Today we celebrate our nation's 250th birthday. In a moment when our federal government is undermining basic American ideals - pluralism, due process, democracy - many of us struggle to articulate a patriotism that we can feel and own. 1/7

Just announced: Seattle's Chinatown-International District will host a free watch party on Monday at Hing Hay Park starting at 4.

Community picnic in Cal Anderson on July 14th at 5pm! We're entering a new era in the social housing movement, so come hear the tea on how you can continue to support our vision for a Seattle where social housing is in every neighborhood, ensuring everyone can afford to live and thrive in this city.

MHA is like taxing farmers during a famine.

The lens through which housing needs to be looked at is : HOUSING IS BROKEN. It isn’t one thing, or a handful of things we could fix, it is everything. Codes, fees, financing, zoning, taxes, appraisals… Any project that makes it through construction is a miracle, and probably still doomed.

We are disappointed to see this worthwhile proposal fed to the insatiable maw of the Seattle Process. 🧵

Remember when Sen. Pedersen introduced a bill to stop Washington Middle School from desegregating its classrooms so that his gifted triplets wouldn’t have to attend classes with low income students and then didn’t send them to Washington Middle when his bill failed? app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...

It is unhealthy for Seattle’s democracy that two privately owned companies determine the two candidates who advance to the General in each local election.

If Dreher has the "same urbanist-y crunch" as @ronpdavis.bsky.social , why does everyone in the housing and transportation advocacy spaces know Ron from a long track record of fighting for safe streets and affordable housing and had never heard of the other guy?

For no particular reason whatsoever, if you were wondering what @seattletru.bsky.social members have been up to lately... transitriders.org/all-2026-pri...

The stranger has endorsed Jamie Pedersen, former seat mate of the new owner who said he wasn't going to moderate the paper, over progressive challenger Hannah Sabio Howell

Who is The Stranger for now? Probably Microsoft. Yes, Microsoft, who bought those ads all over the website and two full pages in the May print issue so we think more about their local scholarship donations than how they helped blow up every college in Palestine and thousands of their graduates.

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We’re thrilled to endorse Rebecca Saldaña for King County Council District 2, and Jaelynn Scott & @kelabe.bsky.social for 37th State Legislative District Representatives

I will lay it out for you nice and simple. The folks trying to stop new housing in Seattle are literally killing people. When ppl don’t have or can’t afford housing, they die. Or could be fast or slow but they die. Period. And these folks are fine with this because they are ecofascists.

This November, we have the chance to fix this in WA state. A billionaire GOP donor has bankrolled a trans sports ban initiative that will be on our Nov ballots. We see what’s at stake with this federal ruling and we can’t allow this in WA.

Do you want to regulate video surveillance in Washington State? Want to ban cities from criminalizing our unhoused neighbors? Join us Wednesday 6PM at the Columbia City library to hear from @acluwa.bsky.social and to learn about ways to support their work.

“Ron Davis is one of the hardest workers I know. He’s equally at home deep-diving into housing policy and knocking on the doors of actual houses to hear from his neighbors about their lives and concerns. He’s also a dad who cares deeply about making our city affordable for working families…

Tuesday is the last day to tell the city to keep it like this in their survey: sdotblog.seattle.gov/2026/06/01/m...

Yesterday we talked to neighbors in north Seattle about @ronpdavis.bsky.social and @niluj.bsky.social about housing affordability, fully funding our public transportation network, righting our broken regressive tax code, and fighting back against the Trump administration. Join us next time!

The democratic socialist mayor of Seattle on Saturday night endorsed opponents running to the left of two longtime Democratic state legislators who represent the city, including the party’s top lawmaker in the Senate. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/06/27/s...

3 cyclists killed in Seattle crashes, prompting calls for safety changes www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Remembering Alan Turing during Pride Month. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💗 www.kings.cam.ac.uk/alan-mathiso...

Senator Murray is right. Trump’s SCOTUS nominees and their supporters own the overturning of Roe. Everyone knew what confirming Kavanaugh would mean for America, including Will Dreher, who campaigned to put him on the Supreme Court.

NEW OP-ED// Op-Ed: Yet Another Deadly Rainier Valley Crash Points to Need for Protected Bike Lanes By Anna Zivarts via @theurbanist.org

It might be hot outside but the rent is freezing.

Tech 4 Housing 🤝 Tech 4 Taxes @ronpdavis.bsky.social 🤝 @neighborsfornilu.bsky.social Saturday 10AM Licton Springs Join Us! www.eventbrite.com/e/nilu-jenks...

Gates Regrets Ties to Sex Offender He Thought Was Only Going to Victimize Children, Not Himself: tinyurl.com/4r43d8rn

Critical Mass Seattle will ride tomorrow to the ghost bikes of Cristian Salyer and Maridee Bonadea, both killed on Seattle streets this month. Westlake (4th and Pine) ~6:30pm, ride ~7:00pm, WSB ~7:30pm, Maridee ghost bike ~8:30pm, Cristian ghost bike ~10:00pm. Get loud. Get angry. Force change. 💔

This week, Janéa Jackson joins Seattle Social Housing Developer as Chief Operating Officer, bringing more than 20 years of leadership experience in affordable housing, real estate operations, and organizational management.

Tenants are fed up with hidden fees that let landlords bypass rent caps, obscure the true cost of housing, and fuel instability and eviction. This breaks down why these junk fees matter and how some tenants are fighting back. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

"Talkin' Bout a Revolution" (Tracy Chapman): An acoustic call to action that asserts the poor and marginalized will eventually rise up to demand their fair share of resources.

"When I think about Amazon Prime Day, it saddens me to see how the holiday has become so cheapened. It’s all about getting the best deals, and no one stops to think about the true reason for the season: absolutely destroying independent bookstores."

Seattle - King County data: Stable housing tied to 27% drop in jail bookings in first year komonews.com/news/local/k...

World Cup Tourist Blissfully Unaware Every Seattle Limebike Seat Now Covered in Fremont Taintjuice: tinyurl.com/yp3ncemv

A correction and context on the Times article Pollet has not raised $160k this cycle; it is $85k. He rolled over $75k from past cycles. Dreher's cash is almost all from out of state. I'm raising Seattle money 2x as fast as either of them. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Jeff Bezos should be forced to live like hjs lowest paid employee for 30 days and then see if he thinks biological needs aren't as necessary as industrial ones

NEW STORY// Data Backs Up Supportive ‘Housing First’ Model in Spite of Federal Attacks By Amy Sundberg via @theurbanist.org

This clip from @seattlechannel.bsky.social is a VERY accurate character study of Rob. youtube.com/shorts/QQhRV...

Seattle’s stadium tied for 1st of the 16 World Cup venues. Strangely no Bellevue stadiums were ranked. 🤔 www.nytimes.com/athletic/737...

This proposal will: 🚎: add 280,000 transit service hours a year 📈: get Seattle back to pre-pandemic levels of transit service 💸: fully-subsidize ORCA Cards for 22,000 low-income Seattleites ⏰: build infrastructure that makes transit faster & more reliable 🦺: invest in safety & security for riders

“I had this rising sense of anger that Amazon is attempting to infringe on my rights to speak out politically in my city,” he said. “If we allow corporations to decide which speech is or is not allowed, that absolutely hurts democracy.” 💪 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/t...

A group of workers from @amzn4climate.bsky.social spoke up in favor of Seattle's data center moratorium. Now Amazon is bullying them in a flagrantly illegal attempt to silence workers who want to speak up. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/t...

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson just appeared at a rally on the steps of city hall to speak in support of her proposal to renew the Seattle Transit Measure with a 0.15% sales tax increase. The city council is discussing the measure at a 9:30am meeting this morning.

For those that don't know, the Fauntleroy Community Association has effectively had a veto power on any transportation or housing projects in southwest Seattle for half a century. They are the ones who prevent new bike infrastructure in Fauntleroy, the type that could've saved a life yesterday.

Just in: Hannah Sabio-Howell has received the endorsement of the 43rd District Democrats over her opponent, incumbent State Senator (and Senate Majority Leader) Jamie Pedersen. Pedersen losing the 43rd LD endorsement is a major upset.

“West Laurelhurst Community Council” seems like a more appropriate name for this group.

A vendor was going car-to-car in my ferry line today for petition signatures to “repeal the income tax.” (WA does not have a conventional income tax, but a new law imposes a tax on 7-figure annual income.) I asked if I could sign one INCREASING millionaire taxes but he didn’t have one of those.

Jumpstart brought in a record high $400M last year, meaning companies are spending several BILLION dollars more per year on compensation in Seattle than when it was passed in 2020. This “report” is a crime against arithmetic.

Help our friends over at Habitat for Humanity get the word out about their action alert: Ask the City of Seattle to support Council Bill 121215. Help us bring more housing, faster, to people across Seattle! Join our campaign today! s.quorum.us/V6S5lf