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How the hell is this shutdown our fault if Republicans can’t be bothered to show up

new Panic! At the Disco cover band just dropped....

Remember that Halloween when you dressed up as a[n] [insert urbanist costume here]? Send us a photo + description at [email protected]. We'll feature a selection in an upcoming post. 👻🚌

Mayor Bowser and President Trump agree: when a legislature says "You must spend this money in this way," the executive can simply disregard the legislature. DC under Bowser-Trump rule does not want our children to learn.

🚨🚍🚨🚍🚨 DDOT announces "Concept Open House" for the COLUMBIA HEIGHTS CROSSTOWN BUS PRIORITY PROJECT SAT Nov 1 (1–4p) OR TUES Nov 4 (5:30–7:30p) Mount Pleasant Library (16th & Lamont NW) Details at content.govdelivery.com/accounts/DCW... 🚍🚨🚍🚨🚍

Great news, Tiny Pumpkin Season has begun.

DC MPD’s Falcon helicopter clearly on a mission and not just looping around at low altitudes across the District for no reason.

Hatch Act Violation As A Service

Due to Yom Kippur, the October #ANC1B meeting—usually the first Thursday of the month—is pushed back a week. This meeting will be hybrid, and they have a new location for in-person attendance! Join online or at the Josephine Butler Parks Center, 2437 15th St NW (btwn Chapin & Euclid), Ground Floor.

Really nice, @wmatagm.bsky.social @wmata.com , parking in multiple bike lanes on the same block. Do you *want* bicyclists to get hit by yr officers or other drivers? I take it by the laughs I heard when snapping photos that your officers don't care about road safety or building community relations.

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The only team in the DMV to openly stand with the people of the DMV. Yet another reason to love the Spirit

It's too bad that the Hatch Act apparently doesn't apply to Republicans anymore.

Hey, you! Do you know any teachers, librarians, scout troop leaders, or other k-12 educators? Please send them this picture & link www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html For what Skype a Scientist lacks in advertising budget we make up for in program value. We're GLOBAL so this applies to all 😘

oh for the love of...

"Interesting" is a, well, _interesting_ choice here…

Kid 2 busted this out at the dinner table the other day, we love to see it

If you want a great map, you need Geoff!

Vacant units come up a lot in discussions around the housing crisis This is a good opportunity to go over what the data actually shows 🧵

I've got my students in Transportation Systems Planning participating this week, and doing a series of small activities. They'll create StoryMaps out of the experience. I'll try to share some of the activities here. Anyone else using it in an educational setting? #WeekWithoutDriving

“Come out and eat and support us…. Even if it’s just an appetizer, that goes such a long way.” wtop.com/dc/2025/09/s... Fabulous place (good drinks, too, as I recall). Please do support if you can.

So exhausting..

I wish I could be as excited for this as many are… This new trail is better, yet still reflects "deep, motorist-oriented bias that," as I/PAC hv said (jski.net/testimonies/...), "pervades [DDOT] decisionmaking." Walkers+riders will share a 10' strip while 15K drivers still get a hwy built for 50K.

Hi transportation friends! I'm looking for examples of arterial traffic calming especially in low/moderate income communities of color or near an airport. Already looking at Buford highway in Atlanta. Ideas very appreciated!

Today!

"Whoever forbids Antifa, wants fascism! Make Antifa Great Again!" - Bayern Munich fans on Friday, right behind the goal, so guaranteed to be in the broadcast worldwide.

The DSCC’s pick for MI senate is Haley “Endorsed non-Democrat Michael Bloomberg for President” Stevens. Vote McMorrow!

Ok, that was fun — possibly the most entertainment I've gotten from a donor "gift" in a long time, TBH.

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

Thank you @brianneknadeau.bsky.social for your service!!

But do they like to get down?

Hey everyone! It's the guy who fucked your economy specifically and laid off your friends, family, and neighbors! We are with him! Vote for us!

@wmata.com @metrorailinfo.bsky.social Red line car 3212 right side center door did not open at Gallery Pl or Metro Center.

So, good news: it is no longer raining heavily in Silver Spring Bad news: all of Downtown Silver Spring smells heavily of wet dog.

Le DOOOM hath arrivée in Silver Spring now también.

that the global sausage market is valued at $116.5bn this year is really an indication that we're in the wurst timeline.

i suppose they're going to need it if they keep giving coaches $6M termination fees — that's not salary, that's just the fee for the last coach to get lost — but it certainly does put the flood of emails this month to buy football tshirts into some kind of perspective.

Would've been nice if they were telling people this before entering the system, I would've just taken the bus from Farragut to Silver Spring. Instead I just got forced off at NoMA-Gallaudet so the train could turn around and I'm waiting for the next one.

There sure are a lot of people still on Substack who really shouldn't still be on Substack huh?

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Apparently I laughed too hard at this, so the universe has sent me my own cricket to the echo-y vestibule outside my door...

Goodnight, all. May we all know moments of peace and sun-warmed bliss like this adorable ocean potato I saw today.

i already have one of these, but now i feel like i almost need to get another.... (<might have to try to make it to the MtP Farmers' Market and see if they have the purple ones I've seen people wearing but don't see in the online shop...>)

technologically advance a band: Depeche Multimodal

technologically advance a band: Nine Inch Nailguns

Happy Earth, Wind & Fire day to all who celebrate! music.apple.com/us/album/sep...

Pepper Jack Cheez-It. Which AFAICT they don't even make anymore, so (or maybe TJ's everything-but-the-bagel crackers)

The president ordering the murder of 3 more human beings on a boat didn’t even make the list

A driver turning right killed a pedestrian crossing 13th Street at Harvard Street NW Friday morning. 😢