Map of population density (and LDS)

Bike roads!

While sitting next to someone who had a WaPo journalist hacked to pieces for their (accurate) reporting…

This is my favorite alphabet book

BTW, this has to have come from Bezos himself. Who on the WaPo editorial board could possibly know about the comparative merits of past Seattle mayors to judge Harrell the best in some time?

Calling childcare “goodies” is filling me with a white hot rage.

Our monthly childcare costs are more than our mortgage, and that’s not uncommon.

using tax dollars for a six-year-old to go to kindergarten: baseball and apple pie
using tax dollars for a five-year-old to go to pre-k: red bloody marxism

Sad for the @nytimes.com when I can’t tell if it’s a real headline or satire. She has deep experience building successful coalitions that led to the only major progressive revenue structure we’ve had here. Way to lead with the oppo hits on her rather than a more accurate headline.

Part of the reason for this is that the truth is so awful it defies belief -- akin to literally stating GOP policy positions, people will literally not believe you because, paradoxically, it is so bad that they think, if it were true, everyone would already know and no one would stand for it.