This is exactly why HSI has tried to distance and separate themselves from ERO. They are not the same thing.

Fox News says “There's a weird kind of smugness... in the way that some of these liberal white women interact with authority” Wow, talk about smug. Which is why I love how this woman relentlessly mocks this guy. (And I know he is not an authority, but RAV is favored by Trump.)

This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong. I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.

The University Blvd Corridor Plan has been approved in a straw vote by Montgomery County Council. But opponents are still speaking out loudly against it. Official vote is next Tuesday. If you are so inclined, let the Council know you support the plan. www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/memb...

Pete Hegseth’s church is part of Wilson’s sect, and Hegseth has praised Wilson.

US 29 Flash BRT project team plans to narrow the sidewalk, but not traffic lanes, in front of CVS in Four Corners to make room for BRT Please let them know this is not acceptable. BRT needs walkability for success! #FlashBRT 1/ Email is right here: www.montgomerycountymd.gov/dot-dte/proj...

A Brief History of Halloween Isn’t Fun Anymore 🧵

If you support more housing, complete streets with safe walking, biking, and rolling and better transit in Montgomery County, please help support the University Blvd Corridor Plan. Here is a form to send an email to councilmembers.

This is the suburbs.

No Kings, For the love of America.

ICYMI yesterday: I wrote about Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America – and why democratic citizens have an obligation to hold the line on what we consider beyond the pale. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵

This is the time to let them know what you think about the plans so far. Is there enough traffic calming? Will you feel safe getting to the stations?

Is Trump Winning? Is He Losing? (And are those maybe the wrong questions to ask?) Kimmel uncanceled, Comey indicted, a terrifying “domestic terrorism” directive, and troops to Portland: Where does America stand in the struggle against encroaching authoritarianism? Some thoughts from my new piece:

Hegseth is putting all of the American generals and admirals from around the world into a single room. Why might Hegseth do such an extraordinary thing? Here I discuss four possible reasons. snyder.substack.com/p/hegseth-pu...

No bike parking at the Four Corners Safeway until after firewood season is over. #fourcorners

Instead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human? On behalf of my family, we send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents and innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence.

Chicago Sun Times

Amazing writing. More in the Fourth Estate need to do their jobs instead of focusing on self preservation.

SEPTEMBER 1ST - "RESIST FASCISM" PROTEST fiftyfifty.one for local details Please share 🙏

When advocating for safe bike infrastructure don't get bogged down in back and forths with bad faith arguers. Focus on positives and stories, not just stastistics. Talk about children and the future.

New at The Watch: radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-police...

For oldhead bus riders like me, Better Bus means redrawing our mental maps so we can relearn how to reach the places we’re already going. We'll get over it, eventually

Planners in Montgomery County MD oddly don't want this, and are rejecting it, even though people want it and it fits perfectly with our published guiding documents. @montgomerycountymd.bsky.social

🚸🚶‍♂️🚸 If you missed last night's Randolph Road Pedestrian Safety Improvement Project meeting, you can still provide feedback via the online comment form or by phone 240-777-2170 by 6:00pm, Friday, July 18 🔗 tinyurl.com/3v9r7yb3 @montgomerycountymd.bsky.social @natalifg.bsky.social #feedback

So, after watching the Brad Lander / ICE video... again we have a very very clear instance of ice doing something completely unlawful on camera. Obviously this is outside qualified immunity because they have no good faith reason to believe that what they're doing is legal.

Public meeting to discuss bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure for US29 Flash BRT This is the time to tell project team directly where current infrastructure is most in need of improvement. Tues. June 10, 6-8 pm. Silver Spring Civic Bldg. #flashbrt www.montgomerycountymd.gov/dot-dte/proj...

@actfortransit.bsky.social & @montgomery4all.bsky.social are proud to host @natalifg.bsky.social on June 10. Details in the link. www.actfortransit.org/june_2025_me...

There is still an opportunity to make our voices heard and to stop Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” from becoming law. This is not final. Call your Senator today: (202) 224-3121

Yesterday, a top Trump Administration official made an apparent threat to arrest me. Here’s my message to Wisconsinites. I encourage you to take a few minutes to watch. ⬇️

Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social

NEW: Democrats stood down on an effort to ban Maryland sheriffs from joining ICE's 287(g) program, which empowers sheriff's deputies to act like ICE agents. GOP sheriffs are rushing to join this ICE program, and Dems came close to stopping then. But they then gutted the bill with 20 minutes to go.

GPS said I was right next to a cafe, but I couldn't see it. I finally realized it was hidden by black screening. Businesses next to Purple Line construction are struggling, and we add insult to injury by obscuring them from sight with black screening. @purplelinemd.bsky.social #purplelinemd #dtss

Come support bicycle and pedestrian sidepaths as part of the next design phase of US29 BRT. The safety, comfort and dignity of people moving along the street and accessing transit will help determine how successfull BRT is. #flashbrt

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Link to todays @redwineblueusa.bsky.social event is here: go.redwine.blue/0325wifl-jcr...

Instead of having a plan for addressing our abysmal highway death toll, he goes straight to anti-city sneering and practicing his idiotic excuse for defunding public transportation with his Fox buddies.

But if democracy falls, it won’t be because those who want to abolish it are so smart and brilliant. They are not cunning geniuses or irresistibly magnetic political superpowers.   Resistance against those people will never be futile. They are, in so many ways, the worst.

Is it me, or are pickup truck drivers the worst at being aware of where their trucks are in space and time? #walkinghere #fourcorners

This is exactly the kind of housing above retail I want for my neighborhood. #fourcorners #silverspring

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

This article doesn't just talk about freedom for kids to be in public, but how this is a failure of government to provide what police see as safe infrastructure. Yet there is no attempt to hold government accountable. Instead citizens are punished. #fannincounty #walkinghere

Waymo engineer basically says "social norms" (negligent drivers not yielding to pedestrians) helps decide whether their cars will obey traffic rules, which results in them not yielding to pedestrians in crosswalks. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

It is outrageous that Musk is getting away with such a dangerous threat to great patriot Alexander Vindman. Raise your voice against him!

WATCH: If you STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown and all the urban parts of your city, watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes with Urban3 & @strongtowns.bsky.social. And then PLEASE SHARE it as much as possible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6...

Maryland SHA open house to discuss Pedestrian and bike improvements on University Blvd in Silver Spring, MD. 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Thurs, 14 Nov 24, at Margaret Schweinhaut Senior Center, 1000 Forest Glen Road, Silver Spring. Come and let SHA know how important improving safety is on University.

Exactly the small neighborhood retail/housing needed along University Blvd in Montgomery Co., MD to achieve goals of new master plans re: walkability, place making, vision Zero, 15 min living, climate crisis, etc. but Planning say they aren't recommending retail for University Blvd Corridor Plan.

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