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Washington voters are likely to uphold the state’s million dollar earners tax next month, polling from NO on 645 and NPI suggests New polling affirms that a majority of Washington voters are poised to reject Initiative 645, putting Brian Heywood’s repeal campaign at risk of delivering a historic…

That's our mayor.

I think it's because Big Tent politicking in the past 60 years meant no one had the incentive to define a positive unitary vision for the country. Everyone is atomized by their car dependent suburbia and never see anyone except their barista and boss, so they can't empathize with minorities

wait whhaaattt?!

Too on the nose, reality writers

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

I get what they're doing but it's so pathetic

given Seattle’s population of ~800,000, we’ll be paying around $695 per resident for policing just for one year (2027)

Meanwhile the Ped and Bike boards, appointed by Council and the Mayor, have always been advisory only...

Vote No on I-638, also known as the Initiative to Let Loren Culp Inspect Your Daughter's Hooha.

Just a mass casualty whoopsie. Nothing to see here

Thank you, Reverie Society, I Neeeeddd. Dded. THAT.

Taken today

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

Begging anyone at all to mention that this car has been vaporware for almost a decade

Seattle: still not dying!

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson Criticized for Having No Plan to Combat Spider Season: tinyurl.com/5fn3ay2u

NEW: Ex CM Sara Nelson's new dark money group just threw $30k behind D5 candidate Julie Kang with the explicit promise of anonymity for donors to avoid public backlash. Now a progressive PAC has filed complaints and is determined to daylight the donors. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/new-dar...

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for another game of…

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)!

Kevin Hassett should boast about how Trump has brought down the price of cocaine. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Hey @edzitron.com, Is That Good?

it's like if a space has ever been used for cars they think they have permanent "take-backs" we gotta find good ways to defend against that. perhaps in high profile cases like this (and pike place market) we gotta start physically transforming it asap: bollards, curbs, demolishing segments of road

Fun fact about Jēññīſêr Gōðſrëy: After I wrote a skeet making fun of her Seattle Times article, **she wrote to my work email address** with a copy of the skeet. I never said who my employer is on BSky.

Saying we shouldn't tax the portion of income over $1,000,000/year because it means we will soon tax everyone is like saying we shouldn't lock up people for murder because it means we will soon lock up people for parking illegally. We get to choose what makes sense.

Bruce Harrell proposed incredibly modest neighborhood center & transit corridor upzones in March of 2024 and it will likely be late 2027 or early 2028 that those zoning changes will be able to be adopted... ...assuming no further delays due to appeals (a big assumption!!)

Dear The Seattle Times, I'm an engineer with a BS and MS degree in stormwater, a PE license, and have over 20 years of professional experience. If you have a musician to explain why development in Seattle hurts orcas, would you let me explain why she's full of shit? Love, MS

wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.

Cannonball by The Breeders was the 4th best song of the 90s in the listener poll on KEXP?!? I officially disown Gen X. Get some taste

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

Even on a purely cynical level, basking in the grotesque brutality of a public execution is likely to create a martyr But the fiend Hegseth is intent on turning away from the light, and exalting violence as a positive good

Absolutely amazing piece by Nithya

If by jail you mean "given keys to an apartment if they want to check it out" then sure

"It is helpful to remember that many categories include multiple types" might be the most controversial BlueSky take (but you're right)

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

AI bros find a single use case that isn't devastatingly depressing challenge

@whatahellofawaytodad.com technical?

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

With all of the Starbucks locations closing, the only places you can get espresso in Uptown these days are Caffe Ladro, Orange Goose Coffee, Nielsen's, Sugar Bakery, Caffe Zingaro, Caffe Vita, the Grounds Keeper, Ceres Roasting, Konvene Coffee, Cafe Hagen, Citizen Collective, Turtle Coffee...

Every month we do this and every month it's very fun.

Opposing Trump's tariffs alone makes almost all Dems more market-friendly than his GOP. But there's also housing, regulatory reform, deficits, various market interventions, etc. If you really care about free market economics by conventional libertarian standards, Dems win and it's not even close.