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Continue reading →: Black History Month: A slap in the face for Black disabled women
By Dalyce Wilson Racism disproportionately affects Black disabled women. We are often impoverished, disrespected, neglected, abused, and discarded. When symptoms arise in public, Black, disabled women are also not given the same grace or autonomy as others. How can we celebrate this performative breadcrumb of…
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Continue reading →: Hunts Point Mayor Joe Sabey continues to profit off ICE operations
By Hannah Saunders Chief commercial officer of Sabey Corporation, a family-owned and Tukwila-based real estate developer, and Mayor of Hunts Point, Joe Sabey, is actively profiting off of DHS and ICE operations. The feds recently signed a lease for office space at the company’s Riverfront…
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Continue reading →: The dangers of the cause and cure narrative: How RFK Jr. and a misguided focus on eradicating Autism harm the community
By Jessa Lindgren In recent years, there has been an alarming rise in political rhetoric aimed at eradicating autism, most notably from figures like U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. His dangerous assertions about vaccines and autism not only perpetuate…
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Continue reading →: Fire melts ICE– keep fighting
Art by Dash Lemons The wonderful Dash Lemons created this illustration of four ICE agents who were photographed terrorizing residents of Redmond, WA, earlier this winter. Are you an artist? Email editor@throughthestatic.org if you’d like us to highlight your work!
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Continue reading →: Tukwila City Council enacts six month moratorium, preventing further DHS operations
At the February 23 Tukwila City Council meeting, the group unanimously voted to enact a six-month moratorium on applications for detention centers in Tukwila. The moratorium is currently in effect, and this decision comes after WIRED broke news about DHS working to obtain new facilities…
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Continue reading →: Daniel Siad, modeling agent, a key player in Epstein files
By Hannah Saunders Deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring relied on young girls recruiting others under the guise of giving older men massages. But as more files have been released, Swedish modeling agent Daniel Siad was at the center of recruiting young women— specifically…
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Continue reading →: Retired SPD Captain calls Kurt Cobain’s death investigation “botched” and a “homicide”
By Hannah Saunders Questions surrounding the death of Seattle’s beloved rock star and lead singer of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, have resurfaced following an exclusive interview between retired Seattle Police Captain Neil Low and The Daily Mail. Since 1994, the SPD has claimed that Cobain’s death…
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Continue reading →: Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson talks gun violence and surveillance at State of the City Address
By Hannah Saunders Midday at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute on February 17, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson gave her first State of the City Address. While her speech encompassed some of the greatest and longstanding issues facing Seattle, like homelessness and rental costs, she…








