🚌 Today is the first time Seattle transit riders can pay the fare with a credit card or smartphone The new feature launches on Rapid Ride G, and will be rolled out across the bus system in the coming weeks 📲 I wish I was in Seattle this week to try it out! 🙋‍♂️ Give it a try & tell me about it here

This is how Tom Homan reacts to losing a court case to free a medically fragile 5-year-old who was used as bait to lure his dad so they could be imprisoned in a measles factory. Fuck any de-escalation stories that come out.

Tonight other dumb napkin cartoon…

Seriously, if you've ever considered running for office, now's the time. Go check out @runforsomething.net. This is looking like a 25+ point swing in TEXAS -- nearly doubling the average +13 swing we've been seeing. Don't leave any seat unchallenged. Make the GOP spend all their resources.

To shreds, you say?

30 point swing you say?

The number of trees cut for this interchange project was in the *thousands.* They were stacked alongside I-90 for anyone to see. This is what threatens orca and salmon. A Seattle apartment building helps protect them. SEPA should reflect that.

WSDOT: Hi SEPA we want to build a massive "diverging diamond" interchange on I-90 at SR-18 to facilitate additional sprawl is that cool? SEPA: Sounds fine to me City of Seattle: Hey SEPA, we'd like to allow people to build more homes in the heart of our city SEPA: Slow down just a minute fella

A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.

What I’m seeing here is that Epstein is a nexus point for the “intellectual” cabal that shores up the race science justifying our current immigration and anti-DEI policies (Huberman), as well the tone policing moderates (Brooks) that hamstrings oppositions. Oh and their billionaire benefactors.

As a side note, Alaskan Way has never moved people so efficiently.

Critical Mass Seattle organized a unity ride for Alex Pretti where Seattle’s cycling community truly came together. Over a thousand people turned out with a clear message: Fuck ICE.

City planners in the US just flat out suck

I’m making a series of reaction videos to a webinar by the Seattle orca NIMBYs lolll here is my first one youtu.be/iWSjAmlVcJg?...

Seattle's Critical Mass Unity Ride for Alex. Biggest impromptu ride I've been a part of :O

The state is pushing Mercer Island, Duvall, and Bainbridge Island to legalize apartment buildings and Seattle won't even legalize them within walking distance of the region's biggest transit investments.

Since Seattle OPCD didn't dare releasing the difference map of their downzones in the 2026 update, here are all the areas overlaid on Displacement Risk Index. Blue = wealthy, exclusive, white neighborhoods Red = neighborhoods @ high risk of being priced-out Guess where all the new downzones are?

The story is driver with a Trump flag deliberately rammed a girl But NYT headline makes it sound like an accident & **doesn’t even mention that the car had a driver** until the 3rd paragraph

Existing Washington law *forces cities to cut their budgets* every year because revenue doesn’t even keep pace with inflation. It’s insane that this hasn’t yet been rectified. Please send your legislators a note in support of fixing the arbitrary *FORCED BUDGET CUT* which is embedded in state law.

Bicycles were the original liberation technology before they were rebranded as "toys for children" to justify forcing everyone into a car. Cities designed around people nurture well-being, making mobility safer, cheaper, more accessible, and supportive of physical and mental health.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

Federal immigration agents detained a man in Shoreline, leaving his 2-year-old son sitting alone in the back seat for about 40 minutes. Here's what the activists saw: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Sound Transit is bringing light rail across Lake Washington in March. Scarecrow Video just bought their building to secure their future in the U-District. The Vera Project will open a new all-ages venue in Georgetown in 2027. The Seahawks are in the Super Bowl. There is some good news out there.

Secret Garden Books in Ballard is donating all proceeds on Saturday 1/31 to organizations in Minnesota

Seattle Fire just responded to a driver hitting someone walking at NW 80th Street and 8th Ave NW. The person who was hit, reportedly a construction worker from a nearby work site, was transported to the hospital.

Updated list: FYI Ben’s Bread will be closed tomorrow (Friday) for the general strike 🎵 solidarity forever!! 🎵

Read the full article by @typewriteralley.bsky.social at @theurbanist.org The plight of the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales is real + it's immediate but we need to evolve the way that we think about environmentalism and also of what a sustainable city + environmental activism looks like.

"When you flee the state by yacht because of the millionaire’s tax, do let us know though so we get a chance to say goodbye to you." Good hunting, Kiki.

"Democrats can't abolish ICE right now so don't ask for it." Republicans spent decades screaming "End abortion." Then, when they had the power to do it, they basically did! Repeating out loud what you want to happen even though it can't right now is good politics!

Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia

I love Larry Krasner so damn much. "We're going to hunt the Nazis down and prosecute every last one of them to the fullest extent of the law" is exactly the mindset we need from every Democratic elected official in the country right now.

Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, Greg Bovino. They must all resign and be held accountable.

BRING YOUR IDEA TO LIFE. Seattle Department of Neighborhoods (DON) is accepting applications for Neighborhood Matching Fund grants - up to $50,000. Learn more and apply by March 10 at: https://frontporch.seattle.gov/2026/01/06/your-neighborhood-has-an-idea-the-city-can-help-bring-it-to-life/

Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you

Last month, Rita Hulsman was honored as a Seattle Kraken Hero of the Deep for her advocacy for safer streets. Through her leadership and the One Roof Foundation, SNG received a $32K Kraken Unity Fund gift to support safer walking, biking, and rolling in Seattle. 💙

Democrats' demand that Stephen Miller is fired as a condition of voting for ICE funding is one of the smartest moves they've made under Trump. Miller is a loathsome figure who I imagine has rock-bottom likability numbers. Democrats should try to raise his public salience as often as possible.

Link to map with all the Alex Pretti memorial rides. bikepacking.com/news/alex-pr...

NEW: The firm behind the Mobile Fortify app, which ICE and CBP use for running facial recognition scans on the public, was revealed today to be NEC, according to DHS docs reviewed by @wired.com. NEC makes its of face rec platform called Reveal. @regret.bsky.social & @dell.bsky.social with the scoop:

This woman is insanely cool. I wish I looked half this cool at any point in my life.

MAHA stands for Measles Are Here Again

No Kings, Only Trains on Floating Bridges

Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.

Has anyone been able to identify the “if you raise your voice, I erase your voice” agent? Because that’s someone who, for public safety, should be named and identified and warned about.

My kid told his teacher that my interests were bikes and “riding the bus.”

This should be a huge story

ICE in minneapolis are causing international incidents because agents don’t understand what a consulate is and tried entering ecuador’s the country has put out a statement in spanish

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Washington reps missing from this list: @repricklarsen.bsky.social, @gluesenkampperez.house.gov, Newhouse, Baumgartner, @repkimschrier.bsky.social, @adamsmith.house.gov. Thanks to @jayapal.house.gov, @repdelbene.bsky.social, @repemilyrandall.bsky.social , and @marilynstrickland.bsky.social!

Rep. Robin Kelly & 140 cosponsors have introduced articles of impeachment against DHS Sec. Kristi Noem citing reckless actions, unconstitutional administrative warrants, & escalating risk to the public and local law enforcement. Cosponsors below. Don’t see your Rep? Ask them why.

After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.