Do you know about the 4 new Washington ballot initiatives?
I-2066: Banning the transition away from methane gas
I-2109: Repealing the capital gains tax on the rich
I-2117: Repealing the carbon cap-and-trade system
I-2124: Making long-term care program optional
❗ ACTION ALERT: The Seattle City Council is attempting to expand incarceration for people accused of low-level misdemeanors with the deadly SCORE jail, which has seen at least six people die in just the last year.
Full action alert at https://t.co/GDneMb5xwM.
@CMDanStrauss if you want Ballard Ave to be like Paris you’d literally have to remove the cars!! I wish Seattle would do even half the pedestrianization that Paris has in the last couple years.
Kexp actually has a sickness where every other song has to be a British person talking over a back track. Like something needs to be done about this it’s insane.
whos going to run on a platform of banning 3rd party apps in housing? bc this shit is getting out of hand. i just had to set up a *mandatory* account with Bilt to pay rent, but my ledger and lease are still thru SecureCafe, my original application was thru RentCafe (connected??)
I emailed my rep! Fuck giving cops millions in backpay and raises while my local library branch has had its hours cut. First of many services that will be cut so the pigs can get fatter and the people who actually live in this city can become even more disenfranchised.
Vote is Tuesday, May 14. You have one week to tell the Council what you think of paying Seattle Police officers $96 million in 2024 while adding zero accountability measures
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This is a big deal. SCOTUS could overturn Martin v. Boise, rule that homelessness is a choice (despite countervailing evidence) or otherwise abrogate unhoused people’s civil liberties. And Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of this.