@zachlowenba.bsky.social As Beck documented, superstar acquisitions rarely yield a ring. OKC/Seattle drafted 3 MVPs then traded for SGA. San Antonio won the Wemby lottery but has also hit big on a core that I as a Spurs fan previously thought was overrated. Small market gripes only go so far.

Snowcrete RN

Good evening (from 1987)

Police just blocked off I 395 headed into the Capitol tunnel

ALX folks: 7 YO wants to organize a cleanup of duck pond in Stonegate scenic easement. Some possible oil contamination. I am unsure who to contact for help, seems like we would need some equipment especially for the oil. Advice welcome!!!!

Bike/ped responses from all 5 candidates 🎉 go BPAC

Modest language policing proposal: Local control is not being preempted, state control over land use is being restored.

"According to the city, the Department of Public Works had 800 employees and 500 plows ready. But their own plow-tracking tools told a different story. At one point, I counted just 21 plows working citywide, far below what residents had been led to expect." www.commonplace.org/p/joe-bishop...

The Wizards now have the assets to trade for Luka

The executive branch's awesome power was a feature until it became a bug.

Has the hazardous household waste drop-off location near Duke Street reopened yet?

My daughter is fine but please, make sure your kids wear a helmet while sledding.

Yup. Because that's what professionals do.

Snow is nature's urban planner: It can show us what parts of the roadway drivers don't use — and what can be reclaimed for pedestrians. Post your photos and videos of all the #sneckdowns you see and tag us and @mayor.nyc.gov so today's winter wonderland can inspire better streets year-round!

Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Cops find guns on people all the time without any shots fired or anyone dying.

My podcasting approach www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLS-...

Coming in hot

Missing person in Fairfax

My dad is alive and well but I already inherited his record collection and am finding it a bit overwhelming to go through. Is there a service in the DC area that can go through a record collection, put a value on each record, sell the ones I earmark, and then take a cut of the proceeds?

Parking reform bill introduced in Virginia's general assembly, a banner day!

Great news

Montgomery County, Maryland, is held up as an example of good housing policy but it is in practice a great failure. Its public housing authority relies on property tax abatements and its rent control scheme has cratered new multi-family construction. montgomeryperspective.com/2026/01/06/m...

What's a successful example of minimum lot size reform that's not Houston?

If you want some nice speakers for an excellent price hit me up. Was not planning to sell but I realized a smaller pair would be easier to build a new living room around. www.facebook.com/marketplace/...

@mcmegan.bsky.social I just told my wife that I am reading a Megan McArticle and she said I should tell you.

Two things can be true: Maduro is a vile despot who stole the election & has caused unimaginable harm & trauma to Venezuelans, including economic collapse & mass migration. Trump’s invasion of Venezuela has nothing to do with helping Venezuelans & everything to do with Trump’s own power.

Good book but the littany of failures is so overwhelming as to be almost boring

200 block of King mobbed with pedestrians. What a glorious sight.

A portable toilet ended up in the road on Columbia Pike headed toward the Pentagon. How do I report that? Probably blown there.

Primary held with less than a week's notice in the middle of the holiday season. This is nuts.

Building more housing is central to reinvigorating liberal democracy

Crumbl cookies are borderline fraud

Can #arachnid bsky help me identify this? It’s about 1cm by 1cm inclusive of the legs.

Bravely solving the geometry problem

I don't feel that old as someone in my mid-thirties and also people 10 years younger look like literal children to me

Note to self

The No True Alexandria Parade Scotsman Fallacy

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I found another new way to say the same thing lucagattonicelli.substack.com/p/parking-re...

This will be the last Thanksgiving that Shirlington spends separated from Alexandria--the West Berlin of Northern Virginia.

Thanksgiving celebrates abundance.

I was, apparently, super locked in during the housing panel with @ebwhamilton.bsky.social and others at FREOPP's conference on Friday. FREOPP is a great think tank dedicated to lifting up Americans in the bottom half of the income scale, check them out!

Gonna 🧵 some insights from this data portal as i take lil work breaks 1/ Low density residential zoning might be bad for our local economy? Maps show inventory of various building types, overlayed with Residential Low zones. Big swaths of Alx have no commercial uses, or nearby (hello 🚗 traffic)

Roses are red Violets are blue Rent control in LA is going to be a disaster just like it is in New York and everywhere else

Sic semper single-family zoning

Rabies confirmed, be careful with your pets and kids out there

“We’re excited to start on the next chapter of housing reform, which should include the launch of Zoning for Housing’s promised second phase” - me

Elected officials understand that housing is popular