Itsa me, Erica!

to add a data point to this thread, i just bought a j press MIUSA shirt that ran me $185.

COLUMN | What This Mayoral Election Owes 'Black Seattle' From City Hall to the Central District, Seattle's mayoral race raises deeper questions: Who speaks for "Black Seattle," and what does real representation look like beyond the ballot? Marcus Harrison G...

Who do we mean when we say “Black Seattle”?

This mayoral race isn’t about personalities—it’s about whether symbolism becomes substance. What do “seats at the table” mean if the rest of us go hungry?

My latest column for the @soseaemerald.bsky.social

Do not watch the HBO series.
Do not buy wizard game (2).

I usually don't judge too much, I get that not everyone is fully in the loop for everything. If you support JKR now, we are done.

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

King County Council Unsnags RapidRide I Line After Property Disputes » The Urbanist # After considering a broader slate of property condemnations to keep the RapidRide I Line on track for a 2027 opening, the council is poised to approve a compromise measure much narrower in scope.

The County Council also just took a 8-0 vote just now approving a small number of property condemnations that will finally allow the RapidRide I between Renton and Auburn to move into construction.
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My spouse highly recommends the documentary 'Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched' about folk horror, which we first saw on Shudder. I loved 'The Autopsy of Jane Doe', which is very tense and intimate.

But we don't need him! WFSE Convention 2025 delegates just beat procedural shenanigans and the opposition of both WFSE and AFSCME leadership to pass a Gaza solidarity resolution this weekend! WHEN WE FIGHT WE WIN!

@wfse.org @afscme.bsky.social #Gaza #Palestine #solidarity

If you want to follow events in Portland, don’t read NYT.

Follow local reporters who know their community

@alexzee.bsky.social
@alexbaumhardt.bsky.social
@taylorgriggs.bsky.social
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AFSCME members demand leadership to call for an end to genocide and occupation in Palestine Join fellow AFSCME rank-and-file members and staff across the US to demand that AFSCME end its complicity in long-standing U.S.- Israeli imperialism in Palestine and in the current genocide of Gazans....

I spoke to Lee Saunders at the WFSE Convention yesterday and was disappointed at how utterly uninterested he was in doing anything about Gaza. I hope this puts some pressure on him. #Gaza #genocide #Palestine @afscme.bsky.social @wfse.org #wfse

Overnight Service Proposal Purpose & Goals • Provide overnight bus service along Link lines and core ST Express network. • Serve riders and destinations with continuous or nontraditional need, such as hospitals and the airport. • Combined with Metro’s late-night network, 85% of Link station areas would be served all day and all night. Service Proposal • Three routes: Everett-Seattle, Lakewood-SEA-Seattle, and Redmond-Seattle • Service from approx. midnight to 5 a.m., 7 days/wk; could also support Link maintenance window expansion • Headways: 15-60min

This is big news: Sound Transit is proposing to launch a new overnight ST Express network, once Federal Way and East Link are both fully operational.

There would be three routes: Everett-Seattle, Lakewood-SeaTac-Seattle, and Redmond-Seattle. Headways are still TBD, but expected to be around 30 min.

Vance's most monumental achievement to date has been being told off by two popes in one year.

Dude if the Democratic Party has a place for anti-trans and anti-abortion candidates then I’m not a democrat and I won’t vote for one

I don’t know what to tell you man, there’s already a political party who believes these things

It’s not a “big tent” to have zero fixed values in pursuit of power

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

You don't have to take corporate money. You just have to have a dope political project supported by your membership! #AllPowertothePeople

DAVID CROSS: “I am disgusted and deeply disappointed… These are some of my HEROES… how can any of us take any of you seriously ever again?”

Here’s who went to the Riyadh Comedy Festival: www.timeoutriyadh.com/news/riyadh-...

What Coates was saying is, all I can do now is lay the bricks down for a path towards a better future. He was saying how do we strengthen our backs.

Klein was saying living under Trump is uncomfortable how can I make it stop now. How can I dull the pain without addressing the underlying source?

The national Democratic Party keeps turning to think tanks and strategists to ask why they're losing, and then do cowardly shit like this.

If you want to actually turn out voters, you've got to commit wholly to something. Literally anything at this point. Take one (1) risk.

Illustration of cake with the text "Happy Birthday Mifepristone"

Happy 25th birthday, mifepristone!

25 years ago, the FDA approved mifepristone as a safe & effective abortion medication. Typically using a combo of mifepristone & misoprostol, medication abortions are now the most common way to end pregnancy. These meds are also used after miscarriages. (1/3)

This new Seattle women's shelter is unconventional, but it's working Women at Donna Jean's Place can reserve their bed for the next night, indefinitely. No one is required to get sober or apply for housing. Patience is the point.

Providing a temporary bed without making people jump through a million hoops shouldn't be "remarkable," but it is—as the story notes, we invest heavily in shelters that erect barriers to entry, denying access to people who need stability most urgently.
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Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens.

Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION UNION RECOGNITION FOR WINDMILL FARMS WORKERS NOW SIGN THE PETITION LINK IN CAPTION #BOYCOTTWINDMILLMUSHROOMS

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? AFTER YEARS OF POOR CONDITIONS UNDER OSTROM, MAJORITY OF WORKERS VOTED TO UNIONIZE. ⬇️ WINDMILL FARMS, FINANCED BY INSTAR ASSET MANAGEMENT, BUYS OSTROM. ⬇️ WORKERS WERE FIRED AND PRESSURED TO ACCEPT REHIRE AT LOWER PAY, SOMETIMES IN UNFAMILIAR POSITIONS WITHOUT TRAINING. UNACCEPTABLE.

WHAT DO WE DEMAND? ATTN: CEO OF INSTAR, GREGORY J. SMITH CEO OF WINDMILL FARMS, GREG OGIBA ACCOUNTABILITY: “FAIR AND SAFE TREATMENT" FOR WORKERS NOW WINDMILL FARMS SUNNYSIDE, WA

WORKER STATEMENT: "AT WINDMILL FARMS WE ARE MISTREATED. WE ARE SCOLDED FOR NOT DOING THE WORK PROPERLY, EVEN THOUGH WE ARE DOING WHAT IS ASKED. WE ARE SHUNNED FOR ASKING THE SUPERVISORS QUESTIONS AND WE FEAR SPEAKING WITH OUR CO-WORKERS." WORKERS DESERVE A UNION NOW SIGN THE LINK IN CAPTION

Farmworkers at Windmill Mushrooms are fighting for just conditions: Sign this petition and demand that Instar and Windmill recognize the union and stop harmful labor practices.
#BoycottWindmillMushrooms

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oh shit, they're not just saying "you're no longer covered by the CBA." dues aren't being taken out, Weingarten rights revoked. that union is DONE done.

Age of Empires II would make me more likely to tune in.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

I live in Seattle. I drink Starbucks. I won't cross a picket line.

A statement from the Tylenol website stating that Tylenol does not cause autism

Tylenol ain't taking this shit

From tylenol.com

Do you remember?

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches