I was on NPR last week talking about a new publication that is really important to me - part of our larger effort to change the way we think and talk about both mental and physical health, and how they relate to each other, after stress and trauma. www.knkx.org/2026-01-28/u...

If our "environmental protection" frameworks can stop an affordable housing project but can't stop a detention center or a highway expansion we really need to start talk about ripping things up root and branch.

My latest for @truthout.org is an interview w/ @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social on her new book, “King Of The North: Martin Luther King’s Life of Struggle Outside the South.” She explains MLK’s challenge to structural racism & Coretta Scott King’s visionary leadership that shaped King & the movement.

I wrote a new piece for @truthout.org looking back at 2025 — a year when educators didn’t just endure repression, they built resistance. ✊🏽📚 Education has never been neutral—It either liberates or subjugates. Here are the stories of those who resisted subjugation. truthout.org/articles/in-...

📣 Excited to share this open access study from our team, led by my mentee Dr. Alex Williams. We explored relationships among neighborhood #walkability, neighborhood features, and depression among treatment-seeking #veterans. 👟 @uwmedicine.bsky.social @uwsph.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ac...

My pal is doing a Halloween fundraiser for our school's families who rely on SNAP. We'll put fliers on our doors and around the neighborhood. Maybe you want to do the same for your local community? Feel free to use the cute canva she put together (linked, editable) 🎃 www.canva.com/design/DAG3H...

Coming up on 20 years of Link in the Rainier Valley. A Sound Transit employee told my neighbors and me that people crash into the light rail because it’s new and unfamiliar. Education won’t work. We should probably stop playing with tech gadgets and fix it.

This (cheesy) voter dialer joke is prompting me to share my phone banking life hack with y’all: I do my physical therapy exercises while I wait for the next voter to answer. 💪🏼 ✅

It's raining, it's pouring. Perfect day to make calls for our brilliant progressive candidate for Seattle mayor Katie Wilson @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social! Join me, anytime today! mobilize.us/s/WJMprZ

Our latest study is out, open access in Preventive Medicine Reports, led by @uwmedicine.bsky.social med student Na'imah Muhammad. We centered Black Veterans to inform efforts to reduce disparities in VA weight management care. Tackling discrimination=healthcare www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

First day of #WeekWithoutDriving 2025, are you ready? disabilityrightswa.org/how-would-yo...

My family uses air quotes when referring to the Mount Baker "transit center" because it seems like such an afterthought for actual riders. Here's my kid at the "transit center" en route to her soccer game on Sunday. City leaders, read @nondriver.bsky.social's brilliant piece and improve this area!

Thanks to Working Families Party for organizing yesterday’s canvas in Columbia City. Our opponent has wealthy donors — we have each other. Ready to win an affordable Seattle together? Sign up to canvas at the link in our bio! #thisisyourcity @workingfamilies.org

It's time for Seattle to build nice things for bus riders, not just cruise ship tourists.

NEW // Op-Ed: Will Ethics Commission Hold Harrell Accountable for Campaigning with Public Resources? By Robert Cruickshank via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/13/o...

It is not too late to tell City Council we want more housing. Sign the Seattle YIMBY petition to the Council supporting what we think are the best amendments. The more signatures the greater impact it will have. And send to your friends. actionnetwork.org/petitions/4f...

Seattle's Mayor Harrell holds back transit (again!) doubles down on do-nothingism. This guy is nonstop when it comes to stopping good things from happening. Harrell has always hampered good government outcomes and he's not about to quit now. Fire him! rondezvouswa.com/p/seattle-s-...

One of the things I have been most wrong about is that I thought once the impacts of climate change manifest we would see bold climate action, especially in scientifically literate progressive cities. Instead we get glossy vision documents, plans, and self congratulation while doing too little.

Prioritize public transit!!

Dear @wadems.org: It is ridiculous that we don't have free school meals for all in our state. These are the standards used to determine eligibility. In this state, many well above these levels struggle. With the federal government cutting many benefits, these meals become even more important.

We need a mayor that prioritizes transit. @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social

If we’re going to rely as a city on public transportation to get our kids to school, as many cities do, we need to build routes and headways with schools in mind, not just downtown commuters.

Packed and very late @kingcountymetro.bsky.social buses this am. Kids are late for middle school, Veterans are late for medical appointments, and I’m late for work. We fail our communities when we don’t prioritize public transportation.

Our new study is out, open access in Preventive Medicine Reports! 📣 Led by Dr. Jessica Breland (@jbreland.bsky.social‬), this qualitative study sought recommendations from VA employees and Black Veterans on how to reduce disparities in VA weight-related care. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We took a King County Metro bus to this trailhead for $2.75 (kids ride free). Bonus: we got to snuggle en route to hiking, instead of stressing our way through traffic. This sort of joyful, public, climate-friendly access to nature should be year-round, in all the places. ❤️

Poor shade planning is a chronic issue in Seattle’s new parks and something I’d like City Council to address. Shade, and shelter, is critical to making our public spaces usable year round and maximizing the value of our investments. This is a climate adaptation issue!!

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

"@wilsonforseattle.bsky.social is so impressive because she both understands the need to mobilize community members (transit riders and renters specifically) to push for fair and progressive funding, but also understands the policy tools available better than pretty much anyone else."

Today I wrote in the @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social about the urgent need to bring safety and joy to South Seattle with traffic calming. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/stop...

Something I believe: allowing more people to be able to live in this amazing place is a moral necessity.

I’m feeling really hopeful for Katie Wilson right now. www.wilsonforseattle.com

Inspired by the awesome org. Creative Justice, I donated a day's wage in honor of Juneteenth. Inviting you to do the same. givebutter.com/adayswage

💔 RIP Sly Stone. A revolutionary sound. An integrated band. A message of love, defiance, & liberation. No Prince without Sly. No Funkadelic. No Miles Davis fusion. His music makes him immortal. Thank you, Sly, for changing everything. #SlyStone #RestInPower #EverydayPeople youtu.be/UpUCJWlN0sE?...

Victory! Just left the bill signing with @governorferguson.bsky.social

This week 68 local elected officials sent a letter calling on our WA Legislature and Governor to pass new revenue measures. You know who isn’t on the list? Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell. www.investwanow.org/press-releas...

These VA workers were helping veterans. One had even found $10 million in cost savings. But they were fired under a false pretense in the name of efficiency.

I was cc’d on lots of #5bullets emails, as a lead on VA research studies. Engaging earnestly with the exercise for a sec here, it highlighted the amazing work #federalworkers do to improve Veterans’ health. And what we all stand to lose with VA research being gutted. 💔 prospect.org/health/2025-...

Thanks to @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social for reminding me of this Ursula K. le Guin quote.

I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.

INBOX: Washington Governor Bob Ferguson’s office says that the state Employment Security Department is helping affected federal employees who have been laid off apply for unemployment benefits and seek new work, and is reporting numbers on affected federal workers.

🗣️ WILMORE: “a type of hypocrisy — hyperventilating over protecting middle class workers… unless they work for the government. Then they don't count. A different type of elitism on the right. Musk has been too flippant about this. These are people’s lives.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGHftBA...

Today is a beautiful day to vote for social housing in Seattle! Vote YES and 1A! Ballots are due Tuesday. You won’t get as many reminders as you did in November. www.seattlebikeblog.com/2025/01/24/e...

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

In awe of the masses of protestors and soooo many honks of support for trans kids at Seattle Children’s today. 🩵💕

48% of papers published since January 1, 2015 have been removed from PCD website. Our team pulled all PCD publications from PubMed and checked the DOI to see if the paper still exists on the PCD website. For the 1470 articles from the past 10 years, only 763 are still accessible through PCD (52%).

Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.

"To condone policies that the profession knows will compromise health—or to remain silent and look away—is to be complicit in putting population health at risk" To every university, every public hospital, every academic society: SILENCE IS NOT AN OPTION. #medsky