When you look at expansive suburban neighborhoods, you probably don't think of these as a form of subsidized housing. But the math doesn’t lie: spread-out suburbs generate far lower tax revenues per acre than our compact urban downtowns. Our older urban neighborhoods are subsidizing new suburbs.

The rational market is a very useful economic theory, in the scientific sense, and utter hogwash on a day-to-day basis. Political economy on the other hand…

Cost of moving the northbound bus stop on Georgia Ave/97 at Aspen Hill Rd to the side with a marked/signalized crosswalk: two lives. We should not have to pay for safe streets with blood.

When James Dolan cancels the watch party outside MSG, we bring the watch party to you. Thanks to the @nba.com, Knicks Game 4 is now playing on dozens of LinkNYC screens across our city. LGK.

montgomery county's ambivalence towards making it so young people and working people can afford to live here is killing the county. budget problems are just the start

LET'S GO KNICKS!

Join us TOMORROW, May 28th, for our second of two County Executive Candidate forums! 7 PM @ Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Ctr 4805 Edgemoor Ln, Bethesda, MD RSVP and submit your questions: bit.ly/GOPforum26 with @montgomery4all.bsky.social, @actfortransit.bsky.social, @waba.org, MCCPTA

My neighborhood in action! (Each week a group of folks agree on a new / renewed message.)

And we were also at the Silver Spring Metro handing out scorecards. Big thanks to all the volunteers getting up very early to take on this task. My friends and colleagues @carolynl222.bsky.social and @tonybyrne.bsky.social worked with me today.

@nycsanitation.bsky.social I’d like to report a sweep

True, a military budget of $1,500,000,000,000 in money we don’t have, borrowed from future generations who could not vote about it, and who can never repay it, is far more dangerous to the national security than any threat from abroad. But there’s still a lot of enthusiasm about it.

blue states must do better than Idaho, a state that this spring passed a starter home bill similar to bills that failed in Maryland and Connecticut—but unlike Idaho, we didn’t also make it illegal for trans people to go to the bathroom www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Meanwhile, @cherylcort.bsky.social is planning a DC bike/walk tour, and @cmkisicki.bsky.social is planning a MontCo MD candidates forum.

Our local election scorecard is here! TRANSIT SCORECARD - WHERE THE CANDIDATES STAND ON TRANSIT ISSUES www.actfortransit.org/scorecards2026

Nothing says leisure class like waiting in the beating sun for a bus, next to acres of hot black asphalt parking lot!* *a post for the people who say that walking/bicycling/transit are bougie and working folks drive cars.

What if the road-repaving budget also covered sidewalk-fixing (Including ADA compliance), every time a road was repaved?

A full write-up on the transit oriented development law just passed by the Maryland legislature. Includes the amendment proposed by @actfortransit.bsky.social which exempts mixed-use development on WMATA-owned parking lots from most local land use restrictions. ggwash.org/view/103392/...

Join us for our May monthly meeting! Who: Brian Wivell, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 What: Transit Workers' Vision for the Future of Metro When: Tues May 12 7:30 pm Where: Silver Spring Civic Bldg Why: ATU 689 represents WMATA workers, MetroAccess contractors, & MTA Commuter Bus contractors

RIP John Sterling, the voice of the NY Yankeees. Many memorable calls, but this one sticks out for me. NY lost the 2001 World Series, but for a couple nights anything was possible and Sterling was the narrator of baseball's version of the Neverending Story. youtube.com/watch?v=hpBS...

In Seattle's Pike Place Market, vendors claimed that removing cars would cripple them. Nope. Sales actually rose. Remember: Studies show that biz owners consistently exaggerate how many customers drive and undercount those who walk, bike, or ride transit. Info: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

For #MoCo neighbors, @montgomery4all.bsky.social hosted a candidate questionnaire for council member and county executive aspirants. The answers are quite illuminating! Check them and get educated before you vote #housing #transit www.montgomery4all.org/2026-candida...

When you invite regular folks at community festivals to tell you about what land use and transit futures they want, this is what they say. @montgomery4all.bsky.social #MoCo

THIS EVENING! Come hear what the Democratic candidates for Montgomery County MD county executive have to say about transportation topics, including housing near transit, transit priority over roads, and people who aren't in cars.

Plan must be approved by Maryland DOT & must include housing. (As 1st proposed by Gov Moore, this applied only to state-owned parking lots.) This is the first yimby legislation I know of that entirely eliminates density limits rather than loosen them. 2/2 mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/L...

Maryland legislature last night passed @govwesmoore.bsky.social's Transit Oriented Development bill with amendment proposed by @actfortransit.bsky.social. The ACT amendment exempts mixed-use development on @wmata.com station parking lots from all local zoning rules that limit density & use. 1/2

Join us at the Democratic Primary County Executive Candidate Transportation Forum, Tuesday, April 14, 7 pm, at Planning, 2425 Reedie Dr, Wheaton! Register & submit questions here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1FVJ... With @betterdcregion.bsky.social, MCCPTA, @montgomery4all.bsky.social, and @waba.org.

“This is not just a regional crisis. It is a stress test of the nuclear system itself — and the system is failing.” Our Danny Hall breaks down why the Iran crisis exposes the inherent failure of deterrence. Preventnuclearwar.org/the-iran-war-is-a-stress-test-and-the-nuclear-system-is-failing

"Redirecting even a fraction [of subsidies] toward agroecological transition, renewable energy on farms, and local food infrastructure would reshape the landscape,” writes author, filmmaker, and research professor Raj Patel in an op-ed.

Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.) This is an atrocity.

Through its actions in Caracas and in Tehran, the White House has signaled and confirmed its conviction that a head of state who is corrupt, authoritarian and dangerous may be removed by other states by any means necessary. Other national governments may find this position attractive too.

Getting the US into avoidable disaster in Iraq took months and months and months. In Vietnam, it took years and years and years. We are just three days into this totally unnecessary, one-man's-whim fiasco.

That's a PRETTY GOOD QUESTION

​New research from @cathywu.bsky.social et al. confirms something I've long suspected: Navigation apps could save their users a lot of time — and tilt travel decisions toward transit and biking — if they showed users how long it takes to find parking.

Yes, and don't forget Brazil:

Are there any governments acting in solidarity with the American people rather than playing Trump’s tariff games? Where are EU, Australian, Japanese, New Zealand, South Korean govts on ICE’s ethnic cleansing, human rights violations and extrajudicial murders?

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

US DOT has not signed a single agreement for a big transit project since Duffy entered office. DOT eliminated funds for billions of dollars worth of projects. Tens of thousands of people are killed each year in car crashes. Transport emissions are increasing. Meanwhile, Duffy is focusing on pajamas

Any cabinet secretary who does not resign now assumes full responsibility for this.

In pedestrian crashes, the story rarely refers to the driver, only the car as if it is an AV. But when an actual AV is hit then there is a driver. Fascinating. www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

What's behind the affordability crisis? In large part, it's automobile dependence. It used to be that housing or rent was a household’s biggest expense, far exceeding any vehicle-related cost. But now those things are neck and neck for a lot of people.” [gift link] wapo.st/3Lkugqb

We have to push back against living in a violent dictatorship. This event in Silver Spring is one way to do it.

With the world's eyes on US oil interests, let's not forget who benefits: The richest of the rich. Our research shows: 50% of the record fossil fuel profits in 2022 went to the wealthiest 1% of US Americans, the bottom 50% only received 1%. Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is insanity. The president should prioritize governing the United States and reducing the cost of living, instead of helping Big Oil occupy Venezuela.

Don’t be fooled: you can’t both claim this was simply the execution of an arrest warrant AND say the U.S. is now "running" Venezuela & grabbing its oil resources. Trump just admitted this was a clear regime-change play to enrich U.S. oil companies & his billionaire buddies.

Mamdani’s vision: a rejection of neoliberalism & promotion of the public sector: “For too long, we have turned to the private sector for greatness, while accepting mediocrity from… the public… To those who insist that… the era of big govt is over… no longer will City Hall hesitate to use its power.”

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:

Indeed. MD cannot claim climate leadership and do this. It's time for MD to show some ambition for public transit.

We do not need more endless debate. It's only the will.