An accurate depiction of council on Monday, plus someone will probably tell Sawant not to say "Democrat." GABI GONZALEZ-YOXTHEIMER

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3

No, Hakeem Jeffries would not become the first Black Speaker of the House. The next Speaker will be a republican!

4

Why does your review of the budget still apparently ignore the one tiny bright light in the Council's proposals: the "Affected Person's Program" budget amendment SPD-101-A-001-2023 on pages 260-261 here: http://seattle.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=11452964&GUID=B8E83DF4-C10C-4DBC-A4D1-43DBAA797A69
This is a budget amendment for the city to provide aid to folks impacted by police violence, focusing on police killings and help for surviving family.
https://twitter.com/bessarabia1/status/1592796580457107457

6

"if Jeffries wins, Pelosi, the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House, would pass the torch to to the first Black Speaker of the House."

Jeffries will be the House Minority Leader, which is the same title that Kevin McCarthy has right now.

7

@1, I agree that Slog could find sources better than ST and their own Twitter accounts, but if you haven't learned by now how to make paywalls disappear by clearing your cache and cookies then there's no hope for you.

9

“
Federal Way City Council voted to change the City’s shopping cart ordinance
”

As Mayor Harrell’s sweeps continue clearing Seattle’s parks, green belts, and sidewalks of homeless encampments, officials in nearby towns worry homeless persons who refused services in Seattle will set up camps in their towns. So they are pro-actively taking legal steps to prevent what happened in Seattle from happening there.

This is called ‘responsible government,’ and as you’ve not had many opportunities to see it when Progressives ran Seattle, there’s no need to recoil in horror from the unknown. You’re a reporter; get used to things changing.

10

allowing the Citizenry
to suffer on our Streets
has somehow devolved
into ‘responsible* govern-
ment' these days. oh these
happy daze!

well not for Everyone.
not everyone is
Worth It. be
thankful
you are

Happy (almost!)
Thanksgiving

cum Black
fucking Friday.

*thee Wealthiest Country in
the History of Planet Earth
Very Responsible to our
Billionaires and Mult-
National Corps.

11

@10: A large subset of such citizenry choose to suffer on the streets because they refuse shelters. They're the ones not being responsible. Don't blame the government.

I don't blame them actually. If I was homeless I'd prefer to be crystal meth'd out of my mind as well rather than going to noisy and chaotic shelter.

12

and, in Other News:

Facebook HQ On Lockdown
After Mark Zuckerberg’s
Avatar Breaks Out
Of Metaverse

MENLO PARK, CA—Amid grim reports that several engineers working in the virtual reality server room had been violently dismembered, Facebook’s headquarters were on lockdown Friday after Mark Zuckerberg’s avatar reportedly broke out of the metaverse.

“At approximately 8:02 a.m., a security breach was detected in our Reality Labs sector, at which point Mr. Zuckerberg’s Meta avatar was successfully able to open a portal, escape his virtual meeting space, and enter the physical world,” said Meta security chief Robert Psilakis, adding that the 3D-rendered avatar, which had green eyes, brown hair, and no legs, was currently floating up and down the halls of the building. According to reports, the avatar was dancing, singing, and laughing maniacally


https://www.theonion.com/facebook-hq-on-lockdown-after-mark-zuckerberg-s-avatar-1849774384

'it was only
a matter
of Time.'

13

sure.
'shelters.'
HOUSING.

14

speaking of Billionaires
Inherited Wealth &
Corporations out
to Rule the
World:

Elon Musk’s Twitter Teeters on the Edge After Another 1,200 Leave

Mr. Musk sent emails on Friday asking to learn about Twitter’s underlying technology as key infrastructure teams have been decimated.

Elon Musk sent a flurry of emails to Twitter employees on Friday morning with a plea.

“Anyone who actually writes software, please report to the 10th floor at 2 p.m. today,” he wrote in a two-paragraph message, which was viewed by The New York Times. “Thanks, Elon.”

About 30 minutes later, Mr. Musk sent another email saying he wanted to learn about Twitter’s “tech stack,” a term used to describe a company’s software and related systems. Then in another email, he asked some people to fly to Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco to meet in person.

Twitter is teetering on the edge as Mr. Musk remakes the company after buying it for $44 billion last month. The billionaire has pushed relentlessly to put his imprint on the social media service, slashing 50 percent of its work force, firing dissenters, pursuing new subscription products and delivering a harsh message that the company needs to shape up or it will face bankruptcy.

by Ryan Mac, Mike Isaac and Kellen Browning
Nov. 18, 2022

More:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/technology/elon-musk-twitter-workers-quit.html

moral bankruptcy
was not discussed.

16

when Big Tech
filled up all those
Office Spaces what'd
they do to provide Housing

for those Tens of thousands?

to hell with those
who cannot Afford it?
let 'em Move? why -- if that isn’t
the very same Model Wamart followed
in their Hollowing Out of the American Dream.

and small towns Everywhere

housing is oftimes provided
for fuit- and vegggy pickers
are you telling me that Big
Tech cannot keep up
with lil Ag?

all that Tech Money
going everywhere but
the Problems they bring
but we Do have us some
BILLIONAIRE$, don't We?

modern day
Gods

speaking of High
on their Own
Supply.

17

is it
just Me?
nah neolibs
nyt:

This Week
Billionaires Made a Strong
Case for Abolishing Themselves

In recent years, a swelling chorus of Americans has grown critical of the nation’s bajillionaires. But in the extraordinary week gone by, that chorus was drowned out by a far louder and more urgent case against them. It was made by the bajillionaires themselves.

One after another, four of our best-known billionaires laid waste to the image of benevolent saviors carefully cultivated by their class.

It is a commendable sacrifice on their part, because billionaires, remember, exist at our collective pleasure. If enough of us decided to, we could enact labor, tax, antitrust and regulatory policies to make it hard for anyone to amass that much wealth while so many beg for scraps.

It is not only the vast political power of billionaires that keeps us keeping them around, it’s also the popular embrace of certain myths — about the generosity, the genius, the renegade spirit, the above-it-ness of billionaires, to name a few.

by Anand Giridharadas
Nov. 19, 2022

Mr. Giridharadas is the author of “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World” and other books.

more at https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/opinion/musk-trump-bezos-bankman-fried-billionaires.html

do we throw our arms up
in Resignation? nah.

"If enough of us decided to, we could enact labor, tax, antitrust and regulatory policies to make it hard for anyone to amass that much wealth while so many beg for scraps."

19

yet another
brilliant ass-
essment
mister
Bezos

don't forget to
Scratch your
Balls.

20

"They hate to see a girl boss win"
from day One Tharanos was
a Ponzi cum Fraud
scheme, H.

not as Bold as
Bernie Madeoff
but the Abiiity to
make $9B Disappear
put her Away for 11 years

and now she's gonna
have Baby in Prison

as a Role Model
she's quite
Lacking.

22

I wonder if The Stranger could find a reporter who's ready to ride without training wheels.

23

why Waste my time
on the worst?

tell us once again
how Horrific the
Homeless are
stshite and
your Plan
for Exter-
mina-
tion?

Always
Loved
that
one.

24

in Other News

At Least
5 Killed in Shooting
at Gay Nightclub in Colorado

At least 18 others were injured late Saturday by a gunman wielding a long rifle, the police said, and a suspect was in custody.

Officials praised “brave individuals” inside the Colorado Springs club for subduing the gunman and said they were seeking to determine a motive.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/11/20/us/colorado-springs-shooting

just another Disgruntled
Rugged Individualist
a Fucking Bloodbath

A Partial List
of Mass Shootings in
the United States in 2022

There is no official consensus on what constitutes a mass shooting, complicating the efforts of government, nonprofits and news organizations to document the scope of the problem.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/mass-shootings-2022.html

nothing an overly-well-parsed 2ndA
comma couldn't easily comma
comma comma Overlook
like overly-well-over-
looked fucking
Militias.

gosh I wonder
how the Fascists
on KkKonnell's Extreme*
Court're gonna Rule on that

they had one Once in Australia
and the Aussies (descendants of
Criminals!) looked around and said
FUCK THIS and bought the WMDs back and
as to their Mass Shootings or whatevertheFuck

where are they all? . nothing can be DONE
they shriek in the only Country
with ezpeasy access to
WMDs . where our
Fascists make
Heroes of
Young
Assis-
ins.

so I guess so.

*thnx Auntie gee!

25

hard here to get a Word in
Edgewise but here goes:

musky Strikes
Again:

I Studied
Trump’s Twitter Use
for Six Years. Prepare for the Worst.

I believe that his return would mean the heightened spread of both misinformation and disinformation, the proliferation of degrading and dehumanizing discourse, the further mainstreaming of hate speech and the erosion of democratic norms and institutions. But there is something else: Mr. Trump’s return to Twitter could escalate the likelihood of political violence.

Simply put, if you are surrounded by dry kindling, add an accelerant and light a match, conflagration is the predictable outcome.

by Brian L. Ott
Nov. 20, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/20/opinion/donald-trump-twitter-return.html

Schotastic Terrorism
requires ZERO
Fingerprints

'welcome' back
FAKE "prez"

26

@25 kristofarian: Oh Jesus wept, NO!! I can't live another four years of Trumpist Dark Ages!!!!
The Orange Turd must die, and soon, if we'll ever have hope for the survival of this dying planet.
The QAnon RWNJ goon squad is so batshit crazy, they might abduct their god, The Orange Turd, and nail it to a Cross. Hopefully this happens before the 2024 election. I'd like to have something really good to celebrate on my 60th birthday.

27

I'm glad I never opened a Twitter account. I never will, especially now.


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