Mayor Wilson — turn off the cameras.

Two months until the Judkins Park Station will open to riders, and unfortunately one of the major routes to the station still doesn't have working light.

This is unacceptable. A proper government would address safety issues over interstate widening.

NEW STORY // Sound Transit’s 2 Line Will Finally Connect Across I-90 on March 28 Story by Ryan Packer via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2026/01/23/s...

This probably has been discussed but what expectations are there for maintaining headway consistency between the 1 and 2 Lines given the 2 Line won't have the delay challenges extant in Rainier Valley? Are there expectations of conflict at CID, etc.?

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Looks like the Death Star plans?

Temple Pastries is worth every bit of its nomination.

Need these in neighborhoods throughout Seattle.

The peculiar paradox that we need to wrap our heads around, together, in fighting fascism is that we need to rile up the fascist program if we want to collapse it.

Abolish ICE.

My neighborhood FB Group is saying that both Cleveland and Franklin HS in South Seattle are Sheltering in Place due to reports of ICE in the vicinity. Anyone have confirmation?

All this talk of the First Hill Streetcar is making me wonder how my old neighborhood streetcar the Loop Trolley, is doing these days…

Grand Street Commons retail check-in -Club Pilates will open Spring ‘26 -Skyzone should start its buildout Spring ‘26 -Grocer seems to have fallen through. That listing no longer has a pending lease. -Seems like there are a few other retail bays with pending leases.

In this moment, when we know the fascists are violently overturning decades, if not centuries, of injustice, we are betrayed most by the indifferent.

$750k for two bathroom stalls at Mt. Baker Playground. This is one reason Seattle can’t have nice things like public bathrooms. You could buy a townhouse and let people use the bathrooms for that much money. www.seattle.gov/parks/about-...

Some sights near Judkins Park

I check in on my student loans periodically and my provider has had me on an administrative forbearance for 18 months now due to the SAVE court drama and further inefficiency. I’m a public school teacher, so I’m working toward PSLF. Who knows if these months count. Or if PSLF will exist in 4 yrs.

“We’re going to have some exciting opportunities coming up later this year to potentially go further with opening up space for new housing,” says @mayorofseattle.bsky.social — and you love to see it!

I have been using my e-bike to get around town, including my work commute, more consistently the past three weeks and I'm now replacing 60+ miles of car trips per week. That's pretty awesome!

In neighborhoods with lots of pedestrians, many cities require apartment buildings to include storefronts on the ground floor. Should that requirement be axed to lower housing costs? There are pros and cons... and a lot of history that dates all the way to Jane Jacobs. www.kuow.org/stories/coul...

I appreciate the value of organizing and collective action here, but a single day of action is a long ways away from a General Strike and will have limited impact. We have to be honest about that or people will struggle to maintain energy for a sustained movement.

From Katie Wilson to South Seattle, Child Care Costs Expose a Citywide Crisis

Our leaders must *choose* between 2 divergent futures- a privilege few are granted. One where they are remembered as courageous examples of strength in the face of hate. Another where they are condemned forever as cowards too afraid to put their bodies between their own people and rapacious evil.

NEW: Seattle City Council Member Eddie Lin wants Mayor Wilson to delay implementation of surveillance expansion so the City can revisit decision in wake of ICE terror. He suggests possibly redirecting funds to immigrant resources. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/seattle...

At a listening session in Othello, South End youth share with Mayor Wilson's transition team concerns about affordability, housing, safety, education, and civic access — issues they say are too often overlooked. Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero reports here: soseaem.org/3LK2YcQ #SeattleNews #Seattle

Hot off the presses: the @theurbanist.org interview with new Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson. www.theurbanist.org/2026/01/13/o...

Wrote just a bit more about this idea.

Hey all, looking for a resource for class today. Does anyone have a streetcar map of Seattle circa 1900?

Because fascism is the aestheticization of politics, destroying the aesthetics that underlie fascism is essential.

As calls return for a general strike, I will continue to say that the most actionable path for labor to confront fascism is for the NEA and AFT (teachers' unions) to organize a strike. Daily life comes to a halt if the schools close. Teachers are overwhelmingly opposed to Trump.

There was, I think, an almost dogmatic belief on the Left that if opposition threaded the needle then violence could be avoided. As the German philosopher Walter Benjamin wrote about fascism, "All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war."

Mayor Wilson is here early at the ICE out of Seattle protest in Cal Anderson. Crowd beginning to form.

Piedmont Cafe to bridge the time between Mass and protest today. Great spot, but no bicerin?

We had a resident fascist show up to the Beacon Hill Council meeting today - An*r*a S**rez - and she tried to push her usual bullshit during the Q&A with District 2 CM Lin. So if there was one useful thing I did this weekend, it was shutting her down in service to my neighbors.

No ICE No War No Trump

NEW // Op-Ed: It’s Time to Uproot ICE Penal Colonies Like Tacoma’s GEO Op-ed by John Burbank via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2026/01/10/o...

Torino is preparing to build 8km of automated Metro line for €3B. Compare this to Seattle’s 7.7 Mile Ballard Link Extension (which does include a bridge) for $20B. It will not be automated.

Major light rail news: simulated service on the 2 Line is expected to start within a month. That's the last big milestone before a grand opening, and brings the benefit of added trains riders will be able to board between International District and Lynnwood. www.theurbanist.org/2026/01/09/c...

First bike ride to work this year ✔️

Beacon Hill, you can meet your new CM, @cmeddielin.bsky.social, at El Centro on Saturday from 10-Noon!

Yesterday’s killing of Minneapolis mother Renee Nicole Good proves the dangers of Trump’s campaign of terror via ICE across our country. ICE officers appear to not only be acting with impunity, but the explicit approval and support of the president and his administration.

“It should be crystal clear to everyone that the real threat to community safety is the ICE agents harassing, targeting, detaining — and in some tragic cases — killing our neighbors. This violence is unacceptable, it is criminal, and it is against the constitution of the United States.”

in the space of a golf course, which few people can actually use - a proposal that includes space for: a community garden picnic area playground & splash park soccer & cricket fields baseball disc golf dog park toboggan run skate park pump track basketball tennis pickleball and walking us next?

What practical avenues remain for the people to confront and reform an unapologetically murderous state? I see no civil way forward. A reminder from Kevin Roberts of Project 2025: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless — if the left allows it to be"

We have to talk about Alexis Mercedes Rinck's speech today.

Must be a workplace culture thing, because every school I’ve ever worked at has a very healthy happy hour culture.

Added a suspension seat post to my Priority Skyline tonight and gave her a quick tour through the neighborhood.

Sometimes I think about how when my wife and I bought our Seattle rowhouse, her friend said “I thought you guys liked architecture…” And then she proceeded to buy a suburban tract home in the post war suburbs of Cincinnati.

Ahead of Mayor Katie Wilson's inauguration, we asked South End residents what they want her administration to prioritize — and how she should be accountable to the community. From housing to public safety, their answers speak for themselves. Read here: soseaem.org/4juZdVc #SeattleNews #Seattle