This is the way to do it. Replace 60-year-old 2-story office building with 5-story apartment building. 1/3 mile from light rail station. Expedited approval process. bethesdamagazine.com/2026/07/29/r...

Those of us in DSOC who opposed the merger predicted that something like this would happen. This is from our circular letter after the 1981 DSOC convention that approved the merger.

Not good for getting a pro-transit president. Six car-brained states, with only the partial exception of Northern Virginia.

He's running for the Democratic Party and not against it. Notice the poster on the wall right behind him.

I just counted 10 vehicles (3 trucks, 7 cars) parked in one block of bus lane. Southbound Wisconsin Ave between South Park Ave & Willard Ave.

Double standard at work. How can this guy say it's Islamophobic to question El-Sayed's positive comment about Khameini, when he insists that even strident antizionism is not antisemitic? bsky.app/profile/mero...

The number of miles driven in Maryland, divided by the state's population, closely tracked the US average until the pandemic. Since then it has been significantly below the US average. (This may differ from the number of miles driven by Maryland residents.) Source: frontiergroup.org/resources/wh...

Maryland State Highway Administration has a "Safety Initiative" called "Serious About Safety." An implied admission that most of the traffic engineering profession's constant talk about safety hasn't really been serious.

This was not a crazy idea. Many 1930s-generation socialists were leaders of unions & other progressive organizations. Labor was vastly more influential than today; it & its allies saw European social democrats as partners. A striking (and little-known) example is the Harpsund Process of 1963-65 4/n

This 1973 NYT article will give you an idea of the culture of post-WW2 Bensonhurst. www.nytimes.com/1973/01/19/a...

Price charged by @mcdotnow.bsky.social to park on weekdays in two spaces on a street in Bethesda. On the left: 8 cents per day* On the right: $2.25 per hour *But only if you live in a single-family house in the neighborhood. Otherwise, you can't park there at all.

1) Please ignore bots. (See responses to OP.) 2) For mainstream democratic socialists in Europe, Social Democracy and Democratic Socialism have been synonyms for a century and more. Here is Karl Kautsky in 1934. Today's DSA is a blot on the name of Democratic Socialism.

I learned of Higginson researching what's probably my favorite of all the footnotes I ever wrote. The Brook Farm transcendentalists, a "Miss Taylor" said in a 1903 book, "dove into the infinite, soared into the illimitable, and never paid cash." I had to quote this! But who was Miss Taylor??

I know of few sights as aggressively contemptuous of transit riders than the prison-like architecture of the Montgomery Mall transit center. (Seen from thedirection of the mall, the main destination it serves.

Yes, transportation played a big role in Amar Mukunda's big upset victory. Mukunda ran best: In areas of garden apts & townhouses - more bus riders & more immigrants. Near MARC commuter rail stations (red dots on map) - including 1-family-home Washington Grove. 1/2 www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Big victory for transit in Maryland primary. Transit advocate & civil engineer Amar Mukunda defeats Nancy King, the car-brained State Senate majority leader. Senate has been blocking pro-transit bills passed by House. (Not yet called by media, but uncounted mail ballots won't overcome his 13% lead.)

Deep dive into how the high hoods and enlarged blind spots in new cars kill pedestrians. Finds that high hoods alone kill hundreds per year. Fantastic visualizations. [gift link] www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Worst in this is St Petersburg, Russia. At connecting stations, each line has a completely different station name.

You made a general statement about "someone, anyone," not limited to senators. You've been caught with a double standard that treats a Jewish nation-state differently from a Chinese nation-state and you're dodging.

You can see catenary installation close-up today at the Bethesda Purple Line station.

We have one. From Crystal City to National Airport.

A symbolic milestone! Purple Line test trains will run next month through Columbia Country Club and past the Town of Chevy Chase. The Club and the Town spent millions of dollars and pulled political strings, delaying the light rail 30 years but ultimately failing to stop it.

Here's how it works: www.montgomerycountymd.gov/department-h... The ground floor units in this building, which advertised its market rate units as costing "from the several millions" when it was built, are in the program. www.koitzgroup.com/the-lauren-b...

Israeli ambassador to US says J Street & Bernie Sanders aren't Jewish. He is mirroring "neo-Bundism." Both impose a political test on Jewish peoplehood. In so doing, they reject a fundamental premise of the movement (Zionism, Bundism) they purport to continue. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Dept. of useless medical insurance paperwork. This is the only non-zero item in the thick envelope I got today from my Medicare drug plan.

Hey @mcdotnow.bsky.social & @mdsha.bsky.social - Why did you build these two obstacle courses for people walking across Cordell Ave at Old Georgetown Road, when you could have built a raised crosswalk that would have made driving & walking both safer?

Jortner, A Promised Land: The 1st Amendment "confirmed what the revolution created: a broad religious citizenship that did not belong to any church or tradition." The SC constitution the court cites was replaced in 1790 with a guarantee of religious liberty in the spirit of the new US constitution.

Iran media reports that Iran will stay away from negotiations until the US reduces its demands. A few minutes later, Trump extends his truce indefinitely. Pretty clear who's got the upper hand here.

I think they are limiting the number of Ubers that can get in. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/n...