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Hey @kenmartin.bsky.social!
Check your texts and reply to @zeetothehill.bsky.social immediately! 😁
Let's win these pesky elections.
Check your texts and reply to @zeetothehill.bsky.social immediately! 😁
Let's win these pesky elections.
August 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Hey @kenmartin.bsky.social!
Check your texts and reply to @zeetothehill.bsky.social immediately! 😁
Let's win these pesky elections.
Check your texts and reply to @zeetothehill.bsky.social immediately! 😁
Let's win these pesky elections.
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A UW professor recently called Washington State “a tax haven like the Cayman Islands.”
What did he mean?
Let’s get into it!
What did he mean?
Let’s get into it!
June 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A UW professor recently called Washington State “a tax haven like the Cayman Islands.”
What did he mean?
Let’s get into it!
What did he mean?
Let’s get into it!
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This is unacceptable. We can do better.
You may remember: this is the same intersection, immediately adjacent to the Mt Baker kids swim beach, where a car careened off the road and exploded into the beach.
SDOT proposed adding stop signs here to help calm traffic, but the Mayor’s office killed the idea because car advocates complained.
SDOT proposed adding stop signs here to help calm traffic, but the Mayor’s office killed the idea because car advocates complained.
Personally I think our Park Boulevards should not be designed allow cars to speed so fast they careen off them into popular children swim beaches, exploding into a burnt out husk, and polluting the water 🤷🏼♂️
June 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
This is unacceptable. We can do better.
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Also, as mayor I do absolutely want to support and partner with community-led food system efforts - like Rainier Beach Action Coalition’s Food Hub and Farm Stand, and their longer term plans for a Food Innovation Center near the Rainier Beach Light Rail Station. /
Food Hub & Farm Stand | RBAC: Rainier Beach Action Coalition
www.rbcoalition.org
June 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Also, as mayor I do absolutely want to support and partner with community-led food system efforts - like Rainier Beach Action Coalition’s Food Hub and Farm Stand, and their longer term plans for a Food Innovation Center near the Rainier Beach Light Rail Station. /
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In sum, I would love to do this in principle, but wouldn't want to do it just because it sounds good and then have it turn into a major drain on City time, energy, and resources without real measurable benefits for Seattle residents.
June 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
In sum, I would love to do this in principle, but wouldn't want to do it just because it sounds good and then have it turn into a major drain on City time, energy, and resources without real measurable benefits for Seattle residents.
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I think a public grocery store will be most successful if it grows out of community organizing and coalition-building within a specific neighborhood. People need to be all-in on making it work, and making it into more than just a grocery store.
June 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I think a public grocery store will be most successful if it grows out of community organizing and coalition-building within a specific neighborhood. People need to be all-in on making it work, and making it into more than just a grocery store.
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One cool thing a public grocery store could do is subsidize some staple goods (bread, milk… eggs, anyone?) and raise the prices of higher-end items to compensate. A co-op near my hometown does this and it seems to work, but obviously depends on an affluent customer base.
June 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
One cool thing a public grocery store could do is subsidize some staple goods (bread, milk… eggs, anyone?) and raise the prices of higher-end items to compensate. A co-op near my hometown does this and it seems to work, but obviously depends on an affluent customer base.
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Of course, a public grocery store could operate at a loss. But then we need to be clear-eyed about the fact that we’re choosing to subsidize it—and measure the benefits against other ways we might subsidize food costs for low-income households.
June 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Of course, a public grocery store could operate at a loss. But then we need to be clear-eyed about the fact that we’re choosing to subsidize it—and measure the benefits against other ways we might subsidize food costs for low-income households.
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Margins in the grocery industry are low. In a food desert, a public grocery store will have the same struggles a for-profit store has.
June 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Margins in the grocery industry are low. In a food desert, a public grocery store will have the same struggles a for-profit store has.
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You’d need multiple stores to be able to buy wholesale, and even then wouldn’t achieve other economies of scale enjoyed by large chains like Kroger or Albertson’s. So it’s not going to be easy to offer lower prices.
June 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
You’d need multiple stores to be able to buy wholesale, and even then wouldn’t achieve other economies of scale enjoyed by large chains like Kroger or Albertson’s. So it’s not going to be easy to offer lower prices.
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To the extent that high prices represent monopoly power in the food industry (not at the grocery store level but further back in the food chain, so to speak), publicly owned stores aren’t going to get a better deal.
June 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
To the extent that high prices represent monopoly power in the food industry (not at the grocery store level but further back in the food chain, so to speak), publicly owned stores aren’t going to get a better deal.
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I’m sympathetic to the municipal grocery store idea and certainly open to it. But I don’t think we can assume this is an easy solution to high prices or food deserts. 🧵
@wilsonkatieb.bsky.social, ideas to keep an eye on, would be stoked to see this as part of your current/future platform. Maybe even with partnerships with co-ops like Central Co-op if the city needs a boost? newrepublic.com/article/1930...
One Way to Fight Rising Food Prices: Public Grocery Stores
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has proposed opening government-owned grocery stores as a solution to ever-increasing food costs and food deserts. Other cities have already done this.
newrepublic.com
June 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I’m sympathetic to the municipal grocery store idea and certainly open to it. But I don’t think we can assume this is an easy solution to high prices or food deserts. 🧵
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More from Katie’s conversation with @lobbingscorchers.com about the World Cup and Seattle’s role in creating a safe and connected community.
Full Pod: www.sounderatheart.com/2025/05/lobb...
Full Pod: www.sounderatheart.com/2025/05/lobb...
May 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
More from Katie’s conversation with @lobbingscorchers.com about the World Cup and Seattle’s role in creating a safe and connected community.
Full Pod: www.sounderatheart.com/2025/05/lobb...
Full Pod: www.sounderatheart.com/2025/05/lobb...
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Katie’s statement on the events in Cal Anderson Park:
May 26, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Katie’s statement on the events in Cal Anderson Park:
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The City must fully investigate what happened yesterday, including the decisions that led to the event being held at Cal Anderson, preparations or lack thereof, and the actions of SPD. We have so many years of experience with demonstrations in Seattle, there’s no excuse for this. We can do better. /
May 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The City must fully investigate what happened yesterday, including the decisions that led to the event being held at Cal Anderson, preparations or lack thereof, and the actions of SPD. We have so many years of experience with demonstrations in Seattle, there’s no excuse for this. We can do better. /
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As it is, we have 23 arrests, multiple injuries, countless people pepper sprayed & traumatized. No one from the mayor’s office appears to have even been on-site yesterday during these events. To be absent and to blame all this on infiltration by “anarchists,” as the mayor did, is to pass the buck.
May 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
As it is, we have 23 arrests, multiple injuries, countless people pepper sprayed & traumatized. No one from the mayor’s office appears to have even been on-site yesterday during these events. To be absent and to blame all this on infiltration by “anarchists,” as the mayor did, is to pass the buck.
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Whatever the truth of the matter, the mayor’s office should have been paying attention. They should have directed the Parks Department to steer the rally to a less contentious spot, and they should have worked with SPD on a plan for crowd control focused on de-escalation and keeping everyone safe.
May 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Whatever the truth of the matter, the mayor’s office should have been paying attention. They should have directed the Parks Department to steer the rally to a less contentious spot, and they should have worked with SPD on a plan for crowd control focused on de-escalation and keeping everyone safe.
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Mayor Harrell’s statement acknowledges that the rally was held in this location “to provoke a reaction” — although a Mayday USA spokesperson is quoted in The Seattle Times claiming their first choice was Victor Steinbrueck Park, but the City said no.
23 arrests at heated ‘Fascist Family Values’ protest in Seattle
A crowd waving transgender flags and signs denouncing the "Trump Fascist Regime" gathered in counterprotest of a "Mayday USA" event. It quickly turned violent.
www.seattletimes.com
May 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Mayor Harrell’s statement acknowledges that the rally was held in this location “to provoke a reaction” — although a Mayday USA spokesperson is quoted in The Seattle Times claiming their first choice was Victor Steinbrueck Park, but the City said no.
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It was entirely predictable that this would lead to heated confrontations between protesters, counterprotesters, and SPD. This would be a bad idea at any time, but it is especially dangerous when members of our community find themselves under attack from the right-wing forces in Washington D.C.
May 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
It was entirely predictable that this would lead to heated confrontations between protesters, counterprotesters, and SPD. This would be a bad idea at any time, but it is especially dangerous when members of our community find themselves under attack from the right-wing forces in Washington D.C.
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The mayor’s primary job is to keep people safe, and that means taking action to prevent danger & violence before it starts. A fundamentalist Christian, anti-trans “family values” demonstration never should have been permitted for Cal Anderson, in the heart of Seattle’s historic LGBTQ neighborhood.
May 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The mayor’s primary job is to keep people safe, and that means taking action to prevent danger & violence before it starts. A fundamentalist Christian, anti-trans “family values” demonstration never should have been permitted for Cal Anderson, in the heart of Seattle’s historic LGBTQ neighborhood.
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I’ve heard from so many people about yesterday’s events at Cal Anderson Park in Capitol Hill. It’s clear this situation was seriously mishandled by Mayor Harrell’s administration, resulting in unnecessary arrests, injuries, and loss of trust in our city government. 🧵
Seattle Police make multiple arrests during counter-protest of fundamentalist church group’s rally in Cal Anderson Park — UPDATE
With reporting by Hannah Saunders Seattle Police moved on counter-protesters at a fundamentalist Christian group’s rally Saturday afternoon in Cal Anderson Park. Multiple arrests and injuries…
www.capitolhillseattle.com
May 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I’ve heard from so many people about yesterday’s events at Cal Anderson Park in Capitol Hill. It’s clear this situation was seriously mishandled by Mayor Harrell’s administration, resulting in unnecessary arrests, injuries, and loss of trust in our city government. 🧵
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@hasanabirepeater.bsky.social lied about the whole thing. What an actual loser.
May 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
@hasanabirepeater.bsky.social lied about the whole thing. What an actual loser.
@hasanabirepeater.bsky.social lied about the whole thing. What an actual loser.
May 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
@hasanabirepeater.bsky.social lied about the whole thing. What an actual loser.
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Happy May Day!
Today we honor the victories won by workers who organized, advocated, and stood together.
The fight for fair treatment continues — and with solidarity, we can win.
Join us. WilsonForSeattle.com
Today we honor the victories won by workers who organized, advocated, and stood together.
The fight for fair treatment continues — and with solidarity, we can win.
Join us. WilsonForSeattle.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Happy May Day!
Today we honor the victories won by workers who organized, advocated, and stood together.
The fight for fair treatment continues — and with solidarity, we can win.
Join us. WilsonForSeattle.com
Today we honor the victories won by workers who organized, advocated, and stood together.
The fight for fair treatment continues — and with solidarity, we can win.
Join us. WilsonForSeattle.com