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The Mamdani Difference isn't that he's secretly moderate, it's that as a mayor he's accepted the responsibility of governing — setting priorities, making tradeoffs, worrying whether ideas work — while leftist members of congress can just post takes. www.slowboring.com/p/those-who-...

West Seattle getting social housing and a new tiny-home village on the same day! Love that our neighborhood is contributing towards a more affordable city. westseattleblog.com/2026/10/new-...

West Seattle getting some social housing love 😍 @westseaurbanism.bsky.social

That's our mayor.

Republicans really firing on all cylinders in this campaign www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

If I were in charge of sales at a rain gear company, I'd be advertising on Seattle Bike Blog!

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

The American right wing is anti-city (anti-bike, anti-transit, anti-density, etc) because their power relies on their base hating and distrusting anyone not exactly like them, and as @mayor.seattle.gov said “Cities are where people who are different from one another learn how to live together.”

Local architect/historic board member perfectly articulates the raison d’etre of historic preservation boards: “What I've heard is that this has been scaled and designed to work with economics and making finances work. So as it stands, I have a lot of trouble supporting the project moving forward…”

Not just the fastest, or the cheapest, or the best, but the *only* possible solution to climate change is a rapid global buildout of clean energy infrastructure. If you're standing in the way of that, you're not working on climate change & should be honest with yourself about your priorities.

The Urbanist versus The Stranger: How their 2026 MLKC area general election endorsements compare The two publications largely agree where their endorsements overlap, but they are split on key legislative contests in the 32nd and 43rd districts. Our side-by-side comparison shows where their…

Hey! If you learned from my 93-post-and-growing thread on a proposal to ban RVs in Seattle, which I've been posting from City Hall all afternoon, please support my work with a donation or subscription to PublICola, where I post long-form coverage of the city every day. publicola.com/support/

With all the drama going on, I'm just wondering if @leftycheatsheet.bsky.social would have endorsed Claudia Balducci or fallen for Girmay Zahilay's progressive bait and switch. Either way, I'm sticking with @theurbanist.org as my most trusted source.

I'm on @kuow.org's Seattle Now podcast today, talking about how the Seattle City Council is responding to Mayor Katie Wilson's balanced, no-taxes budget. Come for the wonk shit, stay for the spicy analysis!

We desperately need movements for humanistic moral revival, both religious and secular

King County Elections Accused of Voter Suppression After Not Mailing Ballots with ‘I Voted’ Stickers: tinyurl.com/4je86443

Older people who want to pay lower property taxes should be able to downsize into an age-appropriate home that requires less upkeep without having to leave the communities where they raised their families; but they oppose that because they feel entitled to a fixed, unchanging neighborhood character.

Every Republican president since Reagan has tanked the economy, increased the deficit and started a costly war in the Middle East. When people say Republicans are good for the economy, what they really mean is Republicans lower taxes on the rich.

The “every accusation is a confession” thing is maybe overstated but when it comes to Republicans and “sharia” it is unquestionably the case that the people trying to impose their religion on others through the legal system in the US are not Muslims bsky.app/profile/qasi...

it is very funny to me that we libs have become the pocket constitution party now

This is treason. Literal treason. And every Republican who stands in the way of removing this traitor from office is complicit in his crimes.

NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The Social Housing Developer board tonight also voted to approve a project pipeline that includes six new construction sites and four acquisitions through the end of 2027, contingent on the issuance of bonds.

There is no way this happens in this form without electing Katie Wilson, and no matter what else happens, it was worth it for this. This is almost the most meaningful thing we can do as a city for the climate.

One of these hauls cargo regularly.

This, by the way, is why having local reporters who stick around to keep covering the city year after year matters! I literally just got it in my head that Saka was gung-ho about these restrooms last year and just HAD to take the time to look it up. Support your petty local journalist!

I thought I remembered Rob Saka SUPPORTING the exact kind of prefab restrooms that he called a waste of money today (now that Mayor Wilson is proposing them) just last year. And lo, I found his amendment—he added $1 million for graffiti-resistant, prefabricated restrooms in West Seattle (p.14)!

One thing I have noticed about the 2023 councilmembers is they use these policy discussions to rant at central staff and the 2025 councilmembers use them to ask policy questions.

The gold standard of endorsements in Seattle — not a single bad call, with excellent reasoning and good explanations.

Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Over the next few years, SDOT and Seattle City Light will install around 200 new curbside EV chargers across Seattle. We're now accepting applications. Get details and apply here: https://sdotblog.seattle.gov/2026/10/13/seattle-expands-affordable-electric-vehicle-charging-network/

“The modules sit right on top of the ground so the one I rode went in with no digging in just two and a half days” @ryancalkins.bsky.social @portofseattle.bsky.social can we get this between the light rail and airport??

The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Unless somebody kept the receipt and Kiewit has a really good return policy, imho the time for dunking on Pinehurst Station has passed. It's built, now we upzone the heck out of the area & take a bulldozer to the fence around the soon-to-be-former golf course so the rest of us get to use the spot.

Why did NC, SD & NE perform so much better reducing emissions than CA, WA & CT? Because they are less likely to build highways they can’t afford to maintain. In other words, fiscal responsibility might be better for the climate than a climate champion. bethosbornesga.substack.com/p/progressiv...

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

Who is the government holding in its shelters for “unaccompanied” immigrant children? Turns out, a growing number of these kids were taken away from loving parents and other relatives.

Happy second birthday to the Overlook Walk, a piece of infrastructure that I can't imagine Seattle without at this point.

One of the worst parts about living in a city is the dichotomy of "quality of life" laws. Busy bodies misuse poorly written code to shut down nice things that improve quality of life Police refuse to enforce the laws against public space mal use (eg drag racing) that actually hurt quality of life.

A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison

We're looking for the next host of City Cast Seattle! Journalists, content creators, and any other curious locals are encouraged to apply: apply.workable.com/city-cast/j/...

No, Sound Transit is not still facing a $35 billion budget shortfall, Seattle Times Editorial Board. We had a whole contentious process to tackle that earlier this year, maybe you weren't paying attention?

Can you imagine if someone "accidentally" overpaid SPS teachers $13 million? The Times would be demanding long prison sentences. Every teacher who cashed their paycheck would be dragged before a committee. The entire school board would have to resign. No bottom to how bad SPD can be at their job.

The Department of Homeland Security is celebrating that for the first time in ~50 years, more people left America than moved here. These people are so stupid and so racist they don’t realize they are scoring own goals

Historic neighborhoods with iron preservation mandates don't stop change. They accelerate change. Historic preservation turns units for renters into mansions for billionaires www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

The number of original, breaking, and investigative stories I publish, as a one-person newsroom with occasional freelancers, consistently dwarfs the output of the multiple full-time reporters the Times has on my beat. Outlets like ours need support, not legacy newspaper campaigns against us.

States should stop branding their Medicaid programs with cute names like "Apple Health" and just plain call it "Medicaid" so that their citizens have a clear idea of who is to credit or blame for their access to coverage.