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If elected, would you be open to implementing a participatory budgeting process for the city of Seattle?

Q from a constituent: would you support participatory budgeting?

Id like this implemented in Seattle bc the people of the city should decide where our money goes. All evidence of places where this is done have higher rates of (& more effective) investment in edu, infra, & public services.

Erica Chenoweth illuminates the value of nonviolent resistance in societal conflicts

"Countries where resistance campaigns were nonviolent were 10 times as likely to transition to democracy compared to countries where resistance turned violent—regardless of whether the campaign succeeded or failed in the short term."

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Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️

Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

We have the same goal: to stop all of those things.

If we truly want to do that, then we have to be intentional about our actions. Every historical precedent and all research shows that nonviolent protests are much more likely to result in long term success

Totally, def agree with you. And also, property violence is easily used to justify police violence against people and acceleration of a police state.

How are Waymo cars are fascist property?

Also, if the goal is to slow fascist progress or force them to spend $$, that's best done via subterfuge vs publicly where it is used to justify violence against ppl and acceleration of a police state.

Violent actions do nothing to help our cause.

Peaceful protesting is how we get folks on board and highlight the tyranny of trump admin.

I just filed an emergency motion in court to immediately block the ongoing and unnecessary militarization of Los Angeles.

The federal government is turning the military against American citizens. This is unprecedented and threatens the very core of our democracy.

💖💖💖💖

If you need a breather from all this bullshit, here's a photo of Earth.

From Saturn.

We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.

Their goal is to leave America sicker, poorer, more desperate and less free. Easier to impose Christofascism on a broken people.

AI Could Help Humans Understand Animals But are animal dictionaries enough to demystify the animal mind?

Researchers recently used AI to show that sperm whales may have a “phonetic alphabet” from which they construct complex communications and that elephants might address each other by name. 🧪

Save Medicaid Please call your Representative right now and leave a voicemail, or first thing on Monday morning before the mark up session begins.

🚨HIT THE PHONES TO SAVE MEDICAID - PLEASE AMPLIFY & ACT 🚨

TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts.

MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here.

Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️
OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid

It’s affordable housing week!

Katie Wilson answers the burning question on everyone’s mind:

How is the housing crisis the hidden reason why your slice of pizza costs $8?

WilsonForSeattle.com

Yessss thank you!! You are the kind of leader we need 💖

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

seems like trump mainly uses “low IQ” to describe black people. of a piece with his birtherism and his insistence that there are specific, low-wage “black jobs” that must be protected from immigrants

Thank you for the work you are doing to support and protect American freedoms and rights.

If any person is denied due process in this country, no one has it.

Despite repeated warnings from critics, another study finds that basic income does not reduce work effort.

Germany's Grundeinkommen study found recipients maintained full-time work, averaging 40 hours a week—matching the control group.

How do billionaires make their money?

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Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff says he ‘strongly’ agrees Trump needs to be impeached Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff told a voter in Georgia on Friday that he “strongly” agrees that President Donald Trump needs to be impeached.

“No doubt his conduct has already exceeded any prior standard for impeachment by the House” Ossoff told a town hall audience, adding later that there is “no question” a number of Trump’s actions have risen to the level of impeachable offenses.
What is it going to take?
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

So they’re not gonna wait for the SCOTUS decision.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Today in America, the rich are getting richer & working families are struggling.

What is Mr. Trump doing about this?

He's getting ready to give tax cuts to billionaires while making it harder for Americans to access the Medicare, Social Security & veterans benefits they earned.

University presidents in WA slam Trump's 'political interference' The statement is signed by University of Washington President Ana Mari Cauce and Seattle University President Eduardo M. Peñalver.

This is so important. Thank you to @uofwa.bsky.social and @seattleu.edu for standing up to Trump’s illegal interference and overreach on college campuses.

Courage begets courage. I hope even more academic institutions follow suit. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The Campaign Finance System Americans Could Have Had Canada shows how democracies can regulate campaign finance for the common good.

Canada shows how democracies can regulate campaign finance for the common good.

BREAKING: we won! A federal judge has enjoined the administration's shut down of Voice of America

Another success for the Constitution and for us @sddaction.bsky.social & our many wonderful partners & clients

More details to follow--stay tuned!

I cannot convey enough how grateful I am to the millions of you all supporting us with your time, resources, and energy.

Your support has allowed us to rally people together at record scale to organize their communities.

All with an average donation of $21.

THANK YOU & Pa’lante 🙏🏽♥️