Evan Manvel

hot take: this is also gender-affirming care

Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.

Did a new one

Senator Jeff Merkley says NSPM-7 appears "a strategy to take folks you disagree with and label them a terrorist threat"

"cutting minimum-parking [mandates] would likely boost housing construction in Denver by about 12.5%"

The President is not a king.
The law is not a suggestion.
The Constitution is not optional.

🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymDt...

Jack Ohman, Tribune Content Agency

Reminder: in this toxic attempt to prove masculinity and distract from No More Kings, metal shrapnel fell on the freeway and hit a police car. "Marine Corps had said there was nothing unsafe about the exercise and that it was unnecessary to disrupt traffic on I-5."

I needed some good news today

Yeah he’s like crossing Joe Biden’s legislative abilities with the wonkery of Shane Phillips or Michael Andersen.

Sorry - this was in response to your podcast re trick or treating and parents mis-assessing risk. One of you said razors in the candy may happen, but… :)

#LFG

Merkley holds Senate floor to denounce authoritarianism Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley is holding the floor of the Senate to denounce authoritarianism.

WATCH LIVE: Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley is holding the floor of the Senate to denounce authoritarianism.

Poisoned candy myths - Wikipedia

@davidzipper.bsky.social no razor blades in candy is not real

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This is just to say

I have bulldozed

the East Wing

that you were probably

hoping to pass down

to future generations

Well, fuck you

it was in the way

so inconvenient

and so old

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The Swiss post office has been taking passengers for many years along its rural routes for mail drop offs.

Canada Post could serve that function to serve rural Canadian communities...with a bit of imagination.

A decade into this, and my jaw still dropped.

PBOT gives bike bus leaders traffic signal superpowers You could think of this as bike bus signal priority.

At several locations across the city where bike bus routes cross busy intersections, the Portland Bureau of Transportation has programmed traffic signals with a custom, bike bus-friendly timing plan that is activated by a longer push of the beg button.

(!!!)

bikeportland.org/2025/10/21/p...

Milwaukee Gets Its Wish, City Can Tow All Reckless Drivers Loopholes made prior policies "somewhat useless."

In Milwaukee, police will now be able to impound any vehicle driven recklessly.

City Alderman: “It’s a two-ton weapon. We should look at this the same way we look at firearms. Let’s get as many of them off the street as possible.”

To be clear, 14 million people are projected to die due to cuts in foreign aid.

1/ The president has a revenge committee*,and its name is, amazingly, “The Interagency Weaponization Working Group.”

*small group?

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

donald trump holds only two principled position: that neither corruption nor rape should be crimes

Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing?

Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.

YouTube video by About Here Why North America Can't Build Nice Apartments (because of one rule)

The answer is that there's no reason Oregon, too, couldn't find rules to allow safe construction up to 6 stories for the world's most common urban multifamily home type. That'd probably require another law.

Oregon's next building code update: Oct. 1, 2028. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRdw...

Waste, fraud, and abuse.

He murdered a Colombian citizen in violation of domestic and international law. He’s now promising to illegally impose tariffs on Colombia because its president had the temerity to publicly criticize him for murdering one of that country’s citizens.

Yes, we are the baddies.

You may be living in an absolutely racist country when 13-year-old Black boys are tried and sentenced as adults, but white dudes who *are* adults are called "kids" by JD Vance to shield them from culpability.