@collinmcguire.bsky.social
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DDOT continues to publish before/after analyses of safety projects. The numbers for the 9th street NW bike lanes suggest that we should be doing these projects everywhere we can. Crashes plummeted, pedestrian and bike traffic skyrocketed, and vehicle travel times dropped.
December 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
DDOT continues to publish before/after analyses of safety projects. The numbers for the 9th street NW bike lanes suggest that we should be doing these projects everywhere we can. Crashes plummeted, pedestrian and bike traffic skyrocketed, and vehicle travel times dropped.
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I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
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Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.
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Finally, a beer that is not woke
October 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Finally, a beer that is not woke
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How much more could ACA Marketplaces enrollees pay if the enhanced premium tax credits expire at the end of the year?
KFF’s @cynthiaccox.bsky.social walks through three real-life examples of how people would be affected by the expiration of the enhanced premium tax credits.
KFF’s @cynthiaccox.bsky.social walks through three real-life examples of how people would be affected by the expiration of the enhanced premium tax credits.
October 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
How much more could ACA Marketplaces enrollees pay if the enhanced premium tax credits expire at the end of the year?
KFF’s @cynthiaccox.bsky.social walks through three real-life examples of how people would be affected by the expiration of the enhanced premium tax credits.
KFF’s @cynthiaccox.bsky.social walks through three real-life examples of how people would be affected by the expiration of the enhanced premium tax credits.
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Being denied a high office of public trust is not a criminal punishment. There is only 1 president and 500-odd Congressmembers in a nation of 330 million. 99.99% of Americans do not occupy an office of public trust at any given time and do just fine as private citizens.
We can and should be picky.
We can and should be picky.
October 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Being denied a high office of public trust is not a criminal punishment. There is only 1 president and 500-odd Congressmembers in a nation of 330 million. 99.99% of Americans do not occupy an office of public trust at any given time and do just fine as private citizens.
We can and should be picky.
We can and should be picky.
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"Cities should remain museum pieces for incumbents and any newcomer is strictly a burden" is the most loser mindset that powers the most loser politics in America today.
Moving to New York and pulling the ladder up behind myself, but wokely
October 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
"Cities should remain museum pieces for incumbents and any newcomer is strictly a burden" is the most loser mindset that powers the most loser politics in America today.
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Zoning rules? Tradition, change aversion, + vibes
Parking requirements? Egregiously bad science + vibes
Traffic engineering? Morally abhorrent value judgments about the level of injury and death we’ll accept in exchange for motorist speed and convenience (vibes)
Building codes? Tradition + vibes
Parking requirements? Egregiously bad science + vibes
Traffic engineering? Morally abhorrent value judgments about the level of injury and death we’ll accept in exchange for motorist speed and convenience (vibes)
Building codes? Tradition + vibes
October 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Zoning rules? Tradition, change aversion, + vibes
Parking requirements? Egregiously bad science + vibes
Traffic engineering? Morally abhorrent value judgments about the level of injury and death we’ll accept in exchange for motorist speed and convenience (vibes)
Building codes? Tradition + vibes
Parking requirements? Egregiously bad science + vibes
Traffic engineering? Morally abhorrent value judgments about the level of injury and death we’ll accept in exchange for motorist speed and convenience (vibes)
Building codes? Tradition + vibes
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If I have learned anything from my time in urban planning, it’s this:
People somewhat reasonably assume that the rules governing our built environments are built on careful assessment of the best available science and rigorous analysis of tradeoffs but in reality it's like 85% vibes.
October 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
If I have learned anything from my time in urban planning, it’s this:
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."
The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."
The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
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I interviewed one of these factory workers in Los Angeles. She gets paid three cents to sew a zipper, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt.
This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25
This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25
October 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I interviewed one of these factory workers in Los Angeles. She gets paid three cents to sew a zipper, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt.
This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25
This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25
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i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
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Good morning to everyone who knows how many crosswalks there are at this intersection, according to Maryland law.
September 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Good morning to everyone who knows how many crosswalks there are at this intersection, according to Maryland law.
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adjusted to reflect the shorter point spacing, though with the mid day drive time we discussed
September 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
adjusted to reflect the shorter point spacing, though with the mid day drive time we discussed
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i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.
September 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.
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Maybe we should stop worrying so much about the screens our kids are on and start worrying about the screens the adults are on.
May 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Maybe we should stop worrying so much about the screens our kids are on and start worrying about the screens the adults are on.
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This was the perfect ideal of development - US dollars supporting US farmers to make a cheap product that literally saves starving children's lives. You couldn't get a better story. And that didn't matter. It didn't save it from the cuts. It's gone and children are dying of starvation
USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.
A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply
www.nytimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This was the perfect ideal of development - US dollars supporting US farmers to make a cheap product that literally saves starving children's lives. You couldn't get a better story. And that didn't matter. It didn't save it from the cuts. It's gone and children are dying of starvation
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For most of the last decade, our media and political class has panicked over the idea that progressives were intruding on free speech rights by loudly criticizing people with unpopular views.
Anyway, here's far-right federal paramilitaries advertising that they'll rip down pro-immigrant messages.
Anyway, here's far-right federal paramilitaries advertising that they'll rip down pro-immigrant messages.
ICE just posted this video taking down the sign in Mount Pleasant on Twitter.
August 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
For most of the last decade, our media and political class has panicked over the idea that progressives were intruding on free speech rights by loudly criticizing people with unpopular views.
Anyway, here's far-right federal paramilitaries advertising that they'll rip down pro-immigrant messages.
Anyway, here's far-right federal paramilitaries advertising that they'll rip down pro-immigrant messages.
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The number of children injured or killed by cars while walking or riding a bike has fallen steadily since the 1970s, but CDC researcher note that this decline is not because streets are safer, but because fewer kids are out and about in the first place.
Kids need freedom. Dangerous roads make it hard to grant it.
Bigger cars, distracted drivers and worried parents mean fewer kids are roaming freely.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The number of children injured or killed by cars while walking or riding a bike has fallen steadily since the 1970s, but CDC researcher note that this decline is not because streets are safer, but because fewer kids are out and about in the first place.
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One of the ways I want to reframe this conversation is saying that when drivers advocate against safety improvements, it's not just that they don't want to be slowed down. They want to maintain the privilege of far EXCEEDING the speed limit. And that's the status quo SDOT (or Parks) often uphold.
July 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
One of the ways I want to reframe this conversation is saying that when drivers advocate against safety improvements, it's not just that they don't want to be slowed down. They want to maintain the privilege of far EXCEEDING the speed limit. And that's the status quo SDOT (or Parks) often uphold.
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since 2003 PEPFAR has saved more lives than have been lost in every American military conflict combined, barring the World Wars
ending the program will easily be the most suffering caused by any President in history
ending the program will easily be the most suffering caused by any President in history
July 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
since 2003 PEPFAR has saved more lives than have been lost in every American military conflict combined, barring the World Wars
ending the program will easily be the most suffering caused by any President in history
ending the program will easily be the most suffering caused by any President in history
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A frequent problem for transit is that it is seen as the vector for whatever passing policy priority exists
July 17, 2025 at 1:12 AM
A frequent problem for transit is that it is seen as the vector for whatever passing policy priority exists
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"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
www.theatlantic.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:31 AM
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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"I don't hate immigrants, I just hate it when people flout the law," says someone who definitely always drives at or below the speed limit, stops when the light is red, yields to pedestrians, and didn't vote for a felon
July 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"I don't hate immigrants, I just hate it when people flout the law," says someone who definitely always drives at or below the speed limit, stops when the light is red, yields to pedestrians, and didn't vote for a felon
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One of our favorites! Action Comics No. 12. May, 1939. Clark Kent comes upon the aftermath of a car crash that kills a friend of his. As Superman, he takes to the airwaves and declares a... wait for it... war on cars.
May 24, 2024 at 1:31 PM
One of our favorites! Action Comics No. 12. May, 1939. Clark Kent comes upon the aftermath of a car crash that kills a friend of his. As Superman, he takes to the airwaves and declares a... wait for it... war on cars.