@wastateofmine.bsky.social
Washington, my home! Lover of all things PNW. State history, urbanism, weather and train nerd. 🌆🌤️🌧️☔️❄️🚌🚊
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November 5, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Progressives are poised to flip the balance of power in Burien, with Sam Méndez poised to win the open seat, Rocco DeVito on track to beat incumbent Stephanie Mora, and the council's two left-leaning incumbents - Sarah Moore and Hugo Garcia - likely to retain their seats.
November 5, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Progressives are poised to flip the balance of power in Burien, with Sam Méndez poised to win the open seat, Rocco DeVito on track to beat incumbent Stephanie Mora, and the council's two left-leaning incumbents - Sarah Moore and Hugo Garcia - likely to retain their seats.
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Over $100,000 in outside money was spent in support of electing John Hines Mayor of Tacoma, but it looks like voters are set to elect (Urbanist endorsed) Anders Ibsen instead.
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Over $100,000 in outside money was spent in support of electing John Hines Mayor of Tacoma, but it looks like voters are set to elect (Urbanist endorsed) Anders Ibsen instead.
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National Guard Already Lost at Powell’s Books: tinyurl.com/4mw4n9h2
September 30, 2025 at 3:38 AM
National Guard Already Lost at Powell’s Books: tinyurl.com/4mw4n9h2
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Trump’s reckless federal cuts have gutted the workforce at Grand Coulee Dam—down 30% and counting. Our power grid is at risk, safety is compromised, and taxpayers aren’t even saving a dime.
Fears over Columbia Basin dams, hydroelectricity grow as agencies lose hundreds of employees • Washington State Standard
Grand Coulee Dam is among the most powerful energy-generating dams on earth. It’s the bedrock of the federal Columbia River Power System — a network of 31 dams supplying more than half of the hydropow...
washingtonstatestandard.com
May 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Trump’s reckless federal cuts have gutted the workforce at Grand Coulee Dam—down 30% and counting. Our power grid is at risk, safety is compromised, and taxpayers aren’t even saving a dime.
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We live in a beautiful place.
Don’t let the bastards get you down
Don’t let the bastards get you down
May 23, 2025 at 3:48 AM
We live in a beautiful place.
Don’t let the bastards get you down
Don’t let the bastards get you down
Booooo!
#OnThisDay in 1969, Interstate 5 was completed in Washington. historylink.org/File/9393
May 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Booooo!
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Nobody will ever miss cars in Pike Place Market!
May 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Nobody will ever miss cars in Pike Place Market!
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1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. *The Pentagon* loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier
NEW: The U.S. Postal Service posted a net loss of $3.3 billion in this fiscal year’s second quarter mainly due to “significant challenges out of our control,” including workers’ compensation costs, Luke Grossmann, USPS chief financial officer, said at the open session of the governing board meeting
May 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. *The Pentagon* loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier
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We are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss.
Commuter rail, we are often told, operates at a loss. But we spend even more on street and highways, and take in little direct revenue from them. Yet no one ever says they are operating at a loss.
Commuter rail, we are often told, operates at a loss. But we spend even more on street and highways, and take in little direct revenue from them. Yet no one ever says they are operating at a loss.
May 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
We are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss.
Commuter rail, we are often told, operates at a loss. But we spend even more on street and highways, and take in little direct revenue from them. Yet no one ever says they are operating at a loss.
Commuter rail, we are often told, operates at a loss. But we spend even more on street and highways, and take in little direct revenue from them. Yet no one ever says they are operating at a loss.
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White House moves to defund public broadcasting, endangering education that millions of Americans benefit from. Meanwhile, it plans to spend up to $45 million on a military parade for Trump’s birthday, funds which could deplete the Army’s training budget. Is this how you want your tax money spent?
Trump signs executive order to stop federal funding for NPR and PBS
The president said public funding of the media networks was "outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence."
www.nbcnews.com
May 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
White House moves to defund public broadcasting, endangering education that millions of Americans benefit from. Meanwhile, it plans to spend up to $45 million on a military parade for Trump’s birthday, funds which could deplete the Army’s training budget. Is this how you want your tax money spent?
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Taking the light rail home from the #Mariners game & the young woman standing next to me called her parents to let them know she was ok b/c tonight’s game she’d been on a first date, but she’d also caught a home run ball & I wonder if that was an omen.
April 30, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Taking the light rail home from the #Mariners game & the young woman standing next to me called her parents to let them know she was ok b/c tonight’s game she’d been on a first date, but she’d also caught a home run ball & I wonder if that was an omen.
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Seattle, call on Mayor Harrell and @seattledot.bsky.social to put #Bollards on the waterfront and at ALL pedestrian markets NOW!!
Cops can’t protect us from vehicle attacks because bullets don’t stop speeding 4000lb objects. Only physical barriers can.
#Vancouver #Seattle
Cops can’t protect us from vehicle attacks because bullets don’t stop speeding 4000lb objects. Only physical barriers can.
#Vancouver #Seattle
April 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Seattle, call on Mayor Harrell and @seattledot.bsky.social to put #Bollards on the waterfront and at ALL pedestrian markets NOW!!
Cops can’t protect us from vehicle attacks because bullets don’t stop speeding 4000lb objects. Only physical barriers can.
#Vancouver #Seattle
Cops can’t protect us from vehicle attacks because bullets don’t stop speeding 4000lb objects. Only physical barriers can.
#Vancouver #Seattle
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billions for highway expansions that will exacerbate sprawl and climate change
crumbs for active mobility
climate arson.
crumbs for active mobility
climate arson.
Here's a rough breakdown of WSDOT's new $11.8 billion budget:
Highway capacity projects: 36%
Ferries: 14%
Maintenance & preservation: 13%
Fish passage: 9%
Public transit: 6.3%
Local grants: 8%
Transportation operations: 3.5%
Rail: 3.3%
Aviation: 1.3%
Highway capacity projects: 36%
Ferries: 14%
Maintenance & preservation: 13%
Fish passage: 9%
Public transit: 6.3%
Local grants: 8%
Transportation operations: 3.5%
Rail: 3.3%
Aviation: 1.3%
April 28, 2025 at 3:19 AM
billions for highway expansions that will exacerbate sprawl and climate change
crumbs for active mobility
climate arson.
crumbs for active mobility
climate arson.
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As we build more pedestrian spaces, I am begging American DOTs to learn Row of Bollard Technology™. Stop making excuses. Figure out how to install and maintain it. Don't wait for someone to be killed or injured.
April 28, 2025 at 6:53 AM
As we build more pedestrian spaces, I am begging American DOTs to learn Row of Bollard Technology™. Stop making excuses. Figure out how to install and maintain it. Don't wait for someone to be killed or injured.
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“I dunno. Bollards are pretty expensive.”
April 28, 2025 at 7:10 AM
“I dunno. Bollards are pretty expensive.”
Mariners win 6th series in a row! ⚾️
April 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Mariners win 6th series in a row! ⚾️
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Sending our ❤️ to our Canadian and filipino friends in Vancouver. 🇨🇦
April 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Sending our ❤️ to our Canadian and filipino friends in Vancouver. 🇨🇦
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all the vendors we talked to love the car free street:
'it's so quiet! everyone is so friendly!'
the pike market PDA prevents progress.
'it's so quiet! everyone is so friendly!'
the pike market PDA prevents progress.
April 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
all the vendors we talked to love the car free street:
'it's so quiet! everyone is so friendly!'
the pike market PDA prevents progress.
'it's so quiet! everyone is so friendly!'
the pike market PDA prevents progress.
Gorgeous day in the mountains! #Crystalmt 🏂
April 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Gorgeous day in the mountains! #Crystalmt 🏂
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If I were governor, I would immediately abolish private prisons like the GEO group run ICE prison in Tacoma.
Absolutely no private (or public!) profit in incarceration. Ideally we should be abolishing the carceral justice system entirely.
And, as always, abolish ICE.
Absolutely no private (or public!) profit in incarceration. Ideally we should be abolishing the carceral justice system entirely.
And, as always, abolish ICE.
👆 Alex for Governor
April 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
If I were governor, I would immediately abolish private prisons like the GEO group run ICE prison in Tacoma.
Absolutely no private (or public!) profit in incarceration. Ideally we should be abolishing the carceral justice system entirely.
And, as always, abolish ICE.
Absolutely no private (or public!) profit in incarceration. Ideally we should be abolishing the carceral justice system entirely.
And, as always, abolish ICE.
Such a beautiful day 😍
April 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Such a beautiful day 😍
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And to be clear, smokERS were never banned, just smokING. You can still smoke outside and walk inside a restaurant just like everyone else. It's just no longer permissible to make everyone else uncomfortable and unhealthy for your convenience.
Accommodate every PERSON, not every use/vehicle.
Accommodate every PERSON, not every use/vehicle.
A Pike Place Market that Works for Everyone
Dear Seattle City Council, I love Pike Place Market, but I don’t love the cars driving through the middle of it. They make me feel unsafe, uncomfortable, and unwelcome. Please make the street a bett...
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April 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
And to be clear, smokERS were never banned, just smokING. You can still smoke outside and walk inside a restaurant just like everyone else. It's just no longer permissible to make everyone else uncomfortable and unhealthy for your convenience.
Accommodate every PERSON, not every use/vehicle.
Accommodate every PERSON, not every use/vehicle.
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Smoking in restaurants used to be ubiquitous — despite it degrading the experience for everyone else.
It was the way things had always been done — it's tradition! Smokers are essential for business!
Then we banned it in 2005. Now no one wants to go back.
This is a post about cars in Pike Place.
It was the way things had always been done — it's tradition! Smokers are essential for business!
Then we banned it in 2005. Now no one wants to go back.
This is a post about cars in Pike Place.
January 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Smoking in restaurants used to be ubiquitous — despite it degrading the experience for everyone else.
It was the way things had always been done — it's tradition! Smokers are essential for business!
Then we banned it in 2005. Now no one wants to go back.
This is a post about cars in Pike Place.
It was the way things had always been done — it's tradition! Smokers are essential for business!
Then we banned it in 2005. Now no one wants to go back.
This is a post about cars in Pike Place.