@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov I hope this is just a rumor because this would be disrespectful to the people Democrats say they’re fighting for.

New history of science blog post: The most beautiful wrong equation in history (1841)! 🧪 skullsinthestars.com/2025/11/07/t...

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Thanks to those that came out and put up posters today. We'll keep working on this issue because our community deserves safe, well lit, parks.

Story: Many years ago, every few months over a period of 5+ years, I would head up to Cold Spring Harbor Labs to work on an Evolution textbook (see cshlpress.com/default.tpl?...).

Maybe you forgot to sign your ballot, or your signature didn't quite match the one on record. If you received a signature challenge letter and have questions, we have a web page for that. kce.wiki/SignatureCha... Folks who need to resolve a signature challenge have until 4:30 pm on November 24.

I've had my ballot rejected for both messy signature and forgetting to sign. But it was easy to fix! So double check!

Today I rode in heavy rain to deliver 20 bags of groceries from White Center Food Bank to 10 families in White Center, Burien, and Seattle for the @cascade.org #PedalingReliefProject – we use volunteers with bikes and trailers to deliver food to neighbors with mobility or accessibility challenges

While you wait for the 4pm ballot drop in the Seattle mayor's race...catch up on all of the other local elections around the region, including a big crew of urbanist candidates making gains in cities large and small. www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/06/p...

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“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis

The Wilson election night event is at the community event space that's part of El Centro de la Raza. It has ground floor community & retail space, a preschool (our kid went there!) and affordable housing on top. The site was originally occupied in the 1970s by Roberto Maestas and allies.

Seattle, you have two hours to turn those ballots in. Are you going to let NYC make us look bad?

The cost is whatever. I am a little more concerned that the mayor is out of town for 15% of all weeks over 2.5 years along with presumably at least one staff member. I thought we were trying to reduce spending. How did those trips benefit the city? Were they good uses of staff time?

Go text or email your friends and family unless you positively know they voted already! This goes for anyone in a place with an election today in the US!

In light of a race for County Executive that looks to be going down to the wire, I'm compelled to circulate THE Claudia Balducci video. The Bellevue City Council meeting in 2010 where CB made it clear she doesn't ever shirk away from a fight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuB5...

We're here at Cal Anderson ready to take donations to help our food banks threatened by cuts to SNAP. Thank you SO much to our setup volunteers, you all rock!

Crosscut is dead. Long live Crosscut. Today’s the official last day for me and my Cascade PBS newsroom colleagues. We did good work over the decades and it is supremely sad to see it shut down.

Today I'm calling on @governorferguson.bsky.social to declare a state of emergency: the expiration of SNAP benefits for nearly one million Washingtonians will be a disaster for the health of many, and for the economic health of the state. We must join other state governments and act swiftly.

He’s speaking for me. We need an answer: “I also believe I speak for many a Washingtonian in wondering why, in light of the disastrous impacts of both the H.R. 1 Reconciliation Budget and the government shutdown, state lawmakers are not currently in a special session to forge a path forward” #waleg

Hey Seattle voter folks: The Families, Education, Preschool, and Promise levy is up for renewal on this ballot. It’s done a ton to help kids and adults with childcare, mental health care, and of course the Seattle Promise program guaranteeing tuition-free community college. So vote YES already.

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I can't help but think about how SNAP benefits are about to go poof and the local Transit Riders Union is organizing food assistance for members but the county & state Democratic Party is apparently doing nothing? Seems important somehow to have civic orgs that support participation.

Mamdani: "I thought that if I could build a campaign of universality ... if I behaved well enough or bit my tongue enough ... it would allow me to be more than just my faith. I was wrong."

About 27 minutes in. The casual bigotry directed at Muslims in the United States is pretty egregious. It happens all over. :(

I still think bike buses do more harm than good because of how they reinforce stereotypes about biking being an elite activity. In communities like the Seattle neighborhood I live in with big wealth and racial disparities it's only kids...

South End Gem Awards Winner: Jose Luis Rodriguez and Leona Moore-Rodriguez: Building Community, One Latte at a Time at The Station From their coffee shops near Beacon Hill and Columbia City light rail stations, the couple blends Mexican and Black roots to create spaces where everyone feels at home

The Girmay Zahilay campaign hasn't responded to my question about their new TV ad, in which Governor Bob Ferguson credits Zahilay with "delivering" five mental health and addiction centers - clearly not true. Only one of those centers is currently open, and it wasn't directly stood up by the county.

The replacement of Spotts with Adiam Emery as SDOT director has been a downgrade. We had a mother and child hit less than a mile away on Rainier Ave S. Adiam came out for a walk of the area in June – big freeway interchange! – and she promised quick action and working with WSDOT. I’ve heard zilch.

Bruce Harrell is touting a reduction in the number of pedestrian deaths on city streets, even as overall traffic fatalities have increased during his term, and 2025 looks very bad for pedestrian safety. I dug into his actual track record since taking office. www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/21/c...

Tiny bits of recent joy: - Sang in church choir yesterday and it was delightful and I really love singing those songs. - Attended a very crowded protest on Saturday and while exhausted after it was because I smiled and laughed and walked, not just being in a crowd for so long.

The food banks are HEMORRHAGING cash

As we approach the end of the year and you have some potential disposable income to share, consider supporting your local mutual aid projects. This year has been rough but next year promises to be even more difficult for people. There are definitely orgs in your communities that can use support.

I have no idea why there are so many inflatable axolotl costumes in the world but I love it.

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

Seattle protest we got up some free Palestine chants! Turns out when a country spends billions on genocide and ignores public outcry about it, it makes it pretty obvious how "domestic" policies are related to "foreign" ones.

Every time the monorail went over us, the marching crowd cheered. People like transit!

Ppl say mature trees are much more important/better than new ones. In a thriving ecosystem, there are plants of ALL ages, all the time, everywhere. All of them matter & play different roles. The most important thing is NOT age but community. Trees are like us; they want friends nearby to talk to. 🧵

Kiddo asks about turnout for the #Seattle and #KingCounty (mostly) ballots we just filled out and is disappointed to learn it's less than presidential years. Then asks why we don't vote on all of them together. 🤔

Washington State and the Seattle region are doing way more to prepare for 5 weeks of World Cup than Medicaid cuts and National Guard deployment.

The president of the United States has said *multiole times* that he hates Americans who are democrats. That is a FUCKING HUGE SCANDAL. Nobody will treat it as one.

I explained why this looks like a violation of campaign finance law: “They are getting information from and about the campaign that is not available to the general public—that's inside information that they're then using to electioneer on Bruce’s behalf,” Fincher says.

Can't remember if I've noted this before, but the Seattle Police Department plans to use the JumpStart tax, originally dedicated by law to four progressive goals, to pay for surveillance cameras in the Stadium District along with policing at the World Cup games next year.

This fairly upsetting story and also Marcus Harrison Green's piece in the @soseaemerald.bsky.social are good reminders that no one Black person speaks for all people who are also Black (or members of any particular marginalized group speaking for others). We need to hear a variety of voices.

Bruce Harrell's supporters dug up some great dirt on me: Did you know that, 18 years ago, I got caught trying to lift a bottle of wine? If you do know, that's probably because I talk about it often as part of my recovery story, including in my book. Here's the story they're angry about.

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

Hydroelectric dams are Complicated, but I still think they are cool AF especially the ones built in the 1930s as part of recovering from the Great Depression. Anyway we went to the Bonneville lock & dam yesterday – visitor center was open! I was so excited I think I embarrassed the tween.

Sometimes I remember there are folks who don't like Seattle's central library. It is a little hard for me to wrap my head around.