Fingers flexed & champing at the bit, ready to unleash if Glusenkamp-Perez ever texts again asking me “what she can do to change my mind.” Girl do it.

in the USA, cops can execute Black infants in broad daylight with reasonable belief they'll face no repercussions whatsoever but if they put into writing they were racist about it, the cop'll probably lose their job and the local government will be on the hook a few million dollars in a civil suit

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 2d ago

The police chief of Senatobia, a Mississippi city where an officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in June while responding to a shoplifting call, was fired by city officials Tuesday after reports of racist text messages emerged. buff.ly/rYp8Pcj

personally—and I don’t think I’m alone here—I send my kid to school to LEARN how to DO things with HER mind. This is 🤯

Mike Clarke (the real one)@mikeclarke.bsky.social · 2d ago

More here: www.seattleschools.org/departments/... They seem to be following the DoE on this, which in the Trump era is a mistake… I haven’t noticed calls for parent engagement on developing these policies either.

Yep. These slides from a recent teacher training have been circulating lately. Last year my 6th grader said he was told to turn in his essays to an AI app that provided feedback and even graded it. I was horrified. Parents have been raising concerns and testifying but so far board hasn't acted.

Just like local police, retiring while under investigation is a standard law enforcement move.

Bovino was under internal investigation by Border Patrol when he retired, newly released records show

Former Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino retired while under internal investigation for his conduct during immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis and Chicago, records show.

chicagotribune.com

little by little, then all at once, just like the "hysterics" said

Loukas Christodoulou@loukas.bsky.social · 5d ago

How did the USA become authoritarian? Two ways: Gradually and then suddenly.

Alternate take … Seattle’s mainstream media is conservative and duped this vulnerable couple into thinking their recall petition was legitimate and then hyped the story even though it was clearly frivolous. This story should have gotten the same level of press coverage as a goodspaceguy candidacy.

Northwest Progressive Institute@nwprogressive.org · last wk.

Melinda Jacobson and Dale Osterud’s non-recall of Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson was a media stunt that the mass media fell for Two disgruntled constituents had no legally sufficient grounds to start a recall of the Emerald City's chief executive, but Seattle newsrooms rewarded their ploy for…

History will not look kindly on what King County allowed to happen at Boeing Field. @girmayzahilay.bsky.social

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · last wk.

🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A shackled ICE captive stumbles and falls as he attempts to climb the stairs to a GlobalX jet (tail: N630VA) on Tuesday afternoon at Boeing Field 👀

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...

Police request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart

A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.

local12.com

The "school security industry" is a way to bankrupt school districts by redirecting funding away from teachers and giving it to various kinds of cop-adjacent chuds instead. The Plot To Enslave America

CNN@cnn.com · 2w ago

The tiny and quick drones are being deployed in an increasing number of school districts – part of a growing school security industry as parents and schools find new ways to protect students and staff from carnage. https://cnn.it/4qDiszA

"Totally Normal Initiative" #seattle #doomloop @nohateinwastate.bsky.social

OMG. The electroshock gloves that DHS is buying for ICE? Cops in Omaha have been using them for a while now IN SCHOOLS. And according to the article used them at least twice just last year. Nearby suburban cops used them twice in schools too. On students. Children.

Nebraska school district asks police to stop using shock gloves on students

Omaha police agreed to stop carrying electric shock gloves in the halls of state’s largest public school district

theguardian.com

By “public safety,” he means “more cops.” The Bite of Seattle shootings, like many murders in this city, happened in the presence of several cops. Police are not a deterrent to crime. They’re not a solution to crime. We need better ideas.

Friday night Bellevue College/KBCS DJ is killing it 🤌🤌

just called ICE and told them MS 13 gang members have Mrs. Dalloway tattoos

“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

ysph.yale.edu

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

🚨🚨Links for actions 1-4 in the thread ⬇️

Seattle Indivisible@seattleindivisible.bsky.social · 3w ago

A surge of immigration kidnappings in the Puget Sound region. You CAN do something! The tactics here points to targeted vehicle stops based on license plate and cell phone location data.  Seattleindivisible.com/ICESurge

Any money you give cops or ICE for things like “deescalation training” will just be used to fund more violence. We have known this for YEARS.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Q: The shock gloves that ICE is reportedly rolling out using the deescalation funding. Is that the sort of use you envisioned when you passed that bill? SUSAN COLLINS: It's not

@seattletimes.com separate your News from Editorial for cripes sake

@tammymorales.bsky.social · 3w ago

@seattletimes-rss.bsky.social What gives? Please explain why this hyperbolic headline is in the NEWS section and why it’s so different from previous coverage of the same recall process for other electeds. As a subscriber I’d like to know.

HELL YES IM GOING TMRW southseattleemerald.org/community/20...

Oh Hey: Jackson's Catfish Corner Is Back

On a recent bike ride down Yesler in the Central District the other week, I noticed a congregation of people outside one of the businesses across from Pratt Par

southseattleemerald.org

Do you know what to do if you see ICE in your community? BE READY Aug 16, Aug 20 Free Training. It’s like taking CPR training: you hope you’ll never need it, but it’s good to know what to do in case of an emergency. This 1-hour basic class will show you what to do if you happen to see ICE

*whispers* BLM was popular

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'll go another step further: the research shows that BLM protests causally shifted Americans' racial attitudes leftward and helped Democrats in the 2020 election link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Now is the time to shut down the Northwest Detention Center. NOW.

La Resistencia@laresistencianw.bsky.social · 3w ago

On 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.

The cut would impact both disabled adults who live with low-income family members and older SSI recipients who live with their adult children on tight budgets. As many as 400,000 people could have their support cut or eliminated, per SSA estimates. (Published April)

The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...

propublica.org

This 100% tracks with precinct level data in Seattle that shows voters who live in higher crime areas are less likely to support "tough-on-crime" candidates and vice versa

alec karakatsanis@equalityalec.bsky.social · 3w ago

When crime survivors are specifically asked about who they want to vote for, look at what they say:

Chief Sayles, at a picnic, preparing to throw a football to a small boy: “Be easy, child citizen. I do not intend to restrict your movement in any way. You are not being detained. This is a social contact.”

what has been made abundantly clear this week is that it’s not so much that abolition has a branding problem, it’s that certain people are intent on *reducing* abolition to a branding problem