As if underscoring @nondriver.bsky.social’s @theurbanist.org article about North Rainier, now that empty gas station is a zombie mart.

Every @nytimes.com headline a four alarm fire.

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal. Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

This is Dan Flavin’s classic minimalist piece: Victor Robles Beating the Astros.

Follow up on the Tom Homan story: have the FBI employees been fired yet?

I went out to lunch this week with a public agency staff person and couldn’t buy them a $10 sandwich.

MUST SEE: The ending of this Mariners vs. Astros game is WILD 👀

Are we watching our kids play baseball? Yes. Are we also watching the Mariners on someone’s phone? Also yes.

I LOVE that whenever they play Cal’s 57th homer, it’s going to be off of Houston Astros’ Framber Valdez, plunker of his own catcher.

One of the strange things, to me at least, about Seattle planning politics is that we invest public money in public assets then don’t make the policy moves to bring people to them. Trees, parks, schools, shorelines: all treasures, but locked away for a few when we could bring more people to them.

Democrats could be creating a massive power base with farmers right now if they had literally anyone with the cultural skill of talking to rural voters.

Awful, awful news. Someone walking was hit and killed by a driver in South Beacon Hill this morning, on the same day SDOT celebrates the opening of the North Beacon Hill bike route. spdblotter.seattle.gov/2025/09/19/p...

Hear hear @nondriver.bsky.social! www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/19/o...

The first public media station to go dark thanks to Trump’s cutoff of federal funding to public media is a 70 year old station in Pennsylvania. https://loom.ly/IjOHdzI

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

HB 1110 even explicitly included a provision making the removal of parking minimums in Seattle exempt from SEPA but the city is being purposefully obtuse about that right now.

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

I wonder what % of the costs are the soft cost and/or municipal requirements vs hard “core service” construction costs.

That’s insane.

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I’ve been listening to one of the recent @thewaroncars.bsky.social episodes about political courage with @bradlander.bsky.social. It’s a stark contrast with this story.

I'm so grateful for Governor Hochul's support in unifying our party, her resolve in standing up to Trump, and her focus on making New York affordable. I look forward to the great work we will accomplish together. Our movement is only growing stronger. Onward to November.

I think Brian should lose his job.

It’s a @mariners.com game, dolt. 🤣

13th inning

Sherman Alexie is still at this Mariners game.

The cruelty and hypocrisy is so frustrating.

The fact that right-wingers commit the vast bulk of domestic terrorism in the US is well-established by numerous expert investigations & reports. But the right *accuses* the left more often, makes more *noise* about it, so they've bullied reporters into framing this as a "both sides" problem.

The gate workers hate the yelling and bigotry too, and don’t get to go inside and get away from it like the fans do.

"The Etsy witch is real........THE ETSY WITCH IS REAL!!!!" Aaron Goldsmith is perfect.

“Leo Rivas, what have you done?!” #mariners

Dream the dream, George.

Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.

Similar to wearing boxer shorts, that’s not support.

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Great news.

Funniest possible person to say nothing bad happened when he was a kid as a result of everyone having guns

Bellingham Expels Citizen with Normal Name: tinyurl.com/5e9m6wna

Preach, Danielle. Preach.

Are the Epstein files one of the negotiating tools for Senate Dems in the upcoming budget conversations per @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social. Seems odd, but then again the administration’s intransigence is very odd.

“Just over a year since Ms. Hamrick decided to stop taking the pills, she has figured out who she is without birth control: She is a mother. Her baby is four months old.”

I don't know exactly how and when we'll get there, but there will come a time when the Roberts Court era and especially from ~2024 onward becomes treated as an irredeemably tainted anti-canon, when citing them as a favorable precedent joins the ranks of invoking Dred Scott, Plessey, or Korematsu.

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Real cities decouple growth from cars. Geometrically, it’s the only way.

I decided to make it per 1,000 residents. This shows how bad the shortage is in states like California, New York, Colorado, Massachusetts, Washington, and Oregon.

Gift link, btw.

“This is not just how authoritarianism happens. This is authoritarianism happening.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

It was horrible.