absolutely, it's not about protecting women, it's about controlling them

I remember sitting in the gallery and watching Richard’s vote against Democrats, schools, and kids over and over again in the amendments to the millionaire tax. Such a bummer to see him advance. Hopefully he’ll see the challenger doing as well as she did as a sign he needs to do better.

Tri-City Herald@tri-cityherald.com · 18h ago

Primary results are in for the race between an incumbent and two challengers vying to represent Washington’s 26th Legislative District.

The additional fast ferry runs are ending August 31. Which is particularly concerning given how unreliable the state ferry from Bremerton is.

Washington State Ferries@ferries.wsdot.wa.gov · 2d ago

Sea/Brem - Chimacum cancelled sailings due to a mechanical issue Read full alert

By contrast, genuine formative assessments i.e. internal classroom testing to understand areas of weakness and developmental opportunities are a very powerful educational tool when used that way. That has to stay divorced from progress testing otherwise it corrupts everything.

I agree strongly with this -- in that difficult moment, the possibility of collective effort was conceivable. Not everybody felt it, but many did. I think the political class did not like this one bit.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

The war on trans people continues apace. 8,000–15,000 trans Americans have fled to WA since 2024, but funding for orgs that support trans people specifically has dropped 63%. This report highlights the problem in graphic/map form, & offers a solution. www.genderjusticeleague.org/expelled-fro...

M, sending me this: "I do wonder if they just sit around in a room asking if there's anything they haven't totally f*cked up yet." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Gift Article)

The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.

nytimes.com

The National Archives is shutting down its Chicago, San Francisco & Seattle research facilities. The closures rip public records out of the hands of the people, burying our history behind bureaucracy and darkness. This is NOT how democracy works!

It’s so weird. You’ve got 2 depts loudly insisting we need to “make America healthy again.” and “no fat troops”, and a 3rd equally loudly hating on keeping people safe while they do things that keep them healthy and fit.

NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

Transportation officials have removed a growing list of safety materials that mention bike lanes from federal websites. Safety advocates warn that's undermining proven measures for reducing crashes. n.pr/4fqMx1n

Do you want to know how popular school vouchers are? They have never won on a ballot. Not once. In any state. Ever. The only way states are able pass a school voucher scheme is behind closed doors. Legislatively. The people would never approve their tax dollars going to private religious schools.

It bears repeating, cis men do not have to go through this. This entire genetic testing regime and concomitant anti-trans legal campaign will result in hundreds of thousands of intersex women being stigmatized and pushed out of society along with trans people. That is eugenics.

They are hurriedly moving these people who we’ve been talking to at the concentration camp in Tacoma. The political prisoners who have been locked up in this camp have been participating in hunger strikes and other organizing with community support.

Cascadia(PNW)@cascadiarevolting.bsky.social · last mo.

We have humans in concentration camps asking us to help them. I want people to think about what history is going to remember. Who did the right thing and who didn’t? A community is only as “good” as the people who live in it. We decide what we are willing to tolerate and we will be judged for it.

anti trans laws protect no one because their actual intent is harm & here is one child lost because anti trans laws in Idaho did exactly what they were written to do. Read the story please.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2w ago

Everyone should read this story and see how the state of Idaho, the Trump administration, and hate groups such as ADF, SEGM, Do No Harm, and the Manhattan Institute have blood on their hands. They murdered this trans teen and her future. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

We’re never going to live on Mars. We’re never going to live on the Moon. There is no Planet B. We need to take care of our magical mystical miraculous planet like it’s the only home we will ever have. Because it is.

Trans children and young people don’t need our sadness; they need our power and our solidarity www.wearequeeraf.com/trans-kids-a...

Trans kids are being hit by waves of hostile policymaking - they need our help

Trans children and young people don’t need our sadness; they need our power and our solidarity

wearequeeraf.com

Our schools have a common enemy: Wall Street. We write about why states’ political failures are causing a massive transfer of wealth from classrooms to the richest banks in the nation. truthout.org/articles/eme...

Emergency Loans Are Costing US Schools Millions — and Lining Wall Street Pockets

States’ political failures are causing a massive transfer of wealth from classrooms to the richest banks in the nation.

truthout.org

speaking as a teacher, this is the hardest of nopes: “If a teacher loses their place during a lesson or needs a prompt on what comes next, Kiguel said, they can ask the robot for guidance because it has been loaded with the district’s curriculum.”

hiksmash@hiksmash.blacksky.app · 3w ago

Sorry, no. If they tried to bring this thing in to my kid's school by the end of the day all you'd find is a pile of bolts and a plastic wig

i don’t believe anything until I see it fully happening but for the moment this news feels a little like taking a tiptoe step back from a crumbling ledge and onto slightly firmer ground.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3w ago

This is huge! The Trump administration is abandoning its plan to withhold Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender affirming care to trans youth under 19. www.npr.org/2026/07/13/n...

Murray: and what if you’re a billionaire… .0002%? Dahl: yes

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 3w ago

Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate? Dahl: Yes. Murray: And what is the rate for someone making $1,000,000? Dahl: 2.2%.

They say books won’t change the world. Tell that to every colonizer who burned them. To every enslaved person who was punished for reading. Literacy is resistance. Literacy is liberation. The library is a battlefield.

Last year, my first year as Governor, Washington ranked #14 in CNBC's Best States for Business. This year, we moved up 3 spots to #11. Next year, we're going to crack the top 10. We won't stop until we're #1.

The Downtown Seattle Association claims taxing high earners is driving down employment in Seattle, and they point to high vacancy rates and lower total *downtown* employment to prove the point. A look at the data shows this is total BS. Here is how it works: www.theurbanist.org/op-ed-the-da...

Op-Ed: The Data Says Seattle’s High Earners Tax Is Working, Despite Whining from Big Business

The Downtown Seattle Association recently released a “report” that was meant to convince us that taxes on high earners are smothering the Seattle economy. Here’s why their analysis is flat wrong.

theurbanist.org

“When were you there last?” is my fave question for people complaining about how dirty or dangerous a city is. Recent answers abt Seattle: “oh at least a year ago” and “I’d never go there.” Dude, this city is beautiful (and very walkable), with great public transit. But yeah, stay home and hate.

To be clear, voting for Rick Kuss for sheriff is voting for Ice raids in Kitsap county. I really think more people need to know this.

Albany Cheshire@albanycheshire.bsky.social · 4w ago

This bullshit was posted awhile back. Basically: "We won't help with immigration enforcement, but we will protect them and prevent violence against them." Taking the side of enforcement vs the people being harmed.

For more than 100 years, salmon had been absent from the Klamath Tribe’s lands — a fact that cut them off from federal funding sources to fix that. Then the Yurok stepped in. www.hcn.org/articles/the...

The Klamath Tribes couldn’t get federal dollars for salmon. Then the Yurok stepped in - High Country News

For more than 100 years, salmon had been absent from the Klamath Tribe’s lands — a fact that cut them off from funding sources to fix that.

hcn.org

This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.

Tolkien wrote a YA novel where the villain was Smaug, an evil dragon that hoarded wealth & polluted the earth. Everyone working in tech who loves that book & that author has missed its point. These are also the same people who assert that thinking about literature is a waste of time. 🤬🤬

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

WA Whistles@wawhistles.bsky.social · 4w ago

ICE is surging in the Seattle area. (Map shows activity in the last week) Do you have your whistle with you?

They aren’t even hiding who they are anymore. I can’t believe people are of such poor moral character that they even vote for people who agree with harming innocent children while helping pedophilic elites. This society is morally bankrupted.

CHUM News@chum.news · 4w ago

Citing a *potential* defeat of the millionaires tax through a Nov ballot initiative, Joy Hollingsworth is proposing to cut costs by defunding Seattle’s (newly announced) universal school meal program. We’re on-site to share updates, and livestream here: www.seattlechannel.org/videos?video...

Until a majority of cishet folks care enough to pay attention to stuff like this, things won’t change. And one thing I’ve learned in my years of activism is that I can’t make people care about shit that doesn’t affect them unless they are predisposed to care already. Empathy is uncommon.