Seattle City Council unanimously approves emergency moratorium on detention centers
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Seattle City Council unanimously approves emergency moratorium on detention centers
council.seattle.gov/2026/03/10/s...
“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
What's hilarious about this is that California, which is the tech and AI capital of the country, has a state income tax, the highest rate of which is 12.3% (vs 9.9% in the WA proposal), and the tax is on all income, not just income over $1 million. Yet somehow Silicon Valley is doing just fine.
Poem 'The Questionaire' by Wendell Berry
Berry turns the language of bureaucracy into something quietly terrifying by asking questions escalating in horror
The poem is 60 years old but feels like it could have been written yesterday.
By the end there's a feeling you’re not being questioned, you're being measured.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
Last week, my mother took me and my kids to see the school where, 60 years ago, she was among the first wave of Black students to integrate a previously all-White school. We wanted to remind my kids that Black history is not just famous people in textbooks, it is often the people right next to you.
The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?
Yes. We need a moratorium on data center construction.
still remember the "it's too early/hyperbolic/irresponsible to compare these guys to Nazi Germany" Reasonable Posters - whom, I imagine, are waiting for the renovations to be completed before they update their priors
#BlackHistoryMonth Fact of the Day
Dr. Camara Jones is a physician & epidemiologist whose work focuses on measuring/addressing impacts of racism on health. She is a former APHA president & continues to lead in identifying & naming racism as a public health crisis.
tinyurl.com/yc3rt455
Study your ballots ahead of time:
“There are over 2,400 races for prosecutor and sheriff like this one all around the nation in 2026; they could hand voters plenty of opportunities to reshape local policies on policing, punishment, and immigration enforcement.”
New from @katherineeban.bsky.social in @rollingstone.com: CDC appointees bypassed the agency’s scientists to rush-fund a study questioning the hep B birth dose. The ethics committee president says his name was used on the approval without his knowledge.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
It’s time that we ban right turns on red citywide as an initial step towards building a transportation network that prioritizes people.
The Department of Chemistry at Laval University is seeking applications for a permanent position as an assistant professor in the field of chemistry focused on cosmeceuticals/cosmetology."
#chemjobs #chemjobscanada #facultychemjobs
where's chemjoubber when you need them
easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”
this. they are also trying to kill future investment in vaccine research and development by doing this.
The Moderna flu vax is under review for licensure in Canada, Australia and the EU. It will be widely used in many countries, but not in the US.
Excellent summary by @melodyschreiber.com 👇
Extremely funny that the U.S. is going to become a zombie patent monopoly, all the mRNA tech in the world and none of the societal benefits, transnational corporations giving that shit to Canadians like Halloween candy as we try to cross Niagara Falls by barrel like it’s 1832
these assholes!!!!
Bring it back: fliphones Keep it gone: chickenpox Chickenpox is never in style. Vaccinate.
Flip phones are cool again. Chickenpox is not.
Same reason everyone should be VEHEMENTLY opposed to mandatory Age Verification tech and Age Gates
They don't care about children.
They care about getting documented records of every person looking at every website they want to ban.
Freedom House Ambulance Service was the first community-based Emergency Medical Service in the US.
It was started by Black men in the Hill District of Pittsburgh (Hill Street Blues was based in part on the Hill District). At the time, EMS was a dash to the hospital in the back of a paddy wagon.
Is ICE building a “black box” detention center where you live?
The rogue agency is spending hundreds of millions of dollars buying up empty warehouse space across the country to hold detainees.
Here’s what you should know — and what can be done about it.
[Clip via @pabloreports.bsky.social]
NEW: The AMA and a leading public health research group focused on vaccines are teaming up to create a parallel system to review vaccine safety and effectiveness.
The CDC’s vaccine review process has “effectively collapsed” under RFKJr. My story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
SMH. RFK's CDC measles dashboard has a lead image of flights coming into the US from abroad -- as if other countries are to blame for our skyrocketing measles numbers.
>89% of cases last year were home-grown and >92% of cases this year. This is a US problem that needs domestic solutions.
Please tell the Mayor's office about your experience renting in Seattle, especially about any junk fees you might have paid!
America is fighting back, and this is a fight we can win.
Watch the full video on YouTube: The ICE Protests are Working.
youtu.be/rY6VUFm0V6s
