Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation
@ccdot.bsky.social
Baltimore, MD 🦀
Professional Materials Engineer, Proud Union Member, Amateur Urbanist, 🚲+🚆Commuter, Rust Belt Renaissance Evangelist
Professional Materials Engineer, Proud Union Member, Amateur Urbanist, 🚲+🚆Commuter, Rust Belt Renaissance Evangelist
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💭 Can we build a city that isn’t car dependent?
Join BikePGH for a live conversation with the hosts of The War on Cars as they discuss their new book, Life After Cars
📅 Jan 29, Live & in person @ Alloy 26
👉 Register now: bikepgh.org/2025/12/18/life-after-cars-bikepgh-book-talk-january-2026
Join BikePGH for a live conversation with the hosts of The War on Cars as they discuss their new book, Life After Cars
📅 Jan 29, Live & in person @ Alloy 26
👉 Register now: bikepgh.org/2025/12/18/life-after-cars-bikepgh-book-talk-january-2026
Register now for the Life After Cars book talk on January 29, 2026 - BikePGH
Join BikePGH and the hosts of podcast The War on Cars, Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear, for a live discussion on their new book
bikepgh.org
December 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
💭 Can we build a city that isn’t car dependent?
Join BikePGH for a live conversation with the hosts of The War on Cars as they discuss their new book, Life After Cars
📅 Jan 29, Live & in person @ Alloy 26
👉 Register now: bikepgh.org/2025/12/18/life-after-cars-bikepgh-book-talk-january-2026
Join BikePGH for a live conversation with the hosts of The War on Cars as they discuss their new book, Life After Cars
📅 Jan 29, Live & in person @ Alloy 26
👉 Register now: bikepgh.org/2025/12/18/life-after-cars-bikepgh-book-talk-january-2026
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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God this is such a fucking bummer. The thing they think DEI is is actually what they are. Bari Weiss's talents are: getting rich people to give her money, and cosplaying as a "journalist" by using centrism and faux objectivity language to obscure her persistent bias and sizable incompetence.
This email from Sharyn Alfonsi to her colleagues after Bari Weiss killed their @60minutes.bsky.social piece on CECOT is powerful and worth a full read. (h/t @yasharali.bsky.social)
BREAKING: 60 Minutes Correspondent Says Trump Story Was Spiked For Political Reasons
In an email to her colleagues, Sharyn Alfonsi said that CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss spiked a story about the Trump administration and El Salvador prisons for political reasons.
open.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
God this is such a fucking bummer. The thing they think DEI is is actually what they are. Bari Weiss's talents are: getting rich people to give her money, and cosplaying as a "journalist" by using centrism and faux objectivity language to obscure her persistent bias and sizable incompetence.
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started / going
December 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
started / going
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Thinking today about this sentence:
"Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."
"Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."
Inflation is making homelessness worse
Rising housing costs, combined with persistent inflation for basic necessities like gas and food, have left more Americans newly homeless and millions more fearing they’ll soon lose their homes.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Thinking today about this sentence:
"Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."
"Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."
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Our usage, under near identical weather conditions, is down 35 therms from last year and our bill (which was already a gouge) went up by $50 for this period compared to last year
If you look up "playing in our faces" on urbandictionary.com it's just the BGE logo
If you look up "playing in our faces" on urbandictionary.com it's just the BGE logo
December 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Our usage, under near identical weather conditions, is down 35 therms from last year and our bill (which was already a gouge) went up by $50 for this period compared to last year
If you look up "playing in our faces" on urbandictionary.com it's just the BGE logo
If you look up "playing in our faces" on urbandictionary.com it's just the BGE logo
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Every trans person--including every trans child--deserves the chance to be fully themselves. I'm so sick of seeing trans folks harmed repeatedly and unrelentingly, against all reason and scientific precedent. To my trans friends--I'm so sorry the world keeps trying to dim your light.
December 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Every trans person--including every trans child--deserves the chance to be fully themselves. I'm so sick of seeing trans folks harmed repeatedly and unrelentingly, against all reason and scientific precedent. To my trans friends--I'm so sorry the world keeps trying to dim your light.
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
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Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
December 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
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Last newsletter of the year
- FIRST Collective meeting: learn how to do outreach and learn other ways to support our unhoused neighbors ❤️
- Columbus Dispatch Union support ✊
- plus more in this week’s newsletter!
buttondown.com/goodworkscol...
- FIRST Collective meeting: learn how to do outreach and learn other ways to support our unhoused neighbors ❤️
- Columbus Dispatch Union support ✊
- plus more in this week’s newsletter!
buttondown.com/goodworkscol...
December 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Last newsletter of the year
- FIRST Collective meeting: learn how to do outreach and learn other ways to support our unhoused neighbors ❤️
- Columbus Dispatch Union support ✊
- plus more in this week’s newsletter!
buttondown.com/goodworkscol...
- FIRST Collective meeting: learn how to do outreach and learn other ways to support our unhoused neighbors ❤️
- Columbus Dispatch Union support ✊
- plus more in this week’s newsletter!
buttondown.com/goodworkscol...
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We library folk do a good job talking about all the free services we offer, but I don’t see many of us talking about how libraries are one or the only places where you can use services without being advertised to.
December 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
We library folk do a good job talking about all the free services we offer, but I don’t see many of us talking about how libraries are one or the only places where you can use services without being advertised to.
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repeating “the lady who handcuffed herself to the twitter building has veto power over national security personnel” to myself over and over and slowly going insane
December 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
repeating “the lady who handcuffed herself to the twitter building has veto power over national security personnel” to myself over and over and slowly going insane
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“It wasn't too long ago that such streets as Eutaw place, Park place and Broadway had charming parks... Because the automobile once again seemed to have taken precedence over everything else, and because of the rush to the suburbs, the city was sadly neglected.” 1966
December 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
“It wasn't too long ago that such streets as Eutaw place, Park place and Broadway had charming parks... Because the automobile once again seemed to have taken precedence over everything else, and because of the rush to the suburbs, the city was sadly neglected.” 1966
I was up with the baby and the city collected recycling on my block at like 345 am. I thought their super early runs were to beat the summer heat but apparently they stayed with it?
December 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I was up with the baby and the city collected recycling on my block at like 345 am. I thought their super early runs were to beat the summer heat but apparently they stayed with it?
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God damn STOP TEXTING ME MARK KELLY
December 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
God damn STOP TEXTING ME MARK KELLY
I should watch Baltimorons
WOW. Loving that AMC is playing trailers for Baltimorons as commercial bumps. They call it a new Christmas classic. I hope we can get out of the Wire mode for Baltimore.
December 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I should watch Baltimorons
"have a happy holiday" is a lyric in "rocking around the Christmas tree", it's just a nice thing to say and people need to calm TF down.
"Happy holidays" -->so you hate Christmas?
is the original "I like pancakes" --> oh so you hate waffles?
"Happy holidays" -->so you hate Christmas?
is the original "I like pancakes" --> oh so you hate waffles?
The aversion to Happy Holidays is deranged. This is something you learn to say in literally elementary school to avoid leaving out other children. Plus, you get Jewish holidays off from school if you live in a civilized part of the country so why would you be angry about having to acknowledge them
December 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"have a happy holiday" is a lyric in "rocking around the Christmas tree", it's just a nice thing to say and people need to calm TF down.
"Happy holidays" -->so you hate Christmas?
is the original "I like pancakes" --> oh so you hate waffles?
"Happy holidays" -->so you hate Christmas?
is the original "I like pancakes" --> oh so you hate waffles?
Dems will write letters whose sternness we've scarcely yet contemplated
But seriously this court needs to be reigned in
But seriously this court needs to be reigned in
Not a criticism of this (excellent!) thread, or Casten in particular, but I do think Democrats need to start laying out clear, definitive and escalatory steps they plan to take in response if/when SCOTUS goes through with this.
The 14th Amendment says that all people born in America, regardless of race are citizens and have a right to equal protection under the law. For SCOTUS to be remotely confused on that text speaks to their racism, not the Constitution (1/3) www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...
December 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Dems will write letters whose sternness we've scarcely yet contemplated
But seriously this court needs to be reigned in
But seriously this court needs to be reigned in
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Not a criticism of this (excellent!) thread, or Casten in particular, but I do think Democrats need to start laying out clear, definitive and escalatory steps they plan to take in response if/when SCOTUS goes through with this.
The 14th Amendment says that all people born in America, regardless of race are citizens and have a right to equal protection under the law. For SCOTUS to be remotely confused on that text speaks to their racism, not the Constitution (1/3) www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...
Supreme Court agrees to decide if Trump may end birthright citizenship | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide if President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship with an executive order is constitutional, offering the justices an opportunity to revisit w...
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December 7, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Not a criticism of this (excellent!) thread, or Casten in particular, but I do think Democrats need to start laying out clear, definitive and escalatory steps they plan to take in response if/when SCOTUS goes through with this.
When will any journalist follow up on these hollow excuses with "you're a senator/Congressmqn/the speaker of the house. It's your job to know and if you don't want to do the job, shouldn't the people be represented by someone who will?
WELKER: You're talking about Trump protecting Arkansas from drugs, yet he pardoned the former president of Honduras who trafficked more than 500 tons of cocaine into the US. How does that make us safer?
COTTON: I haven't spoken to POTUS about that pardon. I have to know more about the circumstances
COTTON: I haven't spoken to POTUS about that pardon. I have to know more about the circumstances
December 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
When will any journalist follow up on these hollow excuses with "you're a senator/Congressmqn/the speaker of the house. It's your job to know and if you don't want to do the job, shouldn't the people be represented by someone who will?
Chat, can the Supreme Court rule part of the Constitution unconstitutional?
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Chat, can the Supreme Court rule part of the Constitution unconstitutional?
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What is the quintessential Onion headline? The strong contender that just randomly popped in my mind is "Hank Williams Jr. Honored by Institute For Football Preparedness"
May 19, 2024 at 12:26 PM
What is the quintessential Onion headline? The strong contender that just randomly popped in my mind is "Hank Williams Jr. Honored by Institute For Football Preparedness"
December 6, 2025 at 3:41 AM