Black folks hold it down. Just continue with what you were doing. We know what they're trying to do.
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Black folks hold it down. Just continue with what you were doing. We know what they're trying to do.
BREAKING: Appeals court REJECTS Trump’s attempt to fire Democratic FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter. The judges ruled “the government has no likelihood of success on appeal,” representing a major setback for Trump’s attempt to purge independent agencies.
The Goal + The Call + The Flame Towers + A Packed Lumen Field 🔥 Cinema.
🚨 Seattle please pay attention to this: @amysundberg.bsky.social joined me to talk about the Council rushing an expansion of Seattle’s surveillance pilot when the Trump admin and ICE want to access the data for enforcement
GO VENUS AND LEYLAH!!!!! #USOpen
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No worries 🙂 Agreed. It’s all very suspicious.
Just wondered if it had been cited somewhere…
Where are you getting that she was in the car with him?
Enthusiasm grows when voters see a party fighting and winning. (And Democrats are doing both- fighting back on redistricting attacks and special election wins). Constant gloom, both sides coverage, and magnified Dem drama don’t inspire turnout — they smother it.
.@velshi.com “Head in the sand”? Please. Part of the problem is limp news coverage that turns every Dem wobble into a five-alarm fire while treating GOP extremism as background noise. That’s what depresses our base.
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
“Ok, so I can’t make jewelry, but I’m great at disarming an alarm system and smashing glass cases”
Unmatched.
Right? ❤️
2025 Leagues Cup CHAMPIONS Seattle 3 | 0 Miami “SUCCESS IS BUILT, NOT BOUGHT” -ECS
Let’s go Sounders!!! ⚽️ #LeaguesCup2025 #EBFG
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On this week’s episode of you should have listened to Black women….
they like right wing authoritarians and want them to succeed in their fascist mission
Nearing at least a century now. Check their coverage of Hitler
NY Times vs Democracy Docket. Why does the Times use the word "explicit" when Trump has ZERO authority?👀 Support pro-democracy independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
Are you familiar with the term “conflate”?
The right wanted him to hurt the people they hate. The left wanted to feel morally superior. Neither will accept responsibility for the destruction they consciously chose.
This is why I love Jay Jay.
The most popular what in where? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lookin at you @doh.wa.gov
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
Marshall cracked the country’s moral spine wide open so children like me could stand a little taller in places where we weren’t always wanted. Reading this, you are part of the story now. It's your moment to bear witness—and to act. Tell the truth. Teach the truth open.substack.com/pub/advocacy...
46 Seattle journalists and media workers have now signed onto our open letter condemning Israel's killings of Palestinian journalists in Gaza and calling for their protection
OTD August 30, 967 Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Supreme Court justice.
I really hate AI overview. I always catch myself reading it before I'm like NO.
Your response only buttresses David’s point… 🤷🏾♂️
THIS is what happens when only Democratic AGs have the guts to take on the Trump administration. Republican AGs are too cowardly to fight back, and the people they’re supposed to serve will end up paying the price.
Another excellent piece from @msolurin.bsky.social !
1/2: Today, Tienney Milnor, Section Chief for the Major Economic Crimes Unit in the Criminal Justice Division talks about our offices’ work to expand the criminal prosecution of wage theft and how harmful wage theft can be to workers in Washington. #LaborDayEveryDay #WaforWorkers #AGOWAforWorkers
We used to post etymologies. We still do, but we used to, too.
Little kids are having to use their bodies to shield friends from gunfire while armed soldiers are busy picking up trash.
Good Afternoon
CCC spot secured. Leagues Cup finals secured. See you in Seattle, Messi.
That was FILTHY, Osaze 😮💨
Her feigned ignorance is quite a sight to behold
7' SOUNDERS GOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL! PEPO! SEA 1 | LA 0 #LAvSEA
Why is CBP arresting Washington firefighters while they're working? www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
Taylor Townsend on the argument with Jelena Ostapenko at US Open “It’s competition… people get upset when they lose. Some people say bad things. She told me I have no class & no education & to see what happens when we get outside the U.S.” 🥶
Mehdi Hasan is being so hypocritical here. Does he have shame for ripping the nominee up in the press leading up to the general election? Maybe he has learned HIS LESSON (albeit too late) that this was not a good idea.
“President Trump purported to fire me ‘for cause’ when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign," Lisa Cook said tonight in response to Trump
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Venus Williams leaves the court to a standing ovation after her loss to Karolina Muchova at U.S. Open Only her 3rd match in 2025… but she still took a set off the world #13 45 years old, playing with a passion that never dies Incredible to witness 🥹
Seattle officer Carl Woodward played a “joke” on an innocent man who had just had AR-15s trained on him. He pretended to find a gun in the guy’s car.
This is just wild... Alexis Mercedes Rinck's campaign responded today that they were not sent an RVSP to this debate event before these advertisements went up. Foster and Zahilay said they RSVPd, not knowing We 💚 Seattle was involved. @ericacbarnett.bsky.social
I've said it before and I will say it again. The same people that want you to work until you're 75 won't hire you after 50.
OK, this one is too easy (and no, Trump does not have a point). Washington Post vs Democracy Docket.
Venus Williams returning to US Open at age 45 'inspiring'
I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
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A rainbow crosswalk in Orlando that was part of the city’s Pulse Memorial was painted over by the state last night at the order of Ron DeSantis. The memorial honored the 49 people fatally shot by a gunman at the Pulse LGBTQ nightclub in 2016 — the largest mass shooting in the country at the time.
“I gave my life to Christ in the Cracker Barrel parking lot” sounds like the filthiest euphemism I have ever heard.
That would take actual work
Was married to
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Two word: Epstein Files. Watch, enjoy, share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWEh...
Good, he deserves it.
Because nothing says “you should feel free to come visit Washington” like standing in front of dozens of armed soldiers next to a guy who thinks women shouldn’t be able to vote 🙃
Why are 90% of op-eds scolding liberals for the way they talk about threats to democracy rather than scolding conservatives for threatening democracy
one question to ask the editorial board is whether there is a minimum bar for what constitutes "american democracy." if most people in most states are gerrymandered out of effective political representation, is that democracy?
Zohran ignored Kamala, oh, and also claimed to be “black” in a way to enrich himself…. Spare me
I refuse to forget what this country is capable of. I remember what happens when people stay silent, when the truth gets erased… #TXLeg open.substack.com/pub/advocacy...
US pediatric group breaks with federal policy, recommends COVID vaccines for young children… www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Our immigration enforcement should be focused on violent criminals and true threats to public safety. We should not divert resources to round up law-abiding, taxpaying immigrant workers just because Stephen Miller is a miserable, hate-filled wretch. Washington will keep fighting.
#OnThisDay in 1994, the first issue of Real Change was published in Seattle. historylink.org/File/2716 @realchangenews.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING: Two members of the Fulton County, Georgia Board of Commissioners defied a court order and blocked the appointment of two election deniers to the county board of elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
It’s Wednesday and it’s our birthday! 🎉 On this day in 1994, the very first issue of Real Change hit the streets. 31 years later, we’re still here, bringing you street-rooted, community-powered journalism every single week. 🗞️ In the paper this week: 👇
Good: “I am unequivocally opposed to using public funds to illegally fund privately operated schools that are not accountable to voters and are not required to accept, educate, and uplift all students.” -WA Superintendent of Public Instruction @chrisreykdal.bsky.social
Texas really tried it. Lawmakers wanted every public school classroom plastered with the Ten Commandments. Today a federal judge said: absolutely not. www.au.org/wp-content/u...
Any place that puts Bible quotes on its packaging
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"I don't want to hurt you, stop fighting back, you're hurting yourself" is literally the language of an abuser. One of the most banally horrifying things about this administration is that there is no subtext, no dog whistles, no need for interpretive work. It's all just explicit racism and cruelty.
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"Being a billionaire is not a financial success. It is a moral failure." This includes people who you deem unproblematic/earned it…
Christian supremacist Sean Feucht won’t rally at Cal Anderson after all. The city moved his anti-LGBTQ “Revive in 25” to Gas Works Park. They're planning an unpermitted "Jesus March" that starts at the south end of Cal Anderson crossing Capitol Hill.
WATCH: Texas Rep. Collier says the high road has crumbled
Is it ok when Bernard does it?
There is a fascist in the White House—and we have to throw out our old playbook. Democrats cannot be the only party that's playing by the rules anymore.
Mail-in voting is safe. Period. Trump and Republicans know it. But they also know winning fair and square doesn’t look likely with their horrible policies and broken “promises.” That’s why they’re hell-bent on gutting voting rights. When you can’t win fair, you cheat.
“I’ve taken a stand,” Collier said in a video posted on social media from the House along with Democratic Rep. Gene Wu of Houston. “When I heard the order I was like, ‘Hell no.’” apple.news/AZdRusVwTRky...
NEW: “I’ve had enough…I’m refusing to back down.” Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier speaks to MSNBC from the Texas State Capitol. She is stuck there after the Texas GOP required police surveillance as condition for release. She is refusing to sign a waiver for the law enforcement escort.
A Black woman legislator, Nicole Collier, is literally being held against her will in the Texas State Capitol and no one is doing a damn thing. It's just like "Oh well". And this why Black people said they were taking a break after the election. Our sacrifices go unnoticed and unappreciated.
All of the legacy media outlets that told us last year that Trump and the GOP really loved voting by mail and criticized me for saying it wasn't true were wrong. Now Trump is trying to ban VBM and he also wants to take over vote counting and certification. I hope they listen to me this time.
Low comprehension? Or willfully obtuse?
Which side is that? DC has no representation… Go on…
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