Year in Review time. My favorite poetry book of 2025 was Alex Dimitrov's Ecstasy. You can read my review here, scroll down to item 2. www.joshfeitpoetry.com/.../america-....

JD Vance's response to a debate in his party over the concern that too many Nazis have gotten a foothold in the GOP is to break out an antisemitic trope.

The 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week. .... "His exhortations for unconditional allegiance as the heart of Trumpism are irritating his base as he obliviously wrecks the economy and erodes the constitution."

Good news. And read til the end where @ericacbarnett.bsky.social points out the silver lining of Harrell's obstruction and delay on the comp plan!

there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke

Isn't Trump's position that America is plagued by left-wing violence and that there's no issue with political violence from the right? Yet his assertion is: Reiner was murdered because of Reiner's anti-Trump ideology?

@girinathan.bsky.social: Did Alcaraz hit a winner after wrong-footing Djokovic in the '24 Wimbledon final w/ his "pluperfect" backhand? Otherwise you've wrong-footed me as I try to figure out what you mean. Pluferfect: Denoting an action completed prior to another in the past.

THIS should have been 1 of our 14 Points!

@ericacbarnett.bsky.social … Oh my. THIS should have been 1 of our 14 Points!

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social they’re trolling you now….

The leading right hand melody capitalizes on the sudden pop construction of the left hand accompaniment: A modified blues scale that stops short of reaching the traditional flatted (bluesy) VII note. That right hand? It goes all in on ascension... www.joshfeitpoetry.com/blog/im-all-...

I'm All Lost In... the 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week. What I didn’t say on PubliCola, but maybe I should have because it’s more to the point: This is a sprawl tax.

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Another name for the Urban Pass ... a Sprawl Tax.

In which we suggest a new version of Wilson's 14 Points, including: 1. Reopen the Comp Plan 3. Have an Office of The Night Mayor 4. Let CARE do Their Jobs 6. Make City Government Transparent Again 13. Defund (parts of) the Police 14. Hang Out with State Sen. Jessica Bateman. ... All 14 here:

That's called socialism. Or perhaps, National Socialism.

I got really excited about Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points when I learned about them in high school history class. I'm sad to find that no one seems to have ever heard of them.

"Tangled Yarn." OMG. Dionne Foster is going to run circles around these people.

Just Sayin’ youtube.com/shorts/3j_3n... #SeattleCityCouncil #puppets #MoodBoard

One thing about the Harrell v Wilson election. It sounds like a run off for British parliament circa 1966.

The 3 things I'm obsessing over THIS week.

Don't take it from a fan boy like me. Dedicated tennis journalist Ben Rothenberg on the WTA year-end ballot: "I won’t pretend that this was a tough call: the WTA Player of the Year for 2025 has to be Aryna Sabalenka." @wtatour.bsky.social

If you need a holiday gift for the urban planning/transit nerd in your life, please consider my poetry books: Shops Close Too Early and/or The Night of Electric Bikes. Available here: www.joshfeitpoetry.com/books

If you need a holiday gift for the urban planning/transit nerd in your life, please consider my poetry books: Shops Close Too Early and/or The Night of Electric Bikes. Available here: www.joshfeitpoetry.com/books #YIMBY #transit

The irony is that I don't know a single one of my Wrapped Top 5 Songs because they all come from my "Inner Journey" sleep mix, which I put on every night before bed.

I'm a super Sabalenka fanboy. And I think this Sabalenka vs Kyrgios stunt is forced and cringe worthy.

Finally watched the clip of Trump's Hitler bit on Somalis. So, I'm sorry if this point has already been made. But the unwitting irony of HIM complaining about Somalis "always complaining" ? His projection is a pathology.

Sigh. By this logic, they should ban Aryna, Iga, Coco, Anisimova, Rybakina, and Qinwen who all play in another dimension from the rest of the WTA tour. : (

Well you can’t blame Hegseth of lacking transparency.

@nytimes.com Please say where this photo is, particularly when your headline and subhead identify two different regions.

In her prescient 1961 poem "Artificial Intelligence," not only does Adrienne Rich identify luscious existential nausea as a human tell, but earlier, in the first stanza of the poem, she rebelliously revels in another human joy: free association.

I'm All Lost In... the 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.

But Ballard.

French tennis star Suzanne Lenglen in action! Leglen won Wimbledon 6 times between 1919 and 1925!

And there you have it in a nutshell. We go from Duff McKagan & Wally Walker to Anna Zivarts and Jaelynn Scott. Go Katie Wilson!!

Tantalizing.

The Comey/James ruling. Sick Burn defined.

Poet Adrienne Rich from her 1961 poem "Artificial Intelligence."... "while I/concede the victory, bow,/and slouch among my free associations." It gets even better/scarier/sadder... read the whole thing, only don't feed it to the data centers. www.autodidactproject.org/other/Artifi...

The old nativist-left alliance between socialists and NIMBYs has been broken. This is promising.

@tromano.bsky.social wrote an oral history of the Village Voice. @ericacbarnett.bsky.social & I will be interviewing her tonight at Elliott Bay. 7pm. Free. Here's the Village Voice from the week I was born. Stokely Carmichael's original "Black Power" exhortation and also the Beatles on the cover.

I'm All Lost In ... the 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.

It's great that my post quoting Mayor-elect Katie Wilson's war-on-cars remark is racking up LIKES as if it's that movie shot where someone wins the slots jackpot. But juxtaposed w/ the crickets on a post I did yesterday about antisemitism. Well. Predictable. But. Makes it more obvious than usual

As a Jew who's alarmed about antisemitism these days, I'm comforted by Dem leaders like AOC who still see the bad guys of my inherited trauma as the defining, universal example of humanity's bad guys. Eloquent AF per usual from AOC.

FYI. I released an electronic music project last month.

Hell yes. Mayor-elect Wilson: We need to make it possible for more people to live in this city without owning a car. Not just for people who don’t own cars. As more people move to Seattle, we have limited space. It’s just not possible to keep adding cars to the road. publicola.com/2025/11/20/s...

Just went through spam and saw a pile of emails from Dawn Mason, a longtime Bruce Harrell ally he brought onstage at his election party, calling me "white trash" and a "petty thief," and claiming I went to her house one time univited (a bizarre falsehood she keeps repeating.) Such strange behavior.

Talk about the promise of "Affordability" as a winning rejoinder to the Republicans nazi populism. There's certainly a metaphor in the 118% ridership increase.

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Minnesota for soliciting sex from a minor