this is why exterior shading, homes that can cross ventilate, and de-paving streets and paved surfaces for urban trees is critical for climate adaptation

What a beautiful people with a beautiful vision.

My favorite reporter out on the best beat. 🪿🌅

Strawberries from the garden!

Housing helps everyone 🏡❤️

Happy Juneteenth! ❤️

Well hello there, Ezra Klein, hobnobbing with fascists. How do you do?

I wish with every part of my being for this little one to grow very old.

This week Kenmore City Council voted 5–1 to send a levy to the ballot in November to fund (among other things) the Climate Action Plan they approved in May 2022. Four years ago. The pace at which we are addressing the climate crisis is much too slow. May it be the will of the voters to act now.

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Love Rothko 💙💚💙

Tax the rich, shut down the military industrial complex, and protect what is important. We can do these things.

'"The status quo of apts in Seattle... it's kind of a global anomaly. It doesn't really exist outside of the U.S. and 🇨🇦, especially w/ family housing." Broadly, Eliason compared many Seattle apt buildings to hotels, citing long interior corridors, limited cross-ventilation, & a lack of green space.'

Click through to read @typewriteralley.bsky.social ‘s (short) thread.

what if,,, salmon???

Habitat connectivity matters. Thank you @wsdot.wa.gov for fixing your fish passage barriers! 🐟❤️

They've known for decades that their industry was going to cause mass suffering. Divest in any way you can.

“We come together to witness a sacred moment: the return of salmon to waters where their ancestors once traveled freely. Our people have always known that salmon are much more than a resource,” Tanna Engdahl, spiritual leader for the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, told the crowd. Thank you Cowlitz Tribe 🐟❤️

It is shameful that we are doing this. Fuck ICE.

Should Seattle sales tax be increased to subsidize wealthy suburban road building? No! But that's what the King County Council is proposing to do this Friday. Tell them to treat Seattle fairly, and not siphon $3 million sales tax for Bellevue etc. Take action now! actionnetwork.org/letters/8415...

Siphoning nearly $3 million of regressive sales tax from Seattleites to subsidize building roads in wealthy suburbs like Medina, Bellevue, Yarrow Point, and Beaux Arts is unacceptable.” —Seattle Street Alliance Furious agreement.

Birds, not war.

Undamming Klamath debuts this year! "The indigenous-led campaign to un-dam the Klamath took about 25 years, and the deconstruction of all four dams was completed in roughly 18 months. Remarkably, just three days after the removal was finalized, salmon began swimming past the former dam sites."

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I did not request more specific definitions on various uses (in this category). I wondered whether it would be helpful in regulating them separately when they are allowed as neighborhood retail. Staff indicated they have not had issues with code as it is. My wondering did not turn into a request.

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The Daily Plover's got grebes today! Narration, as always, adds to the experience.

Exxon was asked by its own shareholders to cut emissions. Instead of debating it, the company sued them. Since then, support for climate proposals has dropped, investors have backed off, and one of the few ways to pressure oil companies from the inside is disappearing.

Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈

That New Yorker cartoon about shareholder profits and the planet is evergreen.

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

The Daily Plover is my favorite news source. 🐤 📰❤️

I don't want to live in a world without mountain goats. 🐐

Land back ❤️

May they be completely successful in their endeavors. 💪🏻

Still happening. Still fuck ICE.

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We are well down the slippery slope. This is nothing to be celebrated.

Goodnight 🌒❤️

No notes.

Beyond Plastics Tracked Starbucks’ ‘Widely Recyclable’ Plastic Cups. None Ended Up at a Recycling Facility. www.beyondplastics.org/press-releas...

This is still happening. Fuck ICE.

When a building enters the social housing portfolio, it belongs to Seattle and it stays that way. That is how you build a city that is actually stable. Not just for a decade, not just until the market shifts — permanently.

Best news. I hope the pause on commercial licenses becomes permanent. 🫐❤️

We are not in charge 😂

Sound on for the narration!

Very exciting news! I recommend clicking through to read the thread (it's short). 🏠❤️

"The social theorist Henri Giroux writes that ​“hope expands the space of the possible and becomes a way of recognizing and naming the incomplete nature of the present.” Well worth a read. We need each other. Thank you for being in this with me. ❤️

I would add before you listen to that next centrist, corporatist Dem freak out, however cleverly argued or obfuscated…remember that the billionaire class does not care about us.

Not a good summary of what I said during this meeting. I do not have a preference for nodes. My preference is for neighborhood commercial throughout residential areas. This is why local journalism matters.