ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”

Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning

Uff da - the rain is sheeting down in the howling wind. Gales of November, indeed! #wawx

holy cow - watch RFK Jr.

A great day for single-stair housing advocates everywhere!

YES

“Capitalists are just anti-green energy” buddy if you build and operate those plants and you’re an energy company you’ve invested in the Intalgio press, you won the game The only folks pining for BIG MANLY MAN OILMAN and COAL MINER jobs are folks who wouldn’t risk their lives in that field

they *killed people* to make this insanity happen, and yet - with more money than the Almighty - you can't even say it failed. They couldn't start!

I have been tear gassed and there are no words that even come close to describing the homicidal rage this puts me into. I could tear these subhuman little turds throats out with my teeth and sleep like a baby afterwards

It would be nice if — instead of complicated financial instruments with huge loopholes for fraud —we just directly addressed climate change.

Douthat, BACK. Avast. Away from me! I cast you out!

PNW garden maniacs, check it out: the Drymifolia Collective is on Bluesky!🌱

this WHOLE thread - if you take three minutes to read anything this afternoon, please make it this thread

Related: My dad's people used the term "Roosterpoot, Idaho" as a catch-all for 'somewhere far away from someplace anyone wants to be.' Does anyone else have a lead on where "Roosterpoot" comes from?

TIL there is a place in Idaho named "Slickpoo." That is all. edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-dom...

Atmospheric river - so glad I am not driving

🚨 New guide alert! You: Planner who wants to make streets safer/more comfortable for everyone *now* Your quest: Getting thru design/planning/engineering/$$/construction/chatting w ppl about all of the above, which can take years Your new BFF: Quick-builds to trial-run projects ppl end up loving

@bikabout.com Megan Ramey cites @tomflood.bsky.social's Revelo in the Quick Builds Guide training from WSDOT: "Quick Builds build community trust and give our leaders political courage to champion safe streets and make larger investments."

"Can you book this as a monthly meeting?" Policy wonk can be fun...when you ride an E-bike together! I took state, city and county leaders on a beautiful ride today with the goal of changing Oregon's law, allowing middle school to ride class 1, pedal-assist E-bikes. Also, infrastructure for kids.

Once again: Washington State, *by law* allows you the right to create native pollinator habitat on your property, no matter what local codes or HOA rules may say otherwise. I supported Skinner's yard. You can too.

Gardeners! 🌱 Why are “unsightly” dead stems of flowers dead leaf piles critical? Why does 15% of bare soil = gardening goals? To save climate-warmed, extinction-threatened native ground-/crevice-nesting native bees, butterflies and other critical insects. Support via link in her reply.

Love to come on a really pro-public-health training for integrating public health and transportation safety to bang my* drum that people are just gonna die and we don't even WANT to stop people dying on roads because ??? *NOT mine, this is only rhetorical

Utah's UTA is state-managed, funded by 5-year investment frameworks, and uses service-led planning. It's no wonder FrontRunner has plans for electrification while Metrolink and LOSSAN are still avoiding the issue, despite serving more people. rideuta.legistar.com/LegislationD...

uff da. time to log off before I violate some terms of service

HALLELUJAH

So Mike Johnson *does* watch the news. This must be a first!

Whichever way you want to go, @kingcountymetro.bsky.social will get you there

Robot army dude's comments that "England and Wales are nations populated by meal-loving Hobbits, invaded by rapists" really underlines that rape and abuse don't count if you're a white male

Madina Denie shares *so much* knowledge, expertise, amd experience in her threads on Supreme Court arguments, and also commentary like this. Joy every time

A) great! B) Esopus mentioned

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods

Every vote counts: in the Port of Anacortes commissioner #1 race, Teresa Carroll-Gillis leads Mary La Fleur by *14* votes out of ~6,700 counted so far.

Another W beside myself right now

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO

THIS is the new Democrat lic winning coalition message: no more band-aids, enough means-testing, no more mealy-mouthed amd moth-eaten half-measures. People are suffering and systemic reform is what they want (and need!)

Friends, you have three hours to get those ballots to a ballot box. Make it so.

Actual HUGE news if it holds up

You heard Micah

Yowza. called with a 14 point margin

this is real and gdamn

You're gol durn right I have

Pacific Northwet amiright

there is POETRY in it too

Strohmaier here has some really great words of wisdom, built on years of coalition growth: "Let's set the bar high and reverse engineer from that what it takes to get there," meaning 2x daily service, every day, weather resilient modern trains that people want to ride, and on time service.

This is cringe (laudatory).

Liberalism, being at it's most basic a respect for the inherent right of others to choose for themselves and a bare minimum love of humanity not because we are the same species but because all humans are people is in fact a requirement. Especially now.

A good reminder!