Mayor Katie Wilson wants tiny house villages to get bigger – and she wants your help getting to her goal of 1,000 shelter units this year.
05.03.2026 01:23
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Mayor Katie Wilson wants tiny house villages to get bigger – and she wants your help getting to her goal of 1,000 shelter units this year.
Today, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson announced three pieces of legislation intended to speed the creation of tiny home villages and other forms of emergency housing serving homeless people.
"Our task is to build a wide and deep movement...rooted in a steadfast commitment to one another, across our many differences and divides, and to this miraculous, singular planet." - @astra.bsky.social + @naomiaklein.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
I haven't seen this reported anywhere: the Tukwila City Council is set to adopt a six month moratorium on any applications for correctional institutions or detention facilities on Monday night.
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As we work to make housing more affordable, renters across the city need to keep speaking out. That’s why today we’re launching our Mayoral Renter’s Survey. forms.office.com/g/B1K37QsKtf
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Seattle mayor Katie Wilson and a campaign volunteer stand in an apartment hallway greeting a renter while on the campaign trail.
Do you rent in Seattle? @mayorofseattle.bsky.social wants to hear from YOU! City Hall is conducting a renters survey to help inform policy, and deliver help where it's needed most. Share widely!
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"now is the time to build community like our lives depend on it."
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Today I announced an initial set of actions to protect city residents in the face of increased federal immigration enforcement activity. #thisisyourcity
I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.
i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
Katie Wilson didn't say the word "urbanism" today, nor did the speakers that paved the way for her swearing-in.
But the vision she laid out was an explicitly urbanist one, a vision of a city that makes room for everyone.
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Who do we mean when we say “Black Seattle”?
This mayoral race isn’t about personalities—it’s about whether symbolism becomes substance. What do “seats at the table” mean if the rest of us go hungry?
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@seattleu.edu hosted a lively mayoral debate between incumbent Bruce Harrell & challenger Katie Wilson on Wednesday night. The two highlighted their differing views on issues ranging from homelessness and housing to public safety, federal overreach, transit and more.
If Bruce Harrell's case for re-election is his management experience, what should we make of two separate instances in the last week of city decisions made under his watch being immediately reversed after huge community blowback?
Quite an impressive feat to apparently create 1,000 new emergency units in the 12 days between when these two ads dropped
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Democrats have hit historic lows in favorability with young voters. After years of being sidelined by establishment politics, these voters are demanding change. And now, a new generation of leaders is stepping up to answer the call. Will the party make space for them?
Seattle mayoral candidate Katie Wilson said her husband makes the best bagels in town. So I tried them…
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Together, we can build a Seattle that actually works for working families.
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Chris Hayes: Would you just, can we just stop there and can you just explain what AGI means? Karen Hao: Okay. AGI refers to artificial general intelligence, and this is an incredibly poorly defined term. The very hand wavy summary of what people typically describe it as is an A.I. system that can ultimately do anything that humans can do. But this is a really challenging measure because like what makes humans intelligent, doesn’t have any scientific consensus. And so, when you’re trying to capture in software, something that we don’t understand about humans -- Chris Hayes: Right. Karen Hao: -- you end up with lots of different opinions about how to do it, what it should look like, who it should serve, all of those things. And so, throughout the decades of A.I. research and development, all the way from the 1950s until present day, there have been just tons and tons of debates, egos clashing, opinions clashing about these kind of core questions of what A.I. and AGI ultimately is. The way that OpenAI has specifically defined it is highly autonomous systems that outperform humans in most economically valuable work. And so, they’ve specifically defined it as a labor automating machine. That is also really key, important dimension to understanding the truly deeply capitalistic nature of OpenAI.
Karen Hao: And, and also to understanding the trajectory that they’re taking as a company. Ultimately, they’re trying to build systems that they can sell to CEOs for a lot of money -- Chris Hayes: To replace humans. Karen Hao: -- to say -- Chris Hayes: To automate human work. Karen Hao: Exactly. To automate a way, yeah. If they’re trying to build systems that outperform humans at the thing that makes people want to pay you, you’re no longer going to be paid. They’re just going to opt for the AI.
Mind-blowingly revelatory point about AI as a socially & eocnomically disruptive technology, from @chrislhayes.bsky.social's recent interview with @karenhao.bsky.social on her new book Empire of AI on OpenAI:
They're DEFINING "artificial general intelligence" as AI capable of replacing human labor!
This one is important. Share it widely. "Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful." wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...
What a gift to turn on KEXP this morning, 24 hours into their 27 hour marathon for public radio, and hear the joy of Let's Go Crazy, followed by Born to Run. We are so lucky. Tune in live KEXP.org
"What does a human slowly going insane look like to a corporation?" Mr. Yudkowsky asked in an interview. "It looks like an additional monthly user."
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Why another protest? What is it going to accomplish? Shouldn’t we be [insert alternate tactic] instead?
These are good-faith questions, and they stem from very reasonable concerns. So let’s take a step back and talk about the role of a peaceful mass mobilization like No Kings.
How can we actually make the rent go down?
Let’s talk about it with Katie!
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Despite what the NYT and @conordougherty.bsky.social want you to think, sprawl isn't our only option to address affordability. We can do things differently, and here in WA, we ARE doing things differently.
