In an unceremonious betrayal of working people, the Seattle City Council approved Mayor Bruce Harrell’s .1% sales tax increase to fund “public safety. The council feigned discomfort at the regressive nature of the tax — Seattle already boasts the highest sales tax in the country — before ultimately insisting their hands were tied. But District 2 City Council Member Eddie Lin, who's been trying to sharpen his progressive image, is proving that no, their hands are absolutely n

Seattle boasts the highest sales tax in the country — 10.5% — and it's about to get even higher thanks to a recent vote by the Seattle City Council. And don’t be softened by all the hemming and hawing, all the apologies for the regressive nature of the tax, all the empty acknowledgment of how this will disproportionately burden working people — they didn’t have to do this and they chose to anyway.  In his recent budget  proposal, Mayor Bruce Harrell proposed taking advantag

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