"This is one of my favorite moments as mayor, announcing this project," Katie Wilson says taking the stage at the Route 8 bus lane announcement. She calls out past advocacy with the Transit Rider's Union and the MASS coalition. She says progress to date has been "frustratingly slow."

Johnson City Starbucks baristas vote to unionize, 7th organized store in Tennessee Baristas at a Johnson City Starbucks have voted to unionize, joining a growing national labor movement among the coffee chain’s workers.Employees at the store o

Congrats to the Starbucks @sbworkersunited.org baristas in Johnson City on forming a union, the seventh organized store in Tennessee!

Change is brewing at Starbucks ✊

NYC study shows men are 2.6x more likely than women to bike to work. When protected bike lane coverage is high, women’s cycling rates rise significantly faster than men’s.

When protected lanes are limited or fragmented, women’s participation drops sharply.

Good bike investments give women choices.

We are not asking Sound Transit to do something impossible. We are asking them to do what they said they would do.

Build the connection.
Build the future.
Build the damn trains.

Key Seattle bikeway connects more than its 600 feet suggest

Building a bikeway in one of Seattle's oldest neighborhoods wasn't easy.

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Mayor Katie Wilson Announces a Summer Full of Bike Supremacy - The Stranger On the same day a car went for an unseasonable dip off Lake Washington Boulevard and into the eponymous lake, Mayor Katie Wilson announced the official schedule for car-free weekends along the lakesid...

We’ll Have More Bicycle Weekends on Lake Washington Boulevard Than Ever Before

loved loved loved chatting with @citycastseattle.bsky.social about CHUM’s place in local media, the story behind our name, and our long-term goals as a worker-owned and subscriber-supported news outlet ✍️

click below to hear us yap! yay for collaborative, independent, hyperlocal media 🫶

The Permanent Campaign Mayor Mamdani's first 100 days — and the next 1,359 that will define him.

NEW: Zohran Mamdani's insurgent campaign never ended. He's shoveling snow, making videos, & filling potholes.

And his opponents still can't figure out how to stop a movement they can't buy.

On the Mayor's first 100 days—and the next 1,359 that will define him:
open.substack.com/pub/michaell...

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Shout out to local climate leaders! Last week Councilmembers Lin & Rinck both championed $15M for cooling in the Library Levy.

The Mariners are now 4-0 since the Ichiro statue’s bat broke

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.

For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.

One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

FIFA faces new crisis as SoFi Stadium workers in LA threaten strike action The union UNITE HERE Local 11 has made a series of demands to FIFA and voiced major concerns about ICE agents around World Cup venues

Thousands of workers are threatening to strike at the Los Angeles World Cup stadium.

The SoFi Stadium plans to host two of the three US Men's World Cup matches, but now 2,000 cooks, servers, bartenders and more may strike.

Their main issue? ICE being present at the World Cup.

"We don't have service-resistant clients, we have client-resistant services," Frodsham said, to widespread applause but not from the We Heart Seattle people who are sitting around me. "They didn't choose to be that way" also got some stony stares.

We take “governing in public” very seriously

Seattle is ready to build more shelters with wrap-around services so everyone can have a safe place to sleep inside. Join my community briefing Wednesday evening, 6pm at the Bertha Knight Landes Room in City Hall to get an update on where we're at, and be part of the solution.

BREAKING: Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna calls for the 25th Amendment to be invoked to remove President Trump from office.

Zoning 🤝🏻 class war

As it should be

Today only 30 out of 95 commenters were NIMBYs (in person)!!! This is the best ratio we have EVER achieved, y'all.

Thank you so much to @houseourneighbors.bsky.social and all of the brave commenters who shared their beautiful and sometimes heartbreaking stories with us. We love and owe you.

Great piece in the @soseaemerald.bsky.social !

Sometimes readers are skeptical when I tell them that retailers would rather pay for self-checkout kiosks and product lockup systems and all manner of other questionable in-store tech rather than staffing because of an ideological preference for capital spending over labor spending and, well,,,

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“Irresistibly good transit”

Can’t wait for your visit!

For 23 years, WA has detained a man for a crime he can’t understand Washington taxpayers spend more than $500,000 a year to hold a man with an intellectual disability on McNeil Island. He’s been sexually abused for decades in state custody.

Rebecca Moss of The Seattle Times’ well-investigated and damning story of the abuse occuring on McNeil Island. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Extraction by @triofrancos.bsky.social — the book I’ve wanted for years but didn’t know how to even describe. Deep research, political analysis, clear/compelling prose, and moral clarity at the global scale that the Green Capitalist era demands: www.theariofrancos.com/extraction

The Man Who Broke Into Jail In Nashville, a criminal-justice activist commits a baffling crime.

James Verini’s article in the NYer on prison reform advocate Alexander Friedman’s efforts at direct action in Nashville’s Downtown Detention Center:

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Next Commie Corridor? Adriano Espaillat has outlasted everyone. His district is changing anyway.

Michael Lange’s (as always) stellar analysis of neighborhood change, coalitional politics, and race/class/generational shifts in NYC. substack.com/@michaellang...

Some things I’ve read or have been reading recently that I’ve really enjoyed/found important 🧵including @michaellangenyc.bsky.social, 3/8 @newyorker.com’s piece by James Verini, and @triofrancos.bsky.social

If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment.

This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.