Dear Seattle media: Has anyone checked on the search for the third Seattle Center shooting suspect lately? Or on how the survivors and victims' families are coping? Asking on behalf of roughly 850,000 friends.

This piece raises a bigger question than one viral City Council moment: What happens when race, age and culture are used to shield a public official from accountability, while the Blackness and legitimacy of other elected leaders are treated as negotiable? 🧵 www.portlandmercury.com/opinion/the-...

THE BLACK BYLINE: Viral “Daddy” Rift Highlights a Bigger Culture War Within and Beyond Portland City Council - Portland Mercury

“I read all the revolutionary shit you read. But I am alive because of what my Grandmama did with her understanding of Christ.”—Kiese Laymon, 2026 “As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed peop...

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For some reason feels like a great day to hear Gabriel Teodros rap about dismantling the carceral state.

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Seattle Social Housing Developer@seasocialhousing.bsky.social · last wk.

As with all our housing, these buildings will be forever publicly owned, permanently affordable and climate forward. We look forward to telling you more soon !

It’s never too late to contact the Seattle City Council to ask that they end predatory delay procedures from city law. Habitat for Humanity has an online letter 📧 campaign here: habitatforhumanityseattle.quorum.us/campaign/164...

The Urbanist@theurbanist.org · 3w ago

Seattle’s Land Use Committee has voted to send CM Eddie Lin's proposal to close a commonly used avenue to appeal growth plans to a full City Council vote next week. The proposal has sparked opposition from many of the same groups who appeal those plans. Story: www.theurbanist.org/seattle-coun...

The means testing debate over free school lunches is the same debate over who is more deserving of affordable housing.

Hey Seattle, Today is the day! Register for @waforpublicbanking.bsky.social event with Don Morgan, President of the Bank of North Dakota. The sole state public bank in the US and @tiffanimc.bsky.social of @seasocialhousing.bsky.social. See you there!

Washington's Public Banking Future Featuring Don Morgan — waforpublicbanking.org

Don Morgan, President and CEO of the Bank of North Dakota & Tiffani McCoy , CEO of Seattle’s Social Housing Developer Wednesday, July 22nd 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm The Metropole Seattle 423 ...

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A new housing development near Lake Stevens is bulldozing a forest and calling itself The Timbers. Is this sprawling, car-dependent place really the best place to build new homes? Couldn’t we be allowing more housing in our core cities and protecting these forests?

SPD budget: $458 million SPD budget increase 2025-26: $35 million Amount earmarked for Rob Saka to kill Curby: $2 million Universal free school meals: $3 million Someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. My city is dying

Brett Hamil@bretthamil.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tell em you support universal free school meals. Do it for Trey! D1: Saka (206) 684-8801 D2: Lin (206) 684-8802 D3: Hollingsworth (206) 684-8803 D4: Rivera (206) 684-8804 D5: Juarez (206) 684-8805 D6: Strauss (206) 684-8806 D7: Kettle (206) 684-8807 D8: Rinck (206) 684-8808 D9: Foster (206) 684-8809

Here's a thought: how about both? How about we provide universal free school meals AND weekend, summer and school break meals?

The Urbanist@theurbanist.org · 3w ago

NEW STORY// Seattle Council and Mayor Butt Heads Over Universal Free School Meals By Amy Sundberg via @theurbanist.org

SSHD is hiring a Restorative Justice Program Manager! Please help spread the word, friends! This is an exciting & critical role at SSHD.

It smells like s’mores getting off the water taxi today

I do not remember this degree of spine and chest-thumping with respect to fascists being elected, but socdems? LET SLIP THE HOGS OF WAR

Axios@axios.com · last mo.

"There's going to be a war": Centrist House Democrats plot Mamdani Caucus counterattack

The fact that drivers may freely menace other road users is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.

It’s been a long road to get to this moment, but i wouldn’t trade it for anything. The road was filled with an unwavering belief in a better housing system. A dedication to achieving what others said was impossible. I’m feeling so proud and humbled today 🥲

Seattle Social Housing Developer@seasocialhousing.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is the moment in a recent Board meeting our Board and staff celebrated our plans to buy our first ever social housing building — Elara at the Market. Today we can finally say we are officially the owners, and social housing is a reality in Seattle!

SSHD will focus on creating 2, 3 and some 4 bedroom homes. These larger family-sized units are rarely built by private market developers as they aren’t “profitable” or often by affordable housing sector due to financing constraints. www.fox13seattle.com/news/seattle...

Seattle City Council committee approves financial power for social housing

A Seattle City Council committee approved a measure giving the city's social housing developer more flexibility to finance future housing projects.

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This is an astronomical showing of the need for deeply affordable housing in our region.

Heidi Groover@heidigroover.bsky.social · 2mo ago

More than 10,000 people applied for Seattle's social housing lottery after the social housing developer bought its first building. www.seattletimes.com/business/rea...

Scientists: We desperately need long, unbroken records of North Atlantic currents to see how close we are to a #climate tipping point. US government: sending ships to rip 900 deep-sea sensors out of the water. Congress voted twice to keep them funded. They're being pulled anyway.

Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

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On my calendar!

House Our Neighbors@houseourneighbors.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Last September we launched our Social Housing Activator program at Homegrown. This year, we celebrate our members and scale the program at Blueprint to Build. Sept 10, 6 pm at Washington Hall. Music! Food! Art! Save the date and stay tuned for more details to come!

Congrats to Seattle's Social Housing Dept. for acquiring their first building! This creates 60 units of affordable homes & freezes rents for all tenants for two years. And a huge thank you to all the organizers, activists, and voters who made this possible by passing Prop 1A last year 🎉

Seattle Social Housing Developer Buys First Building - The Stranger

The Seattle Social Housing Developer (SSHD) has announced its first acquisition, a 150-unit apartment building in the heart of downtown. It plans to turn half of these units into affordable housing. T...

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Still riding the high from this tremendous moment. Never let anyone tell you that imaging a better society is unachievable. Instead, fight like hell to prove them wrong. ✊🏻

The Urbanist@theurbanist.org · 2mo ago

NEW STORY// Seattle Social Housing Developer Acquires First Building near Pike Place Market By Doug Trumm via @theurbanist.org

Here's our Blog post about the first Social Housing building in Seattle -- Elara at the Market!! There you will also find a link to our Housing Lottery!!! PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD! seattlesocialhousing.org/seattles-fir...

From dream to fruition in 5 years. Congrats to @houseourneighbors.bsky.social and @seasocialhousing.bsky.social on your first acquisition for social housing! I'm honored to have played a small part in this historic move toward publicly owned, permanently affordable housing in Seattle.

Tune in! Announcing @seasocialhousing.bsky.social first acquisition! Live stream at 9 am youtube.com/live/LdbV9a_...

Seattle Social Housing Developer - building acquisition press conference

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Seattle Councilmember Eddie Lin today riffing on the absurdity of having an appeal process for citywide land use decisions that doesn't exist in any other context, a fact that often delays action on impactful legislation by months and years...and anyone can file an appeal from anywhere.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

When did we normalize this? When did it become okay for a president to tell a female reporter she’s a ‘dumb person’ for asking a totally legitimate question about his contradictory answers? Was there a specific date and time it become okay? Normal? Normalized?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

TRUMP: We have a ballroom that's under budget. It's going up right here. I've doubled the size of it because we obviously need that. REPORTER: The price doubled TRUMP: I doubled the size of it, you dumb person. You are not a smart person.

very much of the view that a democratic congress should wield the guarantee clause against ad hoc, mid-decade redistricting, a practice which is an end run against representative government itself

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year’s congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"Those on hand received an hour and a half - 50 percent longer than the meeting's expected length - to air their fears" This was a meeting about a CROSSWALK. westseattleblog.com/2026/05/ques...

Questions abound at Fauntleroy/Rose median meeting

By Tracy Record West Seattle Blog editor About 30 people gathered at Southwest Library Wednesday night to talk about SDOT's plan for a new crossing at Fauntleroy Way SW and SW Rose Street [map]. Mos...

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Had a great time touring Vienna House in Vancouver with the @seasocialhousing.bsky.social Developer. Passive house, mass timber, prefabrication, incredible design and courtyard. Can’t wait to bring to Seattle! #socialhousing