@mattkoko.bsky.social
your friendly DC leftist
geopolitical nerd, urban planning/aviation/public transit geek
fight fascists 👊
🌎✈️
geopolitical nerd, urban planning/aviation/public transit geek
fight fascists 👊
🌎✈️
It’s nothing but intentional mockery at this point.
*Right after* the UK, France, and Canada warned that they will take "concrete actions" if Israel does not de-escalate its violence in Palestine, Israel shoots at diplomats from those nations.
Incredible — After shooting at a group of diplomats from nearly *two dozen* countries, the Israeli military says it "regrets the inconvenience caused."
The diplomats were from China, Brazil, India, Russia, Japan, Canada, Mexico, France, Türkiye, Spain, Portugal, Jordan, the UK, Egypt, and more.
The diplomats were from China, Brazil, India, Russia, Japan, Canada, Mexico, France, Türkiye, Spain, Portugal, Jordan, the UK, Egypt, and more.
May 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
It’s nothing but intentional mockery at this point.
Reposted
Happy “New air service to Mongolia day” to all who celebrate! United Airlines is launching flights to Ulaanbaatar, via Tokyo.
fr24.com/UAL7/3a234281
fr24.com/UAL7/3a234281
May 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Happy “New air service to Mongolia day” to all who celebrate! United Airlines is launching flights to Ulaanbaatar, via Tokyo.
fr24.com/UAL7/3a234281
fr24.com/UAL7/3a234281
Reposted
Good Board discussion today on Metro’s initial concepts on rail automation & regional bus priority. Automated rail systems are global standard to enhance safety, capacity, reliability, & cost efficiency & we will have a Business Plan in Dec. See slides: wmata.com/about/news/u...
April 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Good Board discussion today on Metro’s initial concepts on rail automation & regional bus priority. Automated rail systems are global standard to enhance safety, capacity, reliability, & cost efficiency & we will have a Business Plan in Dec. See slides: wmata.com/about/news/u...
Reposted
We’re starting more robust conversations about advancing rail automation by investing in modern tech & infrastructure. Transitioning to full automation would mean fewer accidents & delays, & increased capacity. It’s already being used around the world to make transit BETTER!
April 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
We’re starting more robust conversations about advancing rail automation by investing in modern tech & infrastructure. Transitioning to full automation would mean fewer accidents & delays, & increased capacity. It’s already being used around the world to make transit BETTER!
This is major, and I'm shocked that it isn't being discussed more in the transit space.
IIRC no US transit agency has announced that they plan to convert their entire system to driverless automation (GoA4) w/ platform doors. Obviously this is subject to board approval, but exciting nonetheless.
IIRC no US transit agency has announced that they plan to convert their entire system to driverless automation (GoA4) w/ platform doors. Obviously this is subject to board approval, but exciting nonetheless.
Wow this aged well. WMATA proposed fully automating the whole system today and had a render for platform screen doors as part of today’s board meeting.
April 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This is major, and I'm shocked that it isn't being discussed more in the transit space.
IIRC no US transit agency has announced that they plan to convert their entire system to driverless automation (GoA4) w/ platform doors. Obviously this is subject to board approval, but exciting nonetheless.
IIRC no US transit agency has announced that they plan to convert their entire system to driverless automation (GoA4) w/ platform doors. Obviously this is subject to board approval, but exciting nonetheless.
LOVE this.
Don't drive when you can relax on your way to and from your next outdoor adventure. Two local hiking clubs charter buses to bring people on outdoor adventures outside of DC on most weekends.
Take a hike…by bus
View this post on ggwash.org
ggwash.org
April 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
LOVE this.
Reposted
no no $1,100 in cash while driving around other gang members is middle management
$3,000 at a fancy restaurant is def senior gang leadership
$3,000 at a fancy restaurant is def senior gang leadership
April 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
no no $1,100 in cash while driving around other gang members is middle management
$3,000 at a fancy restaurant is def senior gang leadership
$3,000 at a fancy restaurant is def senior gang leadership
Reposted
Mohsen Mahdawi at a Nov 2023 rally:
"The first to stop an act of antisemitism was 5 of us—to go and tell the guy, ‘You don’t represent us because we have Jewish brothers & sisters who stand with us," arguing neither admin nor pro-Israel crowd moved to intervene
Mahmoud Khalil standing right behind
"The first to stop an act of antisemitism was 5 of us—to go and tell the guy, ‘You don’t represent us because we have Jewish brothers & sisters who stand with us," arguing neither admin nor pro-Israel crowd moved to intervene
Mahmoud Khalil standing right behind
April 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Mohsen Mahdawi at a Nov 2023 rally:
"The first to stop an act of antisemitism was 5 of us—to go and tell the guy, ‘You don’t represent us because we have Jewish brothers & sisters who stand with us," arguing neither admin nor pro-Israel crowd moved to intervene
Mahmoud Khalil standing right behind
"The first to stop an act of antisemitism was 5 of us—to go and tell the guy, ‘You don’t represent us because we have Jewish brothers & sisters who stand with us," arguing neither admin nor pro-Israel crowd moved to intervene
Mahmoud Khalil standing right behind
Reposted
This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.
April 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.
Reposted
🚨The Trump admin is completely ignoring the courts. It's rounding people up in the streets. It's saying "homegrowns" next.
If you work for the government or Congress & have any info or tips or feelings to share, please Signal me premthakker.35
Your anonymity will be protected
If you work for the government or Congress & have any info or tips or feelings to share, please Signal me premthakker.35
Your anonymity will be protected
April 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
🚨The Trump admin is completely ignoring the courts. It's rounding people up in the streets. It's saying "homegrowns" next.
If you work for the government or Congress & have any info or tips or feelings to share, please Signal me premthakker.35
Your anonymity will be protected
If you work for the government or Congress & have any info or tips or feelings to share, please Signal me premthakker.35
Your anonymity will be protected
Reposted
Oooh, I've got some anti-Christian bias to report; the current administration that targeting Catholics and Lutherans who work with migrants.
The State Department is asking employees to report any "anti-Christian bias" they experienced during theBiden administration, Politico reports and I've independently confirmed. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Images of the snitch portal they set up that were shared with me:
Images of the snitch portal they set up that were shared with me:
April 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Oooh, I've got some anti-Christian bias to report; the current administration that targeting Catholics and Lutherans who work with migrants.
Reposted
This isn't the end though. Khalil can appeal and to my knowledge immigration judges cannot & do not consider constitutional arguments when making their ruling.
Justice for Khalil. The end of an independent judiciary will be our demise. We are all Khalil.
Justice for Khalil. The end of an independent judiciary will be our demise. We are all Khalil.
April 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This isn't the end though. Khalil can appeal and to my knowledge immigration judges cannot & do not consider constitutional arguments when making their ruling.
Justice for Khalil. The end of an independent judiciary will be our demise. We are all Khalil.
Justice for Khalil. The end of an independent judiciary will be our demise. We are all Khalil.
Reposted
JFC. Protecting free speech & more specifically speech that criticizes the actions of the government is a "core American interest."
This is such a dystopian, dark day for the United States. I am so ashamed.
This is such a dystopian, dark day for the United States. I am so ashamed.
April 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
JFC. Protecting free speech & more specifically speech that criticizes the actions of the government is a "core American interest."
This is such a dystopian, dark day for the United States. I am so ashamed.
This is such a dystopian, dark day for the United States. I am so ashamed.
Smell that? It’s the stench of fascism.
"The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil"
"Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs."
Free this man immediately.
apnews.com/article/mahm...
"Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs."
Free this man immediately.
apnews.com/article/mahm...
Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs
The U.S. government has submitted a two-page memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio as its main evidence in its deportation case against Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil.
apnews.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Smell that? It’s the stench of fascism.
Long overdue, but exciting.
Hopefully this sets the stage for future automation. An investment that would require major funding from jurisdictional partners, but I’d love for @wmata.com & @wmatagm.bsky.social to set the standard by aggressively pursuing platform doors & CBTC w/ full ATO.
Hopefully this sets the stage for future automation. An investment that would require major funding from jurisdictional partners, but I’d love for @wmata.com & @wmatagm.bsky.social to set the standard by aggressively pursuing platform doors & CBTC w/ full ATO.
ATO on the Red Line has been a safety and efficiency success while saving time & money. Within the last three months, we’ve delivered 99.97% reliability related to servicing customers at station platforms. We are now ready to expand ATO to the Green Line & others in the future.
April 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Long overdue, but exciting.
Hopefully this sets the stage for future automation. An investment that would require major funding from jurisdictional partners, but I’d love for @wmata.com & @wmatagm.bsky.social to set the standard by aggressively pursuing platform doors & CBTC w/ full ATO.
Hopefully this sets the stage for future automation. An investment that would require major funding from jurisdictional partners, but I’d love for @wmata.com & @wmatagm.bsky.social to set the standard by aggressively pursuing platform doors & CBTC w/ full ATO.
Reposted
Wild. Right after Cory Booker went viral for speaking on the "wretched truth about America," he just voted to keep arming a government that just officially achieved The Deadliest Conflict Ever for Journalists & executed and buried 15 paramedics and their emergency vehicles
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Wild. Right after Cory Booker went viral for speaking on the "wretched truth about America," he just voted to keep arming a government that just officially achieved The Deadliest Conflict Ever for Journalists & executed and buried 15 paramedics and their emergency vehicles
Cool!
United Airlines announces 3 new destinations:
• Bangkok, Thailand (BKK)
• Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (SGN)
• Adelaide, Australia (ADL)
BKK/SGN will be served from Hong Kong (HKG) and ADL served from SFO.
United also adds a 2nd daily SFO to Manila (MNL) flight next winter.
• Bangkok, Thailand (BKK)
• Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (SGN)
• Adelaide, Australia (ADL)
BKK/SGN will be served from Hong Kong (HKG) and ADL served from SFO.
United also adds a 2nd daily SFO to Manila (MNL) flight next winter.
April 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Cool!
Reposted
After the creation of Metro in 1967, Metrorail began operations and took its first trip on THIS DAY in 1976! 🚇 From then to now, we've come a long way and traveled many miles together. Celebrate with us by taking a trip to/from your favorite station!
March 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
After the creation of Metro in 1967, Metrorail began operations and took its first trip on THIS DAY in 1976! 🚇 From then to now, we've come a long way and traveled many miles together. Celebrate with us by taking a trip to/from your favorite station!
Reposted
Liberals would rather die than humble themselves. They lecture about uniting while demeaning the people they want to unite with. Too arrogant to bring themselves down from that pedestal. Can’t even deign to level with anyone they don’t agree with.
March 25, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Liberals would rather die than humble themselves. They lecture about uniting while demeaning the people they want to unite with. Too arrogant to bring themselves down from that pedestal. Can’t even deign to level with anyone they don’t agree with.
Reposted
If you're a journalist in the US and you're not speaking out against the ongoing killing of Palestinian journalists, at record levels, by a US-funded foreign military, then you should hang your head in shame.
From the farewell of the Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat.
March 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
If you're a journalist in the US and you're not speaking out against the ongoing killing of Palestinian journalists, at record levels, by a US-funded foreign military, then you should hang your head in shame.
A person who has been in the country since she was a child, mind you.
Unlike Mahmoud Khalil, she wasn’t even a leader or heavily involved in the protest movement! She just attended some of them.
So yeah, the US government is seeking to deport a person here on a green card since she was a child because she went to a protest. Joe McCarthy would be proud.
So yeah, the US government is seeking to deport a person here on a green card since she was a child because she went to a protest. Joe McCarthy would be proud.
This is the latest person decreed by Marco Rubio to be a foreign policy threat and thus now subject to deportation:
March 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A person who has been in the country since she was a child, mind you.
This is so fucking wild
WHOA. On March 15, a Cornell PhD student with UK and Gambian citizenship, here on a student visa, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Trump's EO aimed at foreign students accused of "antisemitism.
Last night, the DOJ emailed asking him to come to ICE to be detained and put into removal proceedings.
Last night, the DOJ emailed asking him to come to ICE to be detained and put into removal proceedings.
March 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This is so fucking wild
This is a textbook case example of why the DEM's deranged policy of "reaching across the aisle" never worked and never will work.
Dude's wife just got hauled away by ICE and he still can't get himself to criticize Trump. If that didn't turn him, then honestly nothing will.
Dude's wife just got hauled away by ICE and he still can't get himself to criticize Trump. If that didn't turn him, then honestly nothing will.
ICE Detained His Wife But He Doesn't Regret Voting for Trump: 'He Didn't Create the System'
A MAGA voter whose wife was detained by ICE upon their return from their honeymoon in Puerto Rico, has clarified that he doesn't regret voting for Trump.
www.latintimes.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
This is a textbook case example of why the DEM's deranged policy of "reaching across the aisle" never worked and never will work.
Dude's wife just got hauled away by ICE and he still can't get himself to criticize Trump. If that didn't turn him, then honestly nothing will.
Dude's wife just got hauled away by ICE and he still can't get himself to criticize Trump. If that didn't turn him, then honestly nothing will.
Reposted
Israel just killed hundreds of Palestinians, including kids.
The US just killed dozens of Yemenis, including kids.
"Why do they hate us?" asks the American public, blissfully ignorant of what's being done in its name in the Middle East by the US and its ally Israel.
Sigh.
The US just killed dozens of Yemenis, including kids.
"Why do they hate us?" asks the American public, blissfully ignorant of what's being done in its name in the Middle East by the US and its ally Israel.
Sigh.
March 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Israel just killed hundreds of Palestinians, including kids.
The US just killed dozens of Yemenis, including kids.
"Why do they hate us?" asks the American public, blissfully ignorant of what's being done in its name in the Middle East by the US and its ally Israel.
Sigh.
The US just killed dozens of Yemenis, including kids.
"Why do they hate us?" asks the American public, blissfully ignorant of what's being done in its name in the Middle East by the US and its ally Israel.
Sigh.
Reposted
can you ask @mayorbowser.bsky.social why DC police abetted DOGE's break in? that's what the NYT is reporting - maybe she'll respond to you
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
Update from Aishvarya Kavi
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
can you ask @mayorbowser.bsky.social why DC police abetted DOGE's break in? that's what the NYT is reporting - maybe she'll respond to you
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...