Link needs those tire spikes like at rental car returns to immediately stop any car that attempts this

“We Closed Our Account”: Advocates Call for Boycott of Citizens Bank for Financing ICE Jails www.democracynow.org/2026/6/1/cit...

Seattle civic culture excels at only 1 thing: concern trolling It’s the cancer in Seattle’s polity that’s corrupted transit, housing, schools, parks, homelessness, public bathrooms, biking, Vision Zero, cop accountability, equitable taxation, arts support, libraries, trees, climate resilience

I love my city but there is a minority of the population who is used to being able to veto any change to the status quo. It prevents the city from being dynamic, trying new things, and being able to meet the needs of the moment and prepare for the future.

It’s almost like cops are the problem

the fact that democrats don’t have political control over their own police forces is something they can never actually admit, but is one of the most important political facts in the country

Let’s also not absolve the city staffers who catered to what these pro car NIMBYs asked for, despite the overwhelming support for the closure as well as numerous data points that show this is a boon for businesses on this street. They got the cover they wanted to shut it down. Deep state planners

And Sweet Alchemy, whose owner apparently thinks people drive from far and wide to eat ice cream at their shop that is *thirty seconds* from the light rail station and has no indoor seating (so patrons must *go to the city-owned street features* to enjoy their purchases). No more ice cream for me.

It is hard to overstate the obscene scale of the Zuckerberg superyacht. Just looking at this abomination makes me desperate to reinstate the 94% top marginal tax rate we had in 1944. Disgusting.

What if California just approved Chinese EV cars for sale in CA? As the 4th largest economy in the world, why not YOLO it? Imagine the environmental improvements a car-gutted society like CA could experience

American Oligarchs and Christian Nationalists dream that kids will starve and families go hungry

Bruce Harrell gets a fair share of the blame for getting Ballard Link to the point where it's at today, and deservedly so, but someone who I don't think gets enough of the blame is Jenny Durkan. 2017-2020 were the lost years for Seattle's ST3 projects.

Let’s do this in Seattle!

A whole lot of investment was made on the assumption that Sound Transit would deliver rail to Ballard. Now the board is about to kill* the Ballard rail line. And all those businesses are wondering WTF they’re going to do.

We 💚 Seattle lied about me being behind the WHS exposed website for years, and kept lying until there was undeniable proof it wasn't me. Andrea Suarez also used her nonprofit, WHS, as a vehicle for her 2024 campaign, which is expressly illegal 1/ x.com/i/status/185...

Zuckerberg Docks Annual Salary of 1,400 Laid-Off Meta Workers in Seattle: tinyurl.com/yc8kwpu9

Any cop who doesn’t uphold the law must be removed and prosecuted. Severely. Otherwise we have a mafia protection racket archive.is/Ct2br

I have been saying for years that Democrats should run against Republicans on the issue of corruption. Make fighting corruption the centerpiece of their hopefully populist campaigns. Well, if they don’t run on corruption this year, against Trump, then they deserve to lose.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@PatrickoftheG/116625022234526095 What is it with rich people and golf?

IMNAL but doesn’t the Minnesota law mandate prison for wage theft? (though to be honest I’m okay with the business owner buying their way out of jail by paying a fine & restitution equal to say 5x their annual revenue per year of jail time) www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cit...

Since December, renters in six apartment buildings in Tacoma have voted to form unions in an effort to negotiate better leases with their landlords. They represent just a small fraction of the city's renters, but organizers say plans are underway to create an organized tenant movement.

The SpaceX IPO is **BATSHǏT** Business model: 1. Think of problem 2. Profit Revenue stream: make more money in enterprise applications than all existing software companies together Method: Launch 100gigawatts of compute into space ANNUALLY for solar power www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Shame on every supporter of this harmful bill, but especially the eight Democrats who voted with Republicans to forcibly out trans kids.

Eminent Domain the Space Needle and Chihuly “museum” and convert them to a place that locals will use. The present F.U. approach to Seattle residents is an untenable black hole in our preeminent city park

This is the arsenic pollution from a single smelter in Tacoma. For decades we've allows businesses to externalize the costs and impact of their environmental destruction. apps.ecology.wa.gov/dirtalert/?l...

Remember that SPOG head goon Mike Solan laughed over the reckless killing of a Seattle resident. He shouldn’t be anywhere near elected office www.fox13seattle.com/news/opa-rel...

I wish @mayorofseattle.bsky.social would be just as active in telling the landed gentry to shut up because the adults have work to get done

"He’s presided over huge cuts to levy equalization money for poor districts and reduced a state early education program by some 2,000 slots." K-12 schools are 44% of state general fund. Seattle Times ed board opposes raising taxes then attacks gov for cutting spending. Easiest job in the world.

Maybe, and bare with me here as I spitball solutions, just stop watching an overrated sport that exists to exploit kids and leave the lucky few (and many who don’t) who make it big with permanent brain damage, all while reinforcing a culture of violence against women. #NFL

NEW: Seattle Police gave Elon Musk's Starlink 100k in grant money to support their internet needs during the FIFA World Cup. Now advocates are calling on the cops to cut all ties with the right-wing billionaire. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/elon-mu...

I need guys, especially white guys, to understand that Dems hold political power and often refuse to use it to defend and stick up for marginal groups for a marginalized person, having the power and staying silent or ambivalent to their respective plight is *the same as* welding power against them

Why Democrats don’t want to actually fight these misgendering racist fascists just boggles my mind. The law is a fiction maintained by power, and Democrats repeatedly demonstrate they have the power of a busted solar panel at the bottom of Mariana Trench

It’s like America is being starved by the same class of people everywhere www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkofvhbc/

We're taking a first step to delivering Seattle’s number 1 and number 2 priority: creating clean, accessible, and safe public bathrooms. Today at 1pm I'll be in Pioneer Square for a toilet paper ribbon cutting to open these new facilities. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The count on you being exhausted by the firehose of corruption and bullshit. But THIS. THIS is grounds to march on DC and demand the END of this mafia administration. This is the biggest middle finger to America.

New subscriptions since this incident have resulted in ~$5,000 in new annual revenue for @theurbanist.org. Thank you, readers — and, I guess, thank you Seattle Times!

I’m a fan of Chris Roberts and will be voting for him. I also hope he has an answer to this One assessment is $180/sf for the house and $118/sf for the land, the other is $53/sf for house and $48/sf for land Is it the 7k sf mansion on 5 acres or the neighbor 2k sf house on 5k sf of land?

This has been Seattle’s approach to global warming and the climate crisis after McGinn:

It’s our civic duty to share Seattle Times links using a paywall free link like archive.is. Starve this beast of revenue. Instead support Seattle media not oligarch propaganda

Remember, if we don’t build housing to solve homelessness, we don’t really want to solve homelessness. #UrbanTruth #HousingFirst

There is no way Trump is 6’3” today if he ever was. archive.ph/HZgGL

If we nuked SEPA Washington would on net be better off

King County Assessor candidate (and Shoreline CM) Christopher Roberts throws down the gauntlet on one of Bluesky's favorite niche topics...how golf courses get taxed.

While I appreciate his willingness to examine this massive tax dodge an “income based” approach likely undervalues the land. Fundamentally these urban golf courses have immense LAND value, and we know what the highest and best use is because there’s examples literally in the middle of the course

Wait… what…?!? There’s King County Deputies who LIVE IN IDAHO?! How TF can they do their jobs while commuting 200+ miles for their job.

Crucial point from @ariberman.bsky.social on the pod: Dems have already tried leading by example as a way to try to entice Rs to deescalate the hardball. It failed. Time to try something else: Dems must now engage in redistricting Total War. Our exchange on this: newrepublic.com/article/2102...

For years @kuow.org has been pushing a conservative agenda. Here’s more evidence

ICYMI: WA’s Millionaires Tax just scored a major win in WA’s Supreme Court. For far too long, working families have carried the tax burden while the ultra-wealthy paid less of their share. This ruling is a step toward a fairer WA.

Cops are a cancer in American society

Don’t stop the Laurelhurst hate with Seattle children’s guys now let’s go after how they let Talaris site go into disrepair instead of opening it up as housing or as a public park