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Michael Havlin
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Live EOTR in Washington DC. Leftist who likes to skeet about transit, economics, urbanism, and beers around the city.

Inflation research featured in WSJ, NYTimes, & Yahoo Finance.

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This is so sad.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I haven’t felt this hopeful about US politics since AOC’s first primary victory.

Thank you @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for reminding everyone — this will forever be a nation of immigrants.
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
October 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
AOC 2028
October 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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The Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 reports that @ddotdc.bsky.social is going to terminate DC Streetcar service by March 2026.

Nearly 2,500 people ride the streetcar every day. Buses along the corridor are already at capacity.

This is yet another broken promise to transit-dependent residents.
October 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
If you’re not hanging out H street then what are you even doing???
August 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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The Better Bus Network is so bad lol.

@wmata.com bamboozled so damn hard.

Like — how can the capital of the wealthiest country in the history of the world have a dysfunctional bus system?

I will give you a hint — we aren’t actually a wealthy country.
August 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The Better Bus Network is so bad lol.

@wmata.com bamboozled so damn hard.

Like — how can the capital of the wealthiest country in the history of the world have a dysfunctional bus system?

I will give you a hint — we aren’t actually a wealthy country.
August 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Okay when are we going to acknowledge that the Better Bus Network was a complete failure?
July 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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For all the new ICE agents who will be hired thanks to yesterday's bill:

You are not anonymous, even behind your mask.

History is not over.

Justice has a long memory.
John Demjanjuk - Wikipedia
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July 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Have people still working in the U.S. executive branch not heard of the Nuremberg Trials?
July 3, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Better Bus Network my ass.
June 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Hey @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social

You should sue @wmata.com for its gross misrepresentations of the Better Bus Network.

WMATA clearly violated its organizational values of transparency and equity.

Services they are implementing this weekend are substantially worse than advertised.
June 28, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Hey @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social

You should sue @wmata.com for its gross misrepresentations of the Better Bus Network.

WMATA clearly violated its organizational values of transparency and equity.

Services they are implementing this weekend are substantially worse than advertised.
June 28, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Conservatives accidentally being based?
Trump is furious at Israel this morning for bombing Iran after his cease fire was announced, and says he’s “not happy with Israel” and they “don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.”
June 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Do something.
My statement on Donald Trump’s unilateral military action in Iran.
June 22, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Donald Trump illegally took military action against Iran—without congressional authorization—risking dragging us into another endless war.

I am calling for an immediate emergency session of Congress to vote on the War Powers Resolution.
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
And the west launches “preemptive” strikes whereas our adversaries launch “unprovoked” strikes.
remember, kids: Israel warns, whereas Iran...
June 15, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Iran has supposedly been “just weeks” away from having nuclear weapons for over 30 years now.

It’s all just a bunch of nonsense to justify more war and imperialism.

For the benefit of the oppressed Iranian citizens obviously the regime needs to go — but war from outside agitators is not the way.
June 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Hey @mayorbowser.bsky.social

When Russia launched unprovoked attack on Ukraine you illuminated Wilson Building.

When Hamas launched unprovoked attack on Israel you did the same.

Today Israel launched unprovoked attack on innocent Iranians.

You lighting Wilson Buidling in red, green, and white?
June 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
They bombed apartment buildings.
June 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
They bombed apartment buildings.
June 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
When it’s our adversaries the media says “unprovoked.”

When it’s us the media says “preemptive.”
June 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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No war with Iran. No war period.
June 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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I thought it was an incredible too — until I saw the schedules. Weekday only service is inexcusable.

This is a bait-and-switch.

I followed plans for years. Never saw weekday-only plans.

Look at maps from just last year. All indications have been a weekend connection from East Cap to Florida Ave.
June 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM