Seattle has lost a significant Microsoft conference due to the city’s escalating issues with homelessness, open drug use, and other criminal activities. In addition to canceling next year’s event, Microsoft has decided to “release holds for all future years.”
In the meantime Seattle's new police chief said he will do everything in his power to protect the homeless citizen and drug attic.
“These sanctuary city politicians are endangering Americans and our law enforcement in order to protect violent criminal illegal aliens,” said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. “We are exposing these sanctuary politicians who harbor criminal illegal aliens and defy federal law. President Trump and I will always put the safety of the American people first. Sanctuary politicians are on notice: comply with federal law.”
Each jurisdiction listed will receive formal notification of its non-compliance and all potential violations of federal criminal statutes. DHS demands that these jurisdictions immediately review and revise their policies to align with federal immigration laws and renew their obligation to protect American citizens, not dangerous illegal aliens.
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05/29/dhs-exposes-sanctuary-jurisdictions-defying-federal-immigration-law
Seattle City Council member Cathy Moore is stepping down, citing recent "health challenges" and personal reasons, she announced on Monday.
Moore’s last day in office is Monday, July 7.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-amending-wa-parents-bill-of-rights-goes-into-effect-immediately/
Republicans introduced several unsuccessful amendments to prevent transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports and entering girls’ locker rooms.
The law also adds ethnicity, homelessness, immigration or citizenship status, and neurodivergence as protected classes and clarifies protections for sexual orientation, gender expression and gender identity.
The law contains an emergency clause. This allows it to take effect immediately, and it eliminates the possibility of a referendum that would give voters a chance to weigh in on the law. Democratic lawmakers have said the emergency clause would help provide schools more clarity right away. Republicans criticize it as a ploy to block any referendum effort.
The SPD said in a statement: “On March 30, patrol officers responded to multiple reports of shots fired and property damage near 26th Avenue Southwest and Southwest Brandon Street.”
“When police arrived, all involved parties left the area. They did not locate any victims with injuries, no suspects, or cooperative witnesses,”
Seattle police say a large crowd was gathered for a vigil—likely for a recent South Seattle homicide victim—when gunfire erupted. Officers found over 100 shell casings at the scene.
A detective commented: “There was bullet damage to a nearby RV trailer. There was bullet damage to a house, and there was an abandoned vehicle that was also damaged."
The MyNorthwest article says that SPD suspects Glock switches may have been involved. The Gun Violence Reduction Unit is investigating and processing the scene.
“These glock switches, they’re basically capable of turning a pistol into an automatic machine gun type of a weapon,
You always wondered if WEA was corrupt but WEA might have finally gone too far by exposing their own kick back scheme.
$10M in one-time COVID funds given to the Washington Education Association by their Democratic allies in Olympia has now possibly turned into a DEI funding kickback scheme.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=487903394389545
The Senate proposal includes nearly $11 billion is for maintenance-level increases in the next four years, with the bulk of the funding going toward K-12 education to the tune of $3.1 billion, $2.5 billion for the Department of Children, Youth and Families and $2.2 billion to the Department of Social and Health Services.
Increased funding for K-12 special education ($2.2 billion) and raises for public workers ($1.2 billion) are the biggest drivers of new policy-tied spending for the next four years, which will total $9.7 billion and be evenly distributed between the two-year budgets.
OLYMPIA — Gov. Bob Ferguson wants state workers to take one unpaid furlough day each month for the next two years as part of a proposal to trim about $4 billion from projected state spending in the face of a budget shortfall.
At a news conference Thursday, Ferguson unveiled the furloughs and an array of other cuts and spending delays throughout state government to help solve what he estimated will be a $15 billion gap between expected taxes and planned spending over the next four years.
“There is still time for our elected officials to do the right thing and reject harmful cuts, facility closures, and employee furloughs by asking the rich to pay their fair share,” said Mike Yestramski, president of the Washington Federation of State Employees, in a statement.
A coalition of liberal and Democratic allied groups has been pushing the Legislature to avoid an austerity budget, saying the state should instead raise taxes on the wealthiest people in the state who have long benefited from its regressive tax code.
WA DOGE reveals WA's Arts Commission gave tax money to Pan Eros an organization promoting sexuality through the arts & education Washington State employed about 123,565 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees over the 2021-2023 biennium.
More info to come
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https://x.com/Wake_upWA/status/1891953418865950978
https://x.com/thehoffather/status/1892393737516421236
This explains why Washington state urban schools are doing so poorly
https://youtu.be/ouTkWtTTMxg
