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TAXES FOR BILLIONAIRES

FLORIDA FOR COWARDS LEAVING NYC

The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html

Inside the Sandwich Guy’s Jury Can a flung sandwich cause bodily harm?

“I did it. I threw a sandwich,” Dunn confessed to law enforcement upon being apprehended—a sort of modern Williams Carlos Williams (“I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox …”) for the more carnivorous, angrier set. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Good evening #Seattle! Your rhetoric lesson for today is a journalism compare-and-contrast exercise. Consider the following two articles published by Daniel Beekman in the Seattle Times: (1/6)

What an election for Puget Sound.

-Full sweep for progressives in Seattle, Burien, Redmond
-New progressive mayors in Tacoma, Lynnwood
-GOP CM Conrad Lee replaced in Bellevue
-3/4 progressives winning in Kirkland
-Full sweep of special legislative races
-Gains or holds in many other cities

How to write a headline:

It's almost as if letting the ultra-rich own the entire mainstream press and also all the big social platforms had a downside.

The most frightening thing happening today is that 42 million people, including 16 million children, will be losing access to food assistance from the US government.

Today's DOOM LOOP: "Fancy Hummus"
See the whole thing here: southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/...

From A Scanner Darkly: "Let's hear it for the vague blur!" the host said loudly, and there was mass clapping. In his scramble suit, Fred, who was also Robert Arctor, groaned and thought: This is terrible. Once a month an undercover narcotics agent of the county was assigned at random to speak before bubblehead gatherings such as this. Today was his turn. Looking at his audience, he realized how much he detested straights. They thought this was all great. They were smiling. They were being entertained.

An Icegov tweet offering up a photo of new ICE training graduates--"American heroes" with their faces blurred out.

Philip K. Dick gets it right again.

Let's hear it for the vague blurs!

Kirkland Council Elections Could Tip City in Reactionary Direction » The Urbanist # In four different races, Kirkland voters face a choice between pro-growth candidates interested in fostering additional types of housing throughout the city, and candidates looking for the city to b...

Next week's council elections in Kirkland really do deserve more regional attention. An anti-growth advocacy group is promoting a full slate of candidates who are pledging to "protect neighborhoods."

The outcome could tip the city in a very reactionary direction.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/28/k...

#Lynnwood Election in 2 minutes:

Fun random statistic - our 2013 paper finding 97% scientific consensus on human-caused global warming just went past 1.5 million downloads (which is not a bad number for an academic paper) iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

If funded design would not *start* until 2028. Jesus, this is what it is to be an urbanist.

CM Ramsdell now reading a prepared statement on why he supports the one-way option. Includes a lot of numbers and crashes statistics. Wants the whole city to have these everywhere.

#TrafficViolence is so bad people can just use an example from… today.

A notification that “Your dash cam hasn’t connected in a while”

#WeekWithoutDriving is going well!

Big road, TINY sidewalk, and cutting through the park home for a serendipitous surprise! #WeekWithoutDriving

Fall leaves, stroads, hidden parks, connecting paths, express buses, creeks, and more housing on my #WeekWithoutDriving wander!

This gives you a good idea what it's like to walk a street that has a hidden crosswalk to a slip lane of an interstate highway entrance... at least then there's a ped overpass! #WeekWithoutDriving

I've been working a bunch - so our car checkup was during #WeekWithoutDriving 🤦

But I made the best of it, and explored a bunch while walking home (2.6 miles & 1 hour) - I wandered a bit and rolled the camera!🎥

Seattle permitted a car commercial shoot in the middle of Bicycle Weekends and an accessible cycling event Photo from a reader. It's the Tom Flood meme come to life. "Bicycles deliver the freedom that auto ads promise." Sunday, a permitted commercial shoot for Rivian shut down a section of Lake Washington Boulevard during the penultimate Bicycle Weekends open streets event. It wasn't just any Bicycle Weekend day, though, it was also Bike & Scoot Sundays (PDF), an accessible cycling event in which SDOT, Lime and Bird partner with Outdoors for All to lend out adaptive cycles for free that people with a wide range of disabilities can ride along what was supposed to be a car-free Lake Washington Boulevard.

Seattle permitted a car commercial shoot in the middle of Bicycle Weekends and an accessible cycling event

#SEAbikes #Seattle

Today is the anniversary of Sher Kung’s death. And a reminder that we can do great things. Let’s do them sooner!

The Practice and Assessment of Science: Five Foundational Flaws in the Department of Energy's 2025 Climate Report Adopted by the Executive Committee of the AMS Council on 27 August 2025

New AMS statement outlines five foundational flaws that make the Department of Energy's Climate Synthesis Report "inconsistent with scientific principles and practices."

Read the full statement: https://bit.ly/3UQRC82

Can AI skip ads yet?

Agent Dobson from Firefly, with a cut over his eye.

Villain.

Apologies for the glitchy dashcam, though my droll npr soundtrack IS interrupted by furious honking!

This is a good reminder to pass only when safe…

And indeed, seconds later, an IMPATIENT and DANGEROUS driver crossed the double yellow lines head-on into my lane!🤬

Passing someone biking isn’t worth endangering everyone on the road. WAIT UNTIL SAFE!

I saw this amazing group biking on Olympic View Drive yesterday, right at 76th Ave W by Perrinville!

People were driving carefully, even giving the stragglers space.

Huh. This kinda explains a lot.

For the record, our division commander BANNED things called “presence patrols” in Iraq.

“If you don’t have a specific task & purpose, your ‘presence’ doesn’t do anything.”

National Guard stating they are now doing presence patrols in DC.

A complete waste of soldier’s time & effort.