Breaking: #waleg passes SB 6355 to establish a state transmission authority, with bipartisan support. One big step to expanding our grid so we can connect more wind and solar and free ourselves from polluting, dangerous, and expensive fossil fuels. app.leg.wa.gov/BillSummary/...

ICYMI, state transmission authority may happen in #waleg this year (i.e., today or tomorrow), after all! www.seattletimes.com/opinion/edit...

This is what ecocide looks like.

They're going to poison a city with 17 million people

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Come for the great explainer on a better voting system. Stay for the satisfying clatter of animated marbles.

New @sightline.org report w/ @emilymoore.bsky.social!🔥 Policy tools to ⬇️ #wildfire risk in the PNW: steer development away from risky areas, strengthen building codes, rebuild safer post-disaster, disclose hazard to renters/buyers & price insurance accurately. www.sightline.org/fire-hazard-...

People are pissed off about the rising cost of home insurance, understand that climate change-driven extreme weather disasters are making things more expensive, and support holding Big Oil accountable for those costs rather than everyday Americans. climateintegrity.org/news/view/ha...

"I had to punch that guy because I could tell he was going to hit me back once we jumped him" is just a description of jumping a guy

Welp washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/03/02/i...

"There was no imminent threat from Iran to the United States before the bombing campaign, said Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, on exiting a classified briefing on the war."

Reminder that *projections* about AI data centers causing sky-high electricity demand are not the same as AI data centers *already* having driven up electricity demand. (Yes there are hot spots where the latter has actually happened, but not yet nationwide) www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat...

Let's do for wildfires what we’ve done for floods: stopping sprawl to risky areas, retrofitting homes to withstand fire, and rebuilding in places less likely to burn. @rpelai.bsky.social @emilymoore.bsky.social

Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.

This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting. NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

During the U.S. and Israel attack in Iran on Saturday, dozens of people, most of them likely children, were killed when a strike hit a girls’ elementary school in Minab and a high school in Tehran, according to Iranian health officials, state media and a human rights group.

Important to note that many of these are unlikely to be built though. 100 GW in development sounds more certain than it is. "Two-thirds of the projects tracked worldwide by the Global Energy Monitor do not yet have turbine manufacturers attached to them."

They dropped off Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a blind refugee who didn't speak English, at a CLOSED Tim Hortons. 5 miles away from his home. He never made it. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

I first thought "there aren't words" when I first saw this story. but there are

It actually got harder to build data centers in 2025: www.latimes.com/business/sto...

The Northwest is growing into wildfire areas. In fact, high-hazard regions are where the population is growing *fastest.* As of 2023, almost 1.6m people in the NW lived in wildfire hazard areas, an 8% increase since 2018.

Timely reading given this winter’s record snow drought. ⬇️

Sprawl isn’t just dangerous for the high wildfire risk, but it *actively causes* wildfires. This is why the Growth Management Act is so essential, and why we need to do more to expand and grow our cities, not our rural tract subdivisions.

My colleague @rpelai.bsky.social and I are out with a new @sightline.org report on wildfires. The PNW is continuing to expand into high-hazard areas, risky choices that all of us (no matter where we live) are paying for in one way or another. www.sightline.org/fire-hazard-...

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

A California agency received 20k AI-generated comments opposing heat pump rules. Staff called a sample to verify—several said they never sent comments. Raises serious questions about the opposition campaign that helped kill the clean air standards, that would've prevented 1000s of premature deaths.

Good news out of OR! New homes need to be cooled and heated w/ heat pumps, not ducted AC. "An analysis conducted by the Building Code Division found that these changes will save residents an average of $125 per month and over $1,700 per year on energy bills." www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...

More on how the GOP killed WA's transmission bill this year through stall tactics washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/02/18/g...

Unfortunately doesn't look like Washington state is going to get a transmission authority this year. Rs stalled by demanding the whole 39 page text of the bill be read 15 mins before deadline. It didn't make the cutoff. #waleg

Last night, two community members were hit by drivers in two separate instances while walking in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. We have since learned that one of them has passed away. This is devastating, and my heart is with these community members, their friends, and their families.

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

@californiapuc.bsky.social should never have let gas utilities propose pumping hydrogen into gas pipelines in the first place. Its a costly ineffectual boondoggle that distracts focus from helping communities realize the health and safety benefits of electrification. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Linda Davis, a K-8 teacher in Savannah, Georgia, was killed in a car crash by a man fleeing ICE Local authorities said they were unaware of any ICE operations in the area. "We have a no chase policy," a county chairman said www.wtoc.com/2026/02/16/s...

‘His life is in danger,’ U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility.

Nothing quite like zipping by cars on my e-bike in a protected bike lane during Seattle rush hour

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

Seattle should have this! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/n...

NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress. “She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me. But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.

“I cry every day,” Judeson said in a shelter 2 days after his release, clutching head in hands and gazed at the ground. “It’s a really bad situation right now.” ICE sweeps people off the streets of Minneapolis, flies them to El Paso, then they're on their own. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

I've been wondering when the insurance industry would go after big oil...

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.

paragraph 48: "In Mr. Trump’s second term, Ms. Britt has voted in line with the president 100 percent of the time."

As we work to make housing more affordable, renters across the city need to keep speaking out. That’s why today we’re launching our Mayoral Renter’s Survey. forms.office.com/g/B1K37QsKtf www.instagram.com/reel/DUY32i7...

Disgusting

Refreshing from @volts.wtf "The center spends its time fighting and yelling at the left while the right waltzes in and sets up fascism." www.volts.wtf/p/all-about-...

ICE abducted my neighbor, owner of a taco truck in Beacon Hill (the one in the Sinclair gas station), and father of four. www.gofundme.com/f/jose-and-e...