@Viss The thing that radicalized me at age 20 was cops hassling me all the time in my all-white neighborhood because I was a long-haired dirtbag. "Where you goin? HEY JAGOFF! TALKIN A YOU! You gotta job?"

But the thing that seriously, permanently radicalized me, activated me, was years of taking the bus downtown for work overnight and seeing cops on the sidewalk ignore me and manhandle black guys my age, sirens, lights, spread against the wall, screaming, frisking, handcuffs, clubs, guns, totally routine, all the time, not for anything, just a bullshit sadistic power trip. Same as with hassling me, except always on the very edge of deadly violence for the black guys.

Justice for Jonny Gammage! And Eric Garner, and George Floyd, and all the guys before and since murdered by cops for being black.

#blm #blacklivesmatter #justice #jonnygammage #georgefloyd #ericgarner #neverforget

#TheGremlinZoo #USFS #BLM #Wildfires

From NPR.org: Trump is taking aim at forest and wildfire research just as the West is poised to burn

FYI @bud_t @AlaskaWx @ai6yr

npr.org/2026/06/12/nx-s1-58198…

“Malik Muhammed Was Serving the Longest Federal Sentence of Any 2020 #BLM Protester.

He was put in solitary for 250 days when max allowed is 90.

Then, authorities said they would move him.

No one has seen Malik since.

They seem to have vanished in Prison.”

theintercept.com/2026/06/08/ma…

I put together a list of accounts that are based on the #WestCoast for an early #FollowFriday! Let me know if you want to be added to the list [or removed].

Alissa Azar @alissaazar
Syria📍PDX
Journalist covering police & far-right violence in the PNW • She/They • Antifascist • Neurodivergent

AI6YR Ben @ai6yr
The account of AI6YR Ben, on his own server. Very eclectic selection of posts. Good weather info.

JustBob 🪖🇺🇸♒️️ @bob
The silence is deafening. Always hearing about this country or that one, this group or that one but the silence continues for #homeless people.

Indivisible SF @IndivisibleSF
San Franciscans standing indivisible for a progressive agenda in CA-11 and CA-15.

Led By Gilded Fools @MHowell
White guy living in Indian Country (Suquamish aka Seattle, WA)
#Wilderness, #AntiFacist, #LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally, #BLM, #ProChoice, #GunReform #noindex #nobots #noAI

Mungen Cakes ✅️ @Mungencakes
Loose cannon, Fuckstar, the antifa Ray Stevens, #AltText evangelist. Unceded Alsea land.

The Needling @TheNeedling
Seattle's Only Real Fake News (Satire/Parody)

Pete's Mom 🍉 🇺🇦 ☮️ @Petesmom
ANTIFA, ACAB / FUCK ICE
Black Lives Matter! Immigrant Lives Matter! Trans Lives Matter! I believe in DEI! “In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” - Maya Angelou

Rachael L @rachael
I live in Seattle with my family and work in tech. I'm also disabled (mostly deaf & blind on one side). I ride the bus, walk or bike most of the time and I care a lot about our transportation system working for everyone. This account is for Seattle, urbanism & regional political stuff!

San Francisco Baykeeper @sfbaykeeper
Defending #SFBay & holding polluters accountable since 1989

Seattle Bike Blog @seabikeblog
Pedaling news up Seattle’s hills since 2010.

Youth Liberation Front Seattle @seattleylf
The Seattle Division of the PNWYLF, a collective in an autonomous network of antifascist students and youth [Note: They have not posted in a while.]

#FollowerPower #PNW #California #Oregon #WashingtonState #SeattleWA #SanFrancisco #PortlandOR #PacificCoast

plus facial recognition systems are racially biased! #blm

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