ORDINANCE PASSES UNANIMOUSLY SHARED STREETS ARE LEGAL IN THE CITY OF SEATTLE THIS HAS BEEN MY DREAM FOR YEARS AND NOW IT IS HAPPENING IF YOU COME HOME FROM EUROPE WISHING WE COULD HAVE WHAT THEY HAVE THEN WHY NOT DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT SOMETIMES YOU WILL SUCCEED

Blue state secession please. Soon. This is insanity.

Agree. I’ve been saying this for 25 years.

"We're not racist. We just acted like it was an emergency to get rid of the one majority Black congressional district three months before the primary election."

Exactly how I feel. I’m furious.

This amazing image really captures the Tennessee fight and it's all over the internet. I am reposting it to encourage people to credit photographer Nicole Hester and the Tennessean.

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A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.

i am tired of having to listen to dumb assholes just because they have a lot of money

The Propaganda of the Wealthy has been Effective…. The US is the only country where poor people shun labor unions, free healthcare, and free college because rich people tell them to

A rare excellent political take from the old place. I genuinely think this is the major reason this administration has gone off the rails so quickly--it does not view Democratic voters as legitimate political actors with agency, and therefore does not feel the need to actually build voter support.

May the 4th be with you

Absolutely

CARTOON OF THE DAY

And ducks, of course.

theres just no coming back from this without a complete tear down and rebuild of some of our most major institutions

What happened at the Supreme Court is about anti-Blackness and curtailing Black political power. Trump as a corrective to Obama. Anti CRT/ DEI as a corrective to Black Lives Matter and Black progress in education and the workforce. Anti-Blackness is America’s favorite manner of self-harm.

This is what kills so many small projects before they get off paper. I can speak from experience.

I did not expect fascism to involve this much Kid Rock

Eugenicists. Nazi playbook. We’ve got to overthrow this monstrous regime.

Not a single elected Democrat has ever said anything as extreme or violent as what Trump & elected republicans say about democrats on a near daily basis

This is authoritarianism, straight up, and deeply antithetical to US values and the law. Just outrageous. This regime belongs in prison yesterday.

SUCK IT, HATERS. The Pike Place pedestrian pilot is a success. pikeplacemarket.community.highbond.com/document/65a...

Aren’t tips for service, like table service? Why is minimal tip for buying something over the counter to go 18% and up?! This is out of hand. Sorry. And yes I worked restaurants and retail for 15+ years. Been there.

ICYMI — @repmcgovern.bsky.social : “Trump is in an imaginary world. He needs an intervention… SNAP provides ~$2 per meal, we’re told more cuts are coming. We have 46 million hungry, they don’t seem to give a shit. We ought to be able to end hunger. They spent $60 billion on the war in Iran.”

Corollary: Most housing fights in the US are actually about cars. I tend to believe most NIMBYs when they say they're worried about parking & traffic. Elected officials who care about housing should respond by doubling-down on walkability measures like neighborhood retail, safe streets, and transit.

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The deeply frustrating thing about the housing shortage is that we could solve most of it by simply letting capitalists make a lot of money building homes for people who would like to buy or rent them.

I see this much too often. Everyone is allowed to make a living and profit, except housing developers. Can't have that.

Emphatically this.

He's a liar and a killer. I don't know what else to tell people, he's a rich eugenicist, he wants as many poor people as possible to die in the name of 'health.' He's a genuinely and uniquely malign figure in American life and his appointment was an act of violence

Hey, @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social you literally GOT this story from me. I broke it days ago on Bluesky and then on my own website, PubliCola. THE POST WAS DOWN BY YESTERDAY. I RAN INTO YOUR REPORTER WHO THANKED ME FOR BREAKING THIS NEWS today. Give my independent outlet credit immediately.

Everything, everyday feels like a scam or grift now: Federal government, emails/texts/calls, phishing, AI, squatters, online purchases, health care, insurance, permitting building projects (extortion), charities…that’s just the stuff I deal with. It’s a constant firehose of people scamming us.

War Pigs is a band made up of a 7th grader, his 3rd grade brother, and their dad on bass, and it rules. Check out "No Fascists," "Stormtrooper," and "Banned Books." The kids are alright! warpigs.bandcamp.com/album/breakf...

The purpose of this administration is to impoverish and piss off the middle and lower classes in every conceivable way possible.

The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of: “people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”

every urbanist who shared this is tacitly acknowledging they get horny about bollards and people who care about bollards, perhaps it even emboldened them to have some frank talks

Back to the simple natural order of things…….. not human arrogance based on destruction of our water,air, environment for profit…… for the 1%

Tom Tomorrow is required reading.

Unfunded inclusionary zoning is bad policy that worsens the problem it’s supposed to help fix. It trades broad housing affordability for a handful of means tested homes for lottery winners that make planners and policy makers feel good about themselves. Abolish it entirely, everywhere, now.

Seattle's MHA is unfunded IZ. It block new homes until after prices rise, putting an invisible tax on tenants in older buildings. It would be illegal under the funded IZ bill just passed by Oregon. The city should fund it or ax it permanently. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Never in my life did I think I'd trust Iranian state media more than the U.S. government, but with this criminal regime I don't trust the U.S. Amazing times.

PREACH

With the Trump administration switching into anti-Catholic overdrive this week, I wrote about a time a hundred years ago when Catholic students from Notre Dame beat the shit out of the Klan. A feel good story for the ages. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example. www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...

ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.

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How do upzonings impact housing supply? In brand-new research published today @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, we show that big upzonings in New York City & Philadelphia had large, statistically significant effects on supply & permitting with several years of reforms. www.urban.org/research/pub...