Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialRyan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026No, Sound Transit is not still facing a $35 billion budget shortfall, Seattle Times Editorial Board. We had a whole contentious process to tackle that earlier this year, maybe you weren't paying attention? 11247
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialsavealfira.bsky.social @savealfira.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Can you imagine if someone "accidentally" overpaid SPS teachers $13 million? The Times would be demanding long prison sentences. Every teacher who cashed their paycheck would be dragged before a committee. The entire school board would have to resign. No bottom to how bad SPD can be at their job. 1285
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialErica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Seattle Times editorial board complains about $30,000 bonus for Sound Transit head, but apparently had no problem with $50,000 bonuses for three Seattle police command staff (Barnes, Sayles, and Powell), all of them just thank-yous for taking top jobs here.seattletimes.comSound Transit CEO's $30,000 bonus shows a big disconnect | EditorialWhen private corporations award employees performance bonuses, that’s between the corporation and their shareholders. Not so with a public utility. 321023333
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 04/09/2026nice quote from Mandami comms person Emilia Rowland to the New York Times 312575545
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026AOC: Millennials are not punk kids anymore. We're grown adults with mortgages and kids, and that generation is starting to be decisive at the polls. And there is anger at being ignored, having our economic futures mortgaged by the generations that came before us and we're taking the reins 927297436435
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialAmy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 23/07/2026WOW. New announcement from Seattle CMs Strauss, Hollingsworth, and Foster saying they will fund universal school meals starting in the fall after all by using the general fund. Hard to see this as anything but a realization of the high political price they paid for their votes yesterday. 26947194
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialErica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I've read two headlines in the last 24 hours saying Trump is running a "fraud-busting initiative" on Medicare and "trying to fix" the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall. AP and NYT, respectively, are doing the administration's propaganda work for them. 215038
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12/05/2026When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people. 809379658854
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/04/2026John Roberts and his band of racist justices have found the Voting Rights Act unnecessary. 26537274
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialErica 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. 1002144576
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialJohn Bisognano @johnbisognano.com · 12/12/2025This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it… 640186117045
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialSunrise Movement @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Republicans are losing this fight right now. Why the hell would Democrats cave with nothing for the working people? When millions are losing healthcare? If you cave now, you don’t deserve to lead, you deserve to be replaced. 38627
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10/11/2025This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line. 1351406928958
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialThe Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 10/11/2025They won’t have to answer to their constituents anytime soon.trib.alDems Who Caved In Shutdown Battle Have One Key Thing In CommonThey won’t have to answer to their constituents anytime soon. 198743
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialSenator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 05/10/2025They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office 650138754168
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 03/10/2025ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.blockclubchicago.orgSouth Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse. 1329281679987
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.social404 Media @404media.co · 03/10/2025New: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells 404 Media "we are determined to fight this." "Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move." www.404media.co/iceblock-own...404media.coICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t... 861687798
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/09/2025I like this history which includes who Chris Christie has been. 21826250
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/09/2025A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that. 650318728549
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/08/2025one 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? 1535403999
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Feel like one political party kidnapping an opponent should be bigger news 189102353488
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialRealHousewivesRanked! @rankedreal.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Guerdy, Adriana and Lisa out at Cipriani together after the #RHOM S7 reunion filming. 3401
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/07/2025One of the most dangerous tropes in political media is how the only Jewish voices that matter are the most right-wing ones, hence the ease with which reporters assumed Jews are scared of Mamdani. (This is also how Jewish protestors were erased from the discourse about antisemitism on campuses.) 282966806
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialElizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 26/07/2025They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywherestartribune.comNew details about police activity after lawmaker shootings raise questions about responseThe Minnesota Star Tribune found that Brooklyn Park police waited more than 60 minutes to enter the Hortman home and that several law enforcement agencies were unaware of the situation for hours. 24365402576
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialDavid Noll @david.noll.org · 21/06/2025the takeaway from this is that, for all practical purposes, stephen miller is the acting president of the united states. trump is just play-acting as the boss, as he did on the Apprentice. (gift link) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...wsj.comStephen Miller’s Fingerprints Are on Everything in Trump’s Second TermThe president ’s deputy chief of staff has played an outsize role in immigration—and amassed more power than almost anyone else at the White House. 29147061469
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialRep. Shaun Scott 🌹🤝 @organizewithshaun.bsky.social · 19/06/2025We have a chance to amplify the perspectives of Seattleites who - unlike some members of Seattle City Council - know a new King County mental health crisis center in Capitol Hill would be a great addition to a great neighborhood. Let's drink, laugh, and talk about it on July 7 @ 7PM at Vermillion. 15515
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/06/2025One thing I am seeing misreported in the media today about the Skrmetti ruling is a claim that the supreme court ruled this is "about age, not transgender status." SCOTUS also ruled this is about "diagnosis, not transgender status" Bans targeting adults are likely legal under this ruling. 433426729
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14/06/2025The revolution is full of 60-year-old women who love their trans kids. 376346015570
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialAmy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 15/06/2025KUOW is reporting that the Tukwila Police Department used tear gas this afternoon at a Homeland Security building (see 3:15pm time stamp). Apparently they used the tear gas within 90 seconds of arrival. www.kuow.org/stories/huge...kuow.orgLIVE: Crowds descend on Seattle for ‘No Kings’ protestsProtesters fanned across Seattle as part of the national No Kings demonstrations opposing President Donald Trump's immigration raids and ICE policies. 1113
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialBruce Hinze @brucehinze.bsky.social · 14/06/2025“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco 389454339403
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/06/2025Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible. We have always been here. 264225814649
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialJeff Yang @originalsp.in · 22/05/2025This ICEstapo crew is uncannily reminiscent of the militia members who masked up to try to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 2021371
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialThe Stranger @thestranger.com · 17/05/2025Capitol Hill says it’s in crisis—just don’t put a crisis center there. Molly Moon and local business owners packed a meeting to oppose King County’s plan for a 24/7 mental health facility in the old Polyclinic. The problem’s real—they just want it somewhere else.thestranger.comDoes a Neighborhood in Crisis Need a Crisis Center? These Capitol Hill Businesses Don’t Think SoBack in 2023, voters approved a $1.25 billion property-tax levy to create, fund, and run five 24/7 fully-staffed crisis centers, or places anyone, including the uninsured, could go for their mental he... 2129690
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 06/02/2025My latest. As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality. I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI. Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation.The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything 21597673249
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/05/2025The Trump HHS approach to transgender youth is not "greater emphasis on psychtherapy." It is "ONLY psychotherapy," with the explicit goal of making trans youth no longer transgender. It IS conversion therapy. Washington post is an absolute right wing rag at this point. 242466644
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/05/2025I worked for $3.10 an hour minimum wage in 1980. I can hardly unpack how much further that went than $7.25 now. 22851167
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialIsaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Pritzker invokes his own Jewish background in responding to Trump: "Stop tearing down the Constitution in the name of my ancestors. Do not claim that your authoritarian power grabs are about anti-semitism. When you destroy social justice, you are disparaging the very foundation of Judaism." 2754551129
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialIsaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · 28/04/2025"It's time to fight everywhere and all at once" Pritzker says, blasting "the do nothing crowd" of Dems in response to Republicans: "We have to abandon the culture of incrementalism that has led us to swallow their cruelty and their callousness with barely a cowardly croak." 6483621752
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialRhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Not to mention that he stole something priceless: our personal data. And we don't really know what he's using that for, either. 301016262
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 23/04/2025They are deadly serious about this. They are planning to throw millions of people off their insurance in order to afford a trillion dollar tax cut for the wealthiest 1%. 9825921086
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23/04/2025I find myself in an odd position where I’m totally confident in my reporting/sources, but other news orgs aren’t running with my stories. Can’t say for sure, but it’s hard not to feel like there’s some distrust of me as an independent journalist. My process is as thorough as top corporate reporters. 872645518
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/04/2025👇🏽🎯 232176455787
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comNew images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes themWithout scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk. 7242906413509
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialLizzie K. Foley @lizziekfoley.bsky.social · 20/04/2025An American citizen from Albuquerque NM was detained by ICE in Tucson Arizona for 10 days for not having his immigration papers. Which, as an American citizen born in the United States, he would never be carrying. news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...news.azpm.orgU.S. citizen in Arizona detained by immigration officials for 10 days 19862226
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 18/04/2025It’s unironically Very Good that every pro-democracy political actor from Angela Davis to David Brooks agrees we need an unprecedented popular front that mobilizes civil resistance to stop the march of tyranny and restore popular rule to our government. Now, we just have to organize it. 622183359
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialmatyd.bsky.social @matyd.bsky.social · 18/04/2025I can't help but think about the others who have been disappeared including that gay hairdresser. How are they? Did they know a Senator went to see Abrego Garcia? Do they wonder why no one seems to care about them? 1522
Reposted by @sbimisw.bsky.socialPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 18/04/2025one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now 149165612812
