Alright, Big Tech. You’ve had your libertarian fantasy with Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the past few years — clogging our feeds with deepfakes, letting chatbots send lonely people into psychosis, and automizing discrimination in the workplace. This legislative session, Washington Democrats are more serious than ever about setting some ground rules on the anything-goes tech playground.   No, The Chatbot Doesn’t Love You At the request of Gov. Bob Ferguson, the state legis

As ICE’s reign of terror returns to headlines, activists demand bold and urgent action from City Hall’s new progressive bloc, including a reversal of a recent expansion  to the Seattle Police Department’s surveillance capabilities for warranted fear the footage could get into the wrong hands and aid in ICE’s raids. And it turns out, Council Member Eddie Lin wasn’t fucking around when he said he opposed the expansion during his campaign last fall.  In a statement to The Burner

U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has been completely silent after the state-sanctioned execution of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis sent shock waves through the nation. Even when Border Patrol agents shot two people in the next city over from her southwest Washington district, Gluesenkamp Perez couldn’t be bothered to express concern for due process, accountability, or any number of basic principles that even moderate Democrats are supposed to uphold.  By comparison, Gluese

Over the past few days, several Democrats representing Washington state in congress have sent clear and strong condemnations of ICE’s disgusting, unjust killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. Last week, Washington’s own Rep. Emily Randall said “enough is enough” on Bluesky  and announced she will co-sponsor articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.  “Kristi Noem’s lawless agents are out of control,” Randall wrote in a statement on social m

After a long, terrifying week of violence from immigration enforcement, Seattle’s new Mayor Katie Wilson and City Council Members Alexis Mercedes Rinck, Dionne Foster, and Eddie Lin say ICE is not welcome in Seattle. Their vocal opposition to ICE marks a shift in rhetoric from City Hall, which recently replaced pro-business incumbents with progressive, more economically populist challengers. Only time will tell if their louder bark is accompanied by a stronger bite. “We canno

An ICE chud shot and killed 37 year-old Renee Good  in her vehicle this morning in Minneapolis. While witnesses describe and video footage appears to show an unnecessary killing, the right wing media, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and President Donald Trump wasted no time spinning a false narrative to justify the violence. Seattle’s Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the most vocal opponent of the administration’s fascist deportation agenda in the Washington State congression

The Mayor’s Office and the Seattle Police Department (SPD) have a rightwing disinformation campaign to undo on the first Monday under the new administration.  Over the weekend, rightoid shitposters and the conservative media leaked a snippet of an email from Police Chief Shon Barnes to peddle a false narrative that cops will no longer arrest people for using drugs publicly. The rightwing conspiracy apparatus spun so hard, soon enough everyone from the Daily Mail to the regula

Over the weekend, the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in a violent military action that killed dozens of Venezuelan civilians, brazenly violated international law, set the stage for occupation, and risks more imperial destabilization in South America for the express purpose of draining Venezuela’s oil rich soil under the guise of “ narco-terrorism conspiracy” charges. And you know it's a bad move when Seattle-area Rep. Adam Smith, a friend to we

After four months of unjust detention, U.S. Veteran and community activist Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry has been released from the ICE detention center in Tacoma, marking a huge victory for his family, the greater Seattle community, and the rule of law.  “My family will be whole again,” his wife, anti-war congressional candidate Melissa Chaudhry, said in a statement. “My children will have their Baba home. And our communities will be richer and stronger by his presence - and more

Last week, three congressional representatives from Washington State voted to pass the so-called “ Kayla Hamilton Act,” a  controversial bill which will subject unaccompanied immigrant children to invasive body searches and prolonged immigration detention if passed by the Senate. It’s not surprising that Washington State Republicans Reps. Dan Newhouse and Michael Baumgartner voted in favor of the bill, which narrowly passed with the full strength of the Republican caucus behi