King County Executive-elect Girmay Zahilay told The Burner he’s grateful to his constituents for raising concerns in a recent community letter  about his decision to prop up Microsoft President and Vice Chairman Brad Smith as one of four co-chairs on the team guiding his transition to office. Zahilay joined them in condemning “the facilitation of human rights violations in Gaza,” but he did not commit to the chief demand of the letter: Removing the big tech boss they accuse o

After progressive challenger Katie Wilson’s victory, some national outlets are straining to manufacture an anti-Israel storyline in Seattle’s mayoral race where none meaningfully exists. Wilson herself was notably quiet on the issue, despite riding a wave of (admittedly over-generous) comparisons to New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who spoke much more openly and strongly in support of Palestine. The whole narrative is just the latest example of Wilson’s detractors in

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