Rep. Shaun Scott 🌹🤝
@organizewithshaun.bsky.social
Democratic socialist Washington State Representative, 43rd District (Capitol Hill, Wallingford, Univ. of Washington) • Author, "Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports & Urban Progress" • OrganizeWithShaun@gmail • 🥊✊🏾
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☕️🌹Today is a great day to donate to the Starbucks Workers United strike fund for picketing baristas in major cities across the country. Solidarity forever:
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Starbucks Workers United National Strike Fund
Contribute directly to the strike fund for union Starbucks workers here.
Your generosity supports SBWU baristas on the picket line. Donations of any size help working people fight and win all over t...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:53 AM
☕️🌹Today is a great day to donate to the Starbucks Workers United strike fund for picketing baristas in major cities across the country. Solidarity forever:
www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...
www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...
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My NSPM-7 coverage has for weeks been met with smug assurances that there's no law for domestic terrorism. Well, the Trump admin just designated Antifa groups as Foreign Terror Orgs - for which there is a law:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-slap...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-slap...
Trump Escalates War on Leftists With Antifa Foreign Terror Label
Move cites NSPM-7, saying four European Antifa groups espoused "anti-Christianity," "anti-capitalism," and "anti-Americanism"
www.kenklippenstein.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
My NSPM-7 coverage has for weeks been met with smug assurances that there's no law for domestic terrorism. Well, the Trump admin just designated Antifa groups as Foreign Terror Orgs - for which there is a law:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-slap...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-slap...
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Background. @governorferguson.bsky.social & #waleg led by @wadems.org CUT ECEAP (preschool program for low-income Washingtonians) in the last budget. Now we're celebrating funding public programs via philanthropy, instead of raising taxes on these same billionaires.
governor.wa.gov/news/2025/go...
governor.wa.gov/news/2025/go...
Governor Ferguson, Ballmer Group announce new grant to fund early learning for 10,000 Washington kids | Governor Bob Ferguson
governor.wa.gov
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Background. @governorferguson.bsky.social & #waleg led by @wadems.org CUT ECEAP (preschool program for low-income Washingtonians) in the last budget. Now we're celebrating funding public programs via philanthropy, instead of raising taxes on these same billionaires.
governor.wa.gov/news/2025/go...
governor.wa.gov/news/2025/go...
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This did in fact age well.
I think that local and state gov in my blue city & state matter even more now. I need Katie Wilson to run for mayor here in Seattle. Or someone with her grassroots organizing chops, record, and understanding of the legislative system here.
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
This did in fact age well.
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Class societies didn’t begin with capitalism: the ancient and medieval worlds had their own systems of exploitation.
Marxist historians have set out to explain how those systems worked — and what their eventual demise tells us about what might lie ahead.
Marxist historians have set out to explain how those systems worked — and what their eventual demise tells us about what might lie ahead.
How Marxists View the Middle Ages
Class societies didn’t begin with capitalism: the ancient and medieval worlds had their own systems of exploitation. Marxist historians have set out to explain how those systems worked — and what their eventual demise tells us about what might lie ahead.
jacobin.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Class societies didn’t begin with capitalism: the ancient and medieval worlds had their own systems of exploitation.
Marxist historians have set out to explain how those systems worked — and what their eventual demise tells us about what might lie ahead.
Marxist historians have set out to explain how those systems worked — and what their eventual demise tells us about what might lie ahead.
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Okay, that's pretty good 😂
November 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Okay, that's pretty good 😂
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NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state.
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
US firefighter detained on the job speaks out after deportation: ‘I feel betrayed’
Exclusive: Border patrol arrested José Bertin Cruz-Estrada while he was battling a wildfire in Washington. He is now in Mexico, separated from his family in Oregon
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state.
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
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NEW: Washington State Rep. Shaun Scott issues statement concerning Roger Wright and Seattle police accountability following a Real Change investigation:
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
NEW: Washington State Rep. Shaun Scott issues statement concerning Roger Wright and Seattle police accountability following a Real Change investigation:
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Let me get this right… a sufficient number Senate Democrats appear to be willing to reopen government to alleviate air travel for upper & upper-middle income people at the expense of access to healthcare for lower income people. Yes?
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Let me get this right… a sufficient number Senate Democrats appear to be willing to reopen government to alleviate air travel for upper & upper-middle income people at the expense of access to healthcare for lower income people. Yes?
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Adaptation 🤝 Mitigation
"Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said."
Jamaicans Have Been Turning to Solar Power. It Paid Off After the Storm.
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Adaptation 🤝 Mitigation
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here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
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If you've stopped masking in public for whatever reason, now is a really good time to start again
November 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
If you've stopped masking in public for whatever reason, now is a really good time to start again
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Regular reminder that Covid & chronic illness activists are doing this work for free and with many with low spoons
November 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Regular reminder that Covid & chronic illness activists are doing this work for free and with many with low spoons
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The MAGA cuts to health care are raising costs for everyone. Working people getting insurance from Obamacare are going to be paying over $1500 more per year for the same coverage!
Trump stole these tax credits to give the $ to his wealthy backers.
Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump stole these tax credits to give the $ to his wealthy backers.
Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The MAGA cuts to health care are raising costs for everyone. Working people getting insurance from Obamacare are going to be paying over $1500 more per year for the same coverage!
Trump stole these tax credits to give the $ to his wealthy backers.
Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump stole these tax credits to give the $ to his wealthy backers.
Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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TOMORROW is your last chance to vote champions for repro rights into office in Boise, Idaho and across Washington state. 🫡
If you haven’t voted yet, we recommend heading to your nearest drop box or voting center to make sure your ballot is counted. #IDLeg #IDPol #WALeg (1/2)
If you haven’t voted yet, we recommend heading to your nearest drop box or voting center to make sure your ballot is counted. #IDLeg #IDPol #WALeg (1/2)
November 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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are we allowed to talk about how communism is good again yet or is that still, like, off limits
November 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
are we allowed to talk about how communism is good again yet or is that still, like, off limits
As we consult newspaper endorsements while filling out our ballots, keep in mind that in 1911 the founder of the Seattle Times called Washington's new workman's compensation law the "worst the legislature enacted" because it would "prevent new capital from entering the state."
October 31, 2025 at 9:20 PM
As we consult newspaper endorsements while filling out our ballots, keep in mind that in 1911 the founder of the Seattle Times called Washington's new workman's compensation law the "worst the legislature enacted" because it would "prevent new capital from entering the state."
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NEW: The self-described "pro-Jewish" PAC that opposed an anti-Zionist Jewish candidate in primary just spent $20k on the Seattle School Board election, races that don't typically see outside spending
www.theburnerseattle.com/post/pro-jew...
www.theburnerseattle.com/post/pro-jew...
“Pro-Jewish” PAC That Opposed Jewish Candidate Critical of Israel Spends $20K On School Board Slate
The Kids Table (TKT) –– a new Seattle-focused PAC advocating for “pro-Jewish” candidates and against antisemitism, “illiberalism,” and “radical voices,” –– is pouring unusually large sums of money int...
www.theburnerseattle.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
NEW: The self-described "pro-Jewish" PAC that opposed an anti-Zionist Jewish candidate in primary just spent $20k on the Seattle School Board election, races that don't typically see outside spending
www.theburnerseattle.com/post/pro-jew...
www.theburnerseattle.com/post/pro-jew...
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SNAP ending on 10/31 means that almost 1M WA residents would lose their resources to getting groceries, adding pressure to an already-burdened food system.
@wadshs.bsky.social + Economic Justice Alliance put together a helpful visual on the destabilizing impacts of the scope of losing SNAP in WA:
@wadshs.bsky.social + Economic Justice Alliance put together a helpful visual on the destabilizing impacts of the scope of losing SNAP in WA:
www.dshs.wa.gov
October 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
SNAP ending on 10/31 means that almost 1M WA residents would lose their resources to getting groceries, adding pressure to an already-burdened food system.
@wadshs.bsky.social + Economic Justice Alliance put together a helpful visual on the destabilizing impacts of the scope of losing SNAP in WA:
@wadshs.bsky.social + Economic Justice Alliance put together a helpful visual on the destabilizing impacts of the scope of losing SNAP in WA:
Good question: I’m referring to the cost of administering SNAP as an extant program under HR 1, which (unlike the current government shutdown) doesn’t eliminate the program entirely.
Figure comes from estimate by Washington Office of Financial Management.
ofm.wa.gov/budget/resou...
Figure comes from estimate by Washington Office of Financial Management.
ofm.wa.gov/budget/resou...
October 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Good question: I’m referring to the cost of administering SNAP as an extant program under HR 1, which (unlike the current government shutdown) doesn’t eliminate the program entirely.
Figure comes from estimate by Washington Office of Financial Management.
ofm.wa.gov/budget/resou...
Figure comes from estimate by Washington Office of Financial Management.
ofm.wa.gov/budget/resou...
Very important to not fall for the feigned helplessness of neoliberals in control of blue state governments:
Fully administering food stamps would cost Washington at most 1% of its entire budget, and I have to believe it’d be even less for New York, California, Illinois, et al.
Fully administering food stamps would cost Washington at most 1% of its entire budget, and I have to believe it’d be even less for New York, California, Illinois, et al.
It kind of boggles my mind that Gov. Ferguson hasn’t done this yet? Seems like a very easy call to be able to free up other funds to support SNAP recipients.
Today I'm calling on @governorferguson.bsky.social to declare a state of emergency: the expiration of SNAP benefits for nearly one million Washingtonians will be a disaster for the health of many, and for the economic health of the state. We must join other state governments and act swiftly.
October 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Very important to not fall for the feigned helplessness of neoliberals in control of blue state governments:
Fully administering food stamps would cost Washington at most 1% of its entire budget, and I have to believe it’d be even less for New York, California, Illinois, et al.
Fully administering food stamps would cost Washington at most 1% of its entire budget, and I have to believe it’d be even less for New York, California, Illinois, et al.
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Rep. Scott is right:
900,000 people in our state losing SNAP benefits is definitely an emergency.
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900,000 people in our state losing SNAP benefits is definitely an emergency.
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October 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Rep. Scott is right:
900,000 people in our state losing SNAP benefits is definitely an emergency.
Image with alt text:
900,000 people in our state losing SNAP benefits is definitely an emergency.
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Today I'm calling on @governorferguson.bsky.social to declare a state of emergency: the expiration of SNAP benefits for nearly one million Washingtonians will be a disaster for the health of many, and for the economic health of the state. We must join other state governments and act swiftly.
October 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Today I'm calling on @governorferguson.bsky.social to declare a state of emergency: the expiration of SNAP benefits for nearly one million Washingtonians will be a disaster for the health of many, and for the economic health of the state. We must join other state governments and act swiftly.
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Mark your calendars, Seattle!
We're excited to be part of this. As it stands, data centers are a climate disaster, an electricity & water justice disaster, & deeply problematic politically & socially. Let's make sure machine learning proceeds with the right guardrails!
We're excited to be part of this. As it stands, data centers are a climate disaster, an electricity & water justice disaster, & deeply problematic politically & socially. Let's make sure machine learning proceeds with the right guardrails!
October 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Mark your calendars, Seattle!
We're excited to be part of this. As it stands, data centers are a climate disaster, an electricity & water justice disaster, & deeply problematic politically & socially. Let's make sure machine learning proceeds with the right guardrails!
We're excited to be part of this. As it stands, data centers are a climate disaster, an electricity & water justice disaster, & deeply problematic politically & socially. Let's make sure machine learning proceeds with the right guardrails!