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An Urbanist in Seattle

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 2h
hell yeah let's goooo
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h
Not beating the eugenics accusations
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 10h
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 7h
Arizona and Virginia, both of which are governed by Democrats, are ending Medicaid coverage of care for trans youth, Transitics has learned. The bans, which go into effect on October 13th, mark the most significant Democratic capitulation to Trump's anti-trans demands yet. Cowards.
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Democrat-led Arizona, Virginia Quietly End Medicaid Coverage of Care for Trans Youth, Acquiescing to Trump Demands
The policy changes, which go into effect on October 13th, see Arizona and Virginia join Kansas as states where Democrats have needlessly opted to restrict Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 4h
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Alex @alexh666.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
idk I think if you want to remove highways and reclaim that land for 59 acres of environmental/shoreline restoration and 41 acres of housing you should fill out the survey linked here!!!
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This money is absolutely meaningless to Elon Musk, but it has the potential to completely rewrite your future. He's spent over $36 million in about 4 weeks, and he's adding millions a day. All to corrupt our government to push his agenda. Let your friends know what's up.
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rondezvousWA @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Rich people paid for a study to show their taxes were too high and SURPRISE, what they published was misleading and served its purpose. City taxes as a percentage of GDP 2005: 1.35% 2013: 1.24% 2025: 1.24% Taxes are flat from 2013, and down from 2005, even though we are hella richer as a state.
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Report: Taxes in Seattle have grown 5 times faster than population
The report found that Seattle taxes grew 172% between 2013 and 2025, compared with 31% population growth and 23% employment growth.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Abolish ICE.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Happy second birthday to the Overlook Walk, a piece of infrastructure that I can't imagine Seattle without at this point.
Overlook Walk looking toward the city on a sunny dayOverlook Walk from Boon BoonaOverlook Walk from the very top of the stairwellFolks watching the sunset from the Overlook Walk
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
SDOT will be presenting this project to the South Lake Union Community Council later this month. They don’t have a meeting web page I can link to so this, unfortunately, is a screenshot of an email. Go to the SLUCC’s website to get added to their mailing list or see my alt text.
SDOT Briefing
Harrison & Mercer Streets
Transit Project (Virtual
Meeting)
October 27, 2026 from 4-5 PM
Microsoft Teams meeting
Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/
2295344718416?
p=zAABiEWr5fWfbpJGEL
Meeting ID: 229 534 471 841 6
Passcode: sy9to7qq
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@mayor.seattle.gov seeks a new member to serve on the Pike Place Historical Commission for Position 9 – Property Owner. This position is open to anyone who owns property within the Pike Place Market Historical District such as a building, residential condominium, or commercial condominium.
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Mayor Wilson Seeks Member to Serve on Pike Place Market Historical Commission  - Front Porch
Mayor Katie B. Wilson seeks a new member to serve on the Pike Place Historical Commission for Position 9 – Property Owner. This position is open to anyone who owns property within the Pike Place Marke...
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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Bayliss Wagner @baylisswagner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BREAKING: In Nebraska rally, Trump just suggested he would be unbothered to see Iran "take out" LA or San Diego: “They could take out a city,” he said. “Let them take—Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. That’s—this is a very small price to pay."
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Mukilteo Council just voted to rezone Lot 5 on its waterfront to allow mixed-use development, a first step toward a potential waterfront-wide redevelopment plan with the Port of Everett. The vote was 6-1.
A map showing Lot 5 immediately South of the WSF terminal
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I said this in a NY Times story last week about the WA millionaire tax, but let’s bring back shame. Even if billionaires don’t know it’s wrong to do shit like this, they should know it’s embarrassing.
fortune.com
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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amb @amb.fyi · 04/10/2026
Build the housing, run the buses, metaphorically and literally make room to welcome red state refugees into big blue cities
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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You only have to look at the legacy media furor over KCHRA's accounting error in a similar amount to see how they'd cover it. King 5 had a poll up asking if the cops should even have to pay it back ffs
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EcoCity Action @ecocityaction.org · 05/10/2026
Learning from Larry @ Friends of Issaquah Salmon Hatchery With @jrock08.bsky.social and @kellyjiang.bsky.social: “The most important thing is to get the tires off the road” and “reduce the tire-miles-per-person. Thats why I’m telling people to ride the bus!”
Larry from FISH, in an orange hat and volunteers vest, talking to a group of peopleLarry and our group on the bridge at Issaquah Salmon Days
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
rollingstone.com
J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
📰 Bellevue's downtown is struggling. Here's why that's Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson's fault
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
from 2001. no one’s doing product testimonials like this anymore. t.co/PEswCtbEZz
Toyota's unease at being associated with the Taliban and Al Qaeda is evident. In its September statement, the company said,
'Toyota does not have a sales or distribution channel in Afghanistan, and we do not export vehicles to that country."
Somewhat less laconic was Wade Hoyt, Toyota's spokesman in New York, who put the best corporate spin on the situation this week.
"It is not our proudest product placement," he said. "But it shows that the Taliban are looking for the same qualities as any truck buyer: durability and reliability."
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Tim @timzhu.io · 03/10/2026
You're basically Napoleon if you can make entire organization(s) get on the same database
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jose Andres is the absolute GOAT. turbolib who has brought meals to disaster zones after the Haiti earthquake & to war-stricken families in Ukraine and Gaza and now he’s YIMBYposting in the face of Spain’s severe housing shortage
@chefjoseandres
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Incredible to see the "experts" on resolving the housing emergency that Spain is experiencing! On every television! @telediario_tve @ANoticias
@tele5_noticias @noticias_cuatro The reality is that we have politicians who try to create decrees and solutions when they lack the preparation or knowledge to devise a real solution to the problem we're facing.
Spain doesn't have a problem of a lack of decrees. It has a problem of a lack of housing.
And as long as the Government keeps confusing announcing measures with solving problems, we'll keep paying the consequences of its inaction.
Subsidizing demand without increasing supply pressures prices. Regulating a market more and more without building new housing doesn't eliminate scarcity: it manages it. Taxing a type of rental can change incentives, but it doesn't lay a single brick either.Because housing doesn't get cheaper by distributing scarcity. It gets cheaper by ending it.
Spain needs to build. A lot.
More available land. Permits in months, not years. More density wherever possible. Legal certainty. Much more public housing and also private housing.
But the Government isn't doing what's necessary. It prefers to intervene on the few homes that exist rather than create the conditions for there to be many more. It prefers to present patches as solutions and load the cost of its failure onto owners, developers, and citizens.
The rest can serve to redistribute, protect certain groups, or change incentives. But let's not confuse that with solving the underlying problem.
You don't fix a lack of housing by better distributing the few homes that exist. You fix it by making many more exist.
Less propaganda. Less patches. Less obsession with intervening on the same apartment.
More supply. More construction. More homes.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
CODDLED DRIVERS—LAVISHED WITH BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF INFRASTRUCTURE JUST GIVEN TO THEM WITHOUT ANYONE NEEDING TO LAUNCH AN ADVOCACY CAMPAIGN THAT TAKES ALL OF THEIR TIME ON EVENINGS AND WEEKENDS—EXPECTED TO EXPERIENCE SLIGHT INCONVENIENCE
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Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A24 accidentally and unwillingly becoming one of the biggest entertainment conglomerates in America by being the only people who are aware that highbrow liberals spend more money than anyone else
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026
You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026
that this is over the daylight savings bill of all things is ten times funnier
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
How to design a Barcelona-style superblock. 🧵
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026
NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets.
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump straight up doxxed Senator Tom Cotton this morning
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
is the cure to male loneliness getting vaxxed?
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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@mayor.seattle.gov I bet the SPS superintendent and the head of SDOT would be willing to jump on a conference call with you and figure out some way to make this halloween a really positive thing for a walkable city.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Seattle Department of Transportation @transportation.seattle.gov · 02/10/2026
We're working with South Park for cleaner air and easier ways to reach parks, schools, and businesses. Join us on 10/6, anytime between 5-8 PM, at South Park Community Center (8319 8th Ave S). Help design better ways to walk, roll, and take transit. Free food included!
A flyer for the event. Text: Low pollution neighborhood, South Park. Open house on October 6. An illustration shows a person biking toward a school.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week
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Olraca @olraca.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've clowned on this station for it's poor land use but I'm happy it was built and this quote by Ryan is an important reminder about why we need to keep pushing forward.
Highlighted quote in the screenshot reads: "When so often the argument around adding density comes up, a lack of infrastructure is cited as a reason to back away, and yet when the infrastructure comes first, it becomes a waste of money."
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New buildings in Seattle are required to have indoor bike parking, but this would be great to see in parts of tbt city with older multi-family buildings
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rare you get live visuals of state capture.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/10/2026
This kind of stuff really shows how anti-trans sports bans and policies meant to segregate trans people really have nothing to do with "competitive advantage." All this trans girl wanted to do was run for homecoming queen. Like the students would still have to vote for her to even win!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Trump campaigns for Ken Paxton in Texas: "He can be a pain in the ass sometimes, I'll be honest. Is he here, by the way? Oh, there he is. I didn't even know if he was here! I don't care."
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