Ben Ross

No the Democratic leaders don't think that. Body cameras were just a minor item on their list of demands. They demand no masks. No arrests without judicial warrants. etc etc

The elevators we're talking about are big. Not much feeling of confined space. And if they're busily used, such that people rarely ride them alone, the smell problem is much less.

Another lesson from WMATA is to avoid putting stations in the fractured top-of-rock zone. The Dupont Circle station was built across the bedrock-sediment interface, which caused problems in construction & long-term water infiltration.

Why?
I'd suggest planners could get data on how widespread this attitude is by studying the WMATA Medical Center station. Count how many people leaving the Navy Hospital use the new elevators & how many cross the street and then use the escalators on the NIH side of the street.

‪The WMATA elevators (the ones at elevator-only entrances, not the ones for handicapped access) are much faster than the long escalators & waiting time is short when there are 4 elevators (even shorter on 125th St where I'd imagine you need 6+). Elevators may fix transfer delay problem.

Displacement due to stretching of metal parts over time accumulates along length of escalator. Total displacements reach troublesome levels sooner. Length of escalator also increases duration & cost of maintenance, repair & replacement outages. 2/2

Single escalators to deep stations, which you suggest, have been abandoned by WMATA due to the cost & difficulty of maintenance. New entrances at Rosslyn, Medical Center & Bethesda all use banks of fast elevators. 1/2

Crypto just took another quick drop. At what point does that start spilling over into the rest of the financial market?

That sounds like the first three ADU bills that get passed everywhere before you get something that actually gets ADUs built.

There were generations of leftists, many far to the left, who saw the most radical person in the room and immediately thought "provocateur." The generations of Debs and the CIO.

This role suits a certain kind of left, one that sheds concrete tasks and defines itself by its ability to embody the metaphysical essence of leftness.

Yes! It's all about the brand.
"The understanding of radicalism as a potpourri of trendy cultural gestures has become imprinted in American culture. Automatic sympathy for the anti-American tyrant of the day is not an accidental add on, but a part of the package"
dissentmagazine.org/article/in-s...

Thank you for confirming my point.
You agree that the Dems & unions have been active.
You think campaigning for Biden & Harris wasn't taking the fascist threat seriously. They think not campaigning for them was failing to take it seriously.
This is a political disagreement, not "lack of experience"

In my experience, MoCo is very good at clearing sidewalks in front of parks & public buildings. The problem is everywhere else, and especially the @mcdotnow.bsky.social & @mdsha.bsky.social contractors who plow snow onto sidewalks.

Very good discussion of how different "moderate" voters are from "moderate" politicians.
Also: the shared motivation of Democratic voters is economics while the shared motivation of Republican voters is social issues. And economic-left social-right voters far outnumber economic-right social-left.

SJP locally is surely mixed, but the national leadership is Islamist-aligned.
Hamas's strategy in the West is to focus on Israeli behavior & hide its own goals. WOL's openness on goals serves its own organizational interest at the expense of the broader Hamas-led rejectionist movement.

Better described as an organization aligned with the secularist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine that is trying (with some success) to grow by outflanking the Islamist-aligned leadership of SJP & CAIR on the "left" - by openly advocating ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel.

They're talking about him enforcing the laws that make food delivery apps pay minimum wage & forbid stealing tips from the deliverers.
Which were passed just last year after years of political struggle.

Question for any lawyers out there ( @kenwhite.bsky.social )? Are these clauses found at the bottom of every email in the world really enforceable? Like by receiving an unsolicited email am I entering a contract with the sender? What if it contains information on people doing crimes?

I'm sorry, this is not really about experience. It's about politics. The "some activists" are the ultraleftists who want to drive all other points of view out of the movement.
Many more Democratic Party & union activists have been putting in the work for decades & have gotten more done.

Pretty cool that every time we are blessed with a snow we quite literally salt the earth in service of the automobile

You could reduce the turning radius. That turning radius is enormous. Not only would that slow down turning cars (especially with a big flowerpot right up at the curb), but if the jogger was approaching in the same direction as the driver, it would get the car into the jogger's field of view sooner.

This is big fish in small pond syndrome.
When leftism is subculture rather than politics, the emergence of a mass movement is a threat.

Unfortunately, I think @gelliottmorris.com's explanation fits the data better. Of course, there are still other reasons why Republican popularity may continue to decline.

We won't know the total number for another year plus.
But the people whose enrollment is not effectuated will know that fact right away.

We reached that point a long time ago. It goes back 30 years to the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union.
It is rooted in "anti-imperialist" theory that sees the majority of US voters as unreachable & thus sees no value in transit that serves the middle class.

When I grew up on Long Island, the pond in the park near me froze thick enough that you were allowed to skate on it at some time during the winter about half the years.

It started earlier. Why did all the European powers pay tribute to the Barbary Pirates until the US under Jefferson refused to pay & crushed them? Because no European power trusted any other to attack them, because they expected whoever did it to colonize & thus disturb balance of power.

The SS men who shot masses of Jews in the early years of WW2 became demoralized and many fell to drinking. That led the Nazis to replace mass shootings with gas chambers.

New Hampshire Avenue in Takoma Park.

New Hampshire Avenue in Takoma Park.

New Hampshire Avenue in Takoma Park.

New Hampshire Avenue in Takoma Park, one week after the snowstorm.

These are sidewalks. It is not equitable to clear roads by obstructing pedestrians.

@takomaparkmd.gov @mdsha.bsky.social @mcdotnow.bsky.social

Even more so in DC. Weekend rail ridership (left) is noticeably above pre-pandemic, although not yet at the peak values of late 2000s & early 2010s. Weekday ridership (right) is substantially down.
Note that fares are down weekends & way up mid-day weekdays for longer trips.