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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/10/2026

I Pushed My Luck, Reheated My Burrito An Extra 30 Seconds, and It Exploded All Over The Microwave. Here's Why That's A Lesson for Democrats

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 01/10/2026

Sure looks to me like Bob Kettle knew for a year and a half that SPD had massively expanded its surveillance capabilities without a public vote and…just sat on that knowledge without doing anything about it. A massive scandal. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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EcoCity Action @ecocityaction.org · 01/10/2026

Thank you so much to everyone who stopped by our table to tell us what you want to see at Seattle-owned Jackson Golf Course!! You all had such brilliant and beautiful ideas! Send this action letter to council and the mayor to make our shared dreams a reality: actionnetwork.org/letters/turn...

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Rename "Jackson" Park and turn it into a free public green space for more neighbors

Two new light rail stations will be opening next to "Jackson" Park Golf Course in the next couple of years. The 148th St. station is set to open in 2024, and the 130th St. station in 2026. Right no...

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Andy Brauninger @andybrauninger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I just signed my name to this excellent letter. My late father, who loved golf more than almost anything, would be skeptical, but then again he didn’t think much of Jackson Golf Course.

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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 30/09/2026

Seattleites deserve efficient, reliable, and affordable public transit. That's why I was honored to emcee the opening of the Pinehurst Link station earlier this week. Haller Lake, Bitter Lake, Lake City, and other North Seattle communities…

Mayor Wilson stands at a Sound Transit podium with several microphones while reading from papers. Behind the podium is a large wall covered in a vivid red, yellow, and black patterned artwork. Mayor Wilson is wearing a dark-colored blazer and patterned shirt and is positioned slightly to the side while speaking.

A group of people stand and talk in front of a large wall covered in a bright red, yellow, and black patterned artwork. One person wearing a high‑visibility jacket is speaking with another person in a light‑colored puffer jacket. Another person wearing a dark-colored blazer stands nearby, holding papers. Additional people are visible in the foreground and background, including someone near a tall black speaker.

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Seattle's most beloved small business districts were built by transit, not street parking.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026

"The evidence continues to grow. Social media, as it is currently constructed, redounds to the net benefit of illiberal regimes and their allies in democracies. The question is what to do about it." www.liberalcurrents.com/social-media...

Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation

Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026

plenty of 20th century examples by my 19th century-pilled mind goes immediately to the railroads, which were HUGELY DISRUPTIVE and deeply enmeshed in politics in ways quite analogous to silicon valley and AI

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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Lake Washington Boulevard feels like a ghost town today now that's it's back open to cars. It's such a beautiful weekend, it would be a rolling party of people of all ages walking, roller skating, scooting, skate boarding and biking. But instead we have this.

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Braeden 🎣🦀🌲🦅 @bvd100.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

SDOT will say they can’t do 10ft car lanes on 25mph arterials and yet the Aurora Bridge exists.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 03/09/2026

again, I appreciate that his glowering face is surrounded by the message that liberty died in 2026

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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 02/09/2026

This means the start of the school year looks different than families planned for. I know that is stressful. So, we are not waiting. I have directed @seattleparks.bsky.social to open 4 community centers across Seattle to provide parents with childcare: Meadowbrook, Montlake, Rainier, and South Park.

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

imagine if we did this in most of the city.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Democracy takes many forms, and giving the bus its own lane so 40 people on a bus can sail by a handful of people driving alone in private cars is one of them.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A competent press corps would be all over him— wtf does that mean? Is the president insane? How do you deploy the military against the bond market? This should be top of the fold, top of every newscast but we are being sanewashed to death

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Yale School of Public Health @yalesph.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

According to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health, a single-payer universal health care system could: ➡️ Cover every American ➡️ Save more than 100,000 lives a year ➡️ Cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace 1/

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monarch of ashes @cephalopod.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

they called Obama a communist in 2008 and here we are, 18 years later having learned nothing, still shitting our pants over being called communists stop giving a shit what the right wing freaks are going to say about you and gain some principles to stand by

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Between 2016 and today, the US has spent almost $9 trillion on defense. It then ran dangerously low in many advanced munitions fighting a country with no air force and navy--after about two months of combat operations. This is an extraordinary scandal.

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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Can't say I thought we'd get a second derailment before the CEO of Sound Transit Dow Constantine held a press conference about the first derailment

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

High speed rail from Montreal to Toronto really is not a huge lift. We have lots of potential corridors, clear routes into the cities, and obvious demand and potential demand with significantly expanding urban rail systems and densifying downtowns - its painfully obvious.

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 23/07/2026

We won. Thousands of kids in Seattle will not go hungry this school year because we organized, fought hard, and won. Huge credit to @mayor.seattle.gov Katie Wilson for pushing the universal free school meals proposal. It’s her victory too.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Just 10 people have already poured $617 MILLION into this year’s midterm elections. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. This is not sustainable. We need to get Big Money out of our democracy.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Our new pedestrian zone.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care not for thee Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love [dreamye lute riff] Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love

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elliepnw.bsky.social @elliepnw.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Seattle elects a socialist mayor, wins the Super Bowl NYC elects a socialist mayor, wins the NBA finals Win your city a major sports title with this one neat trick

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 04/06/2026

Crazy Socialist Mayor of Seattle Says Cars Not Allowed to Drive on ‘Trains-Only’ Train Tracks: tinyurl.com/3hrm25vc

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson talking at Mount Baker light rail station press conference while car stuck on train tracks in background.

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Seattle Subway @seattlesubway.org · 04/06/2026

One option is to build the pink line south as part of an ST4 package, and then elevate the 1 Line through Rainier Valley

A depiction of part of Seattle Subway's vision map. The relevant part to the post is the pink line which runs north-south and separates from the current 1 line at SODO, goes through Georgetown and South Park, and rejoins at Tukwila International Blvd before ending at SeaTac Airport. This would free up Sound Transit to elevate the existing Ranier Valley segment without severing the spine.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

It's crazy how we have both the World Cup and America 250 this year, and almost no one cares about them because this regime has wholly sucked the joy out of even momentous national events.

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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 29/05/2026

👀 “I really do think it’s time to start talking about governance. If we’re in this constant cycle of crisis, recovery, crisis, recovery, crisis, recovery, maybe a board full of people who are expert at transit running a transit agency and delivering transit projects would be more attuned.”

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elliepnw.bsky.social @elliepnw.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Remove it. Redesignate 405 or something else outside the city to I-5 and then reclaim the land

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/05/2026

i have had the same tern gsd for six years now and it is still going very strong. incredible value.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 25/05/2026

Using Claude Caude, I see why the tech bros think that AI is going to replace human intelligence. It's not, but I see why, if your world is software engineering, you would believe that.

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West Seattle Bike Blob @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

My only goal as a white person is not to age into this type of white person

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Andy Brauninger @andybrauninger.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

My father-in-law’s cribbage set is trolling me

A Joker card from an old deck of cards, with a clown figure above the words “Trump” and “Made in USA”

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Wired: Riding light rail to Ballard. Retired: Living long enough to one day ride light rail to Ballard. Expired: Instructing your heirs to spread your ashes on the light rail to Ballard.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

ORDINANCE PASSES UNANIMOUSLY SHARED STREETS ARE LEGAL IN THE CITY OF SEATTLE THIS HAS BEEN MY DREAM FOR YEARS AND NOW IT IS HAPPENING IF YOU COME HOME FROM EUROPE WISHING WE COULD HAVE WHAT THEY HAVE THEN WHY NOT DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT SOMETIMES YOU WILL SUCCEED

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David Shere @davidshere.net · 10/05/2026

The space laser thing was really fucking offensive? Like, controlling the weather, what? We use the space lasers to manipulate the stock market. Who gives a shit about the weather.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Not a lot of headlines this week on the fact that Sound Transit got the $34.5 billion shortfall down to $11 to $13B in the capital program. I know there are still some gaps including on the operations side, but the agency was able to do a lot with a limited toolbox. The key now is to keep going.

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Andy Brauninger @andybrauninger.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

“We’re trying to build no houses? I don’t get it. People live in houses.”

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Andy Brauninger @andybrauninger.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

“the only path worth taking is to discipline and transform the court with all the tools Congress has at its disposal under the Constitution.”

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Andy Brauninger @andybrauninger.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I wish someone in this meeting had quoted the mayor of Pontevedra: “It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Walking in a straight line is hard.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Seattle Fire is responding to a Jawa Sandcrawler that lost control along Lake Washington Boulevard and is partially submerged. #MayThe4th

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The agony of DEFEET. #UrbanTruth Via our own @tomflood.bsky.social

DEFEET = “drive everywhere for everything every time.”

The guiding principle in city design, via Rovelo Creative’s Tom Flood

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