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...
Great show! If you are in the Seattle area, get to @artswest.bsky.social in West Seattle and see Walden
I don't know but now I want to know!
Must listen we are lucky to have Rep Jayapal’s leadership: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... @jayapal.house.gov
This is fun!
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A photo of Iranian schoolgirls with the following text: Look at each face...think of the love, hopes, and dreams in your family...and multiply that by 90 million. As American taxpayers, every American bomb that drops has our names on it.
Let's pray that Trump considers the hard and human reality of “collateral damage”...
@adamsmith.house.gov @murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov do everything you can
Text from a Rick Steves post on Facebook: "A Millionaires Tax? Let’s Try Shared Prosperity! A new tax on fat paychecks like mine was just signed into law in my home state — and I like it. In 2029, Washington state will start collecting a 9.9% tax on income over $1 million. The 8,000,000 Washingtonians whose households make less than a million dollars a year will pay zero under this new tax and enjoy all the benefits of a better-funded state. And for the wealthy (like me and an estimated 30,000 others), every million dollars in taxable income that our households earn after the first million will cost us about $100,000. It takes a lot of money to run a state that’s as livable as ours. Yet Washington is one of only nine states that don’t currently levy a traditional income tax. Our state is still funded by consumption taxes, such as sales and excise taxes, giving us the second-most regressive tax code in the country. (Only Florida has us beat.) And it’s time for Washington millionaires to pay our fair share. Right about now, Republicans reading this are queuing up in the comments to holler their well-worn excuses: A state income tax will penalize, and therefore demoralize, Washington state’s job creators! Letting the rich get richer results in more wealth trickling down! Wealthy people will flee your state for those with more regressive taxation! (Since California and Oregon already have a comparable tax, that would be distant lands like Texas, Tennessee, and Nevada.) As a wealthy person myself, I see this tax as essentially free money for all Washingtonians. Everybody in my state gains. And speaking from personal experience, I know that anyone who earns enough to be subject to this tax is beyond the point where consuming more adds to their security, their well-being, or even, arguably, their happiness — meaning there will be basically zero human cost."
Text from Rick Steves Facebook post: "If you disagree, consider the minuscule impact this tax will have on my state’s millionaires. Now, contrast that with the value of close to $4 billion a year in tax revenue once it’s smartly invested in programs that will help the roughly one-third of Washington households living paycheck to paycheck. For those who still aren’t convinced, here’s a lesson I’ve learned in my travels: Even if you’re motivated only by greed, if you know what’s good for you, you don’t want to be filthy rich in a society with a huge gap between rich and poor. It’s just not a nice place to raise your kids. And remember: Shrouds have no pockets…especially if you’re a multimillionaire with no heart for your neighbors. Plus, helping build a better community for you and your neighbors just…feels good. I learned this firsthand back in 2011, when — after years of receiving a Bush-era tax break for the wealthy that I didn’t need — I noticed that to pay for that tax cut, public funding for community programs and institutions was being decimated. Recognizing the practical value of investing my tax savings in my community, I’ve donated $100,000 a year to our local arts center and symphony ever since, covering concert hall rental costs for our volunteer orchestra and much more. Paying a “self-imposed wealth tax” and knowing I’m helping my entire community has brought me great joy for 15 years and counting. It’s far from heroic…but it is a little lonely."
Text from Rick Steves Facebook post: "The “millionaires tax” that Governor Bob Ferguson signed into law today will make our state better than ever — not just for the working class and poor, but for everyone who values a healthy and sustainable future. And for us millionaires who are enlightened enough to realize that we’ve reached a point where consuming more won’t make us genuinely happier, it just feels right to pay a little extra. For me, it’s biblical (“To whom much is given, much will be required”)… It’s European (after all, societies that are equitably funded are much more “content” than ours)… And — for those of us with a heart for the public good — it’s simply common sense. Sign me up!"
Travel writer Rick Steves on Washington's newly signed "Millionaires Tax"
We are not fighting for a world where everyone agrees. We are fighting for a world where disagreement is possible — where it is safe, where it is respected, where it doesn’t end with someone getting hurt or silenced or erased. That is the thing worth defending.
Not fun like a theme park. Fun like a good argument with someone you respect. Fun like discovering you were wrong about something and updating your view. Fun like sitting across from someone whose life looks nothing like yours and finding unexpected common ground.
@mpusto.bsky.social I know you are in Madison but I suspect you have thoughts... knowing you ride year round
For the first 5+ years of my marriage I was out of town on Valentine's Day my husband loved it for the deal on chicolates
Hug the ones you love, call the ones you haven't talked to lately, let people know you think about them. Tonight my neighbor passed away. She's the 3rd person I loved that passed away in the last 6 weeks 😢
I was recently in Guatemala and took the "chicken bus" to Chimaltenago. I thought of Pike Place Market when the bus 'terminal' was basically on the streets of the market. A couple of vendors had to move their stands so the bus could get through
Any recommendations on podcast, blog, article that I can pass on to a 19-20 year old who has no hope for our country? I know it's awful (awful isn't strong enough) but I still have hope. The teen does not. Trying to find resources to share.
WA folks...please
BLOCK them.
This could have been our VP 😮💨
Make it viral.
Let me be very clear: tomorrow morning and EVERY DAY THIS WEEK, call your Reps and Senators whether Dem, Republican or Independent. Express your outrage at Trump’s imperial and illegal actions against sovereign nations. TELL THEM to convene. To hold up everything. Hold up $.
202-224-3121
Yum. I will try this sometime soon.
I have worked with Archbishop Hicks and I can attest he is what the Catholic church needs in leadership. So grateful to see the Pope make this change
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
Farmworkers carrying boxes and harvesting in a field.
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