Sarah Aubin

Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal".

But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.

Today is the final day the USPS recommends mailing your ballot in.

MAGA attacks on the postal service mean that if you mail it after today, it may not be counted.

If you can’t mail today, turn it in at your nearest ballot drop box, locations can be found here: www.sos.wa.gov/elections/vo...

If someone tells you we don't have enough funds for national universal healthcare 👇

Last night’s session. 📸

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

A beautiful piece of art of farm workers laboring in the fields

Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay.

Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas.

Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art

Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

Trump regime to firefighters:

Oh, you're trying to contain a difficult, tricky blaze in the Olympics? Let us make your lives more difficult by showing up to arrest some of your number for unspecified violations.

Seriously, this is insane.

Insane.

Mine too 🥲

As your own dreams shrivel, remember that someone, somewhere is being made even more miserable than you! That's the new American dream: that someone is being punished in your name. And, somewhere else, a billionaire is happy. Your personal billionaire! Look, he's smiling and giving a big thumbs-up! Already, your tax dollars are being put to good use.

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Murkowski 😬

We really need to start asking why the ICE agents are such snowflakes that they need to hide their identities when they arrest gardeners and taco truck drivers? Hundreds of thousands of state and local cops don't feel the need to hide their faces and identities.

I highly urge anyone who wants to have their voices heard to download the @5calls.org app. They have scripts as well as the numbers for each of your state senators, and they keep you updated on the status of bills like #HR1. #WeWontGetOverMedicaid

Gross

It’s the capitalization of random nouns for me.

@pattymurray.bsky.social for the win. Washington State forever 💚

It needs a few typos, grammatical errors, insults, random quote marks, and misspellings.

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American people wouldn’t notice them. “Don’t make any sudden movements, or they’ll spot us,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said out of the corner of his mouth, […]

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

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Thought for the Day…

Oh yeah water helps.

#jarvisboards #sup #sunset #pnw

The same people demanding you present a photo ID to vote are perfectly fine with letting you be arrested, handcuffed & thrown into a van by armed men wearing plain clothes, face masks & presenting no identification of any sort.

Lee-Daines Amendment Now Threatens 294,646,021 Acres Of Public Land Full text, methodology, and new maps of impacted areas show much larger land sell-off

Articles I've written on these shocking acreage totals have so far been pretty rushed and lacked analysis and context. I tried to fix that here, while also breaking the news that the total acreage is now even larger. Have you subscribed to my Substack yet?

Image of a screenshot of news headline, saying, "WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook Forced Consent & Consent Bypass / 16 June 2025 Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

Incredible showing! Proud of my town. That was the injection of energy that I needed.

Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

Huge showing in my hometown of Port Townsend!!

Amazing turnout today. #nokings

I’ll be there.