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The ban of any type of business in suburban neighborhoods is a major reason why they’re so car dependent

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

Currently being built in Bothell. If you change design standards to move the bike lane on the other side of the curb and planter strip you can create a better, safer experience for all modes with the same amount of right of way. Boy it's fun to see things get built.

submitted 9 hours ago • 14 comments

Instead of adding significant study and work to an already-overburdened planning department, Bellevue could follow checks notes Lynnwood and just pass state parking reform. No delay, no study, no outreach. You legally have to do it anyway - why not do it fast when you're in a housing crisis?

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The Lynnwood City Council just voted 7-0 to adopt a new unified development code, officially tossing out 11 separate tables dictating parking mandates in favor of the new standards laid out in Senate Bill 5184. They didn't fully ditch mandates, but this is a huge change, 3 years ahead of schedule.

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?" No: 85% Yes: 5% YouGov / June 22, 2025

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Love how Zohran & Brad are running for Prez & VP of NYC!

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this used to be the home of alex jones productions and now it is a place where dogs go to learn manners, in case you're worried that progress isn't possible

submitted 3 days ago • 96 comments

Fear the Reaper. (MQ-9 over LA)

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Great hearing @lex.vaughn.theneedling.com on @kuow.org Week In Review! I like how they book one sane voice, max.

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Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

submitted 9 days ago • 92 comments

Meanwhile at the military parade after a political assassination: Impeachment is the moderate option.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

No Kings in Seattle! Beautiful! #seattle #nokings

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

i'm surprised by how low energy and farcical that whole military parade situation was. I was expecting Moscow 1945 and we got Spirit Halloween instead.

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SMITE!!!

submitted 10 days ago • 296 comments

Watch for our endorsements next month. Our elections committee team clocked a ton of hours this weekend to make them happen.

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AOC: “The girls are fighting, aren’t they?”

submitted 18 days ago • 529 comments

Just look at this lineup of villains😂

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This is a persistent problem. Is anyone tracking which companies go over their bids?

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

“The religious group…occupied the space behind the barricade and blocked exits with their private security, backed up by Seattle police officers, controlling the flow of people allowed onto the steps of City Hall.”

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Please don't put in the newspaper that 28 children laughed at me

submitted 43 days ago • 714 comments

🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 43 days ago • 1520 comments

Emoluments

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Hot take: we think it’s actually perfect that Trump will be flying around in a constant reminder of his brazen, unparalleled, indefensible corruption. Our suggestion for a name: Swamp Force One ✈️

submitted 43 days ago • 61 comments

Things the president of the United States said on meet the press today: He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution He’s fine with a recession Americans can do with less Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”

submitted 50 days ago • 1312 comments

ILLINOIS… Gov. Pritzker…

submitted 57 days ago • 654 comments

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

submitted 63 days ago • 839 comments

NEW from me: A whistleblower says DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data...and then someone posted a threatening letter to his door. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 69 days ago • 61 comments

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submitted 67 days ago • 231 comments

Island County, WA: I'm not sure I understand this. Lotsa "Whereas"-es about solutions to the #housing crisis... leading to declaring a crisis and a 1-year (or+) Development Moratorium... on some of the stuff that would help the first crisis?!? www.islandcountywa.gov/207/Planning...

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

A reminder that there is no human being in the United States whom it would be legal to disappear to a Salvadoran prison without due process of law.

submitted 68 days ago • 187 comments

All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.

submitted 68 days ago • 607 comments

"you've lost another Hegseth advisor?"

submitted 68 days ago • 80 comments

The Nuremberg Trials would’ve been a lot easier if Nazis had taken selfies at their camps

submitted 68 days ago • 136 comments

Illegal attempts to access IRS data was an article of impeachment against Nixon.

submitted 76 days ago • 100 comments

I've known this my whole life, but it is so important right now: Read books. Reading books is the greatest thing you can do for your brain. Gets rid of the noise, makes you think differently, recreationally passes time without the depressing feeling of "where did the time go." BOOKS.

submitted 76 days ago • 4 comments

Courage. We need more of this.

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A bunch of folks showed up to the Bothell City Council tonight to speak against a potential resolution affirming Bothell as a welcoming place for LGBTQIA+ people. Here was Bothell Mayor Mason Thompson's response.

submitted 76 days ago • 52 comments

Sending anyone from this country to a foreign gulag, particularly without a court hearing, should rightfully end a presidency. Full stop.

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the guys who crash the economy every time promising to not crash the economy this time

submitted 78 days ago • 75 comments

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 78 days ago • 1109 comments