When the new nominee for Senate from Maine is selected, s/he will need funds immediately to get started on the shortened campaign. You can contribute to that campaign now, via Oath:https://app.oath.vote?ref=8VY4FLLS&p=me-nominee-cmmty

A vile man with no understanding of sportsmanship or honor, spoiling every sporting contest he comes near with the stench of his corruption.

Also, all you folks STILL trying to claim Seattle is dying, Fuck All The Way Off. People across the globe love our city. We have work to do, but so does every big city. If anything is stopping us from greatness, it's your cynical obstructionism. #Housing #Transit #Walkability #Urbanism

No words needed.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/pr...

Don't listen to the flamethrowers on either side. weeklysift.com/2026/07/06/c...

Why are the Trump administration's 250th celebrations so feeble? Because it's hard to celebrate the ideals of the Declaration of Independence if you don't believe in them www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

German researchers have built the most efficient solar panel ever, turning 34.4% of sunlight into electricity. That’s way higher than ordinary rooftop panels, which usually convert between 20-23%. buff.ly/GRh5GzJ #ShareGoodNewsToo

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The conflict over density in Seattle was never between trees and housing. It's between property owners' suburban-style vision for Seattle and the needs of the city's renter majority.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/wo...

Bubble bubble pop and rubble… www.businessinsider.com/ford-ai-hiri...

The World Cup has shown so many amazing ways we can bring people together. The lasting effects of the 1962 Worlds Fair are all around us - from the Space Needle to the Monorail. My hope is the lasting effect of the World Cup is that we reenvision what we can do with our public spaces moving forward.

Please join me in petitioning US Fisheries & Wildlife: No Land for Elon! actions.eko.org/a/us-fisheri...

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NEW OP-ED// Op-Ed: ‘Seattle Atlas’ Can Demystify Zoning, Build Case for More Housing By Dylan Wahbe via @theurbanist.org

We’re doing a new Big Ideas series on More Perfect Union. Basically: outside-the-box solutions for huge problems. Here’s episode 1. Let me know if you have ideas for future ones. youtu.be/Cb6xjJf42_c?...

"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”"

The USFWS plans to hand over more than 700 acres of The Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge — home to some of the United States’ most critically endangered species — to SpaceX in a reckless land swap. Tell your senators to stop this giveaway. act.biologicaldiversity.org/Ws09iSNvsE2X...

Homeownership shouldn’t be out of reach for hard working Washingtonians. A new affordable housing project in Seattle is helping essential workers buy homes in the communities they serve. While WA GOP works to hand out tax breaks, WA Dems are working to ensure affordability lasts for generations.

"All You Fascists Bound to Lose" performed by the Piedmont Raging Grannies. Rock on! 🤘🤘🤘 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARPs...

Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring. Gift link: nyti.ms/4oC3U25

Pregnant girls as young as 13—many pregnant from rape—have been detained at a Texas ICE facility with inadequate care. Now Congress says it doesn't know where the girls are. Sign to demand Congress launch a formal investigation now! share.weareultraviolet.org/s/aMRUdMHP

The Art of the Deal.

CR found that Uber and Lyft are using AI that offers different customers different prices for the same route. Please join me in asking the FTC and state AGs to investigate Uber and Lyft’s pricing algorithms. action.consumerreports.org/nb_20260616_...

After Japan battled the Netherlands to a 2-2 draw, the Japanese fans stayed behind and cleaned up every single piece of trash from their section at Dallas Stadium after the game. You LOVE to see it 🇯🇵 #WorldCup #Football #Soccer #RG3 #Love #sports #RGIII #RobertGriffinIII #Japan #Discipline

What about Graham Platner? weeklysift.com/2026/06/15/w...

We still don't need giant smartphone ad kiosks in the middle of the sidewalk (again, I've been raising the alarm about these dumb things for the past 8 years), but the city explicitly addressed videos, photos, the "photo booth," and data retention for that last function, in the law.

I've been writing (and complaining) about the giant ad kiosks now being installed in downtown Seattle since 2018, but they are prevented by city law from retaining any still photos for any purpose. Just in case folks were worried. I covered this last year; ordinance here:

Some good news. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Where do you fit in the political spectrum? Take this quiz from Pew Research: www.pewresearch.org/politics/qui...

Thanks to Gov. Bob Ferguson’s new Executive Order, WA is leading the nation in requiring state agencies to provide support for employees experiencing perimenopause and menopause.

The first Europeans who saw a platypus thought it was a fraud.⁣ ⁣ Not because it was fake. Because it didn't fit the model they had in their heads.⁣ ⁣ I worry we sometimes make the same mistake with economic data.⁣ ⁣ https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/why-i-still-trust-the-jobs-report

For a year the gerrymandering wars have begged the question, what would a fair map of all 435 congressional districts look like? Well wonder no longer, I provided a nationwide map at @heartlandsignal.bsky.social heartlandsignal.com/2026/06/09/w...

The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy | Science. Really important short-read from Stephan Lewandowsky. Might be of interest to @brianstelter.bsky.social & @jayrosen.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

This is very alarming. If scientific discourse is limited, we are f**ked.

If men's job growth is lagging, one response is straightforward: move toward the occupations that are growing.⁣ ⁣ Labor markets change. Successful workers and societies adapt to those changes.⁣ ⁣ Check out the full analysis: https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/the-pink-collar-economy-is-here

This will help create resources, training, and accommodations that keep experienced women in the workplace while supporting their health, dignity, and economic security. We know that when women succeed, WA succeeds!

Despite being under Republican control, the House just defied President Trump on the Iran war. No amount of lying or bullying by the White House can make Americans forget we're paying for a senseless war. Now even some GOP Members of Congress are recognizing they ultimately answer to us - not him.

He's not winning Iran, but at least he's also not winning in the United States, either.

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

"Decentralization, like democracy itself, is something we have to fight for."

Hundreds of turbines delivering 3.5 GW of electricity to 3 million people. Clean energy is unstoppable. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Ossoff: "While you pay more for everything, Donald Trump wants your tax dollars for what many are calling the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom."

Economists call this diminishing marginal utility. The first dollars change your life. The billionth doesn't. So the argument stops being about consumption and starts being about power.

My Go Big or Go Home thoughts for this Saturday: I make the case for why we should consider amending the Constitution to create a fourth branch open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Texas… everywhere. 😑

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