In this episode of The Right Wing Made Up A Mayor To Get Mad At : President Donald Trump called Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson a “liberal-slash-communist” as he threatened to move the FIFA World Cup out of Seattle, implying Wilson may make Seattle less safe. While the president has made these threats under the current administration and he didn’t call out a specifically worrisome policy of Wilson’s, his comments fit cleanly into the right-wing narrative that Katie Wilson is

Your Iced Sugar Cookie Latte is going to have to wait. Thursday morning, Starbucks’ baristas went on strike and they won’t be back to business as usual until the company comes back to the table and finalizes a fair union contract with Starbucks Workers United (SWU). Until then, workers ask customers to find a new regular coffee spot — workers are “prepared for this to become the biggest and longest strike in Starbucks history.” According to SWU, workers have waited “nearly a

Election day has come and gone, but the race for Mayor of Seattle isn’t over yet. In a small ballot drop on Thursday, progressive challenger Katie Wilson started to close the gap between her and Mayor Bruce Harrell. With plenty of votes left to count, she could still win, but the difference between four more years of Harrell and a full progressive sweep of City Hall lies in just a handful of ballots. That’s why challenger Katie Wilson is still in campaign mode, now organizing