– We need more protection for domestic workers.

– Come the new year, insurance will have to cover a year’s supply of hormone replacement therapy.

– Trailhead direct starts this weekend. You guys!

– Those guys don’t look like law enforcement.

– The framing of Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’ victories as a model for rural districts is a bit strange to me. She did better in the Portland suburbs than the rural parts of the district.

– Right to repair is law in Washington.

– More to every type of housing, including flats.

– Call your legislator or member of Congress.

This story on the strippers bill of rights is very interesting. It seems like the legislature may have to revisit some things. The worst excesses of strippers losing money on a shift are over, but strip club owners seem like pieces of shit.

Maybe some sort of collective ownership that cuts them out is a way to go in the future? I don’t know, that’s not helpful in the here and now.

– They really ought to resolve Tent City.. what a pain for the people who can least afford it.

– We’ll see the first wildfire season where the Federal government doesn’t care at all. But not the last.

– United Healthcare seems pretty bad.

– Anyway, please call your legislator or member of Congress today.

Good morning.

– More changing areas are coming to men’s bathrooms.

– The Washington AG’s office is making it easier to report sexual assault.

– The air freshener thing is funny, but who needs pine explained to them?

– Keep ICE out of Spokane parks.

– This was written before the pause (to 35%), but tariffs are still a problem.

– More Redmond light rail.

– Come on REI. Do better.

– I still don’t know who I’m voting for for City Attorney, but the Hacks and Wonks interviews with all of the challenges make me glad they’re running.

If it’s Friday, it’s Carl has too many tabs open and is sharing some with you! Only realized after assembling them that it’s even more Seattle focused than usual.

– Joe Mallahan is running for mayor again. Hard no thank you in the primary.

– I don’t know enough about the Bar’s rules to know what will happen with Judge Pooja Vaddadi’s complaint, but Ann Davison seems to have acted unethically from a moral standpoint.

– Finally, Seattle elected officials do what the public most wants: Self dealing.

– And hey, the people spending big on Sara Nelson are who you think they are.

Good morning. I think it’s allergies since an antihistamine helps but I have been feeling gross for the last few days. So this may be even less coherent than usual.

But! I do want to say: It’s filing week. And you know what that means. You, yes you: You can run for office. Lots of local offices and people like you, but critically not you yet are putting their name forward.

– I am glad to see Democrats competing everywhere in Washington.

– Fearmongering about transit safety could at least get their statistics right.

– Just fucking let the nude beachgoers be, SPD. Gosh.

– Anyway contact your legislator or member of Congress. They want to hear from you, and if they don’t, then they need to hear from you.

– Ann Davison inventing community court after ending it is pretty wild.

– Seattle, what a hellhole.

– When you’re cutting HIV funds, maybe you found something other than waste.

– The session is over, but you can still contact your legislator. Or Representative.

– Not local, but Justice Gorsuch is lying.

– So yeah, how about that legislature.

– Gross, Portland Catholic School. Don’t be racist.

– I am much less pro trucks in general than the author of this piece. But yes, Cybertrucks don’t even truck well.

The legislature adjourned Sine Die over the weekend. Some stuff passed that even recently seemed impossible: Rent stabilization, even if it’s not as far as I would like, and parking reforms especially seemed like impossible tasks just a few years ago.

And yet. And yet. Without a wealth tax, the budget is still cuts heavy. Shame.

I am still going to tell you to write to your legislator, but things aren’t as urgent now that the session is over.

The legislature adjourned Sine Die over the weekend. Some stuff passed that even recently seemed impossible: Rent stabilization, even if it’s not as far as I would like, and parking reforms especially seemed like impossible tasks just a few years ago.

And yet. And yet. Without a wealth tax, the budget is still cuts heavy. Shame.

I am still going to tell you to write to your legislator, but things aren’t as urgent now that the session is over.

– This article about the closure of the Psychiatric Center for Children and Adolescents in Spokane and a suicide that it might have prevented is rough, but worth the read.

– Trans kids can still play sports in Washington.

– The state budget may be more cruel to homeless people in right of ways than it is currently.

– Did you know, you can contact your legislators and members of Congress? It’s true!

I have said it before. Tariffs can be part of sound industrial policy. Even rather large ones. But they shouldn’t be the entire policy. So yeah, when they hurt industries, and there isn’t a whole suite of policies offsetting that, it’s just garbage. I worry Trump’s gross incompetence could hurt future politicians’ ability to do it right.