For real, Nantes celebrating PSG winning the UCL like they had anything to do with it. 🤣🤣🤣

@mayorofseattle.bsky.social can just pull a Reverse-Bruce Harrell and keep it open to people between Seward Park & Mt. Baker Beach indefinitely. Then, in like 6 months, send out a survey to SE Seattle residents. See what they think. Let the actually data dictate what happens.

I'm really proud of the first couple episodes that we've put together & hope you find them insightful. Talk to you next Friday!

Excited to kick off this project with @nondriver.bsky.social.

Cristian Roldan deserves this.

Coexist LWB stepping from behind the curtain to show they're all elderly wealthy white homeowners. Is anyone at all surprised? Bruce Harrell & his SDOT let this astroturf group squander funding for a safe walking + biking promenade on LWB. They used cynical, unethical lies to keep this road unsafe.

Back in 2021 when we first tried getting funding at Council to develop social housing & the uphill climb looked long, this felt impossible. Good thing Seattleites are used to walking up hills. Congratulations SSHD & everyone who worked so hard for this. The first of many to come.

Glad they're still whining about the work that we did to actually save lives, even after they gutted LWB safety measures. The speed bumps are *their idea.* The concrete protection elsewhere? Yeah that was us. Sorry you can only go 15mph over the limit while going directly to where you want to go.

10 yrs ago, I launched a nonprofit in Seattle to help renters realize their power. Today, my co-founder and I launch À Portée in Nantes to help everyday people understand local institutions, to organize, & co-create the policies that shape their lives. Let's build this movement together. aportee.fr

Not gonna read this stupid shit from the Times. I can't be bothered to pay for whatever this is, but you guys, Bruce Harrell wasted everyone's time w/ his constant stories about high school football. Literally during every single public speaking opportunity.

Just realized that the word(s) for sunglasses in French literally translated is "little moons of the sun." That's whimsical af.

If this league shits on the Whitecaps, their supporters, their history, & Vancouver, then supporters of all clubs should boycott this league. I'm tired of this single entity shit & the ever-growing greed in MLS.

This, in reality, is what every tourist thinks the Market always was. Those are your primary sales. Locals come too, but they walk there already. A win-win. www.theurbanist.org/pike-place-m...

💡 À qui appartient la rue ? 🚲 À Nantes, avec @nondriver.bsky.social , autrice de « When Driving Is Not an Option », et de @devinsilvernail.bsky.social — de #Seattle, jumelée avec #Nantes — nous avons parcouru des aménagements cyclables avec une conviction : la mobilité est une question de justice.

So glad to live in a place where a lot of absent-minded impatient drivers have transitioned to biking. Before they were deadly. Now they're just fucking annoying. A huge step up.

If they have allies at City Council, it's worth those staff looking into updating the 3rd party billing ordinance. That was my immediate first thought. Mayor's Junk Fee legislation could be a 2nd place to ban the extra fee. Tenants should be charged based on actual consumption, not some vague number

It's not an exaggeration when I say that my organizing & policy work was absolutely influenced by Brian's coaching style. His positivity, his openness & willingness to always give credit to those around him. That's real leadership. Sports can be so much more than just a game youtu.be/6zMBAjR03us?...

Sad proof that America is lower-case f fucked. That no one can remove this guy even as he turns more and more into a despot shows that the American experiment has failed.

FC Nantes could have signed Georgi Minoungou & Nouhou, 2 players w/ties to Nantes, from their sister city team @soundersfc.com & I guarantee they'd not be fighting relegation.

Omg, this is what I was trying to get in the 2022 & 23 budgets, funded by the City instead of it going private. CMs (including a few y'all fawned over) just did not get it. "We had public bike share. It failed" or "but we have Lime." They just couldn't grasp a public monthly or yearly rental system.

They lost longtime customers from the line of cars snaking down Pike Place? 🤔 I worked at the market. Those were never regulars. They were visitors who thought, wrongly, that they could pull up & park right in front of a business. Regulars either lived *in* the market or walked there from nearby.

I've now had mine for 5 yrs. It has followed me from Seattle to Nantes. Carries my kid, my dog, groceries, hardware, christmas trees, etc. Done 2 100+ km rides. Got it for $7k & have ridden about as many km. $1 per km + it still rides the same as it did when I got it. Not a bad return on investment.

Rich guy implies he'll take his toy & go home b/c he has to pay his fair share for shit. The right wing wants you to be stuck in poverty while they get richer & they don't even want you to have fleeting entertainment if it means they have to think of anyone but themselves. Robbing you of $ & joy.

Protests are great for getting ppl interested in a cause & cathartic for a public facing a shared issue. BUT pls seek out organizing opportunities when you get home. Build something in your neighborhood, town, or city. You *can* improve the lives of ppl around you & fight tyranny on a daily basis.

I love that I left Seattle for a city with mobility ambition. In this amount of time, Nantes could open multiple city blocks to ppl walking+rolling. It was so tiring fighting for mobility justice in Seattle. Please come visit & take notes. Seattleites deserve ambition too.

Dispatches his gestapo to ports of entry & transit to address delays. Sure. Do not travel to the US. That includes Americans abroad. You might get stuck.

Congratulations Nantes. You proved coalition building & people power wins elections. You told nazi RN to fuck off & showed the greater right wing that their campaign of fear mongering won't work here. You showed France how united the left can be & how fractured the right actually is. Great job all.

Election night in Nantes & a 7:30pn Sounders kickoff? It's gonna be an entertaining Sunday night.

My gut, non-scientific prediction for Nantes: 54% ⬅️ 71-72% turnout The divide is gonna be mostly north-south, w/ predictable trends following population density, income. Media gonna spin a narrative. Ignore it. I'll have more thoughts around 11pm.

The greatest news to come out of the first tour of the municipal election in Nantes is that the RN got less than 5% of the vote. It's good to live in a place that hates fascists.

Been around politics long enough that I called this exact scenario while having lunch today. If LFI & Nantes Populaire join la Gauche Unie, the left wins by at least 6 points in the 2e tour. Get to it, #Nantes. The right will have represented 38% of the vote. The left's win is a mandate.

Pour les nantaise et nantais. Good luck, y'all.

Meanwhile, our French energy provider gave us a rebate & a direct option to buy one. It reduces our bill by about 25% each month. American private utility companies exist solely to exploit American households & extract their wealth.

Leaders from around the globe need to study how a resident movement has led to the creation of the Seattle Social Housing Developer. This is the power of coalition building & giving everyone an equal seat at the table.

Happy for Nantes. You truly have people who care about you working for you in your government. If only you could stop & see just how lucky you are.

@wilsonforseattle.bsky.social representing Seattle here tonight in Nantes. #pourmoicestnantes

How, in the past 20 years, have I forgotten how fucking beautiful this song is. Indie rock Jenny Lewis meets future Jenny Lewis. The soaring vocals, that deep alto voice, and the classic rock inspiration. It's just so good. youtu.be/5J-hXw5UpQU?...

In a little over a month, it will be the 10 year anniversary of the founding of @beseattleorg.bsky.social. It is amazing to see the impact the organization has had on the lives & political cultural landscape of Seattle, even under the radar. Just for fun, here's a photo from a kickoff even in 2016.

Instead of unnecessary roads & highways that will never ever have enough budget for upkeep. Win-win that shit. Keep trees. Ditch cars.

Katie is getting criticism from the right and the left, and people seem to forget that she took office less than 2 months ago. Either "see she's too inexperienced" or "she completely betrayed us." Just chill.

Last night, I saw Blonde Redhead live in Nantes, 15 years after seeing them live in Seattle, and oh boy. They're still so good. Maybe even better than back then. Such amazing ethereal sound. youtu.be/7NvllmNib8Y?...

This year, I have stepped back from my pursuit of a policy-related or adjacent position. Recognizing that my life is different in France than in the US, & while I am freelancing, I have decided to lean more into helping folks use video/audio to tell their stories. Need help? hmu: withinreach.fr

No it's actually really funny, bc Bruce Harrell would derail any conversation to mention his high school or college football team. He even did this for an agonizingly long period when hosting a delegation from France & you just know they were all questioning their career decisions in that moment.

In Japan, transit passes aren't just for transit. They're replacing cash & competing w/ debit cards. Let me tell you how a system like this in the US or EU could make life simpler & fairer for all people. #urbanism #Japan youtu.be/8_2S_bXGdLI

When I first visited #Japan in 2023, I was blown away by the idea that I could use a local transit pass to buy almost anything, almost anywhere nationwide. 🚋 ✅ 🚅 ✅ 🍱+☕ ✅ 🗣️🎤 ✅ 🛒 ✅ I think this sort of idea can have huge upsides for many cities/countries. Let me tell you why. youtu.be/8_2S_bXGdLI

Can't remember the last time I put out a video on YouTube but this one has been percolating since 2023. #Japan #urbanism #transit youtu.be/8_2S_bXGdLI

Deserved. Won a continental trophy at 16 & again at 20. Played well against Atlético in the CWC. A great Sounder. A great story. Now he gets to play for the club he's loved since he was a kid. Go get it, Obed.

Street art on pill hill in Seattle 🥹

Every movement needs it's Bella Ciao or La Marseillaise. This isn't necessarily *the* candidate, but Woody Guthrie has a pretty good catalogue nonetheless. youtu.be/jKVnur5DkdI?...

God, I used to look forward to this day every winter. You cannot overestimate how depressingly dark Seattle winters are. Sun goes down at 5:30pm at the earliest in Nantes, so I just don't get this thrill anymore.