📣 GREAT news — MoCo Council votes UNANIMOUSLY to restore 2022 budget language calling for a mixed-use redevelopment w/ housing at the Chevy Chase Library! 🎉 CE Elrich's proposed 2026 CIP had removed this language and replaced it with 'improvements to the existing library.'

“We’re looking at a highly authentic historic resource,” said an HPC commissioner. “There’s been some effort to modernize him over time, but the original 1960s blueprint is still clearly legible.”

For #MoCo neighbors, @montgomery4all.bsky.social hosted a candidate questionnaire for council member and county executive aspirants. The answers are quite illuminating! Check them and get educated before you vote #housing #transit www.montgomery4all.org/2026-candida...

Really fantastic progress made by Maryland in this energy legislation. I listened to some of the testimony about the legislation to reduce resi solar permitting bottlenecks. I have really been hesitant to get solar because of the inflated cost, but it can be improved now. Also, plugin solar!

I had a great time tabling with Tony yesterday. People really want to improve their city and it shows. @montgomery4all.bsky.social

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Important to know that Dems are attempting to fund TSA and FEMA.

Robert's Rules of Order strictness is terrible in large volunteer led meetings.

streetlights. people. boulevards. midnight trains that go anywhere. as urbanists these are all things we love. excellent choice.

@montgomery4all.bsky.social ok, so I think for karaoke this evening I'm going to sing: 1) Sunny Days (Sesame Street song) 2) Yellow Submarine by The Beatles Come hang out this evening at 7-10pm www.montgomery4all.org/events/city-...

I will attempt to sing something by Rancid that includes Oakland bus themes. Who knows what else! Urbanist Karaoke tomorrow in Silver Spring!

Hell of a way for Warner Bros. to go out tonight. Shine on ya crazy diamond (until you die, inevitably, and very soon, because of billionaires)

Taxes are good and can make good things happen

Newborn on a bike is a frontier I love to see. Started my kids at 10-11 months old.

The party that lied its way into office by promising peace & lower costs has triggered a growing regional war, is spiking costs & continues to prop up craven shitheads like Lindsey Graham.

If your city doesn't build enough homes for all stages of life, you eventually lose people to other places.

Come hang out and talk about housing in MoCo!

#alysaliu WOKE IS BACK BABY MAKE OAKLAND CALIFORNIA THE US CAPITOL NOW!

NG generators as backup for data centers seems like a societal failure given what our battery technology can do.

Next week, Trump will deliver his State of the Union address. I won't be there. Trump is marching America towards fascism, and I refuse to normalize his shredding of our Constitution & democracy. This cannot be business as usual. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) tells reporters the Epstein files contain allegations that President Trump raped and threatened to kill children.

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.

Today! Come by and say hi

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.