This evening, in this Holy Week, Catholics arrived at El Centro to pray the stations of the cross together and hear immigrants’ stories from our community.

Happy to have joined this walk! Rainier Ave S needs to be fully rebuilt — not just tweaked around the edges. The good news is that the Keep Seattle Moving levy designates Rainier Ave S for repaving, Vision Zero, bike, and bus projects. Seattle must coordinate those into a comprehensive rebuild.

Yesterday was pretty fun, we should do it more often. www.theurbanist.org/huge-crowds-...

These townhomes under construction above Big John’s on Dearborn are 4-5 stories tall.

60+ year old Washington MS is in need of a complete renovation and is a sprawling building on a sprawling campus less than .5 miles from the new Judkins Park Station. SPS should build a new 3 story urban school house and sell off excess land to Seattle Social Housing for family housing development.

NEW STORY// Judkins Park Light Rail Opening Spurs Housing Boom By Urbanist Staff via @theurbanist.org

Grand Street Commons joined in on the neighborhood festivities today and shut down 22nd Ave for some food trucks. More retail can’t come soon enough to all of these vacant storefronts.

My e-bike charger broke off in the battery charging port last night when I tried to take it out after charging. A pop, spark, and some smoke… How screwed am I…?

It’s a Friday in Lent so I went to International Lobster Rolls in the CID tonight. Highly recommend!

Seattle has a grand opening tomorrow, so of course it's time to abruptly sweep the homeless to somewhere out of sight and out of mind. This is shameful.

"Atlantic was the first target of Seattle's first urban-renewal agency in 1958. Government agencies have spent at least $20 million - maybe twice that. And yet the 46-block neighborhood today has 1,000 fewer people living in 300 fewer housing units. It is more segregated than before renewal began."

60+ year old Washington MS is in need of a complete renovation and is a sprawling building on a sprawling campus less than .5 miles from the new Judkins Park Station. SPS should build a new 3 story urban school house and sell off excess land to Seattle Social Housing for family housing development.

I cannot emphasize strongly enough how misguided this is. The trades are already so under-supported. And as corporations use AI to eliminate the tech jobs we previously lauded, it seem idiotic for SCC eliminate a widely-praised center dedicated to carpentry: southseattleemerald.org/news/2026/03...

Gli Azzurri play Northern Ireland in Bergamo tomorrow in pursuit of a World Cup spot. If they win, and then win again, they'll join Group B and play in Seattle on June 24.

Here are two more photos showing what US 10 did to Seattle's Little Italy. First dated 1954, second dated 1953. The destruction of the neighborhood came decades before I-90.

This is a really powerful first hand account of what it was like to live through the Dearborn Regrade in Seattle.

Wish the article would have mentioned that I-90's predecessor, US 10, demolished the heart of Seattle's Little Italy at Rainier/Atlantic back in 1940. Photo from UW's Digital Collections. www.historylink.org/File/21393

A major setback for Italy's governing far-right: Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been pushing for a big reform of the judiciary, which critics warned would erode its independence at a time where Meloni's coalition is making big changes. Voters in a referendum today rejected the change.

The chain link fences are *finally* down at Judkins Park Station after years. At the 23rd Ave S entrance, there are hookups for a vendor cart and a bike room with space for 20 bikes.

The new El Centro project on Beacon Hill is above ground!

Something I have been wrestling with for the better part of the last year is just how organized the fascist project is. Yes, there are some common goals. But where the Trumpian element might aim to consolidate power for themselves, there is another element that solely cares about destabilization.

up now in @thenation.com - FEMA failures, Jeff City sabotage, and an argument for city-county blobification www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Georgia never wants to see this face again

South Park / Georgetown, Lake City, and Capitol Hill have been selected as the first three "low pollution neighborhoods" to be implemented in Seattle, the product of a 2017 commitment to make a "major part" of the city zero emission by 2030. sdotblog.seattle.gov/2026/03/18/f...

SOUND TRANSIT'S 2 LINE OPENS SOON: Judkins Park Station opens March 28! Are you ready to Flip Your Trip with a whole new way to get to and from the Eastside? https://sdotblog.seattle.gov/2026/03/16/2-line-connection/

HEAR TEAM ITALY WIN THE WAY IT SHOULD BE HEARD!

Bad news for folks with Italian ancestry today. Italy's Constitutional Court upheld the recent restrictive laws on Italian Citizenship by Descent. It was widely speculated that they would overturn the retroactivity, but perhaps they still will in one of the upcoming cases this Spring/Summer.

Italy beats the USA 8-6

My proposal for making MLK Way safer is that the street on the west side of the tracks (green) should be turned into a linear park from Mount Baker Station to Rainier Beach Station. Turn the east side of the tracks into a two-way street.

Another mixed use project on Beacon Hill that looks like it’s chugging along through planning.

Also looks like there’s some movement on this proposal from the 2010s at 2912 Beacon Ave S. Original proposal: - 120 units - Retail Space

I think an old mixed use proposal at 1400 S Bayview is showing some signs of life. Not sure if the plan is still the same as it was over half a decade ago, but it would replace a vacant lot. Original proposal: - 67 homes - 21 parking spots - ground floor retail

Book Review: Yanis Varoufakis’ “Technofeudalism” argues that economic power is increasingly concentrated in digital platforms A former Greek finance minister contends that Big Tech’s “cloud capital” has turned users into tenants in a digital economic order.

My dad asked me whether I thought the U.S. would false flag an Iran terrorist attack here at home. Not ruling it out, I said a greater likelihood was that the U.S. would sit on intel of an Iranian terrorist attack and let it happen, using the crisis to crackdown on freedoms. We’re on that trajectory

I think the reason this makes me particularly frustrated is that there was something of a building boom happening on North Rainier in recent years with lots of projects still in the pipeline that seem to have stalled out. So instead we’re going to get 1-Story warehouses and car washes now…

It’s that time of year when a bunch of my students that I wrote letters of recommendation for are finding out they were accepted into my alma mater, the University of Washington 🥲

If this war lasts a month at its current pace, it would be expensive enough for a full buildout of the Cascadia HSR project. But instead of connecting three large cities and moving civilization forward, our nation chooses to commit our money toward death and destruction.

Oh this would be welcome. Charter schools are private schools and should not be getting public funds. We wouldn't give public $$ to Gonzaga Prep or Annie Wright or Lakeside. We shouldn't give it to a charter school either.

GOD DAMMIT

Hm, someone put in permits last Spring to build a 1 story warehouse in this wedge at Walker/Rainier/23rd. Only 8k sq ft. Anyone have any idea what this is/was?

The average American kitchen, in a home built since the year 2000, is probably 3x bigger than it has any right to be. The kitchen island is an affront to interior design by rule, though there are exceptions.

About to get vertical!

I hit 400+ miles on my e-bike today. Have been riding it for a little over two months now. A good chunk of that is replaced car trips!

WSDOT finally has a plan to tackle the highway ramps that swirl around Seattle's next light rail station, a concept that includes the demolition of an off-ramp that mars a Seattle city park. But transportation advocates are pushing the state to think bolder. www.theurbanist.org/2026/03/04/w...

LinkedIn is a depressing place. Watching friends be compelled by capitalism to publicly announce they were laid off while praising the company that kicked them around is a true glimpse into hell. Grateful to be in a profession where my life isn’t a constant interview for the next labor opportunity.

So much cool stuff is happening at the end of March: - Mariners Baseball Opening Day - Judkins Park Station Opens - My Italian Citizenship case is heard Can it just be the end of March already?

Update on Beacon Hill

Good morning and welcome to the month where Seattle opens the only light rail line across a floating bridge anywhere in the world.

Modern tyranny is terror management. I wrote this essay in April 2025 and updated it in November. I'm posting it again now because my fear of this scenario has continued to grow. "The Next Terrorist Attack: And What Comes After" snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

Given Seattle’s propensity for small townhomes, why don’t we see more spiral staircases to save valuable square footage?