Here at Got Green’s office opening. Hearing about their campaign to help SHA tenants have better conditions. www.gotgreenseattle.org

Just another terrific @chum.news piece!

Seattle teachers and grocery workers would surely agree with the teachers in Queens. Did you know the WA state legislature *lowed* estate taxes on *billionaires* (and other very rich people) this year? It's time we get serious about taxing the rich.

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My cousin worked in Starbucks main roastery in Seattle for 30 years. One day a few months ago he showed up for work and there was just a sign on the door saying that the roastery was permanently closed and they were all out of a job. Starbucks sucks so much ass.

….unity and harmony?

McCoy said the SSHD expects to have a second property acquisition by the end of the year.

Well-said.

According to a presentation by SSHD staff, the developer will make a net annual revenue of $2 million, even after accounting for the aforementioned rent reductions and freezes. This will finance $60 million in bonds, allowing the agency to immediately cycle capital and invest in more buildings.

BREAKING: The Seattle Social Housing Developer has announced its first acquisition, a 150-unit apartment building near Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle, for the cost of $60.9 million. It plans to convert half the units to be affordable for low and middle-income tenants.

bezos saying low earners should get their taxes cut while he evades billions in taxes is textbook dangling a shiny object so youre distracted

How many full-time, family-wage, long-term jobs will AI data centers create, Governor? Don’t say “Virginia’s economy” when you mean “Wall Street and lobbyists”

Wheeee we won the straw poll! Best part is: the 43rd Dems’ fundraiser was a super fun & warm (figuratively & literally 🥵 — it was hot in there!) community building opportunity to talk to our neighbors & other candidates about our vision for an affordable future. Thanks to everyone who came thru! 🧡

Tonight! @ Elliott Bay Books! @triofrancos.bsky.social will speak on her exciting new book, “Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism,” which I strongly recommend you read if you care about a just transition to renewable energy! Come out!

Seattle, come hear @triofrancos.bsky.social on Tuesday at Elliott Bay Books! It’s the book I’ve wanted for a long time (we need an energy transition — but we should fight to prevent the worst of fossil capitalism from finding its way into a low/no carbon future — Thea’s book guides the way!)

been fantasizing: what if transit riders (anyone who qualifies for Access or has an Orca card they've activated in the last month) got to cast a vote for a rider's advocate on the Sound Transit board...

i’ve been thinking of what could even be said about such a tragedy. someone said it best that trans people are “born so late and die so young”. we uproot our lives and transition and live more life than anyone else ever does and society punishes us for it. we deserve better

Heartbroken by this loss.

How are baristas welcoming Starbucks's new corporate offices in Nashville? They're organizing unions right in their backyard! ✊ CONGRATULATIONS to workers at the Long Hollow Pike & I-65 store in North Nashville, TN... they just won their union election 17-2! 🔥

The relevant portion of the Jason Collins discussion

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXAx... I recently sat down with Seattle renters to hear directly about the challenges they're facing in today's affordability crisis. These conversations are shaping the work we're doing to make renting in Seattle more affordable, transparent, and fair.

Heartbroken 💔 Absolutely loved him and his pleasant vibe. From Day 1 when I met him at summer league. Beloved in the Grizzlies locker room. Trip as you would imagine is taking this especially hard. Grizzlies players met earlier today to grieve together. RIP Brandon 🙏🏽

Here is Jason’s essay about being the first active player in one of the four major men’s U.S. sports to come out as gay. What an absolute hero who will never be forgotten: www.si.com/more-sports/...

The day before his 29th birthday, a Memphis Grizzlies forward delivered a check to a class full of second graders.  “I tried to make sure everyone got a high-five or a hug.” That was Brandon Clarke. 

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

Spot-on piece by @mhgreen3000.bsky.social "We underinvest in the conditions that actually produce safety, and then we overinvest in the systems that respond to its absence." www.thestranger.com/news/how-fea...

Amazing how some people have endless energy for protecting billionaires from paying taxes and contributing back to the society that made them rich. But when it comes to protecting trans people? Suddenly, it’s crickets. Fascinating allocation of moral urgency.

Another shuttered Seattle Starbucks will become a different coffeeshop, as Anchorhead Coffee takes over the old West Seattle Junction location, the West Seattle Blog reports.

🧵 2/2 🧵 Following in the tradition of Obama, Biden, and Harris.

This is a fun read

Having a great day. Just saw a cybertruck getting a parking ticket

@bootsriley.bsky.social shows support for SIFF cinema workers and their collective bargaining at the opening of the Seattle International Film Festival

Go see Boots Riley’s latest stroke of genius, I Love Boosters, asap!

I'm pleased to share continued progress on my top priority of rapidly expanding shelter with wraparound services. Today I'm announcing a new lease, a new partnership, and continued legislative momentum. wilson.seattle.gov/2026/05/07/c...

Editing error in my post—1,000 by the end of the year! The goal is *500* by June.

Watching LA Mayoral debate and have two thoughts: 1. It’s amazing Nithya Raman waited as long as she did to get into this VERY winnable race; 2. I wish Mike Davis was here to write about this race, and the role that the fires are playing in it

From breakfast to graduation, Seattle is investing in any and every step of a student’s future. Free meals for every Seattle public school. Full-day, year-round preschool. More affordable childcare for working families. Expanded mental health care and school-based health services for students.

What if and hear me out the Mariners hit some hits

Mike Conley deserves a ring more than any current player in the NBA. I said what I said

YIKES: The Seattle Times rejected a union request to not replace workers with AI saying "Journalism doesn't mean journalists." www.instagram.com/p/DX7Tkxpj55...

Lack of hours. Poor training. Higher expectations. Low pay and treatment. 

On May Day, Starbucks baristas in Providence, RI announced to management they’ve had enough, and they’re organizing their union! ✊

We should be proving that taxes are actually a screaming deal because they deliver irresistibly good services that are not subject to profit

🚨 Absolute unit alert 🚨

Interviewed Claire Valdez @claireforny.bsky.social, and one thing that jumped out to me in her labor platform is her proposal for government funding of union organizing--a great idea and one that I don't recall ever seeing a candidate officially propose. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/claire-val...

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson plans to give all SPS students free meals, while expanding the hours and availability of the city's free preschool program.

Shortly following my announcement of new investments in Seattle’s children and families today, we heard gunfire. No one was injured, but it was a stark reminder of a reality too many people in this city live with every day.

this is like a caricature of the small ball, no conviction, triangulating nonsense that many people associate with democrats

super short notice but if you want to eat some cake to celebrate a broken bus stop, you can today at 5:30 PM! meet at the 2nd Ave & Denny bus stop

Working-class voters may be having second thoughts about MAGA, but they’re still abandoning the Democratic Party. Democrats’ reliance on college-educated suburbanites is arithmetically insufficient and politically unsustainable.