There is no easy way to talk about this but today Joe Biden approved a $38,700,000,000 gas project in Alaska.
This includes 807 miles of pipeline, a gas treatment plant, a liquefaction facility, & a LNG terminal that would process 20,000,000 metric tons of gas per year. (1/9)🧵
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always ready to talk about cities, ending our addiction to white supremacy and racist violence, and imagining our world after capitalism. she/ her.
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We’re spending $29M on sweeps this year. Clearly we have enough money to put forward better housing solutions.
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Truly. 501c3 status was the greatest finger trap authoritarians ever made. They leave advocates more fearful of the IRS than of actual fascists, tripping over themselves to say nothing while also allowing billionaires to amass more power with a tax write off to boot.
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Progressive advocacy is impossible exercise in begging "master" for money to buy tools to dismantle his house. Contradiction absolutely inherent. Then you find out "the master" is a purveyor of "very fine people on both sides" and truly what do you say? philanthropy.com/article/we-dis
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Must read: "Because we have this tax inequality, we are being robbed of an alternate reality where it is possible to achieve wealth equity, a good quality of life and happiness for everyone."
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My city is dropping $29 million, this year, on violent sweeps of Seattle’s most vulnerable people because we’re hosting MLB All-Star week. More unhoused people will die this year than in previous years as a result.
I feel like this bears repeating.
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Our study found that encampment clearance/sweeps could increase deaths among people experiencing homelessness by 25% by 2028. "Sweeping" people is not a solution to #homelessness, but is rather a form of (costly) state-sponsored violence.
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Ceasing involuntary displacement of people experiencing homelessness may mitigate some health-related harms associated with #homelessness. ja.ma/41bODYQ
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We need to make sure they don’t try SoundThinking (aka ShotSpotter) in Seattle:
In Chicago, 89% of ShotSpotter deployments turned up no gun-related crime. 86% led to no report of any crime at all. Over two years, there were more than 40,000 dead-end ShotSpotter deployments.
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ShotSpotter, which provides gunshot-detection tech to Chicago and other cities, has changed its name to SoundThinking.
The rebrand comes after its stock took a dive following the election of Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson, who has vowed to end Chicago's contract with the company.
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I collected a few thoughts on the role of professional elites in journalism in this catastrophe last year:
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I want to say this more clearly: If left to operate as they have been, people like Eric Adams, London Breed, and most Dem Senators, Governors, etc. will lead us to fascism by appeasing, validating authoritarian narratives, and failing to inspire or meet people's needs.
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See also the link to his essay below: “when people harm each other, it has far more to do with inequality, poverty, social connection, the environment, mental health, etc. than the number of armed government bureaucrats or the number of criminal prosecutions.”
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As we see corporate Democratic party discourse on crime and a profound lack of appreciation in elite liberal circles of the authoritarian threat we face across a wide range of issues, I have been thinking about this Daniel Guerin quote from his 1938 book Fascism and Big Business:
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A week ago a white tech worker named Patrick Cooney killed a 23-year-old Black community organizer (and also shot and injured his 9 year old nephew), in my city, and the media still hasn’t posted a picture of him. Why is that?
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Here is why we are no longer going to be active on Twitter:
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"We can never normalize the ending of democracy. We can never normalize the tyranny of the way that these people in positions of power are operating due to white supremacy and due to patriarchy. That's what we're up against!" - Rep. Justin Pearson
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"We can never normalize the ending of democracy." @Justinjpearson on being expelled from office
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I can't even fathom this. Elijah was such a beautiful, loving person. He always showed up. Was always community building. Ran programs for young people. 💔 for his family & friends.
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Just heartbroken this morning 
Elijah L. Lewis, a tireless advocate for youth in Seattle was taken from us in a senseless act of violence on Capitol Hill yesterday. At only 23 years old, Elijah was a true champion for the change he wanted to see for young people in the Emerald… Show more
Elijah L. Lewis, a tireless advocate for youth in Seattle was taken from us in a senseless act of violence on Capitol Hill yesterday. At only 23 years old, Elijah was a true champion for the change he wanted to see for young people in the Emerald… Show more
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Elijah was a vibrant young man of 23, a business owner, community organizer and advocate who was working tirelessly to create a better and safer community in Seattle. He was also a loving and loyal friend, son, brother and uncle.
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771 - or 82% - of these sweeps "were classified as “obstruction” sweeps, meaning that staff were not required to provide any notice to camp residents before initiating the sweep."
Yet this narrative persists get people don't accept help during outreach. What outreach?! Shame!!!
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NEW: Records obtained by show that Seattle officials carried out more than 900 sweeps in 2022, a dramatic rise over the previous two years. The vast majority of these removals were done without any prior notice.
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American philanthropists keep trying to reinvent the wheel but they should just resurrect all the defunct or dying alt-weeklies.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Texas Observer, the crusading liberal magazine founded in 1954, which Molly Ivins edited in the ’70s, is closing down and laying off its staff. The board voted on Wednesday, and again today, to proceed with the shutdown.
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They can easily reduce jail pop to COVID levels mitigating ANY need for housing ppl in another deadly jail + use the $3.5M for things like #ActualHousing as last year 300+ ppl died living outside in King County + many more died in KC Jails. 
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PLS RT @CMGirmayZahilay @CMSarahPerry @KCCKohlWelles @CMUpthegrove @KCCClaudia @JoeMcdermottWA @reagandunn
Rob Dembowski are slotted to vote on a NEW $3.5M DEADLY JAIL CONTRACT ON TUES. They could reduce jail pop to covid levels + save money + lives. 1/ seattletimes.com/seattle-news/t
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This is a MASSIVE win! Personally and professionally I've been invested in this since 2015. #waleg is finally starting to make the ultra-wealthy pay what they truly owe in taxes to our shared communities! Congrats team!
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🎉🎉 AMAZING NEWS! The Supreme Court has rightly upheld the capital gains excise tax, which means that lawmakers can move forward with ensuring this tax supports education in our state!!!! 🙌🏻✏️🙌🏽🎓 🙌🏿
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Yaaaaaaaaaay this is welcome good news! Thanks everyone who pushed this boulder up the mountain!
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BREAKING: WA Supreme Court upholds capital gains tax #waleg seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p via @seattletimes
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This imo is the best piece i’ve read around the ST3 CID discourse.
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🚨We need your help! The state legislature has a budget proviso for just under $900k to support the operational costs of SSHD for the first 18 months! Help us put pressure on them to approve this by filling out the action form here:
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if there's one thing I wish I could change about American political culture, it's smashing the idea that "electoral politics" and "politics" are one and the same.
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This image from today's IPCC synthesis report is brutal. The existing policy trajectory represents a profound failure of our governments, and of our international political system. We need much more aggressive mitigation and much stronger international cooperation.
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We refuse the notion that it is justifiable or acceptable for the CID to be collateral damage yet again for an infrastructure project that mostly benefits other communities — especially when there is a better alternative.
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I appreciated reading this perspective from in on the impact of a proposed train station in Seattle's Chinatown/International District.
The issue is a stress test for what a truly inclusive urbanism should look like.
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Back in 2016 Sage, as a member of Transit for All Coalition, advocated to communities of color to support the ST3 expansion regardless of the fact that it was another regressive tax, under the condition that we would prioritize affordable housing in development decisions, (1/2)
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“Drivers are daily hitting people on their feet, on a bike, on a scooter. But this lawlessness is simply permitted. You can't sleep on the street without making the news, but you can constantly break the vehicle laws with near impunity.” 💀
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"Yes, the SVB bailout is socialism for the rich. And this sorry business of going on and on about how the bailout will ultimately benefit Joe the Plumber is the oldest con in the book." |
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Are you a renter? Is your income w/i 0-100%AMI? Are you dedicated to the goals of #SocialHousing? You should apply for one of the 7 Seattle Social Housing Developer board positions being appointed by ! Read the follow up tweets 4 more info!
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What and these other hype men for special treatment don't get is that the country solved the problem of uninsured deposits for small business, unless you happened to be a Silicon Valley Bank customer. They disrupted banking as well as they disrupted everything else.
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As I explain below, if they wanted to, Dems could have found the time to pass the bills. They control the Legislature, so they control the rules. The party's decision to do nothing to stop rent gouging is a choice.
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As I've argued before, it's indefensible that still equates "vehicle safety" with "protecting those inside the car," ignoring everyone else.
That's how you get an arms race toward enormity -- the last thing we need as EVs gain popularity.
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Putin's war of aggression kicked off a de facto Green New Deal in the EU, and it is going far better than the most optimistic projections: heatmap.news/politics/the-w
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