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The GOP is signaling major cuts to Medicaid are coming. Recent studies have shown cuts to Medicaid have a big consequence that gets typically ignored: crime increases. boltsmag.org/medicaid-cov...

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86-year-old Conrad Lee, who has held a seat on the Bellevue City Council since 1994, announced this week that he's seeking reelection to a ninth term.

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Thanks to @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social for reminding me of this Ursula K. le Guin quote.

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Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

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Can I just say, I love that @rangemedia.co doesn’t make me write milquetoast, watered down “maybe this is actually a good thing somehow” bullshit, especially when it comes to what’s happening to trans people, immigrants and federal workers in our country right now. Shoutout independent media!

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“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.

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The Shared Streets Bill SB 5595 is still in motion (movement is good). It just got a proposed friendly amendment from the Senate sponsor, to the effect that a state highway cannot be a shared street. (no problemo👍)

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More of this. The fuck are you doing promoting a book when the country is falling apart?

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Get arrested preventing DOGE goons from entering public buildings, get arrested going into public buildings to find out what DOGE goons are doing, get arrested on the floor during confirmation votes to protest the rubber stamping of unqualified candidates

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Stop mocking disabled ppl, trans ppl, queer ppl, ppl of different races or religions to mock fascists. You are not helping.

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O Ursula. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Ugh, this is terrible news. My thoughts are with these three people. #VisionZero

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Seattle Fire is currently responding to a driver hitting three people walking at 15th Ave NE and NE 47th Street in the U District. Additional info forthcoming on this major incident.

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This section of the Parking Reform and Modernization Act's bill report is...absolutely perfect.

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They were not conned though. They agree.

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Crews from the Washington State Department of Transportation will begin closing lanes of the State Route 99 tunnel in Seattle at 9 p.m. tonight, with a full closure running from 10 p.m. through 6 a.m. Saturday morning for maintenance work.

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It's veblenian conspicuous consumption at mindboggling scale. "Oh, you burned the amazon to make that? That's cute. Check this out, it cost as much as ending world hunger 20 times over" Billionaires competing to see which one can set the biggest pile of cash on fire, for status

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My latest for @publicola.bsky.social on the high rate of deaths in custody at SCORE, inadequate medical care, and filthy conditions at the jail was six months in the making. “If they can’t get it to a point where there’s accountability and people stop dying, then [SCORE] just needs to be shut down.”

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! Judge Ho rebuffs dismissal for now, & has appointed Paul Clement to present arguments on whether to dismiss Adams' charges, and if it'd be appropriate not to. Paul Clement is a conservative star lawyer who was George Bush's Solicitor General whose entire career has advanced conservative causes:

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"Auburn mayor Nancy Backus declined to comment. The mayors and/or city managers of Burien, Des Moines, Renton, SeaTac, and Tukwila did not respond to repeated requests for comment." Cowards. The fact that this facility is allowed to remain open after 11 deaths in 2 years is a travesty.

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It’s actually not common and if you can’t research and write your own copy without relying on generative software gtfo of the industry

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One thing the US failed to address in any sort of meaningful way over the past 4 years: The housing crisis. Young and even middle-age people are increasingly cut out of homebuying. Situation likely to worsen in coming 4 years with tariffs, deportation of immigrants, & high interest rates.

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Eleven People Have Died at this South King County Jail in the Last Two Years. Their Families Are Demanding Answers. New today from @andyengelson.bsky.social: publicola.com/2025/02/21/e...

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Help @alexis4seattle.bsky.social qualify for democracy vouchers! www.alexisforseattle.com

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At the Seattle School Traffic Safety Committee this morning, hearing about an incident in which three school kids were hit by a driver turning left at Wallingford Avenue N and N 45th Street earlier this week.

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Why didn't a single councilmember propose increasing the budget for street trees in the transportation levy?

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Important to stop phrasing & headlining things as "Trump does XXX" (e.g. "Trump fires all USPS heads and integrates it under Commerce"); we can simply say he is purporting to do XXX, or claiming the power to do XXX. Mere fact of a president saying he did something doesn't will it into existence.

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Words to live by.

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The stuff they're doing is deeply unpopular and they're rapidly heading in that direction. Stop treating them like they're untouchable. We can fight back.

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In addition to the gutting of federal research funds for higher education, these are the sorts of rules being imposed on existing research. My new piece at Tusk: smotus.substack.com/p/the-attack...

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An important detail that I think gets lost in the madness: Federal workers are categorized as "probationary" when they get promoted. So experts who've worked in government for 10, 20, 30 years are getting indiscriminately cut in the DOGE purge because they got promoted, not because they're new.

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Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

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Sorry, apartment-dwellers. It is the adopted policy of the City of Seattle for you to protect single-family homeowners from adverse impacts.

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On this list: Spokane Not on this list: Seattle

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Senate Bill 5156, approved by the Washington Senate this week, could open the door to more accessible small apartment buildings built around smaller European-style elevators, reducing overall housing costs at the same time. Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/20/w...

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Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal said Thursday he has advised Washington's school districts not to change their existing diversity, equity and inclusion policies, and that a letter issued by the federal Department of Education last week has no legal standing.

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Another entry in the "Republicans would oppose seat belt laws today" file: conservative groups have overwhelmingly signed in opposed to a bill that would slowly ramp up driver's ed requirements for drivers aged 19 to 24. Drivers in that cohort without training have a 70% higher crash injury rate.

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It is shameful that Seattle's adopted land use policy calls for apartment buildings to provide a buffer between freeways and single-family homes.

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