Bikes + transit = my happy place. Check out @kingcountymetro.bsky.social's new blog on Bike Everywhere Month and our how to video on using bike lockers to improve your commute: kingcountymetro.blog/2026/05/04/t...

As always loved talking to Omar and the Deep Cover podcast. The @wnba.com has always led on activism -- from being the first league to support Pride to Maya and the Lynx being the first to say Black Lives Matter. Tash Cloud deserves to be on a team.

If IL26-001 passes, schools will be forced to out LGBTQ+ students. Young queer & trans students will be at greater risk of abuse at home - even homelessness - if outted to unsupportive families. ALL students deserve to have their privacy protected. VOTE NO on IL26-001 this November. #NoHateWAState

Was having a fine Saturday morning until I read in @theatlantic.com that Social Security and Medicare are expected to be insolvent by 2033... Guess I should go ahead and make that avocado toast for breakfast.

My kingdom for a 7:30 a.m. @sound-transit.bsky.social Sounder from South Tacoma. The last train leaves at 6:50 a.m. -- how is this the last available commuter option? Ended up driving to the Tacoma Dome station to take the 7:30 a.m. 590 instead.

Dom/Ezi/Fam is such a fun rotation, International House of Bigs.

This is huge: Katie Wilson's office just announced a significantly expanded schedule for Bicycle Weekends on Lake Washington Boulevard, after years of the program being stifled under Bruce Harrell. In addition to more weekends, we're getting our long holiday weekends back.

Smoking in restaurants used to be ubiquitous — despite it degrading the experience for everyone else. It was the way things had always been done — it's tradition! Smokers are essential for business! Then we banned it in 2005. Now no one wants to go back. This is a post about cars in Pike Place.

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

The Trump regime is a Mafia-style racket. Everything is about the grift.

In their wildest fantasies about Hunter Biden, Republicans didn't come up with anything half as corrupt as what Kushner is doing in front of our eyes every day. He's handling US foreign policy at the exact same time that he's taking billions from the Saudi dictator.

Since my new commute is door to door transit, minus the mile from my house to get to the Sounder station, I've started using the Bike Lock lockers for my end to end connection. Can't beat $.05 an hour.

"Years ago, we tore up a nuclear peace deal w/Iran. Months ago, we bombed Iran & "obliterated" their nuke capabilities. And now, we might just have to go to war with Iran bc of their nuke capabilities." -the ppl who tore up the nuclear peace deal w/Iran

Disappointingly, HB2095 didn't make it out of Senate committee yesterday. We need more driver accountability to keep people walking, biking, and rolling safe when they're getting around.

Big Oil flooded Donald Trump’s campaign with cash. Now, they’re getting billions in handouts from his administration.

Joining my first Protec17 union member meeting today on my lunch break at Metro. As the daughter of a UPS driver and Teamster who was able to retire with dignity, I couldn't be more excited.

Some day, everyone will have always been against this.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

seriously. Reducing VMT through Congestion pricing and bike lanes is how you lower pollution levels. bsky.app/profile/bist...

City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it! Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling. City: No, we'll lose parking spots.

Today is the kind of beautiful fall day to enjoy everything that is walkable about South Tacoma. To my fave People's Pilates instructor on STW and then Side Piece Kitchen off Pine. Not quite ready to bike South Tacoma again after the close pass that knocked me over, but I'll get there!

Reason No. 454 to take the Sounder to Seattle: Live chickens blocked traffic on I-5 all morning: komonews.com/news/local/t...

I enjoyed co-chairing the joint Tacoma Bike/Pedestrian and Transportation Commission meeting last night. Two takeaways: 1) Tacoma's leaders *really* care about mobility + access 2) Our next Streets Initiative needs more outreach and better messaging (like "Build the Damn Sidewalks!")

Oh hey, it's Paul from @cascade.org talking about Cranksgiving on @fox13seattle.bsky.social! www.fox13seattle.com/video/1743614. See you all Saturday!

Mamdani's campaign is once again proof that Steve Phillips' "Brown is the New White" election guide is true -- When a candidate or campaign stands on their progressive principles instead of catering to white moderates, they increase turnout, and turnout is what wins against Big Money.

I love road trips. I dig Formula 1. I LOATHE car commuting. It has robbed so much time from my life. Transit is less stressful, less expensive, and I can listen to podcasts, music and audiobooks. Or just think. I experience more of the city and more community when walking, biking or on transit.

In 2024, Washington state ranked 10th in the nation for voter turnout! Let's keep it going. Text 3 friends and remind them to return their ballot to a dropbox by 8 p.m. tonight. #ElectionDay

"Mention women or gender and many men have the false assumption that they are not welcome. Let me be very clear for those men who are in doubt of their place in discussions about women and gender in urbanism: This is as much your issue as it is ours!" New post: modacitycreative.com/2025/10/31/n...

"If we had a contingency fund." You mean like this contingency fund the Trump Administration just deleted off their website? The one they are legally required to use to keep SNAP funded? www.notus.org/trump-white-...

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

For the first time ever, I called a theater to ask if they have tools for someone with poor auditory processing. Shout out to 5th Ave Theater for having a script and a reading light I can check out. Late neurodivergence diagnosed and so happy to understand (and finally ask) for what I need.

I lived with my dad when I was very young and he didn’t apply for food stamps or free school lunches, though we qualified. So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life. Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.

Excited that my first action as the new Tacoma Bike and Pedestrian Advisory Board co-chair is to recommend Tacoma move forward with impact fees to fund transportation projects. Many cities both larger and smaller than #Tacoma have long embraced impact fees to fill gaps -- it's time we join them.

happy bday Irish writer Oscar Wilde, b.1854. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

This makes me so proud of the church I grew up in.

Last night at our annual fundraiser, we announced our new name: Tacoma On the Go. We're formalizing that we're working for safe mobility for all across Tacoma, not just downtown. So, so deeply appreciative of all the support as we head into our next era!

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Bikes 🤝🏻 Transit The partnership of my dreams 😍 @kingcountymetro.bsky.social @cascade.org

Vancouver's TransLink is a rare success story in North American transit, with ridership almost matching pre-Covid levels. It might be the only big 🇺🇸/🇨🇦 agency that has *expanded* total bus service since 2019. I spoke w/CEO Kevin Quinn about lessons from TransLink's rapid recovery. 🧵

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

Not mentioned in the story: 🔹 The biggest danger for scooter riders is cars 🔹 Unlike cars, scooters almost never kill another person walking/biking/scooting As I said to someone complaining about "dangerous" scooters, "You get hit by a car, and I'll get hit by a scooter. Let's see who feels worse."

Sold my old Subaru's Yamaha roof rack to a young guy from Tacoma who just bought his first bike. 🥹 I am so excited for him to discover the freedom and joy of biking. (Also, I tried giving it away for free but it needed a $50 fee to draw interest, so funny).

My heart goes out to all the Crosscut reporters. Puget Sound is in desparate need of more investigative reporters and they did an incredible job. Having started my career as a newspaper reporter 20 years ago, it breaks my heart to see so many great journalists let go so callously.

It's difficult to go about daily tasks with the ever-rising authoritariamism, from ICE to attacks on free speech. I started working on a short story about freedom of speech and a heroine who fought back. It doesn't feel like much but it's better than hopelessness and despair.

This game could have been an email. #WNBA #SEAvsLV

Officially won my #WNBA fantasy league today, thank you Jackie Young and Napheesa Collier! The joys of being a pretend GM.

Shoutout to libraries for keeping fiction and non-fiction separate, that is not easy to do these days

The constitutional crisis of SCOTUS saying Brown people can legally be taken off the street for being Brown has me angry and sad. Just went swimming at the gym to clear my head. But it's hard not to be furious right now.