Washington's problems are bigger than our short #WALeg sessions can address. Not only that, but when you make lawmakers part-time and underpaid, you ensure that only the independently wealthy can hold office.
How about a trade? #WALeg works full time for us & they get paid a normal wage.
Montana is setting an example for every state, and every state AG should be following their lead.
Hello from Tacoma, WA! @rweingarten.bsky.social is here with @bulldogshadow.bsky.social, @aftwa.bsky.social President Jacqui Cain and @wsna.bsky.social Executive Director David Keepnews for the Labor and Employment Relations Association Conference.
Yesterday's rally was fabulous, and we always love when a co-op alum or parent shows up to fight for the program! Chris Lampkin, from Councilmember Mosqueda's office, is both!
Washingtonians are about to see…
✅ Twice as many families getting cash from Working Families Tax Credit
✅ Sales tax cuts on essentials
✅ Tax cuts for small businesses
✅ Free school meals for kids
Send lawmakers a note of appreciation here ⬇️ investwanow.org/tell-lawmake...
@investwanow.bsky.social
For the last 6 months we have watched ordinary people put their lives at risk for their neighbors while the powerful retreat in cowardice. Just regular folks pummeled with chemical weapons and shot dead in the streets fighting for what's right and good.
There are heroes all around you. Find them
We're going to keep mail-in voting and we're going to use it to hold the administration accountable in the midterms.
The federal government has exactly zero authority over the manner of elections. It's right in the Constitution. Not that anyone in the administration's read that.
If Starbucks wants Seattle to love them, Starbucks can love us first. A big way to show that love is to stop standing in the way of unions.
*Microsoft* can be neutral when employees want to unionize, so can Starbucks (instead of threatening us with Tennessee).
Fascinating, especially hard on the heels of saying that we can't afford daycare, Medicare, or - you know, any of the support that defines a functional, industrialized nation. Just big sticks to hit everyone who doesn't think Trump is the greatest with, that's what we can afford.
AFT Washington President Jacqui Cain and our VP for COPE were in attendance - they said it was a great time, and there was lots of energy in the room!
Silence is complicity.
That's why we’ve called on our 1.8 million members to avoid Target for their back to school shopping. We refuse to allow companies to continue their patterns of staying quiet on ICE’s abuses in our communities.
www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/03/...
The Millionaires Tax is a WIN for small businesses! Let's talk about it.
A proposal to tax fortunes over $50M could generate $6.2T for investments like childcare, education, and healthcare without raising taxes on most Americans.
That’s a conversation worth having.
Read more: www.commondreams.org/news/ultra-m...
Gosh, this feels familiar for some strange reason. Almost like ... we had a dry run of this exact problem, but it was for a better reason and nothing bad actually happening and Republicans are still mad about it? I bet this finally shuts them up. We can just ignore this issue now.
Well, and also, AI is a stupid product that doesn't do what it's pitched to do and just serves to juice billionaire wealth while lighting the planet on fire, so there's that part too.
Imagine learning from a calculator that lies to you and falls over a lot.
Working Americans’ Tax Cut Act would eliminate federal income taxes for millions of working Americans earning under $46,000.
This is common sense legislation and part of a broader conversation about building an economy that works for working people. www.pennlive.com/life/2026/03...
I mean, this is just funny. We need funny stuff too.
Important advice for all of us. They want to provoke confrontation; we do better when we don't give it to them.
We'll be there!
And in this term, there are no adults in the room to tell him no. Just cosplay suits, loud bigots, and the very smallest of the intellectual giants.
It's absolutely crucial that people realize that politics is intended to be something we the people can do. Every bill that's passed was an idea somewhere; we can use the political process AS INTENDED to improve our lives. And we should. Every day.
Greg Bovino, the former Border Patrol “commander-at-large” who terrorized people across America in his Nazi-like trench coat, is retiring from the agency.
But never forget that Trump originally put him out to pasture not because of Bovino's cruelty, but because of his stupidity.
This is the first community college strike in Oregon's history - solidarity!
It's the United Food and Commercial Workers striking Brazilian giant JBS, a meat industry monopolist best known for destroying the Amazon, one of the Big Three that makes it nearly impossible for small family ranchers to survive.
Meatpacking is among the most dangerous jobs in America.
Solidarity!
The Voter Elimination Act is a desperate bid by a failing would-be dictator to *save* himself from losing power and with it facing consequences for his crimes.
I don't have any idea how we fix this when we regain control of the government. I hope others do, because this shouldn't be something we just throw up our hands about.
If the last year+ has taught us anything, it should be that people who intentionally do bad things need to face real consequences.
Keeping a VERY close eye on this. So far, ICE is moving ahead quickly to get the warehouses open, but @nickmiroff.bsky.social's story suggests that once leadership officially changes, that may slow down.
‘The cruelty is just the point’: A broken student loan system has women at the center
I broke down three times today... I have a disease that will inevitably make me completely disabled, and I can’t afford the treatment because I’m hemorrhaging money to a twenty-year-old debt. — Mary Modica, a…
🚨 Democrats have now cast 1.5x as many ballots as they did during all of 2024 early primary voting.
Current total (change from yesterday):
🔵 869,118 (+114,353)
