Monday night, Shoreline joined the small but growing ranks of Washington cities that have decoupled parking from housing, eliminating mandates for builders to include a specific number of parking stalls in all new buildings.

Which city will be next?
www.theurbanist.org/2025/08/13/s...

Every bicycle trip is one fewer car on the road at that moment!

My household drives as little as possible. If we are going somewhere inaccessible by transit and too far to bike, then we drive... but it's a last resort because driving is miserable!

The American Experience: The Feds

In any other timeline, this would be satire.

Some GOOD news!

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

I’ve been investigating Paramount’s deal with Trump. Here’s what we know:

- Trump sued CBS
- CBS called the lawsuit “meritless”
- Paramount (owner of CBS) still settled, handing $16 MILLION+ to Trump’s library
- Paramount has a billion-dollar deal that needs Trump’s approval

MYTH: Senator @MarshaBlackburn @RepTimBurchett and the Republicans want you to think Trump’s Trillions Transfer only cut “waste, fraud, and abuse”

TENNESSEE’S NEW REALITY:

completely unsurprising to new, but so glad @juddlegum.bsky.social has collated the data - yep, prime day is a scam.

Prime Day is a scam Amazon Prime Day is a four-day sale promoted by the mega-retailer as a rare opportunity to secure "deep discounts" on a variety of consumer items.

1. Happy Prime Day!

(It's a scam)

(Follow this thread for details)

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"Amazon deploys deceptive tactics to exaggerate its markdowns and create a false sense of urgency. Featured items are often available at similar or lower prices at other times... major media outlets produce a massive number of 'articles' promoting Amazon Prime Day, as if it is a genuine news event."

yeah, what in the fuck - ?

1. Mitigation, 2. Preparedness, 3. Response and 4. Recovery.

Those are the four stages of Emergency Management. Mitigation and Preparedness are as important (if not more so) than Response and Recovery. If you mitigated and prepared correctly, the Response and Recovery will be easier.

The country "is losing" forecasting capability? No, the Trump administration *cut* research and NOAA capabilities... he CUT our advanced forecasting capabilities.

"digital asbestos" is fantastic framing.

Fewer than 10,000 people showed up.

$134 million dollars.

Where's the Department of Government Efficiency?

What if he threw a $45 million parade and nobody came?

Boring. Low energy. Sad!

Time lapse of the No Kings protest today in Seattle

Heartbreaking that policy makers treat this as an acceptable risk.

It is disturbing and frightening for the highest office in the United States, the president sworn to uphold the constitution, to be threatening *the states.*

It's almost preposterous at this point, but at some point very recently weren't the GOP the party of states' rights? Did they forget?

Why These Trans Teens and Their Families Risked Everything to Get Gender-Affirming Care It’s as simple as love.

When I heard the mom of a trans girl say the night her daughter came out to her was the first time she'd ever seen her child happy, I knew it was a story I needed to share.

These are the stories the public isn't hearing. An honor to get to report on 3 family's journeys for @teenvogue.com.

A single predator drone costs taxpayers $25-70m. Imagine what you could do for your community with that money.

This is all very stupid. Just remove Trump and let’s get on with it.

Ah, famously the last expected hurricane season.

Senator Murray on Trump Defunding Blue State Army Corps Construction: “This is Some Corrupt B-S” - Senator Patty Murray Washington, D.C. — Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, issued the following st...

🚨Trump is ripping away taxpayer dollars from blue states like mine for critical Army Corps projects that support foundational water infrastructure.

He is defunding the Howard Hanson Dam to the tune of nearly HALF A BILLION DOLLARS.

This is some corrupt BS. I'm fighting back.

I am told that, by pushing my way in despite Vatican objections to see a very ill Pope Francis, I have his death on my conscience. That is not true. I have no conscience.

by J. D. Vance

As another disabled person, I love reading your content, and I AGREE.

--Oh, you didn't vote for Kamala because her politics are bad? Did you notice that the alternative is a literal Nazi fascist who wants to be a dictator and whose administration will concretely result in many, many more deaths?

"Get over it" What the hell does that mean? Get over the fascist decline of our country?... no, I will not be doing that.

Believe me I have endless complaints with the Democratic Party but that's just not relevant when the alternative is literal nazi fascism.