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Thinking of starting an account that’s just posting cute things I see while riding transit. Today a stylish man w sunglasses & headphones smoking at udist station telling everyone happy 4th have a good day then randomly picking up pieces of garbage lying around. & complimenting some shy guy’s outfit

I’ve turned the little area around our home into a bird haven which I am very proud of but on the other hand, some weekends I’m like love u but plz can u stfu this morning, esp the wren lolllll

"A politics that isn't intensely ideological" is how Seattle Times columnist Westneat praises Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, the *Vancouver congresswoman whose MAGA record includes votes to out trans kids, take away food for poor people, and expand ICE. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

A grim reminder this 4th of July: The US has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy on Earth, making it a leader in mass incarceration. Far too many people are locked up in the “land of the free.”

There has been a massive uptick in ICE kidnappings in Washington State. We know why. Researchers at The University of Washington have been tracking these illegal kidnappings and the data that is helping ICE surveil and stalk people. This data is being shared with the feds. Mostly by local cops.

This is the actual truth of Independence The willingness to stand up to tyranny and say “I am willing to sacrifice what I have” Start thinking about what that might look like for you

NEW: A night on a cruise ship is taxed almost half as much as a night in a hotel – despite their many negative impacts on the environment and contribution to overtourism 🛳️😷 How is this possible... and what can we do about it? 🧵⤵️

Many Seattle landlords would make this guy pay rent. End junk fees

A dentist documents how extreme heat is turning Pakistani farmworkers’ mouths into hostile environments for their own teeth. #ClimateChange #ExtremeHeat https://www.thexylom.com/post/pakistani-farmworker-mouths-climate-change-extreme-heat

The network of community health workers who track cases and distribute medicines for trachoma and other diseases has been disrupted. “Without them receiving salaries anymore, years of thorough field tracking are going to waste in months,” says Mozambique’s former deputy minister of health.

I dunno but maybe relegating any mention of climate change off your big homepage package, away from the heading and subhead, and after the eight-paragraph main story into a second bullet point — NOT the "why it's hot" one — is part of why it's hot.

Yes it’s climate change, stop asking

Expand the Seattle Conservation Corps! www.seattle.gov/parks/about-...

Happy Disability Pride Month! Now more than ever we need everyone engaged in disability justice. Fascists target the disabled. If you want to fight fascism, help the disabled. Wear a mask. Get vaccinated. Fight for public health, housing and Medicare for all.

Gonna keep saying we need a local WPA. But gonna call it the Seattle Green Progress Administration. They will maintain water fountains, bathrooms, landscaping. I will personally run propaganda to paint them as the heroes they are. Imagine the great jobs for the ppl who need & deserve them

I disagree with some Stranger endorsements, but not their support of @rebeccasaldana1.bsky.social D2 County Council. As they say, "Rebecca Saldaña has one of the strongest progressive records in the last decade of Washington politics." She's wonky, she's earnest, and she gives a damn.

Huh. Chipalo Street runs the AI program at Microsoft?! Is that for real?? #waleg

Not enough ppl are hating on the Street endorsement over Brown. Y’all need to get on it

i've been involved in housing and mobility circles in seattle for nearly 15 years and i don't know a single person who knows dreher dude has zero urbanist or housing cred vote @ronpdavis.bsky.social

Bob Kettle drives everywhere, and he sees his constituency as only people who drive everywhere. Transit riders should remember that at the ballot box.

ICYMI

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

A few things that I think are important to note as we talk about SEPA. The City started scoping of environmental review for the comp plan in 2022. A Draft EIS which is over 1,000 pages was issued in 2024. A Final EIS was released in early 2025. It is over 1,300 pages.

The Stranger endorsed Pedersen lol he's the type of establishment politician the old Stranger would crawl over broken glass to shit on. And right after abruptly firing their Editor in chief. Guess the debate about their editorial independence under new ownership is officially over

Omg blink twice if u need help and have been kidnapped and are writing this with a gun to your heard!!

Today is a great day to donate and/ or sign up to volunteer for @hannahsabiohowell.bsky.social

“He’s a fed but we think he should be our fed. Let’s unleash this blue-blooded yankee…” What the actual fuck am I reading Did a drunk AI write this and was the prompt “write this in the style of the Stranger but gear it toward weirdo boomer libs originally from the east coast”?

No idea who Dreher is but Ron Davis OTOH calls me on the phone to check his already good understanding of water and housing policy🤣 Ron is a pro housing and pro environmental urbanist try-hard in the best possible sense lollll

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?

TRU endorsements are the new stranger endorsements. Tell all your normie friends. Here is a fast link: transitriders.org

Everyone telling me to give public comment today. I have like 5 hours of meetings at work I have to lead. I don’t even have my voice anymore lol it’s release planning week cmon

I have no idea about any of this but spicy pick has GOT to be Pedersen, right?? In which case, why would anyone ever listen to the stranger ever again after that?

Thaler could be working on the airport expansion or blocking highway expansions, ya know projects that are actually causing environmental harms ugh

That’s hilarious and totally tracks

I’m really glad to see this. It’s also wild that by long overdue here we mean *two centuries*. Two centuries of ruling elites consolidating more and more land in fewer and fewer hands while those forced to the streets were criminalised

Tens of thousands remain missing after the devastating twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela last week

love riding to work or the grocery store and getting to wonder if today is the day i get killed on bedford

It was... interesting to hear Saka say that when he last got involved in road design things didn't go great, so he won't get directly involved here but will instead pass along requests to SDOT. Yet when it came to cars (Curby) he earmarked $2 million, pressured SDOT, and persevered for two years...

Hahahahaha

This is beautiful

And nobody cares except us. I’m on like six unemployed black woman listservs, where everyone’s freaking out, and nobody’s like “I’m running on trying to get y’all jobs.” It’s like we’re being erased from American society.

Yeah I really do not think people should be able to get millions of dollars if a fire starts

This is a great example of what's called "pluralistic ignorance" -- the phenomenon whereby most people share a particular view, but they *don't think other people share it*. In this case: most people are concerned about climate change but think others aren't.

More on this here. The climate crisis is 100 percent driven by the system of production: jasonhickel.substack.com/p/climate-so...

In the Rocky Mountains, spring-fed streams and ponds have vanished, leaving patches of cracked mud. This year has been so extremely warm and arid that the mountains have remained largely snowless. The source of the Colorado River is drying up. @rgauth999.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

New study: the European heat wave would rank as the 7th deadliest in world history, using numbers from EM-DAT for historical events, as I detailed yesterday: yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/06/east... Callahan’s study is only for the 7 days ending Jun 28, and extreme heat also occurred Jun 29-30.

Medina grew by a whopping ZERO residents over the same period and its fellow wealthy micro-city enclaves nearby lost population. Extreme NIMBYism at work.

Besides killing ppl, it’s so sad to think about the incredible environmental progress that could be made if these ppl actually channeled their money and time into positive stuff. All the donations to pay for Thaler’s legal fees could’ve gone to salmon restoration orgs. All the action letters and

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.