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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you missed our awesome #WeekWithoutDriving Sidewalk Nation Book Talk with author @michaelcpollack.bsky.social Pollack last night, check out the recording

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Sidewalk Nation with Michael Pollack

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Tom Hewitt @thewyjr18.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The new airo train set on the @amtrakcascades.wsdot.wa.gov is great, but I noticed some substantial yet easy to fix issues. Unfortunately, the raised letter and Braille signage is backwards in the bathroom. Also, I believe the raised letter and Braille restroom sign should be moved off the door.

Inside bathroom with push to open/close on top above lock button, with push to lock/unlock below button to open/close

Rest room raised letter and Braille on sliding door

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Tom Hewitt @thewyjr18.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I work to let people age place just as I would like to when I become an older adult and senior participant in society.

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Tom Hewitt @thewyjr18.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Almost at the border! Heading up to Vancouver to celebrate the triplets birthday and loving the new Airo train set. Thanks to the @amtrakcascades.wsdot.wa.gov crew for a seamless trip and giving the boys some free drink tickets for their birthday! First triplets on the new train set he said.

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 30/09/2026

Ballard Congratulates Golf Course on Its New Light Rail Station: tinyurl.com/yncw9jep

Map of new Pinehurst light rail station opening Sept. 30 next to I-5 and 160-acre Jackson Park Golf Course.

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The WAR ON WALKING has taken many forms around the world. It’s often as simple as how we signal who space is and isn’t for. Once our eyes are opened to all the ways we’ve prioritized cars over people, we can’t unsee it. Frustrating photo contributed by @stadsplanering.bsky.social. #WarOnWalking

Background photo from North Macedonia, where “sidewalks are mostly used to park cars” as explained by photo contributor Carl-Henrik Barnekow. Text says “Don’t buy the lie that there’s a war on cars. They’ve been waging a war on walking for a century.” Via the Urban Truth Collective. #WarOnCars #UrbanTruth

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Tom Hewitt @thewyjr18.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Trend setting (check notes) COTA in Columbus, Ohio, has been doing this since at least 2014.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

After booing him, the crowd breaks out in a loud, “Ted Cruz sucks!” chant.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 11/09/2026

NEW: A Florida county's mail ballot envelope was rejected by USPS over spacing that fell just 0.014 inches short of the required quarter inch. The situation inadvertently offered a test case for just how disruptive Trump’s efforts to restrict mail voting could be this November.

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In ominous sign, USPS initially rejected Florida county’s mail ballot over spacing issue

Read more here.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/09/2026

Since the beginning of the Iran War, Fox News has assure its viewers that high gas prices would be "temporary" [checks notes] 188 times.

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Fox News has claimed that high gas prices would be temporary at least 188 times since the beginning of Trump's conflict with Iran

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Tom Hewitt @thewyjr18.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Folks don’t always realize the crucial importance of coordination between municipalities and transit agencies to make substantial positive impacts to operations (ie. Speed and reliability), but the proof is everywhere. Well done @mayor.seattle.gov and @alexis4seattle.bsky.social

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

The famous Copenhagen shopping street where it opens up into a triangular public place and gathering place, filled with people.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 04/09/2026

nice quote from Mandami comms person Emilia Rowland to the New York Times

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I like that this design appears to show the birth date of liberty as 1776, and its death as 2026

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Tom Hewitt @thewyjr18.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

There will be school tomorrow in Seattle! Literally at the 11th hour! Interested to read more in the agreement but glad the kids will get to start on time.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Holy shit this kid absolutely DECIMATES Flock at her local Santa Clarita public council meeting. Just 🔥 leaves burning wreckage in her wake. What a fucking badass.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"According to a new AAA study, three out of ten American drivers said speeding is perfectly normal and no one actually drives the speed limit anymore. Yet additional studies have shown that mentality behind the wheel comes with deadly consequences."

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 26/08/2026

Ask yourself: did generations defend our democracy… for this?

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Tom Hewitt @thewyjr18.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I think Waymo is failing the Waymo test, and the people in the public right-of-way are the test subjects whether we like it or not.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 20/08/2026

I mean, this is what oligarchs and rightists have been doing for years now: stepping into wrecked information environments, and spewing garbage to fill the vacuums left by their fallen institutions.

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Tom Hewitt @thewyjr18.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is the type of NIMBYism we have to deal with in Seattle.

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Glen Stellmacher @glentalk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Seattle police officer says that an entire SPD squad quiet quit after the 2020 protests.

For Mike Magan, the pullback in enforcement spread even to his fellow detectives, causing him to hit breaking point. “One of the robbery squads just decided they weren’t going to work anymore,” he says. “They wouldn’t leave the office, they wouldn’t help you on search warrants, they wouldn’t come out and conduct interviews with you. They wouldn’t come out and track video. It was heartbreaking.” Magan couldn’t stand it and decided to retire early.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A Senate candidate talking about the Powell memo???? Pinch me, am I dreaming????

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Read this, it’s a really Important thread about “elite impunity” in the United States and why it badly needs to change.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/08/2026

They think this appeals to "ordinary people" because every asshole believes, deep down, that everyone else is an asshole too and only reason everyone doesn't act like an asshole all the time is fear or political correctness or whatever. Asshole behavior makes more sense once you understand this.

nytimes.com

Insults, Expletives and Fat-Shaming: Vance Trolls Critics on the Right and Left

The vice president has dispensed with the decorum and restraint of his predecessors to directly take on opponents and journalists on social media with sometimes profane and often personal jabs.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/08/2026

Starting to think Republican governance isn't a good idea.

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Seattle Department of Transportation @transportation.seattle.gov · 04/08/2026

SDOT is updating our Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Transition Plan, and we need your input. Please take our survey by Tuesday, September 15, 2026: www.seattle.gov/transportati... Your responses and feedback guide how we make Seattle's public spaces more accessible for all.

A person in a motorized wheelchair crosses the street along Rainier Ave S.

SDOT crew members build an ADA-accessible sidewalk ramp.

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Tom Hewitt @thewyjr18.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Biking after work to play some roller hockey yesterday at Judkins Park before the smoke arrived today was a good cleansing of my mind and body.

Cargo bike with backpack and hockey sticks attached with outdoor roller hockey rink in the background

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

New research shows that the US has been a global laggard curbing crash deaths. If the US had merely matched improvements in 14 peer nations, 500,000+ lives would have been saved from 2000-24. doi.org/10.1080/1538...

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Tom Hewitt @thewyjr18.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Without fail, there’s always at least one instance every time I bike to/from work downtown where I could have been seriously injured or killed if I wasn’t hyper aware of my surroundings (thanks ADHD).

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Tom Hewitt @thewyjr18.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Glad to have been able to catch up with @jahorne.bsky.social during his visit to Seattle!

Tom in a blue and green checkered shirt next to Jerome in a blue shirt with trees in the background.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Trump has denied most disaster requests from Democratic-led states

A graph showing Presidential approval rates for disaster requests from Democratic-led states and Republican-led states

Source: POLITICO's E&E News analysis of FEMA records

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

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‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)

The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.

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Tom Hewitt @thewyjr18.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Drivers get really mad when you slap the back of their vehicle and call them out after they nearly right hook another cyclist.

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

NEW: Taylor Farms is a big player in conservative politics. The company donated $2 million to conservative political groups in 2025 and its CEO has personally donated more than $900,000 to Republican PACs and candidates. It's also spent $810,000 on anti-regulatory lobbying since 2025

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Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak

The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The SAVE America Act mandates that all voters must bring to the polls specifically a photo ID which has proof of citizenship “on the front of the document.” So REAL IDs don’t count. If the ID does not precisely conform to that standard, you must also bring separate proof of citizenship.

SEC. 3. PHOTO VOTER
IDENTIFICATION
REQUIRED FOR
VOTING IN A FEDERAL ELECTION.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Each
individual voting in an election for Federal office shall present an eligible photo identification document.
(b) PRESENTATION
REQUIREMENTS.—
(1) IN-PERSON
VOTING.—In the case of an individual who votes in-person, the eligible photo identification document shall
(A) be a tangible
(not digital) document; and
(B) be presented at the time of voting.

(c) ELIGIBLE PHOTo
IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT.—For purposes of this section:
(1) IN GENERAL.—The
term "eligible photo identification document" means any document which
(A) is issued by an authority described in paragraph (2); and
(B) meets the requirements of paragraph (3).

(3) REQUIREMENTS.—A
document meets the
requirements of this paragraph if the document contains
(A) a photograph of the individual identified on the document;
(B) an indication on the front of the document that the individual identified on the document is a United States citizen; and
(C) either
(1) an identification number issues by the entity described in paragraph
(2)(A); or
(11) the last four digits of the social security number of the individual identified on the document.

(4) USE OF ADDITIONAL
DOCUMENTATION.—
(A) USE OF ADDITIONAL
DOCUMENTATION.—A document which fails to meet the requirements of paragraph (3)(B) shall not fail to be treated as an eligible photo identification document if the document is presented together with another identification document that indicates the individual is a United States citizen.

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Scott Rockvam @flowstatephoto.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." - Chief Seattle

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Tom Hewitt @thewyjr18.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Says the guy who looks like a fucking thumb

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The documents that Trump released and endorsed clearly validate and detail a massive Russian intelligence service operation to elect Donald Trump of which he and his entourage were aware and in which they knowingly participated. Russiagate is real, we learn.

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Tom Hewitt @thewyjr18.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Further proof that trump can’t ride a bike and jealous that Biden can.

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