Analysis shows FOURTEEN Washington hospitals in rural areas are at risk of closure if the MAGA GOP pass their budget to gut Medicaid to give tax cuts to their wealthy donors.

Lifesaving care would disappear across our state, leading to more deaths driving up the cost of health care for everyone.

Sound Transit joins lawsuit fighting Trump’s anti-DEI order

So Gov. Ferguson threatened to veto the budget the legislature are working on based on progressive revenue package proposed, are the people ready to ask him how he plan to keep schools open?!

Brianna Thomas, policy advisor in Bruce Harrell's office and former candidate for Seattle City Council Position 9, has been appointed to fill Alvarado's momentarily vacant seat in the House of Representatives.

Bellevue Councilmember Janice Zahn is now a member of the Washington House of Representatives, filling a vacancy left by Rep. Tana Senn, after a vote of the King County Council just now.

The 41st LD Dems PCO recommendations for Rep. Tana Senn's #waleg appointment are:
1. Janice Zahn
2. Pam Stuart
3. Ted Weinberg

Employers have the resources to weather a strike. Working people seldom do.

#WaLeg should end the vicious cycle that keeps wages low by passing SB 5041 and passing Unemployment Ins. for Striking Workers: https://app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifier/Add?chamber=Senate&mId=32439&aId=161575&caId=24779&tId=3

#WALeg Advocacy 101: Ever wondered what the best ways are to make your voice heard in Olympia during the WA Legislative session?

We put together a quick guide on all the ways you can have an impact on the issues that matter to you:

Hakeem Jeffries: "Republicans are marching America to a painful government shutdown that will crash the economy and hurt working-class Americans because they would rather enact massive tax cuts for their billionaire donors than fund cancer research for children."

Some of the bomb cyclone damage in East Bellevue #wawx

Seattle! Here are a bunch of Seattle journalists and news outlets that have migrated to Bluesky. Please drop a note if you see others.

go.bsky.app/MB6sY4X

my opinion on "dems use too many polite euphemisms":

the right has spent the last 40 years constructing the Lib-Owning Machine. it is fully self-powered and requires no actual input from the libs. it cannot be derailed by changing inputs because it can adapt to any fuel and, indeed, invent its own

Throughout the last two years of weekly focus groups and frequent surveys with battleground state swing and disaffected Democratic voters, three things rose to the surface time and again.