Alissa Rose

The cost is whatever. I am a little more concerned that the mayor is out of town for 15% of all weeks over 2.5 years along with presumably at least one staff member. I thought we were trying to reduce spending. How did those trips benefit the city? Were they good uses of staff time?

Food bank, meal program visits in Seattle soar following SNAP cuts The supplemental food assistance program, also known as SNAP, ran out of funding on Nov. 1, after the Trump administration said it paused the program due to the government shutdown. In response to the...

Seattle food banks are seeing a surge of people in need, especially families, as federal food assistance remains on hold.

Ethics concerns surface from Bruce Harrell’s time as Seattle City Council president

fresh new (old?) harrell ethical scandal just dropped www.kuow.org/stories/ethi...

Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts The shutdown is exposing the speaker's slimy disingenuousness.

"The Republican Party has created an entirely avoidable mess for itself. By taking a resolute stand in favor of making healthcare unobtainable for many Americans, and now threatening to starve children to achieve that perverse goal, they have made performative cruelty their political calling card."

IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax-prep giants The tax agency has quietly built its own prototype system for filing tax returns digitally and free of charge, according to current and former officials.

👀 Scoop: IRS Direct File, the free government-backed program that let you file your taxes for free, is dead.

IRS wrote to state tax agencies saying it would not be operational this coming tax season, per records I've obtained.

IRS Direct File: 2023-2025.

(Story from when the pilot launched.)

What has Cliff Bentz done for you?

"If Oregonians are kicked off the plan, it's because they don't deserve to be on it."
Congressman Cliff Bentz on the massive Republican Medicaid cuts. #GOP #GQP #GOPQ #Bentz #Oregon #Medicaid

Fed up with Cliff Bentz's failure to represent his constituents? So are we! Join us this Sunday to meet the Democratic candidates running against him. We deserve better than Bentz.

Meet who wants to challenge Cliff Bentz!

Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover

thank you for the outpouring of support!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

The second egress stair in modern missing-middle housing is like your appendix;
It's a remnant from long ago that no longer serves a purpose and sometimes creates real problems.

When Trump was willing to let 15 million of the poorest people in the world die by vaporizing USAID there simply was no reason to doubt he’d do the same thing here.

Another shameless lie.

Trump’s own lawyers at USDA posted (then deleted) the guidance below that SNAP continues during a shutdown.

Can someone ask him to explain why he disagrees with Trump’s own lawyers?

One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong.

How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.

Nevada Democrats demand clarity on Trump’s nuclear testing threats - The Nevada Independent Nevada Democrats demand clarity on Trump’s nuclear testing threats. Read more from The Nevada Independent.

Nevada Dems respond to Trump's call for nuclear testing:

"[To] even contemplate detonating nuclear weapons on American soil is a betrayal of science, safety, and the American people" thenevadaindependent.com/article/neva...

I assume no one has any remaining doubts that DHS forces will comply with orders to a) seize ballot boxes and b) use force against pro-democracy protestors.

Sep 30: USDA issues guidance saying they can use contingency fund
Oct 10: USDA tells states to prepare for lapse
Oct 23: USDA deletes Sep 30 guidance
Oct 24: USDA says it can’t use contingency fund
Oct 31: Courts tell USDA to release funds
Nov 1: no funds go out
Nov 4: Trump says he’ll defy courts

To intervene more seriously here: A recent study suggested that this morass of state and local paperwork is more than *doubling* the cost of rooftop solar and that streamlining it could save Americans $1.2 trillion. heatmap.news/energy/solar... bsky.app/profile/ryan...

Link to get a new ballot if you don’t have one wa.omniballot.us/sites/53033/...

Happy Election Day! Remember to vote!

If you’re not registered, you can still vote in person at Lumen Field or at UW.

If you’re registered and don’t have a ballot, you can print one online, free at the library (or ngl just write your vote and deets down and put in the ballot box)

We will reprint your ballot for free at any Seattle Public Library branch, and many locations have ballot boxes. Come on by!

The officer Sandwich Guy is charged with assaulting testifies that he could feel the impact of the sandwich through his ballistic vest, and it “exploded all over my uniform.” He says he could “smell the onions and the mustard.”

PERSON 1: Dude your phone is blowing up PERSON 2: Ugh. Don't you hate when someone doesn't give you time of day until they get caught up in some drama P2: Then all of a sudden they’re texting you every 5 minutes? -Who is it? Ryleigh? -Nah, it's the mayor [looking at text] "Katie Wilson claims to be “working class” but we caught her buying the fancy $7 hummus at PCC (NOT the $5 store brand kind)!!! www.bruceforseattle.com/fancyhummus for more info

"The Fancy Hummus"
#DOOMLOOP #Seattle

Remember that time Dick Cheney shot a guy in the face and then the guy had to go on TV and apologise for how being shot in the face made Dick Cheny look bad?

I’ve known & worked with Katie for almost a decade. I’ve watched her unfailingly fight for the needs & rights of working class people in Seattle. I’ve found Katie next to me at canvasses, at picket lines, & at City Hall, & always on the right side of things. Vote Katie Wilson. She’ll fight for YOU.

How are Democrats not immediately suing CBS News over this?

Remember when they said they were only going to deport criminals? Not only have they been going after grandmothers and cops, but now priests.

The president of the United States thinks asylum-seekers come from mental asylums.

He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up.

How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?

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5,000 steps a day could slow cognitive decline in people with signs of Alzheimer’s, study suggests New research bolsters evidence that people with early signs of Alzheimer’s can slow cognitive decline with low to moderate physical activity.

5,000 steps a day could slow cognitive decline in people with signs of Alzheimer’s. Exercise results in a slower buildup of tau protein in the brain.
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