And our last clip from the event for now: Ray (@nerd4cities.bsky.social) elegantly explains the high cost of car-ownership, but how people don't notice what it costs them - not just in money, but in health and community.

Wilson called on Sinclair Broadcast Group to reinstate Jimmy Kimmel’s show and announced that she will not participate in the debate that Sinclair-owned KOMO is scheduled to host on October 8th unless and until he returns to the local airwaves.

Seattle LGBTQ+ bars, clubs on edge after ‘lewd conduct’ violations For some in the LGBTQ+ community, the nighttime inspections felt evocative of police raids historically conducted at gay bars and clubs, such as the one that sparked the 1969 Stonewall riots in New Yo...

I genuinely enjoy reading the city's budget book, a high-level look at what our taxes pay for. Not very deep in yet and I've learned the budget adds $762,000 for expansion of the Joint Enforcement Team, recently in the news for raiding gay bars in search of "lewd" conduct.

Screenshot from the app showing these reports can’t be made

Parking violations can’t be reported on the Fix It Find It app anymore… that’s a one way to reduce the numbers of reports!

We need more of this 🙌🏾

Make it One Seattle, full of trees, in Comprehensive Plan | Editorial A street tree study shows planting in the right of way won't get Seattle to its goal of 30% tree canopy. The city must protect trees in the Comprehensive Plan.

The Times seems unaware that dense infill housing is the way to protect Seattle's urban forest. The main threat to our trees is heat and drought. The Times is essentially editorializing against climate action here.

Amendment 102 will not protect the urban canopy – and in fact may do the opposite Seattle needs more affordable housing AND trees. Help us convince the Seattle City Council to do both by opposing Amendment 102, which makes new housing much more expensive and worsens existing inequi...

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Opinion | What You Need to Know About Police Surveillance New tools allow law enforcement agencies to track us at an unimaginable scale.

Still reeling from last week’s vote by the city council to completely ignore the outcry of Seattle residents against expanded surveillance.

The N.Y.P.D. Is Teaching America How to Track Everyone Every Day Forever www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Excerpt from the NHTSA's 2023 study "Exploring the Impact of Select Speed-Reducing Countermeasures on Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety" Seattle, WA Description: Seattle reduced speed limits throughout the city. They enacted policy changes to reduce the statutory arterial speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph and neighborhood streets from 25 mph to 20 mph as well as posted gateway signs on highways entering the city. In the downtown area, they retimed signals to a 25-mph progression speed in conjunction with lowering the default arterial speed limit. They also reduced speed limits in certain “urban village” areas, which are denser neighborhood centers throughout Seattle, outside of the downtown, that feature a mix of land uses as well as access to transit.

RE-TIME SIGNALS. Currently, Seattle's downtown traffic signals are timed for 25 mph, which is fine for cars but leaves bikes waiting every few blocks. Reducing that to 12.5 mph—as they did in Portland—can improve safety and move all modes more effectively.

The most infuriating moment from last night was how CM Juarez reduced public concerns over surveillance to a "data breach"

NO ONE WAS SAYING THAT. The feds didn't get WA immigrants' DOL data from hackers

Then she had the gall to reference—with a tone of great annoyance and disgust—sitting through three hours of public comment from "privileged" people who came to speak on the bill.

She clearly wasn't listening and didn't care.

One lesson to learn from both these campaigns is to be who you are. Being real is a kind of charisma.

$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials

NEW: Trump officials have moved forward with destroying $10 million of contraceptives bought by USAID. The contraceptives would've gone to nations in need. State Dept. and USAID documents obtained by @nytimes.com show groups offered to buy them. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

The Seattle City Council Grease The Wheels Of Fascism, Approve Massive Surveillance Expansion On Tuesday afternoon, the Seattle City Council voted 7-2 to approve a huge expansion to the Seattle Police Department’s (SPD) surveillance pilot program. Only Council Members Alexis Mercedes Rinck and...

NEW: The City Council will gaslight you, scold you, call you privileged if you disagree, but yesterday they didn't just expand an unproven surveillance program, voted to grease the wheels of fascism. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/the-sea...

Editorial illustration of Seattle City Council: Sara Nelson at center podium, Bob Kettle holding a “Proposed Ordinance,” and Joy Hollingsworth seated. Below, a large diverse crowd protests with bold “NO” signs, separated by barriers and surveillance cameras.

🚨 Seattle Council voted 7-2 to expand police surveillance despite:
• 1,000+ residents opposed
• 60+ community groups against it
• Civil rights office said no

This is democratic deficit in action, ignoring overwhelming public opposition for surveillance state expansion.

CM Rinck thanks the public commenters. When this pilot was approved last year, we were in a different moment. Sold as a pilot, but months later the Mayor is asking for 400 more cameras. Can anyone on this dais tell me if the camera is working? The answer is no because we have no data.

The takeaway isn’t that James Walkinshaw won

It’s the margin of victory

Yes, it’s a tiny sample

But Democrats have outperformed their 2024 numbers in EVERY election this year

Which bodes very well for the midterms