Reposted by Antonio M GinattaJeremiah Oshan @jeremiah.sounderatheart.com · 23/09/2026This is dope. 1434
Antonio M Ginatta @amginatta.bsky.social · 09/09/2026One man shouldn't be able to shape the future of our state through his excess wealth. We'll fight him off, we'll fight off his bad ideas, but long term we have to grapple with the disproportionate political power of these oligarchs. 0102
Antonio M Ginatta @amginatta.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Strong message to #waleg : first ensure children in custody won't face similar abuses before trying to save money by limiting survivors' access to justice. www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/arti...thenewstribune.comDon’t save money by cutting off compensation for WA abuse survivors | OpinionWe should instead address the state’s past, present and future liability costs by fixing our custodial care system. | Opinion 000
Antonio M Ginatta @amginatta.bsky.social · 08/09/2026every statue he builds for himself, every arch and ballroom, every minted coin, gone, abolished, into the wind 000
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 07/09/2026Senior White House official to NY Mag: "Are Democrats going to come in and rip it down? I have a hard time believing that.” Try harder, fucker. 2341469
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaNate Bowling @natebowling.com · 08/09/2026This is the current US President posting on his publicly traded social media platform, where he's now selling early access to his posts for $100,000 per month 152
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaCharles Boehm ⚽️ @cboehm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Speaking to media today, LAFC coach Marc Dos Santos said US govt restrictions on Venezuelan visitors were a factor in David Martínez's $8 mil+ transfer to FC Midtjylland. His family members were barred from visiting him following his 2024 arrival from Monagas @ age 18, complicating his adaptation... 712441
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone. 38984424234
Antonio M Ginatta @amginatta.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The US nationwide immigration detention system has long invited ways to limit a detainee's right to seek and maintain legal counsel. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...seattletimes.comICE transfers hundreds from Tacoma detention center out of stateICE flights regularly come in and out of Boeing Field, but this week's volume of transfers is unusually high. 110
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaJ. Puma @broccoliwizard.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Who in Seattle is donating to Brian Heywood's odious anti-trans, anti-tax con job, "Let's Go Washington?" Let's have a look-see. These are from public disclosures and of course, just bc someone donates doesn't mean their employer supports the grift 🧵: 67640
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaState Court Report @statecourtreport.org · 17/08/2026State laws letting ppl sue ICE officials for abuses are constitutionally uncontroversial. They don't elevate state law over federal law. They help enforce federal law. That’s not a supremacy problem. Check out @brennancenter.org's kasiawolfkot.bsky.social at @ismapolicy.bsky.social's #LibCon2026 12312
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/08/2026ICE has now spent over $2.2 BILLION on purchasing 4 private prisons from CoreCivic, with the company banking half a billion dollars on the most recent sale. Of course, ICE will not actually operate these facilities; CoreCivic keeps the contracts to run these places for the foreseeable future. 49960518
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaProject Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 05/08/2026This is the tactic going forward: buy these “turnkey” facilities from GEO Group, CoreCivic, LaSalle, etc., and then turn around and contract them out for operations. The prison contractors make a pretty penny off the sale and ops contracts. ICE gets to run supremacy laps around state laws. 36231
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 04/08/2026That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas? 10995492182
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 31/07/2026🚨 WE HAVE A DEAL! After three years, in a major step forward for our members, we have ratified our first contract with @propublica.org’s management. We deeply appreciate everyone who supported us along the way. Here are some of our big wins👇 372171464
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/07/2026an unhoused man was recently arrested for "felony camping" & it's telling imo that, once he was released from custody, he went right back to the park where he sleeps turns out when you put a homeless person in jail, they're *still homeless* when they leave jail! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...ballsandstrikes.orgUnhoused People Are Paying the Price For the Supreme Court’s CrueltyThe Grants Pass decision allowed more cities and states to impose criminal penalties for the offense of being poor in public. 18249991840
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026little to add to Platner discourse that others haven't said better. so i'll just say once again that the era of consequence free politics is no good and it is important to bring back shame 423153470
Antonio M Ginatta @amginatta.bsky.social · 03/07/2026It's tough to understand the argument that our individual responsibility to look after the sick, visit the prisoners, and invite in the stranger just vanishes when us individuals work together in the collective. It just makes no sense. 020
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 02/07/2026A debate over Matthew 25 has been brewing in Congress over the last year. It’s pitting mainline pastors, Black protestants and the pope against evangelical politicians put on the defensive amid outspoken religious criticisms of President Donald Trump’s policies. religionnews.com/2026/07/01/i...religionnews.comThe Bible verses dividing Washington: How Matthew 25 became a political litmus test(RNS) — 'He told me that Matthew 25 was about individuals, and not nations,' Sen. Raphael Warnock said, referring to Speaker Mike Johnson. 'The text actually says nations.' Warnock added: “It's a ver... 2829181
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaZito @zeets.bsky.social · 02/07/2026somethingwonderful.substack.com/p/penalty-sh... 19818
Reposted by Antonio M Ginattajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/07/2026i have been thinking about this a lot. my "left-wing" ideas about government reform mostly amount to trying to make the federal government conform with the vision in the constitution: a strong, active and majoritarian congress 954881600
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaDara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Consulates have a ton of discretion under existing law to deny someone a visa. And suspicion of birth tourism _has_ served as a reason to deny visas in the past. If the problem is insufficient enforcement, good news, you can solve that problem without changing the law or Constitution! 1429550
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaScott Santens @scottsantens.com · 14/06/2026A basic income program in central Iowa gave 110 people $500/mo. It caused improvements in savings, stress, and agency. It also found significant changes in scores relating to hope — the ability to create goals and feel capable of working toward them, and also increases in mattering and self-relianceiowapublicradio.orgIowa basic income program generates an outcome not found in other states: high levels of hopeResearchers presented their findings from the Central Iowa Basic Income Pilot in Des Moines. Their study looked at how participants used monthly $500 payments, and how it affected their well-being and... 7432011192
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaMary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Get your dopamine fix somewhere other than X. FFS, this is such a simple ethical win, it's not even a quandary at this point, it's just plain wrong to keep using it. Also, frankly, loser shit. If the only place you can get dopamine is on the site with a Nazi algorithm, what does that say about you? 1598
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Hegseth aligning himself rather directly with the soldiers *defending* the beaches at Normandy, who were, and you might find this surprising, not the Americans or Canadians or British, but rather, and this is interesting, the 251660401
Reposted by Antonio M Ginattageekwire.com @geekwire.com · 27/05/2026Photos: Mark Zuckerberg’s superyacht arrives in Seattle the same day Meta discloses 1,400 local job cuts www.geekwire.com/2026/photos-mark-z… 21713
Antonio M Ginatta @amginatta.bsky.social · 18/05/2026KUOW: Public defenders ask WA Supreme Court to put new limits on cash bail Proposal: 1. pay 10% directly to court, which would be refundable, instead of to bail bond agents; 2. higher standard to require bail; 3. $200 cap on misdemeanors. www.kuow.org/stories/publ... #walegkuow.orgPublic defenders ask WA Supreme Court to put new limits on cash bailThe Washington Supreme Court is considering rules changes to reduce reliance on cash bail. Public defenders say bail is an undue burden on poor defendants. But critics of the changes say the debate sh... 130
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaErica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Seattle City Councilmembers Joy Hollingsworth and Maritza Rivera want to ban new tiny house villages from areas within 750 feet of playgrounds, parks, child cares, and schools. Guess no one told them that there are homeless children, and that some of them will be living in these shelters. 1002145576
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaGov. Bob Ferguson @governorferguson.bsky.social · 29/04/2026We're seeking a court order to permit health inspections. Washington state has the right to ensure the health and wellness of people detained within our borders. Full stop. 4558
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaScott Santens @scottsantens.com · 24/04/2026Is this an improvement? Yes. SNAP should be allowed to purchase rotisserie chickens. Should we even be making decisions like this for other people? No. We should just be supplying people with cash to buy whatever they prefer to buy. We need a universal basic income. 1019850
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaCongresswoman Andrea Salinas @salinas.house.gov · 23/04/2026No child should ever have to endure what the children at Dilley Detention Facility in Texas are being put through. In any other setting, we would call this what it is — child abuse. 28846
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaEmmett O'Connell @emmettoconnell.bsky.social · 19/04/2026My favorite corner of campus, before it honored O'Brien, it honored Public Health 011
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaSojourners @sojo.net · 15/04/2026"The taxes we pay can affirm life, care for our elders, feed the hungry, house the poor, and care for creation. Taxes can also underwrite a bloated military budget that takes life and incentivizes war." sojo.net/magazine/apr...sojo.netPoverty Is a Policy ChoiceYour tax breakdown: $2,300 for the military and weapons; $10 for homelessness assistance programs. 053
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaZito @zeets.bsky.social · 15/04/2026So the big studios are abandoning the US and turning the staff workers into contractors to get out paying for healthcare. The United States is losing one of its defining industries because of not having universal healthcare and the people are going to be even more vulnerable to the industry. 2724931022
Antonio M Ginatta @amginatta.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Leo: "Democracy remains healthy, however, only when rooted in the moral law and a true vision of the human person. Lacking this foundation, it risks becoming either a majoritarian tyranny or a mask for the dominance of economic and technological elites." 030
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaFC St. Pauli EN @en.fcstpauli.com · 13/04/2026FC St. Pauli presents the Peace Prize in the US for the first time. The award honors individuals and initiatives that stand for solidarity, participation, and respectful coexistence. The first recipient is Wes Burdine, owner of the Black Hart of Saint Paul in Minnesota. #fcspfcstpauli.comFC St. Pauli | FC St. Pauli awards Peace Prize – supporting civil…FC St. Pauli has presented the Peace Prize for the first time. With this award, the club honors individuals and initiatives that actively stand for… 11463107
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaNBC News @nbcnews.com · 03/04/2026“They were going to come. It was going to be a big thing. We were going to go to the beach right after. All those plans had to go out the window because they said ICE would be here."nbcnews.comSome Marines graduate without their parents' presence amid ICE fearsNews that ICE would be stationed outside Marine Corps graduation events upended family plans, elicited national reaction and drew out protesters, including Marine veterans. 858113714924
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaSave Family Farming @savefamilyfarming.org · 01/04/2026Fear and uncertainty don’t grow food—farmworkers do. America needs an immigration system that protects people AND our food supply. Target criminals, not the workforce that sustains our farms. #Congress: fix it. savefamilyfarming.org/surge-in-ice... #WALeg #ProtectFarmworkers #PNW #Harvestsavefamilyfarming.orgSurge in ICE Arrests of Farmworkers Worries WA Farmers As Busy Season ApproachesSave Family Farming Executive Director Ben Tindall issued the following statement regarding a notable increase in federal agents’ enforcement activity impacting farmworkers and the farming community. ... 032
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaSteve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 31/03/2026Travel writer Rick Steves on Washington's newly signed "Millionaires Tax" 432488656
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaJosh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 22/03/2026From a business perspective, I imagine airlines and airports are not thrilled with this. Ticket prices are up because oil prices are up. And now fear of being deported … or worse will cause people to not fly. Yet another way to crash the economy. 618334
Antonio M Ginatta @amginatta.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Nothing like the promise of masked immigration agents at every airport to make wary international tourists rethink their plans. Another W for the US economy. 000
Antonio M Ginatta @amginatta.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Not sure this is the highest priority, but I've seen Millionaires Tax, Millionaire's Tax (it can't be!), and Millionaires' Tax (Gov Ferguson media release). All the while I thought it was just the millionaire tax, not even worthy of capitalization or possessive. So what's the right call here? #waleg 120
Reposted by Antonio M GinattaPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Yes, ICE can trick people into opening the door by pretending to be police looking for a missing child. But then people won't open the door when the real police come looking for a missing child. 926459
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