Rian Watt
@rianwatt.bsky.social
ED @eoionline.bsky.social ⚖️• formerly ending homelessness @ Community Solutions 🏡 • former ED, current board @theurbanist.org 🌃 • board @futurewise.bsky.social 🏔 • opinions mine, bad • curious • he/him
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This baseball game has officially outlasted the NWSL match next door that started 2 1/2 hours after it
October 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM
This baseball game has officially outlasted the NWSL match next door that started 2 1/2 hours after it
where’s Michael Barrett when you need him
October 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
where’s Michael Barrett when you need him
There's two blocks between the East Precinct and 12th and Union. Two blocks, two reversed decisions, one week.
Do you need management experience to get it wrong this reliably?
Do you need management experience to get it wrong this reliably?
October 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
There's two blocks between the East Precinct and 12th and Union. Two blocks, two reversed decisions, one week.
Do you need management experience to get it wrong this reliably?
Do you need management experience to get it wrong this reliably?
First, it was eliminating a bus lane advocates fought for for years after developers wanted space for their right turns from the East side. Advocates fought back and the city immediately reversed.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/02/s...
www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/02/s...
SDOT Backpedals on Plans for Capitol Hill Bus Lane Removal » The Urbanist
# Work will continue on upgrades to E Union Street that will allow Route 2 buses to return to the corridor, but the idea of reopening the street to all westbound traffic has been taken off the table -...
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October 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
First, it was eliminating a bus lane advocates fought for for years after developers wanted space for their right turns from the East side. Advocates fought back and the city immediately reversed.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/02/s...
www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/02/s...
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I take no credit here and will transfer my kudos to @csgreenways.bsky.social volunteers who have been piling on the pressure
October 3, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I take no credit here and will transfer my kudos to @csgreenways.bsky.social volunteers who have been piling on the pressure
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The main thing they’re using DHS for is a continual, indefinite effort to expand the population of those who they can effectively treat as beyond legal rights and protections.
August 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The main thing they’re using DHS for is a continual, indefinite effort to expand the population of those who they can effectively treat as beyond legal rights and protections.
Most notably, one of the authors of Abundance explicitly makes this connection:
www.derekthompson.org/p/what-speak...
And then Yglesias (who I have mixed feelings about) explored the issue prominently recently:
www.slowboring.com/p/learning-f...
Very much part of the discourse.
www.derekthompson.org/p/what-speak...
And then Yglesias (who I have mixed feelings about) explored the issue prominently recently:
www.slowboring.com/p/learning-f...
Very much part of the discourse.
'What Speaks to Me About Abundance': My Full Interview With Zohran Mamdani
The meteoric Democratic Socialist candidate and I talk about where we disagree about policy, where we agree about politics, and how to change our mind when we're wrong.
www.derekthompson.org
August 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Most notably, one of the authors of Abundance explicitly makes this connection:
www.derekthompson.org/p/what-speak...
And then Yglesias (who I have mixed feelings about) explored the issue prominently recently:
www.slowboring.com/p/learning-f...
Very much part of the discourse.
www.derekthompson.org/p/what-speak...
And then Yglesias (who I have mixed feelings about) explored the issue prominently recently:
www.slowboring.com/p/learning-f...
Very much part of the discourse.
Yeah, it's definitely related. I think the problem with deliverism was not that delivering wasn't a good idea but that it's important to deliver on the things most centrally important to voters, rather than things they view as marginal or secondary.
August 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Yeah, it's definitely related. I think the problem with deliverism was not that delivering wasn't a good idea but that it's important to deliver on the things most centrally important to voters, rather than things they view as marginal or secondary.
Hello! I used to run @theurbanist.org and I'm talking about it. You'd be surprised!
August 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Hello! I used to run @theurbanist.org and I'm talking about it. You'd be surprised!