With friends like these, who needs Republicans?

Today I learned (in a conversation with @staterepjuliareed.bsky.social about her new bill, HB 2095) that in Washington a driver is currently presumed liable for a collision if they strike a bridge, but not if they strike and harm someone walking on a sidewalk.

That feeling when your entire rapid transit system converges on one easily disrupted segment — like, say, a 123-year old bridge that lifts for tall boats. Portland needs an rail tunnel under downtown. It’s the only megaproject in our region that excites me at this point.

How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀 LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽‍♂️

Imagine your precious child, a high schooler, goes out to walk the dog & never comes back. The reason: he gets abducted by #ICE who just release the dog. Neighbors rescue the dog & return it with the news of #ICELawless. Your son's detained for months in brutal conditions. youtu.be/NumOmTjZHoY?...

ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray. The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter. These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby. We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

Go, Brad! thewaroncars.org/2025/09/09/e...

It's not the corruption per se, it's the low low price of the bribe.

Trainwreck? In October 2024, The Economist called Biden's economy "the envy of the world."

I wish one of these big nationwide groups like @50501movement.bsky.social would make an organized effort to get progressive elected officials and candidates off of that site

things have become so dire at odot re: funding that we now legit have a shot at defunding this terrible stupid freeway expansion we've been fighting for over eight years. now's your chance - send an email to the oregon transportation commission. No More Freeways made it easy - deadline is tuesday

this fills me with so much shame and embarrassment North Korea speedrun

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

No "two different realities" bullshit. One side is calling for release of the video, and the other is not.

helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point

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This is how easy it is to create safer, more vibrant, human-scale neighborhoods!

FELLOW CRITICS! What's the best movie you saw this year that nobody else seems to be talking about? My pick? LISTERS: A GLIMPSE INTO EXTREME BIRDWATCHING, a great, gonzo documentary about two dudes who decide become vagabond birdwatchers for a whole year and immerse themselves in the subculture.

Imagine paying a large monthly fee to shop at a supermarket, then paying again for the actual groceries, then getting an extra charge months later because one ingredient in an item you bought came from a farmer associated with a different store. This post is about healthcare.

National Guard aren’t ICE or Border Patrol. They didn’t sign up looking to harass and repress people. They’re volunteers, part time, in case of emergency. They didn’t ask for this. West Virginia National Guard shouldn’t have been deployed in Washington DC. Victims of the shooter and the president.

so our government made a big deal about banning speed cameras but one city left theirs running to see what difference the ban would make and you are not going to believe this

I wish I knew what to do to put a stop to this. I think this is the first person who I know who has been removed from the country by Trump, but I doubt he will be the last. Our neighborhood is worse for this.

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

It’s never a bad time for this meme, but International Men’s Day might be the best time

Trump take beer

So it’s worse than we thought

It's a censorship engine designed to promote ideas that Elon Musk likes and suppress ideas that Elon Musk does not like. I really don't get why this evident fact - that Musk openly admits! - is so hard for so many people to understand

TEN MONTHS IN: The national debt is higher. The trade deficit is wider. The inflation rate has worsened. The unemployment rate is up.

I haven't had enough time to process this yet but, I've studied the anti-vax movement for 7 years of my career and I can't believe I'm now at the point where I can't recommend the CDC as a trustworthy source of health information. This is dangerous, insane, and embarrassing.

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

It's a good thing President Obama killed Osama Bin Laden because otherwise Trump would be inviting him to the White House for some goddamn hors d'oeuvres

I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk? But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession. But that's just me

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

I have written a lot about the perils of poorly maintained (and leaf-filled) bike lanes. That didn’t stop me from wiping out in one just now, falling on my face and scraping up my knee pretty badly. This is a truly hazardous situation, @pbotinfo.bsky.social. When are you going to do something?

He has now erased fully 10% of the term to which Grijalva was elected.

Reno Nevada put their surface running rail line into a trench for $282 million. For the cost of like 1/8th of a mile of I5 widening we could grade separate the line.

In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.

“Forget about the polls. Go into the last eight days of this election assuming you are five points behind.” You heard the man: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

Not to diminish our democratic collapse, but it's almost too fitting that the American version of the Berkut or Basij is a tiny masked man who has just pissed his pants shooting a praying clergyman in the face with a smoke grenade.

A group of local investors have stepped in to save the retailer.

The only lawlessness I saw at no kings... #legalizeit

Watergate every day

The wildest thing about every Trump pardon and commutation? “Mr. Santos will also no longer be required to pay more than $370,000 in court-ordered restitution to his victims…”

You know, Cal Raleigh’s resume from 2015 was also pretty light. Are we sure he’s ready to catch in the ALCS?!?

California distracted driving bounty program when?

apparently “bari weiss doesn’t actually know what journalism is” extends to getting basic facts like the name of a subject right