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Etsy witches? Rally shoes? Long-suffering Mariners fans find help anywhere they can For a dedicated fan base starved for success after so many years of falling short, this Mariners’ run has taken on a greater meaning.

A very fun story about all of the superstitions fueling the Mariners' World Series run

Feeling emotional about the Seattle Mariners

A Eugenio Suárez grand slam makes it 6-2 Mariners

Baker Mayfield is the most fun QB to watch in the NFL

All your calls of the series-winning walkoff [Fox, Fox Deportes, KIRO, Radio Sol, WXYT, WDTW]

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CAL RALEIGH 60 HOMERS. MY GOD.

CAL RALEIGH HAS THE MOST HOME RUNS IN SEATTLE MARINERS FRANCHISE HISTORY 👑🔱

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there is a way in which this is even an explicit repudiation of the constitution itself, created not to pass some european idea of "nationhood" down to posterity, but to pass *republican self-government* down to posterity.

Hot take, people who hate cities shouldn’t be in charge of cities

Tired of waiting for the city, Angelenos paint their own crosswalks. Some become permanent From Sawtelle to Koreatown, Los Angeles residents have taken street safety into their own hands and painted crosswalks they believe are necessary for residents.

Tired of waiting for the city to respond to formal crosswalk requests, some Angelenos are painting their own.

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

I wonder if this is because 2/3 of Boston rentals are on the September 1st leasing cycle? So there’s just a higher number of listing right now than on other dates, skewing the data

Visited San Francisco for the first time and somehow I didn’t know that it’s the most beautiful city in the US?

One of the biggest obstacles to building new housing in California has now vanished After a decade of battling, lawmakers just exempted infill urban development from the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA.

A decade-spanning political battle between housing developers and defenders of CEQA, California’s preeminent environmental law, came to an end this afternoon with only a smattering of “no” votes.

The forces of housing won.

calmatters.org/housing/2025...

I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

99% of all residential parcels in the City of Boston would be illegal under modern zoning.

"Without case-by-case zoning relief, the current zoning code effectively declares that nothing should be built in Boston that looks like what is currently in Boston."

I am an urbanist because I think everyone deserves the luxury of being able to Walk To The Store

I want politics to be about a better everyday life.

Here's what that can look like:

Even if you (wrongly) believe that some immigrants lack due process rights, what’s to stop the government from claiming that *you* are an undocumented immigrant; removing you to El Salvador; citing an “administrative error”; and refusing to do anything to bring you back?

The answer is due process.

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

Op-Ed: Optimize Sound Transit, Split System into Urban and Regional Lines - The Urbanist # As Sound Transit builds the largest light rail expansion in the country, splitting the system into urban and suburban lines could unlock its full potential and queue up logical extensions.

This is a fantastic idea. Seattle is such a great city that deserves a great transit network, and the current light rail configuration leaves the same line dozens of miles long, alternating between subway, street car, and commuter rail.

How Upzoning in Cambridge Broke the YIMBY Mold By freeing apartment developers to build up to four stories across the city, the hometown of Harvard and MIT has set a new benchmark for the housing movement.

In 2023, five total units were built in Cambridge… but the new upzone will change that! Seismic win for housing affordability.

We desperately need more bold action like this in Massachusetts

the reason YIMBYs are so incessant about YIMBYism is that there is literally One Simple Trick to fix the housing crisis that actually *raises* government revenue and is environmentally friendly.

we just need to legalize housing

After Skyrocketing, Rents in Austin Have Dropped 19 Straight Months The reason is simple: A boom in apartment construction. Developers are pulling permits at a rate nearly triple that of San Antonio on a per capita basis.

Turns out that centuries of economic thought are correct: increasing the supply of a good will, all things being equal, lower the price of the good.

Weird that people talk themselves out of this obvious insight when it comes to housing.

I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge.

We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style

Here’s the details 🧵

The way an executive branch that respects the rule of law objects to a district court ruling it doesn’t like is to *appeal* it, not to imply that the ruling just shouldn’t be followed.

Musk isn’t out to eliminate USAID and the Dept of Education. He’s out to eliminate the legislative and judicial branches of government. If this stands, they have no power.

Short answer: Yes

"Using a car for over 50% of out-of-home activities lowers life satisfaction."

doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...

Very fun to make the trip from Boston to see @sgoodyear.bsky.social, @brooklynspoke.bsky.social, and @nerd4cities.bsky.social speak in NYC!