Pike Place is finally on the path to becoming a pedestrian-first street — but the vision won’t become reality without your voice.
The Pike Place PDA is deciding how and when to move forward. Let’s push for bold action this summer, not years of delay.
Join the conversation on April 16.
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Fired Justice Department employee reveals that Trump officials tried to send armed officers to her home to intimidate her and her family:
“I will not be bullied into concealing the ongoing corruption and abuse of power.”
3 months from now you’re going to be seeing one of those DEA massive drugs haul photos except it’s hundreds of bales of uncut Kerrygold
April 6th marks the beginning of National Library Week - which makes it a great time to step up and help defend our libraries.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) was recently targeted by an Executive Order. (1/4)
action.everylibrary.org/saveimls2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
I am writing to you today to urge our legislators to save federal funding for one of our most precious community resources − our public libraries!
an incredibly concerning story from @samanthamichaels.bsky.social about the politicization of the U.S. Marshals Service and DOGE's use of the marshals to intimidate judges and other federal agencies
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is a stunning find, and a glimpse at the Death Star scale of "mass deportation" spending foreseen in the reconciliation bill moving through Congress.
By comparison, "In the last fiscal year, D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE."
The Trump administration believes it has the legal authority to abduct any individual-citizen or immigrant, documented or not-and illegally deport them to another country without due process. It further claims that it can extinguish all of that person's constitutional rights by imprisoning them in a foreign nation. And it asserts that once that person has been locked away abroad, the U.S. government has no power or responsibility to bring them home, even if they were indisputably deported in error.
Trump’s Justice Department is currently asking the Supreme Court for permission to build a deportation machine that can disappear anyone, citizen and immigrant alike, to a foreign prison forever, permanently extinguishing their constitutional rights with zero due process. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Declaring emergencies to circumvent legal protections, in this case to justify logging national forests.
"The memo has the effect of declaring nearly 60% of all national forestlands to be in a state of emergency, thereby lifting the usual requirements for public comment and environmental review..."
Original bill: • Allows for the issuance of up to $1.6 billion of bonds for the design, right-of-way, and construction of the Interstate 5 Bridge Replacement Project. • Provides the process for the issuance and repayment of any bonds issued. Substitute bill compared to original bill: • Allows for the issuance of up to $2.5 billion of bonds for the design, right-of-way, and construction of the Interstate 5 Bridge Replacement Project, rather than up to $1.6 billion. • Creates a separate structure for the issuance and repayment of any bonds issued for the design, right-of-way, and construction of the Interstate 5 Bridge Replacement Project, instead of modifying the existing structure.
So, uh.
WSDOT and ODOT have been saying they plan to collect $1.1-$1.6 billion from tolling to fund the new expanded I-5 between the two states.
The Washington House transportation committee is set to vote Monday on a bonding bill that would increase that authority to $2.5 billion.
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It's no secret that local news has been gutted in the age of the internet.
A bill in Oregon is asking the biggest tech companies, such as Google and Meta, to pay back some of the wild profits they've made from local news while at the same time undermining local news.
60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP
I beg of you, here’s a starter pack on how we got the weekend and 8 hour workdays
Georgia is about to remove the registrations of over 450,000
registered voters.
Make sure you're not one of them.
Check your voter registration now and often.
www.ajc.com/politics/swe...
If you’re a North Carolinian, you can check whether your name or the names of anyone you know is on the list of the 65K voters whose votes may be tossed. You could have an opportunity to fix it if so.
thegriffinlist.com
google picture of a weird ai cover of the silmarillion
close up of the cover that looks really, really ai generated
did ... did this publishing house slap a shite ai cover on THE SILMARILLION? on TOLKIEN? on MY FAVOURITE BOOK?!? 🤬
i am about to lose my dang mind here. what the everloving heck is this cover?????? what did they do to my darling book?????? who are these characters????
*screams in rage*
The most significant part of the Tea Party wasn't the teabag protests, but the institutional power they built—running for office everywhere from the local level to the presidency and remaking the GOP in their image.
The protests helped get things going, but it was the follow through that mattered.
Op-Ed: The Next Seattle City Attorney Should Prioritize Wage Theft Prosecutions www.theurbanist.org/2025/04/05/o...
If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks.
The website to check linked in the reply.
www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
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It’s no joke, our friends at @bookshop.org are helping us celebrate #WeNeedDiverseBooksDay with a special promo code! 🛍️📚
Shop Bookshop.org on April 3rd and use the code “WNDB25” at checkout to get 15% off your purchase!
#BREAKING: POMONA COLLEGE SAYS IT WILL TURN OVER STUDENT DISCIPLINARY RECORDS TO CONGRESS:
Pomona College said it would comply with a congressional request to hand over all disciplinary records related to pro-Palestine activity on campus.
These schools are fascist collaborators
NEW — After putting all Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) employees on administrative leave Monday, I'm told DOGE is canceling congressionally-appropriated grants to state libraries across the entire country. Libraries are getting notice that funding was canceled as of 4/1.
More here:
Incidentally, since almost all the physical books from major publishers in the US are printed in China, that probably just increased the price by 50%, which massively lowers sales and means publishers will do much smaller print runs.
“The sheer breadth of the cuts is staggering: The layoffs affected agencies that exist to fight deadly pathogens, to protect the nation’s drug supply, to finance and carry out cutting-edge research—along with countless other offices that touch everything from rural health to early childhood care.”
People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.
People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.
People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.
People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.
A former French military base, Vauban is a thriving neighbourhood of 5,500 residents connected to Freiburg town centre by bus and light rail. Built in the late 1990s as a radical experiment in low-car living, it forgoes virtually all on-street parking in favour of active, green, and social spaces. 🧵
Firefly thread!
Wondering where all the fireflies have gone? Our home landscape decisions have had a detrimental impact on firefly populations around the globe. But you can create a haven for these glowing insects starting right in your own backyard with these tips:
Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...
AI search engines cite incorrect news sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/a...
Cathy Moore Wants to Make it More Expensive to Build Middle Housing
Moore says imposing fees on small developments in former single-family areas would not depress new housing development, contradicting the city's own analysis
publicola.com/2025/04/01/c...
When whites and minorities drive at identical speeds (according to objectively measured data from Lyft) Florida police are 24-33% more likely to issue speeding citations to minority drivers and charge them 23-34% greater fines.
These are not small effects!
