If your name is on a building in Seattle (Nordstrom, McCaw, Behnke, Chihuly, Brotman), you probably donated the individual max to Bruce Harrell’s campaign: web6.seattle.gov/ethics/elect... Only $600 for Benaroya. What give?

Here is the main reason I’d be a bit wary of calling the Seattle mayor’s race just yet. In the 2017 race (Durkan v Moon), Durkan’s numbers got steadily worse, except for a sudden and brief reversal when there were about 7,000 votes left to count.

Seattle mayor Bruce Harrell was putting out at least a press release daily celebrating all the amazing things the mayor's office was doing right up until, let's see, November 3. Nothing since then, though. Weird!

Is your community doing anything to mark World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims 11/16? If you want to host something yourself, the campaign has lots of resources here: worlddayofremembrance.org #WDoR2025 #roadsafety #transportation #washington

Tanya Woo winning more votes than all but four people in Seattle history and losing by 17 points certainly tells you something about having a race during a presidential year

Note that this picture was taken at 10:45 pm on a Friday night. The nearest permitted food vendor is a Taco Del Mar in the strip mall that closes at 8:30 pm. Their business is not being undercut.

Here is Dan Strauss talking about how this taco stand has been the most positive activation of this street corner he has seen in years. SDOT Director Emery confirms SDOT will take an approach of education first with a path to permitting. Tonight SPD shut this stand down citing enforcement by SDOT.

And if you don't (or even if you do), why is it suddenly a high priority that these vendors have their proper papers? Does it even affect you, other than a sense of moral outrage that someone, somewhere, is violating some law or "getting away with" something?

At a time when Latino immigrants are uniquely at risk and many struggle to make a living for fear of ICE raids, why are you focused on the supposed dangers of taco trucks, and do you have any actual evidence—as opposed to conjecture—that anyone has been harmed by taco trucks or Latino fruit vendors?

I don't really want SPD to "solve" crimes of poverty, but politically this is the question we ought to be asking about stuff like this (incl graffiti). Street vendors make Seattle feel like a real city!

The fundamentally wrong assumption in the Nelson/Harrell conception of SPD funding is that all of these cops will gladly give up their overtime if the department is staffed up. They will find ways to abuse OT until they've bled the city dry. You have to deal in reality here.

Doing the Hoboken intersection daylighting tour today. It's actually embarrassing that Seattle isn't doing this at the same scale.

4) Be nicer to city staff online. They read these posts and were sincerely afraid for their jobs. 5) I was impressed by the professionalism of the staff, despite the fuck up. It seems this incident sparked productive conversation about some issues with their processes that I hope they sort out.

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Another ridiculous and harmful effort to evade accountability by the Department of Homeland Security. As always with DHS, this builds on prior bad deeds. Remember the Secret Service basically got off scot free when it deleted key text messages after January 6. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

the Seattle mayor, police chief, and fire chief deleted 8 months of texts during the 2020 protests in defiance of public records law and nothing happened to them. the guy who declined to prosecute them is now governor bsky.app/profile/brad...

We've been blown away by the support we've gotten for our campaign and still can't believe how many people showed up to Race the L8. TCC has been an invaluable ally and we are honored to receive this recognition. We'll continue to fight (and race) until we get bus lanes on Denny Way.

YES MORE BENNY DRAWBARS

Some things for Seattle's next mayor and council to think about (also, I know a tech policy guy)

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In the Seattle mayor's race, Katie Wilson needs to close a 7.15% gap to beat incumbent Bruce Harrell. If Harrell wins by less than 1%, I'll be extra curious about why he paid $25,000 at the last minute to someone with a history of skirting the rules to help Harrell out. publicola.com/2025/10/30/h...

Great news: A preliminary victory for privacy: Redmond Police Department to disable Flock automated license plate readers for the time being

What’s the opposite of a glow up?

Every winter in Seattle I wonder why our business leaders work so hard to kill any option to sit outside

Harrell said through a spokesperson that he did nothing unethical, as the club was in his district, and council members are supposed to help constituents.

Whether he wins reelection or not, the kind of negativity and dishonesty @mayorofseattle.bsky.social has shown in his campaign will be hard for me to forget.

I think that oversized ORCA card is onto something. Katie has fought to make Seattle and its suburbs a more affordable, livable, accessible region. She's won real victories for working people and done so with humility, inclusiveness, open ears, and an open mind.

We are just one day out from the Seattle local elections! Only 17.6% of King County voters and just under 20% of Seattle voters have returned their ballots. So far, only 1 in 17 young gen Z voters have voted, compared to more than 1 in 3 boomers. Don't forget to vote if you are eligible and want to.

Election Day is almost here — your ballot is your voice! Drop it off by 8 PM tomorrow at any ballot box. Go with a friend (furry or otherwise) and make it a quick civic adventure. Don’t let your vote get lost in the mail pile — let’s show up for our city! 💚 🐾

Cut Bruce loose, Seattle

Public safety discourse in Seattle (and elsewhere) relies so much on never defining the term. I live in Little Saigon, and I consistently feel the most unsafe when crossing the street.

Really interesting article and important history to remember. I also find it interesting that we found a way to cut sales taxes to spur the construction of offices for tech, but we haven’t yet eliminated sales taxes for the construction of housing. www.seattletimes.com/business/tec...

The tell that there's going to be a riot is always police showing up in riot gear. Once they've decided they're looking for a fight, they'll make one.

@soundersfc.com too!

NEWS: Trump administration’s Chicago immigration raids are coming to a city near you as Homeland Security sidelines old ICE leadership. “What we’re seeing now is what the rest of the nation can expect. This is the new model.” Our story on what that means www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/02/b...

@seattlekraken.com home game again Monday. How about reminding people to vote? On the big screens!

Yes, younger voters overwhelmingly support my campaign, and sure, the youth are the repository of idealism. But you know what else? They’re the ones who feel the affordability crisis in their bones, who can’t imagine building a life here because rent, food, childcare, everything costs so much.

Yes, I talk about progressive revenue on the campaign trail. But I haven’t been shouting about taxing billionaires. Rather, I talk about how we can address the City’s massive structural budget deficit, which has widened as Harrell repeatedly kicks the can down the road and adds one-time spending.

SPD Drug Arrests Were Part of Trump's Anti-Immigrant "Operation Take Back America" Police Chief Shon Barnes thanked "our federal partners" for facilitating the arrests of 10 accused drug traffickers, all with Hispanic surnames. publicola.com/2025/10/31/s...

Something to look forward to in Seattle with our upcoming ad kiosks

“ICE does not provide the opportunity for individuals to decline or consent to the collection and use of biometric data/photograph collection” www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

Counterpoint: certain local news outlets (my NW, komo, etc) will say that it's visibly worse no matter what, and the people who make the most noise about "public safety" will use anecdotal evidence no matter what objective reality shows

The pattern of councilmembers picking individual service providers absent or outside any process from the experts in administrative agencies is really upsetting. Nelson, Kettle, Rivera, Saka and Moore/Juarez continue to legislate largely on vibes and favors

He’s speaking for me. We need an answer: “I also believe I speak for many a Washingtonian in wondering why, in light of the disastrous impacts of both the H.R. 1 Reconciliation Budget and the government shutdown, state lawmakers are not currently in a special session to forge a path forward” #waleg

@seattledot.bsky.social please report in your weekly social media roundup that one guy on Bluesky really wants flexposts *on top of* concrete (in addition to this awesome intersection squaring thing)

Happening now in Belltown: rideshare drivers and Teamsters are protesting self-driving taxis coming to Seattle. Chants of, "hell no, Waymo" and "no robotaxis"

Rinck speaking to her amendment on increasing trees in the public right-of-way utilizing existing parking stalls: "Throughout the Comprehensive Plan discussions we heard loud and clear that we need a greater focus on our tree canopy to meet our goals and promote environmental justice."

Mayor Bruce Harrell considers it scandalous and hypocritical that Katie Wilson's parents help her pay for child care in Seattle. When he was asked about one of his own kids during his first campaign, he said his parenting choices were no one's business. www.seattleweekly.com/news/a-city-...

Side note: transit to Golden Gardens isn't in the Seattle Transportation Plan? Doesn't sound like a very good plan then