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TL;DR: The Seattle Times editorial board is showing its entire ass. They are desperate to have Katie Wilson fail, and they're willing to make up bizarre conspiracy theories to facilitate that outcome.
It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"
Yes to banning all drive thru only establishments. New and old.
Olraca@olraca.bsky.social · 6d agoYet another case where SEPA falls short to address the environmental impact. Seattle should follow Minneapolis and outright ban all new drive thrus.
Once again, visually confirmed today that 80% of cars are single occupants on this 3+ HOV exit… this really slows down buses… will @wsdot.wa.gov or @transportation.seattle.gov do anything to make this a bus-only exit?
WNBA suspends Seattle Storm minority owner for being rude to transphobic shitheads:
WNBA Suspends Seattle Storm Minority Owner For Being Rude To Transphobic Shitheads | Defector
On Tuesday night, a small group of weirdos held an anti-trans rally outside of the Seattle Storm’s home arena. The occasion for their gathering was a game against the Indiana Fever and bench player…
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Do you love Bicycle Weekends? The opposition is already trying to cut it in half next year, and we need you to make it clear to city leaders that that wouldn't be acceptable. actionnetwork.org/petitions/la...
Lake Washington Boulevard - July 2026
The 2026 Bicycle Weekends on Lake Washington Boulevard schedule has been an obvious unqualified success. The consistency of every weekend and the Friday evening to Monday morning schedule have made it...
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Seattle has spoken overwhelmingly in support of universal school meals. Let's give a ton of credit to the teachers, parents and students who mobilized for free breakfast and lunch for every student.
This was decided in the last 24 hours due to public pressure and outcry. Yesterday's amendment would have had zero debate if they had been planning this all along.
Seattle City Council@council.seattle.gov · 2w agoSeattle City Councilmembers propose plan to fund universal school meals starting this fall council.seattle.gov/2026/07/23/s...
There is an unused east-bound lane on Denny Way over I-5 🤔. What if we used that space to make walking and biking over I-5 a little less sketchy (there is no sidewalk on the north side!)
Seattle Bike Blog@seattlebikeblog.com · 2w agoVery curious to see if this leads to more biking on Denny, too. Right now biking is truly awful there. But with a bus lane? Hmm. Might not be comfortable, but it might be doable.
CM Maritza Rivera has a full council amendment to the STM forcing SDOT to report on Metro's on-time performance, overcrowding, and "efficiency" by route. Or Rivera could visit Metro's PUBLIC RIDER DASHBOARD, which already contains all of this information. app.powerbigov.us/view?r=eyJrI...
Close now features a subscription for power users! One new feature solves the 2-body problem: "what neighborhoods are walkable AND commutable for both of us?" This is about two years in the making and I'm pretty proud of it. Check it out: close.city
The Teachers Union is weighing in! Statement from SEA about universal school meals.
“Cities are where people who are different from one another learn how to live together. Cities are where innovation happens because people encounter new ideas, new neighbors and new possibilities.”
Braeden 🎣🦀🌲🦅@bvd100.bsky.social · 2w ago
I have grown tired of Prof. Wurman’s defense of his own bigotry by claiming I “lack reading comprehension.” I will waste no more time on him and his evidence-free dreck after this. Yes, his blanket moral claim is racist. Yes, his “evidence” is ahistorical. His arguments are sloppy and confused.
A tale of two spaces right now. A sterile non space thanks to the DSA. A celebration of public space thanks to home team.
Jason@jrock08.bsky.social · 3w agoAll of these people just got kicked out of Occidental avenue because the DSA hates people
You don’t miss the area being ‘gritty and authentic ’ you miss being young.
not an art thief@famousartthief.bsky.social · 3w agorich people don’t live in “gritty” places this is just romanticizing poverty. poverty is a bummer, generally.
GOOD NEWS: Katie Wilson's proposed Seattle Transit Measure renewal will be maintained as a full ten-year, 0.3% measure after amendments to water it down were defeated. The council is still deliberating on other amendments, but those were the big ones on deck today.
Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Seattle City Council's select committee on the city's transportation benefit district is kicking off now. This morning Katie Wilson's proposed Seattle Transit Measure renewal is getting amended before going to the voters. We're about to see how significantly.
in a lot of ways the current republican government is just the worst, extractive red state governance taken national. total hostility to public goods, total indifference to long-term investment, and a monomaniacal interest in using the state to enrich private benefactors
Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 3w agothe food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”
Straightforwardly, we should reallocate a lot of money away from rural and exurban subsidies and towards cities, because the status quo has prosperous, tolerant places heavily subsidizing places that hate and oppress them. I think we should stop doing that.
Who Up Socializing Their Summit, MSW (NOT A MAN)@acabcalloway.bsky.social · 3w agoHi, as someone who grew up in a rural area and realistically can never return, I am fine with conditioning farm aid/highway and infra money/Medicare and Medicaid/etc on rural deNazification efforts.
The Washington State legislature debated this earlier this year but the solidly Democratic majority didn’t pass the bill for some bizarre and unknown reason.
Stan Oklobdzija@stano.bsky.social · 3w agoCalifornia is debating legislation right now that would ban all ICE employees from ever being hired by a public agency for life. This is good and next year's Democratic House needs to provide a full roster of ICE employees to help facilitate state efforts like this one.
the thing about this Yglesias take is that it’s load-bearing for his career. if politics is about persuasion, someone like Yglesias serves no real purpose, and in fact it might be counterproductive for politicians to listen to the opinions of an abrasive nerd
Jeff Lazarus@jlazarus.bsky.social · 3w agoThis paragraph gave me an epiphany about Matty Y. It's not that he doesn't understand how politics words. It's that fundamentally, he doesn't understand *what politics is.*
Whenever some NIMBY writes an op-ed, you should look up that person's address and figure out 1. how much they paid for their home, 2. what it's worth today and 3. how much they pay in property taxes. In this case: 1. $79,000 in 1983. 2. $1,000,000. 3. $4,800/year (0.5% of assessed value.)
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is a funny and very typical op-ed in that the author repeatedly emphasizes he is NOT a NIMBY while checking off the full gamut of standard NIMBY talking points one by one. www.aol.com/news/not-nim...
remember the conservative plan for schools: 1) elite secular academies for the wealthy, 2) religious instruction to brainwash the middle class and 3) a prison-like rump public school system to discipline the lower classes into mindless servitude
Texas Observer@texasobserver.org · 3w agoNew from @josephinelee.bsky.social, in our magazine: Districts across the state are arresting and citing young children children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age of criminal responsibility and floods schools with even more police.
Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
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there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4w agowhat a fucking asshole
Next amendment would require annual reporting by King County and annual city council approval of voter-approved spending, which strikes me as quite an overreach by the city council over: the voters; the mayor, and King County. Saka is characterizing it as a matter of simple oversight.
