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Jerome Alexander Horne @jahorne.bsky.social · 4h

Some smiles from the @amtrakcascades.wsdot.wa.gov Airo Train launch event this morning! @noahsbwilliams.com

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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 23h

A big failure. The argument about streaming the traffic cameras into the real-time crime center was that all the feeds were publicly available anyway, a fact that we now know to be untrue. That this happened at all erodes public trust in city government, and in surveillance cameras specifically.

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James everything is analog @analogist.net · 22h

Black Site Bob, whose previous work includes literally *overseeing CIA torture camps*, can shut the fuck up when it comes to budget priorities for equitable housing in Seattle

Glen Stellmacher @HardPressedN

SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER Bob Kettle says he oversaw Camp Cropper Prison in Iraq as part of CIA DIA operation

The New York Times
THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ: MISTREATMENT;
Earlier Jail Seen as Incubator for Abuses in Iraq
By Douglas Jehl
May 15, 2004
An American-run detention center outside
Baghdad known as Camp Cropper was reportedly the site of numerous abuses of Iraqi prisoners several months before the mistreatment of prisoners unfolded last fall at Abu Ghraib prison, according to documents and interviews.

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rondezvousWA @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 21h

I’m sorry, WHAT!?!

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Jerome Alexander Horne @jahorne.bsky.social · 22h

Thanks everyone who came out to the Seattle happy hour this evening! @typewriteralley.bsky.social thank you for organizing! Great to see @blitzurbanism.bsky.social, @dmholmer.wayfinddesigns.com and @noahsbwilliams.com, @chadnewt.bsky.social as well.

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 29/09/2026

@hannahkrieg.bsky.social a company King County metro buys a lot of buses from is selling them to ICE. Metro is a major customer with market power; that can be used as leverage against this vendor

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 29/09/2026

This is made by the same parent company as the majority of buses in the United States and Canada. Motorcoach Industries (NFI subsidiary) needs to stop selling buses to DHS. NFI Parts (NFI logistics subsidiary) needs to refuse parts and technical support for all existing equipment.

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 29/09/2026

Long prison sentences are a must for everyone involved, from Trump and Miller on down to the guards and admin staff. Anyone who works for these concentration camps should be hounded until imprisoned, just as we did with Nazi concentration camps.

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 29/09/2026

HEY! New Flyer Industries! Why are your motorcoaches being used to conduct deportations, huh? This is a MCI D4500 ISTV - a specially built bus for prisoner transport. ICE is getting these and presumably getting parts for them. They shouldn't be.

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Shoshanah in Alaska @shanahstone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Horrific. We are paying for this torture at a concentration camp:

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 29/09/2026

Thanks for asking about it!

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The question that @guyoron.net asked Bob Kettle about why "Public Safety" doesn't include traffic safety — the consistent #1 concern of Seattleites in public safety surveys — continues to get under his skin. Just now Kettle once again implied Guy "doesn't seem to know" what they're talking about.

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Seattleites are most concerned about traffic safety because we all experience it regularly: narrowly missing getting hit while walking in a crosswalk, seeing people using center turn lanes as their personal speedway, etc. Most people also know someone who has died or been seriously injured:

Info graphic showing most people will know 6 people who die in a car crash and 28 who have major injuries

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 11/02/2025

"You pay every time you board a bus, and that makes you think about whether you want to ride it. If you paid every time you used a parking space, you'd also think about whether you want to drive. Free parking doesn’t mean free markets; it often means freeloading." —the late Donald Shoup

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 29/09/2026

Hear me out hear me out: We tell PSR to P[is]SR[ight off], electrify the new route, and add electric helpers to haul the freights up the grades. Since they don't mind delaying passenger trains, they clearly wouldn't mind a slight delay to add motors!

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Greg Shill @gregshill.com · 28/09/2026

Notably, travel times also did not increase outside the congestion zone. This mirrors what we have seen in other aggregate congestion pricing impacts. For example, it was predicted that drivers would change their routes to avoid the zone, creating new congestion; this, too, did not happen.

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 28/09/2026

Oh my god instant follow

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 28/09/2026

Alright, thanks for saying you're a bitter and truculent person, hope you sort your shit out ✌️

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 28/09/2026

Dude, I'm sorry but you're getting ratio'd on this post for a reason. It's mean and bitter to police joy, and to tell people their new thing sucks, because something else exists. I buy fancy bikes with belt drives and gear hubs. I don't go telling people their new chain-and-derailleur bikes suck.

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 27/09/2026

You’re literally telling people “screw your new thing that you’re happy about” and there’s no merit in it! Nothing to be gained! No transit improvement to be made! Idk what’s wrong today but I hope tomorrow is better!

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 27/09/2026

My friend…you’re looking at humanity. They’re also smart enough to build the ICE I just rode at 300kph through the German countryside! And the Germans view *that* as unreliable!

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

new train just dropped

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 27/09/2026

If you don't have it in you to push for it today, ok. That's fine, things are pretty shit in the world right now. Take some rest, refuel, turn some bike pedals, and fight another day.

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 27/09/2026

If the point of this post is to persuade advocates that transit improvements aren't worthwhile, I'd like to make the direct case that the line of argument is immoral. As in, wrong, because it does harm to other people's will to do good.

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 27/09/2026

What do you mean? What on earth do you think people are going to vote for after a war this disastrous? The bastard doesn’t have the life left in him to seize the reins permanently, he’s barely got two more cheeseburgers before he croaks! I can’t see this future you’re looking at.

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 27/09/2026

It's a case of "do what you can, as much as you can, as fast as you can, and do more later". This isn't the end of the transit renaissance era, it's the beginning!

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 27/09/2026

Freight delays will still happen, but that's the expensive part that we will have money to fix under a sane administration. The current one is vindictive and looking to sabotage us, but that should last about 2 more years. Having equipment that works is a step in the right direction!

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 27/09/2026

Based on regular from crewmembers on the BN subdivision, I do not believe the first sentence is accurate. The current equipment is EOL and causing a litany of issues. Equipment cancellations are a major source of the Cascades's current reliability issues.

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 27/09/2026

I don't think the hype is "overhype" at all; it's appropriate hype that builds momentum! Support for transit and other things in the Urbanist movement builds power like a steam locomotive's - slowly at first and requiring momentum to get to full horsepower. Reliable service is useful and a W

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 27/09/2026

Probably because you're financially disincentivizing drivers from taking transit (even if in the big picture it's still cheaper)

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 27/09/2026

Expanding capacity, service, and accessibility is good, and these trainsets are compatible with future speed upgrades!

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Damn, these new trains are NIIIICE.

Digital display showing which seats are available

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 26/09/2026

At this rate I think there's a reasonable argument they're not getting built without major design changes. Ballard is not affordable (by the objective definition ST is legally required to use).

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medicare for all @ypkyp.com · 26/09/2026

2020: Wilson and @seattletru.bsky.social help pass JumpStart, a landmark $450mm/year payroll tax on high earners. 2025: Wilson wins Seattle election. 2026: Mayor Wilson's balanced budget earmarks JumpStart money for homelessness response (50% of spending). Elections have consequences!

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 25/09/2026

(In case it's not abundantly clear, Debra Juarez is currently the child punching the air)

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 25/09/2026

Having worked with Katie for a couple years before she became mayor, I cannot fathom what might make her scream at anyone 😂 If anything, she and wants to hear everyone out until they're blue in the face, like letting a child punch the air with your hand on their head keeping them away 😂

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Brandi Bennett @bbennettesq.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@democrats.org leadership remains hopelessly out of touch. It wasn't their family raped, kidnapped, murdered in the streets of Minnesota. It wasn't their family smuggled out of state to hide from the Gestapo. It wasn't their health care taken away. Their jobs lost. Savings decimated. Loser shit.

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 23/09/2026

Would a miss and run with an actual victim be different?

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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

F*CK CANCER: SOME GOOD NEWS Cancer deaths have dramatically dropped. Mainly due to early detection, better treatment, less cigarette smoking. www.ajmc.com/view/cancer-...

ajmc.com

Cancer Death Rate Fell 35% Since 1991, 4.8M Lives Saved | AJMC

AACR urges Congress to protect NIH/NCI funding amid a fight over a contested OMB grantmaking rule.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The European Union is tightening the regulatory backdoor through which US automakers have been quietly importing around 7k large SUVs and pickup trucks/year. “The revised rules, expected to launch in 2027, are designed to close loopholes that Brussels says allow unsafe vehicles onto European roads.”

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Too big for Europe: America's pickup trucks became a trade war flashpoint - EUROPE SAYS

America loves its pickup trucks. The Ford F-150, the Chevrolet Silverado 1500, the Ram 1500: these are not merely vehicles. They are cultural monuments on

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Alex @alexh666.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

we should not give more money to cops who continue to kill people in our streets.

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 21/09/2026

Here’s to two full years of electrified @caltrain.com service! It’s had a transformative impact across the entire corridor and proven out the model for high-performance electrified regional rail on the West Coast. Nail your fundamentals, and the riders will come!

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M Mallon @mmallon.com · 21/09/2026

The first Caltrain electric train arriving at Santa Clara Station on launch day. 2 years ago today 🚂⚡️❤️

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 21/09/2026

Good morning! Happy Monday!

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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 20/09/2026

We banned rental junk fees! Starting July 1st, 2027, the price you see is the price you pay — no pet rent, no admin fees, no lease renewal fees. Step by step, we’re building an affordable Seattle. Thanks to City Attorney Evans and Councilmember Foster, and to the Stay Housed, Stay Healthy Coalition!

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 20/09/2026

evergreen post

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 20/09/2026

Wait. Is biking in the bus lane not expressly legal in NYC like everywhere else???

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