Beth Day
@thebethocracy.bsky.social
Seattle urbanista, interested in education, safe streets, and housing. Grew up in Baltimore. GIS graduate student and bike mom. Former wetland biologist. I follow Seattle School Board meetings and yell at cars.
It's 100% worth it to go at night. The glow of the lava is more spectacular and the stars are breathtaking. This is what things looked like even on my not-so-great phone camera.
December 7, 2025 at 4:45 AM
It's 100% worth it to go at night. The glow of the lava is more spectacular and the stars are breathtaking. This is what things looked like even on my not-so-great phone camera.
*THROWS SOME SHIT*
Seattle Fire is currently responding to a driver hitting two pedestrians, an adult and a child, at 15th Ave S and S Angeline Street in Beacon Hill.
December 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
*THROWS SOME SHIT*
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Join The Seattle Times online Dec. 8 for an hourlong Q&A with the incoming Seattle School Board directors.
What do you want to know about your new Seattle School Board directors?
www.seattletimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Join The Seattle Times online Dec. 8 for an hourlong Q&A with the incoming Seattle School Board directors.
Seattle, you’re being a bit much.
December 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Seattle, you’re being a bit much.
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From the smoke-choked June 11 protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Spokane to the packed parks and sidewalks at multiple No Kings protests, 2025 has been filled with people exercising their right to protest the US government. Local Flock cameras were used to surveil these protests.
Protested this year? Cops might’ve looked for you on Flock cams. – RANGE Media
Newly obtained records show that the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office made 24 searches across thousands of cameras for cars at protests.
rangemedia.co
December 5, 2025 at 2:06 AM
From the smoke-choked June 11 protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Spokane to the packed parks and sidewalks at multiple No Kings protests, 2025 has been filled with people exercising their right to protest the US government. Local Flock cameras were used to surveil these protests.
Was having a rough day with the gloom and impending gloom and then my bestie asks if I can dogsit for her friend in Honolulu (where bestie lives). It's like Gandalf showing up at Helm's Deep. Now to convince my family they can do without me for a week...
December 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Was having a rough day with the gloom and impending gloom and then my bestie asks if I can dogsit for her friend in Honolulu (where bestie lives). It's like Gandalf showing up at Helm's Deep. Now to convince my family they can do without me for a week...
How this household feels about elf narcs.
December 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
How this household feels about elf narcs.
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1/ WAISN is proud to announce our 2026 Policy Platform. Shaped by directly impacted immigrants and refugees, this year we’re championing health equity, deportation defense, and protections that keep our communities safe and resourced. #WALeg
Explore the full platform here: bit.ly/waisn2026eng
Explore the full platform here: bit.ly/waisn2026eng
December 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
1/ WAISN is proud to announce our 2026 Policy Platform. Shaped by directly impacted immigrants and refugees, this year we’re championing health equity, deportation defense, and protections that keep our communities safe and resourced. #WALeg
Explore the full platform here: bit.ly/waisn2026eng
Explore the full platform here: bit.ly/waisn2026eng
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Free webinar next week! Please join us! open.substack.com/pub/firstfis...
Free Webinar: "The Digital Delusion: How Classroom Technology Harms Our Kids' Learning-- and How to Help Them Thrive Again" with Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath
Join Emily and Jared on Tuesday, December 9, 2025, 6 PM PST/9 PM EST!
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Free webinar next week! Please join us! open.substack.com/pub/firstfis...
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Not content with raising our health insurance costs, now MAGA Republicans are planning to kick thousands of Washingtonians off of Medicare using AI made by corporations who *get paid more if they kick more people off* 😡
This will raise costs for working families & hospitals in our state.
This will raise costs for working families & hospitals in our state.
Thousands of Washington state Medicare users could soon have claims denied by AI
Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny.
www.kuow.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Not content with raising our health insurance costs, now MAGA Republicans are planning to kick thousands of Washingtonians off of Medicare using AI made by corporations who *get paid more if they kick more people off* 😡
This will raise costs for working families & hospitals in our state.
This will raise costs for working families & hospitals in our state.
DELIGHTFUL!!!
NEWS: King County Councilmembers Teresa Mosqueda and Steffanie Fain, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, and Tukwila Mayor Thomas McLeod will be the newest members of the Sound Transit board of directors, Executive Zahilay's office has just announced.
December 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
DELIGHTFUL!!!
Got a new phone and declared app amnesty. There was so much random crap on that old phone.
December 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Got a new phone and declared app amnesty. There was so much random crap on that old phone.
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I love this idea so much: Washington Dept of Fish & Wildlife just released an anthology of poetry and art exploring how each of the state's ecoregions is being affected by climate change, and how fish & wildlife managers are responding.
I just ordered my copy.
I just ordered my copy.
WDFW and partners publish poetry anthology focused on climate resilience in Washington’s ecosystems
“On Resilience: Stories of Climate Adaptation Across Washington’s Landscapes” is a new poetry anthology bringing together place-based…
wdfw.medium.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I love this idea so much: Washington Dept of Fish & Wildlife just released an anthology of poetry and art exploring how each of the state's ecoregions is being affected by climate change, and how fish & wildlife managers are responding.
I just ordered my copy.
I just ordered my copy.
SPS meeting meta-conversation: It can be really hard during progress monitoring to distinguish between word salad and MEAT, so to speak. This makes them among the hardest things to tweet, because I find my brain like mentally squinting trying to make sense out of word salad and missing good meat.
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 AM
SPS meeting meta-conversation: It can be really hard during progress monitoring to distinguish between word salad and MEAT, so to speak. This makes them among the hardest things to tweet, because I find my brain like mentally squinting trying to make sense out of word salad and missing good meat.
The December 3, 2025 Seattle School Board meeting will start shortly. Here's the agenda again: www.seattleschools.org/board-meetin...
December 3, 2025 – Board Special Meeting: Board of Directors Oath of Office Ceremony; Progress Monitoring – Seattle Public Schools
www.seattleschools.org
December 4, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The December 3, 2025 Seattle School Board meeting will start shortly. Here's the agenda again: www.seattleschools.org/board-meetin...
In about 45 minutes it will be Seattle School Board Meeting time. On tonight's agenda: swearing in the new members, progress monitoring. www.seattleschools.org/board-meetin...
December 3, 2025 – Board Special Meeting: Board of Directors Oath of Office Ceremony; Progress Monitoring – Seattle Public Schools
www.seattleschools.org
December 3, 2025 at 11:46 PM
In about 45 minutes it will be Seattle School Board Meeting time. On tonight's agenda: swearing in the new members, progress monitoring. www.seattleschools.org/board-meetin...
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Reminder to register for our lunch & learn next Tuesday with School Board Director Joe Mizrahi! Learn how our housing affordability crisis is hurting our schools and why social and affordable housing are essential to a thriving public school system. Register for zoom link: tinyurl.com/HONLLDec9
December 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Reminder to register for our lunch & learn next Tuesday with School Board Director Joe Mizrahi! Learn how our housing affordability crisis is hurting our schools and why social and affordable housing are essential to a thriving public school system. Register for zoom link: tinyurl.com/HONLLDec9
*FAAAAAAARRRRRRRT NOISE*
Gov. Bob Ferguson warned Tuesday that the budget proposal he’ll release this month will rely solely on spending cuts and not higher taxes to overcome what he says is a multi-billion dollar shortfall. washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/wa-go...
WA Gov. Bob Ferguson says he’s drafting a cuts-only budget • Washington State Standard
Gov. Bob Ferguson warned Tuesday that the budget proposal he’ll release this month will rely solely on spending cuts and not higher taxes to overcome what he says is a multi-billion dollar shortfall.
washingtonstatestandard.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
*FAAAAAAARRRRRRRT NOISE*
Yay look who is on the Agenda, it’s me!
December 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Yay look who is on the Agenda, it’s me!
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Listening to tonight's Federal Way city council land use committee meeting, where a councilmember was questioning the need to add a sidewalk to a street directly connecting Federal Way High School with the light rail station, "because it's a residential area" and would impact parking.
December 2, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Listening to tonight's Federal Way city council land use committee meeting, where a councilmember was questioning the need to add a sidewalk to a street directly connecting Federal Way High School with the light rail station, "because it's a residential area" and would impact parking.
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Indeed so. The problem we have here in Seattle is that our own school district is just as actively undermining special education support as is the USDOE. Stories of denied IEPs, unilaterally altered 504s, failure to actually deliver services, abound...
Parents are ready to fight gutting of special education support: Jonathan Salazar
Parents and children with successful Individualized Education Plans know how transformative they can be. The team at the Cleveland schools’ Louisa May Alcott School has been incredible for my two boys...
www.cleveland.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Indeed so. The problem we have here in Seattle is that our own school district is just as actively undermining special education support as is the USDOE. Stories of denied IEPs, unilaterally altered 504s, failure to actually deliver services, abound...
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Rainier Beach High School Hosts 8th Annual Black College Expo
A Crossroads to Higher Education: Rainier Beach High School Hosts 8th Annual Black College Expo — Converge Media
Last month, for the second year in a row, Converge Media visited Rainier Beach High School for the 8th Annual Black College Expo. The expo was more than a college-readiness event; it was a crossroads ...
www.whereweconverge.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Rainier Beach High School Hosts 8th Annual Black College Expo
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I covered this at Curbed in 2017 and I still think about it a lot!
seattle.curbed.com/2017/9/13/16...
seattle.curbed.com/2017/9/13/16...
December 1, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I covered this at Curbed in 2017 and I still think about it a lot!
seattle.curbed.com/2017/9/13/16...
seattle.curbed.com/2017/9/13/16...
IT IS BETHDAY! HAPPY BETHDAY TO ME! (My birthday.)
November 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
IT IS BETHDAY! HAPPY BETHDAY TO ME! (My birthday.)
YES! If anyone is bored on Tues @9:30am my appointment to the School Traffic Safety Committee will hopefully (finally) be approved. We have reps on the STSC from SDOT, SPS, KC Metro and SPD as well as the public. I hope that the @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social team will heed this advice!
I think one of the most impactful things @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social’s SDOT could do is rapidly expand the scale and scope of the Safe Routes to Schools program. Give this program 4x the resources and expand to include parks and libraries. @sngreenways.bsky.social @gordonofseattle.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 4:30 AM
YES! If anyone is bored on Tues @9:30am my appointment to the School Traffic Safety Committee will hopefully (finally) be approved. We have reps on the STSC from SDOT, SPS, KC Metro and SPD as well as the public. I hope that the @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social team will heed this advice!