The ability to imagine or envision a slightly different world is often the biggest barrier in so much road safety, transit & urbanism work. It's not necessarily the money.

The deadline to offer feedback on the transportation study around the removal of the Lower Snake River Dams has been extended a few more days! Check it out and make your statement here: engage.wsdot.wa.gov/lower-snake-...

DED

I finally watched the Bad Bunny halftime show wow WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

No death camps No concentration camps No transportation camps No camps No No NO

that about sums it up

Okay, the New York Times has a very dumb op-ed about the US’s “marijuana problem”. You are completely valid in just dismissing it as fear shit, but I will make a Lil’ Thread of some of the dumb stuff in particular, for the Sickos and Curious. Keep your cool, remember: it’s bad on purpose. Andiamo:

When describing a new species, we often hear about the size, shape, and color of its leaves, flowers, and fruits. But what about its smell?

That's correct ('fewer' rather than 'less') and also right on a more serious note - it actually matters if your society says 'moving around shouldn't kill you' versus 'there are costs for making everyone trundle around in big metal doomcages, and you'll pay those costs'

Rep. Stansbury: “The United States government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex trafficking scandal and influence peddling scandal in the history of the United States, and Donald Trump is right at the center of it.”

[watching water drip out of the air vent] Gadzooks, the only thing I hate more than modern home construction is less-modern home construction

Reminder from the Field of Blood by @jbf1755.bsky.social - Southern slaveowners, especially along the northern edge of slaver territory, *purposefully* crafted their images to make political points. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

I worked like this for many, many years (farming) - except longer hours with no day off I am very glad I stopped doing that and did not kill myself

Boooooo

Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.

Did they win? People shooting off fireworks like crazy. I can hear people screaming and shouting and whooping just out my front door!

thank you bad bunny for highlighting the importance of critical power distribution infrastructure bsky.app/profile/cost...

God bless this America specifically

HALPPPPP 😂😂🍑🍑🍑🍑

GO BIRDS (No, not those birds - the other birds)

Happy to see Karla and Arnoldo are safe and back in Spokane. But, we cannot ignore the harm caused. Their detention was unnecessary and their family should never have been forced to navigate this fear.  www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

Tax billionaires, not employment

Oh hell yes.

This machine kills fascists

Not for nothing, the person who coined the "Kamala is a cop" meme that took off like wildfire in "leftists" circles was a woman who was convicted under Harris' tenure as AG for indecent contact with a minor, a teenage boy.

I bought a DVD player at the local Kiwanis thrift shop for $10 last week. Join me... at the library

Nazis lie.

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

And that was an easy block on @robertscotthorton.bsky.social

ALERT

“The Epstein class” is a keeper.

Virgin NIMBYs: "No new residents unless they jump through hoops to show that they are desirable! And they must live in fire zones." Chad YIMBYs: "You get a home! YOU get a home! YOU GET A HOME! With windows and natural lighting! Near a park and jods and play! Elevators might be a bit smaller..."

Check out this little dude

All Hail yours truly, for I fried the plantains *perfectly* this morning

Congressional Democrats tried to ban gerrymandering nationwide with bills in 2019 and 2021. Rob Wittman and every other Republican voted against them to defeat that ban

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

To all those who say “but air pollution is within legal limits” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It is really interesting me how many people have, while reading the Epstein emails, intuited that there is something very weird about how he and the people around him use the word "cute" because it's clearly not the usual meaning of the word, because they are correct

winter olympics rock

I had to explain Snoop Dogg to our children

Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level

[Snowboarding TV commentary] EX-SNOWBOARDER COLOR COMMENTATOR WHO SOUNDS LIKE HE BATHES IN BONG WATER: Awwwww NO WAY, backside chicken salad off the knucklehuck IN GOOFY, that is groooady from my brochacho STAID, RESPECTABLE PLAY-BY-PLAY GUY WHO USUALLY COVERS GOLF: Indeed, what a move!

I am going to watch this movie SO hard

Unfortunately, we now receive unreliable information from these vaccine-denying federal committees. This is exactly why I requested a bill with @oicwa.bsky.social to shift vaccine recommendations to our own Department of Health. I'm looking forward to signing that bipartisan bill.

Dort getting outed as a gooner on a post where he's telling a retired female GO she's a scourge on Western civilization was exactly what I needed to end the week

Love seeing councils using this framing; opening streets (to people), instead of closing streets (to cars). 👏👏👏 See you all there! 💃😎🛍️

Thrilled to share that 𝐺𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑡 𝑏𝑦 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑑 has found a home with the Yale Law Journal. This piece examines parental liability regimes and parental rights, and how they are connected by a shared logic that harms children and families. Thank you to all those who read drafts and offered feedback!

This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year. She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again. Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/

@arbutocrat.bsky.social! 🌱 of your tokara/namesake have decided to pop en masses this morning!