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Car Free America | Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU | Substack City Planning and Transportation Policy. Click to read Car Free America, by Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Can we free America from cars?
Car Free America
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Science Under Pressure, Humanity at Stake: An Interview with John Ioannidis The Stanford professor behind the most famous paper in modern medicine warns that much of today’s research is unreliable, yet insists the project is worth defending.

Science Under Pressure, Humanity at Stake: An Interview with John Ioannidis www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/scie...

All in all, another brick in the wall.

This is so crucial. When people think about these land comparisons, they don't think about the entire sprawling infrastructure behind FF.

FBI Releases Photos of Person of Interest in Charlie Kirk Shooting The grainy images show a man wearing a baseball cap, dark sunglasses and a black long-sleeve shirt with an image on it that appears to include, in part, a picture of the American flag.

The FBI on Thursday released two images of a person the agency is seeking in the investigation into the killing of Charlie Kirk. They show the person wearing a baseball cap, sunglasses and a black long-sleeve shirt with an image on it that appears to include an American flag.

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

Trump to Colorado: Drop Dead

Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq

The Washington post Democracy Dies in Darkness Bowser welcomes federal law enforcement presence indefinitely Bowser issued an executive order Tuesday requiring local coordination with federal law enforcement "to the maximum extent allowable by law within the District." The order gives no expiration date. Today at 4:07 p.m. EDT

Two things can be — and are — true here:

Bowser is not the champion DC needs in this moment, and The Washington Post has become a Trump rag.

A newspaper that actually cared about the city in its name would not publish such an inflammatory, bullshit headline.

Here’s my story about a promising experiment in which computers decoded some of the inner speech of people with ALS and strokes. But it also brings up some deep questions about what language is actually doing in our brains. Can you eavesdrop on an idle thought? Gift link: nyti.ms/3UpEiat

And hold for 3, 2, 1…

Who asked him for his opinion?

Pikes Peak
in wildfire smoke haze

In Smithsonian Role, John Roberts Encounters History, Pandas and Trump Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who serves as the institution’s chancellor, has always emphasized procedure and avoided politics. This moment could make that more difficult.

As chancellor of the Smithsonian, Chief Justice John Roberts has been known to preside over meetings with a strict focus on rules and procedures, and avoid partisan debates. The institution being in President Trump's crosshairs could make that more difficult.

I hadn't until now focused on the fact that we're coming up on the 60th anniversary of both the Grateful Dead and Medicare and Medicaid.

A Mill Town Lost Its Mill. What Is It Now?

A Mill Town Lost Its Mill. What Is It Now? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/u...

The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.

The Internal Revenue Service is building a computer program that would give unprecedented access to confidential tax data. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Behind many scientists is a lifetime of invisible, unsustainable costs. From unpaid internships to underpaid postdocs, the economic toll of a STEM career is staggering—and it's pushing talent out.

Live Updates: Strikes Caused ‘Severe Damage’ to Iranian Nuclear Sites, U.S. Officials Say

Live Updates: Strikes Caused ‘Severe Damage’ to Iranian Nuclear Sites, U.S. Officials Say www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Beach Boy Brian Wilson’s 12 Essential Songs The Beach Boys leader, whose death was announced on Wednesday, was a brilliant writer, arranger and producer whose ambitions propelled his band — and contemporaries like the Beatles — into the future.

I’m going to watch the waves
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The Situation: Twenty-One Things That Are True in Los Angeles Can protesters show more discipline than the president in a dangerous situation?

Can protesters show more discipline than the president in a dangerous situation?

@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org‬ considers The Situation in Los Angeles.

Any search for lost time, whether the ’60s, ’50s or any other era, is of dubious value. If there’s any value to comparing the Trump administration’s actions to the movement for change 6 decades ago, it’s in asking which of the two really tried to make America great?
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Remember the reason why he started Facebook?

Out of War’s Shadow: Vietnam on the Move (Gift Article) Nothing defines Vietnam more right now than the desire to be seen anew, to have the country and its people recognized for their strengths.

Vietnam, 50 years on www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/w...

car-free mobility as anti-poverty tool

Nonprofits Under Fire: How the IRS Can—and Cannot—Revoke Federal Tax-Exempt Status - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly A nonprofit legal expert weighs in on what the government can actually do to affect an organization’s tax-exempt status.

Bases for threats to exempt status, include not meeting “organizational” or “operational” tests, private inurement, impermissible private benefit, having a substantial non-exempt purpose, engaging in too much lobbying or prohibited political campaign activity.
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And the thesis: “The ultimate and greatest need, how-ever, the real remedy, is to remove the cause—the tenement that was built for ‘a class of whom nothing was expected,’ and which has come fully up to the expectation. Tenement-house reform holds the key to the problem of pauperism in the city.”

The Norton Library edition of my translation of the Iliad, with stylish red cover, is now available. It has complete text, maps, notes, introduction and translator's note, and it's yours for under $10 (as are many other tempting Norton Library volumes). wwnorton.com/books/978132...

There he is.

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