Folks underestimate how many SPD cops with abhorrent incidents on their records are still making $150K+ from you and your neighbors.

Your regular reminder that cops don't actually justify their existence or enormous budgets by solving much crime.

Approximately 11% of all serious crimes result in an arrest, and about 2% end in a conviction.

And then there's this...

Things I keep saying that no one likes.

SPD Gives Medal to Officer Who Chased Man Into Traffic, Leaving Carful of Kids Behind - PubliCola The department used 911 audio of a panicked domestic violence victim, without obtaining her consent, in its video promoting…

SPD Gives Medal to Officer Who Chased Man Into Traffic, Leaving Carful of Kids Behind
The department used 911 audio of a panicked domestic violence victim, without obtaining her consent, in its video promoting the officer's courage for apprehending her abuser.
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"The complaint gets at the heart of an ongoing frustration in Seattle City Hall: That the city’s primary solution to police violence coming out of 2020 has been exceedingly slow out of the gate and kneecapped in backroom deals with a protectionist officers’ union."

If the hardcore band’s guitarist looks like this you’re about to die in that pit

I love reading novels. I’m always amazed by folks who don’t read fiction. There is nothing better, to me, than being in the middle of a book that you can’t wait to return to. It’s like living two lives at once.

WA Democrats ended a tax break for data centers but they're still woefully behind this curve, they killed a bill designed to regulate data centers last month thanks to big tech lobbyists from MSFT & AMZ

Trending: Defense giant Anduril is quietly building autonomous warships on Seattle’s historic ship canal www.geekwire.com/2026/defense-giant-andur...

I read something about a divide between younger (born post ‘73) and older Xers (whose social conscience was formed during the Reagan years.)

That said most if the ppl my age in my rural Midwest town are maga racists

Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax

NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty

This is why "but what do we do with the sexual predators?" doesn't work as a response to abolition.

THIS IS WHAT WE DO WITH THEM NOW: WE MAKE SURVIVORS WRITE THEM APOLOGY LETTERS.

No New Data Centers in Seattle We need a moratorium on new data centers.

SEATTLE! These goons want to build 5 hyperscale data centers in our city. This shit would use as much power as 1/3 of the city. Tell city council HELL NO TO CLANKER FACTORIES 👉 actionnetwork.org/letters/no-n...

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only the cops:
a) give out medals when people do their jobs (aren't we always hearing how they put themselves in danger every day?)
b) use audio of a DV victim screaming and crying because her kids have been taken to really sell the heroism
c) reward someone for literally running onto a freeway

‘Hiding in plain sight’: Video shows UW student, child escorted onto passenger flight for removal New footage raises questions about whether removals involving families are quietly happening on regular passenger airlines.

If you see something, say something.
Loudly.

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Notifications for deleted shouldn't remain in any OS notification database, and we've asked Apple to address this.

In the meantime, you can prevent any preview text from your Signal messages from appearing in your notifications.

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The message of an overturned charge for protesting isn't "the law was on your side the whole time," it's that the law can't save you from the cops even when it's clear you're in the right

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

“CO2 is a naturally occurring gas in nature” Michelle Bachman flashback

Disturbing the peace in Illinois is a felony if you do it with two or more other people. It's called "mob action."

Possession of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine is a felony in Illinois.

Possession of a blank prescription form is a felony in Illinois.

"Felony" is way broader than you think.

i have an idea for weeding out extremists, it's called defund the police

Appreciate @gramsofgnats.bsky.social’s attention to WA’s public defense crisis. The Constitution is mostly a restraint on government. This is the rare case where it grants a positive right. That's why counties are suing and we’re going to win.

When Ed Murray finally stepped down after his 5th accuser, that very day all his backers & donors switched over to Jenny Durkan, incl the mayor who followed her, Harrell. There's an endless assembly line of "progressive" Dems, they're totally fungible & endlessly replaceable, toss em early & often

the Sea-Tac airport skittles machine spits out skittles that taste vaguely of rosemary and i think I’m off skittles now

It's not punishment to say that someone with power who has abused that power doesn't get to get more power. That's a consequence. Some of you are truly ridiculous.

It’s not the conviction that make s someone a rapist, it’s the raping.

Hope this helps.

As a woman, I start all my sentences with “I am a woman…” followed my side senseless drivel. It makes extra credible when defending unconvicted rapists.

Post from Dale Partridge claiming nobody wants to live in diverse neighborhoods

I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries.

Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.

The important part of the automatic draft registration is that is shows we’ve always had capacity for automatic voter registration and benefits disbursement. We simply choose not to.