Alex ITMFA
@alexhyman666.bsky.social
decolonial dreamz
focused on art, labor, gardening, housing, tenants rights, land use, transportation and environment
posting from the southern Seattle suburbs in Coast Salish territory
abolish ICE, land back and free Palestine
focused on art, labor, gardening, housing, tenants rights, land use, transportation and environment
posting from the southern Seattle suburbs in Coast Salish territory
abolish ICE, land back and free Palestine
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our world is filled with invisible subsidies for the rich buried several layers deep, exhibit infinity billion:
Meanwhile, this ONE SINGLE HOUSE inside the gated golf club is assessed at $10 million.
This one house on 0.42 acre had to paid $74,608 in property taxes in 2025.
And yet the ENTIRE 122 ACRE private golf course - paid just $85,770 in combined taxes that can go toward our schools.
This one house on 0.42 acre had to paid $74,608 in property taxes in 2025.
And yet the ENTIRE 122 ACRE private golf course - paid just $85,770 in combined taxes that can go toward our schools.
November 27, 2025 at 7:56 AM
our world is filled with invisible subsidies for the rich buried several layers deep, exhibit infinity billion:
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These are also the absolute most ecologically and environmentally destructive neighborhoods in all of Seattle. Massive amounts of polluting pesticides and fertilizers for invasive lawn grass. Huge docks and armored shorelines that OBLITERATE salmon habitat. Absolutely 100% car dependent lifestyles.
Shown in red are where extremists live in Seattle.
Here are what some of these areas look like.
Here are what some of these areas look like.
November 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
These are also the absolute most ecologically and environmentally destructive neighborhoods in all of Seattle. Massive amounts of polluting pesticides and fertilizers for invasive lawn grass. Huge docks and armored shorelines that OBLITERATE salmon habitat. Absolutely 100% car dependent lifestyles.
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Shown in red are where extremists live in Seattle.
Here are what some of these areas look like.
Here are what some of these areas look like.
November 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Shown in red are where extremists live in Seattle.
Here are what some of these areas look like.
Here are what some of these areas look like.
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Paul has been talking about the tax loophole that Seattle country clubs have been enjoying for a while now but WOW I did not know how big
This is Broadmoor Golf Club. It's a gated right-wing enclave for the rich in Seattle. The golf course is 7 parcels, 122.2 acres. It's assessed at just $76k/ACRE!
This is Broadmoor Golf Club. It's a gated right-wing enclave for the rich in Seattle. The golf course is 7 parcels, 122.2 acres. It's assessed at just $76k/ACRE!
November 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Paul has been talking about the tax loophole that Seattle country clubs have been enjoying for a while now but WOW I did not know how big
This is Broadmoor Golf Club. It's a gated right-wing enclave for the rich in Seattle. The golf course is 7 parcels, 122.2 acres. It's assessed at just $76k/ACRE!
This is Broadmoor Golf Club. It's a gated right-wing enclave for the rich in Seattle. The golf course is 7 parcels, 122.2 acres. It's assessed at just $76k/ACRE!
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Background on the project: www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/04...
Artists imagine new housing and community spaces in vacant Belltown building
Artists imagine new housing and community spaces in vacant Belltown building
www.realchangenews.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Background on the project: www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/04...
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Some great news for Seattle arts and housing fans ahead of the long weekend: Common Area Maintenance has officially acquired the El Rey property, marking a key step in the organization’s journey to build dozens of new artist residency and affordable housing units.
November 27, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Some great news for Seattle arts and housing fans ahead of the long weekend: Common Area Maintenance has officially acquired the El Rey property, marking a key step in the organization’s journey to build dozens of new artist residency and affordable housing units.
I love this time of year lol
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I love this time of year lol
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My latest is all about what we should expect to see in terms of homelessness and public safety when Katie Wilson takes office as Seattle's mayor next year.
NEW STORY // Katie Wilson Charts New Course on Public Safety and Homelessness
Story by Amy Sundberg via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/26/k...
Story by Amy Sundberg via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/26/k...
Katie Wilson Charts New Course on Public Safety and Homelessness » The Urbanist
# Seattle Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson believes she'll be judged primarily by how she can improve outcomes on homelessness and public safety. In an interview with The Urbanist, Wilson laid out what she ai...
www.theurbanist.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
My latest is all about what we should expect to see in terms of homelessness and public safety when Katie Wilson takes office as Seattle's mayor next year.
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For some weekend reading, @thestranger.com partnered with The Guardian to explore what it means to run a winning mayoral campaign as a community organizer.
Katie Wilson’s rise from transit campaigner to city hall shows how trust, volunteers and years of organizing overcame big-money politics.
How an ‘unknown’ organizer became Seattle’s next mayor: ‘People want to see themselves reflected in office’
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:19 AM
For some weekend reading, @thestranger.com partnered with The Guardian to explore what it means to run a winning mayoral campaign as a community organizer.
Nothing like a little late November nighttime ride to remind me how much I love riding bikes 😍
November 27, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Nothing like a little late November nighttime ride to remind me how much I love riding bikes 😍
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Dan Levy openly says that Schitt's Creek would not have survived anywhere except the CBC because it was weird and took a season or so to find its feet... Just for reference if you wanna know the ROI on this approach to supporting creative things.
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Dan Levy openly says that Schitt's Creek would not have survived anywhere except the CBC because it was weird and took a season or so to find its feet... Just for reference if you wanna know the ROI on this approach to supporting creative things.
Cities can just speed up buses, no one is stopping them
Blasting past rush hour traffic on the completed portion of Dufferin RapidTO (up to Dundas)
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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The name says most of it. It’s a great call to action and everything I’ve ever known them to do connects directly to it.
Hello 5.9k followers — Help get us to 6k!
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What have we taught you? What actions did you take because of us? What events have you attended that we hosted?
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November 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The name says most of it. It’s a great call to action and everything I’ve ever known them to do connects directly to it.
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Upzone these 2 precincts first
Seattle's proposition 1, funding education, won in all but 2 of Seattle's 2038 precincts.
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Upzone these 2 precincts first
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Often, Seattle playgrounds go dark at sunset due to a lack of lighting while the nearby parking lots are well lit
November 12, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Often, Seattle playgrounds go dark at sunset due to a lack of lighting while the nearby parking lots are well lit
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Looking for Local Gifts? The Duwamish Native Art Market Returns to the Longhouse
Looking for Local Gifts? The Duwamish Native Art Market Returns to the Longhouse
The Duwamish Native Art Market returns with artists sharing work tied to heritage, healing, and tradition, from beadwork and prints to oils and contemporary jewelry.
southseattleemerald.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Looking for Local Gifts? The Duwamish Native Art Market Returns to the Longhouse
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Are you thankful for the @seattletru.bsky.social ?
Give today and/or get a ticket to the upcoming fundraiser on December 11!
givebutter.com/Z0191M/laura...
Give today and/or get a ticket to the upcoming fundraiser on December 11!
givebutter.com/Z0191M/laura...
TRU 2025 Fundraiser: This Is Our City
2025 Transit Riders Union Fundraiser
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November 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Are you thankful for the @seattletru.bsky.social ?
Give today and/or get a ticket to the upcoming fundraiser on December 11!
givebutter.com/Z0191M/laura...
Give today and/or get a ticket to the upcoming fundraiser on December 11!
givebutter.com/Z0191M/laura...
If you see this and haven’t read @nondriver.bsky.social ‘s book “When Driving Is Not An Option”, you should walk, bike or roll to your local library or bookstore and pick it up (and read it!)!!!
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
If you see this and haven’t read @nondriver.bsky.social ‘s book “When Driving Is Not An Option”, you should walk, bike or roll to your local library or bookstore and pick it up (and read it!)!!!
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November 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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THIS IS WHAT WE WANT TO SEE! yes to the youth!
November 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
THIS IS WHAT WE WANT TO SEE! yes to the youth!
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Share the Cities has shaped (if not defined!) so much of my understanding of policy and advocacy around urbanism!
I’ve learned so much of how to look beyond surface-level partisan critiques and how to organize around the many things that make cities healthy and livable places for people to exist!
I’ve learned so much of how to look beyond surface-level partisan critiques and how to organize around the many things that make cities healthy and livable places for people to exist!
Hello 5.9k followers — Help get us to 6k!
Quote post this and tell folks why you follow Share The Cities.
What have we taught you? What actions did you take because of us? What events have you attended that we hosted?
Quote post this and tell folks why you follow Share The Cities.
What have we taught you? What actions did you take because of us? What events have you attended that we hosted?
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Share the Cities has shaped (if not defined!) so much of my understanding of policy and advocacy around urbanism!
I’ve learned so much of how to look beyond surface-level partisan critiques and how to organize around the many things that make cities healthy and livable places for people to exist!
I’ve learned so much of how to look beyond surface-level partisan critiques and how to organize around the many things that make cities healthy and livable places for people to exist!
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Announcing…our transition committees! Between now and Inauguration Day, this team of stellar community leaders will identify and connect with dozens of additional community advisors to gather the broadest possible range of input, skills, and knowledge from across our city.
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Announcing…our transition committees! Between now and Inauguration Day, this team of stellar community leaders will identify and connect with dozens of additional community advisors to gather the broadest possible range of input, skills, and knowledge from across our city.
I think it’s time for me to start thinking more seriously about how to connect the Seattle urbanism advocates and the Seattle arts and culture community.
Our arts and culture communities have *been* leading when it comes to urbanism tbh, and our goals are so intertwined.
Our arts and culture communities have *been* leading when it comes to urbanism tbh, and our goals are so intertwined.
ANOTHER great example (thanks to the Wilson transition team for jogging my memory!) is the Watershed Community Development team — which grew out of the Equinox Studios complexes in Georgetown.
Expect to see a lot more from them in the coming years
watershedcommunity.org
Expect to see a lot more from them in the coming years
watershedcommunity.org
Community is Our Priority - Watershed Community Development
We center folks who live and work in the Duwamish Valley; BIPOC individuals; artists; and those who come from communities that have been, or are at risk of
watershedcommunity.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I think it’s time for me to start thinking more seriously about how to connect the Seattle urbanism advocates and the Seattle arts and culture community.
Our arts and culture communities have *been* leading when it comes to urbanism tbh, and our goals are so intertwined.
Our arts and culture communities have *been* leading when it comes to urbanism tbh, and our goals are so intertwined.