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Kirkland installed a medallion on Lake Street Pedestrian Scramble in remembrance of the old Leschi ferry that ran between Seattle and Kirkland. Other medallions installed remember the Acme, Lincoln, Ariel, Issaquah, and Kalakala ferries.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

wow. those are some howlers. nonpartisan local elections truly let conservative cranks hide in plain sight.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Hey Newcastle friends, you have an opportunity of removing Robert Clark from your city council this year. He's up for election.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

free hint to blue state govs: automatically offer jobs in your own state's security services to the various cops, prosecutors and armed forces members that trump is unfairly drumming out. you will need people with guns who hate trump for what is coming next, and... there they are

submitted 29 days ago • 28 comments

Alright, Kirkland. Let's do this.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

One week from today! Bellevue's updating its Transportation Facilities Plan, which guides how the city spends its limited resources on projects. Come to an open house at City Hall on Wednesday, February 26th betwen 5 - 6:30 pm and express your support for walking, biking, and transit projects!

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

This is obviously terrible and we’ll all be dealing with the wreckage for the rest of our lives. But I hope Dems remember this the next time they’re in power. The scale, scope, and pace of what we’re witnessing can be about building things, too.

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 12 days ago • 8255 comments

When Biden actually won a majority of the popular vote, no substantial portion of the Republican party was conciliatory, no one said 'ah well Biden won so Americans must agree with him on trans rights, or BLM, or....'. The response was absolute denial and intransigence - and IT WORKED

submitted 14 days ago • 18 comments

Progressive revenue is popular! We are also facing increasing influence from billionaires, like Elon Musk, in the federal gov fueling instability everywhere. I shared my thoughts with the Seattle Times: “…we gave people the option at the ballot box to take a bit of the power back”

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Elected Dems in Washington State are generally focused on improving the lives of Washingtonians but I believe they should dedicate some effort towards undermining Republicans, who they vastly outnumber here. Making life difficult for car dealers is a start.

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

Prime Minister Trudeau, the people of occupied Lower British Columbia cry out for liberation. We cannot even afford egg for our families. Please send your elite mountie shock troops and free us from the yankee oppressors. (1/2)

submitted 17 days ago • 16 comments

TFW you go 10 minutes out of your way to take the light rail for one stop because Bel-Red road is so scary to bike on. 😕 #BikeBellevue

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Oh wow I'm super glad I happened to check social media one final time before bed, a choice normally with only negative consequences

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Bellevue Councilmember Janice Zahn, who was appointed to the Washington House last month to fill a vacancy in the 41st LD, will leave her council seat at the end of March, she told colleagues last night. With Zahn the council's most progressive member, the vacancy process will be one to watch.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

House Our Neighbors and their two social housing initiatives are an inspiring example of the kind of progressive victory and progress we can achieve in Seattle without compromising our values or appeasing big business.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

An unelected South African has taken control of the US Treasury and is deciding to stop payments on American obligations, in violation of numerous court orders, and admits in the Oval Office that he has done so upon incorrect information, while the President sits impotently behind the Resolute Desk.

submitted 18 days ago • 109 comments

All I hope is that if - if - Dems ever get back into power, they've learned lessons from this period, and they understand that they're actually allowed to use a little of that power, given what we've seen Republicans and Musk do in just three weeks. Sheesh. I hope but I'm not optimistic.

submitted 18 days ago • 197 comments

Great article by @nickdeshais.bsky.social in The Seattle Times on paid parking in Bellevue's growth areas! It's a big change for the city, but curb pricing is helping us intentionally think about how we want to use Bellevue's limited curb space. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Two Action Alerts to Support Transit on the Eastside! Link to Action One (~30 seconds)Link to Action Two (~1 minute) If you follow our newsletter, then you've probably seen all the information we've been sharing on King County Metro's RapidRide K Line over the past few months. If you don't follow…

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

folks really need to accept that "lawful" and "lawless" don't matter, what matters is being able to marshal and deploy force (force of capital, the force of arms, the force of a crowd...) none of the people running the country right now give a good goddamn about the law

submitted 22 days ago • 99 comments

We've joined forces w/ @eastsideurbanism.org and @liveablekirkland.org to draft a letter urging Bellevue & Kirkland leaders to make transit in our communities faster & more reliable with things like bus lanes, queue jumps, and more! Sign on here: forms.gle/N9FpaLMord3w...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

✨ Weekly Meetup TONIGHT! 2/6 ✨ 6-8p - Jack Sprat / Overlake Village / Redmond Guests tonight: Bellevue staff sharing info about Missing Middle Housing & Housing Opportunities in Mixed-Use Areas code updates. All are welcome, super casual, on the 2 Line - join us! 🧡 www.meetup.com/eastside-urb...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

When I talk w/ people looking to get into leadership positions on the Eastside, I often find the most productive question I can ask is: "When faced w/ stakeholders with irreconcilable desires & values, how do you choose who to listen to?" Tells me a lot about if they value consensus vs. outcomes.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Dying for one city official, ever, to tell the council (which channels house owner complaints and largely ignores the renter majority) to say outright, “not everyone is going to be happy.”

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

No, we don't need investigations. We don't need Senators posting on social media. We need you to literally grind everything to a halt in the Senate & get in front of microphones on the Capitol steps calling for the fascists to resign & your GOP colleagues to vote with you to impeach & remove them.

submitted 28 days ago • 70 comments

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

submitted 28 days ago • 215 comments

Holy shit this is beyond parody, you're killing me Chuck

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

The very cool thing is that his companies exist as physical entities in the world and have addresses, in case anybody wanted to know them

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Chuck, buddy, like, come on, man

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Cheer up, Democrats. Maybe it’s true that we’re standing by doing nothing as Donald Trump destroys our democracy. But at least we’re staying true to our norms and values.

submitted 29 days ago • 34 comments