Clayton Sasaki
@claytonsasaki.bsky.social
Meteorologist | PhD Student | M.S. @UWAtmosSci | B.S @CornellEAS/B.S. @CEECornell | @AMS_WAF | @habitatskc young professionals | @KingCountyMetro Fares Council
It is hard to be surprised these days but here we are...this is so obviously an embracement of white supremacy…
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
It is hard to be surprised these days but here we are...this is so obviously an embracement of white supremacy…
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Exciting to see a 2 line train in Seattle.
Just the 4-6 min peak frequency for downtown to North Seattle is gonna be a game changer!
Spring 2026 cannot come soon enough.
Just the 4-6 min peak frequency for downtown to North Seattle is gonna be a game changer!
Spring 2026 cannot come soon enough.
What do we have here, in the International District Chinatown Station pocket track?
November 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Exciting to see a 2 line train in Seattle.
Just the 4-6 min peak frequency for downtown to North Seattle is gonna be a game changer!
Spring 2026 cannot come soon enough.
Just the 4-6 min peak frequency for downtown to North Seattle is gonna be a game changer!
Spring 2026 cannot come soon enough.
Add this to the evidence that a tax on very high incomes works (in this case income over $1 million dollars)
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Add this to the evidence that a tax on very high incomes works (in this case income over $1 million dollars)
It is crazy…especially this time of year when it is dark before 5pm for over 2 months.
And it would likely only take 2, maybe 3 lights to make the space usable.
And it would likely only take 2, maybe 3 lights to make the space usable.
Often, Seattle playgrounds go dark at sunset due to a lack of lighting while the nearby parking lots are well lit
November 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
It is crazy…especially this time of year when it is dark before 5pm for over 2 months.
And it would likely only take 2, maybe 3 lights to make the space usable.
And it would likely only take 2, maybe 3 lights to make the space usable.
Actually already out of automatic recount territory. >0.5% vote difference.
Thanks @mtvcdm.bsky.social
Thanks @mtvcdm.bsky.social
With the latest update, Katie Wilson leads with 1,976 votes ahead of Bruce Harrell. Given historical precedent, highly unlikely a recount would change the result.
Also almost out of automatic recount territory (2,000 vote difference)
Also almost out of automatic recount territory (2,000 vote difference)
November 12, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Actually already out of automatic recount territory. >0.5% vote difference.
Thanks @mtvcdm.bsky.social
Thanks @mtvcdm.bsky.social
With the latest update, Katie Wilson leads with 1,976 votes ahead of Bruce Harrell. Given historical precedent, highly unlikely a recount would change the result.
Also almost out of automatic recount territory (2,000 vote difference)
Also almost out of automatic recount territory (2,000 vote difference)
November 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
With the latest update, Katie Wilson leads with 1,976 votes ahead of Bruce Harrell. Given historical precedent, highly unlikely a recount would change the result.
Also almost out of automatic recount territory (2,000 vote difference)
Also almost out of automatic recount territory (2,000 vote difference)
Katie Wilson widens her lead to 1,346 votes now. Still within the 2,000 vote recount threshold.
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Katie Wilson widens her lead to 1,346 votes now. Still within the 2,000 vote recount threshold.
Crazy! The fact she become council president is WILD…
Did you know Sara Nelson was only a councilmember for 4 years?!? Didn’t it feel a lot longer than that?
November 11, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Crazy! The fact she become council president is WILD…
Katie Wilson leads by 91 votes after today’s drop!!!
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Katie Wilson leads by 91 votes after today’s drop!!!
Reposted by Clayton Sasaki
There's lot of challenged ballots in Seattle. Challenged ballots disproportionately skew younger with over half from people under age 45.
November 6, 2025 at 3:28 AM
There's lot of challenged ballots in Seattle. Challenged ballots disproportionately skew younger with over half from people under age 45.
Reposted by Clayton Sasaki
It's Election Day!! You have just a few hours left to make sure your ballot is in on time and your vote is counted. Visit kce.wiki/DropBox to find locations of all 85 drop boxes around King County.
Ballot drop boxes - King County, Washington
kce.wiki
November 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It's Election Day!! You have just a few hours left to make sure your ballot is in on time and your vote is counted. Visit kce.wiki/DropBox to find locations of all 85 drop boxes around King County.
Just another reason to vote Harrell out…
As head of the Office of Police Accountability, Myerberg was in charge of sweeping all the complaints of SPD abuse under the rug in the wake of the 2020 protests.
As head of the Office of Police Accountability, Myerberg was in charge of sweeping all the complaints of SPD abuse under the rug in the wake of the 2020 protests.
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell’s office appears to have deleted or is withholding a contract used to make a crucial legal decision regarding the Mayor’s newly-minted Chief of Staff, Andrew Myerberg.
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/18/h...
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/18/h...
Harrell’s Office Buries Records Pertaining to Investigation into Chief of Staff » The Urbanist
# Mayor Bruce Harrell’s office appears to have deleted or is withholding a contract used to make a crucial legal decision regarding the Mayor’s newly-minted Chief of Staff, Andrew Myerberg. Harrell’s ...
www.theurbanist.org
October 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Just another reason to vote Harrell out…
As head of the Office of Police Accountability, Myerberg was in charge of sweeping all the complaints of SPD abuse under the rug in the wake of the 2020 protests.
As head of the Office of Police Accountability, Myerberg was in charge of sweeping all the complaints of SPD abuse under the rug in the wake of the 2020 protests.
This is obviously terrible and needs to be investigated. Also a good argument for why more guns don’t solve gun violence: these are confusing situations
UK police say officers accidentally shot victim who died in synagogue attack reut.rs/42Uy7Qa
UK police say officers accidentally shot victim who died in synagogue attack
British police said on Friday they accidentally shot a victim who died in the attack on a synagogue in Manchester, as well as one of the survivors, as they attempted to stop an attacker who appeared to be wearing an explosive belt.
reut.rs
October 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
This is obviously terrible and needs to be investigated. Also a good argument for why more guns don’t solve gun violence: these are confusing situations
Reposted by Clayton Sasaki
A lot of people have been calling me the
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social of Seattle. But where Zohran is charismatic, telegenic and stylish, I've spent my whole adult life looking pretty dumpy. To look more mayoral, I enlisted my friend Andrew Ashiofu, who took me to one of Seattle's premier boutiques.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social of Seattle. But where Zohran is charismatic, telegenic and stylish, I've spent my whole adult life looking pretty dumpy. To look more mayoral, I enlisted my friend Andrew Ashiofu, who took me to one of Seattle's premier boutiques.
September 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A lot of people have been calling me the
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social of Seattle. But where Zohran is charismatic, telegenic and stylish, I've spent my whole adult life looking pretty dumpy. To look more mayoral, I enlisted my friend Andrew Ashiofu, who took me to one of Seattle's premier boutiques.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social of Seattle. But where Zohran is charismatic, telegenic and stylish, I've spent my whole adult life looking pretty dumpy. To look more mayoral, I enlisted my friend Andrew Ashiofu, who took me to one of Seattle's premier boutiques.
Reposted by Clayton Sasaki
Transit Riders Union @seattletru.bsky.social is raising alarm about Harrell’s proposed changes to Seattle’s MFTE program, calling it a bad deal. Raises everyone else’s taxes for poor affordability targets, eliminates rent increase caps, and not enough for families.
docs.google.com/document/u/0...
docs.google.com/document/u/0...
MFTE Open Letter.docx
An open letter to Seattle residents and elected officials regarding housing affordability and proposed MFTE update. Seattle needs greater housing affordability. We deserve much better than the MFTE P...
docs.google.com
September 7, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Transit Riders Union @seattletru.bsky.social is raising alarm about Harrell’s proposed changes to Seattle’s MFTE program, calling it a bad deal. Raises everyone else’s taxes for poor affordability targets, eliminates rent increase caps, and not enough for families.
docs.google.com/document/u/0...
docs.google.com/document/u/0...
Reposted by Clayton Sasaki
Mamdani: We need to make public transportation so good that “no matter how much money is in your pocket, you say: I’m gonna use this.”
September 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Mamdani: We need to make public transportation so good that “no matter how much money is in your pocket, you say: I’m gonna use this.”
Reposted by Clayton Sasaki
The number of children injured or killed by cars while walking or riding a bike has fallen steadily since the 1970s, but CDC researcher note that this decline is not because streets are safer, but because fewer kids are out and about in the first place.
Kids need freedom. Dangerous roads make it hard to grant it.
Bigger cars, distracted drivers and worried parents mean fewer kids are roaming freely.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The number of children injured or killed by cars while walking or riding a bike has fallen steadily since the 1970s, but CDC researcher note that this decline is not because streets are safer, but because fewer kids are out and about in the first place.
I think this is exactly the right take. By opposing 1A, which raises more money to increasing the housing supply, Bruce Harrell presented the choice to voters as either him or more money for housing. And it appears the people of Seattle chose more money for housing…
Bruce Harrell was cruising to an unopposed re-election campaign until he and his corporate backers sent every Seattle voter a mailer prominently featuring his opposition to Prop1A for social housing. It showed the city that he was working against our values AND that his endorsement carried no juice.
Hot damn. Katie Wilson crosses the 50% threshold. If we had runoff-cutoff elections in Seattle, Bruce Harrell would be done; as it is, he's at a bruised 41.7 percent with not a whole lot of ballots left to count.
August 9, 2025 at 5:05 AM
I think this is exactly the right take. By opposing 1A, which raises more money to increasing the housing supply, Bruce Harrell presented the choice to voters as either him or more money for housing. And it appears the people of Seattle chose more money for housing…
Reposted by Clayton Sasaki
The only blackberry store I recognize is the Burke Gilman Trail
August 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The only blackberry store I recognize is the Burke Gilman Trail
Somehow Friends of the Market does not seems to understand how the pilot program works…
From the market website:
“This limited vehicle access pilot is not a full street closure. It allows authorized vehicles to access Pike Place and restricts non-essential traffic”
From the market website:
“This limited vehicle access pilot is not a full street closure. It allows authorized vehicles to access Pike Place and restricts non-essential traffic”
Friends of the [Pike Place] Market "continues to be concerned about impacts on the historical character of the District" from the current pedestrianization pilot.
"It is essential to the authenticity of the Market that Pike Place continues to function primarily as the Market’s only loading dock"
"It is essential to the authenticity of the Market that Pike Place continues to function primarily as the Market’s only loading dock"
August 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Somehow Friends of the Market does not seems to understand how the pilot program works…
From the market website:
“This limited vehicle access pilot is not a full street closure. It allows authorized vehicles to access Pike Place and restricts non-essential traffic”
From the market website:
“This limited vehicle access pilot is not a full street closure. It allows authorized vehicles to access Pike Place and restricts non-essential traffic”
It does make you think. If they are willing to sacrifice the street parking, maybe that means it isn’t getting used…and could have a better use
This business in the Ballard industrial area accidentally created a protected bike lane with eco blocks in their attempt to displace unhoused people. I guess street parking isn't that important.
July 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
It does make you think. If they are willing to sacrifice the street parking, maybe that means it isn’t getting used…and could have a better use
Reposted by Clayton Sasaki
This business in the Ballard industrial area accidentally created a protected bike lane with eco blocks in their attempt to displace unhoused people. I guess street parking isn't that important.
July 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This business in the Ballard industrial area accidentally created a protected bike lane with eco blocks in their attempt to displace unhoused people. I guess street parking isn't that important.
Reposted by Clayton Sasaki
@theurbanist.org published my review of SDOT's recently released phase 1 report on the Aurora Ave project.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/07/29/o...
www.theurbanist.org/2025/07/29/o...
Op-Ed: Seattle Is Failing to Reimagine Aurora Avenue » The Urbanist
# SDOT's latest report indicates the agency is envisioning the future of Aurora Avenue N to look nearly exactly the same as it has for the last 100 years: a dangerous, high speed, six- to seven-lane h...
www.theurbanist.org
July 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
@theurbanist.org published my review of SDOT's recently released phase 1 report on the Aurora Ave project.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/07/29/o...
www.theurbanist.org/2025/07/29/o...
Reposted by Clayton Sasaki
We have a constitutional obligation to provide oversight. To ASK QUESTIONS. And for our questions to be met with handcuffs is UNACCEPTABLE.
June 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
We have a constitutional obligation to provide oversight. To ASK QUESTIONS. And for our questions to be met with handcuffs is UNACCEPTABLE.
An active convergence zone today has led to some decent rainfall totals, particularly east of Lake Washington. Widespread 1-2”
May 18, 2025 at 4:32 AM
An active convergence zone today has led to some decent rainfall totals, particularly east of Lake Washington. Widespread 1-2”