Link stations next!

Wow maybe *checks notes* Mitt Romney should talk to @governorferguson.bsky.social about progressive taxation policy

Thai Siam in Ballard (8305 15th Ave NW) will provide its annual free Christmas turkey dinner for those in need from noon to 2 p.m. on Thursday. www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...

Does anyone wanna see a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle having dinner in 1979?

To be blunt, repaving highways by putting Washington $3 billion in debt rather than raising taxes on the wealthy is irresponsible.

IDEA: Take a half block and remove cars.

Hallelujah!

In response to a question about considering cutting funding for highway expansion projects to fill the budget shortfall, @juliareedwa.bsky.social doesn't want to spend another dollar on highway expansion until we address our existing backlog of maintenance of our transportation infrastructure.

Huge trade news this offseason TACOMA gets: 🚋3 Brookville Liberty NXT streetcars PORTLAND gets: 🚋3 Skoda 10T streetcars 💵$16.6 million

My all-time favorite newspaper correction:

As KUOW reported, Harrell also had his city council staff do work for the Royal Esquire Club while on the clock, later characterizing the work (which included inviting people to Club events, collecting membership dues, and filling out their insurance paperwork) as "constituent services."

When women who worked at the Royal Esquire men's club accused the club of stealing their wages and vacation time, Harrell intervened, calling the Office of Labor Standards investigator on the case to tell him OLS could lose funding in the future, which the investigator perceived as a threat.

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell reemerged today to announce a slate of Equitable Development Initiative grants including $183,000 to the Royal Esquire Club, the private men's club he chaired and where he held his election night party.

Ominous Cloud of Smoke appointed to District 2 of the King County Council, promises "swift end to the age of solid formes"

Rep. Shaun Scott wants to plug Trump’s cuts with a statewide high earner payroll tax. It could raise 3 billion dollars a year for higher ed, clean energy, SNAP, and more. Conservatives are already shouting that businesses will leave. Advocates say that threat is empty.

2 Million Seattleites

To anyone who ever thought, "one vote never made a difference", observe the results of the Stevens Pass Sewer District Commissioner Position No. 1 race.

This is bc Harrell’s friends don’t own cohousing or baugruppen but they do own the office towers lol

It is time to abolish ICE. It is time for Washington state leaders to step up and figure out how to make our communities safe from these goons.

If you were wondering about Seattle mayor results by district...

I am a (not at all wealthy) golfer who loves Seattle’s municipal courses, the only way the sport is accessible to me. Broadmoor and other private urban golf clubs are an affront to our city and must either pay their fair share or go.

What the heck happened here? I can’t find any news articles about it.

Seattle already has one! We’re just paying catchup here.

Seattle should look into methods like this that encourage owners of lots currently used for surface parking to pursue a higher and better use. Self-storage, too.

Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K

It's sad because we can do so much more but...A Seattle mayor who treats the mode share shift in the city's already-adopted Climate Change Response Framework with urgency—like a legally binding requirement—will be the most transformative mayor in Seattle history.

WSDOT’s mantra should be “every walking, biking, and transit trip is a policy success,” which subtly would infer what isn’t a policy success and what shouldn’t be their priority

how did they draw congressional districts before computers

Fun fact: We did have a bus (rt. 46) that went into Golden Gardens. It was canceled in September 2012 because of "low ridership". This is what its schedule looked like. Weekday only, wildly intermittent trip spacing, and a forced transfer in Ballard. No wonder why ridership was "low".

Hell yes!!!!

Sure, it took almost a decade to build one apartment building, but what matters is that in the end we broke up the massing

Do ORCA operations earn interest on ORCA card balances?

And how much Transportation is hidden in the other categories? What portion of Housing costs is the garage under your apartment building? What portion of Food is the sea of parking surrounding the supermarket? What portion of Healthcare is car-related injury and respiratory disease?

Pressure is building for Democrats to take a big swing on taxes, beyond this year’s hikes. How far state Sen. Noel Frame and others pressing for new progressive taxes can deliver on that goal in 2026 is an open question. washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/11/14/w...

Greenways pushed back against the original do-nothing plan, and got these crossings in there, as well as some other changes. It's not where those of us prioritizing walkability want it to be FOR CERTAIN, but god the original plan was really bad. I just want to note that.

🎶 love to cross a wide stroad across a bankrupt nowhere place 🎶 (sung to leonard cohen's 'dance me to the end of love'

When The Stranger gets it wrong, we have no recourse. Look at SPS. As @awongpublic.bsky.social found, since 2005 only 2 people have won a school board race without a Stranger endorsement, and none since 2011. Yet in that time SPS has gone totally off the rails:

Voter turnout in the Seattle election has reached 55.95%. That's the highest mayoral election voter turnout this century for the city, besting even the 2009 election when there was 54.99% voter turnout.

I knew Mayor Harrell would make a snide remark about the election being rigged in his “concession” speech. Donald Trump has poisoned politics forever

Today we stood by @transpochoices.bsky.social in support of their Build the Damn Train campaign. Together along w/ other regional transit leaders, we are asking for Sound Transit to deliver the vision of the voters. It’s about connecting people regionally w/ frequent & reliable transit!

Decision Desk HQ has now called the race for Wilson.

🚨🚨 Just in: Katie Wilson has expanded her lead in the Seattle mayor race. She is now leading by 1,976 votes, which means that the race is no longer in automatic recount territory.

I know they say this about every left-wing candidate but people saying Katie Wilson “never had a real job” is especially hilarious. She worked in construction! She used power tools to build things! That is like the one “real job” remaining in the entire right wing talk radio moral universe

What an election for Puget Sound. -Full sweep for progressives in Seattle, Burien, Redmond -New progressive mayors in Tacoma, Lynnwood -GOP CM Conrad Lee replaced in Bellevue -3/4 progressives winning in Kirkland -Full sweep of special legislative races -Gains or holds in many other cities

love when college football players get to wear non-Latin lettering on the back of their jerseys, here's Western Michigan defensive tackle Mustafi al-Garawi

The last time we elected a grassroots-backed mayor was McGinn in 2009! Since then every mayor we've had has been heavily backed & influenced by Amazon, Expedia, Comcast, CenturyLink, Starbucks, Uber, Vulcan, WA Assoc of Realtors, the Chamber of Commerce, the billionaire owner of the Mariners, etc.

You can, and should, just do stuff that nobody else is