David Welton

North Carolina Senate primary voting results

Meanwhile, Democrats outvoted Republicans in North Carolina by about 200,000 votes tonight despite Roy Cooper having no real competition.

Guess which party has the momentum?

It's by @holz-bau.bsky.social who also provides a lot of insight in his posts here

Building for People

This book talks about the benefits - not just cost savings - of single stair buildings, like allowing homes to have windows that cross ventilate, and not having long hallways that resemble 'the Shining'

islandpress.org/books/buildi...

Gasoline in Oregon up to $3.95 and climbing — this is the moment for our region to fund our bike lanes, our public transit, anything that reduces the need to drive. I don’t know what’s happening in Salem, but it sounds like we’re not there yet.

I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.

Repercussions here?

In bocca al lupo

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

Proud of Oregon for this one

Politico: Trump is running out of time to sell his rationale for Iran war Senior officials keep offering justifications for the conflict with Tehran that the president upends.

Love how the msm invents new rules for Trump. He gets to come up for a reason for the war AFTER he starts it. What a lucky little fellow.

Where is the coverage of this?

He's in here too

This is fucking insane.

Texas needs to be placed in federal receivership like during Reconstruction.

Their replacements are worse I imagine?

I try not to post doomer stuff but this is an interesting thought

Even Trump is rooting for It to Happen.

Yet another example of how local policymakers burden home building with extra costs that should instead be funded through a broad tax because they provide broad public benefits.

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

How badly researched is the CA State Fire Marshal's report on single stair buildings?

It says that a 107' ladder that can reach 103' in height can at best reach the roof of a 7-story building, apparently thinking apartment buildings typically have 15' ceilings 🤦

Maybe you should run!

The report models evacuation times for small floor plate buildings with 1 stair vs 2, finding that evacuating with 2 stairs is faster.

Notably, it does NOT model evacuation times for the much larger floor plate buildings with 2 stairs that are allowed under current law for comparison, which is odd!

Not that I'm aware of. Low-wattage voters would probably be pissed off that they'd have to collect full time salaries instead of being kind of independently wealthy like now

Yep. To be fair he was probably going to go there anyway. He already "took out their nuclear capacity"

2026 keeps on 2026ing 😩

Most people can't afford to be legislators

The greater metropolitan area of Helsinki is about 1.5 million.

Suezmaxxing!

Yeah I'm not exactly holding my breath here

They're about to cash in on their extended auto warranty

Gettin on toward spring in these parts

One sign I'm looking for is if an R who is not retiring, likely to be primaried or otherwise on their way out ever starts behaving like they have a spine. Might be an indication that things are changing.

So far, it's always the ones on their way out though