Universities tend to be liberal and "woke" places because that's where educated people are and go!!! People come from all over the world to study at American universities. They are inherently diverse places where even rural kids have to run into new ideas eventually. Terrifying!

Fascists want college professors and other educated professionals to be afraid. They want them to either bow to fascism or they force them out. They KNOW the facts don't support their bigotry, so they are doing their darndest to discredit and bury the facts.

She purposefully ignored the instructions and the prompt and quoted the bible to start a fight. She obviously knew what she was doing was wrong, she just likely wanted to see her trans instructor fired and get her 15 minutes of internet infamy.

It was hard. It was uncomfortable. I cried in front of several coworkers and my department head. But, you know what? I'm here, and not everyone can say that. I am here TO cry and grieve and hope for a better future. I owe it to 15-year-old Roy and 25-year-old Karmin, who should still be here too.

This just isn't true, sorry. I work in city planning for a city where it JUST became legal this summer to build anything other than 1 single-family home on a parcel in about 70% of the city. And this is extremely common throughout the country, as any experienced planner would tell you.

I ranted about this the other day. I take the 271 home from downtown Bellevue and just sitting on the Montlake lid thing trying to get onto Montlake Blvd in the HOV lane takes longer than the rest of the trip. It's actually added time to the bus commute...

The issue is always too many damn cars 😭 like, I would rather people carpool than drive alone obviously, but even better would be getting those people on the bus and therefore out of the bus's way, which more bus-only infrastructure would do. Bus supremacy babey

Last tweet and I'm tired of being reasonable. What if there was a train on 520. Or 520 was a train track. This is, of course, in addition to the long-awaited 2-line across the I-90 bridge. Here me out

The 520 HOV lanes are also only for 3+ passengers, instead of the usual 2. Again, I don't disagree with the incentivization of carpooling, but are those carpoolers going places already well-served by transit? What about further incentive to ride buses that have fewer delays?

Reread this and I'm thinking about it again because that's just who I am. It actually really Wouldn't be much more expensive to make the HOV exit coming off 520 onto Montlake a bus-only exit. It can't be more than signs and paint; there's no real infrastructure to change, right?

I'm wondering if they can't time the signals to allow the HOV lane/light to go first to avoid the backup. It also should have been buses only, not HOV, but that ship is more expensive to steer back in. And we SHOULD be incentivizing carpooling, but not at the expense of bus commuters.

I keep re-re-reading what I've typed, thinking I must be confusing the situation or missing something. I think I can safely say at this point that it's not me, which is honestly a scarier outcome...