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Doug Trumm
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Publisher of The Urbanist. Seattleite. Walk, bike, ride transit, housing abundance for all. Views here my own. 🚶‍♀️🚴‍♂️🚎🐈
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We've seen enough. Katie Wilson is the next Mayor of Seattle.
theurbanist.org The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 13h
🚨🚨 Just in: Katie Wilson has expanded her lead in the Seattle mayor race. She is now leading by 1,976 votes, which means that the race is no longer in automatic recount territory.
theurbanist.org The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 1d
🚨🚨 Just in: Katie Wilson has expanded her lead in the Seattle mayor race. She is now leading by 1,346 votes.
November 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
metropolitanglide.bsky.social
Stack up the victories!!!
typewriteralley.bsky.social Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 19h
What an election for Puget Sound.

-Full sweep for progressives in Seattle, Burien, Redmond
-New progressive mayors in Tacoma, Lynnwood
-GOP CM Conrad Lee replaced in Bellevue
-3/4 progressives winning in Kirkland
-Full sweep of special legislative races
-Gains or holds in many other cities
November 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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🚨🚨 Just in: Katie Wilson has expanded her lead in the Seattle mayor race. She is now leading by 1,346 votes.
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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I chatted with Erika Evans a few days ago to discuss her vision for the Seattle City Attorney's office.
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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NEW STORY // Katie Wilson Takes 91-Vote Lead in Dramatic Seattle Mayor Race

Story by Doug Trumm via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/10/k...
Katie Wilson Takes 91-Vote Lead in Dramatic Seattle Mayor Race » The Urbanist
# Progressive challenger Katie Wilson now leads incumbent Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell by a razor-thin 91-vote margin after another batch of votes were counted Monday. Wilson appears well-positioned to...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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We’re on the right track! Make sure you track your ballot to confirm it is accepted, NOT challenged. Check our links in bio to do so! More votes will be counted on Monday!
A Katie Wilson for mayor campaign graphic that says we're right on track! today we won about 55% of the newly counted ballots. we are within 2% of the incumbent. if the drop on Monday follows the same trajectory, we will be squarely ahead. it's going to be a long weekend. many ballots are being challenged! Make sure you track your ballot at the link in bio. our amazing volunteers will be working to make sure every vote counts.
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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NEW // Katie Wilson Pulls Within Two Points of Harrell in Friday Count

Story by Doug Trumm via @theurbanist.org. www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/07/w...
Wilson Pulls Within Two Points of Harrell in Friday Count » The Urbanist
# Urbanist-endorsed progressive challenger Katie Wilson gained significantly on incumbent Mayor Bruce Harrell in Friday's count, pulling within two points, a 4,300-vote gap. With around 50,000 votes r...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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NEW STORY // Sound Transit Selects Private Bus Operator for Stride BRT Network

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Sound Transit Selects Private Bus Operator for Stride BRT Network » The Urbanist
# The $433 million contract with MV Transportation extends through 2032, and includes full start-up costs for the three Stride lines. It's the first time that Sound Transit has contracted with a priva...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
metropolitanglide.bsky.social
The Life After Cars book tour has arrived in Seattle.
A slide on the projector shows a before and after short with the Alaskan Way highway viaduct and after it was demolished and replaced with new park investments and a surface boulevard. Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear and CityNerd Ray Delahanty are on stage looking up at the slide.
November 6, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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typewriteralley.bsky.social
Progressives are poised to flip the balance of power in Burien, with Sam Méndez poised to win the open seat, Rocco DeVito on track to beat incumbent Stephanie Mora, and the council's two left-leaning incumbents - Sarah Moore and Hugo Garcia - likely to retain their seats.
November 5, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Sitting in the back corner with the press corps
November 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
metropolitanglide.bsky.social
Huge turnout for Katie Wilson's election night party in Beacon Hill. She's the frontrunner hoping to take down incumbent Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell.
November 5, 2025 at 3:37 AM
metropolitanglide.bsky.social
Zohran Mamdani has got this.

He's up 8 points with 60% of votes tallied, per AP News. The NYC Mayor race could also be a bellwether for Katie Wilson in Seattle.
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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I’ve known & worked with Katie for almost a decade. I’ve watched her unfailingly fight for the needs & rights of working class people in Seattle. I’ve found Katie next to me at canvasses, at picket lines, & at City Hall, & always on the right side of things. Vote Katie Wilson. She’ll fight for YOU.
wilsonforseattle.bsky.social Katie Wilson for Seattle @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social · 9d
Vote! Already did? Text or call your friends, family, neighbors, and coworkers. We can win this! #thisisyourcity
a Katie Wilson for mayor campaign graphic featuring a black and white photo of Katie Wilson surrounded by supporters, holding a campaign signs smiling for a group photograph. a text banner says vote by 8:00 p.m. Tomorrow find a Dropbox near you at Link in bio
November 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
metropolitanglide.bsky.social
College-age Harrell was pro economic justice / wealth redistribution. At some point in amassing his $15 million fortune, he became less so.
matthutchins.bsky.social Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 12d
found this old Harrell clip and I wonder where did this earnest guy go?
The Harrell we have is detached, vindictive, entitled. When he went into politics, he had purpose.
now that’s he’s mayor whenever he’s involved he makes whatever it is worse.
His motivation now is stay mayor. Why? He can’t say
Old clipping of Harrell
October 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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NEW STORY // Sound Transit CEO Lays Out Approach to Second Seattle Rail Tunnel

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Sound Transit CEO Lays Out Approach to Second Seattle Rail Tunnel » The Urbanist
# Before moving ahead with building a second Downtown Seattle light rail tunnel as planned, Sound Transit is taking a second look at putting a third line in the existing tunnel instead. Doing so would...
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October 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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NEW // Wilson Maintains Lead over Harrell, Two New Polls Indicate

Story by Doug Trumm @metropolitanglide.bsky.social via @theurbanist.org
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Wilson Maintains Lead over Harrell, Two New Polls Indicate » The Urbanist
# Progressive challenger Katie Wilson continues to have the edge in the highly competitive Seattle mayoral race, despite a large fundraising advantage for corporate-backed incumbent Bruce Harrell. Two...
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October 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Still not over Mayor Bruce Harrell wanting a 10 foot wall with an AI MLK, Jr. so you could ask him what he had for breakfast.
mattbaume.bsky.social Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · Oct 13
This seems fake but it's completely real: Audio of Seattle's current Mayor dreaming of a giant computer-simulated Martin Luther King, something the King family has explicitly asked people not to do.
Big thanks to Erica Barnett for being the only reporter in town covering these events so closely!
October 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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NEW // Rinck Launches ‘Better Bus Lanes’ Campaign with Transit Advocates

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Rinck Launches ‘Better Bus Lanes’ Campaign with Transit Advocates » The Urbanist
# Flanked by a crowd of transit advocates, Seattle Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck announced a
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October 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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My analysis of the new proposed SPOG contract is now available @theurbanist.org. There's a lot going on with this contract!

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Harrell and SPOG Rush Police Contract, Hamstringing Civilian Responders, Accountability Agencies » The Urbanist
# While the Seattle Police Officers Guild scored a big raise and new benefits, the new labor contract negotiated by Mayor Bruce Harrell will continue to hamper the City’s new civilian crisis response ...
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October 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
metropolitanglide.bsky.social
Yesterday, @councilmember-amr.bsky.social and transit advocates rolled out a campaign demanding better bus lanes, starting with Denny Way, Aurora Avenue, and Rainier Avenue.
October 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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typewriteralley.bsky.social
Occidental Ave at the stadiums is getting a makeover ahead of the World Cup. Plans for tactical urbanism have advanced as the first "People Streets and Public Spaces" project funded by the new transportation levy, but have mostly taken shape behind closed doors.
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SDOT Plans ‘Tactical Urbanism’ on Occidental Avenue Ahead of World Cup » The Urbanist
# Occidental Avenue is the first major
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October 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Listening to Bruce Harrell on the campaign trail, you'd never know that traffic fatalities in Seattle have actually increased during his term as whole and that last year was the deadliest year on city roads in decades.
typewriteralley.bsky.social Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 25d
Bruce Harrell: "When...I won the job, we still lived in a city by which cars are fighting with bikes and bikes are perhaps competing with transit, and people looked at the different forms of transportation and they didn't talk to each other very well."
October 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
metropolitanglide.bsky.social
Wild that it's been 10 years since my first article with @theurbanist.org!
October 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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NEW // 2025 General Election Endorsements

Read @theurbanist.org election committee's take on a very consequential election. www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/16/2...
2025 General Election Endorsements » The Urbanist
# The Urbanist Elections Committee is excited to announce our 2025 general election endorsements, which span the region from Tacoma to Everett. Be sure to vote by November 4.
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October 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM