk5xs

Some ground rules that have helped us: - Go outside your bubble, try new social media channels - Don’t underestimate the power of WhatsApp (although less so in the U.S.) - Post on the Instagram grid, not just stories - Watch every Instagram video until the end before sharing - IGNORE THEM

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

@mayor.seattle.gov VETO the RV Ban!

The abundance crowd who looks to land use and regulatory reform as the main tools necessary to create more affordable housing love to point to anything goes Houston as an example of a city that does it right. And yet at the median, high-priced Seattle is *more* affordable than Houston. Hmm.

BREAKING: Another immigrant has died in ICE custody, the 28th death in ICE detention in 2026.

Save the date! Please join La Resistencia and the Seattle Democratic Socialists of America from 1-3 pm Saturday November 14th for a time of solidarity, community, and prayer at the Northwest Detention Center. #AbolishICE #AbolishGEOGROUP #ChingaLaMigra #ShutdownNWDC #FreeThemALL

2 People deplaned to be detained at Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma. And 47 people boarded the plane to be transferred and/or deported. #AbolishICE #AbolishGEOGROUP #ChingaLaMigra #ShutdownNWDC #FreeThemALL

La Resistencia volunteers who observe the deportation flights informed us this morning about the number of people deported from and transferred from Northwest Detention Center

When/where: Tomorrow, October 27 at 1:30 PM in 516 3rd Avenue, Room 1001(10th Floor), Seattle Washington #AbolishICE #AbolishGEOGROUP #ChingaLaMigra #ShutdownNWDC #FreeThemALL

Please join La Resistencia and friends at the King County Council Meeting tomorrow October 27 to let authorities know safety rules must be enforced for King County Airport's deportation flights. We're asking folks to dress up for Halloween to show our voices will be heard regardless of holidays.

Met some absolute fucking nazi cowards in Burien today. Real “I got rejected from the police for academic reasons” energy. May they get what they deserve. Be safe out there, friends.

Local friends - visit Burien Press today!

apologies for being pedantic but I think the precision is warranted when dealing with ICE. White Center also has a pretty massive immigrant population and no local government to get in the way so it's probably an easy target.

that photo with the AR-15s wasn't taken in Burien. that's White Center, which is unincorporated King County between Seattle and Burien. Come to think of it, I'm a little fuzzy on the border in that stretch, that might actually be in Seattle by about half a block

White Center, not Burien. the distinctions important, here. no mayor or city council to get in the way.

Ayer en #Burien, agentes de #ICE fueron observados utilizando armas tipo AR-15 durante el secuestro de un miembro de la comunidad. Hoy apuntaron con una pistola a un voluntario de respuesta rápida, que había estado observando desde más de 20 pies de distancia. www.facebook.com/share/p/18wA...

At the very least would stop sharing DMV data with them: jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/...

They can't enforce these these laws. That's why they passed them: a do-nothing gesture. A REAL state government would expand the state guard (which Washington has), and order them to tail ICE in vehicles equipped with loudspeakers, blasting announcements that ICE is coming. Totally legal.

@cmtmosqueda.bsky.social they are super focused on Burien right now… idk if it’s cause the Sheriff’s are located here … I hope they aren’t helping.

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Even though these are national and global layoffs, one should read its timing as Microsoft’s effort to stop WA’s millionaires tax, as right-wingers will blame that tax for these layoffs despite there being no actual connection.

In the second Trump administration, transfers of immigrant detainees from one jail to another have become the norm for ICE. “We have seen our clients… get transferred sometimes in batches, sometimes just individually across the country multiple times.”

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We moved parking enforcement back from SDOT to SPD to say that we were done with Woke 1

Have I practiced what I preach? Why, yes, I walked over to the neighborhood drop box to turn in my ballot on Thursday. This is actually the first time I haven't just mailed my ballot, but again, it felt like this was a good time to be extra careful.

Honestly I'd suggest voting before Nov 3 and saving yourself a lot of stress. I know it's tough to get it done before the last day, but this is probably the year to push through.

Saka is a clown — who is running against this clown 🤡?

1. Make a plan to vote 2. Help your friends and family vote, transportation barriers are real - drive or take the bus or bike with people to the ballot box ! 3. Change happens beyond electoral work! Mutual aid, direct aid, deep canvassing, community organizing all need YOU and more funding.

Have you taken action? Sent in a letter? There’s still time!

We fought a war over this. 1 of every 30 Americans died. And then we amended the Constitution to add “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States”

Daily bunny no.3483 sees something in the road

Ugh just in time for the Seahawks game to be over.

Showing up at city hall all the time is hard work. Even just writing in all the time is work. But democracy doesn’t end at the ballot box and I hope that the supporters of Greens, OneCity, and COPE will continue to show up to support getting the hard policy work done - even if it’s not perfect.

Whenever people disparage our organizing work, I try to remember that our counterweight to NIMBYs matters, that if we didn’t exist, electeds trying to do the right thing have no political cover and would likely get eviscerated whenever they vote to do the right thing and support multifamily housing.

King County Elections let you down, so we made a sticker for you to share after you’ve used LeftyCheatSheet.org to vote :)

Should note that the unique paradigm we’re framing the bank model from hasn’t been endorsed by Hasegawa. He wants to simply clone the bank of North Dakota, but that still leaves the ontology of private banking intact. There’s real urgency in transforming the ideology of bankers.