Beth Day
@thebethocracy.bsky.social
Seattle urbanista, interested in education, safe streets, and housing. Grew up in Baltimore. Hampshire College grad. GIS graduate student and bike mom. Former wetland biologist. I follow Seattle School Board meetings and yell at cars.
Literally a week after Barnes was fired the hours of the CARE team were expanded from 12:00 PM - 10:00 PM to 6:30 AM - 1:00 AM. Firing Barnes got results fast! www.instagram.com/p/DboFnMosVVJ/
Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 6mo agoSeattle's crisis response team leader Amy Barden hasn't met with Police Chief Shon Barnes since Bruce Harrell appointed him in 2024, despite the fact that the two departments are supposed to work together to decide which 911 calls require cops and which require a social work/mental health response.
Relief in sight! Surface smoke will remain moderate to heavy overnight, with moderate smoke on Wednesday, then less surface smoke on Thursday, as onshore winds push smoke east. Stay tuned for more info! #wawx Loop: HRRR surface smoke via @wxfront.bsky.social
I started posting about SPS Board Meetings/Public Meetings in 2020 during COVID, on Facebook, for my friends. Here's a memory that came up from 6 years ago, when they were talking about what virtual school schedule would look like for 2020-21.
Interesting to see Julie Kang, the less progressive candidate in North Seattle's District 5, coming in so far behind second-time candidate and progressive Nilu Jenks, who lost her first race in the primary (the seat ultimately went to Cathy Moore, who quit, hence this year's unusual city election).
Oh. My. God. REALLY??? Like, absolute idiots have been starting ill-advised fires since Prometheus, and you're using that to deny climate change? *FLIPS SOME DESKS*
RANGE Media@rangemedia.co · 17h agoWith the news that one of the fires in Spokane may have been caused by an arsonist, online pundits have slammed former Governor Inslee’s assertion that fires show danger of climate change.
Anyways, if you're wondering why I'm looking at SPS middle school boundaries and housing, it's because of this: the three middle school zones experiencing growth of any sort for SPS K-8 grades (versus extremely slow decline) are Aki Kurose, Mercer, and Washington middle school attendance areas.
Investigating an SPS trend, I came across this map layer: predominant year housing built by Census tract. The black lines are middle school boundaries, but not really relative to my current thoughts...
If your District 5 candidate is “totally not endorsed just RECOMMENDED” by Tree Action Seattle, you might want to reconsider how committed they are to “cutting red tape that slows affordable housing development.”
Manipulated white boy urbanit [sic]@sarahchadd.bsky.social · 2d ago"Tree Action Seattle is not associated with any of these endorsements" as posted by Tree Action Seattle 🙃
I am picking up my meds and dropping off my ballot in a twofer soon.
J. Puma@broccoliwizard.bsky.social · yesterdayThis is MADNESS, just sheer madness! For the love of all that's holy, people, drop off those ballots. Offer to drive your friends and neighbors to ballot drop-boxes! I get voter apathy in these weirdo times, but COME ON NOW!
Tuesday August 11
Lynn Drake 🚴🏻@lynnbikesinalki.bsky.social · 2d agoAn 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...
Ooh! I did not know this! I thought I had to be in my own county to drop off my ballot!
King County Elections@elections.kingcounty.gov · 2d agoDid you know? You can use any official ballot drop box in Washington and local elections officials will forward your ballot to where it needs to be to get counted. Locations of drop boxes across King County are at kce.wiki/DropBox
Some information on the Zum takeover of SPS bus transportation from First Student. There's a map of where it's Zum vs. the "legacy provider" whom I assuming is First Student: www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
This is just 1 example of quite literally a thousand in the last week alone, but we cannot abide any conversation about "the economy" or capitalism in this present time that doesn't just straight acknowledge it's nothing but rapidly accelerating scam and theft and the only innovations left is crime
Jacob Gellman@jacobgellman.com · yesterdayThere is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...
A striking satellite image this morning across Washington state, as heavy smoke fills the region. #wawx
First BlueSky post I saw was this one so I immediately pulled up the maps…
The Seattle Times@seattletimes.com · yesterdayThe Little Giant fire's behavior illustrates how dire conditions in Washington have become amid unprecedented drought, heat and severe weather conditions.
Class is in session 📚 lets dig into WA’s historic new #MillionairesTax Learn more: budgetandpolicy.org/a-look-at-th...
This. 100%. "this was the ordinary violence this city has decided for years belongs somewhere else, surfacing where we had trained ourselves not to look."
Mhgreen3000@mhgreen3000.bsky.social · 7d agoIf every life has equal value, every loss deserves equal mourning. My latest column examines why Seattle rallies after some tragedies but too often looks away when violence strikes Rainier Beach, Hillman City, Brighton, and other South Seattle neighborhoods.
100 years ago is more my great grandparents. I’m torn between one who developed apple varieties to be grown in Central WA and another who piloted tugboats in Puget Sound. (I grew up In Baltimore but my dad and his family are from here).
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d agoEnough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?
Woke up early. Now trying to decide if I should start my second cup of coffee before it’s even 8am.
Albert Wong (@awongpublic.bsky.social) has a new post up about the Seattle Public Schools budget. This one is how central office has grown since 2014, and where, but even if we cut it all that's not enough to fill the structural budget hole.
Cracking the Budget #2: The Central Office Grew. Cutting It Won’t Save Us.
SPS added 269 district-office FTE since 2014 — but strip out the recodes and restricted funding and only about 48 FTE are worth examining…
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Signs for the Mount Baker Healthy Street have been installed! This Healthy Street covers the two blocks of 34th Ave between Mount Baker Blvd and Horton St (John Muir Elementary school).
Shiny new Alki Elementary photos. Mass timber for the NERDS. www.westsideseattle.com/robinson-pap...
A collaborative vision realized: A first look inside the new Alki Elementary School | Westside Seattle
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In this unified proposal, universal school meals will be paid for in '26-'27 using one-time funds. The FEPP Levy will pay for the program in '27-'28 as well as the food support for students outside of the classroom for 6 years. A vote on the FEPP funding is happening during the meeting today.
Mayor Katie B. Wilson@mayor.seattle.gov · last wk.Feeding every student in Seattle is a goal the City Council and I share, and I am grateful we were able to work together to find a fiscally responsible path forward. Full release: https://council.seattle.gov/2026/07/28/mayor-councilmembers-agree-on-plan-to-improve-food-access-for-seattle-students/
Do y'all know about @electioncheatsheet.org? It's a nifty little customizable endorsement aggregator & makes it pretty clear who you should vote for in the **AUG 4 PRIMARY** (folks like @ronpdavis.bsky.social & @hannahsabiohowell.bsky.social) Go check it out: electioncheatsheet.org
God this is a depressing statement on America. Mass shootings are frequent enough here that we are praised for being well-trained. Training which starts when we are preschoolers now.
The Seattle Times@seattletimes.com · last wk.A restaurant worker’s deed was one of several acts of kindness seen at businesses at and around Seattle Center on Sunday evening after a shooting near the Armory killed three and injured several others.