No Kings
@westernideals.bsky.social
Standing up for the Best Coast
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Rents in Spokane are down 12% as a result of pro-housing legislation, like removing parking minimums, incentivizing housing on former parking lots, and upzoning all residential parcels.
reason.com/2025/07/22/r...
reason.com/2025/07/22/r...
Rent prices are falling fast in America’s most pro-housing cities
Rental prices in some of the country's largest cities are falling—some by almost 45 percent, according to new data.
reason.com
July 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Rents in Spokane are down 12% as a result of pro-housing legislation, like removing parking minimums, incentivizing housing on former parking lots, and upzoning all residential parcels.
reason.com/2025/07/22/r...
reason.com/2025/07/22/r...
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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.
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.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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.
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.
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Wall Street was rescued from Trump's Covid crash in the first term by Democrats in the House and Senate loading the recovery bills with stimulus that saved the economy. They attributed it all to Trump and are shocked that he's actually a huge dumbass.
April 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Wall Street was rescued from Trump's Covid crash in the first term by Democrats in the House and Senate loading the recovery bills with stimulus that saved the economy. They attributed it all to Trump and are shocked that he's actually a huge dumbass.
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This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
April 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
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Why are millennials the only ones who learned to stop voting for this?
It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
April 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Why are millennials the only ones who learned to stop voting for this?
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This would be illegal in most of the United States, and that's what YIMBYs are trying to change.
A former French military base, Vauban is a thriving neighbourhood of 5,500 residents connected to Freiburg town centre by bus and light rail. Built in the late 1990s as a radical experiment in low-car living, it forgoes virtually all on-street parking in favour of active, green, and social spaces. 🧵
April 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This would be illegal in most of the United States, and that's what YIMBYs are trying to change.
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what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
April 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
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Reading “Why Nothing Works” and I feel like this is the book people need to be reading instead of Abundance, if only because Ezra Klein makes people go crazy for some reason.
April 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Reading “Why Nothing Works” and I feel like this is the book people need to be reading instead of Abundance, if only because Ezra Klein makes people go crazy for some reason.
This is the way
“A powerful coalition of advocacy organizations is pushing state departments of transportation to ratchet down the harm being unleashed by President Trump's Department of Transportation.” usa.streetsblog.org/2025/03/31/n...
New Coalition Will Push State DOTs To Make Up For Fed Failures — Streetsblog USA
State and national advocates are joining forces like never before to clean up our national transportation mess before Washington makes it worse.
usa.streetsblog.org
April 1, 2025 at 2:44 AM
This is the way
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Hardin highlights the costs of inaction on housing: growth is going to happen, regardless. If you’re a homeowner and you want your grown children to be able to live in your neighborhood, we need diverse housing for them.
March 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Hardin highlights the costs of inaction on housing: growth is going to happen, regardless. If you’re a homeowner and you want your grown children to be able to live in your neighborhood, we need diverse housing for them.
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When you fly, a larger bag being checked is charged a fee, so people opt for slightly smaller bags to avoid the fee. In Seattle, we charge anything with 4+ units an affordable housing fee so developers build slightly smaller projects to avoid it. Same policy, same outcome.
March 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
When you fly, a larger bag being checked is charged a fee, so people opt for slightly smaller bags to avoid the fee. In Seattle, we charge anything with 4+ units an affordable housing fee so developers build slightly smaller projects to avoid it. Same policy, same outcome.
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this is the way
March 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
this is the way
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A friend of Neri Alvarado, the young Venezuelan man with an autism awareness tattoo sent to El Salvador, shared this video from members of the swim club where he worked with neurodiverse children.
More about Neri from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and I here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
More about Neri from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and I here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
March 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A friend of Neri Alvarado, the young Venezuelan man with an autism awareness tattoo sent to El Salvador, shared this video from members of the swim club where he worked with neurodiverse children.
More about Neri from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and I here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
More about Neri from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and I here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Washington state hasn’t had a Republican governor since 1980 and we’ve had D majorities in our legislature since 2017. And yet we are still committing climate arson with highway expansion.
New SR 509 Expressway to Sea-Tac Airport opens in October—but it’ll cost you
A direct SR 509 Expressway is set to open in October, connecting I-5 to Burien after years of construction near I-5 and the Kent Des-Moines Road.
mynorthwest.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Washington state hasn’t had a Republican governor since 1980 and we’ve had D majorities in our legislature since 2017. And yet we are still committing climate arson with highway expansion.
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California needs to show we can deliver lower costs for people. That means simplifying the overgrown layers of government process making it hard to build things.
I’m authoring legislation as part of @buffywicks.bsky.social permitting reform package to do just that, including by simplifying CEQA. 🧵
I’m authoring legislation as part of @buffywicks.bsky.social permitting reform package to do just that, including by simplifying CEQA. 🧵
March 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
California needs to show we can deliver lower costs for people. That means simplifying the overgrown layers of government process making it hard to build things.
I’m authoring legislation as part of @buffywicks.bsky.social permitting reform package to do just that, including by simplifying CEQA. 🧵
I’m authoring legislation as part of @buffywicks.bsky.social permitting reform package to do just that, including by simplifying CEQA. 🧵
2025 in a nutshell:
March 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
2025 in a nutshell:
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I bet the free speech absolutists are up in arms about the actual government arresting actual people for the content of their speech, right?
March 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I bet the free speech absolutists are up in arms about the actual government arresting actual people for the content of their speech, right?
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It's remarkable that US cities generally require fire lanes 20 feet wide while the UK seems fine with (2.75-3.7 meters) 9-12 feet, roughly half as wide. This drives big differences in road design and safety.
March 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
It's remarkable that US cities generally require fire lanes 20 feet wide while the UK seems fine with (2.75-3.7 meters) 9-12 feet, roughly half as wide. This drives big differences in road design and safety.
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The Green New Deal copied a lot of the *iconography* of the New Deal Classic but it never attempted to reverse the procedural impediments to large-scale public works that were mostly (though not exclusively) erected precisely by environmentalists who didn't like New Deal-syle projects.
March 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The Green New Deal copied a lot of the *iconography* of the New Deal Classic but it never attempted to reverse the procedural impediments to large-scale public works that were mostly (though not exclusively) erected precisely by environmentalists who didn't like New Deal-syle projects.
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Who has power, and who is actually using it? We ranked Democratic-led states and found some useful patterns.
I'm excited to bring you the cover package of our latest print issue: the Blue State Power Index.
We looked at the 17 states that had Democratic governing majorities in 2023-24 to see which ones best used their power.
prospect.org/politics/202...
We looked at the 17 states that had Democratic governing majorities in 2023-24 to see which ones best used their power.
prospect.org/politics/202...
The Blue State Power Index
We reviewed 17 states with Democratic trifectas to see what they did with that power.
prospect.org
March 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Who has power, and who is actually using it? We ranked Democratic-led states and found some useful patterns.
The amusing thing about the Abundance discourse is how you have one group of people saying voters don’t need messaging around a pro-growth agenda because it’s obviously true and another group saying it’s morally wrong to be pro-growth.
March 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The amusing thing about the Abundance discourse is how you have one group of people saying voters don’t need messaging around a pro-growth agenda because it’s obviously true and another group saying it’s morally wrong to be pro-growth.
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This is unspeakably horrific.
"There was no access to a toilet, so guards told the women – whose accounts in some cases occurred on different days or different buses – to urinate or defecate on the floor... "
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention
No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.
www.usatoday.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:06 AM
This is unspeakably horrific.
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It’s REALLY important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against downtown bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of the evidence that they are better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Bike-lanes mean business.
Bike-lanes mean business.
March 24, 2025 at 3:44 AM
It’s REALLY important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against downtown bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of the evidence that they are better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Bike-lanes mean business.
Bike-lanes mean business.