Evan Manvel
@evanmanvel.bsky.social
Lover of walking and biking, the Northwest, thoughtful policy, parking reform, climate action, and gueuze. Dad. Opinions are my own.
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We the people need a constitutional amendment to abolish the pardon power.
December 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
We the people need a constitutional amendment to abolish the pardon power.
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“… one of the things that immediately jumped off the page for me when I was reading your book is the fact that, by square footage, there is more housing for each car in this country than there is housing for each person.”
www.npr.org/transcripts/...
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How parking explains everything : Consider This from NPR
No matter how you measure it, there is a lot of parking in the U.S. According to some estimates there are as many as six parking spaces for every car. Put another way, America devotes more square foot...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:46 AM
“… one of the things that immediately jumped off the page for me when I was reading your book is the fact that, by square footage, there is more housing for each car in this country than there is housing for each person.”
www.npr.org/transcripts/...
www.npr.org/transcripts/...
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There is absolutely no bottom. They will kill and murder and steal and break the law and laugh at every rule and institution until they are stopped. They think they are all-powerful and all conventional rules of morality and legality do not apply to them.
December 1, 2025 at 5:22 AM
There is absolutely no bottom. They will kill and murder and steal and break the law and laugh at every rule and institution until they are stopped. They think they are all-powerful and all conventional rules of morality and legality do not apply to them.
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Seattle is not small or narrow. It’s huge and we can easily double our population if we are being realistic. It would fund transit, schools and services and bring an economic vitality and vibrancy to every part of our city
December 1, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Seattle is not small or narrow. It’s huge and we can easily double our population if we are being realistic. It would fund transit, schools and services and bring an economic vitality and vibrancy to every part of our city
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
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The term "Americanism" was then embraced by the KKK that was resurgent in the 1920s. A group called the "Americanist Educational League" was founded in 1927 (it still exists, btw) by a guy who would go on to be the leading voice for Japanese internment in WWII
encyclopedia.densho.org/John_R._Lech...
encyclopedia.densho.org/John_R._Lech...
John R. Lechner | Densho Encyclopedia
encyclopedia.densho.org
August 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The term "Americanism" was then embraced by the KKK that was resurgent in the 1920s. A group called the "Americanist Educational League" was founded in 1927 (it still exists, btw) by a guy who would go on to be the leading voice for Japanese internment in WWII
encyclopedia.densho.org/John_R._Lech...
encyclopedia.densho.org/John_R._Lech...
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Looks like it’s time to re-up this thread on the fascist genealogy of the seemingly pablum term “Americanism.”
November 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Looks like it’s time to re-up this thread on the fascist genealogy of the seemingly pablum term “Americanism.”
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Yes, who is more likely to regard the sacrifice of people as abhorrent than those who follow a religion centered on celebrating the sacrifice of a person?
November 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Yes, who is more likely to regard the sacrifice of people as abhorrent than those who follow a religion centered on celebrating the sacrifice of a person?
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The calf apparently got hooked on eating his food in yacht shapes after his mother did it once just to get him in the habit of eating his rich.
Picky Orca Calf Won’t Eat Rich Unless Cut Into Little Yacht Shapes: tinyurl.com/2uwf6ezp
November 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
The calf apparently got hooked on eating his food in yacht shapes after his mother did it once just to get him in the habit of eating his rich.
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Thread about an actual drug smuggler who’s about to be pardoned by Trump
Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted by a jury of conspiring to traffic 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Thread about an actual drug smuggler who’s about to be pardoned by Trump
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Minimum parking requirements create financially insolvent land use patterns.
The two apartment buildings on the right generate six times more in property taxes than the big box store on the left, while occupying almost half the space!
#BlackFridayParking
The two apartment buildings on the right generate six times more in property taxes than the big box store on the left, while occupying almost half the space!
#BlackFridayParking
November 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Minimum parking requirements create financially insolvent land use patterns.
The two apartment buildings on the right generate six times more in property taxes than the big box store on the left, while occupying almost half the space!
#BlackFridayParking
The two apartment buildings on the right generate six times more in property taxes than the big box store on the left, while occupying almost half the space!
#BlackFridayParking
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Happy Black Friday! Shop smart and shop safe! Take it away, Gus!
November 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Happy Black Friday! Shop smart and shop safe! Take it away, Gus!
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Black Friday reminder - that product with a great price being sold by a company with a name that's just a bunch of random letters may end up on our website someday because it explodes.
November 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Black Friday reminder - that product with a great price being sold by a company with a name that's just a bunch of random letters may end up on our website someday because it explodes.
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"What if I told you there was a simple, safe, & effective treatment to vastly reduce the risk of suicidal ideation among one of the most vulnerable group of children & teens? You'd be pretty stoked, I would think."
"[G]ender-affirming care saves lives."
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
New Study: Gender-Affirming Care Dramatically Lowers Suicide Risk for Trans Kids
Twenty-seven states in the US ban gender-affirming treatments for trans youth, including hormone therapy.
truthout.org
November 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"What if I told you there was a simple, safe, & effective treatment to vastly reduce the risk of suicidal ideation among one of the most vulnerable group of children & teens? You'd be pretty stoked, I would think."
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if i won the lottery i wouldn’t tell anyone, but there would be signs
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
if i won the lottery i wouldn’t tell anyone, but there would be signs
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And then there were FOUR 🎉🎉 Congratulations to Connecticut, which earlier this week became the 4th state to pass statewide Parking Reform in 2025: bsky.app/profile/ctpa...
Congratulations to IL on becoming the third state to pass state level Parking Reform in 2025!
We’ve still got CT & NC on the clock which would get us to 5 in one year! Amazing work by @parkingreform.org & many others 🙌🙌
We’ve still got CT & NC on the clock which would get us to 5 in one year! Amazing work by @parkingreform.org & many others 🙌🙌
Also contains parking reform! This is a preliminary map of Chicagoland based on the People Over Parking Act provision.
It would also apply downstate though!
It would also apply downstate though!
November 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
And then there were FOUR 🎉🎉 Congratulations to Connecticut, which earlier this week became the 4th state to pass statewide Parking Reform in 2025: bsky.app/profile/ctpa...
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This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
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The same road this picture was taken.
My neighborhood.
My neighborhood.
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The same road this picture was taken.
My neighborhood.
My neighborhood.
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so our government made a big deal about banning speed cameras but one city left theirs running to see what difference the ban would make and you are not going to believe this
November 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
so our government made a big deal about banning speed cameras but one city left theirs running to see what difference the ban would make and you are not going to believe this
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#Montreal 's just leap-frogged other cities in North America by opening the REM.
Automated. Electric. Frequent (2.5 minute headways). Fast (Capable of 110 km/h). Cheap to build. (One tenth the price of other systems)
And really fun to ride...
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Automated. Electric. Frequent (2.5 minute headways). Fast (Capable of 110 km/h). Cheap to build. (One tenth the price of other systems)
And really fun to ride...
🧵
November 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
#Montreal 's just leap-frogged other cities in North America by opening the REM.
Automated. Electric. Frequent (2.5 minute headways). Fast (Capable of 110 km/h). Cheap to build. (One tenth the price of other systems)
And really fun to ride...
🧵
Automated. Electric. Frequent (2.5 minute headways). Fast (Capable of 110 km/h). Cheap to build. (One tenth the price of other systems)
And really fun to ride...
🧵
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Just a reminder that a 22-year-old whose only previous job was at a grocery store is leading terrorism prevention for the United States. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...
www.propublica.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Just a reminder that a 22-year-old whose only previous job was at a grocery store is leading terrorism prevention for the United States. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Did you know there is a Thanksgiving placemat that, if you follow its instructions, will resolve political conflict?
The brainchild of Tania Israel! More here: taniaisrael.com/dialogue-flo...
The brainchild of Tania Israel! More here: taniaisrael.com/dialogue-flo...
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Did you know there is a Thanksgiving placemat that, if you follow its instructions, will resolve political conflict?
The brainchild of Tania Israel! More here: taniaisrael.com/dialogue-flo...
The brainchild of Tania Israel! More here: taniaisrael.com/dialogue-flo...
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Mentally replacing every "ChatGPT says..." or "we asked AI..." headline with "bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer."
Why do we find our pets so cute? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer | Helen Pilcher
Why do we find our pets so cute? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer | Helen Pilcher
Known for bold raids on urban bins, raccoons are becoming more domesticated – so how they look will gradually change, says science writer Helen Pilcher
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Mentally replacing every "ChatGPT says..." or "we asked AI..." headline with "bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer."
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New dream job just dropped
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
New dream job just dropped
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.