ColorDecourage @ColorDecourage

Hold police and politicians accountable. Joined June 2013

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Shaun Scott 🌹🤝 @eyesonthestorm

2 years ago

HB 1323 is a bipartisan bill that would make protesting on Washington State highways a class C Felony. Because mass protest will be a crucial tool of resistance to both federal fascism and local austerity measures, we must make sure it doesn’t pass. app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?Bi…

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ColorDecourage @ColorDecourage

2 years ago

@DivestSPD This is Seattle; three SPD vehicles blocking bus lanes to bark orders at a person to stay out of the street. There is nothing helpful that the police can say. The person in the street needs basics needs: food, housing, and health care.

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DivestSPD @DivestSPD

2 years ago

Do you think jailing people is free? King County courts, jails, and prosecutors cumulatively cost $634m annually to lock up fewer than 2,000 ppl Plus, another $92m for Seattle courts + prosecutors Plus $465m for SPD Plus $285m for KCSO That's nearly $1.5 billion

Delayed Prodigy @delayedprodigy

2 years ago

@DivestSPD Scale of the problem has only increased. Big brains like you just think more money should be burned fighting the Human Condition for any mentally ill drug addict that prop up a tent within city limits.

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ProPublica @propublica

2 years ago

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote. propub.li/3VVlbGc

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DivestSPD @DivestSPD

2 years ago

“Progressive” state with the second-most regressive tax system, after Florida. itep.org/whopays-7th-ed…

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BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS

2 years ago

How justice 'works'.

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ColorDecourage @ColorDecourage

2 years ago

@GuyOron A couple weeks ago when it was about 35°, I stopped along 12th & Jackson, because I saw SPD; 3 SPD vehicles were surrounding a pressure washing truck. All of the folks who are normally there had to move; the timing and the temperature made the act even more brutal.

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ColorDecourage @ColorDecourage

2 years ago

@DivestSPD Jails do not provide restoration of harm; it is just an extremely costly and dehumanizing experience. WA spends $63,000+ per incarcerated person per year, whereas we only spend $18,000 per student. If we provide people with resources they need, it will actually save money.

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tye eats the rich @themobilepauper

2 years ago

Idk why I'm shocked by this but I'm just finding out that Seattle is sweeping 20+ vehicles on Thanksgiving, when there are no services bc most ppl have the day off. Your hard earned tax dollars at work. The cruelty is the point.

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ColorDecourage @ColorDecourage

2 years ago

@GraffitiRadical @themobilepauper - thinking of you! :)

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ColorDecourage @ColorDecourage

2 years ago

Moore is completely gaslighting so many people's lived experience. Seattle conducted over 2,800 sweeps in 2023. Don't tell us that sweeps aren't happening!

Hannah Krieg @hannahkrieg

2 years ago

Moore chastises Morales for a full 7 minutes because she dared to say the Unified Care Team conducts sweeps, which it literally does. Moore even appears to admit that UCT pushes people block to block because there's not enough shelter and housing.

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HistoryLink.org @HistoryLink

2 years ago

#OnThisDay in 1899, Seattle unveiled a totem pole in Pioneer Square. It had been stolen from a Tlingit village. historylink.org/File/2076

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Assal Rad @AssalRad

2 years ago

Israeli forces shot him in broad daylight while wearing a press vest. You target journalists when you don’t want witnesses to your crimes.

Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2

2 years ago

🚨Israel shoots AlJazeera cameraman Fadi Wahidi in the neck in broad daylight despite wearing a Press marked vest The world has normalized these barbaric crimes until it became a routine. Israel killed about 177 journalists since Oct 7; the world's highest record in a year!

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe

2 years ago

They live on a different sidewalk. Worse off than before. They don’t just disappear.

Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA

2 years ago

Moving FORWARD.

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ColorDecourage @ColorDecourage

2 years ago

Well, the city just gave SPD $170 million, so perhaps that is to account for the $200 million budget shortfall... along with the lack of progressive revenue.

Guy Oron @GuyOron

2 years ago

Today, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell will announce his plans for the 2025 and 2026 city budgets. With a $200+ million budget shortfall, here are 5 things to look out for: 1) 2024 revenue appears to be ~$50 million stronger than expected, so along with cost savings measures like

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Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll

2 years ago

You’ll be shocked to learn that the “miracle cure” for homelessness is housing and services.

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Radical Graffiti @GraffitiRadical

2 years ago

Stickers seen around NYC in the days after cops opened fire in the NYC subway, shooting a fellow officer, two bystanders, and an alleged "fair evader" they were attempting to apprehend.

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Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman

2 years ago

Chilling words from the brave Francesca Albanese @FranceskAlbs

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@realchangenews.bsky.social @RealChangeNews

2 years ago

NEW: Records obtained by Real Change show how the City of Seattle spent $89,000 to demolish the Black Lives Memorial Garden last December. @GuyOron reports. realchangenews.org/news/2024/08/2…

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Stop The Sweeps Seattle @Stop_Sweeps_SEA

2 years ago

There were 12 sweeps that we knew of over the last two weeks, and likely many more that were not posted. Each week we provide sweep support, material aid (tents, clothes, food, harm rdx, gas, propane etc). Pls send us 💸 so we can continue our work!