David Welton

That such visceral harms of regulatory capture don’t piss more people off is just bizarre to me

Progress on getting more units built exposes fault lines and a lack of urgency at the Washington Statehouse Washington’s short, even-year 60-day legislative session is always a sprint for housing advocates like myself. But it felt like this one jumped out of the gate faster than usual in

Housing advocates did make some progress during this session of #waleg, but it was stymied by a frustrating lack of urgency, Omnicause politics, and continued fault lines among legislative Democrats.

We desperately need better from them in 2027.

Read my latest for the @inlander.com:

If you think the Dems are skilled at coordinating... 🤣

Seems like you'd want them even in successful systems like Waymo for situations where a human needs to show up and extract the vehicle from some kind of failure. Rare but at scale rare things happen

Sounds like a movie about a group of local NIMBYs

"Questions are flying, ever since the start of Sepharax the Cruel’s Thousand-Year Blood Reign. Whether it’s the Pit of Souls or the Child Reapers, there’s a lot to be worried about. But most of all? The price at the pump."

My favorite thing is when people act as if a car and a bicycle pose the same risk to vulnerable road users

They (and of course the anti change fire people) managed to stop this in Oregon 😩

First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

i think jamelle bouie is where i got this point from (though its obviously not unique to him): trump doesnt escape consequences so much as the institutions designed to impose consequences refuse to penalize him. this is absolutely not the same thing. hes not magic, people are just lazy and stupid.

Everyone else in the room when a former DOGE employee was deposed.

Don't like fascists and their corporate donors? RIDE YOUR BIKE

"Some people seem confused" could stand on its own

I’m sorry, you are right. I should have included the possibility of Iran mining the Strait of Hormuz in the war plan. It is a critical shipping channel that Iran can block and cripple the world economy. I failed to take that into account. That’s on me.

I'm taking it for granted that R's are simply not a viable option if you value democracy, so more focused on figuring out Dem stuff

I missed the centrist phase. I thought his whole thing was 'The Dems....' like it's some monolithic entity

Is there something we can learn from this? Or was it all the stroke?

The look of terror in her eyes when housing is mentioned at a social event

"What if we had very prescriptive planning, but for good?"

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a destroyed building and says please disperse Alt: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a destroyed building and says please disperse

It feels like the background there is distinct enough that someone could make it into this

@sightline.org @andersem.bsky.social come to mind.

@melaniekebler.bsky.social here in Bend is in the position of trying to implement things while balancing a bunch of competing interests (and doing a good job of it)

Any particular focus you're looking for?

Maybe you should run for something

Diehl said he and other plaintiffs were “especially concerned” that reporters viewed Leith’s decision before his attorneys received it and that he was calling for an investigation. The decision was posted Wednesday afternoon to Oregon’s online court records database, which lawyers, journalists and anyone else with an account can access.

In which a state representative running for governor calls for an investigation because reporters… stayed by their computers and refreshed the state’s court records website anticipating a decision.

oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/03/11/j...

“America and Canada’s elevators are the most expensive in the world, and the U.S. has fewer of them per capita than any high-income country with available data. Less than 6% of housing is accessible to the more than 30 million American adults with mobility disabilities.” @stephenjacobsmith.com

"When Executive Order 9066 was signed by President Roosevelt in the midst of WWII, which effectively placed over 100,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps, the City of Los Angeles seized control of Little Tokyo. [...] Then in the '70s large Japanese corporations shook hands with the City of Los Angeles to redevelop and commercialize Little Tokyo without the community's interests in mind."

la_littletokyo and sustainablelittlet... Follow ... 3］ た L TC C SUSTAINABLE LITTLE TOKYO "For many of us, walking through the Japanese Village Plaza immerses us in culture through architecture reflective of traditional Japanese styles. [.] However, looking out at the skyline, high-rise buildings and modern architecture obstruct the view, and all of a sudden we are back to the commercial, modernized world."

oh my god the left-NIMBYs in LA are comparing mixed income housing on what is currently a warehouse to… Japanese internment.

beyond parody

Here's my bottom line:

Much of what they are doing is bad.
Much of what they are doing is unpopular.
Pushback is working.
We are winning.
Keep fighting.
Be creative.
Push for what you'd want.
Allow for insiders and outsiders.
Realize that change takes time.
Reduce harm in the meantime.

The shit should captain a ship

Trump should captain a shit through the Strait of Hormuz to show it's safe

The fact that the leaders of our government don’t read is turning out to have some really negative implications