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Right wing websites have been promoting fake, or at least deceptive, news about alleged global cooling. Don’t Tell Anyone, But We Just Had Two Years Of Record-Breaking Global Cooling Inconvenient and unreported weather fact:...
U.S. Representative Adam Smith (D, 9th CD, Washington) spoke for two hours today to constituents on Mercer Island. During most of the two hours Smith bashed Trump, in response to constituents’ questions. The audience...
My pet peeve of the moment: I keep hearing progressives (including Amy Goodman today) refer to right-wing extremists as “conservatives.” Please people! There is nothing conservative about these far-right extremists who are working to...
by Matthew Caruchet Karl Marx-inspired credit ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service issued a report this month saying that Amazon’s bullying tactics over Seattle’s newly-passed employee hours tax show it has too much influence over...
Note: the 5th, 41st, 45th and 48th LD Democrats have passed versions of this resolution. Resolution in Opposition to Rodney Tom’s candidacy for State Senate WHEREAS in 2012 then State Senator Rodney Tom began caucusing...
I went to a Town Hall meeting in Seattle last night to hear hedge fund billionaire and progressive activist Tom Steyer call for support in his project to impeach Donald Trump. Steyer briefly sketched...
[Edited and extended on June 15, 2018] On Monday, June 11, I went to the Bellevue City Council hearing about the proposed Eastgate homeless shelter. About seventy people had signed up to speak (three...
A friend emailed me: On my driveway today was a ziplock bag with a melted Snickers bar and a leaflet that says, “KEEP AMERICA AMERICAN. REPORT ANY AND ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS THEY ARE NOT...
If taxes on corporations kill jobs, as opponents of Seattle’s head tax claim, shouldn’t we tax only the middle class? 🙂 After all, the rich will just take their money and invest it elsewhere...
