Welp, after years of planning, pots of dedicated funding, promises that despite other elements getting yanked from the plans that sidewalk repairs were still on the table, the only sidewalk on LWB that got repaved this year was the segment right in front of Bruce's house.

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

So I’m getting into my truck at the grocery store and a voice yells “Hey! Young lady!” I am 48 so I did not turn, but then I see wild waving out a truck window. Old man straight off Duck Dynasty, full camo, beard to his sternum. He says “Your bumper sticker! Read books, punch Nazis?”

[Aaron Burr - singing and dancing] I would like to be in the room. Mr. Burr, for the last time, you must remain behind the safety glass.

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

When Amazon 1st announced they would open a 2nd HQ outside of Seattle, the usual WA conservatives gloated that progressives making wealthy corporations pay what they owe in taxes had backfired. Flash forward 8 years and Amazon's HQ2 is a bust & Seattle's Jumpstart tax is keeping our services afloat

When the papers start whining about “cancel culture” again, remember that these men are stepping down 1) voluntarily, and 2) because their jobs have no real impact on their wealth and power, and 3) BECAUSE OF THE RAPING.

BREAKING: 30 more Starbucks locations are joining the strike. Starbucks workers in 25 cities are jumping into the week-long strike. Now @sbworkersunited.org members at 95 stores in 65 cities have walked off the job.

The dam is breaking. The world's leading public health news organization is now reporting US driver violence as a public health crisis. "American roads have become more dangerous than violent crimes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and other major cities." t.co/BEcu5JJ457

Definitely had many such convos.

I’m sorry, I had to

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

Seattle used to fund so much transit service until covid (and jenny durkan) In 2019, almost 75% of the city lived within walking distance of a bus every 10 mins or better. Today, it's only like 50%! Time to get the buses running again!

The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels. n.pr/47WGe0m

The mayor-elect of Seattle fucking Washington standing in a picket line for Starbucks workers hours after her victory speech. This rules so hard

Katie Wilson elected Seattle’s next mayor

The city says it needs “more time to engage with community about these parks.”

Also congrats to @yumewrites.bsky.social, @bingewriting.bsky.social, @nnedi.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and @aptshadow.bsky.social, among several others, for their placement in the first round! It's good to be among friends and such fine writers.

There are currently 1,540 ballots in Seattle that haven't been counted because they are being "challenged" over signature issues. About half are from people who didn't sign their ballots, and the other half due to signature matching issues.

With basically all the ballots in the city of Seattle's mayoral election counted, Katie Wilson is now above 50 percent, with Mayor Bruce Harrell sliding to 49.6 percent. They're currently within the mandatory recount requirements, but machine recounts don't generally change things much.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

The leader of the opposition party is supposed to ensure that the opposition speaks with a unified message. Chuck Schumer failed yet again at that. Why is he still in his role?

Wearily taps the sign: Somebody please show this to Simeon Brown 🫠 And look - in the video it isn’t even a separated cycle lane! Imagine how much safer it’d be if it included some sort of physical separation! Good for cyclists- good for business-good for car drivers. GOODGOODGOOD #nzpol

How do you get past #4? Asking for a friend. (Knowing that 5 comes next sure doesn’t help)

The ACA made my whole self-employed life possible. For almost ten years, I was able to build a career that actually worked for me AND keep receiving necessary care to address the consequences of childhood medical neglect. And I still deserved better. We all do.

Before ACA, many Americans couldn’t afford insurance Alex Smith was a diabetic who got kicked off his Mom’s insurance at 26 He made 35k a year which was “too much” for Medicaid, but not nearly enough to cover insurance premiums He had to ration his insulin & died a month after losing insurance

Sick people are cost centers. Private insurers have no reason to compete for cost centers, they compete for profit centers: healthy people.

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

I just called both @cantwell.senate.gov and @murray.senate.gov to tell them not to cave on the ACA premium subsidy extension – very easy and only took a few minutes. A Republican “promise” of a vote later is completely worthless. If we don’t get it now it’s gone forever.

Remember, you can check on your ballot here.

Ballot results released Friday show Katie Wilson significantly narrowed the gap in her bid to unseat Seattle mayor Bruce Harrell, but continues to lag behind the incumbent. The race is still too close to call.

ART for President!

I though Brem would turn towards new ideas: reduce traffic growth and aggressive driving, make the streets safer for kids walking to school. But Wheeler won and he doesn't believe in any of that. Fought parking mins elimination, refuses bike lane protection, hires cronies. I'm bummed today.

Abigail Spanberger made history on Tuesday as the first woman to be elected governor of Virginia, winning the office by the largest margin of any Democratic candidate in the state in decades. Her campaign focused on jobs and the cost of living, while emphasizing her support for abortion rights.

Incumbent Mayor Bruce Harrell secured about 53% of the vote in Seattle on election night. That doesn’t mean Harrell is safe.

Now that really warms my heart 🥹💜

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

From @kuow.org's analysis: "Here in Washington state, mailed ballots come in daily batches. The count historically inches left with each new afternoon drop, as younger, more liberal voters tend to cast ballots later than their elders."

Here's a look at the raw numbers in the Seattle mayoral contest, with 2021 for scale. Harrell has lost a lot of ground from his 2021 win. Wilson gained 17,221 votes more than Harrell between the primary and general. That would be more than enough to eliminate the 8,319 vote gap here.

For Seattle Council Position No. 9, Dionne Foster has decisively defeated Sara Nelson with 58% of the vote.

So many times SO MANY TIMES I have said I don't trust any politician who throws trans people and immigrants under the bus. Look at this dude. LOOK AT THIS. He's here for ALL OF US. There is NO EXCUSE for any politician who doesn't step up like this. No excuse.

Wow!

In Redmond, Menka Soni is set to defeat incumbent Jeralee Anderson, who voted against approving the permanent supportive housing facility moved from Kenmore. Meanwhile urbanist superstar Melissa Stuart is cruising to reelection.

In Bellevue, Conrad Lee, who has been in office since the mid-1990s, is set to be defeated by Naren Briar despite bringing out the big guns about how single family zoning is "under attack." And more pro-housing Vishal Bhargava is also set to keep his seat.

I like this prediction 👀

Friends, you can confirm your ballot was counted here: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

I can confirm totally unscientifically that the bike-to-drop-off-their-ballots-in-the-dropboxes part of the Seattle electorate is out in force