WestSeattlegal

WestSeattlegal

@smilingcat.bsky.social

Real estate broker, community leader, love a good home cooked meal, quilter wanna-be, humble servant to three kitties, gardener, Seahawks and Mariners fan. Bring back the Sonics! 🏳️‍🌈

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Heads up: Taylor Farms lettuce is sold under these brand names: Marketside (sold at Walmart) Earthbound Farm (owned by Taylor Farms) Cross Valley Farms (owned by US Foods) Private labels for Target, Whole Foods (365), and Amazon Fresh. AVOID ALL OF THEM

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The MAGA regime are planning to cut down a historic grove of Cherry Trees in DC along with a very popular bike path and picnic area to make way for the orange felon’s new trashy golf course and it’ll be paid for with tax dollars. Soulless fucking monsters.

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Mark Zuckerberg built a massive data center in Georgia just hundreds of yards from people’s homes. Now the water pressure is gone. Sinks don’t run. Toilets won’t refill. Homes shake nonstop. Power outages are routine.

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🚨 Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry is about to cancel an election that has ALREADY STARTED. Absentee ballots are out. People have already voted. He wants to throw out those votes, redraw maps to ELIMINATE Black majority districts, and start over. Share this everywhere & follow @aaronparnas.bsky.social

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This is your reminder that it's been ten months since the assassination of Melissa Hortman, her husband and her dog, and there hasn't been even a hint of justice for her family, friends or colleagues.

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Hegseth just fired the Army Chief Gen Randy George. Immediately. Gen George the most competent and experienced combat leaders I have ever encountered. Courage. Integrity. Takes care of soldiers. A government of gangsters.

Everything for me and nothing for you BUT you still have to pay.

Jane Voter@janevoter2018.bsky.social

Trump today: “It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things…We have to take care of one thing: military protection.” The Preamble disagrees w/ his assessment, & our taxes should be spent the way they were intended & not on an ill-conceived war.

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Metro Times reports that Mike Rogers’s new student outreach team includes young supporters tied to some seriously ugly online behavior, including misogynistic posts and defense of a leaked Young Republicans group chat packed with praise for Hitler, racial slurs, and sexual assault comments.

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In the name of national security, the Trump Administration plans to drill for gas and oil in the Gulf of Mexico, exempting protections for species listed in the Endangered Species Act. The national security threat is due to Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz. www.cbsnews.com/news/endange...

cbsnews.comTrump administration exempts oil and gas drilling in the Gulf from Endangered Species ActNicknamed the "God Squad" by groups who say it can decide a species' fate, the government's Endangered Species Committee exempted oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from the Endangered Species...

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Combined with the story of Hegseth overlooking black officers for promotion for explicitly racist reasons, it’s not unreasonable to wonder if the regime is deliberately undermining the combat readiness of the US military. 12% of the US military are children of immigrants. 30-43% are BIPOC.

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1/ Eliminating prop taxes sounds great until you realize what happens next: your local fire dept depends on how much ppl spent at the mall this month.Your schools close when the economy dips. And private corps step in to sell you services you used to own #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

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Our troops are dying this isn’t a video game. The White House is posting so-called “hype” videos that mix real footage from the war in Iran with clips from movies and video games like Call of Duty. It’s an absolute disgrace.

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Totally on brand for this White House...

Dr. Jack Brown@drjackbrown.bsky.social

The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.

I feel like this is murder.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English. He spent a year in jail for this.

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🚨 John Deere and Oracle have joined Mastercard, Deloitte, other corporations sponsoring Trump’s Freedom 250, the Christian nationalist-themed hijack of America’s birthday. A group of US senators led by Sen. Adam Schiff launched a probe into Trump admin’s fundraising tactics of Freedom 250.

These people are the absolute worst!

Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only)@axidentaliberal.bsky.social

This is illegal and patently unconscionable Because “trust me, bro-there’s fraud” The Trump government says amputees can’t get prosthetic limbs Grandmas won’t have oxygen Kids with cancer get no hospital beds As JD Vance and Dr Oz crack jokes and compare securing medical treatment to..McDonalds

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Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

investigativepost.orgBlind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

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Dozens of FBI witness interviews from the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein appear to be missing from the files released by the Department of Justice last month, according to a CNN review – including interviews related to a woman who accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her decades ago.

cnn.comDozens of FBI records apparently missing from Epstein files, including Trump accuser interviews | CNNThree interviews related to a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her decades ago appear to be among the missing files in the DOJ release.

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no matter how incompetent he is (and he definitely is) if you had serious shit going on with the fbi right now — like, idk, maybe your elderly mother’s abduction — i imagine the anger seeing this would fuel future generations

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social

Keeping it classy on the taxpayer's dime. A source shared with William Turton of @propublica.org this video of our FBI director.

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WOW! As of this morning only about 350 letters had been sent out urging our Delegates to hold data centers accountable and lower our energy costs. BUT after we blasted this call to action, we hit our goal of sending over 1,000 letters to our Delegates. Keep going! actionnetwork.org/letters/shif...

actionnetwork.orgShift Generation & Transmission Costs to Data Centers; Force the Largest to Provide Energy Storage & Clean EnergyThe House killed bills that would have saved Virginians money on electricity bills and made it harder to build more dirty fossil fuel energy generation plants. Yet these same bills passed the Senate a...

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Part of the context here is that Bucks County recently elected an anti-ICE sheriff to replace their pro-ICE sheriff. The actions of Quakertown police (which is separate) are best understood as a gang that sees its power to intimidate slipping and so has initiated a violent suppression campaign.

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com

INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday. They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

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A tariff “refund” mostly goes to whoever wrote the tariff check: the importer of record. That’s not the same person who paid more at the register. So refunds -- if they're offered -- might sound like consumer relief, but in reality, they're corporate windfalls.

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Replying to @gillianbrockell.com

EQUATORIAL GUINEA AND TOGO. This is very likely the SECOND load of migrants ICE sent to a torture prison in Equatorial Guinea, for a payment of $10 million from State Dept. humanitarian funds.

There is literally no benefit to the populace to pay federal taxes at this point.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

This is the opposite of what makes America great. Thanks but no thanks. For those that voted for him, this is your just desserts.

Karly Kingsley@karlykingsley.bsky.social

The Trump admin is freezing ~$10B in social services & child care funding in five Dem-led states, alleging fraud, with no proof. The cuts hit TANF ($7B+), child care ($2B+), & social services ($870M) in CA, CO, IL, MN, and NY. If you want to hurt working families, this is how.