I spent 5 months investigating bogus reckless driving charges the Seattle Police Department hit me with on Mayday 2026 I'm finally ready to deconstruct the retaliatory policing, and prove how many at the city knew there was no crime to charge me with in the first place youtu.be/7e8I4NbMa2A

What I Found When I Investigated The Cops That Arrested Me

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Dropping a 2-hour expose this morning, which is the culmination of an over 5-month long investigation, showing the extremely rampant biased and retaliatory policing done by the Seattle Police department Check it in 30 on YouTube: youtu.be/7e8I4NbMa2A

After police abuses, this is the threat I am terrified of on the horizon: Exploitation of the half-baked, highly vulnerable, extremely powerful surveillance and automation state that America is becoming, by hackers OR rogue AI

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3d ago

wrote about "Black October," the PHP vulnerability, and the AI-fueled dread and panic I'm seeing among almost all of the cybersecurity experts I've ever known. I think people w/ LLMs are brute forcing software the same way they brute forced social media w/ slop www.404media.co/php2shell-bl...

“I’d Like to See a Social Worker Do What I Do,” Says Cop Who Does Nothing thehardtimes.net/culture/id-l...

“I’d Like to See a Social Worker Do What I Do,” Says Cop Who Does Nothing

DURHAM, N.C. — Local police officer Chad Bixby vocally opposed the redistribution of police funds toward social services at a recent town... Get the full story

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I would love to be hopeful, would love to say that bloodless change is coming. I want saftey for people I love. I've worked hard building something im really proud of in my professional life and would like to not have it crash with everything else. How do you fix a system this irrevocably broken.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 4d ago

Crypto industry alone is now up to an insane $55 million spent trying to defeat Sherrod Brown. www.politico.com/live-updates...

we cannot co-exist with people like this. we either find a way to excise them, or we let them choke us with their ignorance.

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 4d ago

i don't think we can come to a reasonable compromise with this

Wild that dipshit Portland Nazi Ryan Armacher, who posts lame AI shit every time I embarrass his homies, was able to shape an entire news cycle about the Texas senate race It's such a condemnation of the modern media environment, and society, that rightwing extremists can make a living this way

Let's be clear: King County Detective Shawn Peckham is not a misogynist. A group of women simply conspired to kick him off an Alaska Airlines flight for elbowing a flight attendant and calling her a "bitch." But he swears he loves his mama, his daughter—and his ex-wife

King County deputy suspended over drunken spat with flight attendant

Det. Shawn Peckham was kicked off of a plane in San Diego for elbowing a flight attendant and calling her a “bitch.”

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No, really, these PHP vulns are quite serious and you should drop everything and patch. www.php.net/index.php

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PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

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The PHP2SHELL vulnerability was just disclosed and it was found by security researchers using AI to assist in finding vulnerabilities. This vulnerability covers nearly 70% of the web. We'll be dealing with this for years from zombie systems still running legacy PHP. www.wiz.io/blog/php2she...

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 5d ago

One of the biggest vulnerabilities has been found in php allowing for remote code execution. It's the mother of all zero days. The patch won't be live until Thursday afternoon. So many systems won't update leaving so many systems vulnerable. arstechnica.com/security/202...

I feel like a broken record but if you think polyamory is what you need then read my fucking article If you are Adam Conover however then I think Vivian Wilson didn't bully you hard enough

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A few notes: I will refer to all non-monogamy as polyamory going forward. Everything here is a mix of what I’ve read and experienced myself

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grimm 🎃@mugrimm.bsky.social · 5d ago

lol Adam Conover come on man

I think you can learn a lot about the moderate political program in Seattle and WA more generally by reading this gish gallop from political consultant Eileen Pollet.

Eileen Pollet@eileenp206.bsky.social · last wk.

In case you missed it, in a (now deleted) comment on @sharethecities.bsky.social insta, I was told to make my own website if I didn’t like theirs. Now that I have finally gotten the attention of the anonymous folks at @leftycheatsheet.bsky.social @sharethecities.bsky.social, I have some questions!

COMMUNITY REQUEST DivestSPD needs help buying a new (old) computer to automate data collection. We ran our old one until it literally busted open (see pic). Unlike SPD we're good custodians of the people's money. We found a refurbbed one for $200. Chip in at venmo.com/divestspd

In less than 2 years America deployed secret police, concentration camps, mass surveillance for local PD's via camera/drone/data brokers, and criminalization of extremely foundational concepts like creating zines We can't afford 2 more years of corruption and liberal fecklessness, we need to fight

Unicorn Riot@unicornriot.bsky.social · 7d ago

In Paris, the uprising continues. On October 18, masses of people once again took to the streets. Crowds gathered at Place de la République and in the surrounding streets, erecting barricades as police deployed large amounts of tear gas. 🧵

Together, we can defeat these dangerous initiatives that put our kids at greater risk of harm. Vote NO on I-001 & I-638 when your ballot arrives. #NoHateWAState

This is an example of the type of glaring vulnerabilities that exist in the Seattle surveillance system, that SPD has lied about, and politicians are ignoring, as they demand MORE COPS MORE COPS MORE COPS Every unaccountable cop is just another massive risk of violence to everyone in the community

Mike Katz-Lacabe@mlacabe.bsky.social · last wk.

Savannah police officer shared her Flock login with her husband, an ICE officer. License plate reader data will continue to be used for immigration enforcement and other purposes unless we decide to stop mass surveillance. gizmodo.com/cop-fired-fo...

“Why aren’t Americans following the French example?” Well, if a cop breaks your arm in the US, you end up $30k in medical debt, a list of charges and 3 yrs of legal costs, on top of lost wages mixed in for all of the above. Social safety nets are safety nets for democracy too.

MAGA chud, and SPDs favorite informant Jonathan Choe, is out at the No Kings March downtown at Westlake today Watch out for his butterfingered former Seattle police officer bodyguard, Adley Shepherd, who physically attacks people at events, and can’t hold his gun www.divestspd.com/p/choe-bodyg...

I think anyone who sees the slogan “protect the dolls” as offensive admits to being someone who wants trans people dead and should be treated accordingly.

Dr Han-kenstein 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸@tooriekep.bsky.social · last wk.

Sorry but this made me laugh. The same folk offended by this t-shirt are the same ones who laugh at stories of refugees drowning in the Channel so forgive me if I don't take them seriously

Great. I'm guessing that the reprimand was "make sure nobody is filming you!"

Literally the same crew of thin-skinned, violent meatheads that arrested me for charges that didn’t stick I got a huge l follow up to this video coming out soon, naming names, because we gotta fire these deranged criminals stealing so much money from the community youtu.be/sDtHIaFU5hw

Let me show you what the cops tried to hide

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Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · last wk.

Seattle police lieutenant Matthew Didier, caught on camera telling his fellow officers “We’re here to fuck people up” before SPD threw protesters to the ground and arrested them at an anti-trans rally last year, has been disciplined—with a verbal reprimand.

i will shut up about not voting for anti-trans democrats in exchange for $500. how much is saving democracy worth to you? $jtightpants1

Yeah... ok

Never forget. Defunding never happened. SPD had their feelers hurt and have been on wildcat strike for years. Centrist pols and the police union have used these hurt feelings as a cudgel to hurt legitimate attempts to reform policing in the city. Get cops off Tiktok and back to doing their jobs.

Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · last wk.

The mayor has proposed increasing SPD's budget by $68 million, on top of the additional $4 million or so SPD is getting from the year-end supplemental due to overspending this year. This would fund Bruce Harrell's and SPD's hiring goal of 1,250 officers.

Lol, Council provisoed about $2.1M for 2026 to encourage SPD to hire parking enforcement officers. SPD didn't do it but they want the money anyway. They also want $2.1M for the extra overtime they'll use and $1.8M extra for a bunch of other stuff.

In this morning's council meeting, Bob Kettle said "inflation" was an impact on costs "across all labor agreements," not just the police department's. Just to bring us back to reality, the new contract gave officers a 42% pay increase across 5 years, which is far above inflation.

New Police Contract Will Boost Starting Salaries to Almost $120,000—a 42 Percent Pay Increase in Just Five Years - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett City negotiators have approved a new 2024-2027 contract with the Seattle Police Officers Guild that will…

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Despite Seattle's reputation as a trans haven, the University of Washington has reacted to escalating attacks on trans rights with silence — even after a trans student was murdered. But trans academic workers, unionized with UAW, are fighting back. Our latest, from @thefreeradical.org.

How a Union Is Fighting for Trans Rights for Trans Rights at University of Washington

At the University of Washington, an academic workers’ union is fighting a silent administration that refuses to protect trans rights, even after a trans student was murdered

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You can now preorder the new edition of Rise of the Warrior Cop. Pub date is 11/26. It includes a new introduction, conclusion, and two new chapters taking the police militarization narrative through the start of Trump II. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/radle...

Rise of the Warrior Cop

The groundbreaking history of how police forces went to war with the American public, now updated to encompass the massive shift toward immigration enforceme...

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