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Joint statement from myself, King County Executive Shannon Braddock, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell, Pierce County Executive Ryan Mello and Tacoma Mayor Victoria Woodards: We condemn President Trump’s illegal activation of California National Guard forces over the objections of California’s governor.

submitted 43 minutes ago • 12 comments

It remains so funny to me how many people who claim to be socialists thought the Biden Administration was a disaster for the working class when the objective truth is it was a disaster for the bosses.

submitted 4 hours ago • 14 comments

Good news out of Seattle, where the Link light rail registered its highest-ever ridership in May as the 2-line got extended to Downtown Redmond. Ridership is up more than 20% compared to last May!

submitted 3 hours ago • 9 comments

I absolutely cannot WAIT for European soccer babies to show ICE what an actual riot looks like after their team wins\loses\ties

submitted 43 minutes ago • 0 comments

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1373 comments

"Given power by the social democrats" tankie Weimar historiography never ceases to amaze me

submitted 7 hours ago • 12 comments

"Trump declares intention to openly break Congressionally-enacted valid law in order to honor white supremacy." Sums it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

submitted 23 hours ago • 77 comments

The most terminal O-4 of all time

submitted 8 hours ago • 12 comments

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

submitted 23 hours ago • 478 comments

I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.

submitted 10 hours ago • 90 comments

If Norway has one fan, it’s me If Norway has a million fans, I’m one of them If Norway has no fans, I’m temporarily unavailable after a Russian aerial attack If the world is against Norway, I’m against the world Till my last breath, I support Norway

submitted 8 hours ago • 50 comments

Bellevue's council was one vote away from retaining a stronger middle housing code tonight, and five councilmembers are up for reelection this fall in case you're wondering what the stakes are.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

We feed you. They hunt us.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1118 comments

Newsom: This Saturday, he's ordering our American heroes, the United States military, and forcing them to put on a vulgar display to celebrate his birthday, just as other failed dictators have done in the past

submitted 22 hours ago • 740 comments

tappers coworker was detained by ice in the middle of a live hit last night and this is what hes concerned with

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

Standing up for immigrants means not freaking out when an immigrant celebrates their country of origin

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Genuinely funny that some leftists will argue this attitude stems from a decline in material conditions and not the decadence of middle class America

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Did we not just get a poll like two hours showing nearly 50% disproval of marines being sent to LA or am I hallucinating?

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

my favorite early 2021 pandemic story was Chuck Todd calling 100 million vaccine doses in 100 days an impossible trump style promise, and then when we hit it in 65 days he said Biden set the bar low on purpose so he could cynically claim he accomplished something difficult

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I love this double standard in American politics where these chuds slander us as criminals and degenerates but if we respond with the objective fact that their home states are only known for their meth labs and teenage pregnancy rates we're somehow defiling the soul of America

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

this is, in fact, how democrats should respond to Republicans

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

I also wonder how many actual ICE agents are abusing their powers. If we get through this it seems likely we'll learn about some that solicited bribes and some that did things considerably worse

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Tariffs & ICE raids are connected insofar as they are attempts to blame economic & social conditions entirely on the actions of foreigners while attempting to paint domestic enemies as a traitorous fifth column working with the foreigners to undermine the country

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

The state Kristi Noem is from gets 40x as much representation in the United States Senate as the state Los Angeles is in. They take billions of dollars of tax money from our state every year. And yet it's not enough. They won't stop until they occupy our territory and destroy our freedom.

submitted 1 day ago • 110 comments

The No Kings protest map will help you find a place to exercise your First Amendment rights this weekend. (It's also a pretty good argument against the Electoral College.) www.nokings.org

submitted 1 day ago • 196 comments

At some point you have to pick whether you will defend immigrant communities as they actually exist or will only defend them if they shape up and start acting American enough, and frankly the rhetoric about these protests is telling me that too many liberals are picking option 2

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Gavin Newsom went on TV, called Tom Homan a bitch, and said he if he wanted arrest him he knew where to find him. Maxine Waters told an ICE agent to his if they planned to shoot her they should at least shoot straight. I really don't know what you want from them right now.

submitted 1 day ago • 123 comments

The best way to do this is have veterans do the actual handoff. There are no shortage of them in LA, and they have organizations that will stand a much better chance of getting stuff through

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I think it might be useful to do a real assessment at some point of who has the ability to shape the narrative and how it isn’t (for instance) all but a few Congressional Dems. One thing that does help shape the narrative, though: posts like this.

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

look, I'm not really even calling balls and strikes on the LA protests, but Dr. King saw teenagers get exploded by the Klan and still felt compelled to think about strategy, I'm sorry if that's lame to you

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

Donald Trump incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol. Hundreds of dangerous felons who brutally beat police officers with impunity were then pardoned by the President on his first day in office. Don’t ever lecture America about law and order.

submitted 3 days ago • 249 comments

the thing about "mutual aid" discourse is that it's just "why can't charity just replace government handouts" discourse, but from the left

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Jake Tapper invented a statement by Rashida Tlaib and he’s still on TV!

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

The most striking thing about the LA protests is how many people just dropped everything to show up and yell at federal agents. There are people in suits, and carrying dogs, and wearing flip flops or bike helmets. These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.

submitted 4 days ago • 107 comments

good morning

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Tom Homan: We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what? We are already mobilizing. We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight

submitted 4 days ago • 3258 comments

>we would have won if we simply were let off the leash and went harder The cult of the operator pervades

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I keep saying this, and I feel like a broken record, but there must be consequences for this. Any Democrat that will stand in the way of these monsters being punished to the fullest extent of the law needs to be viciously primaried before or during the 2028 cycle.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

A dictator can't start disappearing people before consolidating power. And Trump was never going to be able to consolidate power. I still mourn for what he has done and will yet do to our country, but he won't achieve most of his goals in the end.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Weekend transit service from cities to trailheads seems to be a growth market. A data point from Seattle.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

I feel like the President of the United States threatening a private citizen if they support the rival political party should be a big story? - “If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that,” Trump told NBC News. “He’ll have to pay very serious consequences if he does that,” he added. -

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

You gotta wonder what the latino voters who pulled the lever for the "mass deportations now" guy are thinking rn

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments