No justice for Charleena Lyles

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Cheap drugs, waterparks and bridges to everywhere

By Dr. Wes Browning | August 3, 2022

I will never be a member of the AARP. It really made me angry during the Bush administration, and I’ve never forgiven it. As I said back then, “I would rather be forced to eat only live spiders and earthworms for the rest of my life than join the organization that endorsed George Bush’s Drug Plan.” ...
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Seattle has to wait for social housing — but it shouldn’t

By Tiffani McCoy | August 3, 2022

On Thursday, July 21, King County Elections finished the signature validation process for I-135, which would create publicly owned, permanently affordable social housing throughout Seattle. In the end, 21,487 signatures were accepted, but House Our Neighbors! needed 26,520, so we have more than 5,000 signatures to gather. Fortunately, the Seattle City Charter allows for a 20-day window to do just that. ...
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Ten Times Ten

By Tobias Coughlin-Bogue | July 27, 2022

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Most people don’t know their fronts from their behinds — no disrespect intended

By Dr. Wes Browning | July 27, 2022

Last Wednesday, I was working in the Real Change office at my customary desk when my supervisor, Rebecca “Don’t say ‘WHAT’ to me” Marriott, walked in carrying a tablecloth.

She wanted someone in our office space to send out an all-staff email to tell everyone where she was putting the tablecloth. Five coworkers — or cow-orkers, as I like to call them — work in the office with me, and I am the only one who is supervised by her. But, for just that reason she wouldn’t ask me to send out the email, because she knew too well that I would say, “WHAT?” ...
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SCOTUS codifies anti-immigrant policy

By Oscar Rosales Castañeda | July 27, 2022

It has been a little more than a month since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. I’m still actively trying to make sense of not only this ruling, but also others that have been made over the summer of 2022. This action was not entirely a surprise for me, considering the trajectory that the court has been shifting toward, yet I struggle with apt verbiage to properly convey how the actions of an unelected body now have such sway over our material conditions and our social reality. ...
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Real Change and South Seattle Emerald call for police accountability and transparency

By Tobias Coughlin-Bogue | July 25, 2022

Real Change and the South Seattle Emerald know that many of our readers support Mayor Bruce Harrell, have high expectations for him in general — particularly regarding public safety — and want to see him succeed. They hope he will make real progress on public accountability and reducing the harm caused by the Seattle Police Department to poor, unhoused and BIPOC communities. We also understand our responsibility to our readers and the democratic process to hold the mayor, all police forces, police oversight entities and officials in the region accountable through fair, accurate and unrelent ...
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Dear 100-year-old me,

By Roman Nova | July 20, 2022

I hope this letter finds you well. There are so many questions I have for you, though most should be left unanswered. Was the journey what you thought it would be? Did you live abundantly? Were you at peace with your company? Did you accomplish the greatness you had set out for yourself to endure? ...
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From the ashes of Roe, may truer equality rise

By Jill Mullins | July 20, 2022

In June, the U.S. Supreme Court decided several cases in ways that required them to abandon facts and engage in intellectually dishonest legal analysis. This was especially true for the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision, which overruled Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), which held there was a constitutional right to an abortion. In overruling Roe and Casey, the court declared abortion was no longer a constitutionally protected right. ...
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Twitter randos rule you all

By Dr. Wes Browning | July 20, 2022

I came down with some variant of COVID-19 late last month and am just now getting over it, so naturally I am prepared to personalize any and all news relating to Covid.

I wasn’t able to find out what variant of Covid I had, so I speculated on the possible name of my particular variant. My idea was that variants shouldn’t be named with Greek letters or with combinations of Latin letters and numerals. That last option strikes me as cheesy. It’s the license plate option. What next? Should the CDC charge patients to give their variants a custom vanity name? ...
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No justice for Charleena Lyles

By Carl Nakajima | July 13, 2022

I am upset about Charleena Lyles’ inquest, and I have a lot of questions about our country’s policing. I was born in Chicago, but I also lived in Japan and Hong Kong. I was able to grow up in a different culture, and I was able to know a little about other police systems.

In July 8’s episode of “Democracy Now,” host Amy Goodman said, “In 2021, there were 10 shooting incidents in Japan and just one gun death. By comparison, the U.S. typically records 45,000 gun fatalities each year.” ...
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