The toxicity of gun politics has really overshadowed the fact that car politics is so much worse. It crosses all sorts of political, socioeconomic, cultural, geographic etc. barriers. People's worst instincts come out if you suggest reducing a lane or reducing parking spots.

With the rise and salient use of AI, I've been thinking a lot about Kant's essay "What is Enlightenment?" "If I have a book to serve as my understanding, a pastor to serve as my conscience, a physician to determine my diet for me, and so on, I need not exert myself at all."

I distinctly remember this as a story during the Obama-Trump transition. Lots of stuff about how Trump will listen to the last person he talked to.

I really like the direction this tax takes. The article does an excellent job highlighting the ridiculousness of surface parking lots and their inefficiencies. Ideally, we wouldn't have a targeted tax like this and instead tax the land so that *everyone* is incentivized to redevelop

Many people are saying it!

I want to take a moment to how insane it is that Epstein wrote his emails the way he did. The weird spacing, syntax. Obviously the least infuriating thing about him, but still. If you're going to incriminate the president of the United States at least have the decency to use punctuation

I don't understand, just have him do the Doctor Who thing?

But...you didn't work with them to solve anything? You just capitulated to their demands?

Trump has gotten away with shit his entire life because of his money, connections, and, for inexplicable reasons, the critical thinking part of everyone that interacts with him shrinks by half

That’s why we partnered with local orgs Waters Meet and Spokane Community Against Racism to create spokane.food, an interactive map of places to get support for food insecurity, or give support, if you’re in a place to help.

I was happy to see my nearest ballot drop box busy tonight, and some kids and their parents handing out "I Voted" stickers

if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam

The clipping Tiny Desk is amazing. Literally turning trash into treasure.

Breadlines and Ballrooms seems like a winning public message during a government shutdown, no?

What blue collar worker hasn't done a spell of mercenary work here and there?

Got back from Spokane No Kings protest. I have no idea how many people showed up because I started walking there and an organizer was ushering people away from the park already getting people lined up on the sidewalks because the park was overflowing.

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I've posted before that I think Dems/whoever should run on a platform of scaling back presidential powers. Really they should run on a democratic reform platform that includes reducing POTUS power, but also includes things that expands and strengthens democratic processes.

I 100% agree. This should be the line Dems take when it comes to funding negotiations. Healthcare premiums are important, but unnecessarily federalizing troops and having them stationed all over the country under the guise of a crisis is far more important.

No Mariners today and my flight is delayed ☹️

Anyone that's even kind of paid attention to the Ukrainian-Russian war knows that cheap, expendable drones is the future of warfare. You don't need to run a 7 minute mile for that.

God I love the Mariners.

One thing I haven't read yet is that the right's reaction to all this feels like a test run for when Trump himself passes and how they'll use his passing to try and consolidate power. Though not clear who the power will consolidate around. There'll be a lot of infighting

Bud is just unreal man.

The first fight started 4 (!) hours ago. There were only 3 fights! The main card just started lol

Anyone checking out boxing for the first time isn't gonna stick around this long for the main event. Especially when only one of the undercard matches was any good

I think this is an AI video???

This administration's lethal engagement policy is rooted in the style of Dizzy Gillespie.

He's probably not dead. I just don't think the idiots he's surrounded by could keep a lid on it. Coma though? I could see them get through a weekend of keeping it under wraps.

More fantastic journalism by @rangemedia.co

Its further down the list of priorities of things to fix, but Dems should run on putting limits on presidential powers and scaling them back. Especially in peacetime.

"It's not MSNBC anymore, Lemon. It's MS NOW. We bought the name off of a defunct multiple sclerosis awareness organization. It wasn't cheap, but we were able to save some money by selling Brian Williams to a Saudi prince who wanted to expand his harem."

Did my monthly tour of Next Door. Top lost I saw was about why so many yards are unkempt. (We are in a drought and the city has a restrictions on lawn watering). Some highlights:

Also in this meeting was quite a bit of discussion about how to get landlords to install energy efficiency for their properties without raising rents and I'm definitely biased, but all I could keep thinking was that an LVT would solve this issue without needing a ton of incentives/carve-outs

Got done with a conference for utilities. One person works as a DC advocate for programs like LIHEAP, WAP, and other important programs. Takeaways:

I think one of the failures (a relatively small one in the grand scheme of things) in how we've taught the history of fascism is that we never really taught that fascists, at their core, are cowards. So much of the ideas behind are driven by fear, greed, or insecurity.

Took a nice jaunt with the dog to drop off my ballot. I typically mail mine in or end up driving to a box while I'm out and about. Got to see a part of my neighborhood I hadn't been through before and it was great seeing several others also walking to drop off their own.

There's no way in hell that Jack Donaghy would vote for Harris. I also think he'd be conflicted about voting for Trump. We saw him try and run an insane, gullible moron for Congress and backed down in large part because he didn't want him an insane, gullible moron in Congress

Pretty amazing that Trump's plan to stop talking about Epstein and his well documented connection to him is to just destroy the economy

Sure everything is more expensive now and masked federal agents are trafficking people abroad and the president sells crypto as a side hustle and we didn't stop Iran from nuclearizing and active duty Marines are mobilized in Los Angeles to protect masked federal agents that are trafficking people

This is great work by @rangemedia.co and @merrywanderer.bsky.social. Good journalism in action!

Between this and Trump being told that SCOTUS ruled in his favor on Garcia paints a pretty clear picture that his staff are lying to him. I wonder what else he's being told? Maybe he really thinks eggs are ¢50 a dozen?

Maybe the concepts of plans were the tariffs we made along the way

Really good thread about all the weird VC tech bros trying to make the world of Snowcrash into a reality -- fascist, corporatist city-states. They wrap their ideas in tech corporate speak and it comes off as polished and smart

This is something that directly affects the industry I work in. Gutting LIHEAP will kill people. It will kill elderly people. You know what efficiency mean? -- not letting Grandma freeze to death in their own home 1/

"Funny thing about a cage, it's never built for just one group So when that cage is done with them and you still poor, it come for you"

Maybe Hegseth loves Airplane! so much and he just wanted to recreate some scenes?

If you haven't taken 10 minutes to write to your representatives and put pressure on them to call for Hegseth's resignation and to investigate the rest of members of the group chat now is a good time: www.congress.gov/members/find... #signalgate #leakedwarplans #hegsethmustgo

This is amazing to see. The clear draw for people to these rallies is the popularity of AOC and Bernie as well as the energy to fight Trump and his cronies. What stocks out to me though, and both of them have been consistent on it, has been they are providing a vision for America