Slight uptick in crime (or perception of)? Attack the decades long criminal code rewrite! Youth curfews! Is there evidence they work? How dare you ask that! Do you think we should do NOTHING? Some restaurants close? Is it actually a trend? Do we have data? No time for that! Repeal the last thing!

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Pen drawings of Chicago substation stone details. Left is at 2950 E. 80th, and right is at 6910 N. Glenwood (now the Lifeline Theater).

Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

🚨ACTIVE CHECKPOINT ALERT 🚨 There is an active checkpoint at the intersection of 30th St SE and Alabama Ave as of today, September 9, at 7:25 p.m. Avoid the area if possible! 1/2

Some good news for local bikers—the state has fully funded the Georgia Ave safety project

Cry more NIMBYs (again)

Oh great we’re doing this shit again

We are less than five years from having congressional hearings on Tartaria.

None of this is true.

Best Practices for Bystanders and ICE Watch! #WeKeepUsSafe

Jesus Christ man abolish this fucking agency

I took a trip to Richmond over the weekend to see a NASCAR race and it was as great as everyone says it is

The NIMBY three step: “I participated in the public process and did not get my way” becomes “I was left out of the decision making process” and then turns into “I deserve the power to overturn the result of the public process and impose my will on the majority by lawsuit.”

Man these are all better than the 7k series (by default) but they’re still pretty bad. Why not keep the classic brown stripe and the logo on the front?

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The Constitution “was not some kind of sacred compromise that came down a mountain on tablets,” and we should consider ourselves empowered to make dramatic changes to our political system, Osita Nwanevu says on this episode of “Interesting Times With Ross Douthat.”

DC is not a thought experiment for armchair commenters. Hundreds of thousands of people live here. None of us have representation at the federal level.

🚨The Denver City Council voted 9-3 to abolish minimum parking requirements citywide for all uses. This means more room for homes, small businesses, and people—not empty asphalt. A major step toward a more affordable, sustainable, and people-focused city. 📍Denver, CO

Former Valentine Chicago Boy's Club, built by a philanthropist after the death of his wife. He died himself soon after it opened. The totem poles flanking this remarkable entrance were based on real ones & are meant to protect the children entering these doors. Architects: Childs & Smith, 1939

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

Some good news—Montgomery County finally killed a zombie highway! Hopefully Montrose Parkway/the Outer Beltway and the beltway widening projects are next

so many things in Montgomery County feel stagnant rn but I am proud that we’re doing so well with social housing that it’s being called “the Montgomery County model”

If you post a thread complaining about speed cameras in DC, and you conveniently ignore that the cameras only get triggered at 10+mph over the posted speed limit, I’m just going to assume you think it’s your right to speed through my city with zero consequences.

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these so come along with me as I travel to Vienna to ride Fairfax City’s CUE bus system (and go to MetroFest).

The Georgia Ave bus lanes are moving forward mostly unchanged (!)

so much work for a small change, but we made it happen and we'll keep going

Trump's harassment of immigrant communities is doing what it is intended to do: empowering local bad actors to exploit people for profit even more. www.latimes.com/california/s...

we did it joe (passed the most watered down version imaginable of a once-visionary plan)

he looks pretty happy

I love him

Plug for the definitive history of WMATA on sale now

If people haven't been to the James A Garfield Memorial in Cleveland I highly recommend it. Architect George Keller designed a lavish and frankly bonkers Byzantine castle in the middle of a Cleveland cemetery, all to commemorate a president who's been completely forgotten by modern Americans

Geico is moving ahead with redevelopment per their submission for July 15th's DRC meeting👀 eplans.montgomeryplanning.org/UFS/42752/13...

happy independence day to those who celebrate, pls enjoy dumpster diving bald eagles with me

Remember: Car traffic doesn't belong in residential areas, and so therefore the appropriate place for multi-unit housing is on big roads with lots of cars!👀

Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's. And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today. Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill

can’t believe this

If you're a transit rider/advocate and want to see better bus infrastructure on New Hampshire Ave please fill out this survey by June 30th!

Léon Krier is dead. He should be remembered as a Speer apologist and (intentional or unintentional) aesthetic smokescreen for far-right thought, from neo-Nazism to techno-feudalism www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/a...

Jake Sherman is reporting that the Medicaid gender affirming care ban has been removed from the reconciliation bill! Huge news!

Adorable

i think, unfortunately, that this may be my masterpiece

oh HELLO

lol cry more NIMBYs

DC and Minneapolis seeing this result:

Allowing myself a brief lol, lmao, and then resuming not caring about the backwards ass city that just discovered garbage cans

In Portland, “the marquee project of the Reconnecting Communities program is almost perfectly Bidenesque — doubling down on a flawed status quo, while simultaneously incubating a transformative new vision.”

A big transit change from the budget negotiation process in DC: Allen is restoring the 20 million Bowser tried to cut from the Bus Priority Program.

NEW: We filed new STEER Act lawsuits against four out-of-state drivers. These four drivers repeatedly endangered others — racking up $340,710 in tickets for over 1,000 traffic violations in DC. We can make our roads safer for everyone by ensuring the most reckless drivers face consequences.