Hannah Sabio-Howell
@hannahsabiohowell.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🇵🇭🇺🇸🚴🏽♀️📸✊🏽🌆🪩🔪📚❤️🔥 Pro-worker. Renter. Urbanist. Filipina. Running for state Senate in WA’s 43rd LD to win a Washington we can all afford. Join us at hannahforwashington.com.
Seattle just became the first city in America to ban grocery stores from engaging in surveillance pricing. This is a huge win for consumers against companies that abuse their personal data to rip them off. Watch former FTC Chair Lina Khan explain.
The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)
Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off?Well, they may already be doing that thanks t
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Nobody — not teachers, not retirees, nobody — will be taxed under the Millionaires Tax unless they make more than a million dollars per year, and voters will always have the final say on any changes to that threshold. Anyone who says otherwise is lying to you.
Could not be prouder to support you Kelabe!! Here’s to the next generation of leaders who dream big, work hard, & don’t settle. 🤝
kelabe.bsky.social@kelabe.bsky.social · 2w agoWe’re shaking things up in the 37th and on course to winning against a 28 year incumbent. Thank you @hannahsabiohowell.bsky.social for pushing me to run and for the many other folks that believed in me back in April! www.thestranger.com/news/kelabe-...
We’re shaking things up in the 37th and on course to winning against a 28 year incumbent. Thank you @hannahsabiohowell.bsky.social for pushing me to run and for the many other folks that believed in me back in April! www.thestranger.com/news/kelabe-...
Kelabe Tewolde Is the Real Deal - The Stranger
On an August evening in Beacon Hill, in the back patio of the restaurant familyfriend, Kelabe Tewolde and his crew hovered around a laptop, waiting for the first primary election results to come in. A...
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Talking transit at the @nerd4cities.bsky.social X @theurbanist.org event! The Seattle Transit Measure would fund 275,000 bus trips in Seattle each year, more service on Saturdays and Sundays, and 22,000 free ORCA cards. Vote YES for the Seattle Transit Measure in November and #HopOnBoardSeattle!
Come hang, make a t-shirt, meet fellow volunteers, and have some great food! If you don’t have a plain t-shirt we’ll have a few available!
Hannah Sabio-Howell@hannahsabiohowell.bsky.social · 3w agoCalling all campaign volunteers & supporters! Join Team @kelabe.bsky.social & Team @hannahsabiohowell.bsky.social for a t-shirt screen printing party & cookout — Sunday, 9/20, at 12pm! Bring a plain t-shirt to screenprint & we’ll take care of the rest.
Calling all campaign volunteers & supporters! Join Team @kelabe.bsky.social & Team @hannahsabiohowell.bsky.social for a t-shirt screen printing party & cookout — Sunday, 9/20, at 12pm! Bring a plain t-shirt to screenprint & we’ll take care of the rest.
Come hang with the campaign! Next 3 opportunities: today’s vision workshop from 2p-4p at the Macrina on 19th, tomorrow’s doorknocking shift from 11a-2p out in Fremont, & Sunday’s virtual office hours from 4p-6p. See ya soon! hannahforwashington.com/events/
Upcoming Events
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We need strict safeguards against the current & expanding use of AI in every corner of our lives. This👇 barely scratches the surface, but here are just a few things Washington state lawmakers should do to reign in this expansion. Let me know what else you think warrants mention!
Organizing gets the goods. Here's another week of ways to get plugged in and connect with neighbors about our campaign's vision of a fearless, affordable future. Sign up at hannahforwashington.com/events or the link in our bio!
When I organized alongside my coworkers at the state legislature for staff to finally have the right to collectively bargain, it wasn’t just the bravery of my coworkers that strengthened my own spirit; it was the solidarity from workers in other industries lending their support too. 1/
nice quote from Mandami comms person Emilia Rowland to the New York Times
Incredibly smart post from @kelabe.bsky.social , connecting the state's unwillingness to properly fund education to the imminent threat of strike. We need an educator like Kelabe to represent us in the 37th! www.theurbanist.org/op-ed-from-t...
Op-Ed: From the Bargaining Table to Olympia, Educators Need Our Support Now
Seattle's teachers union is fighting for a better contract, with reducing class sizes and preventing special education cuts among top aims. It's an issue state legislators have long let fester, says K...
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Our purpose in life is to do what we can to make life easier and better for each other. Today, thanks to the leadership of @mayor.seattle.gov, we’ve done exactly that for the traveling public in Seattle. What an honor to be a part of it.
Mayor Wilson, Councilmember Foster, Councilmember Saka and I are teaming up to ban surveillance pricing at grocery chains in Seattle. Surveillance pricing is a harmful practice where your data is weaponized against you to price gouge. (1/2)
Washington being the #1 corporate tax haven in the country is a policy choice. More of the same isn’t going to change that. It’s time for courageous leadership willing to stand up to corporations, not capitulate to them.
🚨 Workers at the Embassy Suites Pioneer Square have officially been on strike for 2 months now! 🚨 With @uhlocal8 we are going to keep fighting until workers get a fair contract, better healthcare, and protections from ICE. They need your solidarity and support so spread the word now!
All students in Seattle public schools will receive free school meals starting this fall, joining dozens of other states and cities. Kudos to Mayor Katie Wilson and City Council for getting this done. It’s a huge step forward — and a reminder that we have the power to fix the system.
Free meals at all Seattle Public Schools will begin this fall
All Seattle Public Schools students will receive free school lunch starting this fall after a unanimous City Council vot
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Thanks, Robert! Universal school meals roll out this September thanks to the hard work of community organizers who fought for years to help Seattle's kids stay healthy and ready to learn.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2mo agoAll students in Seattle public schools will receive free school meals starting this fall, joining dozens of other states and cities. Kudos to Mayor Katie Wilson and City Council for getting this done. It’s a huge step forward — and a reminder that we have the power to fix the system.
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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We need our leaders in Washington State to intervene.
La Resistencia@laresistencianw.bsky.social · 2mo agoOn August 12 at around 12 am, at least 140 people had not been given dinner yet. In the video, people can be heard crying for help, for food, and for freedom.
A new analysis from the state Department of Revenue shows Washington’s high-earner income tax will be paid by thousands of additional households and produce hundreds of millions of dollars more than previously assumed — if voters don’t ditch it this fall. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/08/12/w...
WA revenue officials: Income tax will bring in more money than first expected • Washington State Standard
A new analysis predicts Washington’s millionaires tax will be paid by more households and bring in much more money than previously assumed.
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Shout it from the rooftops: City Council just voted to ban rental junk fees! #affordability #junkfees #renters #seattle #mayorkatiewilson
Rental junk fees banned!
YouTube video by Mayor Katie B. Wilson
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Great thread covering what happened during our first committee meeting on the Fair and Transparent Pricing ordinance! Stop the price gouging, make discounts fair for all, make groceries more affordable!
Washington Privacy Organizers@wa-privacy.net · 2mo agoComing up at 9:30, a Seattle City Council committee hearing on the Fair and Transparent Pricing ordinance -- banning algorithmic price discrimination (aka surveillance pricing)! It'll be livestreamed at seattlechannel.org./watch-live ... I'll be live-skeeting it here.
Our opponent & the establishment that backs him spent $500k to try to drown us out. So what do we do from now to November 3rd? Get louder. Here’s to big fights worth having. Only when we push does anything move.
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Lefty Cheat Sheet — Aug 2026 Primary
A quick guide on how to vote lefty using sources YOU trust!
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Welp! It’s election day 🎉 – I opened my email this morning to see that @seattleindivisible.bsky.social recommended The Stranger’s election endorsements as if they haven’t been paying attention to progressive news the past month. We need @hannahsabiohowell.bsky.social and @ronpdavis.bsky.social
Your boss and your landlord have voted.
Hannah Krieg@hannahkrieg.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW: Young people are on the ballot this election, but can we please get young people to the ballot BOX? So far, King County voters 65+ account for 4 times as many ballots as people under 35. You have until 8pm Tuesday to close that gap!
