Michelle Pappas

The Seattle Social Housing Public Development Authority was established three years ago. In that time, it has created zero homes. It has created no development pipeline. It has, however, spent and obligated millions of dollars to hire and fire a CEO who never lived in Washington state, pay questionable consultants and embark on a hiring spree.

braindead argument. The social housing developer JUST got approval to receive its very first tranche of tax dollars LAST MONTH! The Seattle Times has no shame and will publish false information as long as it's under the banner of "opinion."

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

Stop the criminalization of poverty.

#promotethegeneralwelfare #povertyisnotamoralfailing

This Epstein drop is HUGE and utterly disgusting. I don’t see how this man is allowed to remain in office. Where are the evangelical leaders, the soccer moms, the folks stocking up on eggs, the farmers, the small business owners.

Decide. Who are you?

People saying ICE/border patrol approaching pulled over cars with guns drawn don't look like any law enforcement they've ever seen are kinda telling on themselves. Listen to people of color, especially Black and Indigenous people and you'll learn this is actually very common for local cops to do.

ICE violence is fueled by misogyny and white nationalism How the Trump administration has mobilized state-sponsored terror in Minneapolis and beyond.

Protection isn’t the only way that gendered narratives mobilize violence. What we are seeing in Minnesota is also about punishment.

From our colleagues at @msmagazine.com:

Fund housing, services for those in poverty, and fix our regressive tax structure provide childcare and so many other programs that would actually support the general welfare.

I'm continue to stand with those expressing their justified outrage and first amendment rights. We need to not fund more training for ICE, but to dismantle them. They never seem to remember it's one bad apple SPOILS THE WHOLE BUNCH.

Again, the keep washington working act does not forbid voluntary information sharing with the feds. Washington state is voluntarily sharing our DOL data with ICE. Keep washington working is not strong enough. Waahingtonians are getting pulled CBP aided by the WA Dol and WSP.

Scammer said, Hey are you working? I replied, Yeah, been a pretty busy day harvesting animal organs for dinner tomorrow. You still coming?

Scammers are texting me weekly with an unknown number, pretending I'm someone they know, me saying they have the wrong number and then them asking if I want to be their friend and I seem nice. This is targeting our elders!

So I decided to have some fun.
#sofuckingdone

Californians are NOT going to vote for Gavin Newsom. They're telling you now, with YEARS to go before the election. Fair warning. Please support better candidates, there will be many to choose from.

Thank you for everything you wrote in 2025. My son attended his first candidate forum at the Hot Ones event and loved it. Spokane is so lucky to have you!

Meeting info for the special session where council will discuss whether or not to accept the $1 million community policing grant from the Department of Justice that comes with some pretty Trump-ian conditions like banning DEI and requiring immigrant data handover:

This means we will have to do this all again.

Guess I'll just drop everything at the last second.

Special meeting motioned. Differed until Jan 15th.

Kristi Noem claims Trump is enforcing the law equally. That’s obviously false. The administration supports federal law enforcement only when it's convenient for the president.

The Trump administration, Kristi Noem asserted, was fully committed to ensuring that laws are enforced evenhandedly.

But it quickly became clear that wasn’t true.

I'm so tired of hearing we (leftists) must reach across the isle and to not be political.

The right has made everything politicized and have labeled us aggressors. Where is their accountability?

This is the quietest the gallery has ever been.

Still 3 cops.

So far 3 cops, 2 security and an unidentified person directing trafftic.

At the first city council meeting of the year.

PSL, PJALS, and Veterans for Peace organized a peaceful protest and there are definitely more cops and security then usual.

I've heard our security guard agree with a man that he should curb stomp my friends in the past.

Who are they keeping safe?

To Fix Inclusionary Zoning, Fund It | Sightline Institute Takeaways On Labor Day weekend, Sound Transit opened four more stops of its light rail line north of Seattle. But when I took my inaugural ride, I had my eye on something equally important as the shin...

I see this with brilliant policies and programs. We don't properly fund them and then scream that they don't work.

#fundhousingnotjails

AI data centers are sucking up communities’ power & water.

AI is being used by corporations to shaft consumers and is threatening young workers’ job prospects.

So Trump wants to ram through a ban on state AI regulation — all to help out his Big Tech billionaire friends.

See how this works?

This is a great example of how renters could allow for tenants to build wealth.

Thank you for this report!

Have you had the opportunity to consider people on Disability, specifically SSI, and their eligibility for this type of housing?

Many people like renting. They don't like exploitative landlords.

Many people on disability have to rent. They don't like exploitative landlords.

Homeownership can be great for many people. We can uplift BIPOC homeownership and still not use renter as a bad word.

The amount of times people assume I don't know what I'm talking about regarding any issue is astounding.

Like bitch, I do my research.

An American Tail poster with lil ol mouse immigrant Fievel

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

Democracy is cool I guess but have you tried suddenly altering the schedule to vote to give cops more power a week early

Doing stuff like this underhanded move of deferral and then reintroduced as an emergency ruins relationships with the community. You want us to trust you?

It passed unanimously. CM Bingle is planning to hold a presser on Nov 3 to check in on whether or not enforcement is happening, I.e. are the cops actually arresting people?