Itβs Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. Weβre celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...
We hope your decorative gourds are still kicking ass on your porch or mantel or in your all-gourd reenactments of 'Diffβrent Strokes' eps. #BLAMMO
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Photo of a pale skinned hand and wrist wearing ten or so beaded bracelets. Each bracelet has a whistle and number beads that spell out 844-724-3737. The bracelets are purple and white. To the side is a stack of whistle zines; the cover says FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD and We Protect Each Other with a block print illustration of a whistle.
Check out these amazing bracelets!
Whistle + rapid response number + Garfield High School colors
The kids are alright. Go Bulldogs
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From the union community on Reddit: CEO Pay Versus Worker Wages
Posted by transcendent167 - 2,668 votes and 53 comments
With the starbucks strike happening we thought it would be helpful to cover what we, as people, can we do to support, striking workers. Sourced from r/union:
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Imagine what this would have looked like if Durkan fully got her way and Lorena GonzΓ‘lez hadn't amended the STM up to 0.15%.
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Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
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Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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βItβs been a pleasure these past 4 years pretending Iβve done anything other than pad the wallets of the cityβs richest people, greediest corporations, and blatantly corrupt cops, but the time has come for me to enjoy more time with the part of my family that best fit into my political narrative."
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Congratulations to our new Mayor-Elect Wilson!!
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How Chuck Schumer Planned the Shutdown Capitulation to Trump
In brief. And then in excruciating detail
Short version:
Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies, and destroying the planet.
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
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(next to an image of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez) βYou cannot love this country if you only fight for the wealthy and big business.
To love this country is to fight for its people, all people. Working people β¦.. who punch a clock and are on their feet all day in some of the toughest jobs out there."
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Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says βwho else was just βfollowing ordersβ?β up to a riot cop is hard as hell
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Wilson netted over 60% of the votes counted today.
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Wilson leads with 50.08% of the vote over Harrell who has 49.59% of the vote. This may now be moving out of recount territory.
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Katie Wilson is ahead by 91 votes
Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
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π¨π¨ Just in: Katie Wilson has taken a narrow lead in the Seattle mayor race.
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Katie Wilson is up 91 votes in the Seattle Mayor's race as Wilson-mentum continues to pay dividends.
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Drop your ballot in a drop box by 8 pm on Tuesday. Letβs win this. #thisisyourcity
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β’ "We have no inflation." Inflation is at 3%.
β’ "It's at 2%. It's-- it's the perfect inflation." Inflation is at 3%.
β’ "Right now [grocery prices are] going down." Grocery prices are up 1.4% since
Trump came to office.
β’ "A year ago, we were a dead country." Not only did the US have the fastest-growing economy in the G7 in both 2023 and 2024, but the Economist magazine called it "the envy of the world."
β’ "11,888 murderers were let into our country." Not only is this number inaccurate, but many of the non-citizens convicted of homicide either here or abroad came in during Trump's first term.
β’ "Washington, DC, was... almost like a crime capital of the world." In 2023, per PolitiFact, "at least 49 other cities in the world had higher homicide rates.
β’ "[Biden] hardly went anywhere. Guy couldn't leave his bedroom." Not only did Joe Biden visit roughly as many countries in his term of office as Trump did in his first term, but Biden was the first US president to visit an active warzone - Ukraine - not under the control of US forces.
β’ "I made Middle East peace. For 3,000 years, they couldn't do it." There is no peace in Palestine, no peace deal in place, and it isn't a 3,000-year-old conflict.
β’ "Communist, not socialist. Communist. He's far worse than a socialist."
Zohran Mamdani is not a communist.
β’ "I can't give them $1.5 trillion so that they can give welfare to people that came into our country illegally." The Trump/GOP claim that Democrats want to give free healthcare to undocumented immigrants has been repeatedly debunked.
β’ "They emptied their mental institutions and their insane asylums-- into the United States of America." Asylum seekers don't come from "insane asylums."
Obviously.
β’ "One thing I can tell you, the 2020 election was rigged." It wasn't. The courts agreed.
β’ "And a lotta people say when it's rigged you're allowed to do it again." A lot of people don't say this. The US Constitution doesn't, for sure.
Trump did on 60 Minutes what he does every time. He spews a blizzard of lies, exaggerations and assorted other falsehoods, and if (as usual) the reporter isnβt equipped or doesnβt bother to push back, he keeps going.
Here is a detailed list, via @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
zeteo.com/p/factchecki...
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Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
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Mutual Aid
No Kings Alliance - Mutual Aid Table of Contents Find a Local Mutual Aid Group Doβs and Dontβs of Mutual Aid Common Items in Need Starting Your Own Project Create a donation drive for a local mutual ...
As health insurance premiums are set to double for millions of Americans and 42 million working families face losing the benefits that keep them fed, the No Kings Alliance is organizing to provide mutual aid and care for our communities.
Please join us this weekend: www.mobilize.us/nokings/c/no...
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TELL YOUR DEMOCRATIC SENATORS TO KEEP HOLDING THE LINE IN THE FUNDING FIGHT
With historic healthcare cuts and cost increases looming, Republicans chose to force a Trump Shutdown rather than address the healthcare crisis and limit Trumpβs lawless manipulation of federal funds....
Democrats have held the line against Republicansβ funding plans because the GOP has no plan to stop Trump-led healthcare cuts, or to extend tax credits that keep healthcare costs down.
We must continue to remind Democrats that weβve got their backs as they keep fighting for affordable healthcare. π
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βThe White House on Tuesday did not answer questions about the bunker, but one of the administration officials said the new structure would also have enhanced security features.β
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
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This is pretty revealing about how Deputy Mayor Tim Burgess, who has been around city government as long as Bruce Harrell has (nearly 20 years) thinks about the media and journalism.
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42% of the money contributed to Bruce Harrell's oligarch PAC comes from outside of Seattle. 7% comes from out of state.
Bruce Harrell doesn't represent us. Vote for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social
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