190 riders in Tacoma for today's Unity Ride for Alex Pretti! #bikeSky

TODAY #bikeSky

Our wildfire team looking at the current snowpack in WA

This Saturday in Tacoma - "Bikes unite us as community and as community we have strength. Goldspoke is joining forces with @opalescentcyclery @2ndcycle @tacomakindrides" #bikeSky

This Saturday in Tacoma - "Bikes unite us as community and as community we have strength. Goldspoke is joining forces with @opalescentcyclery @2ndcycle @tacomakindrides" #bikeSky

Bike friends: This is something you can organize wherever you are, in solidarity with us in Minneapolis. Plan a unity ride for this Saturday. Bring your community together.

CBS News is reporting that the ICE officers who killed Alex Pretti suffered internal injuries during the shooting.

From Angry Catfish, independent bicycle shop in Minneapolis

Alex Pretti with his bike, an Ogre, from Reddit www.reddit.com/r/Surlybikef...

NEW ARRIVAL: "Wind Phone" talk to the spirit world, operators standing by 👻

We need to defund, abolish, and prosecute ICE.

I've recently acquired a Rhododendron groenlandicum (through peaceful means!) and need to decide where to plant it. It leans quite a bit to the left. #gardenSky 🌱

Speaking of trains, Amtrak is offering the US Rail Pass for nearly 50% off through tomorrow. We are pondering....

SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY!

Day 4 Hunger Strike inside Northwest Detention Center: Ricardo and Joel are both in segregation and demand to be deported NOW and no longer be in detention. Ricardo is also refusing to take his epileptic seizures medication. Join us LIVE on IG at 6PM (PT) #AbolishICE #AbolishGEOGROUP #ShutDOWNNWDC

Was the salon wearing hi-viz clothing? A helmet? #bikeSky

And that's a picture of the Palouse to Cascades Trail that WA Republicans attempted to give away to neighboring landowners.

A second angle of the ICE skadoosh dropped.

What ICE is doing to immigrants and now white Americans in Minneapolis is what US law enforcement has always done to Black Americans, indigenous people, and poor white folks in rural areas. Your outrage is justified and welcome but this fight didn't start this week.

Emergency vigil to grieve and demand justice for the 37 y/o woman ICE murdered today. ICE shot at her three times while she was sitting in her car, killing her. Tacoma City Hall, 1/7, 6pm. #tacomawa

I'm reminded of this Accelerade review kentsbike.blogspot.com/2007/09/acce... #bikeSky

Hey, I'm the North Pacific. (Waves)

LONG THREAD: My reporting on the insurance crisis has forced me to rethink some of my assumptions about where the most serious risk lies when it comes to wildfires that result in home loss. Like many, I assumed the phenomenon was most heavily concentrated in or near wooded areas. Think Paradise, CA

And here’s a key finding from a separate 2023 paper. ~80% OF BUILDINGS DESTROYED IN THE WEST OCCURRED DURING GRASSFIRES! www.fs.usda.gov/nrs/pubs/jrn...

1/ Ever wonder how a rumor in MN becomes a physical confrontation in WA in 72 hours? It’s a new model: Participatory Disinformation. WA's digital ecosystem is perfectly primed for these outbreaks. 🧵

Last night ride of the year. #bikeSky

Riding in Roslyn, WA a couple days ago on frozen trails. There was a deep snowfall the next day, so farewell to these trails until spring. #bikeSky 🚲

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/

This is burglary. What else do you call it? @atg.wa.gov @nickbrownnow.bsky.social needs to investigate and file charges against these agents.

Happy Hogswatch to all who celebrate. Ho! Ho! Ho!

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love. Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.

Crunch time with adorable Ume! The 10-month-old tapir now weighs 483 pounds. 💗 📹: Keeper Katie

#BREAKING: New drone video from Pacific, WA, on Tuesday morning following a levee failure on the White River at Pacific City Park. Whole neighborhoods are underwater as water continues flowing out of the failed levee. #wawx #flood #drone

Here's where the levee is failing. That's the Green River Trail in Tukwila, near Olympic Ave, Todd Blvd and Glacier St. #wawx

There is a Flash Flood warning from the National Weather Service in Seattle. People living in Tukwila and Kent along the Green River need to evacuate immediately. There is a failure of the Green River levee. Get to higher ground as soon as possible. This is a life threatening situation.

Our Christmas tree is up. We may have overdone it - it's wider than it is tall! Over a nine foot wingspan tip to tip. #gardenSky 🌱

Tacoma Tuesday Night Ride is planning several holiday light rides. These are typically 15ish miles. No-drop, but please expect to maintain 12-15mph. Location to be announced, but will be in the North End of Tacoma, WA. #bikesky www.facebook.com/share/p/1Mt4...

"Even better, it **makes** us people like Doris Miller."

Congratulations to Carol C. Mitchell, recipient of the 2025 Greater Tacoma Peace Prize. (unlike SOME peace prizes this is the real deal)

"We have the back of our warriors..." TO STAB

These protests raised an important hue and cry against this injustice, but became most known for the violence that took place on the streets. For that, the black block anarchist assholes from my home town of Eugene (this is personal) and the fascist Seattle cops both deserve plenty of blame.

This Day in Labor History: November 30, 1999. The WTO protests begin in Seattle. Carefully constructed coalitions between labor, environmentalists, and other activists were blown up by anarchists who hijacked the protests for their own purposes, leading to a violent response from the Seattle cops!!!

Tacoma Tuesday Night Ride is planning several holiday light rides. These are typically 15ish miles. No-drop, but please expect to maintain 12-15mph. Location to be announced, but will be in the North End of Tacoma, WA. #bikesky www.facebook.com/share/p/1Mt4...

Just riding along on the Interurban Trail. #bikesky

I spotted this squirrel in the park. Maybe it's looking for nuts?

This Day in Labor History: November 27, 1937. The International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) debuted its play “Pins and Needles,” which would become the longest running musical of the 1930s. Let's talk about this moment of labor feminism meeting popular culture!