Mayor Katie Wilson just canned Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes in the fallout of the shooting at Bite of Seattle, which called into question the frequent out-of-state traveler’s investment in the City he is supposed to serve and protect. Among other qualities, Wilson said in a press conference Friday morning that she’s looking to replace him with someone who is “consistently present” in Seattle and will keep travel to an “appropriate minimum.” For now however, Seattle will h

Tens of people gathered outside of the Seattle Storm vs. Indiana Fever basketball game to support the WNBA’s transphobe of the month, Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham. The bench warmer suddenly rose to notoriety when she voiced support for excluding trans women and girls from women and girls’ sports earlier this month, quickly becoming a new icon for the right wing. While their obsession with policing trans women is concerning, their pitiful turnout should give queer-fr

It’s happening again. The bosses at Puget Consumers Co-op (PCC) are once again sending workers home from their shifts at the Greenlake Village location for wearing watermelon pins, a symbol commonly associated with Palestine. But this time, managers are dismissing workers for wearing union-branded watermelon pins — disciplining workers for insignia that workers argue is explicitly permitted under PCC policy and protected by federal labor law. Not only that, the crackdown ra

After picking a pointless fight and losing miserably in the court of public opinion Wednesday, three Seattle City Council’s changed course and decided they don’t need to pit one child’s hungry belly against another. Council Members Joy Hollingsworth, Dionne Foster, and Dan Strauss announced a plan Thursday to do the obviously right thing: Pay for both the Mayor’s universal meal program and the modest voucher program they voted Wednesday to delay it for. “Some investments are

The Seattle City Council manufactured a false choice: Use a little bit of Families, Education, Preschool and Promise (FEPP) levy funds to pay for Mayor Katie Wilson’s promise to start up universal breakfast and lunches for Seattle students next year or throw only the lowest income families fairly modest grocery vouchers for food outside of school hours. In a 6-3 vote Wednesday morning, the council approved the amendment that delayed the universal program in favor of the vouch

The tides are turning on the U.S.’s favorite genocidal ally! Almost half of House Democrats voted “yes” on an amendment to cut off aid to Israel Wednesday afternoon. While the amendment ultimately failed, this roll call represents a seismic, and frankly overdue, shift for the Democratic party. However, despite our state’s progressive reputation, Democrats from Washington are still lagging behind. Five of Washington State’s eight Democrat lawmakers in the House voted against

Last month, Seattle University tripped and fell under the international spotlight when a video of Provost Shane Martin snatching a Palestinian flag from a student as she crossed the stage at graduation went viral. The altercation caught traction after criminal justice professor Carmen Rivera posted a clip from Seattle U’s livestream on Instagram, garnering more than 2 million views on her page alone. Just two weeks after she made that post, Seattle U told Rivera to pack up he

Mayor Katie Wilson, Seattle’s first renter mayor in recent memory, just announced legislation to combat the pesky “junk” fees landlords tack onto Seattle tenants’ already exorbitant rents. After seven months of testing the patience of her progressive base, this is exactly the kind of legislation supporters turned skeptics have been waiting for since she first inspired them during her insurgent campaign last year. But before lefties lift Wilson onto their shoulders and chant h

To the surprise of some of her critics, Mayor Katie Wilson followed through on her promise to shut off Seattle Police Department’s (SPD) Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) cameras the City recently installed around the stadium after Seattle wrapped its hosting duties for the FIFA World Cup. Additionally, she reaffirmed that the cameras around the stadium will remain off and no new cameras will go live until the City has reviewed the recommendations of an ongoing audit. “I believe

The political action committee that helped defeat an anti-Zionist Jewish candidate as its very first electoral interventions has now set its sights on another outspoken supporter of Palestine — prominent Muslim civil rights leader Imraan Siddiqi, who is seeking a seat in the State House in Olympia. The PAC also plans to defend a Jewish State Senator in the same district, a move more closely in line with the group’s state goal to “support the interests of the Jewish community