housing theory of everything, yes really basically everything

"The city’s new social housing tax, levied on lofty pay packages to pay for public housing, was due Jan. 31. The startling news was that it blew the projections out of the water."👏 www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

INBOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, who has enraged Trump for his insistence on blocking tariffs and releasing the Epstein files according to the law, just issued what is widely known among Chinese dissidents as "a declaration of no suicidal intent" (不自殺聲明), a sign of extreme distress.

Social housing implementation in Seattle will include creating strong resident governance systems. Join our next Lunch & Learn to hear about resources and experiences creating resident governance from our guest Saunatina Sanchez! Register for zoom link: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

MAGA keeps its based engaged and enraged. Without status threat and resentment, the entire veil lifts that the real source of people's pain - yes including working class white men - is the regime itself.

NEW: In change of heart (or at least re-election strategy) SW WA's Marie Gluesenkamp Perez votes with Democrats against the voter suppression bill she previously supported. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/as-elec...

Sitting here open-mouthed at this Sound Transit board presentation, because it was just explained that making Ballard Link's Seattle Center station "slightly trapezoidal" would save the agency a HALF BILLION DOLLARS.

We are slowly reaching divine comedy levels of ironic tragedy. Metastatic Hitler contrarians in a box and, soon enough, deployable on consumer grade hardware. Truly, a breakthrough for human cognition and civilizational advancement.

And with one ketamine-fuelled post, Elon has extended the lifetime of "Asians are white adjacent" for another 2 decades

cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?

A great and enduring shame of my hometown: The Tacoma Solution. Commemorated now with a beautiful traditional Chinese garden, it seemed like we were truly moving forward. It’s gutting to see it all happening again.

As a proud Tacoman, it pains me to mention that it's called the Tacoma Method www.tacomamethod.com/expulsion

This is never the history that all of our historic preservation boards are trying to uplift and sustain into the future.

If you live in Seattle, 140 years ago to the month in Feb 1886, a mob started forcibly rounding up and violently deporting Chinese migrants. This is immediately after a similar mob did the same in Tacoma a few month before. Remind you of anything? www.historylink.org/File/2745

The US first closed its borders because it wanted to keep Chinese people out. That's the history. That's why we have closed borders.

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

this was first reported weeks ago

What an amazing event from Cedar Crossing Tenants Association that brought together a renters resources fair w/ @beseattleorg.bsky.social @houseourneighbors.bsky.social & more; cohosted by us & RNA; buy @jmaddenmass.bsky.social book, Bittersweet Lane; (audiobook is good!) borrow from @spl.org

Amazing event with @jmaddenmass.bsky.social @sharethecities.bsky.social and @carlfnelson.bsky.social and thanks to the Cedar Crossing Tenant Association!

NEW: Seattle PD Assisted ICE As They Worked to Deport College Student www.hardpressed-info.com/seattle-pd-a...

A fact that sounds like bullshit but is actually true: There is more square footage of parking *per car* in the US than there is square footage of housing *per person.*

this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me

What an amazing moment for this whole movement 😍

I said this before but Americans simply can not comprehend how much wealth there is. We constantly under project how much tax revenue we will raise from taxing the wealthy. The original estimate was $50 million.

"Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs... Here, the surgeon acts as—is—a soldier." I'm honestly speechless.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Not perfect math but there are roughly 363k households in Seattle. Over the course of 30 years- 33,000+ units - we could have 10% or more of the city’s housing stock be decommodified, publicly owned housing where rents go back into the system.

jeeeeeeesus: theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...

The Stillaguamish Tribe has been buying back ceded lands for floodplain restoration, benefiting salmon and nearby farmers. “It is a bit of a bitter pill to swallow to buy back the land that we essentially traded for the resource, the fish, but it's what we have to do to get things back on track."

Seattle City Council approves legislation to begin funding voter-approved social housing council.seattle.gov/2026/02/10/s...

Holy shit.

NEW: No one has heard from Seattle organizer Frank Gabriel Yzaze Yegres since Friday when he said he would be deported this weekend. ICE lookup system says he's in custody, but won't say where. Advocates demand WA congressional delegation step in www.theburnerseattle.com/post/seattle...

Note you don't see the governor calling for health care for all. There was a bill this legislative session to help make that happen here in Washington. Dead now, of course, because elected officials (and right now, Dems are in charge) seem unwilling to make big swings.

TL/DR: Philanthropic funding won’t support organizing, confrontational tactics, front-line decision making—what builds real power over time. Funders want immediate deliverables (ie “reports” and “strategies”) that perform non-partisan academic competence. 😭 drlennecefer.substack.com/p/i-said-env...

THE DEMOCRATS NEED TO DEMAND THAT DHS STOP THROWING MONEY AWAY INCARCERATING PEOPLE AND ICE SELLS ALL ITS WAREHOUSES TO RAISE FUNDS FOR HEALTHCARE SUBSIDIES ALL CAPS FUCK THIS TORTUROUS INVESTMENT IN TORTURE AND DEATH INVEST IN CARING

Stop the sweeps means stop the sweeps. Without housing where are people supposed to go? Sweeping people doesn’t make their lives better and sends the message that some people are trash and others aren’t in our communities. #StopTheSweeps

This is an astounding example of the increasing intensity of rain storms. #climate #water

in a very special loop of american healthcare hell where my insurance keeps telling the pharmacy that they need preauthorization from my doctor's office, my doctor's office keeps calling them and giving it, and the pharmacy keeps cancelling the order and not telling anyone.

The Tukwila Riverfront Technical Park is owned by Sabey Corporation. Three of the principals are listed below, source: LinkedIn and Secretary of State corporations filings. John Sabey, CEO, Medina Alexis Greene, CFO, Seattle Travis Anderson, COO

NEW: CM Kettle + Seattle's State Leg Affairs Director lobbied Olympia for a huge exemption from a bipartisan bill regulating Automatic License Plate Reader tech. So the City cares less about civil liberties than half of the Republicans in the State Senate! www.theburnerseattle.com/post/seattle...

Martin Selig, ICE's landlord in Seattle, who fled Nazi Germany as a child in 1939, refused to stop renting to Trump's Gestapo. Now 19 of his downtown properties are in receivership including the one that housed ICE, he's defaulted on almost a billion in debt. Biblical fates await ICE collaborators.

Do you need another reason to show up Wednesday night for @jmaddenmass.bsky.social book talk? #TenantAssociation #RentersResourceFair #BookTalk See you Wednesday! 6 pm! In Roosevelt! www.eventbrite.com/e/cedar-cros...

This Wednesday, my tenant association will be hosting author Jamie Madden to talk about his new book Bittersweet Lane - join us if you can!

A landlord who's flinchy on new progressive taxes BUT against the surveillance cameras & SODA/SOAP zones. If this is what the *center* lane is looking like, Sara Nelson's smash-n-grab spree really put the next wave of law&order moderates in a shitty spot (so far it's gotta be Jenks btw)

NEW: Seattle Police Operating Secret-No-More CCTV Camera www.hardpressed-info.com/seattle-pd-o...

NEW: Mayor teased an announcement for last week about the surveillance system community members want scaled back amid ICE's nationwide campaign of terror. The week came and went, no announcement! www.theburnerseattle.com/post/mayor-s...

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

these days, if you search for any animal, half the results will be generated slop websites, which mostly regurgitate similar text

Wow, this captured just about everything I think we’re missing in Seattle city planning. Stuff I’ve been trying to scream at everyone but feel like no one is listening