David Dahl
@daviddahl.bsky.social
SPD cruiser parked in a bus stop while officers attended a public meeting about safety in Capitol Hill parks. Was parked there with lights on for the entirety of the 90 minute meeting, and additional discussion after the meeting.
November 20, 2025 at 3:54 AM
SPD cruiser parked in a bus stop while officers attended a public meeting about safety in Capitol Hill parks. Was parked there with lights on for the entirety of the 90 minute meeting, and additional discussion after the meeting.
Does Seattle Parks know that Garfield Community Center is not in Capitol Hill, and is not very convenient to get to from Capitol Hill without a car? Especially if you live near one of the parks being discussed.
Sure feels like excluding people without cars is by design with this meeting.
Sure feels like excluding people without cars is by design with this meeting.
November 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Does Seattle Parks know that Garfield Community Center is not in Capitol Hill, and is not very convenient to get to from Capitol Hill without a car? Especially if you live near one of the parks being discussed.
Sure feels like excluding people without cars is by design with this meeting.
Sure feels like excluding people without cars is by design with this meeting.
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This seems counter to the narrative they’ve been pushing, that only a Harrell administration will resist Trump.
It seems like the Harrell administration is quite comfortable in a Vichy-style collaboration with the Trump administration.
It seems like the Harrell administration is quite comfortable in a Vichy-style collaboration with the Trump administration.
SPD Drug Arrests Were Part of Trump's Anti-Immigrant "Operation Take Back America"
Police Chief Shon Barnes thanked "our federal partners" for facilitating the arrests of 10 accused drug traffickers, all with Hispanic surnames.
publicola.com/2025/10/31/s...
Police Chief Shon Barnes thanked "our federal partners" for facilitating the arrests of 10 accused drug traffickers, all with Hispanic surnames.
publicola.com/2025/10/31/s...
SPD Drug Arrests Were Part of Trump's Anti-Immigrant "Operation Take Back America" - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes celebrated earlier this week after an anti-drug trafficking operation recovered fentanyl,…
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November 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
This seems counter to the narrative they’ve been pushing, that only a Harrell administration will resist Trump.
It seems like the Harrell administration is quite comfortable in a Vichy-style collaboration with the Trump administration.
It seems like the Harrell administration is quite comfortable in a Vichy-style collaboration with the Trump administration.
Katie Wilson SAYS she cares about the cost of housing, but she has no idea what it costs to maintain a waterfront mansion
Katie Wilson SAYS she cares about public transit, but she has never even driven a bus! #KatieWilsonScandal
@wilsonforseattle.bsky.social
@wilsonforseattle.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Katie Wilson SAYS she cares about the cost of housing, but she has no idea what it costs to maintain a waterfront mansion
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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SNEAK PEEK: Our new commercial will soon be airing across local TV, apps, and your platforms of choice. See it here first and VOTE!
Ballots are now arriving in mailboxes across Seattle. We can see with our own eyes that we need new leadership. Let's make that change together.
Ballots are now arriving in mailboxes across Seattle. We can see with our own eyes that we need new leadership. Let's make that change together.
October 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
SNEAK PEEK: Our new commercial will soon be airing across local TV, apps, and your platforms of choice. See it here first and VOTE!
Ballots are now arriving in mailboxes across Seattle. We can see with our own eyes that we need new leadership. Let's make that change together.
Ballots are now arriving in mailboxes across Seattle. We can see with our own eyes that we need new leadership. Let's make that change together.
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Thank you for your support, @cmtmosqueda.bsky.social!
October 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Thank you for your support, @cmtmosqueda.bsky.social!
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These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.
Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?
TRUMP: Suspending who?
Q: Habeas corpus
TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
TRUMP: Suspending who?
Q: Habeas corpus
TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
October 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.
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NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.
By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them.
Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.
www.propublica.org
October 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.
By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
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Early last year, Seattle signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space for homeless people. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there. @ashleyhiruko.bsky.social @kuow.org
Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them.
Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.
www.propublica.org
October 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Early last year, Seattle signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space for homeless people. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there. @ashleyhiruko.bsky.social @kuow.org
💛 to whoever did this at Seven Hills Park
October 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
💛 to whoever did this at Seven Hills Park
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Hacked off? So are we. Join @seattletru.bsky.social, @csgreenways.bsky.social, @fixthel8.bsky.social, @seattlesubway.org, and more to tell the city to keep our bus lanes where they are. Even the little ones.
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October 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Hacked off? So are we. Join @seattletru.bsky.social, @csgreenways.bsky.social, @fixthel8.bsky.social, @seattlesubway.org, and more to tell the city to keep our bus lanes where they are. Even the little ones.
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“…representatives had specific concerns about customers who drive from the Eastside or neighborhoods like Madison Park and Madrona,” SDOT said in a statement. “They are having a hard time getting to their destinations or are confused by the new traffic pattern.”
FUCK THAT
FUCK THAT
October 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“…representatives had specific concerns about customers who drive from the Eastside or neighborhoods like Madison Park and Madrona,” SDOT said in a statement. “They are having a hard time getting to their destinations or are confused by the new traffic pattern.”
FUCK THAT
FUCK THAT
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Last week, convention center expert Heywood Sanders wrote this about LA's expansion plan: "the likelihood of any significant increase in the city’s convention business is effectively nil."
So I called him up to talk me through his analysis — and what he told me makes LA's plan seem *even worse*
So I called him up to talk me through his analysis — and what he told me makes LA's plan seem *even worse*
Why this convention center expert is calling LA's expansion plan a disaster
"If you think that somehow a bigger convention center is key to downtown revitalization, or is going to do wonders for local job creation, or economic development? The answer is, you've got to be kidd...
www.torched.la
September 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Last week, convention center expert Heywood Sanders wrote this about LA's expansion plan: "the likelihood of any significant increase in the city’s convention business is effectively nil."
So I called him up to talk me through his analysis — and what he told me makes LA's plan seem *even worse*
So I called him up to talk me through his analysis — and what he told me makes LA's plan seem *even worse*
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Wilson invites Harrell (who she refers to by his name, which he doesn't do for Wilson) to go to board and commission meetings and ask the volunteers serving on them if they feel listened to and valued by the city.
September 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Wilson invites Harrell (who she refers to by his name, which he doesn't do for Wilson) to go to board and commission meetings and ask the volunteers serving on them if they feel listened to and valued by the city.
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And this is the legal justification for trying the whole lot of them as war criminals.
Trump on sending the troops into American cities: "It's sort of like war. I hate to tell you."
September 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
And this is the legal justification for trying the whole lot of them as war criminals.
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It is OK to call fascists fascists.
September 18, 2025 at 1:37 AM
It is OK to call fascists fascists.
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If you ever had any doubt that rightwing media is just official state propaganda at this point, consider that Charlie Kirk was replaced on his show by the sitting Republican vice president who ‘interviewed’ White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.
Independent media!
Independent media!
September 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
If you ever had any doubt that rightwing media is just official state propaganda at this point, consider that Charlie Kirk was replaced on his show by the sitting Republican vice president who ‘interviewed’ White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.
Independent media!
Independent media!
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Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
September 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
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Seattle permitted a car commercial shoot in the middle of Bicycle Weekends and an accessible cycling event
#SEAbikes #Seattle
#SEAbikes #Seattle
Seattle permitted a car commercial shoot in the middle of Bicycle Weekends and an accessible cycling event
Photo from a reader. It's the Tom Flood meme come to life. "Bicycles deliver the freedom that auto ads promise." Sunday, a permitted commercial shoot for Rivian shut down a section of Lake Washington Boulevard during the penultimate Bicycle Weekends open streets event. It wasn't just any Bicycle Weekend day, though, it was also Bike & Scoot Sundays (PDF), an accessible cycling event in which SDOT, Lime and Bird partner with Outdoors for All to lend out adaptive cycles for free that people with a wide range of disabilities can ride along what was supposed to be a car-free Lake Washington Boulevard.
www.seattlebikeblog.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Seattle has experienced huge population growth, yet it hasn’t built a new public swimming pool in decades, and organized recreation facilities throughout the city are overburdened. Do you think Seattle needs more pools and playfields?
September 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Seattle has experienced huge population growth, yet it hasn’t built a new public swimming pool in decades, and organized recreation facilities throughout the city are overburdened. Do you think Seattle needs more pools and playfields?
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There's really no other way to look at this other than a sad example of Bruce Harrell's failure on public safety. He's had four years in office and all he can do is close parks for 60 days?! Come on.
Seattle closes 3 parks for 60 days, citing ‘negative’ activity
The three parks are scheduled to reopen late next month, as Seattle voters decide whether to reelect Mayor Bruce Harrell or replace him with Katie Wilson.
www.seattletimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
There's really no other way to look at this other than a sad example of Bruce Harrell's failure on public safety. He's had four years in office and all he can do is close parks for 60 days?! Come on.
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SDOT GAF about safe streets challenge
@seattledot.bsky.social You have a 24 hour response team, but I’m being told Tuesday for a fix. If this barrier was pushed into the vehicle lane, how long would you expect it to be restored?
PAX is in town this weekend, and there are thousands of people using this bike lane to get around Seattle.
PAX is in town this weekend, and there are thousands of people using this bike lane to get around Seattle.
September 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
SDOT GAF about safe streets challenge
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remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
August 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
I say a prayer to her every time I ride the @fixthel8.bsky.social
Especially since the Denny repaving project removed (hopefully just temporarily) the small stretch of painted bus lane that was there
Especially since the Denny repaving project removed (hopefully just temporarily) the small stretch of painted bus lane that was there
August 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I say a prayer to her every time I ride the @fixthel8.bsky.social
Especially since the Denny repaving project removed (hopefully just temporarily) the small stretch of painted bus lane that was there
Especially since the Denny repaving project removed (hopefully just temporarily) the small stretch of painted bus lane that was there