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Socialist Mayor Responds After Seattle Residents Use Steel Planters to Block Streets from Criminals

Desperate Seattle residents putting up steel flower planters as barriers to block off their streets to quell runaway crime have finally drawn the attention of the city’s socialist mayor.

Mayor Katie Wilson said this week that Seattle is “acting now” on shootings and drug and human trafficking-related crime after being pressed by a local news anchor on why citizens had to take matters into their own hands before City Hall did anything.

The location at issue is the neighborhood hit by reoccurring violence tied to Aurora Avenue on the city’s north side.

Fox 13 co-anchor Hana Kim told the mayor:

We’re hearing from residents saying there are constant shootings there, bullets going through homes, human trafficking is up, prostitution is up. Desperate residents put up steel planters to block some of the crime. They say it was working, but then the city took it away and said that they need to have a permanent solution, so they want to study it. But at what point do you act?

“So we are acting now,” Wilson responded. “A number of members of my team… were up doing a walk with the neighborhood a few days ago, and I totally understand why people put the barriers in the streets.”

Residents along the corridor spent Memorial Day weekend constructing the barriers out of metal planters, concrete blocks, and other items to block streets “after weeks of shootings, high-speed chases, and crime concerns tied to prostitution, trafficking, and alleged turf wars,” Fox News reported.

One resident, Peter Orr, told KTVB 7, “It’s either this, or bullets in my neighbor’s houses.” The Mayor was mocked online for her residents taking such drastic action to ensure their own safety.

Conservative commentator Paul Szypula wrote on X, “When progressive policies result in neighborhoods literally barricading themselves off… that says everything.”

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Far-Left Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson Can’t Even Stick to Her Own Woke Boycott

Leftists love a good boycott until, of course, it interferes with something they enjoy.

Last year, far-left Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson virtue-signaled her anti-capitalism “pro-labor” views to her base and urged them to boycott coffee giant Starbucks.

In November, while speaking at a Starbucks Workers United rally outside the recently closed Reserve Roastery on Capitol Hill, Wilson said, “That is why I am proud to join them on their picket line and proud to say loud and clear, I am not buying Starbucks and you should not either.”

In a recent interview, however, Wilson admitted she can’t even stay committed to her own performative woke directives.

During an interview published on Wednesday with FOX 13, Seattle co-anchor Hana Kim asked Wilson if she still supports the boycott.

“I had the pleasure of visiting the Pike Place Market Starbucks a little while ago, and I ordered, I think it was a blueberry muffin latte that was like a staff creation.”

“I guess I broke my boycott,” Wilson continued.

“And yeah, but I, you know, I don’t know. What do you want me to say about that?”

Wilson’s decision to prioritize wokeness over the economic interests of her community’s people has had real-world consequences.

Wilson, however, has laughed at the notion that millionaires are leaving the city over new and higher taxes supported by her and her cohorts, saying ‘Bye!’ as she shrugged it off glibly.

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Seattle To Declare “State Of Emergency” To Protect Transgender Refugees?

The ultimate claim to victimhood is the claim that a group of people are “refugees” from mass persecution or “genocide.”  The political left covets this victim status more than anything else because, within first world liberal societies, refugees have immediate political capital and access to easy money.  Within every leftist narrative there is an agenda for power and a life without adult responsibility.

It is perhaps ironic that thousands of progressive activists and LGBT advocates are leaving red states over imaginary oppression after they spent years attacking conservatives for escaping blue states over very real medical tyranny.  At least conservatives never called themselves “refugees.” 

Leftists specifically believe their rights are being violated in red states because conservative governments won’t allow them to mutilate their children with hormone therapy and sex change surgeries.  This nightmare trend, which is increasingly proven by science to have a detrimental effect on the minds and health of the people who undergo gender therapies, is still heavily protected in leftist havens like Seattle.

For reasonable and sane people still living in the Emerald City, relocation should be a top priority because the golden hordes are making the great northwest their home base.  Seattle’s new “democratic socialist” (communist) mayor Katie Wilson is more than happy to oblige the mentally ill mob clamoring for access.  The problem is, as the crazies move in, all the businesses are moving out.

This conundrum leaves Wilson’s poorly managed city in a financial bind.  New transgender resident are calling themselves “refugees” and demanding access to tax based subsidies in order to survive.  One would think they could simply get jobs like everyone else.  But, much like third world migrants, everywhere these people go they are always jobless and in dire need of handouts. 

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BACKFIRE: X Users NUKE Communist Seattle Mayor After She Posts This Absolutely Humiliating Photo of Herself Trying to Pander to Muslim Men

Marxist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson’s attempt to pander to her Muslim constituents on one of their holy days ended up backfiring in spectacular fashion.

On Saturday, Wilson posted a very curious Instagram image of herself celebrating Eid al-Adha, with an all-Muslim male audience looking on in the background.

It was as if the men were looking at potential prey, knowing that communists like her are useful idiots.

Wilson, though, was totally clueless.

“Honored to attend Eid celebration this week and spend time with so many wonderful community members and families,” Wilson wrote. “I’m grateful for the opportunity to celebrate alongside residents who help make our city vibrant, welcoming, and strong.”

“Wishing peace, happiness, and blessings to everyone celebrating Eid. Eid Mubarak!”

When one zooms in a bit closer, attendees can be seen literally laughing at Wilson. Talk about total disrespect.

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Seattle’s New Socialist Mayor Flatly Refuses to Investigate Fraud at Somali Daycare Centers

Given the massive amount of fraud that has been uncovered at Somali daycare centers in Minneapolis alone, you would think that every American city would be looking into this rather seriously.

That is not going to happen in Seattle, however.

Katie Wilson, the city’s new socialist mayor was recently asked if she is doing any investigation into this and responded with a simple “no.”

The Post Millennial reported:

Seattle socialist mayor will NOT investigate fraud at Somali-run daycare centers, calls it attack on immigrants

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said the city has no intention of investigating fraud claims in taxpayer-funded social programs, claiming the concerns are an effort to target immigrant communities rather than address legitimate financial irregularities.

In an interview with KOMO News, Wilson was asked if she had authorized the Seattle Police Department or the city’s Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs to investigate fraud charges involving daycare providers, particularly those in Somali and other immigrant communities. The mayor responded: “No.”

“This whole issue is not really about fraud,” said Wilson. “It’s about dividing and conquering. It’s about making an immigrant community a target. There’s no reason to assume based on the identity of a daycare operator that their small business is doing anything wrong.”

She added that “it’s problematic to have random people showing up to daycares” and emphasized that “the fear in the Somali community is real” and “the fear in immigrant communities are real,” saying her administration is “taking that very seriously.”

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Seattle Residents Forced To Barricade Their Streets To Protect From Gun Violence

Fed up with years of gun violence and repeated shootings near Aurora Avenue, some residents in North Seattle have started installing their own street barricades in an effort to protect their neighborhoods, KOMO News writes. 

Neighbors living near North 97th, 98th, and 102nd streets recently placed large planter boxes, piles of dirt, and gravel across parts of residential roads that connect to Aurora Avenue North. The goal, residents say, is to make it harder for shooters to speed through side streets during violent incidents linked to ongoing prostitution and human trafficking activity in the area.

Tensions escalated again over the weekend after another shooting near Aurora Avenue N and N 98th Street. Seattle police said officers found around 40 shell casings at the scene after multiple people exchanged gunfire. Security footage reportedly captured several seconds of rapid shooting, with bullets hitting nearby apartments, homes, and parked cars. In one recent case, a stray bullet entered a family’s home and came to rest near the bassinet of a 6-week-old baby.

The KOMO report says that many residents say the violence has become unbearable and accuse city leaders of failing to respond effectively despite years of complaints and calls for stronger enforcement. In response to the latest incidents, Seattle police said they are increasing overnight patrols along Aurora Avenue and assigning additional resources from the department’s Gun Violence Reduction Unit.

The homemade barriers, however, have sparked disagreement within the community. Some residents worry blocked streets could slow firefighters, ambulances, or police responding to emergencies. Others point out that Seattle requires permits for any structures placed in public roadways, meaning the barricades could eventually be removed by the city.

Still, supporters argue the measures are necessary to keep residents safe, especially children and families living near the repeated violence. They say enough routes remain open for emergency vehicles and believe the immediate threat from ongoing shootings outweighs concerns about the temporary roadblocks.

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Brutal Seattle Crime Exposes the Cost of Socialist Mayor’s Hostility to Public Safety

Seattle’s new socialist mayor, Katie Wilson, has been going viral quite a bit in the last few weeks and for all the wrong reasons.

I know violent crime videos proliferate on social media these days, but this one is especially hard to watch.

In a clip captured by a closed-circuit television camera in Seattle, two young men can be seen senselessly beating a 77-year-old man and leaving him face down in the street.

Fortunately, the man survived his injuries, but he had to be hospitalized for a week.

One of the alleged attackers, 29-year-old Ahmed Abdullahi Osman, was quickly detained by police after he tried to evade them. In the police body camera video of his arrest, Osman said that he worked for the “state,” for “Katie, the mayor.”

According to David Rose at FOX 13, Osman was released “on $5,000 bail for a separate fire alarm tampering charge two days after the attack,” as Seattle police conducted their investigation. They are now unable to find him after they put out a warrant for his arrest.

The whole thing is infuriating to say the least, as Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts indicated on X.

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Seattle Far-Left Activist Charged in Child Sex Abuse Case

A Seattle Antifa-linked anarchist and Black Lives Matter activist has been charged with child sex abuse crimes.

Gothic Ghetto, 54, was arrested on April 16. One of Ghetto’s prior legal names was Michael Tyrone Perkins.

The King County Sheriff’s Office initiated an investigation after receiving a CyperTip from the chat messaging app Kik, which is popular with minors, that Ghetto had allegedly uploaded files to the platform that were flagged as child sexual abuse material.

Searches of his devices revealed chat logs in which he allegedly sought out children to groom and sent them the address of his home. Police executed a search warrant at Ghetto’s Shoreline, Wash. apartment and allegedly discovered multiple homemade zine-style printed booklets which contained explicit photos of a child between 7–10 years old, along with sex toys.

Ghetto, who wrote about being on public assistance and supporting welfare fraud, has an online resume that shows he was previously employed as a personal babysitter of a young girl. Ghetto posted multiple videos of him with two young girls on his Instagram.

His resume also lists his job as a photojournalist, but he describes himself on social media as an anarchist “propagandist” and zine creator. He was a member of a far-left artist collective called On The Block Seattle. On The Block is an anarchist group dedicated to “decolonization and liberation.”

On The Block released a statement saying that Ghetto was banned from the group’s spaces and activities “until further community determination.”

“As of this morning, we have confirmed from court documents that GothicGhetto was arrested 4/16/2026 and is being charged with the possession and dealing of depictions of CP [child porn],” the statement read. “Given the severity of these charges, we are acting with urgency and precaution for the safety of our community.”

Some leftist community members refuse to believe the charges and speculate that Ghetto was set up by the government in a COINTELPRO-style conspiracy plot due to his leftist activism.

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Seattle’s Minimum Wage Laws Backfired on Uber and Lyft. Now the Union Wants To Limit Drivers.

In recent years, progressive locales like Seattle have experimented with minimum wage laws for rideshare and food delivery drivers. These laws have led to surging prices for rides and delivery, reduced demand for trips and orders, and no evidence of higher take-home pay for drivers.

As demand for trips has plummeted in the wake of the wage hikes, more rideshare drivers are finding themselves working longer hours to achieve the same number of rides as before. Instead of fixing the root of the problem, a union representing Seattle rideshare workers has a new solution: Limit the number of people who can work as Uber drivers.

According to the Drivers Union, which represents Lyft and Uber drivers in Washington State, there is a severe glut of rideshare drivers on the road in the Emerald City. The union bases this on a new report it released (with funding from the state Department of Ecology), which concludes that “a majority of miles driven by Uber drivers are now without a passenger.”

The report’s topline findings include an increase in “deadheading” and “empty miles” in which rideshare drivers are driving without a passenger on board, as well as an increase in the number of drivers that is purportedly “7 times faster than trip growth.” In addition to lower driver pay, the report concludes that “deadhead” miles are also causing more air pollution and congestion in the city.

The union’s recommendations are to call for “a pause in onboarding new drivers until a reduction in unnecessary deadheading miles is achieved,” as well as suggesting “rules to maintain a balanced market where increases to driver supply don’t continue outpacing trip growth.”

While the report is dressed up in the language of “deadheading” and climate change, it’s little more than a thinly-veiled attempt to do what unions so often do: Limit the labor supply to lock out non-union members. The Drivers Union also conveniently ignores the reason behind the increase in “empty miles,” which is the result of Seattle’s aggressive pursuit of minimum wage laws for gig work.

In 2020, Seattle became the second city in America to pass a minimum wage law for rideshare drivers. It expanded the law to cover gig-based food delivery platforms like UberEats and DoorDash in 2024. While driver pay was supposed to rise, the primary effect of these laws was a dramatic drop in the number of rideshare and delivery order requests.

After the rideshare minimum wage law, rider fares increased by an average of 40 percent, with some trips climbing by up to 50-60 percent. According to a recent analysis by NetCredit, Seattle is now the most expensive city in America to hail an Uber ride, with a 30-minute ride costing an average of $60. (By way of comparison, Washington, D.C., which lacks a minimum wage law for rideshare drivers, averages just over $33 for a 30-minute trip).

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High Taxes Are Turning Seattle Into a Ghost Town Full of Empty Office Buildings – And it’s About to Get Worse

The far-left blue city of Seattle is bleeding businesses as companies flee to locations that don’t charge crazy levels of taxes. As a result, the percentage of empty office buildings in the city has risen to more than a third. That is unbelievable.

And yet, the people who live there just keep voting for leftist political leaders who only make the problem worse. Mayors are supposed to try to attract businesses to their cities, not cause them to run away to other locations.

As technology allows more and more companies to have remote employees, the competition among cities is only going to become more fierce.

From My Northwest via MSN:

Seattle’s downtown office market is facing one of the steepest declines in the nation.

According to a new CoStar analysis, Seattle leads the country in falling office rents, with vacancies hitting record highs. Experts warn the slump could reshape Seattle’s commercial real estate, cutting into property values and city tax revenues while raising questions about the future of downtown.

“Though the amount of space available to lease has leveled off latelydue to planned demolitions and conversions removing someproperties from the market, the region’s vacancy rate continues torise more quickly than that of the rest of the country,” the analysis found. “Seattle’s officevacancy rate stands at 17.3% and is projected to peak at 18.3% in 2026.”

According to the study, the steepest drops in office space usage occurred in Seattle’s downtown, Belltown, and Queen Anne neighborhoods. Some suburban locations managed flat-to-slightly positive rent growth, but this growth has done little to offset the broader downward trend.

But the study also believes office vacancies throughout Seattle can improve over time.

“The leveling off of availability signals a likely improvement in vacancy rates in the near future,” the study shared.

Things are not likely to improve. In fact, it could get much worse. Watch below as Glenn Beck talks about how Seattle now wants to tax the owners of empty office buildings for the crime of being empty.

If they actually do this, it will make the problem far worse.

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