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Alex ITMFA @ahym666.bsky.social · 10m

TFW you’re eagerly awaiting the release of court documents so you can find out if your municipality will be successful in suing to overturn a voter-passed minimum wage increase

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Alex ITMFA @ahym666.bsky.social · 25m

Why can’t we seriously look at cut and cover tunnels or elevated rail again?

Alex ITMFA @ahym666.bsky.social · 30m

I’m open to it! Curious how construction and signal upgrades would impact existing service, and if we could keep the new tunnel at westlake’s depth though uptown, and how a major design shift at this point in the process would impact delivery timelines

Alex ITMFA @ahym666.bsky.social · 35m

farcical

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Alex ITMFA @ahym666.bsky.social · 39m

“very attractive”

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 2h

SDOT is officially opening the E Marginal Way bike lanes tomorrow - everything north of S Horton Street.

The street won't open to two-way vehicle traffic until next week, so enjoy this weekend.

Diagram showing the full E Marginal project, which extends from Atlantic Street to Spokane

Diagram showing how people on bikes will need to use the bike signal at Horton Street to cross

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Alex ITMFA @ahym666.bsky.social · 1h

reject modernity, embrace tradition

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 1h

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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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 3h

Really excited to announce my next adventure with Ruth Rosas! Read our press release and joint statement from Disability Rights Washington and @americawalks.bsky.social!

Announcing the launch of the Nondrivers Alliance

October 8, 2025 — We are excited to announce the launch of the Nondrivers Alliance, a new project where those of use who can’t drive or can’t afford to drive can organize for communities that…

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Alex ITMFA @ahym666.bsky.social · 3h

Wait so in Balducci’s eyes, what happens north of westlake to get light rail to South Lake Union, Lower Queen Anne, and and Interbay? Would that all need to be new tunnel anyways?

PubliCola @publicola.bsky.social · 3h

Three Key Questions to Save Our Light Rail Future
In a guest post, Sound Transit board member and King County Councilmember Claudia Balducci says it's time to consider light-rail options that don't require digging a second tunnel through downtown Seattle.
publicola.com/2025/10/08/t...

Three Key Questions to Save Our Light Rail Future - PubliCola

By Claudia Balducci It’s no secret that our region needed high-capacity transit yesterday — or better yet, four decades ago.…

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Alex ITMFA @ahym666.bsky.social · 3h

So sorry for your loss.

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 5h

The level of destruction and erasure in the Gaza Strip is simply incredible. North Gaza, before and after:

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Kate Macfarlane @katemacfarlane.bsky.social · 8h

Bruce Harrell likes to bluster about standing up to Trump

But behind the scenes, SPD is collaborating with ICE, and Harrell’s trying to hide it until after the election

ICE wants data? No prob, that will take 4 days

Journalist question about data sent to ICE? Sorry, best we can do is 4 months

Glen Stellmacher @glentalk.bsky.social · 22h

NEW: Seattle Police Prioritizing ICE’s Records Requests Over Citizens’
www.hardpressed-info.com/seattle-poli...

Seattle Police Prioritizing ICE’s Records Requests Over Citizens’

HardPressed

www.hardpressed-info.com

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Alex ITMFA @ahym666.bsky.social · 16h

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Alex ITMFA @ahym666.bsky.social · 17h

Nightcap: bsky.app/profile/mate...

Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 18h

but if you want to play fair, BART moves 175,000 every day, it underpins the largest regional economy in the world, and we're begging for ~ $1 billion to keep it running.

So, proportionally, 37 should qualify for ... what, $50 million? That seems fair to me.

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Alex ITMFA @ahym666.bsky.social · 17h

Chaser: bsky.app/profile/tarn...

Tarnado, Area Grill Dad @tarnado.bsky.social · 18h

That's $37.67 *per trip* for the next *TWENTY YEARS* on just the principle. Adding in debt servicing costs, and you're at an easy $50 per one-way trip.

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Alex ITMFA @ahym666.bsky.social · 17h

Shot:

Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 21h

$11 billion to raise and widen a highway, through a wetland, during a climate crisis.

Imagine spending $11 billion on workforce housing in Marin/Sonoma/Napa/San Francisco so the people driving across 37 every day to get to work ... could just live where they work.

California is a climate pariah.

Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 23h

The entire proposed Highway 37 Solano-Marin super bridge is estimated to cost $11 billion, all to replace an existing road between a couple of suburbs. And it's proposed at 114 feet wide.

For comparison, the Golden Gate Bridge is 90 feet wide.

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Ellen M. @graphxgrrl.bsky.social · 21h

The more that comes out about various city projects and priorities that Harrell’s team stalled, blocked or killed—I feel like Wilson could have an extraordinarily effective first 90 days by just dusting off all the shovel ready projects and scheduling them.

The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 1d

A major intersection redesign near Seward Park was ready to go to construction with a Mayor's Office review the only impediment, records show. The exchanges reveal what was happening behind the scenes as the public was kept in the dark about the upgrades.

Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/07/l...

Lake Washington Boulevard Safety Upgrades Fully Designed Before Mayor Pulled Plug » The Urbanist

# A major intersection redesign near Seward Park was ready to go to construction with a Mayor's Office review the only impediment, records show. The exchanges reveal what was happening behind the scen...

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Alex ITMFA @ahym666.bsky.social · 17h

:(((((

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Katie Wilson for Seattle @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social · 1d

Capt Tietjen has a long record of actions that diminish public confidence in SPD. We cannot afford that. I want to give the new chief the benefit of the doubt, but this decision reflects either bad judgment or a lack of due diligence, neither of which will be accepted when I’m Mayor.

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

Mike Tietjen, who was promoted over a gay acting commander, was suspended, reassigned, and reprimanded after multiple complaints in 2020, including an incident in which officers taunted a trans woman.

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Glen Stellmacher @glentalk.bsky.social · 22h

If you're ICE, the Seattle Police Department works hard to get you what you want, fast.

If you're a reporter, the Seattle Police Department will group your requests together and indefinitely delay you for years.

Glen Stellmacher @glentalk.bsky.social · 22h

NEW: Seattle Police Prioritizing ICE’s Records Requests Over Citizens’
www.hardpressed-info.com/seattle-poli...

Seattle Police Prioritizing ICE’s Records Requests Over Citizens’

HardPressed

www.hardpressed-info.com

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Alex ITMFA @ahym666.bsky.social · 19h

Google maps even color codes the routes in the map view!

Screenshot of google maps in satellite view showing a portion of Tukwila and Renton with a bike route with different colors of green and blue delineating the types of bike infrastructure available for travelers

Alex ITMFA @ahym666.bsky.social · 19h

Both Google Maps and Apple Maps do this in the Seattle area (at least some parts)!

Screenshot of google maps directions for a bike trip in the greater Seattle area with different segments having the infrastructure labeled; examples with shared paths, minor roads and marked bike lanes as well as inclines. Most segments also show images of the area, where you can click and it will drop you into street view

Portion of directions from Apple Maps in the greater Seattle area showing directions for a bicycle trip with different segments labeled by the type of infrastructure, with shared roads, side roads, main roads, bike paths and shared paths noted

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23h

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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Rep. Shaun Scott 🌹🤝 @organizewithshaun.bsky.social · 23h

The Trump Administration can only use the economic desperation of everyday Washingtonians as an ICE recruiting tool if we allow it to.

Let's talk about it at my "Tax The Rich" town hall on Saturday 10/11 3:30 PM @ Seattle First Baptist Church.

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