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Report on 41st LD Town Hall, Feb 17, 2018 2

Report on 41st LD Town Hall, Feb 17, 2018

On Saturday, Feb 17 over 100 people turned up to the 41st Legislative District town hall at Somerset Elementary School in Bellevue. Representative Judy Clibborn (House Transportation Committee chair), Senator Lisa Wellman (chair of...

Gun editorial from the Sydney Morning Herald 0

Gun editorial from the Sydney Morning Herald

An editorial from the Sydney Morning Herald: “It is incomprehensible to us, as Australians, that a country so proud and great can allow itself to be savaged again and again by its own citizens....

Conservatives consume most fake news, according to study 0

Conservatives consume most fake news, according to study

“Low-quality, extremist, sensationalist and conspiratorial news published in the US was overwhelmingly consumed and shared by rightwing social network users, according to a new study from the University of Oxford.”  — source: The Guardian

Choose your battles wisely 0

Choose your battles wisely

I saw a facebook post that was encouraging overturning of I-200 (the voter-approved initiative which prohibits affirmative action and similar racial preferences). I support over-turning I-200 but that’s not my highest priority. My highest...

Extreme wealth inequality 0

Extreme wealth inequality

The Billionaire Bonanza: 5 Things You Need To Know About The Inequality Gap There are now 2,043 dollar billionaires worldwide. Nine out of 10 of them are men. In 12 months, the wealth of...