Our kids, ages 6 and 8, just heard “867-5309/Jenny” for the first time. I think this song has a new generation of fans. Can you guess why??? 🫠

We have some ideas in our forthcoming book #SchoolsforSale, based on what happened over the past 10+ years in PHL. Book drops in June 2026 + available for pre-order now. We are open to talk to folks organizing, in school districts, and cities about our recs. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

"The average voter believes a SNAP recipient gets $20/day, more than 3 times the actual amount of $6."

Come on, Seattle, Boston blazed the trail. Let’s be #2! We’ve got the need and resources to make it happen!

This happened to me one year, too. If you care about your vote counting, it’s really easy to check to see if your ballot was counted or if there is an issue!

Washington, there's literally no excuse to not vote. We vote by mail or dropbox (use a dropbox since you waited til the last minute). Black voters in the South often have to stand in line for hours to do what you can do in your slippers. Get your life together and send off that damn ballot.

The Stranger got one endorsement really wrong this year. As @lisarivera.bsky.social points out, they should have endorsed Sarah Clark for school board. Rivera, herself endorsed by the Stranger when she was on the board and a 2020 delegate for Bernie Sanders to the DNC, makes an excellent case:

study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1

Still haven't voted? For school board, make sure to vote for Sarah Clark, Joe Mizrahi, and Vivian Song. Yes, all three. They form an anti-austerity bloc and we need all three of them to win to sustain that bloc in power. Two of three isn't enough. @ronpdavis.bsky.social and I explained it here:

Thanks to @kuow.org for issuing this correction.

More evidence that home prices go up more rapidly when supply grows slowly. Restrictive zoning to blame. Seattle, let’s vote in a Mayor who has the urgency to take bold steps to create more housing and help us become more affordable! #WilsonforMayor #VoteWilson www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

If I don’t convince you, here’s Albert, who has actually used his data genius to analyze SPS’ budget. Thanks to public records laws, he can do this easily and is doing this NOW, without being elected to the school board. medium.com/@awongawong/...

Child care in Seattle is so expensive (and providers aren’t even paid enough)! When I told my mom that it was over $4300/mo for our two kids in childcare (baby and 3 year old) she couldn’t believe costs had grown that much in 30 years. Now, 5 years later, some centers are $4000/mo for one baby!

Terrifying. We have to stop this

Dang it, my husband was going to shave his beard (but keep the stache) and go as Dan Wilson for Halloween if we made it to the World Series. We’ll make it, some day #GoMs

This is the group I helped create a few years back. It’s volunteer-led all by caregivers (vast majority all working parents) and their endorsement work this summer was thorough and student-centered focused. Check these endorsements for Seattle School Board!

The Stranger hasn’t really covered SPS in years. They don’t regularly come to school board meetings or interview caregivers or follow the impactful issues affecting Seattle kids and families. Vote for Sarah Clark for School board!!! She’s *ON THE BOARD NOW* and doing great for students and our city!

Parents of 30 million kids want afterschool programs for their kids, but only 7 million are enrolled. Low-income families least likely to be enrolled. After school programs help address school absenteeism, and promote pro-social behavior and learning. It’s got bipartisan support. Fund more of it!!

Another good time to remind people that “tear gas” is a term of copaganda that police, the military, and its manufacturers use to obscure that it is a dangerous chemical weapon internationally banned for use even in warfare.

The horrors continue.

And this leads to one thing, among many, that scares me a lot now: Things were already very bad on this front, but the unhinged gestapo tactics of ICE grant enormous power to predators across society in positions of power to prey upon vulnerable people: employers, abusers, etc.

This is a really important thread for everyone who calls themselves a progressive. We need to challenge the narratives we’ve been told about safety and danger.

Ichiro is warming up in the bullpen.

Who do we mean when we say “Black Seattle”? This mayoral race isn’t about personalities—it’s about whether symbolism becomes substance. What do “seats at the table” mean if the rest of us go hungry? My latest column for the @soseaemerald.bsky.social

Seattle voters, this is an important read! Take this into consideration when you vote for our next mayor. My personal view is that we need a mayor who will stay present and dogged in the pursuit of addressing our housing crisis.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

#weekwithoutdriving photo proof of the walk to school. Let’s make sure Seattle Public School (SPS) students continue to have access to *public* schools that they can walk, bike, and roll to! (Fun fact: I’m a proud SPS alum as well as an SPS parent!)

A regular day for our family for #weekwithoutdriving: one parent takes light rail to/from work, another walks with kids to school then to light rail to work. Kids walk to aftercare, then to soccer practice, then home! We are lucky to be close to transit, public school, community center, and parks!

Providing a temporary bed without making people jump through a million hoops shouldn't be "remarkable," but it is—as the story notes, we invest heavily in shelters that erect barriers to entry, denying access to people who need stability most urgently. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

New from me at The Intercept: Long sentences, ending bail reform, and more executions won't prevent crimes like the murder of Iryna Zarutska. Fixing the destructive way criminal legal system treats mentally ill people could. Unfortunately, the right wants more of the former, and mocks the latter.

A people-first policy decision is easy here: make a bus only lane for the 8!

Rant about something dumb: the clear bag policies at our stadiums are so anti-city. It’s Friday. I want to walk to pick my kids up at afterschool and walk to take transit to the game, but I can’t bc the kids have their school backpacks. My husband wants to walk from work but he’s got a work bag. 🙄

At the Seattle School Board meeting tonight, there will be a discussion about sending a letter from the Board voicing support for Comp Plan amendments that allow for more housing density in Seattle!! Yes, yes, yes!!

Exactly! Also, renters shouldn’t be confined to busy arterials. I *want* more apartments to be built near public amenities (like parks, community centers, libraries) so renters don’t have to commute to visit city gems like Seward Park and Discovery Park!

Shout out to Sarah Clark (@sarahforschools.bsky.social), school board director and candidate, for her work in support of students and against this change. She showed up to the protest on crutches, met with student leaders, addressed the rally, and is pressing SPS admins behind the scenes to reverse.

Love her

So thrilled to vote for @edclin.bsky.social to represent our district on City Council! Upzoning the city will help desegregate Seattle—something that we sorely need.

The lingering chronic-absenteeism crisis is a third path for do-it-now quick wins for students and districts. Several high-quality, field-based studies show that real-time attendance monitoring coupled with low-cost messaging to parents and caregivers can reduce chronic absenteeism… (1/3)

"When we need to live with so much fear, we can't be a Free People" that part There's so much talk about the purported rights and liberties of gun owners and not enough about guns as a threat to everyone else's ability to enjoy their rights, infringing everyone else's liberty

I’ve only gotten through the Intro to Copaganda and it is a must read, especially us working in local gov’t and politics. Extra: follow the author in real time ⬇️ to unpack the media’s propping up of our ‘punishment bureaucracy’. It’s important to see how we can actually create safety for all.

This makes me so sad. “And where on earth does this idea of unpaid labor as a form of addiction treatment come from?…How often is this happening? How many rehabs are like this?”

We should allow for more housing all over our great city. There will be change, but change will likely be slow. We’re already so late to making this city have any semblance of affordability.

Ugh, just watched 2 transit security officers wake someone up to check if they paid fare. Person got super agitated. Security told them to get off the train so they did. Security followed to write them up. Not cool! Public transit should be free. Let’s stop criminalizing poverty!

This is so dystopian. How does it not change public opinion?

For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE

A middle school I interact with is in a state with a school cellphone ban and y’all everybody in there is relieved. EVERYBODY. The kids, the teachers, the janitors. They are so relieved. Nobody is really uptight about it…except some parents.

There's a lot of misinformation out there about the concept of universal basic income. If you want to be well-informed, follow me and learn about what we know from studies in this thread: bsky.app/profile/scot... Here's a UBI starter pack too: bsky.app/profile/scot... And here's a UBI 101 link:

Helping housing become affordable helped reduce homelessness—we should not be surprised! Cash support/universal basic income allows people to buy specifically what *they* need! We should do more of this while we upzone Seattle and build more housing!

The most we spent in *just one year* was about $45,000 for two kids (one infant, one preschooler) in an affordable daycare. It’s worth noting that many early education workers get paid so low they also qualify for public assistance. The solution is simple: spend a lot more public money in childcare!