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Feels like news organizations aren't really thinking super hard about the ins and outs of using government-provided propaganda photos celebrating abuse for illustration www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

The embodiment of Democratic Party resistance. “They’re throwing out the Constitution. I’m not sure how I’ll vote on it.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 7 days ago • 345 comments

This is the fucking cowardice that will get us all killed: “A spokesperson for Columbia said law enforcement agents must produce a warrant before entering university property. The spokesperson declined to say if the school had received a warrant for Khalil’s arrest.”

submitted 10 days ago • 35 comments

Ok, then hold impromptu town halls at their homes.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Penn State faculty are forming a union. It's long overdue. Please share widely, friends. www.pennstatefacultyalliance.org

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

Instead of doing something simple and effective, why not do a very a complicated form of a nothing that hands a loaded gun to your opposition? That's the Democrat Promise

submitted 27 days ago • 19 comments

Here's a rule I wish editorial pages would adopt: Any editorial explaining why we can't build more housing somewhere must also provide a detailed explanation of where we should build that housing instead. We have to stop letting people get away with only saying "not here." It's not helpful.

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

lol you don’t need to touch this to starve PhD programs in the humanities. They’ve been doing that all along! With zeal!

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

hakeem jeffries' wife packing up to go stay at her parents because she asked him to wash the dishes and he stood in front of the sink throwing his hands in the air and saying "what can i do, the water isn't even on"

submitted 33 days ago • 213 comments

If they don’t want to fight, they should resign.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

A certain class of boomer property owners thinks American cities should be warm coffins for them to die in. It is the premise of the YIMBY movement that we should not let them turn our cities into coffins for them to die in, because people will continue to live here after they’re all dead.

submitted 42 days ago • 5 comments

How much did the house cost when you bought it, Susan? I’m just trying to get a sense of how hard you expect people to work.

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

the failure to drive these freaks from political and really all social life in this country is a failure so profound it should be the only line in the obituary of everyone even remotely responsible, including but not limited to dem leaders. instead they remain unanimous picks to lead their caucuses

submitted 44 days ago • 18 comments

“As researchers and good planners have long understood, it’s far cheaper to build and maintain public infrastructure to service denser forms of housing than it is to service low-density sprawl. It’s one of those intuitive truths that is also borne out by decades of research.”

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Legalize it.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Weaponizing historic preservation to stop the equitable distribution of housing opportunity is so 20th century. We must do better.

submitted 61 days ago • 4 comments

"my neighbor's house was torn down" no it wasn't lol--the house your neighbor sold for lots of money was

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

This is my local beach and i've seen some of the worst driving in the city at that intersection, including hit bicyclists. Time to install a Grab A Brick station

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 68 days ago • 5 comments

A map of freeways proposed for Portland in the 1950s and 60s. (Red=built, green=proposed). Most US cities have a map like this somewhere. Some of Portland's most distinctive and vibrant neighborhoods would've been destroyed. The wealthiest enclaves would've been protected, of course.

submitted 68 days ago • 9 comments

The first several speakers at this morning's comprehensive plan meeting have been longtime homeowners in Seattle's wealthy Madrona neighborhood, arguing that a two-block "neighborhood center" where some apartments will be allowed, saying it will destroy their neighborhood.

submitted 72 days ago • 32 comments

I love this. My method, which i do not recommend, is to immediately text a photo to friends saying “look at this bananas shit”

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

Hello Seattle area followers — please follow @theurbanist.org for news and get ready this winter and spring to speak to your City Council about the “One Seattle” plan; it’s kind of lackluster but if we don’t speak up it will be even worse. #RezoneSeattle #ComprehensivePlan #MoreHousing

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Last night two WA cities took action to eliminate costly parking mandates: Shoreline and Bellingham. Both are typical mid-sized US cities that are relatively car-dependent. Parking reform is good for all cities, and the only thing holding it back in most places is lack of local leadership.

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

Going to do a thread of all the neighborhood groups in Seattle trying to get the neighborhood center near them proposed in the draft One Seattle plan taken out. For context, new neighborhood centers would be mixed-use zoning surrounded by increases in allowed residential density for a few blocks.

submitted 94 days ago • 8 comments

Bag of ice bag of ice bag of ice bag of ice bag of ice bag of ice

submitted 99 days ago • 28 comments

"Respect for the lived experience" of people who want to park their cars for free on the street

submitted 109 days ago • 2 comments

wake up dear, new flapper just dropped

submitted 111 days ago • 6 comments

This too is “identity politics”:

submitted 122 days ago • 83 comments

Big night for women who want their own bodily autonomy but hate women enough to never cast a vote for one to be president, I guess.

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

Look, I know this isn't the point, but if you're freaked out about masculinity and you find a drawing of Donald Trump's head on Rocky Balboa persuasive and reassuring, the problem isn't with masculinity being rejected. The problem is that you are very dumb

submitted 146 days ago • 12 comments

This is right, and the waves of quit lit and hand-wringing we saw over the last ten years were essentially canaries in the coal mine, dismissed too quickly by people who wanted to be “winners.”

submitted 151 days ago • 1 comment