Robert Fares

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How @mdsha.bsky.social prioritizes pedestrians. This shit will be here until March unless they do something about it.

Still no progress

Zero — and I mean ZERO — sidewalks are cleared between Georgia Ave and both of the entrances to the Forest Glen station. Please address this @wmata.com @wmatagm.bsky.social @mcdotnow.bsky.social. It’s a hazard!

News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we

have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.

We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Let’s Make It Easier To Plug Data Centers Into Power Plants, FERC Says Federal energy regulators directed the country’s largest grid to make its rules make sense.

Federal energy regulators order the country's largest grid to make its rules make sense.

Read more from @zeitlin.bsky.social:

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It’s really, really, really getting old that Marc Elrich repeatedly uses weekly county update emails that are supposed to be full of FYIs about events and what not, to push his anti housing agenda.

The damage this man has done over the years and decades with his bully pulpit is staggering

Montgomery County rejects sidewalks because of “stranger danger” Montgomery County officials say they won’t build sidewalks near a future Purple Line station in Takoma Park because, among other things, neighbors say they’re afraid of “stranger danger.”

Making critical infrastructure — that’s in the public right of way — subject to referendum is a recipe for failure. ggwash.org/view/101707/...

I live here

Council approves controversial University Boulevard plan in divided vote The council voted 7-3 in favor of the plan, over concerns from a few members that new developments along University Boulevard will price out low-income residents.

Incredible news. Thank you to my council member @natalifg.bsky.social for your leadership on this and other smart growth initiatives in Montgomery County! www.thebanner.com/economy/grow...

Johns Hopkins Medicine and UnitedHealthcare: What You Need to Know

Johns Hopkins Medicine - which operates a major DC hospital - is officially out of network with United Healthcare. Time to change providers… www.hopkinsmedicine.org/united-cover...

Map showing the streets that do and don't have sidewalks within the Kensington Parkwood Elementary School walking area. A lot of the streets don't have sidewalks.

Everyone who can, please go to MCDOT's onsite community meeting on Wed 9/24 5-7 pm, at the Clearbrook Ln/Cedar Ln, to support sidewalks within the one-mile walkshed of Kensington Parkwood ES.

Don't let MCDOT not build sidewalks based on opposition from a small group of sidewalk-hating homeowners!

Every day I see cars take dangerous maneuvers to get on the minor roads surrounding Forest Glen Rd & Georgia Ave, so they can zoom through neighborhoods and save themselves from 30 seconds of traffic. @mcdotnow.bsky.social @natalifg.bsky.social

Screenshot of a post I made about how glad I am I married my wife and a reply castigating me for how insensitive this is

chat is it insensitive and smug to post about how much I love my wife

Nice Neighborhood Just One Public Works Fuck-Up From Turning Into Crime-Ridden Shithole A new study has found that safe, wealthy neighborhoods are at severe risk of becoming crime-ridden shitholes if local governments approve just one more minor public works enhancement. “This s…

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Big win in Montgomery County! Council allows more multi-family homes on county corridors  - Coalition For Smarter Growth Yesterday, the Montgomery County Council voted 8-3 to pass Zoning Text Amendment (ZTA) 25-02. The legislation will allow more housing types, like townhouses or small apartment buildings, along major c...

Big win for housing in Montgomery County!

ZTA 25-02 will let more types of homes be built near jobs, transit, and amenities.

Stay informed and get involved here:

www.smartergrowth.net/affordable-h...

The main concern of my neighborhood association is traffic. Rightfully so, since we don’t have sidewalks. I walk my daughter to school every day and it is scary! Unfortunately, the association channels their hatred of traffic into opposing housing rather than supporting sidewalks. Short sighted!

Compare the feel of walking on 16th St in DC, a four-lane, high-traffic road, to pretty much any comparable road in MoCo and it is night and day more pleasant for pedestrians. Why? Wide sidewalk buffered from cars by tree lawn, compared to MoCo’s no sidewalk or narrow sidewalk abutting traffic.

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EPA To Drop 'E,' 'P' From Name

EPA To Drop 'E,' 'P' From Name
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From the washingtondc community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the washingtondc community

Good check in on what normal people (well, redditors) think is causing electric rate increases. Spans from “Pepco is a Blackrock controlled monopoly” to “hey it’s actually PJM, and they’re captured by fossil loving states.”

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I once went here to buy gochugang for a dish we were making that night. They were out and the owner ran upstairs to give me some from her own pantry. Big loss for Mt P and DC.

For the first half of my kindergarten year, my family lived in a shitty little apartment complex somewhere in Central Texas. I forget where. I think Waco? Copperas Cove? We moved around a lot. If memory serves correctly, I attended three different schools that year.

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Seems like a state issue

TRAINS TO ANNAPOLIS
TRAINS TO OCEAN CITY

Holy shit. 5:05PM

Outstanding news. There’s a lot of support NYPA will need, but a major public power advantage is it can make more credible commitments big capital projects. We already see it with the renewables deployment. Onwards to clean firm! Thanks to @fredstaffordcs.bsky.social for flagging this.

We're about to release a new Forecast Analysis app on
@gridstatus.io, and I’m looking for users to test it.

Not only does it make pretty visualizations, it helps you understand how forecast vintages evolve over time, compare their historical accuracy, and more.

DM or reply for link!

Amazing capture!

I sent my emails 💪