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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 12h

Seattle's Victoria Clipper has laid off a quarter of its workforce due to the collapse in business from Canadian tourists in response to Trump's anti-Canadian bluster:

"Ridership between Vancouver and Seattle has plunged 30% so far this year, the company said."

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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Marco @madeingermany.bsky.social · 12h

Very respectful, since 15% of people experiencing homelessness are Native Americans, while making up only 1% of the population.

The Needling @theneedling.com · 13h

Mayor Harrell Announces Police Officers Will Recite Land Acknowledgement Before Sweeping Homeless Native Americans on Indigenous Peoples’ Day: tinyurl.com/35b9yp9f

Mayor Bruce Harrell speaking at podium with City Attorney Ann Davison behind him next to sign on wall reading "Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day"

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 18h

If it takes until 2032 to electrify the Route 48, that will be a full 18 years since SDOT completed its electrification study on the route. #climateleader

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 18h

The good news: Metro still plans to restore the Route 2 and 12 as trolleybus routes, and electrify the Route 48.

The bad news: that's not planned until late 2026, 2029, and 2032 (!) respectively.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/13/m...

Metro Plans Trolleybus Investments, with Long Implementation Timelines » The Urbanist

# After pivoting away from an aggressive schedule for battery-bus adoption, King County Metro plans to focus attention on the tried-and-true trolley network. But limited staff, delays obtaining materi...

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 16h

This seems fake but it's completely real: Audio of Seattle's current Mayor dreaming of a giant computer-simulated Martin Luther King, something the King family has explicitly asked people not to do.
Big thanks to Erica Barnett for being the only reporter in town covering these events so closely!

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Brandon der Blätter @intcreator.com · 1d

this bike lane has been blocked for two weeks. it has been reported many times by many people by the Find It Fix It app and by phone. I bet if it was a car lane @seattledot.bsky.social would have fixed it by now

the two way bike lane on Airport Way between S Edmunds St. and S Lucile St. with two 1673 lb concrete blocks blocking one of the lanes

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Alex ITMFA @ahym666.bsky.social · 2d

Do not forget, Bruce Harrell is a 63 year old multimillionaire who lives in a 7000 square foot lakefront home.

I feel like he’s the prime demographic for like, and AI investment scam 😩

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2d

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social · 1d

It's driver behavior wishcasting to put up a stop here on red sign 150 feet from the light. Either Wall St needs to be made one way eastbound or there needs to be another light prior to the tracks.

Screenshot of the stop here on red from streetview showing how far away the traffic signal is

Google maps showing that the distance from the stop here on red bar and the stop light is 150 feet.

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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 2d

Harrell is spending too much time with tech industry VPs

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2d

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

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jaci skellington @wickedjaws.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry but what the actual fuck.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2d

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 2d

this man is so out of his depth

'public health *seattle &* king county' does restaurant inspections, septic (seattle has most in WA), medical & dental clinics, manages WIC, nation leading covid response, etc

wonder if girmay or mosqueda's office speaks out

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2d

Harrell says the city pays into King County's health department, and suggests that Seattle should consider running its own health department. "I know the streets better here in Seattle than the county."

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2d

"I haven't done anything that I would consider punching down," Harrell said. He's claiming that Katie Wilson has only ever hired her campaign manager. (Everyone laughs). Now he's mocking her nonprofit, the Transit Riders Union. "I don't see that as punching down." "Good. Good," the MC says.

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Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social · 2d

As a recreational cyclist, I got pretty excited when I realized that ebikes basically eliminate the "Ugh, I can't ride up hills!" barrier for casual/starting commuter cyclists. In many areas, it's one of the biggest barriers to adoption.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2d

“The big advantage of bikes is that they go directly from where you start to where you finish, when you need to go. The advantage over cars is that they need perhaps 1/10th of the amount of space. Roads that jam up quickly with cars can carry effectively unlimited numbers of people by bicycle.”

Why e-bikes are more important the EVs

Bikes can actually transform cities in the way driverless cars promise

danielknowles.substack.com

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 3d

“Healthy Street Ends” is such a confession about American transportation

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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 3d

Quite the embarrassment for SPD, as this suggests they haven't previously been reviewing officers' history before promoting them, which should be a fundamental part of the promotion process.

jseattle @jseattle.bsky.social · 3d

Not much of a pledge but ok

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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social · 4d

It's a good thing no one was walking on the pedestrian path when this happened as there's no protection between the road and the path. We can't rely on luck for the next incident though. We need to make changes to this road to address dangerous driver behavior before someone dies.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 4d

A question about the freakout over nudity at Denny Blaine Park and the city's decisions to delay a Nickelsville encampment in Southeast Seattle. Harrell starts by saying "You have no idea how rough it was for me growing up!"

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Laura Loe @lauraloeseattle.bsky.social · 4d

Use a drop box!

USPS rule changes may complicate mail-in voting, risking late ballots in November election

Ballots go out starting next week for the November general election but people who mail them back through the United States Postal Service (USPS) could risk not

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 4d

Just got an email from a group that supports Bruce Harrell containing a message from the mayor. In it, he claims his frontrunning opponent Katie Wilson, who supports hiring police, is "a strong supporter of 50% reductions of– or even eliminating– law enforcement budgets." This is not true.

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Rian Watt @rianwatt.bsky.social · 4d

If Bruce Harrell's case for re-election is his management experience, what should we make of two separate instances in the last week of city decisions made under his watch being immediately reversed after huge community blowback?

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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 4d

My criticism here is that he's saying that people want change when he is the incumbent candidate and has been setting city policy for nearly two decades. He is not the candidate of change.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 5d

WIlson cites my reporting on Mike Tietjen, saying maybe Harrell should pay more attention to what the police chief is doing. publicola.com/2025/10/07/s...

SPD Chief Puts Cop Who Called 2020 Protesters "Cockroaches" In Charge of East Precinct - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett The Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct, located at 12th Ave. and East Pine St. in the…

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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 5d

If, like me, you thought the existing cavernous Westlake Station was the one in the middle left with the tunnel connecting to the new line on the right, well, you're wrong.

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 5d

I just can't get over the differences in scale between Ballard Link's Westlake Station as proposed and the original Westlake Station, off to the left.

Ballard Link's Westlake has two separate entrances underneath separate buildings, with one showing a long tunnel to get to the train guideway. They are at least five stories deeper than the original Westlake, which is tiny and only around 10-15% of the size

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 5d

!!! Speaking of bizarre, hard to understand statements!

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 5d

Missed this while typing: Harrell told the crowd, which was not giggling, "You can giggle if you want, but 18% of Americans are homeless." This is not true.

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Alex ITMFA @ahym666.bsky.social · 5d

Harrell’s boy’s club:

www.kuow.org/stories/moni...

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