"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die." --Dick Cheney probably

the primary lesson from tonight is that dems should run more people who aren’t so old that they’re literally melting

Very shocked this VAGOP strategy did not work

#Lynnwood Election in 2 minutes:

Tonight! Once again, I'm live-posting the Shoreline City Council meeting. This time from my bedroom because I'm still sort of working and it's complicated, life's really busy for me right now, don't worry about it. On the agenda for tonight: shoreline.granicus.com/GeneratedAge...

Today was the last day of the Shoreline (WA) Farmer's Market so I hauled home the bike valet stand. 2 banners, 100 feet of mesh plastic fencing and a bike rack, plus the bin of stuff on the front.

U.S. Housing Market has reached its most unaffordable level in history 🚨🚨

KING STREET STATION WELCOMES NEW CAFÉ Stop by "Café Three03" next time you're at the Seattle station. Located inside King Street Station, they offer a variety of hot and iced drinks, along with breakfast items and hot lunch offerings. The hours are MON-FRI 7am-6pm and SAT-SUN 8am-4pm.

Tonight! I am back on the Shoreline City Council beat after a thumb injury made me not want to fast-type on my phone. shoreline.granicus.com/GeneratedAge... Two major items: 8a a Ghanaian sister city 9a discussing the city's first flex-post protected bike lane.

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.” Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

improved seattle map

Reporting live from the lesbian arm wrestling tournament

A driver killed a shopper in a Kirkland grocery store. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Uneven Payouts, Unclear Plans; North King Opioid Funds local.interurbancanopy.news/p/uneven-pay... As Shoreline, Lake Forest Park, Bothell, and Lynnwood accept opioid epidemic payouts, how much each city receives and how the funds will be spent varies widely.

I’m proud to work with my colleagues who are bold, inspired leaders and I’m honored to represent an amazing community that is committed to directly addressing the challenges of equity, affordability, and sustainability.

It's official!

The Shoreline city council abolished parking mandates at the August 11th meeting, joining Bothell, Spokane, Port Townsend, Bellingham, and Bremerton in scrapping the “arbitrary” rules. local.interurbancanopy.news/p/shoreline-...

Shoreline Mayor @electroberts.bsky.social signs the ordinance eliminating parking minimums in new developments citywide. A huge win for housing affordability, climate, walkability, business & more! Great to see so many residents speaking in favor, and a nice reminder that we CAN HAVE nice things!

SHORELINE CITY COUNCIL VOTES UNANIMOUSLY TO ELIMINATE PARKING MINIMUMS!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Congrats Mayor @electroberts.bsky.social and the rest of the Council, and thank you for listening to your constituents!

Aren't those strike-thrus pretty? Congrats @electroberts.bsky.social and the rest of the Shoreline City Council!

IT'S OFFICIAL: Shoreline (pop. 63,740) becomes the latest Washington city to fully eliminate all mandates for off-street parking in new development following a 6-0 vote just now. This makes Shoreline the sixth city statewide and the largest city in King County to take this step in land use reform.

Spokane Port Townsend Bellingham Bremerton Bothell Shoreline

Shoreline, WA has officially eliminated parking mandates citywide after 8 months of planning!

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The next Washington city to fully eliminate parking mandates looks like it will be Shoreline, with the Shoreline council set to discuss the move next Monday and then take action the following week.

I believe it is time we have new leadership in the King County Assessor’s office. Please take a minute to share this message, endorse my campaign, or make a donation so we can restore fairness, equity, and integrity. www.ElectRoberts.com

D1 resident Lara: "I live between the Admiral and Alaska neighborhood centers, and I would love to see their boundaries grow. More people should be able to live here on calm streets near amenities."

Instead of adding significant study and work to an already-overburdened planning department, Bellevue could follow *checks notes* Lynnwood and just pass state parking reform. No delay, no study, no outreach. You legally have to do it anyway - why not do it fast when you're in a housing crisis?

After over a year of neglect, I finally updated my Seattle Transit Map! September will mark the tenth anniversary of the map. The website itself needs work but the new layer is now online. seattletransitmap.com/app/

I ran a farmer's market bike valet and people complained about the lack of car parking. Had me like:

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

Tonight's Shoreline city council meeting: shoreline.granicus.com/GeneratedAge... Lots on the consent calendar and some interesting stuff on the core agenda. Read my friend @olivermoffat.bsky.social's article on the topic if you can: local.interurbancanopy.news/p/next-week-...

I *love* this street transformation in front of a school: Place Andrée-Lachapelle.

Why on earth would they select only the people who aren't interested in doing the job longer than 6 months?

But what could go wrong with the current system?

Why a Man Who Threatened City Staff Investigating Wage Theft at His Men’s Only Club Is the Labor Hero Seattle Needs: tinyurl.com/mrjbeuz

We just got FOUR more 3D printers, and they're at the NE Seattle Tool Library and the Shoreline Tool Library! We just finished setting them up, and we are ecstatic to get more folks into the 3d printing world 🖨️✨

This is the future liberals want.

‘I’m from Seattle,’ Says Liar from Shoreline: tinyurl.com/2ad5dvkt

The new Neil Halloran documentary on Smallpox has completely changed how I see the RFK Jr. version of the world. Neil (softly) argues that realizing that disease isn't the fault of the sick /or/ the fault of the Gods ushered in a new future where we felt the authority to care for each other.

NEW: 23 elected officials, including state Rep. Darya Farivar, have just written to Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell to demand the city provide Tent City 4 access to the Lake City Community Center site and ensure the 120 TC4 residents have a place to relocate to tomorrow.

Local DC post for the day, but it's insane how successful the transit-oriented development around NoMA has been. The station is now ~50% busier than it was in 2019, despite overall metro ridership still being down. This year, it's busier than Dupont Circle or Columbia Heights

Not. A. Single. Congressional. District. A cut by any name is still a cut. Hands off Medicaid.

On my way home from city council a driver turned right in front of me without checking for traffic from the left. I avoided hitting her on my bike, but if I was in a car I'd have hit her dead on her driver's idea door and killed her. So that's a tone setter for the rest of my evening.

Tonight's Shoreline City Council meeting starts soon! Agenda: shoreline.granicus.com/GeneratedAge... Tonight's big ticket is discussion (meaning no action) of amendments to the city comp plan: shoreline.granicus.com/MetaViewer.p... To repeat: I'm not a journalist. I am biased, but try to be fair.

The answer is ten. Ten Bromptons can fit in the new Bike Link Lockers.

Downtown Redmond Link is officially open.

YouTube has a "don't recommend me this channel" button and I feel like it would be nice to differentiate from "I'm just not that into this band" and "If you show me AI generated pro-trump meme videos one more time I will burn down the world." Feels like there's needed room for nuance there.