I said this in my thank you note to the mayors office following the Bicycle Weekend kickoff celebration: “On my ride home, I spotted Mayor Wilson and her family enjoying a quiet picnic at Stan Sayres Park. It brings me great joy to see our leaders enjoying the same amenities we all share.

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We relied on work to provide our only social interactions. That’s bad. We need to invest in communities. Safe streets to walk on. Destinations in walking distance where you can just run into folks. Benches to sit and chat. Parks. Shops. Birding clubs and knitting groups and PTAs.

In all seriousness: religious freedom only works when it is a common project of defending everyone's freedom of worship and belief. It doesn't work as an individual project of asserting your own freedom to be religious how you like. Senator Lee is learning a hard lesson here. Hope he remembers it.

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

Seeing another round of hope vs. despair discourse play out in climate circles, so allow me to once again put a plug in for rage.

hell yeah single stair is winning policy

This makes it so much funnier that the right wing media in Seattle demanded Mayor Wilson respond to Pratt saying he would ship all the homeless people from LA to Seattle.

If raising sales taxes pisses you off, PAY ATTENTION TO THE WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE and support candidates like @ronpdavis.bsky.social and @hannahsabiohowell.bsky.social who will push for *comprehensive tax reform policy* that will allow public agencies to actually raise progressive revenue.

"has made it clear there was no evidence of violence" is a phrase where, if it emanates from your mouth, you should probably reconsider some things

(Anyone know why he calls his account "based"?) You see, Senator, the thing about Christian nationalism and state establishment is that they unavoidably entangle the state in questions of orthodoxy. Once Hegseth decides the armed forces are Christian crusaders, he's going to decide who's Christian.

The new Department of Defense faith codes list also classifies Orthodox Judaism as a type of Orthodox Christianity and "Reformed Judaism" as a type of Reformed Christian, while classifying Messianic Jews as a type of Judaism.

It is very funny they are doing the "huh no one ever heard of them before how are they doing so well" thing about the prominent city council member while their candidate is a forgotten reality TV doofus who never got involved in politics until last year

Also, McCain suggesting Republicans in her circle now believe elections are being routinely stolen makes a good point, but not the one she thinks.

A masterpiece of science communication by Craig McLean, former Chief Scientist of NOAA, in response to the outrageous and dangerous new proposal that would give Trump officials more control over scientific research grants (the OMB debacle) 🧪 youtu.be/WKkRVhwiJAM?...

BREAKING: Americans United Denounces Hegseth Erasing 190 Religions from U.S. Military. Read our press release here: www.au.org/the-latest/p...

The US has refused to issue visas to a wide array of Iranian Football Federation officials in advance of their first World Cup game on June 15. tasnimnews.ir/en/news/2026...

Military personnel in the Donetsk region found a bird's nest woven from the optical fiber of FPV drones.

if women are people does that mean...children are people? oh fuck

Investing in public transit makes it possible for more people to not have a car. That’s the point! Yes, we need to invest in safer streets throughout the North Seattle/North King region, but that isn’t instead of investing in transit. People need safe paths to destinations, including bus stops.

🚨 YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO HELP COSTELLO, LaFLAMME and/or MILLS salvage the #MaineMess! --RANK ALL THREE in whichever order you prefer --WRITE IN Andrea LaFlamme's name --DON'T RANK Platner --Make a LAST MINUTE donation to Costello and/or LaFlamme secure.actblue.com/donate/senat...

It is true. Read the codes, read the laws, read the history: the through-line is that multi-family housing and the people who live in it are pollution

you should listen to my podcast about reconstruction people.com/barack-obama...

"Data centers are now massively unpopular. But it's important to be a leader on issues *before* the public polling is there." @ryanodonnell.bsky.social

In addition to everything else about his life and work, and all the joy he brought others, the lasting memory of Anthony Stewart Head for me will be his reaction to hearing the story from Charisma Carpenter about her treatment by Whedon. "How could I have missed this?"

No, Danny is wrong. The "serious" people talk about fare evasion all the time. Nobody's afraid to touch it. The real third rail of Sound Transit is CAR TAB EVASION, which costs Sound Transit far more revenue than fare evasion, and yet that's a conversation nobody seems willing to touch.

It would take a more skilled rhetorician and speaker than Hegseth— he's a surprisingly bad public speaker for someone whose only job qualification was being on TV— to manage the pivot from marking D-Day to worrying about invaders on the beaches of Europe, adopting the Nazi defenders' POV.

He told us this was a really boring subject and we probably shouldn’t write anymore about it. So, we wrote this. It’s definitely NOT an essay about how to capitalize a public bank.

Sarah Michelle Gellar honors her "Buffy" co-star Anthony Head following his death:

The City of Seattle has a survey out about restricting vehicles from Pike Place Market. You know what to do. sdotblog.seattle.gov/2026/06/01/m...

Millennial Dr. Frankenstein like “so, I made a thing”

Embarrassed for @fox13seattle.bsky.social’s Han Kim asking a question of @mayorofseattle.bsky.social premised on a result in the LA election that just won’t happen. All for asking tough questions but ffs not just right wing fantasy nonsense.

Did another political thing where 80 percent of the volunteers were femme presenting. Dudes, gotta step up. If you're not volunteering for anything, pick one (1) thing and start this week.

JUST IN: Trump administration argues courts lack grounds to halt White House ballroom project even if it was clearly illegal. DOJ attorney also contends no lawsuit could stop Trump from tearing down Statue of Liberty if he wanted to. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

SCOOP UPDATE: Oregon as well as Washington lost ocean-observation stations last fall. Two of three floating stations west of Newport were quietly yanked from the water and warehoused in Corvallis. www.kuow.org/stories/ocea...

In just 17 years, Seattle went from not having light rail to having the most ridden system in the nation. We’ve proven how leadership & investment can change a city and people’s lives for the better

I feel like we’re in for many years of “haha, they were spending taxpayer money on bug condoms—DOGE to the rescue!” turning out to be something important Elon’s Tween Team didn’t understand.

Will Dreher is outraising Ron Davis about 3:1 overall in the 46th LD primary. But Ron is outraising Will about 2:1 among Washington State donors. So where's the rest of Will's money coming from? Thread.

It’s November 2028. Lisa Brown just won the governor’s race on a Georgist tax reform platform and a mandate for constitutional reform. She’s appointing Dongho Chang as WSDOT Secretary, overseeing the now state-run Sound Transit.

No joke, it would be cheaper to pay every coal miner $5m every year to not mine coal. There are only 40,000 coal miners, while the coal industry produces >$500 billion in external costs every year, including by routinely burning coal just to burn it despite it costing more ("uneconomic dispatch").

Here's Rep Jamie Raskin's bill nixing Trump's corrupt protection against IRS audits. Chef's kiss: It's called the "Block Lawless Agreements and Nullify Corrupt Handouts and Emoluments Act” or the “BLANCHE Act." Backstory below.

So I interviewed @andrealaflamme.bsky.social a few weeks back and honestly, the thumbnail was right then and it’s more right now. youtu.be/lg51_c6oQs8

Most unhoused people in our area are from our area. Many of those from farther away are refugees from places where trans folks are denied lifesaving medical care and queer kids kicked out of their homes. Happy Pride, Seattle Times!

Platner very much is a discernible type, but it’s not “flawed but basically decent working class joe.” It’s “prep school creep with a sadistic streak and an ironclad confidence that it will never catch up to him.“

Step 1: ask the progressive mayor stupid questions like this Step 2: write stories about how she "dodged" the stupid fucking questions

I’m sorry Janet Mills reminded too many people of their moms or whatever. If Graham Platner reminds you of your dad, a parasocial relationship with a Senate candidate is no substitute for therapy.

ICYMI: climate journalists Andy Revkin (@revkin.bsky.social sky.social) and Chris Mooney (@chriscmooney.bsky.social) in conversation.

Along with her followup:

Seattle's light rail & streetcar lines carried 4.8 million riders in April—a 44% increase above March, after Link Line 2 was extended to connect Seattle & Bellevue across Lake Washington. Seattle's light rail & streetcar lines are now the most-ridden in the nation, above LA, Boston, or San Diego.

@warren.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov Any second thoughts?