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Solarpunk: solve the major problems of our day with emphasis on sustainability. 🌳 Environmental Sustainability Council, FCC VA. Yimby urbanist. Opinions my own

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Joseph🌳

1 year

Understanding Solarpunk: How the movement can inspire sustainable businesses "Solarpunk is about creativity and imagination. It's about imagining a better future and then working to make that vision a reality."

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Understanding Solarpunk: How the movement can inspire sustainable businesses

Solarpunk is a relatively new movement that is gaining traction as a way to promote sustainability and creativity in the face of climate change. It's an optimistic and forward-looking vision that...

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6 months

When we had our third child I bought an M1 Abrams. It’s very safe and built like a tank. We always had larger SUVs like Yukons which have no chance against mines and Anti Tank artillery. The lives of my children are too important to risk to another driver.

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Jerimiah Lee Lancaster

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When we had our third child I bought a Yukon. It’s very safe and built like a tank. We always had sedans and crossovers which have no chance against large trucks. The lives of my children are too important to risk to another driver.

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Build 1 million of these

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Phil Walkability🇺🇸🦅🌲

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America really perfected the large-size family home and then made building it illegal

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4 months

3 years since we lost Jim. I think about him every day. That he predicted his own death on twitter is just so insane.

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3 years

Had to bike through a roundabout over a highway to get my Covid jab. Lifespan maximization function is clearly perfectly well-calibrated.

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@Cereaza2 Yes, riding home

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@Spelt_D_o_n_a_l @GoingDutchDEN Each of my kids get their own M1, sorry if that was unclear

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Seriously a neighborhood full of kids being ridden around in these is way safer than a neighborhood of kids being driven around in tanks. I would never consider bringing kids somewhere that is designed to support the latter

@BunchBikes

Bunch Bikes - Family Cargo Bikes

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Yes... it's easier on 3 wheels! Thanks @Ward5FamilyBike for the great pic! #SnowBike #BikeDC #Goals #SnowDay #TheFamilyBike

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7 months

@sdut Every time you see an e-scooter someone got there on a scooter instead of driving. Zero people have been killed by being run over by scooters. There are trade-offs and scooters are obviously better than cars down town

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@PhilWalkable If your car doesn't have IPM1 Chobham ceramic metal armor plates do you even love your children?

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4 months

@CoachBalto This fast

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@_Murphy_Dan Smart phones were invented and became popular, and now every driver is constantly distracted while operating deadly machinery

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4 months

(these are classic DC rowhomes that are illegal to build in most of DC)

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1 year

Why are they hosting an anti density rally in Old Town? Because it's the most pleasant place to meet up with people in the city?? And also the most dense neighborhood???🐸🍵

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1 year

Group opposing Alexandria zoning reform hosting rally tonight in Old Town

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5 months

A friend and I saved 17 huge white oak trees from invasive English ivy today. White oaks can live to be 450 years old. These trees belong to our grandkids and their grandkids

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@WAVY_News Now make one for trains

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@PhilWalkable DC rowhomes near Capitol Hill

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1 year

A group of people complaining about not enough parking while standing in an empty parking lot next to a block of empty street parking space

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1 year

@VerneAsimov @Krattle89 @Boenau Lmao no it's not. Does the free market pay for highways??

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8 months

@feelsdesperate Ah yes, public transit, famously where normal working people don't go

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@nicSTREETZ "not everyone can afford to be poor and have no other options"

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10 months

@AmericanFietser I demand more big rocks on the corners of every intersection. Possibly big mossy ones too

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@lolitataub 💁🏽‍♀️Investor type: angel 🔮Thesis: rebellious environmental cos 🌱Stage: pre seed 💸Check-size: $5k 🙌🏽Leads or follows: both and can help with setting terms, decks, patents 🌎Geo: US, latin America, africa ✉️Contact:

Solarpunk is a movement that envisions how the future might look if humanity succeeded in solving major contemporary challenges with an emphasis on sustainability, human impact on the environment,...

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5 months

I can't think of a single worse use of resources (besides maybe poisoning wells?) than widening highways in tysons You reeeeeally think one more lane is going to fix this?

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Greater Greater Washington

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Do you live in the Washington region? Do you…go places sometimes? The Transportation Planning Board wants your comments on its long-range transportation plan. @betterdcregion dives into what it contains and why it should change:

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2 years

Speaking to a Therapist is so expensive but speaking at your local city council meeting in support of affordable housing is free and legally protected

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1 year

@WarrenJWells I usually walk just slightly slower these days

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1 year

When they build highrise apartment buildings why are there only "luxury" units? Because we mostly banned middle size apartments and multi-family's that are cheaper per sq ft to build

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5 months

How can I fund more agroforestry?

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9 months

@berkie1 Please point to where the Yimbys "destroyed your way of life" on this doll

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1 year

@JackTreanor617 It actually has a very good South Boston vibe

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11 months

We should pass a statewide law that invalidates all zoning, covenants, and HOA agreements barring non whites from owning property - not just leave them intact except for the racial segregation.

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Arlington Now

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A restrictive covenant used to block a duplex also barred non-white people from buying or renting it

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2 years

@the_transit_guy Louden silver line has opened least week. Population: 421,000. Population that can walk, bike, scooter, wheelchair, etc to the train: 0

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3 months

@picklevapejuice If each of those people were in their own car that would back up the entire block.

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6 months

This isn't urban dwellers deciding to become farmers - it's suburbanites destroying forests & farms to build ugly mcmansions. Increase density in the urban areas to preserve rural ones!

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Cardinal News

@CardinalNewsVA

6 months

Opinion: We’re seeing a historic turnaround. Most rural counties now see more people moving in than moving out. However, Fairfax County and Virginia Beach have posted the biggest population declines in the state.

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@BFryback Oh you mean the NYC -> Chicago -> Seattle -> LA -> New Orleans -> DC -> NYC? I've done all these actually

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6 months

@skytopjf Okay yes but please no more Big Digs

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11 months

@ChrisUnits Genius. I love the idea of a city developing a unique architecture style around an old by-right loophole. That's how cities get character I made a few with midjourney

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2 years

If I buy a brand new 7,000 lbs F-150 truck, with a 1,500 pound battery I will get $7,500 in tax credits for saving the environment. But if I take the bus and own no car I get nothing.

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@dmtrubman I asked an engineer friend of mine what it would cost to build this today and he said we cant, we dont know how

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6 months

holy crap a hit tweet! Check out @betterdcregion and support the coalition for smarter growth to make our streets safer and better designed:

Home - Coalition For Smarter Growth

Advocating for walkable, bikeable, inclusive, and transit-oriented communities as the most sustainable and equitable way for the Washington, DC region to grow and provide opportunities for all. Get...

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8 months

@skytopjf Society is not ready, I guarantee this is parabolic since 2020

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1 year

NIMBYs: we've been commenting how much we hate this density plan for a year! Also NIMBYs: there hasn't been enough community engagement!

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5 months

Idea: massive data center with 1,000 apartments on top of it that are heated for free in the winter

@YimbyA

YimbyAlexandriaKen

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Exurbsn nimbys: We don't need urbanism, central cities, or transit, because everything is on line Also exurban nimbys: Don't build data centers here Have I got that right?

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6 months

@NRO how about make both legal and let americans choose

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1 year

Even in the snow hundreds came out for the Missing Middle Housing rally in Arlington NAACP, Sierra Club, VOICE interfaith, Dems, Independents, Republicans, League of Women Voters, and YIMBYs all united for housing Our victory is inevitable

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317% sounds like a lot until you learn they currently get paid $120 per case

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7 months

@MoCoMikeE The only unit that matters is the neighborhood to nimby's - which very undemocratically is the only unit that doesn't vote in elections or have representation from elections

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10 months

Falls Church, VA Population: 20k Status: more of a real city than LA, Vegas, Houston, or Minneapolis

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Jake Gotta

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Map of real cities in America

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5 months

I did some art. Does this count as urbanism?

@CupOJoseph

JOSΞPH 🍩

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Covered up a swastika with a cool fox 🦊

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9 months

@samshirazim 57 is going to be @SusannaSGibson , Democrats have nailed it

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6 months

We ♥️ ADUs They create spaces for seniors to age in place with their family, make home ownership more affordable, and increase the types of housing available. Thank you for your leadership @SalimVASenate !

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@SalimVASenate

Senator Saddam Azlan Salim

7 months

I am proud to be sponsoring SB304 this year to help Virginians with the skyrocketing cost of housing. I have heard from so many Virginians who are being priced out of our communities due to a shortage of diverse and creative housing options.

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9 months

@implying2011 @AmericanFietser $50k per parking space is not a good investment

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1 year

I got to hang out with @TheNimbee last night!

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7 months

@JerusalemDemsas Only one of them is objectively correct and based in reality.

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1 year

Got a fig tree and some other plants

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6 months

My letter in the FC News Press on @SalimVASenate 's ADU bill! ADUs are awesome. Legalize housing! 🏘️

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9 months

I'm a Metro elite black card member

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8 months

Silver line cost $6.8B. Now many of its stations will be closed indefinitely? What an insane policy failure

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@jac0bmwilliams

Jacob Williams

@jac0bmwilliams

8 months

Due to budget cuts, the DC metro plans to shut down 10 stations with the lowest ridership. See the chart and table for more details. Full data: #DCmetro

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5 months

Americans used to fuck

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Jonathan Berk

5 months

Boston 1775: “What if we built more land to provide the housing needed to support our growing city!?” Boston 2024: “60 years ago someone arbitrarily decided that we can’t build anything but single family homes on 90% of the land around Downtown so I guess we’re SOL…”

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1 year

@mollyfleck A bike "not stopping" at a stop sign goes about the same speed as a car "stopping"

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5 months

You exist in a new age where most humans live in cities for the first time ever. And you're not an urbanist?

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@skytopjf Youre computer science major? I have an idea for an app

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2 years

On April 9th, 2021 my friend Jim Pagels was hit and killed by a driver in a car while biking home from getting a covid shot. Hours before his preventable death he posted this:

@jimpagels

Jim Pagels

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Had to bike through a roundabout over a highway to get my Covid jab. Lifespan maximization function is clearly perfectly well-calibrated.

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Every single Democrat and every single Republican in the Virginia House, people who never agree on anything, all agree: Glenn Youngkin is an idiot

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BK

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Dag, unanimous rejection of @GlennYoungkin 's amendments of @CandiMundonKing 's bill to nix Virginia's Sons of Confederate Veterans and Robert E. Lee special license plates. #VALeg

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11 months

I'm not at war with people who live in single family homes, or the homes themselves, or quiet neighborhoods, or even the concept of suburbs I'm at war with exclusionary zoning that stifles housing supply & historically was created specifically to enforce racial segregation

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10 months

Civic life is in decline. Take over your local government and revive it.

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6 months

@Joe_Nilla_1 No one even uses these roads it's totally empty. Should have built bike parking instead

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9 months

Every time someone books a flight between any Northeast corridor cities the checkout screen should be legally required to show them train tickets for the same trip

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7 months

The squirrels got a couple of them but my garlic is popping off and survived the snow. I should have about 40 heads of garlic when I harvest in a 2 months

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4 months

Just going to say it.. @SalimVASenate is the best senator we have had in decades. His work on affordable housing, ADUs, and now blockchain research are huge positive contributions to our region. I hope i get to meet him some day

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11 months

@ARLnowDOTcom Tip for @ARLnowDOTcom look into the existence of pickleball being a conspiracy to sell more noise blocking fences from Big Fence insiders

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8 months

Thank you for publishing my letter @fcnp . Less parking at bars encourages walking, will lead to less drunk drivers, and more safety in our communities. A downtown bar does not need 39 parking spaces

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5 months

Legalize it everywhere

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Arlington Now

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An Arlington garden apartment community is the best place to live in the U.S., new rankings say

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9 months

For the first time in human history the majority of people live in cities. Smart urbanism is essential to humanity's future. Solarpunk VC has made a $1k micro grant to the Coalition for Smarter Growth @betterDCregion , to support smart & long term urban planning in the DC region.

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@RJadeStarbuck @ChicagoDOT Lmao do you think cyclists don't have to pay taxes 😂 please send that loop hole to my accountant

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7 months

People like cruises because it's the only time they get to live in a dense walkable mixed use neighborhood We could build neighborhoods like this on land you know

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@dpherriges HOAs were specifically invented to enforce racial segregation. We should be actively dismantling them. Let's get a law on the books at the state level that says every 10 years a majority of homeowners must opt in for the HOA to continue to exist

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@ErnieBrownII $40-50k per below ground parking space really adds up

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2 years

@TheGattoniCelli Some places are better with less people, like the forests and natural lands. We can have more of those if we live just a tiny bit closer to each other

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8 months

The Yimbys were right about everything. Keep building homes

@thehill

The Hill

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Rent expected to drop in several US cities as markets near "oversupply": real estate report

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4 months

DC-Baltimore should be a mega City the size of Tokyo

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@TheGattoniCelli Nimbys stay mad YIMBYs stay winning

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10 months

@ErnieBrownII Totally broken unit economics and incentives. We could meet all of our density and affordable housing goals by removing parking reqs.

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@FixCircle We better build more homes in every neighborhood to increase the demand for commercial areas

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2 years

@BFryback Ngl snes emulator on my laptop and USB retro controllers has made me LOTS of friends on long Amtrak rides

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9 months

Final peppers from the garden this morning. We finally had a deep enough frost to kill everyone in the garden beds so this will be my final harvest of the year.

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@TheLastFarm "first we're going to light carbon on fire to get energy, then we're going to spend more energy than we produce to capture burned carbon" Literally like doing this and thinking you figured out infinite energy:

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4 months

Bicycles are the only form of transportation humans have ever invented which uses less energy than walking.

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1 year

One cherry tomato plant makes about a gallon of tomatoes every 2-3 weeks all July-September

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@BFryback Me: thank you, that's so kind

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A high-speed rail between DC and Richmond would make this the most wealthy & powerful region in the world for decades to come.

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8 months

Dear people against red light cameras, do you think motion sensor street lights that turn on late at night when you walk by are an invasion of your privacy?

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4 months

Local reporting on non- partisan issues is essential for the longevity of our democracy. We need better funding mechanisms for news that brings us together instead of pitting us against each other.

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Margaret Barthel

@margaretbarthel

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I'm thinking about things like: zoning! sports stadiums! data centers! transportation! mental health care! For me, one of the great joys of listening to NPR is hearing those issues covered by local reporters and elevated to a national audience.

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DC to Richmond HSR would secure Virginia's spot as best state in America

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Winnie

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This is @Nerd4Cities Minimum Viable Solution for a high speed rail network in the United States. Build all of this in the next 2 decades.

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1 year

3 parking spots or this

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Sam Balto

1 year

What was once road space is now a play space to chase pigeons. #StreetsForKids

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1 year

💧Every raindrop of water that falls on my home goes to Tripps Run -> Lake Barcroft -> Holmes Run -> Hunting Creek -> Potomac River -> Chesapeake Bay Mesohaline -> Atlantic Ocean Watersheds are amazing. All other human created boundaries are imagined

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@michael_wiebe "we can't build new homes until the infrastructure is there first!" Okay let's build a bunch of new schools, day cares, hospitals, city services, renewable energy capacity, and public transit "Let's not"

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@BFryback Hello 911 I'd like to report a murder

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@cafedujord Thank you Jordan, reading this makes it all worth it

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@_Murphy_Dan Closing roads is free

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You can't just get rid of the racial segregation part, we need to destroy and dismantle all the policies used to enforce it: SFH only-zoning, HOAs, highway projects that split neighborhoods, gerrymandering and more. All of it.

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