My legacy lives on

Objectively speaking Seattle has the best sunsets in the continental US. Westward orientation + big water + mountain ranger silhouette

🫩🤨🧐

Sunsets on the waterfront go so hard

my bus is late I’m calling Katie Wilson

"And yet, if you examine the facts on the ground in these debates, NIMBYs are more often right than wrong. After all, who knows better what is right for a community than the people who live there?" lol. lmao. Pic unrelated.

The second item: "We're going to be getting out the red paint on Denny Way," Wilson said. "We cannot let one of our highest ridership routes languish in traffic." Bus lane inbound.

The first item is an executive order expediting the production of emergency housing, such as tiny housing villages, using surplus public land where possible.

BREAKING: A new bill introduced by Sen. Marko Liias would give @sound-transit.bsky.social the financial flexibility it needs to #BuildTheDamnTrains. #waleg senatedemocrats.wa.gov/liias/2026/0...

I wanna see loads of loaves in the streets, diverters, calmers, chicanes dropping across the streets of Seattle overnight like Santa flew through but it is actually just a safety oriented SDOT

You probably don't know what SEQRA is - but you should know that it's slowing down the housing that we need. Deputy Mayor Leila Bozorg is here to explain why reforming it is key to cutting red tape and building more housing.

Hey Seattle friends: kids from several schools in the Rainier Beach area are doing a march in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Friday, January 16 from 9:30 am to 11 am, starting at the Rainier Beach community center. In this difficult time they're asking for neighbors march with them.

After big wins on middle housing, transit-oriented development, rent stabilization and parking reform in the last few sessions, #WALeg is moving towards some more technical and targeted bills to help implement these big policies successfully, and we're ready 👏 www.theurbanist.org/2026/01/14/2...

" A Paris, le vélo a gagné sur la voiture !" "In Paris, the bicycle has won over the car !" It was this expression, used today by A. Hidalgo, who is not seeking re-election, that several news websites chose as their headline for coverage of her final New Year’s address as Mayor of Paris.

The Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority has acquired the Eclipse Hotel (670 S Weller St), with plans to rehabilitate the building for senior-focused affordable residential units and ground-floor commercial use.

Living for the 2016 musical renaissance amplified by Fetty Wap’s release

The cities/towns of Bainbridge Island, Beaux Arts Village, Brier, Carnation, Darrington, DuPont, Gold Bar, and Woodway have been selected for Commerce department review under the Housing Accountability Act.

I know I have a statewide work heavy friend group because half my ig stories include a “2/60” post. Godspeed legislators, leg staff, lobbyists, advocates, and the like.

Very similar cost to West Seattle Link for six times as many riders.

Just a few questions: why is Gracie Mansion so far from City Hall? Why did I think it would look more like 10 Downing Street? Why is this Robert Moses’s fault?

We got interrupted but I need to finish my shoe conversation with @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social. Look at those amazing Doc Marten loafers.

Just a few hours left to sign up to vote to support my bid for the OneCity mayoral nomination race! We can build this city into a great place for everyone, we just have to start. This is a great way to get the ball rolling. www.onecityvancouver.ca/membership_c...

✅ Gerrymandered the city (redistricted Magnolia)

You can weigh in on Washington's scissor stair bill, ahead of its first public hearing this Friday at 10:30am. #HB2228 app.leg.wa.gov/csi/House?se...

This bill to restrict the use of facial coverings by law enforcement officers is getting a public hearing on the very first day of Washington's legislative session, next Monday. You can weigh in on it, without testifying, here: app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie...

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson: "There was a time that we could take [the federal government] at their word. That time has long passed. That is why we are calling on ICE to halt all operations in Portland until a full and independent investigation can take place."

Seattle planning nerds: earlier today, OPCD director Rico Quirindongo broke down what's happening right now in the transition between administrations with the outstanding work on the Comp Plan, in a convo with the planning commission. I transcribed his comments:

My statement on Immigration Enforcement Actions in Seattle and Minneapolis followed by the full press release from Councilmember Foster and myself. council.seattle.gov/2026/01/08/s...

Armed and masked ICE agents abduct three people on Aurora Avenue.

What if we just started building high speed rail between every city pair with 15 or more daily nonstop flights?

Guy who becomes an upzoning urbanist just so ICE doesn’t have any local parking lots to stage their raids in.

I’m coming to (help build) the cottages

I did in fact use the phrase "Lemon, it's January 6" yesterday.

This is not who we are. I became an ICE agent because I truly believed in the value of getting a $50,000 signing bonus to violently assault and terrorize anyone I wanted while never getting in trouble for anything. Being held accountable conflicts strongly with my deeply-held personal beliefs

A Washington Post article suggests that, beyond a certain threshold, larger homes don't make people happier. Instead, well-being is correlated with affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods where they feel socially connected. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Went to the sauna with @kellireef.bsky.social and organized a new seattlite into getting involved in local politics

Zohran is going to kill the “YIMBYs and leftists are mortal enemies” idea and that alone will make the internet 23% less annoying to me personally. Big accomplishment.

🗣️ WE NEED BREAD BUT WE NEED ROSES TOO 🥖🌹🥖🌹🥖🌹

Mamdani gets it: the task of ecosocialists is to show that we can build a fairer, greener world faster than centrists.

PLEASE

This looks like the most aggressive upzoning I’ve seen in a US city

That’s right!

we need bread, but we also need roses @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social 😭😭😭

Happy to report that @theurbanist.org will be meeting with @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social for our first sit down interview with Seattle's new mayor next week.

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Thanks for this, Erica. These demands are a surprise coming from the same administration that wanted to cut $1.6 Million from the @seattlechannel.bsky.social 2026 Budget. It would have eliminated all original programming including coverage of news, interviews and debates with elected officials.

Have you considered that this region is unbelievably gorgeous

“Having your own space, you feel like you can do anything.”  Pro-homes policy = dignity & opportunity for everyone 🥰

The degree of success that a Leavenworth Christmas train would have just seems like leaving a pile of money on the table for the State of Washington.