Young people: You have one more day until an election day that could land Seattle a new, lefty Mayor, a City Attorney who's not a Republican, and a more progressive City Council. And it looks like you’re holding onto those ballots until the last minute!  According to   King County Elections ballot return statistics , only 16.18% of registered voters have cast a ballot so far. Of course, that number will continue to climb until election day. For instance, almost 40% of ballots

Earlier this week, Gov. Bob Ferguson directed almost $2.2 million in state funding per week to provide additional support to Washington’s food banks as working families brace for their federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to freeze due to the ongoing, Republican-driven shutdown of the federal government.  That’s cool. It’s not enough.  As Ferguson acknowledged in his press release earlier this week, about 930,000 Washingtonians receive SNAP benefi

The Kids Table  (TKT) –– a new Seattle-focused PAC advocating for “pro-Jewish” candidates and against antisemitism, “illiberalism,” and “radical voices,” –– is pouring unusually large sums of money into the Seattle school board election, races that typically do not see outside spending. If their candidates win, TKT will have achieved their stated goal to introduce “risk for candidates who condone (explicitly or implicitly) or endorse [antisemitism or radicalism]” — candidates

Over the weekend, Mayor Bruce Harrell’s campaign sent a text to Seattle voters overblowing a few lines in a KUOW post to frame his progressive challenger Katie Wilson as some kind of overgrown trust-fund kid cosplaying poor while mooching off her parent’s New York money. This morning, Wilson’s campaign clapped back, calling Harrell out of touch for mocking how families help each other scrape by in an expensive city. Early last week, KUOW posted a profile  of Wilson titled “K

Young people: This is fucking serious. The 2025 election could be a huge shift in the balance of power at City Hall — voters could kick out our MAGA Republican City Attorney, banish the most incompetent council president in the City’s history, and elect Seattle’s first progressive Mayor in over a decade. All the challengers taking up the left lane beat the centrist incumbents in the primary, but they only win the whole thing if you show up by Nov. 4 at 8pm. And so far, a litt

Mayor Bruce Harrell announced his negotiation team and the Seattle Police Officers Guild (SPOG) came to a tentative agreement over a collective bargaining contract covering salaries and working conditions from 2024 to 2027 . During a press conference Wednesday morning, Harrell, Chief of Police Shon Barnes, and Chief of CARE Amy Barden touted the contract as a historic milestone, but on closer inspection, their enthusiasm reads as premature, self-indulgent election-year spin.

Council President Sara Nelson is desperately trying to appear tough-on-Trump after her pathetic performance in the recent primary election, but she’s still trying to win over his sycophants by airing campaign ads on far-right news stations Fox News and Newsmax.  Nelson’s campaign basically scoffed when The Burner asked for comment about the ads. But her critics argue the ad placement shows Nelson’s campaign sees viewers of far-right, conspiracy theory laden broadcast brainrot

In an unceremonious betrayal of working people, the Seattle City Council approved Mayor Bruce Harrell’s .1% sales tax increase to fund “public safety. The council feigned discomfort at the regressive nature of the tax — Seattle already boasts the highest sales tax in the country — before ultimately insisting their hands were tied. But District 2 City Council Member Eddie Lin, who's been trying to sharpen his progressive image, is proving that no, their hands are absolutely n

Seattle boasts the highest sales tax in the country — 10.5% — and it's about to get even higher thanks to a recent vote by the Seattle City Council. And don’t be softened by all the hemming and hawing, all the apologies for the regressive nature of the tax, all the empty acknowledgment of how this will disproportionately burden working people — they didn’t have to do this and they chose to anyway.  In his recent budget  proposal, Mayor Bruce Harrell proposed taking advantag

On Monday, after a five-week long suspension, Amazon fired Palestinian tech worker Ahmed Shahrour. I’ll give you one guess as to why! As The Burner  reported last month, Shahrour sent a letter  to Amazon executives and his coworkers condemning the company’s role  in the genocide of his people through Project Nimbus, a 2021 deal in which Israel paid Amazon Web Services and Google $1.2 billion to provide cloud services for the Israeli military and government. Shahrour called hi