Henry Cook

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My attempt to hold MDOT SHA accountable to Vision Zero - Maryland’s Lethal Highways at https://henrycook3c637a682a.wordpress.com/
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Governor Moore has confirmed this on his Twitter account. We're getting the Red Line that Larry Hogan stole from us

Gov. Moore says Baltimore’s Red Line will be light rail, not rapid buseswww.thebaltimorebanner.com Gov. Wes Moore revived planning for the east-west transit line in Baltimore City last year, and officials have been studying potential routes and whether it should be run with rapid buses. State plann...

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This is what's angering me the most about it. A) This is a self-inflicted wound that B) will be made much worse when the inevitable downturn or some other disaster strikes. At a time when we could be shoring up the system for generations, one person has decided to make that impossible.

Anyone in the #Baltimore region, our Metropolitan Planning Organization is starting a regional bike network/connectivity plan - read and please submit public comments here - storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/0dd2... #urbanism #bike #bicycle

Bikeable Baltimore Regionstorymaps.arcgis.com A Plan for a Safe and Connected Bike Network

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The three coequal branches of government are the Senate parliamentarian, the White House office of legal counsel and the United States district court in Amarillo Texas

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Great All-American convo w one of my grade schooler’s today. GS: So we had a lock-down drill today. What’s the point? Ooooh, hiding in the corner. How does that block a bullet? Me: … [no answer, bc no answer] GS: At least let me have a metal water bottle, so I can hit him if he comes in.

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oh look at that www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

D.C. traffic cameras have led to sharp decline in speeding, data showswww.washingtonpost.com The city has installed 477 traffic cameras. On some roads with the devices, citations fell by more than 95 percent. But traffic fatalities are still rising.

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1.2 Kilofives xkcd.com/2946

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Amtrak hit an all-time ridership record last month. The people hunger for trains, time to make investments in service-improving, zero emission electric trains around the country! spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/watertow...

Amtrak ridership hit all-time high in Mayspectrumlocalnews.com Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner said the nation's passenger railroad service is on track to break 2019's ridership record this year.

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New post up: a brief explainer on California's Realignment Law. CA has driven US prison declines--it's responsible for ~1/3 of the national drop in the states--but the law that drove things, Realignment, gets far too little attention. If you're unfamiliar w it, this will at least get you started.

Realignment: The Transformative (and Complicated) Reform No One Talks Aboutjohnfpfaff.com California's 2011 Realignment law was one of the more transformative reform laws of the current reform era, but it gets almost no attention. This explainer hopes to start to help fix that.

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Fine. We put out a press release. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Experts respond to concerns over the relative risks of electric boats and shark encounters A joint statement from DSC and BB:SEA. www.southernfriedscience.com/for-immediat...

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Has someone written the perfect poem to capture the dread of Sunday evenings?

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pro-tip: there's no such thing as an authentic or inauthentic recipe. food, like language, reflects generations of folks who nurture it and evolve it over time. except cincinnati chili wth is that abomination

This reminds me of Larry Hogan canceling the Red Line in Baltimore right after getting elected governor. Like 10 years later we’re back to trying to build the Red Line that would be operational by now. We can NOT beat this much power in a single politician to derail years of public investment.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

You don't want to tell voters that you can’t governwww.motherjones.com New York’s landmark congestion plan is on ice. It’s a failure for more than just the climate.

I called my congressman and expressed that I want a change in House leadership. I also called Jeffries office and let them know how stupid his actions were. Not much help, I’m sure, but if every Democrat in Congress gets some calls saying “Not Hakeem Jeffries” for leadership, maybe it matters.

Do it! And if you don't live in NYC and are looking for ways to help, calling Schumer and Jeffries is a great idea. As party leaders with immense power, what they do or don't do in New York has massive implications for transit and climate policy across the country.

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Right now reporters are saying there aren't enough votes in the NYS Senate to pass this IOU nonsense. Keep calling your reps and tell them to stick with congestion pricing. Your calls are making a difference!

Keep calling your state reps and the Senate and Assembly leaders. If this passes any hope of congestion pricing happening dies. @transalt.org has links that will help you find your state reps: transalt.org/action

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As always what strikes me in these cases is that the sheer *value for money* of political bribery is just incredible.

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transalt.org/action @transalt.org action page to save congestion pricing is up. List of things you can do and scripts to use.

Action — Transportation Alternativestransalt.org

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Welp, looks like Microsoft are rapidly realizing just how badly Recall has tarnished the Windows 11 brand: www.theverge.com/2024/6/5/241...

Microsoft reopens Windows 10 beta testing for “new features” and improvementswww.theverge.com New features are still coming, despite end of support looming.

I don’t even care if you all go beat me on this segment I just created, I’m just too darned proud of it. strava.app.link/P0gbhqWxaKb

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I thought that maybe Microsoft thought through the security implications here, but it's clear that either they did and decided it didn't matter, or didn't at all. I can't decide which is worse, but I will not be allowing any Copilot+ PCs in my enterprise either way.

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In Bloomberg CityLab, I interviewed engineering prof Wes Marshall about his new book, Killed by a Traffic Engineer, and the reasons why US road designers prioritize car speed over street safety. Short 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Saw this for the first time today. Seems legit.

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The DoD has recognized pride month every year since 2012, following the repeal of DADT. Not a new policy; the "backlash" is a shift in how conservative media outlets report on the military, which *is* new. The case is a great data point in the debate over "politicization" and the military. (🧵)

Official US Navy Special Forces page draws backlash for ringing in Pride month: 'Navy SEALs have gone woke'www.foxnews.com The Facebook account for Navy Special Warfare celebrated the beginning of "pride month," causing backlash on social media.

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New study finds that living in walkable neighborhoods correlates with a 15-20% reduction in obesity and diabetes. Notably, the researchers examined thousands of siblings, which isolates family effects. doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

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12 regular people doing their level best. I don’t ever want to know their names. They’ve earned a lifetime of safety and privacy.

The only people who've ever held Trump meaningfully accountable over the last nine years have been ordinary Americans and they've spent that entire time being lectured to and berated by elites who've failed to do anything.

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Trump promising to deprive citizens of their citizenship. Please don’t dismiss this with “Well, he can’t do that.” It would *probably* be invalidated by the courts but only after weeks, months, or years of ruining these citizens’ lives.

this is one of his most insidious proposals: On the first day of his second term, the campaign has let it be known, Trump will sign an executive order “to withhold passports, Social Security numbers and other government benefits from children of undocumented immigrants born in the United States.”

Opinion | Trump’s Taste for Tyranny Finds a Targetwww.nytimes.com Once you start talk about immigrants “poisoning the blood of our country,” what comes next?

Wait, this is such a great idea, why don’t we use UB as a high school during the day all the time? I had no idea these buildings were not used for instruction during the day, seems like a huge win-win. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...

City College students headed to UB after school board approves movewww.thebaltimorebanner.com After an onslaught of support for Baltimore City College, the city school board approved a plan to allow students to move to the University of Baltimore for three years during the renovation of the hi...

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Americans deserve high quality, rigorous, accurate and careful historical education, but outside a handful of elite private institutions, the system that produces that is being dismantled out of a mix of political malice and short-sighted, self-interested mismanagement. 5/