“Taxes paid on Social Security benefits go directly to shoring up the trust funds for Social Security and Medicare Part A. Cutting these taxes accelerates the timeline in which those trust funds will become insolvent…. Which is now 2032.”
My god… 🤦🏼♀️
Great news! doh.wa.gov/newsroom/was...
Highly respected local expert and good human coming to lead DoH
Washington State currently has a loophole that allows young drivers to wait until they turn 18 to no longer be required to complete a driver's ed course before getting a license. This loophole has produced a 70% higher rate of injury or fatal crash involvement.
Today that loophole starts to close.
I do think talk of tariffs and people’s 401k tanking did NOT help… but the other elections (schools and fire) swinging in the other direction makes me think it’s not just economic uncertainty.
I’m very sad. I want nice roads, and so know this would have improved so many miles for all users.
Robert Moses’ spirit: “See, someone knows how to still do it! The kids are alright.”
11 WTF Moments from the Facebook Memoir Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Want You to Read, "Careless People"
A bicycle license fee?
This book was also a scathing review of Sandberg’s Lean In movement, and pulls back the curtain on how women are really treated at Meta. The fact that Joel Kaplan has been promoted after the company’s farce of an investigation highlights how meaningless words can be.
Careless People opens with the author being attacked by a literal shark, and details all the figurative ones she swims with at Meta. This review highlights “the Double Irish” and how the company offered “white glove surveillance service” to China.
A new CDC report shows that pedestrian deaths fell across the rich world 2013-2022 -- but not in the USA.
Americans were 50% more likely to die walking in 2022 than they would have been in 2013.
By 2022, the US was more deadly for pedestrians than all other countries studied.
NEW STORY // ‘Transformative’ Streets Initiative Goes to Tacoma Voters this Spring www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/21/t...
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
I wonder why HB 1386 doesn’t have a hearing scheduled…
President Trump's new head of the Federal Communications Commission has ordered an investigation of #NPR and #PBS, with an eye toward unraveling federal funding for all public broadcasting.
Nice inclusion of how little $6M is when you compare it to police budget… 😏
If any of these Americans tech companies get bail out $ when markets inevitably crashes b/c they’re now “too big to fail,” I’m going to be completely unhinged. (Right now, only partially hinged.)
Margaret Atwood talks about the first thing that happens with totalitarianism is a “purge of the true believers” citing H*tler’s Night of the Long Knives, where he culled the Nazi party of those who still believed in the socialism part of national socialism. She predicts: true Republicans are next.
If it was 1993 I would have said, “Let’s read this new release from Octavia Butler called Parable of the Sower. It kicks off with a girl fleeing a fire in Altadena and carries on to describe an Apex religious predator who becomes President to Make America Great Again…”
“In one study, adding streetlights yielded $121 for every $1 invested.”
The #1 thing that makes me feel safe are people walking their dogs or pushing their strollers. Lighting attracts these kinds of “eyes on the street.”
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