Antonio M Ginatta

yes. it's a car-centric lens. if current driving convenience is the thing to measure against, major improvements to a public transpo system (that would get folks out of their cars) just can't compete. Transpo improvements should not begin w/ car primacy. it's a bigger picture.

#WAleg has passed two separate bills to ensure the state has oversight of the detention center for serious health violations. Tuberculosis outbreak checks all the boxes. So why is DOH just directing inquiries to ICE? Why is DOH not taking action?

September job report: bigly job gains, some people say the most jobs ever gained

When you strip away humanity

After a child care worker is detained by ICE, a community is left reeling • Washington State Standard Nicolle Orozco Forero was one of the few immigrant women who provide child care for American children with disabilities. Then she and her seriously ill son were taken into ICE custody.

A textbook example of how the excesses of immigration enforcement harm US citizens, their families, and their communities.

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If a bill is so bad that you have to exempt entire states from its consequences to win the votes you need—just don't pass the bill!

Why do people in Washington state deserve Medicaid & SNAP cuts, but others don't?

This is plain wrong, and it's just no way to legislate.

so much money in a moment of such inequality

do they need a tiebreaker?

🚨 The Senate parliamentarian just disqualified a bunch of provisions from the GOP bill — including Medicaid provider tax language, funding restrictions based on immigration status, spread pricing and one prohibition on gender-affirming care. List via a Democratic budget aide:

Washington cherry growers struggle to find pickers The threat of federal agents raiding orchards is forcing a labor shortage that has caused some Washington producers to leave cherries unpicked or delay their harvests until fruit gets over ripe, which...

Trump's ICE raids mean Washington farmers cannot harvest this year's cherry crop, and that many will now go out of business. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

The cherry worker shortage is a policy choice. Growers and workers have been trying to address it via the (flawed) Farm Workforce Modernization Act for 5 years. Unsuccessfully. Congress wants this failure.

it should go without saying but you really cannot run a country, or really any organization, like this. you cannot lurch wildly from pole to pole every four years or every four days. you cannot rip up deals and seek deals and then blow up the people you were seeking to re-deal with. doesn't work

We’re announcing new legislation — the No Secret Police Act (SB 627) — to ban local/state/federal law enforcement, w/ some exceptions, from covering their faces when interacting w/ the public & require them to wear identifying info.

The secret police behavior we’re seeing destroys trust & must end🧵

You were great. Excellent appearance navigating serious topics.

This is still one of the best ways to limit deportations. Stop collaborations between ICE, local police departments, sheriffs, and county jails.

Hungry for some more Ls.

The advent of germ theory, vaccines, sanitation, and antibiotics, in this view, indirectly lead to an increase in social services, and a decrease in capital punishment, murder, slavery, and torture. In effect, it raised the value of human life in human eyes.

Elon Musk's dumb user name: gorklon rust. @elonmusk "We're doing a quiet trial to make sure the system works properly. Once it is fully tested, it will be rolled out to the public with an announcement by the President." May 11

Elon Musk says the US government is doing a "quiet trial" of the "gold card," a flatly illegal concept billed as letting people buy a green card for $5 million.

No law allows this. The closest thing, EB-5, requires investment in a US business that creates at least 10 new jobs.

New law aims to boost oversight of Tacoma ICE facility State officials say they've received more than 1,500 complaints about the Tacoma detention center.

A new law signed by Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson today aims to conduct state inspections of private detention facilities, including the ICE detention center in Tacoma. www.axios.com/local/seattl... #waleg

The Trump administration is carrying out a large-scale operation across the DC area targeting *restaurants,* clearly trying to round up people for working under the table without papers.

Not gang members. Not felons. Not criminals. Dishwashers. Busboys. Cooks. Waiters.

Adams: “We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net..."

okay sure so it worked in Denver

and in Austin

and it worked for downtown Oakland and for Sacramento

and yes, it’s worked for decades in Tokyo

but how can we be *sure* that building a lot more homes will make California a more affordable place to live??

I led the DOJ working group that developed regulations for prisons and jails to combat sexual abuse as required by the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) — a bill that, incidentally, passed Congress unanimously.

I suspect this decision may be lawless; regardless, it is a travesty.

U.S. Rep. Randall warns of ‘war on immigrants’ after visiting ICE center in Tacoma The number of people held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma has jumped almost 50% in the past month, according to numbers provided to a Washington congressmember.

After visiting the immigration lockup Tuesday afternoon, U.S. Rep. Emily Randall said she “didn’t see any material difference” between the detention center and a prison.

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
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Nevada: "The legislation’s proponents note it not only addresses the far-reaching societal harms inflicted by mass incarceration, it is also a way to reduce the prison population, which could alleviate financial strains." #WAleg

Zito @_Zeets I remember when Francis became Pope and his first official visit outside of Rome was to Lampedusa to pray for migrants who had died / been killed at sea. It meant so much to me, especially as the world embraced that kind of cruelty as the way forward. "'"Where is your brother?" His blood cries out to me, says the Lord. This is not a question directed to others; it is a question directed to me, to you, to each of us. These brothers and sisters of ours were trying to escape difficult situations to find some serenity and peace; they were looking for a better place for themselves and their families, but instead they found death. How often do such people fail to find understanding, fail to find acceptance, fail to find solidarity."

I do mourn Pope Francis. Though I’m no longer a practicing Catholic, my remaining tether was to the kind of faith he modeled, especially in his care for migrants, for refugees, for social justice, and against war and genocide.
Hope @zeets.bsky.social doesn’t mind my sharing this.

Pope Francis hears testimonies from transgender and intersex Catholics Pope Francis met with a group of transgender and intersex Catholics, along with LGBTQ+ allies and a medical doctor specializing in transgender healthcare, during a nearly 90-minute audience at his res...

Francis condemned “gender ideology” as a sin last March. He also called trans women “daughters of God” and regularly hosted trans migrant sex workers at the Vatican (apnews.com/article/vati...), hearing testimony from trans Catholics as recently as October (www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/1...).

If you thought Wednesday night cutoff was quiet, it’s because Democrats failed. We were going to pass a negotiated bipartisan package to protect kids being held at Green Hill prison in horrible conditions. We failed to move it. More from supporters here #waleg

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MARCH 26, 2025 — Florida House votes to repeal gun control measure enacted after Parkland shooting

www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

As a 2x Florida State alum, this situation is beyond tragic