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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.

Still time to RSVP for this event! I won’t be able to make it due to family obligations, but come support @hannahsabiohowell.bsky.social and Jaelynn and let’s get @wilsonkatieb.bsky.social the support Seattle needs in Olympia!

First, this is a thread worth reading, and I agree. Second, I want to point out that Dreher’s supposed strength, “AI regulation,” is really Ron Davis’s. If you want a lawyer-technologist who advocates for the humans, Ron has the superior academic, professional, and political qualifications.

Had no signal for one night and return to a full storm of tragic stories in Seattle

It is bad news when a perfectly reasonable, well-established pretrial diversion program is being cut by "moderate Democrats," the same people who are all "we cannot abolish ICE" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This is also why I’ll never get over a whole generation of politicians rushing to say how much they empathized with Kalief Browder only to turn around and reinforce the same systems that lead to his death.

Our brand of exceptionalism

in 2019, there were more people in America struck by lightning than consumers who got monetary awards from an arbitration panel. Matt Stoller www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...

File under ”d” for Duh. The fact that the tech overlords convinced adults otherwise is kind of astounding.

HAPPENING NOW Thousands of protesters are occupying Madison’s State Street and vowing to shut down businesses as a way to demand justice for Corey Ruiz.

I hope every day you all are trying to cultivate joy. A kindness to a neighbor. A long walk. Poetry. Birdwatching. Meditation. Being silly and playing peekaboo in a checkout line with a cute baby. These are dark times, and joy is something the bastards cannot take from us. Fight for it.

MORE LIES.

LIES.

This talk was great. A state bank in WA could bring many benefits - cost savings, reduced interest rates, the ability to invest public deposits toward shared goals, & return profits to the public purse. There is tremendous power in owning our own bank. Hope legislators find the courage to do it.

I have 4 Brandywines on the vine and I think I need to have a Midsomar to honor them.

I have some *ideas* about where the Seattle City Council could find some money in the General Fund to cover those universal free meals. Let's start with "Special Operations." @council.seattle.gov

Teachers, students, and organizers showed up and showed that universal meals are popular and effective. I’m hopeful this plan will pass and universal meals will start in the fall. Shoutout to all the folks that spoke up yesterday in person and online

People have power.

Sooooooo what they didn't like about universal school meals was the proposal came from the Mayor. Then, after killing the Mayor's proposal, they got stomped by public opinion and turned around to create their own version. I really expect better than this from our Council (well, not all of them).

WOW. New announcement from Seattle CMs Strauss, Hollingsworth, and Foster saying they will fund universal school meals starting in the fall after all by using the general fund. Hard to see this as anything but a realization of the high political price they paid for their votes yesterday.