Just stopped at the little memorial honoring the life of the Lilli. As I was crossing the street just now the pedestrian in front of me was nearly struck by a driver. What’s the plan here, SDOT?

SCL doesn’t ask the public if we want safe transmission lines. SPU doesn’t ask the public if we want safe watermains. Boeing Field doesn’t ask the public if we want a safe runway. WSDOT doesn’t ask the public if we want safe bridges. Why does SDOT put safe streets up for debate?

Oof

There's not adequate plumbing and they're hoping to spread disease through the beds. There's a section for disabled detainees. This is a concentration camp. Chuck Schumer made this happen last November. When this is over, he better be dead because if he isn't, he needs to be on trial too.

I just saw a person crossing the street going south from the NW corner of Pine & Bellevue who had to jump back to the curb because a turning driver cut them off inches into the crosswalk. This is we’re Lilli Morenno was killed on Monday. @seattledot.bsky.social what’s your plan to prevent this?

It’s time that we ban right turns on red citywide as an initial step towards building a transportation network that prioritizes people.

Maybe my expectations for how dogged journalists can be were set too high by college reporters but I find it wild that there are people on Reddit essentially claiming to have knowledge of the (alleged) circumstances of the collision in Capitol Hill and no outlet is apparently digging into it at all

My expectations for the mayor were realistic, I thought. Her cluelessness and spinelessness are nevertheless a shock. What further discussion and fact-finding do you need? How do you not have a point of view on police surveillance in the middle of an ethnic cleansing?

Wilson so bad on this. This is legitimately enraging. She's clearly on the wrong side. One tell is "neighborhood impacts" in which "neighborhood" excludes our unhoused neighbors. They literally do not count in her worldview.

This whole stretch is a highway sewer death trap. Snapped this recently where sidewalks at Boren and Columbia were closed on *both sides*

They’ve overturned Roe. They’ve criminalized pregnancy in some states. Arrested women for miscarrying. They’re making it harder for women to vote. They shout “repeal the 19th!” The punishment for abortion is greater than the punishment for rape. It’s a war on women.

This fucking sucks. "Wilson said the mayor isn’t pursuing a significant shift in encampment clearing strategies from the previous administration. In fact, the city has been clearing encampments at roughly the same rate as under the previous administration." www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

seconded

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back. Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

What I hoped for from Katie Wilson: A smooth operator whose bland exterior hides a passionate solidarity with our most vulnerable neighbors. What I feared from Katie Wilson: Kinder, gentler sweeps.

I really need people outside of Seattle to know how much Krist Novoselic sucks

ICE killed him. In less than 5 hours of custody.

Seattle's hatred of anyone having a good time goes way back.

Early this morning, a fleet of ICE vehicles being transported by car carrier was spotted traveling west on I-90, ending up in Everett. Everett, specifically around the Casino Road area, has been a hot spot for #ICE activity. 1/

GREAT NEWS ON THIS: NEON has acquired the outstanding film ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM and will be giving it a theatrical release sometime later this year. Between this & LEVITICUS, glad to see that they've picked up two of the very best films of the fest to give them their moment on the big screen 📽️

It’s on-brand for the conservative leaning @kuow.org that their promo for a discussion of the millionaire tax is “WA Dems want to tax every dollar of your income over $1M” That’s misleading & inflammatory to the point of a being lie. Truth is the tax is 10 cents of every dollar of income over $1M

I Will Not Stancil For This

What is hurtful, to be clear, isn't that Stancil is Stancil. Clout guys are clout guys, you mute them and move on. What really bothers me is seeing folks on here I respect gleefully trashing folks for criticizing him, because they got too invested in the redemption arc of a mediocre white man.

#OnThisDay in 1968, the Seattle City Council concluded that legal means didn't exist to curb hippies. historylink.org/File/1363

"But staff members at Hennepin County Medical Center determined that could not possibly account for the fractures and bleeding throughout the 31-year-old’s brain, said three nurses familiar with the case."

misleading

In some countries the outbreak of bloodshed inspires the opposition party to call for the leader to resign

Temps are in the upper 20s this weekend in Seattle. Warm clothes are needed for people living outside. Reach out if you have clothes and can drop them off in Interbay this weekend!

Washington folks:

In February, a Texas Observer investigation revealed the identity of James Rodden, an ICE attorney who operates an openly white supremacist account on X. Last week, @stevanzetti.bsky.social proved he's back in court trying immigration cases:

“Neighbors found the 6 year old girl walking down the street alone crying out for her father”

I would not like to inherit a tomato

My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support. PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities- Venmo @powwowgrounds www.powwowgrounds.com

"They drag people out of their houses at any hour of the day and night…families are torn apart. Men, women, & children separated…children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” - Anne Frank, 1942

I've got good news for that pallid billionaire who wants to live forever.

Why the blatantly false headline? No evidence here that he was "in a gunfight," only that he had been shot at by someone else hours earlier, or that he had a gun. More accurate: "Cops kill man asleep in his truck while his partner screams at them to stop." www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The Tele-Mouse 3D Mouse and Phone called itself a product of the "internet era." I can't find the exact year, but it was from the early 2000s.

Today trans ppl’s lives and livelihoods are in danger, our freedom of movement and association are restricted, and our medical care is threatened, all of turned into a political chit in no small part bc of the nyt.

When his eyesight began to fail, Monet labeled paint tubes so he could choose colors by name rather than sight. 🎨 More and more, the composition happened in his mind rather than on the canvas.

Masked agents dragged a teacher from her classroom. They pepper-sprayed a toddler. They shot a father of two, for the crime of trying to go to work. This is Trump’s America—and we need your help to keep exposing it. trib.al/n3qCUlv

Call me crazy, but I think you're supposed to enjoy living with the person you marry?

This psycho-social immaturity at play / “We won’t apologize” as a thought-terminating cliche Underdeveloped political cortex that reads any critique of America, power and whiteness as minorities trying to make people *feel* bad: guilt, shame, and the discomfort around difference.

We tried so hard to raise the alarm. Is anyone paying attention yet?

Great insight into how and why the NYT moved to become a mouthpiece for anti-trans bigotry—plus more evidence that every progressive issue is also a labor issue

Violinist undeterred by Vancouver orchestra’s legal threat over sexual assault claim

Christmas is goth. It's a solstice festival of pagan indulgence retrofitted for a cult of child sacrifice, and the culmination of the Halloween season.

Disappointed to see Jon Stewart & co joke about masking in public. I do it for my medically fragile daughter (Batten Disease). People not masking properly led to her getting pneumonia, which led to her being on life support, which led to me getting price quotes on her cremation just in case.