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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 13h

Oh wow. This feels like an important milestone.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Fix the L8 @fixthel8.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you for your support, @cmtmosqueda.bsky.social!

Page 1 of letter from Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda in support of bus lanes on Denny Way

Page 2 of letter from Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda in support of bus lanes on Denny Way

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 15h

👀 "An entire lane of solo drivers on Denny Way between Seattle Center and I-4 can fit into one articulated Route 8 bus, and a dedicated transit lane would allow that bus to be over four times faster than driving along this section"

Cars just don't scale well, especially in dense cities.

200 people in different modes on 2nd ave demonstration

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 17h

SDOT plans to make improvements to Occidental Ave in advance of the World Cup, but we definitely can't change parking on the street, so we're going to get a "walkway" between the road and parked cars.

Graphic showing cars parked on Occidental facing the buildings with the location of a "walkway test" between the road and the cars

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 9h

If Trump is going to deny blue states federal money, blue state Dems in Congress should introduce bills increasing the standard deduction tenfold, forcing Republicans to vote against tax cuts that would directly benefit the overwhelming majority of Americans.

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 19h

Packer: City staff created shovel-ready design for Lake Washington Blvd safety upgrades before Mayor Harrell cancelled them

#SEAbikes #Seattle

Packer: City staff created shovel-ready design for Lake Washington Blvd safety upgrades before Mayor Harrell cancelled them

A construction-ready engineering plot city staff created for a planned safety upgrade to the intersection of Lake Washington Boulevard and S Orcas Street. Published by the Urbanist. Staff at both Seattle Parks and SDOT worked together to fully design a series of planned street safety upgrades to Lake Washington Boulevard, including additional speed humps to slow speeding and a redesigned intersection at S Orcas Street.

www.seattlebikeblog.com

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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 18h

I've said for a while that he's better at getting things done than Do Nothing Durkan, the problem is that the things he does are bad!

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 23h

Trolleybuses pull power directly into efficient, hill-climbing engines without need for massive, pavement-crushing batteries. Next gen trolleys with in-motion charging offer significant off-wire travel, allowing incremental wire extension. SF and Seattle partnering:
www.sfmta.com/media/43118/...

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Nick @nicksattele.bsky.social · 1d

Our environmental policy finds an increase in driving to a train station as environmentally damaging but the building of a private parking garage as not significant

Andy Randles @andyrandles.bsky.social · 1d

What is even the purpose of SEPA if a 594-stall parking garage is able to receive a "determination of non-significance"
www.djc.com/news/ae/1217...

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 1d

Seattle's Victoria Clipper has laid off a quarter of its workforce due to the collapse in business from Canadian tourists in response to Trump's anti-Canadian bluster:

"Ridership between Vancouver and Seattle has plunged 30% so far this year, the company said."

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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Marco @madeingermany.bsky.social · 1d

Very respectful, since 15% of people experiencing homelessness are Native Americans, while making up only 1% of the population.

The Needling @theneedling.com · 1d

Mayor Harrell Announces Police Officers Will Recite Land Acknowledgement Before Sweeping Homeless Native Americans on Indigenous Peoples’ Day: tinyurl.com/35b9yp9f

Mayor Bruce Harrell speaking at podium with City Attorney Ann Davison behind him next to sign on wall reading "Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day"

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 2d

If it takes until 2032 to electrify the Route 48, that will be a full 18 years since SDOT completed its electrification study on the route. #climateleader

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 2d

The good news: Metro still plans to restore the Route 2 and 12 as trolleybus routes, and electrify the Route 48.

The bad news: that's not planned until late 2026, 2029, and 2032 (!) respectively.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/13/m...

Metro Plans Trolleybus Investments, with Long Implementation Timelines » The Urbanist

# After pivoting away from an aggressive schedule for battery-bus adoption, King County Metro plans to focus attention on the tried-and-true trolley network. But limited staff, delays obtaining materi...

www.theurbanist.org

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 1d

This seems fake but it's completely real: Audio of Seattle's current Mayor dreaming of a giant computer-simulated Martin Luther King, something the King family has explicitly asked people not to do.
Big thanks to Erica Barnett for being the only reporter in town covering these events so closely!

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Brandon der Blätter @intcreator.com · 2d

this bike lane has been blocked for two weeks. it has been reported many times by many people by the Find It Fix It app and by phone. I bet if it was a car lane @seattledot.bsky.social would have fixed it by now

the two way bike lane on Airport Way between S Edmunds St. and S Lucile St. with two 1673 lb concrete blocks blocking one of the lanes

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Alex ITMFA @ahym666.bsky.social · 3d

Do not forget, Bruce Harrell is a 63 year old multimillionaire who lives in a 7000 square foot lakefront home.

I feel like he’s the prime demographic for like, and AI investment scam 😩

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 3d

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social · 2d

It's driver behavior wishcasting to put up a stop here on red sign 150 feet from the light. Either Wall St needs to be made one way eastbound or there needs to be another light prior to the tracks.

Screenshot of the stop here on red from streetview showing how far away the traffic signal is

Google maps showing that the distance from the stop here on red bar and the stop light is 150 feet.

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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 3d

Harrell is spending too much time with tech industry VPs

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 3d

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

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jaci skellington @wickedjaws.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry but what the actual fuck.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 3d

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 3d

this man is so out of his depth

'public health *seattle &* king county' does restaurant inspections, septic (seattle has most in WA), medical & dental clinics, manages WIC, nation leading covid response, etc

wonder if girmay or mosqueda's office speaks out

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 3d

Harrell says the city pays into King County's health department, and suggests that Seattle should consider running its own health department. "I know the streets better here in Seattle than the county."

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 3d

"I haven't done anything that I would consider punching down," Harrell said. He's claiming that Katie Wilson has only ever hired her campaign manager. (Everyone laughs). Now he's mocking her nonprofit, the Transit Riders Union. "I don't see that as punching down." "Good. Good," the MC says.

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Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social · 3d

As a recreational cyclist, I got pretty excited when I realized that ebikes basically eliminate the "Ugh, I can't ride up hills!" barrier for casual/starting commuter cyclists. In many areas, it's one of the biggest barriers to adoption.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3d

“The big advantage of bikes is that they go directly from where you start to where you finish, when you need to go. The advantage over cars is that they need perhaps 1/10th of the amount of space. Roads that jam up quickly with cars can carry effectively unlimited numbers of people by bicycle.”

Why e-bikes are more important the EVs

Bikes can actually transform cities in the way driverless cars promise

danielknowles.substack.com

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 4d

“Healthy Street Ends” is such a confession about American transportation

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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 4d

Quite the embarrassment for SPD, as this suggests they haven't previously been reviewing officers' history before promoting them, which should be a fundamental part of the promotion process.

jseattle @jseattle.bsky.social · 4d

Not much of a pledge but ok

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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social · 5d

It's a good thing no one was walking on the pedestrian path when this happened as there's no protection between the road and the path. We can't rely on luck for the next incident though. We need to make changes to this road to address dangerous driver behavior before someone dies.

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