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Bold pro-Nazi stance from Brandi.
These are the shirts allowed for the @ThornsFC fans. None of them were removed. They have chants about burning people alive. Fans assaulted multiple people wearing @xx_xyathletics shirts. None of them were removed. I am quite literally in shock.
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Kohen Wiley's tiny coffin carried out by children at his funeral
The 1 year old was shot by police at a Walmart
The officer got away with it
All cops are Grinches
🚨 Andrea Smith-Taylor went on a Christmas Eve shopping spree in 2024 for her kids, but police arrested her that night, sending her home empty handed. Two years later, gifts like a PlayStation and clothes have never been returned.
“We have not been able to find them, so she was forced to tell her children that those gifts were just gone,” said her attorney, Anca Grigore, director of the Brooklyn Defender Services’ seizure and surveillance defense project.
Smith-Taylor is one of six plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit filed against the city this week. They all claiming their property was improperly seized, retained, sold, destroyed or otherwise never returned.
The Brooklyn Defenders, which filed the lawsuit Wednesday, said hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers have their property seized by the NYPD each year in connection with an arrest or as a witness or victim of an alleged crime.
When people try to get their belongs—like cash, electronics and jewelry—returned, they face a "labyrinthian system of contradictory instructions, arbitrary requirements, and dead ends across precincts, property clerk offices, and auto pounds,” the Brooklyn Defenders said.
“New Yorkers are losing their property to the tune of tens of millions of dollars every single year to the NYPD,” said Grigore.
She said bodycam footage showed officers assuring Smith-Taylor they'd get those gifts to her kids, but they never made it.
“They're completely lost to the system,” Grigore said, adding the City's current process “functions more to deprive New Yorkers of their property than to ensure that New Yorkers get their property back.”
An NYPD spokesperson said the department would review the lawsuit and that the incidents described in it were also under review.
🎤 @amandatalex reports
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Had the privilege of talking to members of the Massage Parlor Organizing Project, which is fighting on behalf of hundreds of working class migrant Asian women across the Seattle region. The group will be honored tonight at @iexaminer's annual gala:
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THE DIVEST DIGEST
Oct 23, 2026
* Dan’s RV ban passes
* Anti-homeless law disrupts Everett Free Pantry
* WSP trooper’s vehicular homicide trial is delayed again
* KCSO deputy suspended for elbowing flight attendant
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Grok, draw a shitty cartoon of Katie Wilson, but make it look nothing like Katie Wilson, but also label it "Mayor Katie Wilson" so everyone will know it's Katie Wilson.
Whelp, that does it. They made a big bust, and fentanyl will no longer be cheap and plentiful in the CID.
Hurrah for the good guys! Hurrah!
“Mr. Pham was fueled by greed, putting profit ahead of human life as the source of supply funneling fentanyl and other illicit drugs into Seattle’s Chinatown International District and ‘The Jungle,’” kiro7.com/news/local/newcast…
UW looked at 46,000 cases across 32 jurisdictions over 13 years.
They found pretrial juvenile detention increased the odds of felony recidivism in the next year by 33%.
The odds increased by 1% per day detained. You’re not making the world safer with bad policy
Probably didn't know who Zapata was or what he was about.
He just thought: "Hey, I should get a tattoo of the cool mustache guy from all the Mexican food restaurants."
"violence threats and intimidation"
The receipts are a bunch of redditors saying, "Maybe we should protest this."
You're rich. If redditors scare you that much, hire private goons, dumbass.
Violence Threats and Intimidation Don’t Belong in WA
I was supposed to speak today at noon to the Thurston County Mainstream Republicans at a restaurant in Olympia.
Instead, the restaurant received threats of violence and talk of protests in the street if the event went forward. They cancelled. Online, hateful reddit trolls posted my photo and were organizing to show up. (They have since deleted one of the posts.. hmmm)
Consider who this hurts. A small local restaurant, a room full of neighbors who wanted to hear about three ballot measures, and every Washingtonian who believes you answer speech with more speech.
We've seen this before. Signature gatherers for Let's Go Washington have been harassed, shoved and threatened. Signature sheets have been stolen, torn, or defaced, all by people who say they're fighting "hate."
So here's a simple request to No Hate in WA State: say it plainly. Political violence and threats have no place in Washington, and anyone doing it in your cause's name or agenda should cut it out.
We're looking into whether a police report has been filed. We will not be intimidated.
And neither should you. The best answer to people who try to scare you into silence is a ballot in a drop box: data.letsgowashington.com/ba…
Vote YES. Vote YES. Vote YES.
IP26-645, IL26-001 & IL26-63
He can go to his version of Epstein Island, a micronation on an abandoned oil rig that he named Galt's Outpost.
It's Japan-themed, and there's no age of consent
"Private donations keep this work going"
WHS takes in 10-15x more donations than are needed to pick up trash for like four hours once weekly.
It's sitting on $800k in assets, at least. Andrea pays her "program directors" through a temp agency and gives them no benefits.
To everyone claiming, "Those weak liberal judges did it again!"
* Forensics established he didn't shoot anyone
* He had a plausible self-defense claim
* He's 15 years old.
With no significant priors, house arrest while awaiting trial is a just outcome for a minor.
#BREAKING: Just 3 Months After Bite of Seattle Shooting Left 3 DEAD and 4 INJURED, 15-Year-Old Suspect Released to House Arrest!
Selected clips from the bodycam video.
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Let's be clear: King County Detective Shawn Peckham is not a misogynist.
A group of women simply conspired to kick him off an Alaska Airlines flight for elbowing a flight attendant and calling her a "bitch."
But he swears he loves his mama, his daughter—and his ex-wife
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Let's be clear: King County Detective Shawn Peckham is not a misogynist.
A group of women simply conspired to kick him off an Alaska Airlines flight for elbowing a flight attendant and calling her a "bitch."
But he swears he loves his mama, his daughter—and his ex-wife
divestspd.com/p/drunk-king-c…