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@benrosstransit@mastodon.social
2025-05-30 17:41:34

@ddayen.bsky.social @… This kind of "public participation" is what nimbys rail against. It's *anti-democratic* because opponents use it to frustrate the will of the majority.
What both sides of the "abundance" debate miss is that in practice you can do this to transit & infill housing but no…

Rivera Proposal Would Slow Down Seattle Light Rail Permitting - The Urbanist
# Councilmember Maritza Rivera's last-minute proposal would require additional public outreach and documentation for light rail permit applications. The underlying bill had been intended to cut red rape. After pushback from Councilmembers Rinck and Strauss, the vote was delayed a week.

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-05-30 23:28:31

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-05-30 17:10:22

Enormous early-season wildfireshave erupted across the prairie provinces of Canada this week,
taxing local emergency response and threatening a long stretch of dangerous air quality across eastern North America.
The country’s largest fires
– the Bird River fire and the Border fire
– remain completely uncontained in northern Manitoba.
In Manitoba alone, wildfires have burned about 200,000 hectares already this year – already about three times the recent full-year …

Recent Canadian wildfires are record-breaking – and will threaten US air quality for days
After historic seasons in last two years, blazes continue trend of warm, dry conditions intensified by climate crisis

@scott@carfree.city
2025-05-29 05:54:46

"The big problem is 'bottlenecks' that make it harder to produce housing, expand energy production, or build new roads and bridges."
vs.
"The big problem is that big corporations have way too much power over our economy and our government."
By 12pts all voters and by 42pts Dem voters prefer the second statement. They're right!

Poll: Democratic voters prefer "populism" over "abundance"
Democrats are asking themselves some hard questions as they ponder how they lost the 2024 election.

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2025-05-26 21:06:26

[OT] NYT: How will we know when we have lost our democracy? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/opinion/trump-authoritarianism-democracy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KE8.FGmV.1w9_LDeDoILI&am…

Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?
And how exactly can we tell whether America has crossed the line?

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-05-31 03:24:24

In Poland’s golden hour, a looming threat to Europe’s unity
Across Europe’s newest economic powerhouse,
where living standards have leapfrogged Japan’s and are on course to surpass Spain’s and Israel’s,
incomes are surging, shops are buzzing and borders are secure
— at least for now.
 Poland, once a dreary outback in Cold War communism’s slough of despond, is now in Europe’s first rank in economic, diplomatic, military and political terms.
Situated in Cent…

In Poland’s golden hour, a looming threat to Europe’s unity
A nation is torn between its democratic promise and the pull of authoritarian politics.

@joshmoore@fediscience.org
2025-05-27 13:59:58

How will we know when we have lost our democracy?
#FederatedMemory

@rae@bne.social
2025-04-29 03:26:25

Dangerous waters - According to Media Watch, "Austen Tayshus" has since last year received more than 90 minutes of airtime on ABC local radio over 11 segments,
https://www.

ABC chair Kim Williams denies interfering with editorial decisions over comedian's radio appearances
Kim Williams has denied interfering in editorial decision-making in order to secure airtime for an Australian comedian.

@bobmueller@mastodon.world
2025-05-28 22:00:35

Good to see at least someone's calling legislators out for their hypocrisy.
#Texas #religion #FirstAmendment

Texas Democrat exposes GOP hypocrisy in bill forcing Ten Commandments in classrooms
State Rep. James Talarico asked simple, effective questions to highlight how Republicans don't care about actually following the Commandments

@gfriend@mas.to
2025-04-29 02:35:37

"We are creatures of the air…"
- Rebecca Sonit
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/w…

We Are Firefighters: A Talk About the Climate and the Trees
This is a slightly edited version of a talk I gave at last Saturday's benefit concert by the adventurous and world-renowned Kronos Quartet for Oil Change International, a climate group on whose board I've served since 2017. It was at the Oakland studio of the dance company Bandaloop, whose dancers

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