Explicitly capitalist media again shares a new piece that Long COVID is concerning, has no cure and again, embarrassingly, is doing better public health comms about this than most public health orgs. www.forbes.com/sites/omeraw...
Big technology companies scored a win in Olympia on Monday, as a sweeping bill to regulate data centers lapsed in the Washington state Legislature. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/03/02/i...
Actor Marlon Brando and Puyallup tribal leader Bob Satiacum just before Brando's arrest during a fish-in, Puyallup River, Tacoma, March 2, 1964
#OnThisDay in 1964, Marlon Brando joined local Native Americans for a fish-in protest at the Puyallup River. historylink.org/File/5332
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Great job by everybody who let their state reps know a $550M tax break for the biggest corporations in the world shouldn’t have been part of an historic income tax bill.
This was a fight, and working Washingtonians won.
Just realized that if Democrats leave this corporate tax break in then Brian Heywood will cite it to try and get normie Democrats to oppose a tax on millionaires. It's a trap Senate Dems are laying for themselves and should be taken out.
We. the undersigned members of the Washington State House Democratic Caucus. are urging passage of Senate Bill 6346 - a momentous Millionaire's Tax - out of the House Finance Committee without corporate giveaways.
Contained within S.B. 6346 is an early sunset of a business and occupation tax on large corporations grossing $250 million in taxable annual income. This tax break will cost the state $550 million. To put that figure in perspective. the combined devastating cuts to K12 education and childcare in the Senate and Governor's proposed 2026 supplementary budget proposals total $535 million.
The purpose of a revenue bill is to raise revenue. While major corporations can afford to pay state taxes because of the massive tax break they've received from Trump's H.R. 1 budget. Washingtonians cannot afford to hand them a half a billion dollars. We are asking the House Finance Committee to pass S.B. 6346 with strong support - and without an unnecessary corporate giveavay.
Dear House Finance Committee, We, the undersigned members of the Washington State House Democratic Caucus, are urging the passage of Senate Bill 6346 - a momentous "Millionaire's Ta?" - out of the House Finance Committee without corporate giveaways. Should it pass in the 2026 Washington State Legislative Session, S.B. 6346 will be a historic achievement. In the depths of the Great Depression on November 8, 1932, Washingtonians approved Initiative 69, resulting in the establishment of an income tax. Leading the coalition behind that Initiative's passing were teachers who wanted more resources for public schools, farmers who needed property tax relief, and advocates of social safety net support for the unemployed. Unfortunately, the income tax that voters approved was overturned by the Washington State Supreme Court ten months later. Consequently, for the last 93 years, state lawmakers have resorted to patchwork - frequently regressive - ways and means of funding vital state services. S.B. 6346 would be a major step in the direction of economic justice. That progress would be diminished by a big business handout embedded in the bill. Contained within S.B. 6346 is an uncalled-for early sunset of a surtax on corporations grossing $250 million in taxable annual income, which the legislature passed in 2025 via H.B. 2081. This tax break will cost the state $550 million in lost revenue. To put that figure in perspective, the proposed cuts to Washington's K-12 schools in the Senate's supplementary budget draft (a $140M reduction in transition-to-kindergarten spending; a $110M reduction to Local Effort Assistance; a $60M cut stemming from budget depreciation calculations) total only $310 million. Governor Ferguson's supplementary budget proposal of December 2025 contains an additional $225M reduction to childeare in Washington State. These numbers don't lie: the climination of the corporate giveaway in S.B. 6346 could help avoid budget icductions that would harm working famil…
Today I'm joining 12 of my
colleagues in the State House of Representatives to deliver a message to the House Finance Committee: Washington can't afford to hand the world’s largest corporations half a billion dollars. Let's pass an income tax on millionaires without a massive big business giveaway.
An actual socialist running for bourgeois office has to have a plan for what to do when bumping up against that bourgeois order. If it’s always gonna be “aw shucks well I work for the state so I have to follow the state line” then I’m even less bullish on electoralism than I already was.
I think this means my bill to put a moratorium on new/expanded detention centers and jails is AOC approved!
Council is voting on this 3/3.
State bill could end tax break for large digital lenders
A proposed Washington State bill that aims to replenish lost wildfire prevention funding could end up removing a tax break currently benefiting large digital lenders. Processing Content Rep. Shaun Scott, a Democrat from the Seattle area,…
ICYMI: In all three hours of the Senate's floor debate over the millionaires tax, not a single Democrat mentioned a half billion dollar corporate hand out baked into the text, let alone proposed an amendment to remove it www.theburnerseattle.com/post/no-one-...
The reason I’ll be proposing an amendment to remove the $550M corporate giveaway in the income tax bill is simple:
To avoid these cuts to K12 and other crucial services.
Washington’s working families can’t afford to hand half a billion dollars to businesses that already got a tax break via HR 1.
"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men.
This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries."
"Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife"
abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...
In sum: Trump pushed and Congress approved a revenue bill that sawed Lincoln Tunnel-sized holes in the income tax with no replacement because of <<magic>> (tariffs they never approved), the imposition of which combined with a general belligerence nuked our relationships with our closet allies.
i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.
really sad about the death of rev. jesse jackson this morning and i'm gonna be writing something about it for @theringer. but in the meantime, a couple of recommendations.
1. @jamellebouie.net's piece from 2016 about Jackson's groundbreaking presidential campaigns. www.slate.com/articles/new...
If you simply disenthrall yourself from your financially crippling addiction to fairly basic food and beverages you too can one day own a house.
Own Edgar Lin explains the legal theory behind the Universal Constitutional Remedies Act, the law that states can adopt to protect the constitutional rights of residents against violations by federal agents.
Watch and read more: https://protdem.org/3M2GO5W
Women in the West Bank face daily harassment by Israeli settlers and troops.
While Israel often paints itself as more forward-thinking on women’s rights, its occupation crushes Palestinian women’s autonomy and exposes them to violence.
Republicans’ tax cuts shaved billions off Amazon’s tax bill, new government filings show.
The company says it ran a $1.2 billion tax bill last year, down from $9 billion the previous year — even as its profits jumped by 45 percent to nearly $90 billion.
More on Amazon's 87% drop in taxes👇
MomsRising member leader Salia spoke out in the WA State House Finance Committee in support of HB 2100 to generate millions in new, progressive revenue for child care, health care, and more. Thank you for your powerful advocacy, Salia! #waleg
REP. SCOTT'S 2026 PRIME SPONSORED LEGISLATION H.B. 2089 Restores $30m of cut funding to WA's Wildfire Mitigation Fund by taxing big banks. Scheduled to advance, Finance Committee, Feb. 4. H.B. 2471 Trigger legislation that protects the right of private sector employees to organize as the Trump Admin defangs the National Labor Review Board. Advanced, Labor & Workplace Standards Committee, Jan. 30. H.B. 2100 Establishes the Well Washington Fund to respond to Trump's H.R. 1 cuts to healthcare. housing. and higher ed with a payroll tax on the largest 1% of WA corporations. Heard, Finance Committee, Jan. 22. Awaiting advancement...
Progress to be proud of on 3 bills I’ve prime sponsored in the state legislature:
1️⃣ The Wildfire Alleviation Support Act, which restores funding to wildfire mitigation with a tax on big banks.
2️⃣ NLRB trigger legislation.
3️⃣ The Well Washington Fund corporate tax to mitigate the impact of HR 1.
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"state legislatures can authorize lawsuits against federal officials for violating the Constitution" @steveinskeep.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
Starting last autumn we also saw student debt reduction offered in exchange for joining ICE.
A country that provided these freedoms to everybody - actual affordable housing and free higher education - would’ve already removed the economic incentive to participate in a modern day slave patrol.
Portland City Council member
Western powers will never stop punishing Cuba for insisting enlightenment ideals be extended to Latin American nations that were excluded and exploited.
Castro’s adolescent hero was FDR - he would have been just another social democrat if it wasn’t for the unrelenting cruelty of US foreign policy.
Thousands of teachers, community activists, healthcare workers, union members, and #Seattle residents gather at Seattle Central College to protest #ICE
Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
