“I’m Kid Rock.” “I’m Naomi Wolf.” “I’m Kanye West.” “I’m Matt Taibbi.” “I’m Catturd. Those stories, plus Rob Schneider, tonight on 60 Minutes.”

Weaponizing environmental concerns to prevent people from living in our urban environments isn’t new. It’s deployed by people with resources to restrict access to high opportunity areas. It’s nimbyism. In order to reach our housing goals, our land use processes must stop enabling this behavior.

Seattle activists trying to block growth incorrectly blame new housing for the threat to orcas, instead of the biggest culprit: cars and the sea of pavement carrying them. Paul Beard lays out how they went wrong. Op-ed: www.theurbanist.org/op-ed-the-or...

Seattle’s Shoreline Master Program often prioritizes these kinds of uses where single-family homes aren’t. But don’t even begin to think about townhouses and apartments.

We know that one of the best things we can do for the environment is to build dense housing in walkable neighborhoods with robust transit. Sprawl not only results in loss of forests and farmland, it increases green house gases and contributes to driving which results in more toxic runoff from tires

Also, the reason the State Legislature has raised SEPA threshold exemptions and limited appeals of SEPA reviews of infill housing is because 1. We know that urban infill housing is good for the environment, 2. We have codes already in place to address impacts, …

you should listen to my podcast about reconstruction people.com/barack-obama...

When we invest in high-quality transit, people use it and love it. Props to @mayorofseattle.bsky.social Katie Wilson for taking a big swing with her proposal to seriously upgrade bus service in Seattle. Let's fucking go!

"MY MAYOR'S MUSLIM MY BAGELS ARE JEWISH MY CHRISTIAN DIOR KNICKS IN FOUR!" This is why I love this city. NYC. We are diverse. And yet United. We are immigrants and yet, American! Damn, it's a good time being in New York. And being a Knicks fan. I ❤️ NY.

Brian Heywood and his friends wants to look at our daughters private parts, for her “protection” www.kuow.org/stories/tran...

They're coming for every single small "d" democratic victory that U.S social movement have won since ever.

Uh, yes!

in seattle - our codes allow wealthy people to store junk along the waterfront but don't you dare think about building housing our environmental laws consider multifamily housing to be pollution

In Seattle, they're selling million dollar storage units to rich people, but God forbid we tax millionaires. www.seattletimes.com/business/whe...

Boooooooooo

There are concentration camps in the United States in the year 2026. There are CONCENTRATION CAMPS in the United States in the year 2026. THERE ARE CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE YEAR 2026.

Even before the tattoo! 3 tours, then going back as a merc? Cosplayung as working class? No significant public record of achievement (or even action) to match his progressive rhetoric? Red fucking flags.

AOC: This is what I want people to understand: this is our money. When you pay your taxes, that money is being stolen to pay for a vanity project like a ballroom or whatever it is that this guy wants to do, instead of what it should be used for…

I’m a D5 voter who primarily drives and I still want more buses & more free Orca cards for low income folks, and I will support the small tax increase. Let’s elect Nilu to give us good representation on the council! @neighborsfornilu.bsky.social

Will Dreher nope

Will Dreher is outraising Ron Davis about 3:1 overall in the 46th LD primary. But Ron is outraising Will about 2:1 among Washington State donors. So where's the rest of Will's money coming from? Thread.

This is my generation, baby [At the Yacht Rock show]

Big Dick Energy may not be the best fuel for a progressive Senate run.

I can't with fucking Platner. Cut your losses, friends. Save your integrity. I love the rhetoric, but he's an egomaniac zero who happens to be telegenic and talented at certain aspects of being a candidate. He's not a progressive leader.

I see some Platner defenders saying his critics are “centrists afraid of his leftism,” & others saying critics are “lefties applying a purity test.” There are no doubt some of both. There are also those of us who just think he’s a dishonest creep with no evidence of solid convictions.

The ruling class prefers fascism to sharing the wealth. Every time.

If only someone could figure out how to make milk safe to drink! It'd be such a big deal the process would be named after them.

It seems like identifiable members of the Supreme Court actively helping one political party to choose its voters to maximal electoral advantage should be a bigger scandal

Danny Westneat and the @seattletimes.com are soooooo afraid that Mayor Katie Wilson will succeed. Their relentless effort to kneecap her administration is starting to feel kind of pathetic. Nope, not linking to their bullshit.

More frequent and reliable bus service is the key to making Seattle a world-class transit city. Mayor Wilson's proposal would bring us great benefits in terms of quality of life, equity, and environment.

Roberts Court wants to create world where Dems have no legitimate chance to ever take control of Congress, there are no Black members of Congress from the South & no voting rights violations can ever be proven. Their end goal is permanent white GOP minority rule www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

For folks not on Instagram, staff at one of Seattle’s most famous restaurants (the award winning Walrus and the Carpenter) had a strike authorization vote today. Look out for more info in the next few days.

The Roberts Court is a fucking abomination.

So, do I have this right? According to the Roberts Court you can makr maps you want as long your intent is not explicitly racist, but ALSO you CAN use maps made with explicitly racist intent.

Pelley went out with dignity. Respect.

Ideological certainties? I think you meant to say, "US imperialism."

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

This is all the proof anyone should need that we need to tax rich people and their corporations way more than we are.

Remember that this is the governor whose austerity caused a lot of the street disorder Seattle has experienced, by cutting Department of Corrections funding for post-release monitoring and services. She also triggered the McCleary decision with her cuts to K-12 spending.

Came here just for the Cole Young celebration. #GoMs

PSA: No Kings is supporting watch parties for the Committee for the First Amendment Concert on June 14th- not mobilizations. There are several non-affiliated scam PACs trying to raise money by promising a mass protest that's not actually happening on June 14th. Block them and tell your friends.

“Anti diversity stance” there’s a shorter way to say that www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

German citizenship should be offered to every Jew. for the people in the back, there are fewer Jews in the world today than in the 1920s. www.jta.org/paidpost/ste...

“You are trying to delegitimize people who you’ve never met in communities you’ve never visited, so that you can continue to exploit the lives of people that you don’t give a damn about,” @justinjpearson.bsky.social 🎁 link wapo.st/4wVjTvN

Not to mention the fact that we unilaterally withdrew from a painstakingly negotiated international agreement that Iran actually was in compliance with, despite all the other awful things its government has done, which were not actually part of that agreement.

It’s only 8 AM here and I already need a pick-me-up so in case you do, here’s another tale of Confederate Karma. Preston Brooks was an enslavement enthusiast who beat Sen. Sumner almost to death on the Senate floor for speaking out against slavery. The House refused to expel him, but…

Vote Steyer. Knock out Hilton.

This looks like what Bezos did to the Washpost newsroom