“In the end, there's still that song Comes crying like the wind Down every lonely street That's ever been” Many of us walking that street…not really alone then.

More please!

While it’s good news that Bob Ferguson now supports an income tax, his plan would delay it to 2029. And he proposes a lot of austerity before that, including huge cuts to public education. That’s bad policy and bad politics.

Must make it happen!

Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.

Share and tell CBS to air this! Sharyn Alfonsi, the veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent who reported a segment about migrants sent to the El Salvadoran torture prison CECOT, just sent a blistering letter to colleagues, sounding the alarm that Bari Weiss spiked the story for political reasons.

Thank you @ricksteves.bsky.social for what you did and how you explained the cruelty that is going on. Thank you for being a light!

This loss of our neighbors is unacceptable. Seattle can and must do better to house people and protect the unhoused.

Have you ever heard someone go off, and their words are so perfectly chosen, so well said in that moment, that you’re in awe? You think, “There’s nothing to add here,” and you applaud in your head. That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

I choose to live near Downtown Seattle. If I declared I had a right to demand Issaquah have more parking, I wouldn’t be given a second of credence. So why is the Seattle paper airing grievances from people who choose to live in Issaquah about the way we’ve built our downtown?

Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.

Mass deportations don’t protect working people—they weaken labor standards, silence organizing and empower bad employers. An attack on immigrant workers is an attack on ALL workers. @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social

This is not so long ago. My mom told me stories of how fantastic it was to get the polio vaccine and stop fearing that terrible disease that shut down activities during her youth. Vaccines save lives!

Just got 10 form messages letting me know that the Seattle Police Department has moved my "placeholder date" for the records requests they are ignoring, going back te 2023, to the end of NEXT year. Almost unbelievably, they have only provided ONE set of records on ONE request (from 2024) this year.

UPDATE: I've heard from Jose's family. He's apparently been transferred to an ICE detention center in TX, but it's been days since they've been able to speak with him. He needs medical care and to be able to speak with his family and lawyer. This obscene cruelty helps no one.

‘Cause people see a good thing happening…

Our city is ready, the fans are ready, and I can't wait! FIFA World Cup is coming to Seattle, and we are so excited to be a part of the global celebration. With matches on Juneteenth and Pride, we get to show the world that in Seattle, everyone is welcome. What an incredible honor for our city!

Thanks to Thom Hartmann and 91.3 KBCS for hosting me last night at Town Hall! I enjoyed sharing a little of my vision for the city, including my idea for publicly funded local media (News Notes), which got a great response from the crowd.

In the 4.5-mile bike ride to pick up my kids from school, I found the following in painted bike lanes: at least 6 trash bins, a parked car, a parked firefighter truck (likely lunch break), and a parked city maintenance vehicle. This is unacceptable, and another reason why paint is not infrastructure

More brutality by ICE.

Bill Cassidy owes literally everyone an apology

Stupid and deadly…that’s the MAHA agenda. You can’t fix stupid. We got to call it out and defeat it.

I keep asking what Democrats are planning to do to stop him and all I get are crickets. Dems can make the GOP back down and reverse what RFK Jr. is doing if they made it a priority to do so.

Despite this incredibly predictable abuse of the growing surveillance panopticon, Mayor Harrell & the conservative majority on Seattle city council voted to put an SPD camera less than *450 feet* from Planned Parenthood’s Northgate location stopsurveillancecity.wordpress.com/2025/04/13/s...

It was a joy to join Rev. Dr. Robert L. Jeffrey, Sr of New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, the Low Income Housing Institute, and other community leaders to break ground at a new affordable housing project. Over 90 families in the Central District will be housed as a result of this multi-year project

Trump’s new rules could throw 170,000 people back onto the streets, including tens of thousands in WA, by stripping $120M from proven homelessness programs. WA’s AG Nick Brown is saying hell no. He’s leading a multistate lawsuit to stop this reckless attack on Housing First.

This is the most important op-ed you'll read this week. The Trump administration is about to get rid of the birth-dose of hepatitis B vaccine. That is a deadly choice for many families. @helenouyang.bsky.social tells her story. Now call your member of Congress. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

No war with Venezuela! It’s time we get vocal about this!

A Latin American president who, unlike leftist leaders Maduro and Petro, actually was heavily involved in smuggling cocaine into the United States--and Trump has pardoned him after serving just a few months of his 45-year sentence. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Honoring the past and current knowledge and practices of Native Americans and Indigenous people’s.

Riddle me this, how in the fuck is this making our communities any safer? This ICE agent sprays this disabled woman directly in the face in St Paul, Minnesota with pepper spray and then throws her to the ground. I hope she sues the hell out of ICE for this‼️#Abolish 🧊🧊🧊

Count us in the “love our heat pump” group. Much less expensive and we are warm in winter and can use it as AC on hot Seattle days. An Obama era energy efficiency program helped us transition from dirty, costly heating oil. I wish this for all.

As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.

What could be “great”about a country that does this to people.

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

One of my first initiatives as mayor will be to make sure that City Hall moves in a better direction, toward a more responsive city government that delivers services to people and explains what we're doing and why. #thisisyourcity

Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union. They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration. More updates TK.

Do taxes in Washington feel unfair to you? Correct, they are. The solution is restructuring taxes for fairness so that all Washingtonians can have the services & systems they need.

Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Seattle Nice sat down with Mayor-elect Katie Wilson this week to talk about her vision for the city, including her ambitious plan to shelter thousands of people and address the massive budget deficit outgoing mayor Bruce Harrell left for her to deal with. Listen and subscribe:

I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.

This continues to make me laugh. I hope 🧠🪱 gets quacked at everywhere he goes. 🦆🦆🦆

Epstein survivor Haley Robson refutes Mike Johnson: "The survivors that don't want to be public are Jane Does. They've been protected and their names have been redacted the whole time ... I don't care if my name is redacted is not."

Tonight's well-attended community meeting about the future of the Lake City Mini Park was billed as a discussion about "future potential permanent fencing". Switcheroo by somebody at Seattle city hall. The permanent fence was completed 1 day ago. Who decided? No one at the meeting could/would say.

I don’t think FIFA would move the World Cup from Seattle. Trump is full of bluster. But this isn’t on Katie Wilson to address. It’s on Seattle’s business community, which needs to stop falsely claiming Seattle isn’t safe if they want to protect their potential profits. More here:

Thanks for applying Katie!

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...