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Strong economic growth, a strong social safety net, and a fairer distribution of wealth are *not* conflicting goals.
They are interdependent goals!
They are interdependent goals!
Good morning! 🌅☀️🕶️
Today would be a great day for #waleg to advance a bill that lifts the arbitrary 1% cap on levy increases, which is a MANDATED ANNUAL BUDGET CUT for local governments and school districts.
Read about this issue here:
Today would be a great day for #waleg to advance a bill that lifts the arbitrary 1% cap on levy increases, which is a MANDATED ANNUAL BUDGET CUT for local governments and school districts.
Read about this issue here:
Will 2026 be the year Washington allows municipalities to close their local budget deficits by lifting the property tax cap?
At the end of the year, when local governments are adopting their budgets for the coming year, I tend to get touchy about the way local media outlets report on
www.inlander.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Good morning! 🌅☀️🕶️
Today would be a great day for #waleg to advance a bill that lifts the arbitrary 1% cap on levy increases, which is a MANDATED ANNUAL BUDGET CUT for local governments and school districts.
Read about this issue here:
Today would be a great day for #waleg to advance a bill that lifts the arbitrary 1% cap on levy increases, which is a MANDATED ANNUAL BUDGET CUT for local governments and school districts.
Read about this issue here:
The Joe Rogan Experience of the Left™️ is just The Adam Friedland Show.
February 17, 2026 at 4:49 AM
The Joe Rogan Experience of the Left™️ is just The Adam Friedland Show.
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This is delusional to a degree that’s disturbing. The liberals and progressives on this site and elsewhere who are feeding these sorts of delusions, for the sake of earning clout and retweets, need to have a really hard think about the impact of the disinformation they’re spreading.
February 17, 2026 at 4:04 AM
This is delusional to a degree that’s disturbing. The liberals and progressives on this site and elsewhere who are feeding these sorts of delusions, for the sake of earning clout and retweets, need to have a really hard think about the impact of the disinformation they’re spreading.
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I cannot stress this enough: writing is thinking.
February 16, 2026 at 10:04 PM
I cannot stress this enough: writing is thinking.
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Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
Me! Me! Pick me!
Need more Econ brained lefties imo.
February 16, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Me! Me! Pick me!
Good morning! 🌅☀️🕶️
Today would be a great day for #waleg to advance a bill that lifts the arbitrary 1% cap on levy increases, which is a MANDATED ANNUAL BUDGET CUT for local governments and school districts.
Read about this issue here:
Today would be a great day for #waleg to advance a bill that lifts the arbitrary 1% cap on levy increases, which is a MANDATED ANNUAL BUDGET CUT for local governments and school districts.
Read about this issue here:
Will 2026 be the year Washington allows municipalities to close their local budget deficits by lifting the property tax cap?
At the end of the year, when local governments are adopting their budgets for the coming year, I tend to get touchy about the way local media outlets report on
www.inlander.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Good morning! 🌅☀️🕶️
Today would be a great day for #waleg to advance a bill that lifts the arbitrary 1% cap on levy increases, which is a MANDATED ANNUAL BUDGET CUT for local governments and school districts.
Read about this issue here:
Today would be a great day for #waleg to advance a bill that lifts the arbitrary 1% cap on levy increases, which is a MANDATED ANNUAL BUDGET CUT for local governments and school districts.
Read about this issue here:
Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein sent tens of thousands of text messages to each other.
You can read them all here:
You can read them all here:
Steve Bannon — JMessage
iMessage conversation with Steve Bannon. 3356 messages.
jmail.world
February 16, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein sent tens of thousands of text messages to each other.
You can read them all here:
You can read them all here:
If you are so opposed to generative AI tools that you can’t find a way around to valuing a service like this, you are not a serious person.
This type of analysis and synthesis of data would have taken years before Claude.
It took only a couple weeks.
This type of analysis and synthesis of data would have taken years before Claude.
It took only a couple weeks.
We built Jikipedia, a new wiki that compiles Jmail data into exhaustive reports on key figures in the Epstein scandal.
It lists all recorded visits to Epstein's estates, each person's possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes and laws that they may have violated.
It lists all recorded visits to Epstein's estates, each person's possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes and laws that they may have violated.
February 16, 2026 at 2:05 AM
If you are so opposed to generative AI tools that you can’t find a way around to valuing a service like this, you are not a serious person.
This type of analysis and synthesis of data would have taken years before Claude.
It took only a couple weeks.
This type of analysis and synthesis of data would have taken years before Claude.
It took only a couple weeks.
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LA is like every worst supermajority blue city stereotype. ribbon-cutting ceremony for 'la sombrita' while throwing away millions of dollars that would have funded actually useful things. meanwhile LA metro opposes building dense housing near transit
The City of LA is about to give back millions of dollars of previously won money for active transportation projects because it can’t build things in any reasonable amount of time.
February 14, 2026 at 10:35 PM
LA is like every worst supermajority blue city stereotype. ribbon-cutting ceremony for 'la sombrita' while throwing away millions of dollars that would have funded actually useful things. meanwhile LA metro opposes building dense housing near transit
This forced annual budget cut is not enshrined in the state constitution (the legislature passed it in 2007), and it’s devastating for local governments. Read more about the issue here:
February 14, 2026 at 10:16 PM
This forced annual budget cut is not enshrined in the state constitution (the legislature passed it in 2007), and it’s devastating for local governments. Read more about the issue here:
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Nowhere else on Earth could turn a Norwegian economy into Serbian outcomes quite like Los Angeles. Truly the worst governed city on the continent.
The City of LA is about to give back millions of dollars of previously won money for active transportation projects because it can’t build things in any reasonable amount of time.
February 14, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Nowhere else on Earth could turn a Norwegian economy into Serbian outcomes quite like Los Angeles. Truly the worst governed city on the continent.
I know it’s not popular here, but I think age-gating social media is probably a good idea. The societal harms are enormous, and for kids and teens probably the bad outweighs the good.
I think in the future we’ll look back on social media with the same lens with which we look back on tobacco today.
I think in the future we’ll look back on social media with the same lens with which we look back on tobacco today.
February 14, 2026 at 6:53 PM
I know it’s not popular here, but I think age-gating social media is probably a good idea. The societal harms are enormous, and for kids and teens probably the bad outweighs the good.
I think in the future we’ll look back on social media with the same lens with which we look back on tobacco today.
I think in the future we’ll look back on social media with the same lens with which we look back on tobacco today.
Good morning! 🌅☀️🕶️
Today would be a great day for #waleg to advance a bill that lifts the arbitrary 1% cap on levy increases, which is a MANDATED ANNUAL BUDGET CUT for local governments and school districts.
Today would be a great day for #waleg to advance a bill that lifts the arbitrary 1% cap on levy increases, which is a MANDATED ANNUAL BUDGET CUT for local governments and school districts.
February 14, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Good morning! 🌅☀️🕶️
Today would be a great day for #waleg to advance a bill that lifts the arbitrary 1% cap on levy increases, which is a MANDATED ANNUAL BUDGET CUT for local governments and school districts.
Today would be a great day for #waleg to advance a bill that lifts the arbitrary 1% cap on levy increases, which is a MANDATED ANNUAL BUDGET CUT for local governments and school districts.
Smaller, internationally best-in-class elevators may be coming to Washington State. 👀
By a 41-7 vote, the Washington Senate just directed the state's building code council to adopt updated regulations for elevators in buildings with up to six stories or 24 units, "minimally sized to meet federal accessibility requirements."
The final version:
lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/202...
The final version:
lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/202...
February 13, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Smaller, internationally best-in-class elevators may be coming to Washington State. 👀
A see a new pre-development conference in the permitting portal for two side-by-side #Spokane Sixes by @matthutchins.bsky.social's CAST Architecture... 👀
February 13, 2026 at 11:05 PM
A see a new pre-development conference in the permitting portal for two side-by-side #Spokane Sixes by @matthutchins.bsky.social's CAST Architecture... 👀
With love from @futurewise.bsky.social. ❤️
February 13, 2026 at 8:24 PM
With love from @futurewise.bsky.social. ❤️
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Speed and red-light cameras! Surveillance is a legit concern but also we can’t hobble effective tools to create safer driving environments!
unpopular opinion maybe but when people talk about totally eliminating automatic license reader technology (based on legitimate ICE-related concerns), it's probably important to mention that this is how toll roads work. it's also why Seattle residents usually get their cars back when they're stolen
February 13, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Speed and red-light cameras! Surveillance is a legit concern but also we can’t hobble effective tools to create safer driving environments!
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Legalize beauty!
Here’s a preview of California YIMBY’s new aesthetic agenda.
We can achieve broad-based housing affordability AND build beautiful buildings and neighborhoods.
Here’s a preview of California YIMBY’s new aesthetic agenda.
We can achieve broad-based housing affordability AND build beautiful buildings and neighborhoods.
Ugly and cheap-looking buildings can turn housing-neutral voters into opponents.
The fix isn’t more design review meetings or process – it’s streamlined rules and tools: modernized building codes that make smaller, more varied buildings feasible.
cayimby.org/blog/buildin...
The fix isn’t more design review meetings or process – it’s streamlined rules and tools: modernized building codes that make smaller, more varied buildings feasible.
cayimby.org/blog/buildin...
Building Beautiful Homes - California YIMBY
The Next Phase of California’s Pro-Housing Reforms By Eduardo Mendoza California is finally making it easier to build more housing – but the next fight is whether people like what gets built. Ugly…
cayimby.org
February 13, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Legalize beauty!
Here’s a preview of California YIMBY’s new aesthetic agenda.
We can achieve broad-based housing affordability AND build beautiful buildings and neighborhoods.
Here’s a preview of California YIMBY’s new aesthetic agenda.
We can achieve broad-based housing affordability AND build beautiful buildings and neighborhoods.
Good morning! Today would be a great day for #waleg to advance a bill that lifts the arbitrary 1% cap on levy increases, which is a MANDATED ANNUAL BUDGET CUT for local governments and school districts.
February 13, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Good morning! Today would be a great day for #waleg to advance a bill that lifts the arbitrary 1% cap on levy increases, which is a MANDATED ANNUAL BUDGET CUT for local governments and school districts.
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if AOC is too right-wing for you to support, you do not believe in electoral politics and should just be honest about that
Someone who won’t vote for AOC because she’s insufficiently left for them is someone whose vote we will never get and they should be treated as such. Also they only exist online
February 13, 2026 at 4:14 AM
if AOC is too right-wing for you to support, you do not believe in electoral politics and should just be honest about that
It’s a bad bill on the merits, but I think it’s notable requiring a passport to vote would probably result in a Democratic trifecta for a generation.
BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote.
The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.
The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.
February 13, 2026 at 12:30 AM
It’s a bad bill on the merits, but I think it’s notable requiring a passport to vote would probably result in a Democratic trifecta for a generation.
This is the type of thing that happens when you contract out design and engineering to consultants.
These firms have zero incentive to economize or propose modifications that bring down costs. In fact, in many cases it’s in their interests *NOT* to work with agency staff to do that.
These firms have zero incentive to economize or propose modifications that bring down costs. In fact, in many cases it’s in their interests *NOT* to work with agency staff to do that.
Sitting here open-mouthed at this Sound Transit board presentation, because it was just explained that making Ballard Link's Seattle Center station "slightly trapezoidal" would save the agency a HALF BILLION DOLLARS.
February 13, 2026 at 12:27 AM
This is the type of thing that happens when you contract out design and engineering to consultants.
These firms have zero incentive to economize or propose modifications that bring down costs. In fact, in many cases it’s in their interests *NOT* to work with agency staff to do that.
These firms have zero incentive to economize or propose modifications that bring down costs. In fact, in many cases it’s in their interests *NOT* to work with agency staff to do that.
Is the Builders’ Remedy coming to San Francisco?
CalHDF is suing @sfgov.sf.gov! SF has repeatedly tempted fate with unapologetic commitments to NIMBY policies that have made the City one of the most expensive places in the world. Now, CalHDF is taking the City to task. 1/5
February 12, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Is the Builders’ Remedy coming to San Francisco?