What does putting 1/4 of our city's general fund towards SPD get us? Lots of cops jailing poor people so @MayorofSeattle can pretend to sports tourists this week that poor people don't exist.

This will only become MORE true in Seattle as our revenues dwindle in coming years. If you don't think there's a battle coming over whether to spend Jumpstart $ on police funding, you haven't been paying attention.

Seems like a good day to run this gem by @KeeangaYamahtta back. #SCOTUS is illegitimate but powerful. How do we create a country and political system where 9 people don't overdetermine the fate of millions? https://t.co/MULp4FGe5u

A democratic government where the only way anything gets done is if the president issues new/reinterprets old executive orders and then hopes the unelected Supreme Court lets them stand is not a democratic government.

“But let’s still use affirmative action to recruit low income people of color to die in our wars”

i truly hope that these blows to the fragile diversity, access, inclusion frame encourage students, staff & faculty to organize for more transformational education, like open enrollment, free tuition, dropping standardized tests, community control mechanisms over private boards

Cop City will never be built. Let's celebrate the interim wins - Atlanta Solidarity Fund is back up accepting donations! Throw some cash to these folks in honor of #StopCopCity and our fights against cops, courts, and cages everywhere.

Our queer and trans communities deserve -more- than hate crimes laws, which give $$$ and power to cops, courts, and prosecutors and have never kept us safe. Remember this next time a city leader proposes hate crimes legislation to address our safety.

Remember this? The city budget never gets balanced on the backs of SPD. It happens on the backs of human services workers, all while SPD blows through their overtime budget every year. https://t.co/747SdSC2Sv

This is a slap in the face to the frontline workers assisting people in crisis (without guns in tow) who had to hustle to even get pay rises in line with inflation this year, after @MayorofSeattle proposed a budget that effectively gave them a pay cut.

"There are no queer friendly cops" Pasteup seen in Milan during the 2023 Pride parade

Next Wed., June 21! Join us for a discussion about Washington’s drug policy landscape. Featuring @votenicolemacri, @acholcomb of @ACLU_WA, @DamperDeaunte of @VOCALwashington, & a special guest with lived experience of drug use & homelessness. Moderated by @pinestbomber.

Make no mistake: Tim Burgess is a-okay with criminalizing poor people directly to an early grave. @MayorofSeattle: will you let a person who shows such utter disdain for poor, disabled people dictate your public safety agenda? People of Seattle: All eyes on the Mayor's office

The context for this quote: Burgess complaining in an e-mail to the jail director that the jail refused to accept for booking a person in mental health crisis (two days after guards at the jail had killed Michael Rowland w/in 20 minutes of his booking). https://t.co/zSgKeQMP9k

This is the same Tim Burgess who - two days after King County Jail employees killed Michael Rowland (a Black unhoused man experiencing a mental health crisis) - stated, "I'm fearful that I will hear next that an arrestee has a hangnail and is declined.” 🧵

Don't forget to subscribe to @DivestSPD's substack! Read for yourself what's got Brandi Kruse all riled up!

Must-read thread as Seattle mulls over criminalizing drug possession and public drug use. #NoNewWarOnDrugs

*Five hundred* people drowned trying to reach Europe last week and it was covered but my god contrasting it to the coverage of this Titanic submarine is just appalling to see, so much more focus, experts on, analysis and interest from the public. Certain lives are so cheap to us

The right question to ask is: How can we take advantage of the opportunity cop attrition represents and embrace a just transition away from policing and towards -real- safety for Seattle.