Brooks sees a parallel between how the cops treated her over the weekend with how they bully people living unhoused in Seattle, or those using drugs on the street, or sex workers in Aurora, or the student at the University of Washington who occupied the Boeing-funded building on campus.  She understands not everyone can risk arrest, but she wonders what would have happened to her Sunday if a few more people had stood with her and refused to put their clothes back on.

While the news from the student paper to national broadcasts talk about the action, supporters for the first time got to hear from protesters for the first time. 

Nude Tanning Is Not "Indecent Exposure." In a public meeting Wednesday evening, Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes said his officers were...

Dionne Foster made a few things very clear at her kick-off party Sunday afternoon. For one, she’s the candidate for working people in the position 9 Seattle City Council race. And two, she needs your money. Turns out, spending the last three and a half years — however feebly — waging war on the poor at the behest of landlords, bosses, and the ultra wealthy, has left her opponent, Council President Sara Nelson, with a very compelling case for deep-pocketed donors.

The enforcement action Sunday marked an escalation in the ongoing fight between the wealthy homeowners who live around Denny Blaine (known as Denny Blaine for All) and the LGBTQ+ community members and nude beachgoers who use it (organized under the name Friends of Denny Blaine). Denny Blaine for All, filed a lawsuit earlier this year against the City for its failure to curb nudity at the beach, as well as other alleged indecent behavior.

New draft legislation shows that the Seattle City Council may amend the City's ethics codes, so that they can vote in their own financial interest. Under the proposed rules, council members could vote in their own financial interest the member publicly discloses their "appearance" of a conflict at an open public meeting of the council or one of its committees.

Despite Democrats’ initial gusto for taxing the rich in the ongoing quest to flip Washington’s uniquely regressive tax code right-side-up, new sales taxes account for more than a quarter of every dollar the Washington State Legislature approved in new revenue this session. Choosing to dig Washington deeper into its reliance on sales taxes instead of levying taxes against the richest Washington, does not advance their ultimate goal of a fairer tax code. 

After 105 days of back-room wrangling, egomaniac managing, and budgetary bloodbath, state lawmakers wrapped up Washington State’s 69th legislative session early Sunday evening. But for a State boasting a Democratic majority in both Chambers and an alleged Democrat sitting in the Governor’s Office, Washington state progressives, lefties, otherwise disaffecteds walked away with very few big ticket wins. Here’s the highlight (and the lowlight) reel. 

After weeks of backroom wrangling the Washington State Senate and House reconciled their dueling rent stabilization bills, settling on a...

Seattle renters are bracing for a long-haul brawl to defend their rights from a City Council that seems hellbent reversing wins for working people with all the subtlety of a wrecking ball—and about as much concern for who gets crushed. At the Housing Development Consortium’s (HDC) annual fundraiser, renters crashed the party—not for the finger food, but to hand out flyers exposing HDC’s months-long campaign to gut renter protections. 

Senate Democrats quietly proposed a shameful 55% cut to abortion access funding in their budget, leaving just $7 million for the 2026–2027 biennium to cover a critical healthcare service in a state that prides itself on being pro-choice. With Trump already training his crosshairs on reproductive rights, it's incumbent on the State Legislature—and Governor Bob Ferguson—to bolster funding for abortion, not sacrifice it on the altar of anti-tax orthodoxy

Is your Washington State Legislator a landlord? More likely than you think! 21% of all WA legislators are landlords compared to just 7% renters/non homeowners. With about 36% of Washingtonians renting, tenants have about a fifth of the representation they deserve proportionally.

Governor Bob Ferguson is still not satisfied with the Democrat's revenue proposal even after they rolled over to his veto threat and cast aside what would have been the crown jewel of the session, the wealth tax. Though the situation seems bleak, advocates say it's not time to give up, it's time to double down.

Washington State Democrats introduced a tax on companies' windfall profits from the states' Zero Emission Vehicle program. And its only got one target: The political pariah of the moment, Tesla.

It happened unceremoniously, behind closed doors, and then got buried in a shallow grave in a news lede. This morning, the Seattle Times...

This morning, pedestrians laughed at spoof voicemail pretending to be from Amazon's Jeff Bezos that played when pedestrians hit the arrow button to trigger a walk signal at a few intersections in Seattle, including the corner of Fairview and Denny in South Lake Union. There appears to be a coordinated effort by hackers across the country to leave messages poking fun at the ultra-wealthy.

Washington State Senate passed House Bill 1971 to expand access to hormone replacement therapy (HRT). The legislation requires medical insurance companies to cover HRT prescriptions for up to a year at a time, rather than limiting patients to just a month’s supply. It’s a win for anyone who relies on consistent access to hormone medication, including transgender Washingtonians. What’s more surprising? Most Senate Republicans actually voted for it.

The case to join DSA, even if you don’t think it’s “left enough.”

The "Parents' Bill of Rights" was performative nonsense, the Washington Democrats are clarifying the bill and making it suck a whole lot less

As the Washington State Legislature cobbles together a wealth tax policy in the final days of session, pollsters are already testing messaging to persuade Washingtonians to reject it at the ballot box in an almost certain referendum battle later this year. If the pollster's questions serve as any indication of the arguments conservatives plan to trot out, weatlth tax proponents don't have much to worry about.