Well that helps to explain this Brooks column from last month. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

Ryan cutting through the confusing quagmire of land use with their signature clarity:

If #1 happens we should all agree to simply refuse to acknowledge it after a week. Go right back to blaming Trump tariffs for affordability issues. The average voter simply won't notice/remember, but they'll remember the narrative that Trump loves tariffs.

Just heard a videogame streamer say the phrase "your words mean nothing to me because I have seen your actions" and holy shit if that isn't an accidentally fire response to every news development in the last 9 months.

Getting thrown out of Chuck E Cheese's for pronouncing Whack-a-mole like guacamole

I'm just gonna keep saying it until it's a more widely accepted fact: all the best urbanists are women of color.

The right call with LWB is so blatantly obvious and yet Bruce Harrell killed even the pathetic compromise plan. Vote his ass out.

Fellow Seattleites: I beg you. Please do not reelect this absolute tool, this non-entity, this empty suit. Please elect someone who will put Seattle's purported progressive values into action. (Her name is Katie Wilson.)

At a press conference at City Hall this morning, the Working Families Party and PROTEC17—the largest union of City of Seattle workers—endorsed Katie Wilson for mayor. The city union's endorsement is especially monumental because for most of these workers, incumbent Bruce Harrell is their boss.

"don't think of pink elephants" but make it a campaign strategy

The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House. When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases. For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.

Inshallah he will meet the same fate

Bruce Harrell is the Andrew Cuomo of Seattle.

We have a chance to amplify the perspectives of Seattleites who - unlike some members of Seattle City Council - know a new King County mental health crisis center in Capitol Hill would be a great addition to a great neighborhood. Let's drink, laugh, and talk about it on July 7 @ 7PM at Vermillion.

You don’t want to miss this!

So... a funny thing happened when they were making the Club World Cup navigation signs...

"we shouldn't have to report child abuse and we're willing to sue to prevent us from having to do it" should be an immediate flag that these same people are either engaging in or covering up rampant child abuse happening within the church

These two things happened 5 months apart. The Democratic leadership needs to adapt before their gerontocracy kills the rest of us too.

NPR did a 30-minute interview with Steve Bannon in his podcast studio that aired just yesterday. PBS had on Chris Rufo tonight. Cozying up to these fucks won’t save you.

Store is live. Pretty bare bones right now, I only have a Wide Awakes flag and unisex t-shirt, and I just have some filler product descriptions. Later tonight I'll have time to add more. And also add some of those historical eagle designs that I've been working on. wideawakes.etsy.com

The tariffs are not over. They're still in effect, including massive ones on the huge chunk of goods from China. Dems should make fun of Trump as weak, but not let up for even a moment on tariffs. This is a big vulnerability for MAGA, and we should hit it for the next 4 years no matter what.

#TeslaTakedown Seattle in SODO.

To the man dressed in a suit and wool coat in downtown DC drinking a White Claw on your way to your next meeting... ignore this poster, you're locked in brother

Seeing a lot of people treat this as a sure thing, but there's no indication beyond Lutnick's wishy-washy statement here that Trump will actually reverse course. Lutnick is probably just talking out his ass in the hopes of calming the markets.

no king but biking

Me, age 16 hearing my dad play "Staying Alive" on his record player: "'we must try to understand the New York Times effect on man'? These lyrics suck." Me age 32, watching the MSM normalize fascism and oligarchy: "it is vital that we understand and counteract the New York Times effect on man"

THANK YOU to the 330+ people who signed in PRO to support HB 1491 -- the Transit Oriented Development and Housing bill, increasing housing and small biz density around light rail, bus rapid transit, and heavy rail stops statewide. Sign in PRO and join us: app.leg.wa.gov/csi/House?se... #waleg

Headlines a week ago: "Musk is looking into buying tiktok!" Me: please God no anyone but him Monkeys paw curling behind me:

Today in History: Americans overthrow Hawaiian monarchy, install landowner/colonialist rule. www.history.com/this-day-in-...

Something kind of surprising is happening this winter in King County: covid hospitalizations are lower than they've been in years at this time, while influenza and RSV cases are through the roof. I think this might be the first time in 5 years that covid isn't the #1 respiratory illness.

Out of 200+ House Democrats, there were only *two* defections. This is not an issue that’s splitting the party, no matter how much the usual suspects in the center-left media insist that no, really, it’s going to happen this time.

It's the first day of #WALeg and we've already got a hearing on one of our bills! #RentStabilization (HB 1217) is being heard today in the Housing Committee. Follow along as we bring you the highlights in our live thread 🧵👇

This, IMO is the real core of this argument, and the one I've come to recognize myself. Left-libertarianism cannot be our de facto response to the housing crisis and its progeny: homelessness.

As just seen on Reddit. @bretthamil.bsky.social this your doing?

Just filed: a bill that would target design review in Washington, forcing local governments to only require administrative review of design standards for housing projects and limiting how many different architectural drawings can be required of builders. #waleg #hb1160 app.leg.wa.gov/BillSummary/...

This is what we have a chance to fund next month in Seattle. We have already authorized the bodies that can do this. The only question is the money, which we can raise by voting YES on Prop 1A.

NY democrats are a stain on our national party

Is it the "Tesla of stoves" because it catches shit on fire? If so, mine does that too so like, no impressed bro

Me, age 16 hearing my dad play "Staying Alive" on his record player: "'we must try to understand the New York Times effect on man'? These lyrics suck." Me age 32, watching the MSM normalize fascism and oligarchy: "it is vital that we understand and counteract the New York Times effect on man"

So I've been buying up durable goods I needed in advance of Trumps tariffs (ebike, A/C unit) and telling all my friends and family to do the same. But I don't know what to do with my stock investments. Has anyone else come up with a heuristic for whether to sell or not?

When the Democrats build our juggernaut propaganda machine, centrist cry-bullies will blame us for the death of unbiased reporting. Don't let them lie to your face, billionaires killed it:

These two stories this week have really revealed something to me: we're headed into a golden age of vigilantism in America over the next 5 years. The legal system has been bought by the Federalist Society, and police can/will no longer solve even the most obvious crimes.

What drives me nuts about the trans youth "debate" is how much of it consists of people who don't know anything demanding compromises that already exist. Hormones and surgeries for minors receive ABSURD amounts of regulation and scrutiny! Either engage with the facts on this issue or shut up.

Here's my real late night hot take: if Psycho Killer wasn't by The Talking Heads, it would be denigrated as a derivative, repetitive annoyance.

@support.bsky.team There should be a way to unmute people individually who are muted from a moderation list. I'm subscribed to one list meant to mute TERFs, but someone I follow seems to have been mistakenly added to it.

The seal of the French Southern Territories is WILD lmao

As someone who believed, up until this spring, that Biden's position on Israel was merely political expedience, I'll eat crow and admit I was far more wrong than I even realized in the past several months.

The institutions wouldn't prevent this, so we won't be repairing them, we'll be throwing them out and building better ones

Took a beer walk today. (Cider counts)