Chat should I apply to that chief position?
Noah 🚎Guys, check it out! I'm on the mayor's private jet! (in an economy seat a packed-to-the-gills 737-900 with 179 other pax) - average Daily Mail headline
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Chat should I apply to that chief position?
Noah 🚎Guys, check it out! I'm on the mayor's private jet! (in an economy seat a packed-to-the-gills 737-900 with 179 other pax) - average Daily Mail headline
This is a point also made by Kelebe Tewolde, one of our local progressive candidates, about the intrinsic problems with enforcement-based traffic controls. He's very supportive of traffic calming and other safe-by-design measures, but against automated speed or bus lane enforcement.
Alex WenzelThe reality is that police tasked with enforcement for the purpose of pedestrian/cyclist safety are ideologically opposed to that goal and, in cities with liberal elected governments, they are outside civilian control for all practical purposes. (2/2)
I'm so curious what went on behind the scenes this week. Look, people have bad days. I get that. I don't want a single bad interaction to always get someone fired. It's too reactive. But we don't know what else transpired after that.
Erica C. BarnettContext: A group claiming to represent Seattle's entire "Black community" is holding a rally at city hall, saying that the firing of Police Chief Shon Barnes is a "civil rights" issue. Right-wing commentators like Jonathan Choe have eagerly gobbled up this narrative and are promoting it.
This is why I called some of my neighbors racist. White people falsely claiming to represent the Black community and then using that mantle to keep them out of their neighborhoods is abhorrent behavior. bsky.app/profile/noah...
Erica C. BarnettThis week, I watched white homeowners stand up and say, basically, "I am here representing the Black community" when arguing to preserve a process that prevents new people from moving in to their overwhelmingly white single-family enclaves. To name just one example of how this manifests.
I called some of my neighbors racist for supporting the SEPA bonus appeals process. It was correct to do so. They are. Some of them don't want Black and brown people to live in their neighborhoods, and they want to pretend that this extra bonus Seattle Process™️ appeal is about environmentalism.
The UrbanistA 5-4 Seattle City Council vote yesterday means city-level appeals that have delayed significant citywide zoning changes in the past will be extinguished. Conventional appeal options to Superior Court or the state growth hearings board will remain. Story: www.theurbanist.org/seattle-coun...