On Monday, after a five-week long suspension, Amazon fired Palestinian tech worker Ahmed Shahrour. I’ll give you one guess as to why! As The Burner  reported last month, Shahrour sent a letter  to Amazon executives and his coworkers condemning the company’s role  in the genocide of his people through Project Nimbus, a 2021 deal in which Israel paid Amazon Web Services and Google $1.2 billion to provide cloud services for the Israeli military and government. Shahrour called hi

Last week, the Seattle School Board voted 5-2 against reviving the School Resource Officer program at Garfield High School, which would have overturned one of the few, lasting policies won during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. And the vote didn’t just prevent one temporary contract for one officer. According to public records, it may have stopped the City’s plan to use dollars designated for education to put 15 cops in schools around the City.  In March, Deputy Mayor T

In the death rattle of her doomed re-election campaign , Seattle Council Sara Nelson is scrambling to set the record straight on the...