The massive Fentanyl drug overdoes is not a public health crisis, it's a public crime crisis.

Cities are for cars, not buildings. Tear them down!

Obviously Pickleball is a gateway activity to drug use

Yeah, pickleball on 3rd Ave downtown Seattle!
Last time I was waiting for a bus on 3rd Ave downtown, one nice man offered to sell me batteries. Another nice man offered to sell me some men’s underwear in the original packaging!

Pew pew old white men. They caught Gun Fever, just like the young murderer in AL.

@1 - I see no reason why it can't be both.

That car's like halfway inside the library! It appears to have made it far enough in to allow the drivers side door to open and the driver to go check out some books or whatever! And what the hell, are libraries up there constructed out of like styrofoam or something?

@#7) Perhaps unsurprisingly, wood framed walls are not designed to be resistant to automobile impact.

@1 - You have no understanding of the science of addiction whatsoever, do you.

The importers are committing a crime; the users are committing a disease.

To the rest: Go Rangers!! They were/are the only good thing about Texas...well, and Tex-Mex fare and BBQ.

@9,

Fair point. Should probably start reinforcing roofing though, given current trends.

https://www.kron4.com/news/national/unreal-car-crashes-into-second-story-of-california-home/

@7: the Ballard library was constructed out of straw. The next library this driver crashes into -- Greenlake, perhaps? -- will be made out of sticks; Only the third and final library will be of sturdy brick construction.

Antisemitism is terrible. The Jewish community has suffered enough.

The Palestinian community has also suffered enough. And widespread antisemitism makes it more difficult to advocate for their rights, because then you end up with antisemites latching onto you trying to make it about "the Jewish question" instead of what it actually is: state sponsored violence for the purpose of acquiring land, no different than when any other state has done it throughout human history.

Bigotry is so frustrating.

@10: What is your suggestion for addressing the flow of fentanyl from China to 3rd and Pine? There's only so much that Narcan dispensers, counselors, nurses, and nutritionists can do.

We see the local fascists have their usual answers to troubled people and poor people.

Just blame them, blame, blame them and while at it stick it to the tenants trying to survive rich landlords. Landlords who keep raising the rent while people are working themselves to death and that is never enough for the rich and powerful. Now is it? Something happened to their brains that they can keep justifying misery and have absolutely no positive answers.

@24... Those jobs are still available. It's just that white people don't want to do them. Immigrants (legal or otherwise) will. And those people that are unwilling to do menial labor seem to be the quickest to complain about "they're taking our jobs!!!".
Irony is dead.

Also, ST11, remember the CCC? Why can't we do that now? Invest in our country, put people to work. Win-win.

@22: I've never seen anyone write anything remotely fascist in all the years I've been reading Slog. Never.