The older I get and the more I read, I realize that the institutions that fed me information were often reporting by assuming they knew something rather than knowing it.

Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2d ago

The Times' editorial board, using a cozy self-interested convo with Barnes as their main source, concludes that Wilson is to blame for the lack of information after the shooting. The actual messages, posted on PubliCola, show the opposite.

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🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.

10 seconds of rush hour in Seattle

A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.

West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says

Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.

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I'd love to live in a world where the choice between believing an American Corporation did its best and believing a repressive regime was an obvious one. China could just as easily be heaping misery on a foreign company to prop up domestic EVs as Tesla could be failing to meeting QC marks.

Forbes@forbes.com · 3w ago

Another 2 million vehicles were subject to a separate, overlapping recall.

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

ysph.yale.edu

Another classic Seattle compromise - make a public space more confusing, less consistent, less predictable, and less safe so that cars can access them.

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 3w ago

The next phase of the Pike Place pedestrian pilot will scale things back to three days a week for October-March, a big concession to the idea that restricting through traffic is hurting sales at specific businesses. www.theurbanist.org/pike-place-p...

Every weekend in summer Vs. Every other weekend except Seafair from sorta May to kinda October and only on Sunday but sometimes also Saturday. I live blocks from LWB and in the old days I would often be surprised when it happened. Now, clear, easy to plan for, fun, easy to explain.

Jason@jrock08.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's fair to say that the reason Bicycle Weekends on LWB (3 more weekends remaining) were far more successful this year than last year because I can easily describe how many more weekends there are without complexity.

I think we should also build the Shoreline Sounder station at Richmond Beach envisioned in Sound Move.

The Urbanist@theurbanist.org · 3w ago

NEW OP-ED// Op-Ed: Give Ballard a Sounder Stop While It Waits for Light Rail By Matthew Trecha via @theurbanist.org

I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."

Thank you to @mayor.seattle.gov for letting Lake Washington Boulevard better serve the community this summer. The boulevard is most accessible when it is closed to car through-traffic, and OPEN to people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds to enjoy as the 3 mile public waterfront PARK it is

Lake Washington Boulevard Bash is happening Saturday! ☀️ 🚶‍♂️ 🚲 🎶 Join us at the Ferdinand St Boat Launch for a car-free event celebrating music, community, and public space. 📍 5018 Lake Washington Blvd S 🗓️ Saturday, August 15 ⏰ 12–7 PM RSVP: partiful.com/e/0I36OjmSRp...

Hot take - SPD should hand over the ability to do traffic enforcement to SDOT. We’d get safer streets.

West Seattle Bike Blob@westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 4w ago

Never mind tab enforcement, we don't even do license plate enforcement these days

“Democratic Socialists!” Or as your grandmother called them - “centrists.”

New data analysis “has provided fresh evidence that cycling is the fastest inner city rush hour transport, with new findings from London showing that 2 wheels beats the tube & cars for most trips…the bike beat 92% of matched trips aligned to TfL services, as well as 75% of rush hour driving trips.”

Cycling again declared London’s fastest transport in new data

New data analysis from health data experts Terra and triathlon icon Alistair Brownlee has provided fresh evidence that cycling is

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I am stopped in the middle of MLK way on a @sound-transit.bsky.social rush hour train because SeattleDOT thinks 4 cars getting across the street should delay 100-200 people on a train. Inefficient, bad experience, and moves people through the city slower.

A bank revoked his accounts and said no thanks after months of anti-money laundering investigation. In 2021.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · last mo.

Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."

just incredible to watch the US president take Iran's side when my state's water systems are under cyberattack

“Just pretend the climate from south of you magically becomes your climate” is an epically stupid bit of cope. Britain will not get Mediterranean weather. It will get suffering and fire and death and ruin. OR we can ignore these moral cowards and DO SOMETHING to fix and reverse climate change.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.

A great example of why the "make eye contact with drivers and wear reflective clothing" advice for pedestrians and cyclists is bad. Nothing short of physically limiting where and how drivers can operate their vehicles will work.

Drivers Have Run Over, Flipped Off And Cursed Out Chicago’s Traffic Aides For Doing Their Jobs

Traffic control aides are needed during big summer events, like Lollapalooza this weekend. But drivers often take out their frustration on them — and two aides were recently hospitalized after being h...

blockclubchicago.org

California just became the first major grid system on the planet to generate more than 50% of its electricity from solar across an entire month.

Missed payments. Slashed staffing. Broken security. A patient who froze to death on the roof of a hospital. Inside American Healthcare System, the for-profit healthcare company driving hospitals around the country to financial chaos.

This is an appreciation post for those of you who don't bike/walk yourselves but support safety improvements for other reasons - solidarity, community mindedness, or you just don't want to hit someone with your car. I see you!

Sign this response letter so we can try to combat this incredibly stupid bikelash. actionnetwork.org/petitions/la...

Lake Washington Boulevard - July 2026

The 2026 Bicycle Weekends on Lake Washington Boulevard schedule has been an obvious unqualified success. The consistency of every weekend and the Friday evening to Monday morning schedule have made it...

actionnetwork.org

Jason@jrock08.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So the bikelash on Lake Washigton Boulevard has reached a middle.

Blatter, Infantino.. it's a pattern. Infantino is the rash, not the cause. His "time being up" will not fix FIFA. Tear it down and start over. The organization is corrupt to the core. www.si.com/soccer/giann...

‘His Time Is Up’—Gianni Infantino Receives Rare Dressing Down for World Cup Scandals

Javier Tebas did not hold back with his critique of the FIFA president.

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It's called mobility. And when we have choices, we make choices. When all we have is cars, we don't make choices - we just pay through the nose for a single mode that inconveniences every other mode with noise, pollution, danger, etc.

Oh The Urbanity!@ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Dude on an electric skateboard pulling a wagon of stuff down a bike lane. Bike lanes aren’t just for bikes.

Cobweb-Covered Skeleton Gripping Senate Desk Expected To Seek 15th Term

Republicans are socialist for protecting and privileging money and libertarian for working people. Capital gets protections and assistance. Labor is on its own.

I spent summer days blazing around my neighborhood on a bike w/ a group of friends. This lasted for 2 amazing years. We moved to a new neighborhood that was only a bit more car centric and car-accessible and that ended. Still saw neighbors, just mostly inside, not roving around the neighborhood.

MaryMM@marymm.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The fact that in America our kids must be professionally programmed each summer day instead of waking up and roving about with their pals is a tragic result of building the entire nation around cars. Cars have stolen American childhood. Wake up.