They’re calling it “the Red Cup Rebellion”: The Starbucks employee union voted to strike on November 13, aka Red Cup Day, when stores hand out reusable, free (with purchase) red cups to kick off the holiday season. The union said that after years of bargaining, Starbucks still hasn’t budged on their demands for better pay, more hours and resolutions of more than 700 unresolved unfair labor practice violations. The strike could hit about 25 cities, with potential to spread. Seattle baristas have participated in the strikes in the past. At one in March, police arrested 16 people.
SPD Firings: Seattle Police Department Chief Shon Barnes fired two of the department’s top leaders yesterday, CEO Brian Maxey and general counsel Rebecca Boatright. According to the Seattle Times, they played key roles in federal oversight of the department, and were often referred to for internal policy inquiries—like protest response, use of body cameras and more—from City Hall officials. Barnes was hired by Harrell earlier this year. Look, I’m all for downsizing the police department, but is this the place to start?
Wondering why the last two ballot drops showed so many progressive candidates leading their races, yet Katie Wilson is still behind Mayor Bruce Harrell? Vivian got answers yesterday. As of yesterday’s ballot drop, Harrell is leading by eight points. But ballots are still being counted, and because younger progressives tend to vote late, Wilson could come back. Keep every phalange you have crossed.
The “Sharia Law” They Warned Us About: New York City mayor elect Zohran Mamdani announced an all-women transition team to help “form an administration that is equal parts capable and compassionate,” he says. They include senior campaign advisor Elana Leopold, former first deputy mayor Maria Torres-Springer, former federal trade commission chair Lina Khan, United Way’s president and CEO Grace Bonilla, and Melanie Hartzog, former deputy mayor for health and human services. And then there’s Seattle, possibly about to be stuck with four more years of Bruce.
Trump is Coping: A day after Dems swept elections across the country, the president posted more than 30 Truth Social posts in under two hours. Many were (seemingly) AI-generated videos of himself reading his past Truth Social posts: one of him warning the Nigerian government to “stop the killing of Christians,” another one declaring Obamacare “A TOTAL DISASTER!” and another alleging Walmart’s prices for Thanksgiving dinner dropped 25 percent since Biden was in office.
This one is by far the most cringe:
Weather: Rain between 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Breezy. The high will be 58 degrees. The low will be 48.
Seattle police are investigating after a man arrived at Harborview Medical Center yesterday morning with a gunshot wound to the head. The police department said officers responded 2:20 a.m. after staff called 911 to report the victim. The man came to the hospital in a car with no license plates, driven by another unknown man, who walked the victim into the hospital and then left before police arrived, police say. The victim is reportedly in stable condition. Police said he told them he was injured in Seattle, but wouldn’t say where.
31 Years Later: New DNA evidence has led to an arrest for the 1994 murder of 14-year-old Tanya Marie Frazier, who disappeared after leaving Meany Middle School on Capitol Hill. Her body was found days later along E. Highland Drive. Police said 57-year-old Mark Anthony Russ was identified through DNA collected 31 years ago. Russ, recently released from prison, is now being held without bail. His record includes attempted rape, burglary and robbery.
More Air Trouble: Starting Friday, the FAA will cut US air traffic by 10% across 40 major markets due to safety concerns, a.k.a. the longest government shutdown in the history of this country. Air traffic controllers, who have been working unpaid since Oct. 1, have been logging six-day weeks and mandatory overtime. They’re fatigued and short staffed. This is not safe. The cutback could disrupt thousands of flights nationwide just before the holidays..
Deutschland: The shutdown’s wide reach expands overseas to American military bases in Bavaria, Germany. As part of its “Shutdown Guidance,” a US Army website briefly provided a list of food banks for people living at these bases, but the information was later deleted without explanation. Maybe because it’s embarrassing.
Workplace Harrassment Charges at SFD: The Seattle Fire Department’s former head of human resources, Sarah Lee, has filed a $2.5 million claim against the city, alleging she was fired for trying to address workplace misconduct inside the department, including alleged on-duty drinking, sexual harassment, and unsafe behavior. An attorney and former pro tem judge, Lee said she pushed the department to investigate multiple incidents—including a female firefighter’s uniform being slashed with a box cutter—but SFD retaliated against her. She was placed on leave in September and later fired, allegedly after seeking records that implicated a superior.
Spoiler Alert: There’s gonna be a new Barnes & Noble downtown. To that, I say:
@a_twink_and_a_redhead We could’ve easily written Romeo and Juliet, but Shakespeare could’ve never written Barnes & Noble by Grant & Ash 🤣🔥🤭💕✨ #shakespeare #singersongwriter #plottwist #reading #songofthesummer ♬ original sound – Grant & Ash
“As of yesterday’s ballot drop, Harrell is leading by eight points.”
The Bruce! The Bruce! The Bruce is on fire! 😎
Israelis crashing out over a Muslim becoming NYC mayor:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/world/middleeast/zohran-mamdani-israel-reaction.html
“New York is walking with open eyes into the abyss into which London has plunged,” (Amichai Chikli, an Israeli minister) wrote on social media, alluding to the Muslim mayor of the British capital, Sadiq Khan.
One of the first AI “New York New York” Zohran parodies:
https://x.com/ChayasClan/status/1986122518269190638
@3 what is it with conservatives and awful AI videos? I guess “brain rot” isn’t just for kids anymore.
Stop sharing AI slop.
@4: AI slop is abundant on YouTube shorts as well, but conservatives have a lot of fodder to work with.
I shopped at the Northgate Barnes & Noble last Christmas. It was glorious. I felt like I’d time-traveled back to 1997, when Jeff Bezos was a scrawny nerd still getting money from his parents.
@6 AI slop is ALL conservatives have to work with, because reality is not their friend.
@8: Watched Jimmy Kimmel lately?
That Insane Addict Mobile is kind of the left wing version of the “Your Being Manipulated” truck from Eddington
I am disappointed Mamdani’s transition team did not include Vermin Supreme. If ever there was a historical moment for free ponies this must be it.
@11: Excellent idea – free ponies sound better than tax breaks for billionaires, wars-for-profit, and the much-hallowed get-out-jail-free cards for bias-crime perps that conservatives are still waiting for DJT to make happen.
@1 we cant solve no problems let the housing crisis buuuurn
For those wondering today and tomorrow will probably tell you all you need to know about the mayor’s race. Going back to 2019 when the rep from D3 made her comeback it all changed on days 3/4 and then after that there was just a smattering of votes being counted and nothing really changed. Wilson probably needs to gain 2-3 points on today’s drop.
Mamdani has an all-star team. Lina Kahn will be an excellent arbiter to getting the capitalist greed in check and find the funds to make his campaign promises a success. I saw her interviewed by Heather Cox Richardson last week and that was one of my best experiences. It is on substack, so check it out if you want to get a good catchup on where our country has fallen in checking the power of monopolistic capitalism. Oh yeah… Fuck you MAGA, Fuck you Trump and FUCK THE GOP!!! Fuck the fascists too.
The DC Sandwich-thowing guy was found Not Guilty. Justice done.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/11/06/dc-sandwich-guy-trial-trump-federal-takeover/
@5: okay
already
the ‘right”s
doing Everything it
can to Sabotage Mamdani’s
Mayoralship. will they resort to
stochastic terrorism? did the ‘right’
Assassinate MLK? RFK? JFK? Malcom X? JfC?
when I googled
“leftist leaders killed in usa”
THIS is what they fed me, from the top:
the 1st, from the gogglebott:
While there is a history of political violence, no high-profile “leftist leaders” have been recently assassinated in the U.S.; however, two high-profile figures from the right, Charlie Kirk and David Bossie, were recently killed in 2025.
2nd, from the “Christian” Post:
6 times conservatives were killed, shot or beaten by leftists
3rd:
CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies
Sep 25, 2025 — The tragic killing of political commentator and conservative activist Charlie Kirk has once again put the spotlight on political violence in the United States
and finally, fourth:
Yahoo:
Sep 12, 2025 — Conservative influencer Charlie Kirk was shot to death from long range while holding an outdoor debate at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. Kirk was a close ally of Trump and a major
Asshole,
killed by a (right-
wing even bigger asshole)
Mormon while doing what he Loved:
spreading
hate, racism
homophobia
misogyny & transphobia
on college campuses across America.
WHAT a RIOT!
what a Patriot.
& what a right-wing
propaganda-driven Narrative
we’re being fed, from Cradle to fucking Grave
@18: “did the ‘right’ Assassinate MLK? RFK? JFK? Malcom X? JfC?”
Pretty sure RFK was assassinated by a pro-Palestinian anti-zionist activist, not sure what that does to your argument there buddy 🤣
@19
well
Obviously
thumpfnsorna
it negates every single word
at least it does
in the rightwingese
you and your puppetmaster
ElWormtongue spout here daily.
@18: Don’t you want to take another day or two and celebrate the victory before stressing out about that?
@23
it’s Nice
you pretend
to Care, KkKoolie!
do
rwnjs
take the
Day Off, KkKoollie?
nah
they
Hate
24/7/365 and
OWN the Fucking Media.
Trump just stood there like a frozen lump while someone right next to him passed out. I’m sure that’ll be the headline picture tomorrow. No graffiti sadly.
@16 I sure hope the SWAT team the government sent to arrest Sandwich Guy for their social media video don’t feel in retrospect that they wasted their time and embarrassed themselves
Everyone knows the only threat a Subway sandwich poses is when cconsumed. A better case could be made with Jimmy Johns – denser ingredients could be a danger when going kinetic. However, were I a prosecutor, nothing less than a Salumi would make me take the case, not on assault charges, but for wasting such quality artisinal cured meat.
@23: Hmm. The CEO who fainted was already being assisted and being held as he was laid down on the floor and being attended to. What exactly did you expect Trump to do considering four other men were between him and the man who fainted?
Bruce on the turn! Go back to New York, Katie, this is BRUCETOWN! 😎
A normal person will show some measure of concern when someone collapses. It’s just a natural response that can’t be helped. Mind you I don’t expect trump to care about anyone besides himself, maybe show a little annoyance at the distraction, which was how he read in the moment. It’s expected for him but not for people with any semblance of empathy or emotional intelligence.
@28: I don’t know. Look at the video, you see Trump bending down to see the guy. A obvious measure of concern.
Not that the president deserves deference here, but that’s what happened.
That “Barnes and Noble” video is cringe and gross
@29
“I don’t know.
Look at the video,
you see Trump bending down
to see the guy. A obvious measure of concern.”
puh-leeze.
Bonespurs was
checking his pockets
for loose change and managed
to slip away with collapsed guy’s Wallet
thedjt’s the
guy who Wrote
Capitol One’s ad ffs
@30~speaking of trolls, and projections:
“That Biped is cringe and gross.”
–@Biped on November 6,
2025 at 5:35 PM.
Report this.
that’d be
a Bingo,
bipps.
consider it
Reported.
@19: ‘@18: “did the ‘right’ Assassinate MLK? RFK? JFK? Malcom X? JfC?”‘
Malcolm X was murdered by members of the racist religious cult he’d recently quit, in part for repudiating the cult’s racism, but mostly for exposing the cult’s leader as a lecherous liar. Outside politics (left, right, whatever) had nothing to do with his murder.
The sudden dea(r)th of kristo’s favorite war must really grind on what little remains of his sanity! Maybe he, boatgeek, and a few others here can form a “Give War Another Chance, Please?” support group? 😉
speaking of Trolls and
Projecting and ring-
ing the Dinner Bell:
@33, right on Cue.
Utter
nonsense
Wormtongue
bibi’s,
yours &
AIPAC’s “War”
on a Captive, Starving
mostly HOMELESS Population
cannot be “over”
till bibi’s been
De-fucking
Posed.
you think it’s an Act
cuz with you it
Would Be so
you project.
we
Understand.
seek Help, dude.
and speaking of
Supporting nutnyahoo’s
Land Grab for TWO FUCKING
YEARS — AND Helping Install Cadet
Fucking BONESPURS into what’s Left of
our White House at the Same Fucking Time:
wormmy wants to
Start a Genocide Support
Group and Call it — Wait for it:
“Give War Another Chance, Please?”
wow. and They
Let him run
Loose?
no
wonder
he worked
so Hard at get-
ting thedjt Elected.
Update! I didn’t see the moments after the fainting when Donald was just staring into space trying to ignore the situation – until now. I stand corrected in that sense.
@33 “Maybe he, boatgeek, and a few others here can form a “Give War Another Chance, Please?” support group?”
That already exists, it’s called the Knesset
@37: I’d wager the Israeli parliament knows Hamas started openly murdering Palestinians after the cease-fire began. The All Gaza All the Time crowd here? Not so much.
cute ‘retort,’ wormmy.
are you off to anot-
her meeting of
the Knessest?
Being bibi’s
‘right hand man’*
must keep You pretty
“busy,” eh, olde mann?
*nudge-nudge
winky-wink (NO
Euphemisms here!)!
Mind the Corporal
Tunnels, wormmy!
@38
regardless of your vaunted Stature
as an Unrepentant Re-writer of
History And Orwell’s Biggest
Fan of the Memory Hole
(again — NO silly eup-
hemisms Here,
wormmy!) as
bloody well,
ignoring our exhortations
regardless of frequency
for Hamas to vamoose
does Not make them
simply “Disappear”
Mr. Wormtongue.
@38 “I’d wager the Israeli parliament knows Hamas started openly murdering Palestinians after the cease-fire began”
They must have been so jealous
@40 & wormmy
Hamas ain’t got nuthin’
on wormmy’s
IOF
but they’re
terrorists
too.
@38: “Give War Another Chance, Please?” And Hamas very well go that route. It wouldn’t necessarily be the end of the world if they go back to banging, Team Good Guys can always turn ‘em into Lebanon if they want to play around. 💥💥💥 Israel is in a pretty good position here, regardless of whatever move Hamas makes. 😎
😎 @42 😎
😎 Bingo, @thumpfnsorna T. Wormtongue! 😎
😎 and Spoken like a True Member of the 😎
😎 “Give War Another Chance, Please?” 😎
😎 Klub! Your Bottsmaster wormmy’s 😎
😎 Delighted w/your Performance! 😎
😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
and so on …
To paraphrase 42: “Israel, fuck yeah! Coming again to save the motherfuckin day yeah!”
@44: Certainly the Arab countries all think so! 😁 It’s pretty much just you and the Iranians rooting for “Islamic resistance” at this point! 😂 From the river to the sea, right ha ha ha!
MORE utter nonsense
thumpfnsorna?
all bibi’s gotta DO
is surrender to the War
Crimes Tribunals and his little
“War” on Captive, Starving, Homeless
Palestinians ENDS Fucking TOMORROW.
THAT IS WHAT WE WANT.
fucking PERIOD.
but you and your
Bottmaster can’t Abide
an END to nutnyahoo’s “War”
so you do what
you Can to Keep
it fucking GOING.
Monsters
by Any
Other
name.
now
Bugger*
the Fuck OFF.
in the Common Parlance
& NOT Bugger Off
Proper.
got It?
clarity:
for those
Not in the loop
whom our war mongers
seek to dissuade, bugger does
in fact refer to anal sex whilst bugger
Off means beat a hasty retreat fuckface
but they haven’t got Much
and so they’ll make
MOUNTAINS out
of pimples.
it’s
how
they
Roll:
they’re
fucking
Neocons.
oh
and
‘Fambly’?
look no further
than Steinbeck’s
‘Grapes of Wrath.’
it ain’t ‘racist.’*
it’s Classicist and
like ‘nigga,’ if you’re
IN That Class then You
get a Pass.
*but the biped IS.
fucking
autocorrect:
CLASSIST
Not classicist.
@50: You also misspelled the n-word 😝
@40: All over the world, legislators constantly receive harsh criticism for just trying to do good jobs. Watching a terrorist gang get handed one pass after another after another for literal murders should indeed upset any responsible elected official.
For the Knesset’s members, they at least have the satisfaction of knowing the peace deal pretty much satisfies all of Israel’s war aims. They also now know the many criticisms hurled at their country worldwide for the last two years amount to nothing more than the emptiest, most performative posturing imaginable, from the most vapid of spoiled children. No adult, including all of the adults elected to the Knesset, need ever again pay any attention to such risibly meaningless noise.
@52: wait till he finds out there are Arab members in the Knesset 😂
“… the
many criticisms
hurled at {Israel] worldwide
for the last two years amount to nothing
more than the emptiest, most performative posturing imaginable,”
–official AIPAC propaganda
showing the World Israel’s complete
lack of Humanity under the bibi nutnyahoo
administration and Highlighting how Israel is rapidly
losing its once-Universal support on this Planet’s massive stage
how Far they’ve Come;
how Far they’ve
Fallen since
1939
I heard, probably for the First time, today, a
disturbing report on NPR, about a couple
boys who’d picked up some Unexploded
Ordnance, maybe with ‘proudly made
in the usa’ written on it, that blew up
leaving the boys badly injured but
the point is, NPR is allowing us
a look behind israel’s misty
pink ‘fog of war’ & when
this starts, should Israel
fail to quell it quickly
it’ll snowball into a
massive outroar
from Earth’s
inhabitants
about fucking Time.
the additional childish slurs were
likely All Wormtongue, scatting
for his masturbatory needs
😝😎😎😎😎😝😎😎😎😎😝
@51: So, kristo still feels like he’s got some boysplanin’ to do about his chronic use of bigoted, anti-gay, sex-shaming slurs? Biped’s barb must’ve bit real deep. Nice shot!
ok wormmy
@52 hope they see this bro
@57: Why? It wouldn’t tell them anything they didn’t already know. The thunderous silence of the “Pro-Palestinian” protestors in the face of Hamas’ public executions of Palestinians says more than two years of their hypocritical whines ever did.
fuck
Fuck-
ing Fuck
fUcKinG fuckety Fuck
farting Fuck FuckEr-iNeo
fuckypoo buggerfuck
Fuck
kristofartian
ah
bippy
buggers
you can go
bugger yourselfs
whilst you
Earnestly
bugger
Off.
and
wormmy’s
TWO Long YEARS
of Supporting Genocide
says Oodles More about wormmy
whilst his attempts at shaming
anti-genociders not calling
out terrorists terrorizing
Gazans falls onto ears
Deafened by OUR
Bombs which
we GAVE to
SUPPORT
Israel’s
fucking
GENOCIDE
with wormmy’s
Gleefully CHEERING
IT ON, costing us the world’s
Worst president, ‘president’ Cadet Bonespurs.
you can
fucking bugger
the fuck off Too, wormmy
along with
your favorite fellow
fiend, our very own bippy buggers.
wormmy wants to
Start a Genocide Support
Group and Call it — Wait for it:
“Give War Another Chance, Please?”
so
how’s
your Cult
coming along,
so far, Wormtongue?
had
many
Bites?
and, speaking of Democratic Socialists’ capturing the
Mayorship of these United States’ BIGGEST City,
and Genocide (& wormmy thumpfnsorna’s
UNWAVERing Support thereof),
I give you, this:
Michael Blake . . . has officially announced
he will challenge Rep. Ritchie Torres in New York’s
15th Congressional district. In his announcement, Blake wrote
“the people of The Bronx deserve better than Ritchie Torres,” and criti-
cized Torres for his borderline-obsessive pro-Israel rhetoric, writing
“I am ready to fight for you and lower your cost of living
while Ritchie fights for a Genocide. I will focus on
Affordable Housing and Books as Ritchie will
only focus on AIPAC and Bibi. I will invest in
the community. Ritchie invests in Bombs.”
Oodlesses, right fucking Here:
https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/p/the-ai-prompt-that-could-end-the
whoa.
speaking of
“Gaza-Driving-VOTES,”
and Support, there’s THAT, oh my!
and,
wormmy,
as we’ve Told
You, for. two. fucking. Years,
“You be on de Wrong side of de History, mon!”
and how
fucking ‘Bout
them ‘damn’ Progressives!?
You DEF be on de
Wrong Side,
wormmy!
Time
to Change
de Subject!
& speaking of*
Progressives
& Winning
fucking
Elect-
ions!
Katie’s
STILL INNIT!
so read
ALL about it:
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11/07/80314747/the-friday-ballot-drop-is-here
*and
de RIGHT
SIDE of De
HISTORY, Mon!
‘”FDR”?’
‘fdr Who?’
FDR
dis.
@59: Good effort, but needs more drool.
@65
weak as fuck
but right on cue
“No apartheid state has the right to exist as an apartheid state. It must either change (as it did in South Africa) or face the reality in the 21st century, it will be condemned and eventually sanctioned. Israel refuses to admit its atrocities have consequences and no matter how much evidence is erased from media it’s been downloaded all over the world and it’s never going away.
Listening to clips of enraged, expletive-laced rants by people like Mark Levin may make true Zionist believers feel validated it doesn’t change the fact that they’ve lost the young voters, including many of their own.
How proud can they expect them to be of a country (hiding behind an ancient religion) that justifies raping a defenseless prisoner, shooting a six year old child alone in a car begging for help, destroying >80% of all structures (homes, hospitals, schools) and planning seaside condos to take their place?”
–@SW; 11/8/25
fucking Oodles:
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-us-empire-keeps-getting-creepier/comments
South Africa went from having an average of 2,000 (two thousand) murders annually under Apartheid (mostly black-on-black) to having over 23,000 (twenty-three thousand) murders annually now (still mostly black-on-black). Wow what amazing “progressive” progress!
Always remember, “progressive” = “stupid and naive”.
@68: The International Court of Justice ruled Israel was not running an apartheid state:
‘The Court concludes that the “separation” implemented by Israel in the West Bank between the Palestinian population and settlers constitutes a breach of Article 3 of CERD, without qualifying it as apartheid.’ (https://www.icj-cij.org/node/204176)
However, our local All Gaza All the Time Crowd simply ignored that last clause, and declared Israel guilty of apartheid, just as they constantly declare it guilty of “genocide,” just as they always refuse to consider whether Hamas’ 10/7 murder of Jews, for being Jews, on land the killers had vowed to cleanse of Jews, constitutes “genocide,” or not. Words mean whatever they want them to mean, and the same word can have diametrically opposite meanings at the same time. (Calling something “Orwellian,” sounds like a compliment to them, I guess.)
As for actual apartheid, South Africa now suffers the same sorry outcomes as every other one-party state ever has suffered. If the 20th Century taught us anything, it was the reliably tragic results of a one-party state. It does not matter how good that party’s intentions may have been at the start (indeed, outcomes may be worse, the better the party’s initial intentions). It does not matter what the party’s initial philosophy was. It does not matter who forms or runs that party, it does not matter how much or how few supporters the party has outside of itself within the country, or outside the country. It does not matter how many resources the party or state had at the beginning. The simple reality is that power corrupts, and the longer the one party retains monopoly power, the worse that corruption and resulting ill effects become.
The Soviet Union had an educated population, advanced heavy industry, vast natural resources, and no credible internal or external threats. When it finally suffered total collapse, first economically and then politically, that regime had no defenders remaining. None. Nobody wanted it anymore.
I hope South Africa can and does transition to a true democracy, shake off / reform its failed one party, and return to a path of peace and prosperity. I hope we in the United States can and do help. Because the current situation in South Africa isn’t doing last century’s anti-apartheid activists in the United States any favors.
For more context to my comment at #68, the South African police/security forces killed about 3,500 people during the entire 1948 -1994 Apartheid era.
@69: “without qualifying it as apartheid.”
ha ha ha, right in the court’s own summary of its decision, no less! Where’s that Average Bob guy, I feel like we spent a solid week trying to get him to understand this point! 😂
@71: Yeah, averagebob REALLY wanted a ruling of apartheid against Israel, and when he didn’t get it, he simply declared that he had. He gets my vote for the most intransigent of even the All Gaza All the Time crowd back then, which is really saying something.
@72: wow I wish we had just pointed him to the summary. The summary is hard to refute because it’s in the court’s own words. I was so busy reading the actual decision that I never read the unofficial summary! 😂
Showing him the summary might have saved a lot of patient explaining, because reading him the actual decision only ever seemed to confuse him! 😄 He just had this fanatical commitment to misreading a text, over and over, I’ve never seen anything like it! 🤣