Stephen Fesler 🧦 🥑🚶♂️🚌 🚊 🚆 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺
@safesler.bsky.social
Dad x2. 100% government funded. Full-time cat herder. Elderly urban planner. Some SimCity brah. Pavers and cobbles stan. Pro bono @theurbanist.org. Probably far from home. AMDG. Pax.
Seeing how much up front and close of how AI can in fact not do technical things, I have to wonder if an AI just hallucinated this
“.. Basically, we are creating a digital twin for the U.S. labor market.” 👀
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November 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Seeing how much up front and close of how AI can in fact not do technical things, I have to wonder if an AI just hallucinated this
Please, please stop naming airports and transit facilities after people www.thejournal.ie/fianna-fail-...
Seán Lemass Airport? A Bill to rename Dublin Airport after a former Taoiseach introduced in Dáil
Fianna Fáil TD Malcolm Byrne introduced a bill in the Dáil today to officially rename the airport as the ‘Seán Lemass Dublin International Airport’.
www.thejournal.ie
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Please, please stop naming airports and transit facilities after people www.thejournal.ie/fianna-fail-...
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The 2024 election was a basically a test of America's survival instincts. It did not pass.
Q: Have you heard this audio that Bloomberg has of Witkoff coaching the Russians on how to appeal to you?
TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
November 26, 2025 at 3:55 AM
The 2024 election was a basically a test of America's survival instincts. It did not pass.
So, so popular. Never been more
popular before 😂
popular before 😂
Trump's Approval Polling Among Latinos:
Disapprove: 70%
Approve: 27%
Pew Research / Oct 16, 2025
Disapprove: 70%
Approve: 27%
Pew Research / Oct 16, 2025
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 AM
So, so popular. Never been more
popular before 😂
popular before 😂
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Amtrak Cascades Airo test train
YouTube video by Amtrak 712 Productions
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November 26, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Quite the contrast to Puget Sound where Sound Transit boardmembers broadly and wildly cheer gigantic, empty parking craters at train stations
I’ve never been so excited to see fencing!
Construction is beginning on El Cerrito Plaza BART TOD, replacing parking with 743 homes and hopefully a new library.
The first building will be 100% affordable with 70 homes.
I’ve been working on this project for nearly a decade and couldn’t be happier.
Construction is beginning on El Cerrito Plaza BART TOD, replacing parking with 743 homes and hopefully a new library.
The first building will be 100% affordable with 70 homes.
I’ve been working on this project for nearly a decade and couldn’t be happier.
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Quite the contrast to Puget Sound where Sound Transit boardmembers broadly and wildly cheer gigantic, empty parking craters at train stations
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The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
BREAKING:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
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I have been yelling about this for 15 years that it was absurd to build a light rail station with non-signalized freeway ramps. WSDOT still on track to wait til 25 years after the light rail station opens to fix anything. Close the ramps now.
Also NONE of this will work (or is working) for transit riders traveling north bound on Rainier without dedicated bus-only lanes south of Massachusetts. In these designs, and in the current situation, the bus gets stuck behind cars queuing in the right lane to get on I-90.
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I have been yelling about this for 15 years that it was absurd to build a light rail station with non-signalized freeway ramps. WSDOT still on track to wait til 25 years after the light rail station opens to fix anything. Close the ramps now.
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Really just a staggering story from basically every conceivable angle: Witkoff’s actions, Trump taking the bait, the subsequent fiasco about said peace deal/bait, Witkoff doing it in a way that it could leak, that it did leak.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Really just a staggering story from basically every conceivable angle: Witkoff’s actions, Trump taking the bait, the subsequent fiasco about said peace deal/bait, Witkoff doing it in a way that it could leak, that it did leak.
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A man has been arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage to dual language street signs in Co Tyrone.
SDLP MLA Patsy McGlone said such attacks are 'totally futile and nonsensical' and added that the 'Irish language poses no threat to anyone'.
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SDLP MLA Patsy McGlone said such attacks are 'totally futile and nonsensical' and added that the 'Irish language poses no threat to anyone'.
jrnl.ie/6885383
SDLP says Irish language ‘poses no threat’ as man arrested over damage to dual language sign
A local SDLP MLA remarked that ‘we need to be able to show respect and tolerance for each other’s traditions and culture’.
jrnl.ie
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
A man has been arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage to dual language street signs in Co Tyrone.
SDLP MLA Patsy McGlone said such attacks are 'totally futile and nonsensical' and added that the 'Irish language poses no threat to anyone'.
jrnl.ie/6885383
SDLP MLA Patsy McGlone said such attacks are 'totally futile and nonsensical' and added that the 'Irish language poses no threat to anyone'.
jrnl.ie/6885383
I see it!
2 Line testing!
2 Line testing!
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I see it!
2 Line testing!
2 Line testing!
It dawned on me that I haven’t driven to work except for a score or so times and maybe a couple dozen carpools for over 12 years now. Every other work report was by transit or telework or an extremely rare taxi (which means my corresponding trip was transit)
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
It dawned on me that I haven’t driven to work except for a score or so times and maybe a couple dozen carpools for over 12 years now. Every other work report was by transit or telework or an extremely rare taxi (which means my corresponding trip was transit)
When is Diarrhoea Don going to start yelling about the leakers and threaten to fire them 😂
One man -- Marco Rubio -- serves this country as both National Security Adviser and Secretary of State.
And he was nowhere near the drafting of that Ukraine 'peace plan,' which was instead devised by the president's real-estate buddy and his son-in-law.
🎁
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
And he was nowhere near the drafting of that Ukraine 'peace plan,' which was instead devised by the president's real-estate buddy and his son-in-law.
🎁
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
When is Diarrhoea Don going to start yelling about the leakers and threaten to fire them 😂
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Highest since May.
*US SEPT. PRODUCER PRICES RISE 2.7% Y/Y; EST. +2.6%
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Highest since May.
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Worst retail sales print since May.
US RETAIL SALES (MOM) (SEP) ACTUAL: 0.2% VS 0.6% PREVIOUS; EST 0.4%
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Worst retail sales print since May.
Next Monday we could start seeing prefiled Waleg bills for the 2026 session. My colleagues at The Urbanist will be tracking them and all newly filed and reactived bills through the process through March 12
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Next Monday we could start seeing prefiled Waleg bills for the 2026 session. My colleagues at The Urbanist will be tracking them and all newly filed and reactived bills through the process through March 12
It’s really insane how Sound Transit keeps saying that stations don’t matter for generating transit ridership
If you asked them if water is wet, they’d tell you it’s dry
If you asked them if water is wet, they’d tell you it’s dry
My main takeaway from this event is that dropping Avalon Station is as good as a done deal.
I'm having a hard time figuring out who the audience for this West Seattle light rail visioning event is. After remarks by CM Mosqueda and Dow Constantine, Sound Transit is presenting board-level info (what's a "tail track"?).
This would be a good onboarding briefing for a new board member but...
This would be a good onboarding briefing for a new board member but...
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 AM
It’s really insane how Sound Transit keeps saying that stations don’t matter for generating transit ridership
If you asked them if water is wet, they’d tell you it’s dry
If you asked them if water is wet, they’d tell you it’s dry
All the things
November 25, 2025 at 2:48 AM
All the things
We’re playing this game already
New Hampshire - Democratic Presidential Polling:
Buttigieg: 28%
Newsom: 24%
Harris: 6%
Pritzker: 4%
Booker: 4%
Shapiro: 3%
Klobuchar: 2%
Beshear: 2%
Whitmer: 2%
St. Anselm / Nov 19, 2025
Buttigieg: 28%
Newsom: 24%
Harris: 6%
Pritzker: 4%
Booker: 4%
Shapiro: 3%
Klobuchar: 2%
Beshear: 2%
Whitmer: 2%
St. Anselm / Nov 19, 2025
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
We’re playing this game already
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Mark Kelly: "I said something that was pretty simple and non-controversial, and that was that members of the military should follow the law. In response to that, Trump said I should be executed, I should be hanged ... it says a lot more about him than it says about me. I'm not going to be silenced."
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Mark Kelly: "I said something that was pretty simple and non-controversial, and that was that members of the military should follow the law. In response to that, Trump said I should be executed, I should be hanged ... it says a lot more about him than it says about me. I'm not going to be silenced."
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NEW STORY // Amtrak Breaks Ridership Records Nationally and in Pacific Northwest
Story by Doug Trumm via @theurbanist.org //🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/24/a...
Story by Doug Trumm via @theurbanist.org //🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/24/a...
Amtrak Breaks Ridership Records Nationally and in Pacific Northwest » The Urbanist
# Amtrak's annual ridership was up 5%, hitting an all-time record high of 34.5 million rides nationwide over the last year. Amtrak Cascades also hit a record high, reporting 1.4% growth and coming in ...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
NEW STORY // Amtrak Breaks Ridership Records Nationally and in Pacific Northwest
Story by Doug Trumm via @theurbanist.org //🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/24/a...
Story by Doug Trumm via @theurbanist.org //🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/24/a...
That time again
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
That time again
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
🤡 show 😂
BREAKING: Comey case dismissed without prejudice. Halligan invalidly appointed, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
🤡 show 😂
I really don’t know who this for. People in First Class don’t care what you wear. Most of them are even in athleisure and literally get slippers for long flights. The plane is a damn bus, except that you might get a meal and booze
Duffy on his demand that air travelers not wear slippers or pajamas: "It honors our country ... don't take your shoes off and put your feet on the chair ahead of you"
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I really don’t know who this for. People in First Class don’t care what you wear. Most of them are even in athleisure and literally get slippers for long flights. The plane is a damn bus, except that you might get a meal and booze