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Kelli Refer @kellireef.bsky.social · 5h

Congratulations! I am so happy that you will continue doing this work! ❤️

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1d

Not to be whiny, but I would really like for something good to happen. On a personal level. On a national level. On a global level. One of all three.

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 3d

Small nonprofit budget and Wilson got us:

-$1.5B in tax the rich revenue for affordable housing, etc.
-free transit for kids and human services appointments, low fare for low income
-big min wage increases in 3 places
-renter protections around the region

Harrell had billions and did far less.

Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 3d

There have been multiple digs in the last week or so--interesting that coordination hmm--at @seattletru.bsky.social's annual revenue hovering around $200k/year as a reason why @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social isn't "qualified" to be Mayor.

If she pulled all this off with $200k, imagine her with $1.9b.

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Kelli Refer @kellireef.bsky.social · 2d

“The allure of the car is so strong that it has persuaded Americans to treat forty thousand human lives as expendable each year; what chance does wildlife have?” From Crossings by @bengoldfarb.bsky.social

#WeekWithoutDriving

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Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 5d

Seattle, we gotta elect Katie Wilson! Her leadership style is everything we need to take our city into its next chapter. We have been spinning our wheels on too many major issues for too long. This is how we move forward. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/10...

The Making of Katie Wilson

She’s coming for the mayor’s office.

www.thestranger.com

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 5d

Streets are the largest public spaces in modern society.

Surrendering them for the sole use of cars allows maintaining the right of way to be used as pretext to suppress lawful assembly.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

We’ve been shoved around by state cops with batons. They’ve already arrested one person for being in the street.

A protester questions a cop about whether he wants to be here.

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Kea Wilson @keawilson.bsky.social · 5d

If you saw a headline about NYC potentially losing two big transit projects "because of the government shutdown," know this: 1) it's bullshit, and 2) ending the shutdown on the Trump administration's terms would be terrible for transit *all across the country*, and very likely in your community. 🧵

Is Sec. Duffy Holding NY Transit Hostage To Negotiate Away The Rest of America's Transportation Future? — Streetsblog USA

The federal Transportation secretary is using two large transit projects as a bargaining chip to bully Congress into passing a budget that could be disastrous for communities across the country.

usa.streetsblog.org

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5d

Disinformation thrives without data

No jobs numbers = the economy isn't struggling!

No food insecurity data = people are fed!

No education research = defunding and threatening schools doesn't hurt kids!

No public health studies = our policies aren't making people sick!

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 6d

Our grassroots PAC is working to help Katie Wilson beat Bruce Harrell. Please donate!

www.seattleforkatie.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Kelli Refer @kellireef.bsky.social · 6d

Terrible! I also hate the “Switch Witch” where you trade in candy for a toy.

Completely unnecessary.

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Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck @councilmember-amr.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you @theurbanist.org @seattletru.bsky.social @sngreenways.bsky.social @transpochoices.bsky.social and every volunteer and advocate fighting for better mobility, connection, and safety on our streets. This is a shared win and something to celebrate.

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Kelli Refer @kellireef.bsky.social · 6d

We had some great discussions about accessibility and safety during our #WeekWithoutDriving Walk & Talk tonight!

Move Redmond @moveredmond.org · 6d

Let the walking & rolling begin! Excited to have community members, agency partners, and city staff join us as we discuss the first & last mile connections to Redmond!

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 6d

But one headline here is what isn't changing, for example ST is going to keep running the 577 and 578 to Federal Way. ST is keeping the 545 to Redmond.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 6d

Here are the proposed changes to ST Express routes planned for next fall after Federal Way and East Link are open.

Biggest changes: terminating the 574 at Fed Way, the 556 at Bellevue, the 522 at S Shoreline. Eliminating the 515, 550, 554, 580, 586. Increasing service on the 535, 513.

I-5 corridor changes with 580 and 586 eliminated and 574 terminated in Federal Way

Discontinue 550 and 554, shortening 556 to Bellevue

Adding bidirectional service to 513, discontinue 515, route 522 to S Shoreline and increase Saturday frequency and add Sunday service to 535

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Kelli Refer @kellireef.bsky.social · 6d

I found myself so much more connected to the seasons, to my body and to community.

So yes, I saved money when I sold my car. But that is the tip of the ice berg.

It changed my paradigm and how I interact with the world.

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Kelli Refer @kellireef.bsky.social · 6d

It wasn’t all sunshine and butterflies. My class went for a whole year and I rode in the dark, pouring rain home from Mulkiteo to Lynnwood.

Once I was super sick and had to call a cab because there was a bus that didn’t run on Sundays.

But it shifted so much about how I approach life.

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Kelli Refer @kellireef.bsky.social · 6d

So I experimented with taking transit and biking to get to the island. It was a two day thing, so I had to stay overnight. I was connected with this amazing bunk house run by an artist and a death doula. It transformed my herbalism class into a monthly mini retreat.

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Kelli Refer @kellireef.bsky.social · 6d

I was driving my car once per month to an herbalism class on Whidbey Island. My car battery died on the ferry. People are not pleased with you when that happens and a ferry worker has to come jump your car.

I hated the expense of driving on the ferry and I-5 really negated the healing farm vibes.

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Kelli Refer @kellireef.bsky.social · 6d

Now I am car free because I fall into the “obsessed with biking & public transit” category, but I didn’t start out that way. When I moved to Seattle in 2009 I worked many part time jobs at once retail, teaching yoga, nannying. I couldn’t afford car insurance or maintenance. #WeekWithoutDriving

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Kelli Refer @kellireef.bsky.social · 6d

Amazing shirt! ❤️

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Kelli Refer @kellireef.bsky.social · 6d

Ugh, I hate when they only have reverse commute buses! I’m sorry

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Kelli Refer @kellireef.bsky.social · 6d

“Altogether, that represents a staggering 36 percent of the U.S. population; only 25 percent of total transportation infrastructure spending, meanwhile, flows towards transit, biking, and walking.”

It is time to rightsize our transportation budgets to meet the needs of people. #WeekWithoutDriving

Report: A Third of Americans Can't Rely On Cars — And 16 Million Have No Access At All — Streetsblog USA

So why do we plan our cities like everyone can and does get behind the wheel every day?

usa.streetsblog.org

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Kelli Refer @kellireef.bsky.social · 7d

Actually, now is the perfect time for hope and passion! It is the antidote to fascism.

Also, claiming @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social is inexperienced is way off base! She has over a decade of making policies come to fruition through coalition building, hard work and pragmatism.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 7d

In his closing statement, Harrell said, "This is not the time for hope. Passion and great ideas and inexperience is just not going to get us there. Trump will walk all over a person without experience, period."

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 7d

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

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