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

Seattle University faced international backlash when a clip of Provost Shane Martin yanking the Palestinian flag from a student as she crossed the stage at graduation went viral earlier this month. Martin and the University have since released statements related to the incident, but they stopped short of publicly apologizing for what the student’s supporters described as “selective, viewpoint based discrimination.” So, advocates are keeping the pressure on Seattle U to meet t

“I am grateful to live in a City where employees that speak out politically are legally protected against retaliation.” That’s how several Amazon workers associated with Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ) began their public testimony at Seattle City Hall in favor of the City’s first-of-its-kind one-year moratorium on new data centers earlier this month. It’s almost as though they knew their employer would punish them for speaking out against unregulated AI and hypers

Seattle boasts the highest sales tax in the country and elected officials keep cranking it higher. Just last week, King County transportation officials approved a new 0.10% sales tax bump starting Jan. 1 to pay to repair shoddy roads. And that’s not déjà vu you’re feeling, you actually just read the news earlier this month about another 0.15% sales tax hike for increased bus service that Seattle voters will see on the November. Together, that would boost Seattle’s 10.5% sale

In a recent public flub, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson admitted in a TV news interview that she “broke” her now infamous boycott of Starbucks with a blueberry muffin latte. Wilson has earned ire from both sides of the political spectrum over her comments related to the coffee giant, from detractors eagerly blaming her calls to boycott the chain for the company opening a new corporate office in Tennessee to her supporters wondering if the business lobby lobotomized her before a m

The Downtown Seattle Association (DSA) just unveiled its first IKE Smart City digital kiosk on the corner of First Avenue and Pike Street as part of their years-in-the-making plan to prop up dozens of these sidewalking-dominating behemoths to run advertisements, display maps, and to emit free Wi-Fi around Seattle. As surveillance dominates much of the civic conversation after the new Mayor’s betrayal of her campaign-era anti-surveillance messaging, Seattle residents and FIFA