Of course Kristi Noem should be fired. Of course she should be impeached. Of course she should resign in disgrace. But also, she should have never had the job in the first place.

Maryland Senator standing up for the people against funding the secret police. Thanks @alsobrooks.senate.gov !

The fourth bicyclist killed in Montgomery County MD in 2025. Lack of hi-vis is not the problem, and #BeSafeBeSeen won't solve it. bsky.app/profile/actf...

Trump is a loser. Bovino is a loser. Miller is a loser. Vance is a loser. Everyone in the regime is a loser. Never let the stink of loserdom wash off of them.

@actfortransit.bsky.social Saw this recruitment ad for CBP recently on a @wmata.com bus.

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Come celebrate our 2025 victories, like passing More Housing NOW! Join Montgomery for All + Councilmembers Natali Fani-González and Andrew Friedson this Tuesday, January 20th in Rockville at The Spot Asian Food Hall. RSVP:

If any of my EU followers can run this up the flagpole in Brussels, get them to put the hardest sanctions on the companies whose investors and CEOs have been fellating Trump for 8 years. Start with Tesla, work your way through Meta, Google, and Amazon, and continue on down from there.

I'm gonna be there. Come through!

Automated enforcement for stop signs starts tomorrow in @takomaparkmd.gov! To avoid the $40 ticket, drivers can...stop at stop signs! Or maybe not even *stop* stop. "Ethical enforcement" will distinguish "between cautious rolling stops & dangerous failures to stop."👀 mocoshow.com/2026/01/07/a...

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

Governor Moore announced his 2026 housing agenda today: streamline permitting, boost transit-oriented development, and legalize smaller homes on smaller lots. He also unveiled a new mixed-use development at the Capitol Heights Metro station, which has been a parking lot for 45 (!) years.

On Jan. 6, 2021, bloody insurrectionary violence interrupted the peaceful transfer of power. Today, America is still caught in an epic struggle between selfish forces of rule-or-ruin autocracy & the unyielding defenders of constitutional democracy all over America.

The overlap between places we want to dominate and places that have oil is striking

The actual left of center affordability agenda would involve: antitrust in the ag industry, regulatory reform in housing, transportation and energy permitting, and straight up nationalizing healthcare. Not to Lib out too much, but these are all different frames and different markets are different!

@ericsaul.bsky.social still enjoying the lovely ornaments. Happy festivus!

For a contemporary example of this, look at the extremely precise parking requirements in the ITE Parking Generation Manual.

I've also been hearing these Christmas fireworks!

Residential permits might also lead drivers to have even more entitlement over the curb than they have now. Instead of "I pay taxes so how dare you take my parking" it would be "I paid for a permit so how dare you take my parking." That could make it hard to install bike lanes or bus lanes.

This is disgraceful. They should be at home with their families. Instead, Trump is forcing them to walk around in the cold for his fascist national security theater. DC is absolutely dead this time of year. There’s nobody here to “terrorize.” Just pathetic all around.

Excellent essay. Despite the marketing, LLMs are generally reinforcing existing structures and systems rather than threatening them. The focus on LLMs as the primary actors in the story can occlude that context.

Also Smith pushes back (gently) on the deranged notion -- which both Manchin & Flake echo -- that the filibuster encourages bipartisan cooperation. It's false as history, false as theory, & above all false in practice. But these guys love their myths.

Hill Family Biking Holiday Lights Ride is Saturday! 🎄 -> Only all ages nighttime ride of the year 🌙 -> Ends at The Roost with FREE hot chocolate and discounted food ☕ -> Indoor secure bike parking 🅿️ eventbrite.com/e/1097504679...

don't worry, john roberts says this is a legitimate exercise of presidential power and if we did anything to curb it, we would be robbing the executive of the energy he needs to do his job

I swear maybe once a decade in public, and this is the moment. This fucking racist and all the gibbering racists nodding along behind him are the ruination of our country. Our fucking job for the next fucking year is to fucking destroy them in the next election. Fuck them.

We must keep calling out those that cave to the Trump Admin, and the latest is Northwestern. As part of their "deal," NU will pay $75 million, stop vital research, renege on agreements with its students over the war in Gaza, and more. Throwing your students under the bus to please Trump. Shameful.

This is the fundamental suburbanite view. Every new building must have its own oversupply of off-street parking so that no one will park in front of my house.

Solar power made up 9.7% of US electricity this September, up from 7.6% last year Over the last twelve months, solar has made up 8.3% of US electricity, a record high!

The US housing shortage is acute & driven by policy. The prevailing explanations for why voters oppose new supply focus on two things: "Homevoters": Homeowners protecting property values. "NIMBYism": Neighbors fearing local nuisances (traffic, parking) in their "backyard."

What are the potential policy implications? First, design matters. If the YIMBY movement wants to build broad coalitions, it cannot ignore aesthetics. Policies that ensure better design or "fitting in" (like form-based codes) might reduce political friction.

When I say Waymo "doesn't scale," this is what I mean.

"After nearly a decade as an attorney representing community associations, I entered city government as a zoning believer. I quickly lost my faith." From the outgoing director of Baltimore's zoning appeals board. www.baltimorebrew.com/2025/11/24/b...

Politics is in/out. It is aspirational and associative.

At Land Use (again) and it's literally all the same people it always is (myself included)...like who are we fooling that the same 75 people showing up every time is "the will of the people"? What a sham public process is sometimes, sadly

Here an underage girl testifies that Epstein vaginally and anally raped her before beating her in fury because Trump had taken her virginity before he could.

Nala is the #TransitCat of the day!

Decision Desk has called the New Jersey governors race for Mikie Sherill. Yet another state where millions of dollars in anti trans ads didn't work.

Modal Candidate in each part of the DMV Virginia: Cia girlboss DC: non-profit exec who measures accomplishments in community engagement meetings held Maryland: NIMBY with in this house we believe sign.

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works. I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

New episode @sunildasgupta.bsky.social

There were lots of jets and helicopters going over Silver Spring as well. Related to this I think: www.popville.com/2025/10/head...

Why are fighter jets flying over Bethesda, Maryland? There are no fishing boats here.

I bike with my kids on the short bit of Sligo Ave to get between Grove and Woodbury, and it's always a little frightening. Getting some traffic calming would really help here @mcdotnow.bsky.social

Trump’s tearing down the East Wing to build himself a $350M ballroom while Americans struggle to afford health care. Senator Ruben Gallego went to the site of the Trump teardown.

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

No Kings protests were one of the few times Trump, MAGA, and right-wing media were reacting to something the opposition did, rather than the opposition reacting to whatever they do. Adopt a principle from war strategy: generally better to be taking action and forcing opponents to react. Good point.

As the US faffs about with declining fossil fuels, China has leapt forward to become the uncontested global leader in clean energy -- and not just on the cheap labor/commodity side, either. They're beating us on research, startups, & patents. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

No Kings is not the biggest US protest since Earth Day. It is the biggest US protest ever. Earth Day rallies in big cities were 25,000 or smaller. Half the claimed participants in Earth Day were schoolchildren whose teachers taught lessons on environment. www.nytimes.com/1970/04/23/a...

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.  Looking forward to No Kings Day.