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Julia Grant Reed

@juliareedwa.bsky.social

State Rep for the 36th LD. Chair of the rabble rouser caucus (see: @staterepjuliareed). Seattle native. Bike nerd. Theater nerd. Regular nerd. My cat loves me. My husband too.

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Lynn Drake 🚴🏻@lynnbikesinalki.bsky.social · 2d ago

An important meeting to discuss bike infrastructure in the wake of Maridee’s death on the street in Fauntleroy. I hope @cascade.org @westseaurbanism.bsky.social @westseattlebikes.bsky.social @streetsalliance.bsky.social can attend westseattleblog.com/2026/07/save...

SAVE THE DATE: Fauntleroy bicycling-safety meeting set for August 11 (updated Sunday)

(WSB file photo, 'ghost bike' memorial for Maridee Bonadea) ORIGINAL FRIDAY REPORT: Details and participants are still being finalized, but the date is set for the Fauntleroy Community Association's ...

westseattleblog.com

Julia Grant Reed@juliareedwa.bsky.social · 4d ago

I’m actually pleased that @sound-transit.bsky.social is taking this seriously and has what looks like a real plan. 75 year bonds are part of that, so sounds like it’s time to get to work in #waleg. We CAN get to Ballard sooner if we work together!

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 5d ago

Sound Transit: "If the region does not secure additional savings or financial capacity and must wait for existing revenues to accumulate, Link service to Smith Cove, Interbay, and Market Street could be delayed until around 2060." www.soundtransit.org/blog/platfor...

Ruth Zakarin@ruthz.bsky.social · last wk.

The gun industry will tell you that guns make us safer. No one in Seattle was made to feel safer yesterday. Victims of domestic violence do not feel safer when their abuser has a gun. Parents in neighborhoods with high rates of gun violence do not get to feel better about their children’s safety. 1/

Michele@burienwino.bsky.social · last wk.

IT'S THE GUNS. Seattle is not unsafe because it's Seattle, it's unsafe because it's in America. When more children die from guns than cancer or car accidents, IT'S THE GUNS.

Julia Grant Reed@juliareedwa.bsky.social · last wk.

If you or anyone you know witnessed the shooting today at #Seattle Center, please call the police department tip line at 206-233-5000. At this time the suspected shooter is not expected to be a threat to the public at large, but the Center is still secured. Give space and look after each other.

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Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 2w ago

CM Eddie Lin responds to the attacks in the Seattle Times on the idea of SEPA reform in an op-ed this morning. "Dense housing, walkable neighborhoods, and safe, accessible transit is how we can finally address our affordability crisis and build a more resilient and equitable city."

Dense housing, walkable neighborhoods, and safe, accessible transit is how we can finally address our affordability crisis and build a more resilient and equitable city.But we can’t hold onto the past so tightly that we destroy our future. The negative impacts of climate change are already here, and we know they are not borne equally across our city. Health outcomes are worse for South Seattle residents due to urban heat islands, limited tree canopy and air pollution. Dense housing, walkable neighborhoods, and safe, accessible transit is how we can finally address our affordability crisis and build a more resilient and equitable city.SEPA has historically been used by a small number of businesses and neighborhood activists to protect the status quo and their special interests and slow government down, asking the city or state to do more studies. But our house is on fire, and maintaining the status quo will only make things worse. Here in deep-blue Seattle, where elected leaders are trying to take action to address climate change and our affordability crisis, build a greener and more affordable city, SEPA appeals are resulting in years of delays; time that we don’t have. We don’t need more studies — we need the political courage to act. That’s why I’m proposing updates to our SEPA procedures to streamline the process and to stop unnecessary and redundant appeals. Tuesday, July 28, Seattle City Council is expected to vote on CB 121215, which would limit the type of SEPA appeals that can be heard by the city’s hearing examiner. I sponsored this legislation because I believe this bill will remove one of the biggest roadblocks preventing us from meaningfully addressing many of the biggest challenges facing our city: housing and homelessness, traffic safety and environmental justice. I look forward to voting on this bill and getting back to the hard work of planning for our city’s future.
Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 3w ago

The four Pioneer Square Throne restrooms were used a total of 9,400 times over the first four weeks they were in operation, which I find pretty incredible.

Slide showing 9,400 uses over the first four weeks, broken down by restroom. The 2nd and Washington Street location sees higher usage than the 1st Avenue and Charles Street
Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 3w ago

Important Seattle public restroom update: a property owner near the two public Throne restrooms at 1st and Charles has appealed SDOT's certificate of occupancy to use the right-of-way, so the city is preparing to relocate them. A number of new locations are under consideration.

Tyler King@tyleraking.com · 3w ago

Ninety percent of the 71 detainees contacted in the concentration camp on Fort Bliss say they were beaten by guards are witnessed beatings, in addition to inedible meals and lack of access to medication or lawyers.

Report: Detainees at ICE facility in Texas report frequent beatings and other human rights abuses

A new report from human rights advocates says 90% of detainees interviewed at a sprawling ICE facility in Texas say they were either beaten by guards or witnessed others being beaten.

apnews.com

Alex Hudson@blacksandpaper.bsky.social · 3w ago

Coming home from a community meeting in N Aurora tonight my two-bus trip home took 77min. It’s a 14min drive. That’s the hidden time tax riders pay every day. I never take for granted how far we’ve come in delivering a fair transportation system in Seattle, and yet we have so much further to go.

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 3w ago

A number of public commenters this AM at the land use committee are trying to conflate data centers with the issue of reforming SEPA to reduce administrative appeals, implying that SEPA reform will open the door to data centers. This is false: the SEPA changes don't apply to individual projects.

Luca Migo@victinibcn.bsky.social · 4w ago

The sheer injustice in Houston is sickening. Lorenzo was just going to work to support his family when his life was stolen by ICE. Seeing his father on his knees, consumed by raw, agonizing grief, is a heartbreaking reminder of the human cost of systemic violence. He deserves justice.