Today (Sunday) at 1 pm! Join us at KEXP to make whistle kits. 472 1st Ave N Seattle, near Climate Pledge Arena, right on Rapid Ride D Line.

Oh they don’t like the whistles? Hey everyone, they don’t like the whistles. If you use them it makes the armed goons sad.

I helped develop this bill! So fun to see it in the wild. @miagregerson.bsky.social @sightline.org @danbertolet.bsky.social @citizen-cate.bsky.social

This Tuesday 11/18 come help us make whistle kits! We have three whistle kit parties happening on Tuesday evening, in Ballard, Beacon Hill, and Everett. Bring a friend!

This Friday 11/14!

New from 404 Media: people are 3D-printing whistles to warn each other about the presence of ICE. Some people make designs and upload them; others are given a design and are printing hundreds and hundreds of whistles at home. It's been effective in Chicago www.404media.co/the-latest-d...

Fill out those ballots, Seattle people, and get it in a drop box by 8 pm Tuesday. kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...

Immigration officials arrested a mother outside an Issaquah child care center Thursday, after they stopped her while she was driving to the Spanish-language immersion preschool, the school’s director says.

I’m doing this! Reach out if you want to help

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

I made a Pacific Northwest themed sign for #noKings today.

Seattle showed up today! We got there late and missed the rally, but the march was massive, joyful, and multigenerational. Also totally non-violent as far as I could tell. We marched towards the end of the parade and didn’t see any graffiti or smashed windows

Is anyone in Seattle making and distributing whistle kits? I want to help do this locally ICE is already here and snatching people, but nowhere near the scale of Chicago or LA. Yet. For Seattle 3D printers, the WA hotline number is 844-724-3737 (@waisn.bsky.social)

Seattle crows, welcome to the war on cars

In the clothing industry, the term CMT stands for "cut, make, trim." It means you are paying someone to cut, make, and trim the garment. Essentially, it's your manufacturing labor cost without taking into account the cost of material. The CMT price for making a shirt in the US is about $35.

Bruce Harrell likes to bluster about standing up to Trump But behind the scenes, SPD is collaborating with ICE, and Harrell’s trying to hide it until after the election ICE wants data? No prob, that will take 4 days Journalist question about data sent to ICE? Sorry, best we can do is 4 months

Oh look, another example of Harrell’s terrible management skills Tiffany Washington, Deputy Mayor for Homelessness, refused to fill hotel rooms that the city paid for. Reason? She doesn’t like the program lead Not the first time Washington has acted in favor of more homelessness, either

Volunteer Park dahlia garden is popping off #seattle

So mean, and also so ineffective! Sweeps don’t solve homelessness. They don’t even appease heartless ghouls like Louise Clauss. Bruce Harrell and Sara Nelson are wasting taxpayer money on this performative cruelty.

Instead of directly hiring people to do things, Sound Transit hires companies to hire other companies to hire people to do things. This is very inefficient! Unfortunately it’s also standard practice in the U.S.

@jayapal.house.gov this is cool but we need you here in Seattle knocking doors for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social ! (To be clear first we need you to endorse her.)

Dreaming of a more equitable and affordable Seattle? You can help make it a reality! Sign our letter to city council supporting all the amendments to the city's once-in-a-decade planning update that would make homes more affordable for everyone: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Seattleites: one more public hearing for more housing through the Comp Plan on Friday. Rally at 1pm at City Hall (pizza too!), remote testimony starting at 9:30, can sign up for in-person testimony 3pm-6:30pm.

My family says “ABR” to describe when someone is confidently incorrect. It stands for Authoritative But Wrong (and yes we know, that’s the joke) You can use it to call out someone in the moment (“that’s ABR”) or to describe a person or situation (“Sara Nelson was ABR again today”)

If you need more examples of the dysfunction of Seattle City Council under Sara Nelson…

I wrote a rant that addresses EVERY Seattle anti-housing "tree advocate" talking point I have ever seen. It's long but honestly not THAT long lol. I will be very, VERY happy if 5 people read it. Come be one of them :) blog.moreparksmoreneighbors.org/page/anti-ho...

This strikes me as alarmist. (And I’m very anti-Harrell and pro-TRU) 🚩 no actual comparison of current program to new proposal 🚩 misleading statements (esp on rent increase cap, tax impacts, purpose of program) 🚩 process concerns reminiscent of NIMBY playbook

Important context, not mentioned in the article, is the Multifamily Tax Exemption (MFTE). With MFTE, market-rate apartments get a property tax break for renting a certain % of units to income-qualified tenants. In 2023 Seattle had 6,600 MFTE units—income-restricted homes in market-rate buildings.

"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened." – Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945

Cackling with glee as I compare the early election returns for Seattle’s two incumbent city councilmembers Sara Nelson: 42k votes, 38% Alexis Mercedes Rinck: 83k votes, 77% Nearly twice as many people voted for AMR.

In an alternate reality, separated by ~8k votes in 2023: Councilmembers Ron Davis, Maren Costa, Andrew Lewis, Alex Hudson, and Tammy Morales celebrate passing Alt 5 comp plan. Sara Nelson and Cathy Moore, sidelined, complain to each other about civility. Even-year elections when?

Quite an impressive feat to apparently create 1,000 new emergency units in the 12 days between when these two ads dropped

Two council members no-show at the last minute, jeopardizing millions for housing and wasting the time of dozens of people. Shame on Sara Nelson and Rob Saka. This is the opposite of good governance.

Today’s election day for the Pike Place Market Constituency! This is one of the shadowy groups that influences Market policy, like whether to continue the car-free pilot project (yes!) Members can vote online. Look for a 9:01 am email from [email protected]. Recs below…

I just watched a squirrel and a crow fight over a chicken bone. The crow won. The endless wonders of urban wildlife

With the Manito Six in Spokane, we have proof of concept that stacked flats are viable to develop, give residents a wonderful quality of living, and fit nicely in established neighborhoods. Contact me about bringing stacked flat/middle housing to your neighborhood!

Somehow I don’t feel very comfortable walking in this “Healthy Street.”

Vic Bishop? Literal dinosaur Vic Bishop? - 84yo, retired in 2007 - thinks widening roads solves congestion (it doesn’t) -doesn’t think humans are accelerating climate change (we are) - loser for state representative - lives in $2M home (bought in 2001 for 491k) patch.com/washington/s...

So who is Al Rosenthal, the guy suing to block 100 homes for people exiting homelessness? -3x loser for state representative -lives in a $1.6M home in Bellevue (bought in 1993 for 215k) -owns 3 commercial properties: a Safeway parking lot (value: $5.6M), strip mall ($4M), and another in Redmond

Fun to see Seattle’s new ADUs getting some national press! Lots to say on this topic…

If Seattle actually cared about trees and climate resiliency, we’d be doing this. Instead, our “tree advocate” community only mobilizes to block new housing.

#Seattle protest today against ICE at the Federal Building

39% of paris residents cycle regularly seattle is 3%. the number of people biking regularly in paris is equal to the *entire* population of seattle this is why leadership matters. bruce promised not to lead with bikes. and so we don't. and we won't.

Any mention of Joe Mallahan must include a link to the “Mallahan Can” video. youtu.be/nSlTMUd8cVk?...

Seattle City Council has totally lost the plot. Setting aside all the lies and misinformation, Seattle’s updated Tree Code is less than two years old. Is re-updating it really the best use staff and council time?

He’s in 3rd grade. Same age as my son. ICE knocked on the wrong door. No crime. No reason. He was handcuffed. Detained. He’s 8 years old. This should shatter you. It should enrage you. No matter your politics, NO ONE should be okay with this. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Huge crowds at Seattle Center today for #handsoff. Lots of kids, dogs, amazing signs and costumes.

@atg.wa.gov Why isn’t Washington joining this lawsuit?

City Councilmembers who opposed revenue for social housing now want to put a tax on new market rate housing so high that it won’t ever get built. We cannot tax housing to build housing. Inclusionary zoning is a tax. The higher we make it the less housing we get.

Want to save orcas in Puget Sound? ✅ Drive less ✅ Email [email protected] and let your city councilors know that you support a strong Comprehensive Plan. More housing in Seattle = less sprawl = less driving regionwide = less 6PPD killing fish