David Welton

thinking of coming up with a right-wing grift for some additional income. tactical toilet paper or pencils that aren’t woke, something lazy like that

It’s a problem that the president is a world-class imbecile with zero capacity to think strategically, understand the basic context of his decisions, and who makes those decisions in chaotic spasms.

It’s a much bigger problem that our political system finds it impossible to say this out loud.

Fuentes? Yeah no: you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to him"

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

I am 100% in the "women should make their own decisions" camp - but if people want kids and don't feel like they can have them because of housing stress, that's bad

Just in time for tomorrow's Oregon Joint Subcomm on Capital Construction, let's oppose the transfer of bicycle tax revenue et al. from the Multimodal Active Transportation Fund to highway maintenance! @ortrailscoalition.bsky.social makes your testimony easy: mailchi.mp/oregontrails... 1/4

Did they fire the actual journalists? 🤔

It's pretty lame that a zoning-lite city still has parking mandates

That looks like my wife on the right when someone mentions housing

The key to getting mainstream media on board with an illegal war is making them feel like an important part of it.

you can have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or a dinner that features Donald Trump but you cannot have both

Madness - one step beyond

And not the good kind of Madness

Yeah, people block a lot here. Recently someone prominent got hissy with me about their support for Elon Musk by providing him with a lot of content.

To be fair, there are some people who make complaining about 'The Dems' as if it were a monolithic block their whole thing, and it can get tiresome

What's that from? I probably don't want to know/would be better off not looking 😩

this unbelievable piece of fucking shit

That formatting is one step above letters cut from newspapers and magazines for a ransom note

What can you even say? These people deserve their inevitable humiliation and the nation deserves journalists with more self-respect.

Oregon Senate moves to penalize landlords divulging citizenship status, private information • Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon law already ensures that landlords may not discriminate against tenants due to their immigration status.

Oregon tenants whose landlords leak confidential information such as their immigration status or medical records could soon have a pathway to collect up to twice their monthly rent as a form of recourse.

DST gives me hundreds of extra hours of post-work bike riding time, which is a material benefit to my health. Pre-work bike rides are cold (even summer mornings are chilly here) and stressful in that you have a hard deadline, and certainly no time for post-ride beers with friends

Tintin and Captain Haddock riding camels

Fire codes are too important (to affordability, traffic safety, etc.) to be left up to firefighters alone.

The only serious research on the safety of midrise single-stair buildings has been done by outsiders.

The inference they seem to have drawn from “coercive nation building rarely works out well” is “therefore just create a massive power vacuum and cross your fingers.”

Why is the city of Los Angeles stopping affordable housing during a housing crisis?

I filled it out without problems thanks to the help of a family member. It's pretty straightforward. For me it's not urgent so I'm willing to update it if I got something wrong and wait a bit more. Probably worth seeing if you can figure it out before paying

My opinion: Jamelle Bouie is the best national political columnist in America. This doesn’t mean he is always right or you always need to agree with him. But he consistently elevates the form. Conservatives and liberals who make deranged personal attacks on him just make themselves look bad.

Here. Dammit!

If you look at how many more days a year you get with 2+ hours of daylight after 5PM DST gives you... that's a lot of bike rides!

@dkthomp.bsky.social - get off the site owned by the white supremacist! Have faith that what you say is important enough to people that they'll follow you hear

So this study is based on the Lived-Experience-of-Firefighters and not quantitative research or comparisons to peer nations? This does not seem to be an evidence-based approach to public policy. Very disappointing.