And to that, I say: Fuck. That. YOU have burnt 4 years. If we need to pass a placeholder, pass the Corridors in Alternative 5. We want all 17,736 acres available for healthy, safe, affordable social housing. You said you were bullied by the ex-mayor. You got a new mayor. What's your excuse now?

You guys, we (mostly James) worked sooo hard on this thread. As usual I pray that 5 ppl read it in its entirety. I pray that that is you

What is this all about?? Let me try to explain. It's important, because it's actually about @seasocialhousing.bsky.social and it's about Alzheimer's and heart disease and asthma, and rich homeowners keeping you sick and housing rare and unaffordable. And what you can do about it THIS MONTH.

When you look at a case like Epstein or Musk, it’s very hard to see the taxation of extreme wealth as anything but a form of harms prevention. A very sensible policy.

Tax billionaires out of existence.

It just occurred to me that Ezra Klein is essentially Joe Rogan for a slightly more erudite audience.

“‘The persecution is the point,’ said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the [Kansas Dept of Revenue] notice on Wednesday.” To underscore that: a Kansas state legislator is among those whose driver’s license will be voided. (🎁 link:)

*guy gets arrested for a few hours and is returned to his palace* Mob justice is going too far!!

Dozens of Palestinian press workers report being beaten, starved, sexually abused and tortured while detained in Israeli prisons. The scale of cruelty "has increased and intensified" since the start of the genocide, says Sara Qudah with @pressfreedom.bsky.social.

‘Our blood, our sweat, our tears’: how textile artist Tabitha Arnold weaves the US labor movement www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The sumptuous feasts in this show

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

It's not even a tax on "$1 million net worth" or "has $1 million saved". It's a tax on earned income that's over $1 million that year.

Same

Trying to convert some of this lived experience into better spells.

I get the point here, but I think we're seeing diminishing returns from appealing to some hallowed American past. This is my beef with Resistance Historians, or accounts that try to portray Trump as an anomaly in American history: The future you can articulate is all that matters now.

Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick

I think it's worth recognizing that there's no level of moderation that will satisfy the Seattle Times Ed Board: They are bad faith actors who will exploit Wilson's even-keel. There is, however a level of equivocation that will alienate the people who worked hard to elect Wilson.

It is nuts how fast the light rail is now. It feels like we’re a real city.

KISS YOUR BATTLE BROTHER ON THE LIPS!! FOR ULTRAMAR!!!

Making homemade kimchi and pickled cabbage appears to be the gateway to harder substances like Sarma.

After speaking to families of leprechauns, I now believe that Lucky Charms are, in fact, a part of a balanced breakfast.

Also completely wild that they *did* delete the Free Palestine line and not an actual slur . . .

Wilson's 180 on this is bizarre, and I have to assume that the 'moved by families' line is cover for "I had a conversation with the people who are really in charge and they said cameras are coming if you want us to cooperate on x".

NEW: Mayor Katie Wilson needs money to pay for her ambitious 1000 shelter unit promise. Advocates write that she should look no further than the millions the City wastes every year on cruel and ineffective sweeps. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/if-mayo...

In advance of a public safety committee meeting today, Seattle City Councilmember Bob Kettle put out a long press release about public "misconceptions" that are leading people to incorrectly oppose police surveillance, including automated license readers. It's extremely dost-protest-too-much!

This Matchbox "Monster in My Pocket" Werewolf figure cannot hold it

This is exciting! Sanchez was instrumental in helping my building form our tenant's union, and I'm excited to hear her insight on resident governance. If you're even remotely curious about tenants unions or similar subjects, you don't want to miss this.

I know it’s not literally this simple, but GIVE HOMELESS PEOPLE HOMES it’s literally this simple

Oh yikes

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

The Seattle Public Library hired a cop to run security. It's going about how you would expect. New article from DivestSPD editor Justin Ward: www.theurbanist.org/2026/02/23/s...

The reason I’ll be proposing an amendment to remove the $550M corporate giveaway in the income tax bill is simple: To avoid these cuts to K12 and other crucial services. Washington’s working families can’t afford to hand half a billion dollars to businesses that already got a tax break via HR 1.

As I get older, one of the things I like about cinema is that it’s an art form the connects me with the century in which I was born: Film is only a little older than 100 years, and the stories it tells, even the old ones, are stories about the crisis of modernity.

Yeah, we’re in for a good movie tonight

In my experience, asking questions is usually a sign of intelligence, engagement, and willingness to work with others. I don’t want to work with people who aren’t curious.

Again, just Henry Ford 2.0 with worse cars

Honestly, this is the kind of organic messaging @prisonculture.bsky.social was talking about earlier. We don't have to wait for the media to take up these issues on their own. Make it all about these issues.

John Berger gave us such a beautiful bridge between politics and art, and as an artist I’m forever indebted to his insight.

I probably sound old saying this, but I remember when grocery shopping didn’t involve armed guards.

Silent Hill 2 is a game about a sad guy who likes jumping into hole

“Training a human takes 20 years of food”

nobody works harder than a minimum wage worker “Get a better job and work harder” no clerical office manager works harder than a waiter or barista or cashier. If you think you do, you’re an idiot

Headlines like this demonstrate what I mean about the New York Times being an equally (if not worse) corrosive force on American Society than Fox News.

He doesn’t see humans as people, he sees them as property.

To me this is just as exciting as a new light rail extension. www.theurbanist.org/2026/02/21/s...

This one hits hard.