And that's why I successfully lobbied Congress and the President to overturn a law the District Council passed.

Tired: Choo Choo! Wired: Chūō Chūō!

Happy de minimis exemption cancellation day to all who celebrate! (That sound you hear is a lot of online shoppers getting very angry.)

AIception

I also have no plans to redistrict Virginia, and have about the same amount of power to do it or stop it as the governor of Virginia does (we're both registered voters).

I learned this at a student journalism conference in Ottawa in 2008. One of the panelists of professional journalists mentioned it as a matter of course, and another said it was an old trick everyone knew, and often provided a better story than the original request. FOIA your FOIA!

"It's a pornography store. I was buying pornography."

Challenge: post your last photo(s) taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is. (These were a few blocks from where the Kennedy Street Crew hung out.)

"Would you support the president vetoing District decision-making on criminal law?" "Yes." "And on its criminal law administration?" "What do you think I am, someone who opposes autonomy for the District?" "We've already established that. Now we're trying to determine the degree."

Interesting, and I'm sure @stephenjacobsmith.com will want to see this to add to his list of building code rules based on something that isn't real.

Virginia also had a performative outsider run for governor as Trump in Heels, and she was chased away. apnews.com/article/nanc...

Every paragraph is better than the last. I can't wait for the 1983 case when they get qualified immunity for falsifying official records after the non-prosecution.

She purposely left the Democratic party to run as an independent! She could register as a Dem to vote in the primary any time, but she'd have to resign her seat because the DC Home Rule Act bans >3 at large councillors from being in the same party. That's her choice! 1/4

Walker Not Running. www.wisn.com/article/scot...

Imagine if SportsCenter played this leading into every commercial.

It would be interesting to see traffic engineers, who often have a PE, have legal accountability for dangerous road design. I dare anyone to try suggesting it to one.

Ottawa unmatched. This is 6 km from downtown, 20 minutes by bike or a one-day bus ride, 15 by car with no traffic.

Toronto is the cultural capital of Canada.

Real trip here, as it goes from vehicle drivers to driver appeared to lose consciousness to driver purposely drives into crowd after being kicked out of club. Maybe before publishing do some, what's it called, reporting? The 24 hour news cycle is so bad.

Did you see the massive WSJ exclusive tonight?

Korea working with Japan, UK working with France, Canadian provinces working with each other, this truly is a golden age of international cooperation.

The Quebec Pension Plan needs to immediately take over the operations of every one of these concession stands. Need economies of scale to get the cheese curd domestic production going. Absolute win win.

If a law required 13 years and $35 million to do an environmental review of replacing slow diesel trains with fast electric trains, would you say that law helps or hurts the environment?

Sidewalk blocked with Jersey barriers, instead of providing safe passage for pedestrians actually further blocking the sidewalk, no ramps, right next to VCU dorms, all to save parking room for one (1) car. Classic Richmond.

Building height: who cares Facade articulation: lmao Massing: shrug Street/pedestrian interface: literally the only thing that matters about a building.

Montreal doesn't have a ton of really natural settings easily accessible by transit, but it does have some.

Hi, inflation expert here. This is not funny, countries only do this when they're in extreme distress.

My most evergreen election maxim:

If you saw "Project Delivery" in Winter 2026 in this Crystal City to DCA Bike/Ped bridge Gantt chart, what do you think that means by Winter 2026: 1. The bridge would be open to the public 2. The bridge would be built 3. The bridge would be designed

Here's why I came to embrace automated enforcement as a solution to violent traffic stops and police chases. And my trials and tribulations on attempting a Defund the Police style civilian traffic program which were impeded by our gun problem. darrellowens.substack.com/p/what-i-got...

Now, the minimum standard bike lane width, according to the CROW Manual, is 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) in urban areas. That way, two people can cycle abreast and a third can pass them.

Chaque fois qu'on va me parler d'un cycliste qui fait pas son stop, je vais ressortir ceci: 186$ pour frapper un cycliste, c'est presque rien...

We’ve had zero emissions buses for well over a century now.

A thing media outlets could do to improve their credibility is to cease the practice by which the body of the article is attributed to a real person, but the headline, social media posts and push notifications linking to the article and placement of the article are all totally anonymously decided.

What's an incredibly minor law you'd pass? I'd require all liquid toiletries to be labelled by volume, and ban any container with between 101 and 149 mL. If it's near 100 mL, it can't be just over.

See Tourism, Think Canada! (1867-2024)

Well over 90% of Canadians know that Canada wordmark (the word Canada with the Canadian flag above the last A). The US needs more of these: it helps show what the government is doing, and makes it clear it's an official government document or communication.

Heading to Boston today and might just relisten to the great Scratch & Win podcast, from @iancoss.bsky.social and the @wgbh.org team that won a Peabody for last season's on the Big Dig. Fascinating stories, gripping storytelling, very bingeable. www.wgbh.org/podcasts/scr...

I think this CNBC anchor has a GAAP in his knowledge.

She's so efficient she has time for a side hustle!

"Midnight" might be the word that causes more confusion than any other word.

The State of the Union is strong. But we need to protect ourselves from foreign adversaries. With a VPN,

Consultants are a fixable problem, the really deeper one is that a lot of liberal politicians see public projects primarily as a way to indirectly do things like provide jobs, rather than focusing first and foremost on delivering the highest quality project possible fast as possible.

Every so often I watch this perfectly crafted video that only works because, and I can never not notice this, the dwell times are insufferable here, right at the start of the summer of hell. m.youtube.com/watch?v=IMyq...

A surface tram project for C$500 million per km, mostly in wide streets without grade separation and otherwise in a highway median? Costs are out of control. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/g...

You'll never guess which jurisdiction sued here and got SCOTUS to weaken environmental laws for the whole country.

When Kevin Hassett wrote Dow 36,000, I'm not sure if everyone understood which direction he wanted stocks to move.