Netanyahu’s right-wing, extremist government is violating international & US law and has created a humanitarian disaster in Gaza.
Today, I announced that I will file Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to stop the sale of U.S. arms to Israel and end our complicity in this disaster.
Fossil gas plants are booming in the US. Again. In the year 2024. For AI data centers. Energy addition, not transition.
“In the first six months of the year alone, companies have announced plans to build more new gas power capacity across the US than they did in all of 2020”
My cousin in Beirut messaged me saying she disconnected her baby monitor and other household appliances and devices. Our people are unaware of which devices are safe and which are not. If this was happening in “Israel” the entire world would be condemning it. It is terrorism.
So many people believe that people struggling with homelessness and/or drug and mental health problems have the resources and just refuse to use them. So so so far from the truth, but believing and saying it is a great way to avoid doing anything effective to help them.
Teamsters union pays $2.9m to settle lawsuit after president Sean O’Brien ‘publicly humiliated’ Black and Hispanic workers theguardian.com/us-news/2024/j…
I spent the last two evenings in community with Seattle parents, kids, and educators pushing back against closures in the Seattle School District.
The strong consensus is that state lawmakers in Olympia will need to solve this issue with taxes on the ultra-wealthy.
“Amid a budget crisis, Seattle Public Schools leaders are considering closing up to 21 schools, and one of them is TOPS, the only K-8 school in the district with a program for the deaf and hard of hearing”
Tanya woo doesn’t care about helping the homeless, she campaigned to block shelters that would have gotten people off of the street and helped solve our housing and addiction crises
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