I’m looking forward to @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social arriving to her swearing in via KC Metro bus! Optics matter

ITMFA!

One underrated thing Mamdani has going for him is that he has always known he is ineligible for the presidency The profession of elected official attracts a lot of people with delusions of grandeur and an agenda built around getting to the job they want rather than doing the job they actually have

I'm going to need the City of Seattle to update its website in a more timely manner.

The news about @bruceforseattle.bsky.social using Seattle resources to prop up his public image as an ancillary campaign tactic keep coming out. He used Tik Tok to burnish his image & now info comes out he used the @seattlechannel.bsky.social Least ethical mayor ever? publicola.com/2025/12/30/h...

It’s ok to be white. Unless you’re the wife of a prominent right winger. by JD Vance and Christopher Rufo

The fact that 1/4 of event ticket prices goes to Ticketmaster never ceases to astound me with its corruption and concupiscence.

Hey SDOT here's my alternative proposal for 1st Ave

The Seattle Central Library continues to suffer from usability problems that were first noted more than two decades ago. Aka: put up some damn signs. (See this for an early review of the problems in Koolhaas’s design placesjournal.org/article/seat...)

Gov. Ferguson Backs Millionaire Tax After Ghost of Christmas Future Shows Him Losing In 2028 If He Doesn’t: tinyurl.com/ye25s9zp

Ferguson proposing $3 billion in bonds for highways and vehicle ferries and then proposing to divert hundreds of millions in Climate Commitment Act dollars a few days later is such an incredible one-two punch.

NEW: US Vet Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry has been released after four months of unlawful detention at immigration prison. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/u-s-vet...

Why @sound-transit.bsky.social ? Why?! 🤢🤮🕊️💩 Capitol Hill station

Taking the state further into debt just to maintain the existing highway infrastructure we have, all to avoid increasing the taxes we already raised to pay for highway expansion projects, is so wild. Ferguson's first transportation budget is even worse than I expected.

A @townhallseattle.bsky.social discussion of the state of local Seattle Media without representation from @publicola.com.web.brid.gy, @theurbanist.org , @hannahkrieg.bsky.social, and @realchangenews.org (among others) is a *WILD* choice. townhallseattle.org/event/speaki...

1000% starting with Jamie Pedersen and Joy Hollingsworth.

They developed the "high school girl's sports" angle as a wedge issue, to lever their way up to full society-wide discrimination. What's endlessly stunning to me is how many purported liberals a) helped them when it started & b) are still helping them even after the larger purpose has become clear!

Seattle getting the Sonics underneath a Katie Wilson mayoralship is the nail in the coffin of the Harrell administration we all need

SPD Invites Officers in "Officer Involved Shootings" to Attend Billy Graham Evangelical Ministry Retreat The fundamentalist ministry, run by Donald Trump ally Franklin Graham, is anti-LGBTQ and anti-choice—and teaches that a woman's place is in the home. publicola.com/2025/12/15/s...

Individuals can make change!

The most annoying thing is seeing street sweepers running in the travel lanes which are already cleared. Meanwhile the gutters (where leaves and gunk actually end up) are full of debris because we don't make parked cars move for street sweeping days.

Park next to a golf course in Nottingham. Saw a couple walk over the course, ignoring signs saying "Private" They gave the finger to some old misery shouting about his golf. No fucks given. Aspirational.

Why don’t the Seattle Tree PAC or Seattle Tree Action people write songs about how @seattledot.bsky.social isn’t funded to sweep the leaves from all the trees these people demand? 🤔 Maybe it’s because they’re car brained? Every fall our sidewalks and streets are dangerous for walkers & bikers

SPOG gets a great new contract while legal settlements related to SPD greatly increase. notesfromtheemeraldcity.com/spog-gets-a-...

Gotta remember this one from @ronnychieng.bsky.social on @thedailyshow.com “Are you speaking in Comic Sans? Because you sound like a f****** joke”

Bruce Harrell was and is a terrible mayor, and person.

This isn’t a satire? 🤯

Joy Hollingsworth is a terrible councilmember.

At least TWO 'no' votes are now expected on the Seattle Police Officers Guild contract this afternoon: Alexis Mercedes Rinck and Rob Saka, who just sent out a press release announcing his opposition.

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

Hey @seattledot.bsky.social

🚨 ALERT🚨 ICE operating in South Seattle. Abductions yesterday, agents spotted today in Othello. Be on the lookout:

bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it

Seattle Transit nerds are some of the best and most important people in this city. We are so much better off for their work

Seattle's proposed police union contract once again fails to deliver even the meager reforms and accountability promised eight years ago, opines Howard Gale. With the city council set to vote on the contract this month, here's a case for rejecting it. Op-ed: www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/05/o...

I'm not a fan of the Seattle Fire Department still putting out info on the old platform, but even more bizarre is what they chose to report there. A fire in an underground utility vault yes, an adult and child getting hit by a speeding driver and transported directly to Harborview no.

This cries out for an @theneedling.com treatment featuring Bruce Harrell as he returns to his Bellevue condo attempting to become the informal “Mayor of Bellevue” and weighing in on Old Bellevue character

This is the way

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

Fun fact about ticketed events in Seattle! There is a tax on all* tickets and hotels sold in the city that goes to support arts and culture in the city, but there's one major carve out: MEN'S SPORTS 🙃

If the Supreme Court makes you mad keep in mind that within the last week Democratic senators have been voting for GOP judges to get on the federal bench

The monorail, owned by the City of Seattle, is going to stop accepting ORCA transfers? Boo.

Eminent domain Broadmoor! Stop giving MAGA a subsidy in Seattle! “Wilson won just 19 of the 420 votes cast in Broadmoor.” The rest of us pay higher taxes because Broadmoor CC is taxed at 0.4% of its true value.

Venezuela Bombs American Drug Yacht, Wiping Out Entire Sackler Family Cartel: tinyurl.com/mr472vs5

De Joy has so screwed up the @altusps.bsky.social that there’s only 1 clerk at the counter. During the Holidays.

At his very first council briefing, Eddie Lin is pushing to amend Seattle's draft state legislative agenda to include a stronger push for new progressive revenue sources.

#TaxTheRich washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/11/26/w...

My dream, which I’ve been working on for a few years, is for Seattle to have a pedestrian plaza in the heart of every neighborhood.

An update on beloved community member and veteran, Zahid Chaudhry, who is being held by #ICE in Tacoma: He may be coming home soon, but only because his health has deteriorated to the point where he will lose his eyesight if detained much longer, due to medical neglect and the poor conditions 1/