John R 🌧️💨🚴🏻‍♂️

Rage Against The Machine avoided making any political statements as they sang a stirring rendition of Sleep Now in the Fire.

I love Portland 🥰

Congrats to Mt Baker “Community” Club for successfully eliminating all upzones near Hunter Blvd. Wouldn’t want any renters getting access to the lake!

As I cheer on the Seahawks today, I’m also thinking about one of my very best friends, Beau Morton, who left this world suddenly and unexpectedly last week.

I am eating produce to prove I am a real person. Welcome to 2026.

Renee Good's widow shared this statement with us today. It's absolutely heart-wrenching. 💔

The city of Seattle landmarked this. So tell your friends who visit not to miss this icon of the city

(Landmarking it prevents the proposal to build a new, better community center)

We found at least 18 of the drugs on TrumpRx have cheaper generics available ranging from potential savings of over $600 for Tikosyn to just around $2 for Diflucan. Most of the drugs are made by Pfizer.

So about TrumpRx: We crunched the numbers today and about half of the drugs on there have cheaper generics available already. www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/t...

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

Sociology majors stand up!

A perfect mom-and-pop affordable housing provider 🤗 story in 3 images

Three dead and six hurt after driver hits cyclist and crashes car into LA store Car, being driven by 92-year-old driver, crashed at 99 Ranch Market and victims, trapped under vehicle, died at scene

like, this story is insane—letting a 92-year-old obviously incapable of driving keep his license while leaving pedestrians/cyclists with no protection from cars has killed more people than every waymo crash ever. It will be forgotten next week.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A 14-Point Plan for Mayor Wilson - PubliCola Channeling the original Wilsonian 14 Points, we offer 14 policy suggestions for incoming mayor Wilson. By Erica C. Barnett and…

PubliCola's @joshfeit.bluesky.social has a new Maybe Metropolis column today about a Washington state proposal that would make accessible housing more affordable by reforming elevator standards that too often result in no elevators in new buildings at all.

publicola.com/2026/02/06/e...

Elevating the Affordable Housing Issue - PubliCola By Josh Feit How can we increase affordable housing production? According to Senate Bill 5156, one button we can press…

PubliCola's @joshfeit.bluesky.social has a new Maybe Metropolis column today about a Washington state proposal that would make accessible housing more affordable by reforming elevator standards that too often result in no elevators in new buildings at all.

publicola.com/2026/02/06/e...

map showing trailheads all across California by what kind of transit access they have

California's great outdoors is more transit accessible than you think -- I've added trailheads all across the state to Hiking by Transit, ready for your outdoor adventure!

Check it out: hikingbytransit.com

You have just ONE HOUR LEFT to sign your name in "Pro" for the hearing on the Millionaires Tax today!

Stand with working people across WA to demand a fairer tax code and funding for education, health care, and the Working Families Tax Credit: app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie...

Anti-trans bigots lie, all the time, about everything.

the Golden Snake, welcome to the war on cars

First walk through Saka's triangle was immediately enhanced with road rage

Bike and scooter traffic in the uphill Pike St protected bike lane in February!

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Claudia Balducci is moving to add restroom access to the work plan for the Sound Transit board's rider experience and operations workplan for the year.

Katie Wilson brought this issue up specifically as well earlier at Exec Committee.

Hello! I'm looking to speak to anyone who works, or has worked in a diversity position at a major studio or publisher (or whatever it's been called at that company, inclusive growth, DEI, whatever!). Conversations can be 100% anon, of course, via DM here or email lukeATaftermathDOTsite. Thanks!

Working in coordination with standwithminnesota.com, I’m raising rent funds for Minneapolis immigrant families in need. We now have a $5000 match offer (!) and are going to help as many families as we can to stay housed today.

V: @Ian-Coldwater
CA: $iancoldwater
PP: @coldwater

Thank you so much! 🌷

Google street view image of a downtown street with bollards and flush curbs.

The City of Spokane is in the process of enabling shared streets under SB 5595. They drafted an ordinance and selected their first shared street: N. Wall Street between Main Avenue and Spokane Falls Boulevard.

this is terrible but it would be kind of funny if someone inserted a supreme court justice getting stabbed to death to see how quickly it got shut down

Live in Northwest Seattle and want to get involved in advocating for safe and accessible streets? Check out this meeting tonight 👇🏻

The pandemic caused a lot of change. Some changes that show up in survey data result from changes in survey methods. For example, a rise in the share of Spaniards identifying with no religion coincides with a switch from in-person to phone surveys. Read more: sociologicalscience.com/download/vol...

City Hall steps and balconies covered in students

Seattle City Hall right now, where students from around the city have gathered after a mass walk-out to protest ICE: