Journalist/photojournalist, urbanist, infrastructure geek, cyclist, pedestrian and driver. Hope. #VisionZeroDC #BikeDC
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#BikeDC Nice video of the Purple Line train crossing Rock Creek in North Chevy Chase.
Your community ideas can make an impact. Purple Line Transit Partners Beyond the Rails Grant Program provides funding to organizations and neighborhoods along the Purple Line. Application deadline: Nov. 30, 2026. Visit purplelinemd.com/beyond-the-… to apply.
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#VisionZero It has been a deadly year in DC with 31 one traffic fatalities, a nearly 90% increase over last year. #BikeDC
A cyclist was struck and killed by a box truck this afternoon in #LoganCircleDC on Rhode Island Ave NW. #BikeDC #DCBike @7NewsDC
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Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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The Capital Crescent Trail west of the Lyttonsville @PurpleLineMD station now has it's base layer of asphalt but will not be open to the public until the entire Bethesda to Silver Spring Station section is completed. #CCT #BikeDC #purplelineprogress #BikeTrail @purplelinenow
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The new Capital Crescent Trail entrance from Jones Bridge Rd is preparing for a concrete surface and stairs which will be built to the right of the ramp. #CCT #BikeDC #RockCreekPark #PurpleLineMD #purplelineprogress #LightRail #BikeTrails @WABADC @PurpleLineMD @purplelinenow
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Beach Drive will have temporary closures on Saturday, Sept. 12 - Sunday, Sept. 13 for emergency hazardous tree removals, tree maintenance and vegetation clearance.
Saturday, Sept. 12 & Sunday, Sept. 13: Beach Drive from Rock Creek Parkway to Porter St. NW will be closed to vehicles and bicyclists. The multi-use path will remain open to pedestrians and bicyclists. Traffic will be detoured via Cathedral Ave., Shoreham Drive and Porter St.
Sunday, Sept. 13: Beach Drive from Piney Branch Parkway NW to Park Rd./Tilden St. will also close to vehicles and bicyclists from 6:30 AM to 3:30 PM. The multi-use path will remain open. Traffic from Piney Branch Parkway will be diverted to Porter St. NW.
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🚧 It’s happening! Construction on the Capital Crescent Trail is officially underway.
The crew is getting started on site, including installing tree protection fencing and beginning work on the new pathway. 🌳🚲
Stay tuned for more updates!
ALT Workers in safety vests surveying a tree-lined park pathway on a sunny day with benches and scattered leaves at the Capital Crescent Trail.
ALT Capital Crescent Trail project site. A shaded park area with trees and benches.
ALT Sidewalk lined with large trees and temporary wire fencing around tree bases on a sunny day.
ALT Worker in a safety vest operating a lawn mower on a paved path with parked vehicles and buildings.
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#BikeDC Residents will have a less than 5 minute walk to the 16th Street Purple Line station or the Silver Spring Metro, MARC and bus station.
Four Buildings, 1,340 Units: An Enormous Redevelopment Planned For Downtown Silver Spring. urb.tf/3Uxwy9L
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New steps from the soon to re-open Spring St bridge will connect with the Capital Crescent Trail where it never existed before. Progress has been snail like and @PurpleLineMD is no longer trying to predict when they will be finished. #bikeDC #purplelineprogress #CCTrail @WABADC
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MIT mathematically proved that AI will destroy the democracy.
A Nobel-winning MIT economist published a terrifying paper called "Automation and Repression"
As AI and automation replace human labor, wealth concentrates heavily in the hands of a tiny group of capital owners. Inequality skyrockets.
When inequality hits a critical mass, workers realize they are being crushed and the threat of a popular revolt spikes.
Faced with that threat, the ruling elite are forced to make a choice.
They can redistribute the wealth through taxes, or they can use force to keep people down.
The paper mathematically proves a dark reality: there is a direct, inescapable link between automation and political repression.
The more capital accumulates through AI, the more the elite prefer repression over redistribution.
Why? Because sharing the wealth cuts into their power. Funding a police state protects it.
It gets worse.
The authors modeled what happens when an economy starts inside a clean, stable democracy.
As automation advances and capital concentrates at the top, the math shows that the elite eventually find democracy to be a liability.
They stop supporting democratic systems. They back a coup. They install a repressive system just to protect their automated wealth.
Nobody is voting to end democracy.
The technology’s economic incentives just make authoritarian control the logical next step for survival.
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Doris Miller (CVN 81) Naming Ceremony piped.video/CmR_XKZsLPs?si=_-0Z… via @YouTube #USSDorisMillerFOREVER
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Land currently under the jurisdiction of the United States government (National Arboretum) will be transferred to the District of Columbia to enable the construction of a new 390-foot-long bridge across the Anacostia River to Kenilworth Park and the Anacostia River Trail. #BikeDC
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