Image showing New York Attorney General Letitia James, a woman with long dark hair, smiling and talking to a Washington State Attorney General, a man in a suit. Overlaid text reads: "Joint statement of 22 attorneys general condemning retaliatory prosecution of New York AG Letitia James."

We stand in solidarity with AG James and others who have been targeted for reasons wholly antithetical to the pursuit of justice. We commit to doing all we can to ensure that the rule of law prevails and to resist the further corrosion of our system of justice. https://ow.ly/27wM50XaMc4

For those who don’t intimately understand how news works and why Bari Weiss’s unearned elevation to head of CBS News matters, I’d recommend watching this in entirety. Also, will forever point out irony of how an admitted DEI hire thinks her hire was meritorious while Black people’s aren’t.

useless scholarly exercise in morality. But the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiro-shima and Vietnam, to save Western civiliza-tion; Kronstadt and Hungary, to save social-ism; nuclear proliferation, to save us all-that is still with us. One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth. We have learned to give them exactly the same proportion of attention that teachers and writers often give them in the most respectable of classrooms and textbooks. This learned sense of moral proportion, coming from the apparent objectivity of the scholar, is accepted more easily than when it comes from politicians at press conferences. It is therefore more deadly. The treatment of heroes (Columbus) and their victims (the Arawaks)-the quiet acceptance of conquest and murder in the name of progress—is only one aspect of a certain approach to history, in which the past is told from the point of view of governments, conquerors, diplomats, leaders. It is as it they, like Columbus, deserve universal acceptance, as if they—the Founding Fathers, Jackson, Lin-

These are all sourced from “A People’s History of the United States,” and I struggle to think of a more prescient page from a history book that I have read than this one:

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

Why doesn't Donald Trump remember that he was President on January 6th, 2021?

Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (October 6th-10th) The week's major votes included Senate passage of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act and multiple failed votes on ending the partial federal government shutdown.

Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (October 6th-10th)

The week's major votes included Senate passage of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act and multiple failed votes on ending the partial federal government shutdown.

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

JD Vance is LYING. These firings have NOTHING to do with the shutdown.

Donald Trump is CHOOSING to fire these scientists to threaten Democrats.

Trump is destroying what little is left of our public health infrastructure, and we will NOT be ready for the next pandemic.

Never forget that when Bondi was appointed, Democracy Docket immediately called her out while The Washington Post gave her a thumbs up.

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Emmett Till Center to Honor His Legacy With Events Across State The Emmett Till Interpretative Center will continue its “Remembering Emmett” series with events across Mississippi in October and November.

Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr., the last living witness of his cousin Emmett Till's abduction, will be the convocation speaker at the conclusion of Tougaloo College’s Founders’ Week on Sunday, Oct. 12.

Have we already memory holed the destruction of USAID and the human cost of that

also "retribution" implies he was wronged in some way by the people he's persecuting, subtly justifying what he's doing. bsky.app/profile/reun...

It's so refreshing to hear an incumbent politician call a LIE a LIE. This is how you counter the tidal wave of BS from Trump / MAGA.

Mass CDC cuts hit staff dealing with measles, Ebola and disease forecasting Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

Make sure everyone knows: these mass firings are NOT because of the shutdown.

Trump doesn’t have to fire any of these people—he’s choosing to do it as an intimidation tactic.

Difficult to overstate how stupid and reckless this is.

Lower and middle income households pay an unfair share of the tax burden in Seattle. We have some rebalancing to do. Asking big businesses and wealthy folks to pay their fair share in making this city great is part of that.

At a recent Seattle University/KOMO TV debate, Harrell’s opponent, activist Katie Wilson, didn’t appear to recognize that she has no authority under labor contracts to order police to do anything without going through a bargaining process. “As mayor, I will absolutely be working with SPD to make sure that they’re allowing the CARE team their full latitude of response and also to make sure that the CARE team can respond without police when appropriate,” she said. It’s not that easy.

I was at this debate. The Seattle Times is totally misrepresenting what happened to further the false narrative that Katie Wilson is a nitwit. Wilson was talking about the fact that the CARE team has not been allowed to exercise "its full latitude of responsibility" under the existing contract.

Senator Murray Statement on Opposing National Defense Authorization Act - Senator Patty Murray Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, voted against final passage of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 202...

I voted NO on the annual defense policy bill.

Trump is lying about chaos on our streets to deploy the military against our own citizens.

I support our troops always, but I DON'T support a President who says Democratic cities should be used as "training grounds" for the military.

There are 85 drop boxes across King County. Each one weighs 1000 pounds, is secured in concrete with giant screws, and has multiple layers of security to protect your ballot on its journey back home to Elections Headquarters.

Find a drop box near you at kce.wiki/DropBox

a large wave in the ocean is breaking ALT: a large wave in the ocean is breaking

Midterms can't get here soon enough.

What my good sis just said! We paid attention to Project 2025. You didn't. We know what's up.

Press proposal to improve transparency in WA advances New rules for providing access to public records sought by the press should increase government transparency in Washington and benefit all state residents.

Concerns about transparency and integrity in govt are at an all-time high, and officials have an obligation to uphold the spirit of the Public Records Act. We welcome the public’s input into these model rules aimed at helping stage agencies increase transparency and responsiveness to requests.

Is it too much to ask to have representatives that just tell the truth and have integrity?!?

Seriously:

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When tax breaks for billionaires were set to expire in December, Republicans made that priority number 1—because heaven forbid billionaires have to worry about filling up their private jets!

But tax credits for families to afford health care? Republicans refuse to talk about it.

'We just want to celebrate stories.' Observing Banned Books Week with a Seattle bookseller Seattle booksellers and librarians are helping people get their hands on banned books.

The American Library Association kicked off this year’s Banned Books Week on Oct. 5. The celebration — if that's the right word for it — goes until Oct. 11. But people from states where book bans are more common than they are in Washington are finding help in Seattle year-round.

Both? 🤷🏾‍♂️

West Soutwest view from Paradise, Mount Rainier National Park

West Soutwest view from Paradise, Mount Rainier National Park

#NPS #NationalParkService #MountRainierNationalPark

It’s sad that some folks only ‘see the light’ when it hits home. We were sent here to represent hundreds of thousands of people, not just our households.

It’s time for Republicans to remember their oath and do right by the people they serve.