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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.”

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

Wow! He's toast.

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

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Here’s the homepage and the top left has an email list to sign up for notifications on updates

Totally agree- I think sharing with wider audience these hard limitations by FHWA they can put energy into advocating for a change. MUTCD is now required to be updated every 2 years (based on advocates highlighting it had been too long between 2009 update and 2024)

Screenshot of FHWA MUTCD chapter 4 on signals highlighting “post mounted signal faces shall be on far side of the intersection…”

Unfortunately us standards require farside placement for primary signal heads. Agencies *could add supplemental signals near side but they would be extra

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a group of women are standing around a table and one of them is saying push push . ALT: a group of women are standing around a table and one of them is saying push push .

Ok, so we can’t use Tylenol in pregnancy anymore…based on pseudoscience.

What’s next - no epidurals?

Because suffering in childbirth is “God’s plan” and “Eve’s punishment"

Stay tuned for the “Thou Shalt Feel The Pain of Childbirth Act" of 2025

The school shooting industry is worth billions — and it keeps growing The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion-dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.

“In the wake of those shootings, an industry has emerged to try to protect schools — and business is booming. According to research, the school security industry is now worth as much as $4 billion, and it's projected to keep growing.”

The school shooting industry.

“American exceptionalism?”

My neighbor in Orlando mentioned this EXACT concern to me last night!

🫣 yikes!

nyt cost comparison of EV and ICE vehicle

according to the @nytimes.com piece on cost of ownership of an EV v. ICE

the lowest cost EV takes nearly a decade to be cost neutral in WA - and then only driving 9k miles per year

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No. 1 response from kids on how to get them off their phone? Freedom to play in their neighborhood.

What's holding them back?

Dangerous streets prevent parents from releasing their kids.

Solution: safe streets for children.

Article 🔗 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“Putin would eat you for lunch.”

Today, exactly that happened.

Walkable cities linked to health benefits for some residents, study finds A new study in Nature found when people moved from less walkable U.S. cities to more walkable ones, they increased their levels of physical activity and saw health benefits.

NEW: Walkable cities linked to health benefits, study finds.

“A new study found when people moved from less walkable U.S. cities to more walkable ones, they increased their levels of physical activity and saw health benefits.”

Add this to many similar global studies.
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4 people waiting for bus 40 at a bus stop in anchorage Ak

“No one rides the bus”
#anchorage #AncGov

It’s been 4-years since the Mass Ave Bridge added separated bike lanes. Despite initial opposition, it’s been a massive success for bikers, drivers & pedestrians.

Fall 2023 data saw an avg of 6,160 bikes crossing the bridge, a 51% increase. Vehicle travel times remain unchanged.

quote from Dunleavy "Some Lawmakers don't seem to care." photo clip from ADN article about the special session. a word bubble "2nd bout of cancer treatment #Blessed Healthcare for me not for thee"

screenshot from Sen. Dubar's letter of Dunleavy's past session vetoes: In addition to the education funding, Dunleavy’s vetoes included the following: • $1 million for Rural Public Radio funding • $140k to the Alaska Legal Services which provides legal services to low-income Alaskans, and is the state’s largest provider of civil legal services to survivors of domestic violence • $750k for Re-entry housing, despite the proven impacts on recidivism • $5 million for the Alaska Native Science and Education Program • $3.5 million for Head Start, a program with many kids in my district • $500k for Crisis Now Continuum of Care Grants, a program desperately needed to reduce mental health and homelessness impacts in Anchorage • $550k to produce a State of Alaska Police Policy Manual • $1.2 million for workforce development • $35 million in University of Alaska capital projects The full list of vetoes are available here. These vetoes are incredibly disappointing. They fail to invest in Alaska’s future and address ongoing issues many of us heard about throughout session. We cannot reverse Alaska’s population decline, particularly in our working-age residents and those with young children, if we are cutting funding for education, child care, and critical programs for improving our economy and quality of life. Personally, I am in support of overriding many of the vetoes and hope enough of my colleagues feel the same.

Pretty rich of Dunleavy to accuse others of "not caring" for children. 🤕 🏥 How many Alaskans are suffering from his funding cuts these past 7 years?! for services across the state?!

Feds for Medicaid-->Denali Care.
#heartless #AKLEG #Alaska #Override

At a Smurfs showing with the kid and we can’t escape the auto propaganda.
#DangerousByDesign #GMC

Glorifying drag racing in a multi-ton tank will continue to kill Americans.

Krome Miami is run by NANA / Akima the Alaska Native Corporation. Each report is worse than the last.

Why aren’t we seeing shareholders protesting these abuses?

They're less than 2 miles apart.

I'm starting to think when people tell me to put my kids in a charter they're saying something else.

Because charters and optionals can refuse children with IEPs.
I am so over charters and optionals

This looks to be near some #TSDO no?

#Anchorage could have cool urban connections too! We don’t need to settle for stressful, Soviet-era sidewalks

We’ve been asking for safer, more connected non-motorized infrastructure.

Poster at town square park showing timeline of renovations!

A practically full bike valet at Live After Five event

Child posing with Chugach merch from their booth.

A line of customers patiently wait their turn to get back their bikes

#Anchorage!!!
Live After Five and outside in the sun!!☀️

a woman says i will not comply while wearing a black shirt Alt: a woman says i will not comply while wearing a black shirt-GIF

PROWAG requires the push button within 10’ of the curb ramp landing. Engineers take this quite literally and there’s never the thought that perhaps the signals should just automatically recall ped phases so beg buttons wouldn’t be necessary?

Downtown Nelly concert in town square

Anchorage!!!

Anchorage 😎