Conor Shaw

Interesting: @cmzparker5.bsky.social has introduced a package of 16 bills his office says is "aimed at youth wellbeing" in D.C. There's bills to increase pay in the summer jobs program, improve early intervention to prevent truancy, require more transparency from DYRS, and more.

Very excited for this @ward5familybiking.bsky.social Halloween bike ride and planting party in collaboration with another Ward 5 gem: Friends of the National Arboretum! Mark your calendars for October 25!!

It does not take a counterterrorism expert to imagine that the next big terrorist attack will involve the deployment of relatively cheap drones. What are we doing to prepare for that threat?

Russian pilots are turning unjammable drones into flying IEDs to ambush Ukrainian vehicles Ukrainian officers said the Russian pilots have been targeting key logistics routes near the front lines.

There are many things we could be focusing on instead of fitness tests for 60 year old generals or law abiding immigrants. One on my mind is how you protect civilians from the use of this kind of weapon. www.businessinsider.com/russia-turns...

It’s also probably enough for safe routes to schools improvements at every public school in the District.

To give you a sense of the opportunity cost, $40 million would probably enough to convert most of the District’s 74 miles of painted bike lanes to protected lanes.

DC considers a 10-cent deposit on beverage containers to incentivize recycling Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau is the sponsor behind DC's Bottle Bill.

The bottle bill will increase DC’s recycling rates. By making bottles worth 10 cents when they are returned, we are helping make sure people don’t just throw them on the ground.

WUSA9’s coverage of my legislation to help protect and preserve our natural resources.

www.wusa9.com/article/news...

Important paper from @rycalder.bsky.social, Rachel Clark, and Claire Summa analyzing 2019-2023 trauma data from DC traffic crashes. They found that injury rates *increased* and that racial disparities exist *for every user type* including pedestrians & cyclists. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41014831/

The fact that men on average can outperform women in physical fitness tests seems like a really unimportant consideration when staffing an army for a world in which drones now dominate the battlefield.

Another gap soon to be closed!

Capitol police have been running these in the parks near Union Station since the immediate aftermath of January 6 despite receiving tens of millions in additional fund to improve security around the Capitol complex.

Here’s another: I have always had very pleasant and thorough follow through on 311 requests for tree work plantings and bike racks (both DDOT services)!

I know there are plenty of things District government could do better, but it's also great to highlight success stories. For example, I recently had to get a background check (including fingerprinting) to volunteer at DCPS. The process was quick and seamless. What else has worked well for folks?

Great to see the AG seeking and securing accountability for the actions of these dangerous drivers.

I see that the VERY SERIOUS people trying to persuade more Americans to have children are now telling women they shouldn’t use a safe painkiller during pregnancy.

Please watch this!

The District is not going to make serious progress on environmental justice or health justice without directly confronting air pollution from cars. And relying on EV transitions alone is not going to do the trick.

A disorienting moment: Trump is consolidating autocratic power in areas where there's an easy path to do so. But in other areas he's facing deep institutional resistance and people are refusing to abandon the rule of law. Here he's weak and failing.

Thoughts on that:
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Feds are responsible for a lot of the remaining surface parking. When I was a kid, there were surface lots as far as the eye could see!

We joined Mundo Verde's bicibus this morning. It was amazing! One parent told us her count (based on donuts distributed) was 75 kids, and they had 100 for last week's Ride for Allie: www.fox5dc.com/video/1707053.
#BikeDC

Majorities of Americans disapprove on how Trump is handling six issues: tariffs, Russia/Ukraine, economy, Israel/Gaza, immigration, crime

A majority of Americans disapprove on how Trump is handling six issues www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Thanks to everyone who came out for our community bike ride down the MBT and happy hour at @metrobardc! A beautiful evening with neighbors. 🥂🚲

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Total crashes resulting in either fatalities or major injuries was arguably flat from 2017 to 2021 but been dropping since then.

Detailed information about injury crashes on our vision zero dashboard only goes back to 2017. Using that year as a baseline, fatalities are down 27%, major injuries are down 32%, and minor injuries are down 31%. visionzero.dc.gov/pages/crash-...

We can, should, and will continue to push for zero traffic deaths and serious injuries; however, DC is currently on track for the lowest number of traffic fatalities since 2012. mpdc.dc.gov/page/traffic...

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“Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth…..” 🤔

Here’s ABC’s programming comment form for no reason in particular. support.abc.com/hc/en-us/req...

Come join! Always a blast