David Dahl

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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

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

Can be spotted hanging out of the passenger side of their best friend’s ride

These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.

Is it a raccoon or a lemur?

Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them. Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.

NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.

By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.

Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them. Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.

Early last year, Seattle signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space for homeless people. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there. @ashleyhiruko.bsky.social @kuow.org

That helicopter manhunt over Capitol Hill? It was part of Seattle’s war on graffiti Seattle Police have made it clear they are familiar with the suspect the King County Sheriff’s Guardian One chopper, a police K9 unit, and multiple officers chased across Capitol Hill Tuesday…

Be careful or SPD might come after you with full force for their #1 priority: graffiti

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But always time to embrace the wealthy

If they can only access it by car…maybe SDOT should be working to change that and not just accepting it as a law of the universe

Who will she appoint to the convention center’s board?

Photo of handmade banner reading “public safety ✔️” behind chain link fence at Seven Hills Park

Photo of handmade “mission accomplished” banner behind chain link fence at Seven Hill Park

💛 to whoever did this at Seven Hills Park

Hacked off? So are we. Join @seattletru.bsky.social, @csgreenways.bsky.social, @fixthel8.bsky.social, @seattlesubway.org, and more to tell the city to keep our bus lanes where they are. Even the little ones.

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Even more if it’s waterfront property

“…representatives had specific concerns about customers who drive from the Eastside or neighborhoods like Madison Park and Madrona,” SDOT said in a statement. “They are having a hard time getting to their destinations or are confused by the new traffic pattern.”

FUCK THAT

Why this convention center expert is calling LA's expansion plan a disaster "If you think that somehow a bigger convention center is key to downtown revitalization, or is going to do wonders for local job creation, or economic development? The answer is, you've got to be kidd...

Last week, convention center expert Heywood Sanders wrote this about LA's expansion plan: "the likelihood of any significant increase in the city’s convention business is effectively nil."

So I called him up to talk me through his analysis — and what he told me makes LA's plan seem *even worse*

Wilson invites Harrell (who she refers to by his name, which he doesn't do for Wilson) to go to board and commission meetings and ask the volunteers serving on them if they feel listened to and valued by the city.

And this is the legal justification for trying the whole lot of them as war criminals.

Pools!

But the blame will likely go to recently enacted taxes like Jumpstart and social housing

It is OK to call fascists fascists.

If you ever had any doubt that rightwing media is just official state propaganda at this point, consider that Charlie Kirk was replaced on his show by the sitting Republican vice president who ‘interviewed’ White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.

Independent media!

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'

Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.

Here, he tells us his story.

Seattle permitted a car commercial shoot in the middle of Bicycle Weekends and an accessible cycling event Photo from a reader. It's the Tom Flood meme come to life. "Bicycles deliver the freedom that auto ads promise." Sunday, a permitted commercial shoot for Rivian shut down a section of Lake Washington Boulevard during the penultimate Bicycle Weekends open streets event. It wasn't just any Bicycle Weekend day, though, it was also Bike & Scoot Sundays (PDF), an accessible cycling event in which SDOT, Lime and Bird partner with Outdoors for All to lend out adaptive cycles for free that people with a wide range of disabilities can ride along what was supposed to be a car-free Lake Washington Boulevard.

Seattle permitted a car commercial shoot in the middle of Bicycle Weekends and an accessible cycling event

#SEAbikes #Seattle

There’s a really big building that isn’t getting much use that’s centrally located and close to transit

Just saying…

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Seattle has experienced huge population growth, yet it hasn’t built a new public swimming pool in decades, and organized recreation facilities throughout the city are overburdened. Do you think Seattle needs more pools and playfields?

Considering attendance at the convention center hasn’t increased since doubling in size, and the facility now operates at a large loss, would you use the mayor’s appointments to the convention center’s board to get fresh ideas on how to operate a facility that spans 8 blocks of downtown?

Seattle closes 3 parks for 60 days, citing ‘negative’ activity The three parks are scheduled to reopen late next month, as Seattle voters decide whether to reelect Mayor Bruce Harrell or replace him with Katie Wilson.

There's really no other way to look at this other than a sad example of Bruce Harrell's failure on public safety. He's had four years in office and all he can do is close parks for 60 days?! Come on.

The mayor would probably drive, but he does get made fun of mercilessly.

City Council Grants Tourists Stuck Driving Through Pike Place Landmark Status In a final blow to thousands of advocates for turning Pike Place Market into a car-free zone, today the Seattle City Council granted Historic Landmark Status to a long line of tourists stuck drivin…

Wont’t anyone think of the historic Hyundai Elantras (or similar)

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