Kate Rubin

Spotted in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood

*edit, she was 10 at the time. And now she's ALMOST 21 😳

If you share in this vision for the future, please make a donation to help Be:Seattle continue fighting for it! beseattle.org/donate/

Devin’s vision of a future where everyone has a safe, affordable home and is treated with dignity is what brought me to this work. It's been an honor to continue working toward this shared vision!

I don't have a photo from the event, but my then-11-year-old niece did this drawing of me that day

Oh wow, that event feels like a million years ago but also like yesterday. I am so grateful to you for your vision and hard work in founding Be:Seattle, for giving me a path to do work that actually makes people's lives better, for being a partner at the city, for everything.

"A secret lair comes in really handy too when you need somewhere to take an in-meeting vape break while some nerd drones on about something stupid like ethics, civil rights or affordable housing."

My taxes kill children. My taxes detain people without human rights or human dignity or access to medical care. I am complicit in the harm my country is doing. None of us are innocent.

Applications are due at 11:59pm tonight!

Fund WA’s right-to-counsel program to prevent evictions Re: “King County, WA eviction levels hit an all-time high, again” (Feb. 2, Business): As co-executive director of  Be:Seattle, I work with renters across Seattle on education, outreach and organi...

My letter to the editor about the importance of funding right to counsel for renters facing eviction was published by The Seattle Times!

If you live in Washington state please take 20 seconds to sign in PRO for our millionaire tax bill currently going through state legislature.

🚨ACTION ALERT🚨 Tell our lawmakers: TAX THE RICH!

Sign in PRO on SB 6346 to support the Millionaires Tax! It's time for wealthy people to pay their fair share. The revenue generated will help to pay for the services people need to their basic needs met!
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Reminder that Anne Frank did not die from Nazi guns or gas chambers, but from a concentration camp disease outbreak. (In her case, typhus)

TCA Orca Appeal Webinar - Reaction Video #1 YouTube video by Cities for Salmon

I’m making a series of reaction videos to a webinar by the Seattle orca NIMBYs lolll here is my first one youtu.be/iWSjAmlVcJg?...

This is terrible. It is also an opportunity for certain journalists to finally speak up with a *fraction* of the courage the people of Minneapolis have shown. It is also instructive that Lemon is Black. Woe/pox etc upon white journalists who don’t freak out about this.

The thing about Catherine O’Hara is she is so hilarious and talented that I forgot she was mortal

Seattle CM Debora Juarez:

"Now ICE in the 21st century is continuing this deplorable, inhumane practice. There is no longer time for performative pearl clutching and handwringing. There is no option except to fight back with our collective voices, hearts and humanity. [...]Abolish ICE. FUCK ICE."

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Is this about abolition?

5-Year-Old in ICE Detention Is Sick, Says Top School Official The 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents in Minneapolis is being held behind bars with his father in Texas.

NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

We keep our porch and garage lights on 24/7 now. We have energy efficient bulbs and it's very low cost. It feels intrusive and controlling that the HOA is dictating that though

Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do? All Americans live in a “dual state.” Here’s what that means — and how to help others see it.

"Authoritarianism feels a lot like normal, predictable life — until it doesn’t. There’s a hidden tripwire you can step on, but you often don’t realize you’ve stepped on it until you find yourself with a gun in your face."

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Despite the sassy name, she sees cis clients too, but loves to support the community. 💖

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Why is it so hard for Sen. Maria Cantwell to just say something like this? Even if it's completely performative?! Goddamn I can't believe U.S. Senators get 6-year terms and we're stuck with her phoning it the F in this bad until 2030.

Also, upon further examination, the knuckle-cracker seemed to have a close relationship with the other person, which made it more funny and less creepy

It was. Those strange things stood out in contrast!

Mayor Wilson Inauguration Speech - Office of the Mayor Mayor Katie B. Wilson was sworn into office on January 2, 2026. Remarks as written: It is such a pleasure and an honor to be here with all of you today. I look out and I see so many people who have pl...

This is your city — that means that you belong here, you have a right to be here and to live a dignified life, whatever your background and whatever your income. wilson.seattle.gov/2026/01/02/m...

I got a little misty-eyed

When I was a kid, I was confused about why anyone would join a cult. As a lonely adult who would love to escape the crushing force of capitalism, I see the allure.

Anecdotally, I would love a bus that goes along Beacon Ave down to Columbia City and into Seward Park. It's such a short drive but it's a hassle on public transit!