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Crosslake Update: Welcome aboard Link test trains starting Feb. 14 | Sound Transit Here’s what you need to know about navigating the “simulated service” schedule on the 1 Line and 2 Line in the weeks leading up to Crosslake Connection opening

Link light rail frequencies between Lynnwood & Chinatown ID will double starting this weekend!

I thought we'd have to wait until March, but apparently this is a Valentines Day gift to all us transit lovers 💕

That's a good friend right there lmao

Well that helps to explain this Brooks column from last month.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

For anyone else wondering, this doesn't involve the Pike Place Market location:

Ryan cutting through the confusing quagmire of land use with their signature clarity:

Everyone is rightly dunking on Tesla for their ranking here, but I can't help but notice the larger trend that basically ALL American brands are poorly rated.

I categorized the brands by region so you can see just how stark it is:

🟥 = Asian car co
🟩 = European car co
🟦 = American car co

Calling the 1 Line the "Lobster Express" from now on in honor of this

This spot in particular is basically a dead-on description of what Twitter is now

Yeah this is really just the same dynamic that Trump discovered: when you're a politician, there is even less accountability than when you're a rich private citizen.

He literally needed to win the presidency to dodge jail!

My favorite part was them painting themselves into a corner with "NYT does real journalism, not launder the reputations of sex pest elites!" Only to have that horny-ass Olivia Nuzzi profile drop the very next day in the NYT

If #1 happens we should all agree to simply refuse to acknowledge it after a week. Go right back to blaming Trump tariffs for affordability issues.

The average voter simply won't notice/remember, but they'll remember the narrative that Trump loves tariffs.

@anatosaurus.bsky.social another good example of using the counterintuitive power of negation here for you

Speaking only for myself, voting against Duckworth was primarily a hedge against Harrell winning reelection.

It was clear Duckworth had the same people in his ear that Harrell did, and having them both in power might have been a problem for that reason.

In certain ways, that thread reminds me of liberals who will applaud the MAGA Supreme Court simply for not going out of their way to take away a freedom like same sex marriage rights.

Oh so THAT'S why the trains have been going slow between Westlake and Capitol Hill!

Gotta wait until 4pm tomorrow when they release the next batch of counted ballots

+2

Just heard a videogame streamer say the phrase "your words mean nothing to me because I have seen your actions" and holy shit if that isn't an accidentally fire response to every news development in the last 9 months.

Getting thrown out of Chuck E Cheese's for pronouncing Whack-a-mole like guacamole

Genuinely cannot recommend the two FE games on the Gameboy advance enough. Sacred Stones is imo the better of the two but they're both incredible.

Separately, I played most of Dark Deity, which is very obviously a love letter to FE, but the balance is so bad it's hard to recommend.

IIRC their law just bans the members who flee from ever standing for election again. So not arrest warrants like TX wants to do

I'm just gonna keep saying it until it's a more widely accepted fact: all the best urbanists are women of color.

The right call with LWB is so blatantly obvious and yet Bruce Harrell killed even the pathetic compromise plan.

Vote his ass out.

Fellow Seattleites: I beg you. Please do not reelect this absolute tool, this non-entity, this empty suit. Please elect someone who will put Seattle's purported progressive values into action. (Her name is Katie Wilson.)

At a press conference at City Hall this morning, the Working Families Party and PROTEC17—the largest union of City of Seattle workers—endorsed Katie Wilson for mayor. The city union's endorsement is especially monumental because for most of these workers, incumbent Bruce Harrell is their boss.

"don't think of pink elephants" but make it a campaign strategy

#OnePunchMan

Listen to Sewers of Paris Episodes

@mattbaume.bsky.social has several podcasts (and vlog series) that seem like they'd fit the bill for you.

Sewers of Paris is about how diff media has changed queer people's lives: www.mattbaume.com/sewers-summary

Infographic titled “One Court, Two Standards” compares how the Supreme Court used emergency powers to rule on lower-court injunctions against the Biden and Trump administrations. Two panels show: • Biden Administration: Lower courts blocked policies in 21 cases. All 21 cases are represented by red squares, indicating that 0% of injunctions/TROs were lifted by SCOTUS. • Trump Administration: Lower courts blocked policies in 86 cases. 66 green squares and 20 red squares show that 77% of injunctions/TROs were lifted by SCOTUS. Key takeaway box below reads: “Using its ‘shadow docket,’ the Supreme Court granted emergency relief to lift 77% of lower-court injunctions against the Trump administration. It lifted 0% of those against the Biden administration.” Sources and notes below include: CourtListener data through July 7, 2025; analysis by Adam Bonica.

The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House.

When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases.

For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.