In which Ari Hoffman lies through his teeth. Washington state remains a low-tax state. The wealthy typically pay more tax in other states, and in particular in nearly every state that companies have been moving leadership to. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

My dude! Your man was part of the reason we got the McCleary decision. He’s been part of the leadership that has been whining about funding schools for nearly 15 years now. He’s been blaming teachers for the problems. He took money from levies to fund schools rather than raise taxes. Sit out dude

If you live outside Texas and think horrible Texas laws don’t apply to you, you’re wrong. I’m currently in Vancouver BC and @bsky.app is prompting me to verify my age because my US carrier is routing my mobile traffic through #Texas. (cc: @taylorlorenz.bsky.social)

Vancouver is the best city in North America (north of Mexico at least) and it isn’t even close. Transit. Parks. Community Centres. Rent stabilization. Access to water. Clean air. Delicious tap water. Mountain views. <15min neighborhoods. Like Vancouver is the top 10. Everywhere else is below that.

This is a mealy mouth position by KC Assessor Candidate Rob Foxcurran. Citing case law to take no action means there’s zero pressure to change the massive giveaway to private golf courses. ALSO! Seattle public courses are valued at $15/sq ft while private are $1/ sqft. The assessor can change this!

I don’t think this constitutes “Safer Streets for Everyone”. The Prop 1 “Connect Tacoma” levy needs to do better. Every arterial should have a barrier-separated bike lane. End right on red. Put arterials on road diets to slow the rampant speeding. @cityoftacoma.bsky.social

ICE and LAPD killing people is violence. LAPD shoving someone to the ground and twisting their arms to point of pain is violence. Property damage is NOT violence. Liberals and Progressives need to stop giving into the fascist framing that property destruction is violence.

I dunno, Seattle…

Folks: you haven’t seen batsh*t candidates until you’ve seen the Pierce County voter guide. You think Alex Tzimmerman is bonkers? GoodSpaceGuy weird?! These are but an amuse-bouche of crazy & dangerous candidates. Bonus: Mike Solan, who was a cop politician, for most of his career claims he’s not.

Six days later Seattle’s newest oligarch-owned newspaper continues to be embarrassed by its endorsement choices because the owner chose to endorse his a MAGA enabling crony and a timid one hit wonder rather than progressives

Fixed it for the a$$ kissing collaborateur

The @thestranger.com f**led up its endorsements so badly they’ve been too ashamed to even post about them. Pay attention to the @43rddemocrats.org and vote for @hannahsabiohowell.bsky.social. Listen to most everyone not owned by corporate shill media and vote @ronpdavis.bsky.social

Maybe if Jamie Pedersen hadn’t spent a decade refusing to wield power when Dems control all levers of govt, he wouldn’t have a challenger. His centrism and love of legal nuance over ACTUALLY FIXING WHAT’S BROKEN is why the 43rd Democrats haven’t endorsed him in many many years.

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Someone needs to tell WA Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen

Two astounding quotes. One misogynistic one from Sandeep Kaushik who cannot imagine the mayor is her own woman with principles. Second from Pedersen, who has been using the moral license of marriage equality (which he helped pass) to cover his pedantic timidity

SpaceX performs just like its rockets. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

The Seattle Art Fair is tacking on fees equivalent to 2/3 the price of the ticket ($30 for the ticket and $20 in fees). This is obscene.

And this was after Scott Pelley went out of his way to make the people standing up for civil rights look violent

I found these statements by Scott Pelley to be extraordinarily curious. 1. He had no idea who Bari Weiss was 2. He thinks she is lovely 3. He intentionally sought to portray Minnesotans yelling at fascist to be violent These all demonstrate unexamined bias And yes Weiss et al are terrible humans

Sounds Transit proposes a decade to get ROI on fare gates that will increase revenue by about the same amount they spend on fare enforcement. In other words: reduce access for minimal revenue gain. WTF bsky.app/profile/poul...

Is he sure it’s the *cyclists* giving the middle finger? bsky.app/profile/qagg...

The SpaceX IPO is **BATSHǏT** Business model: 1. Think of problem 2. Profit Revenue stream: make more money in enterprise applications than all existing software companies together Method: Launch 100gigawatts of compute into space ANNUALLY for solar power www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

This is the arsenic pollution from a single smelter in Tacoma. For decades we've allows businesses to externalize the costs and impact of their environmental destruction. apps.ecology.wa.gov/dirtalert/?l...

Remember that SPOG head goon Mike Solan laughed over the reckless killing of a Seattle resident. He shouldn’t be anywhere near elected office www.fox13seattle.com/news/opa-rel...

It’s like America is being starved by the same class of people everywhere www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkofvhbc/

This has been Seattle’s approach to global warming and the climate crisis after McGinn:

There is no way Trump is 6’3” today if he ever was. archive.ph/HZgGL