Jack Harman

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Infrastructure finance professional wondering why Anglosphere costs are so high

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These people really don’t get what happens if Trump takes power again.

NYT's immigration beat reporter examined Trump's plan for mass deporation thru the lens that policies and rules and courts matter The people she interviewed are in that same bubble They don't Trump and Miller aren't going to follow laws. They intend to wreak havoc and expect no one to stop them

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LA Metro presentation on not using P3 for Southeast Gateway. They say recent P3s have not provided benefits, estimated savings for SEGL are lower than other P3s, P3 removes some Metro control, and Metro is using new strategies to improve project delivery. boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...

After years of analysis, LA Metro concludes a public-private partnership for Southeast Gateway Line is not recommended. They say potential cost savings ($60m to $407m estimated savings) are relatively low compared to the potential issues and risks. boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...

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Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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The new hydrogen trains for the Arrow are far from Zero Emission, nor are they the first zero emission trains in SoCal, let alone the state. @streetsblogla.bsky.social cal.streetsblog.org/2024/07/16/d...

Don't Believe the Hydrogen Train Hype - Streetsblog Californiacal.streetsblog.org Calling hydrogen-powered trains "zero emission" is misleading at best - and even if they were, they lost the race to be "first" a long time ago

Wild www.centerforbuilding.org/elevators

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Would probably be even better as a raised crosswalk, but hey, it's a good thing and I'm not going to complain!

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“No one ran Jamelle Bouie off this site with purity test harassments. He’s just on vacation.” Meanwhile on Threads

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MSNBC just interviewed a Trump supporter who was at the rally and she said “There is too much hate” and we need to pray for the country. She is wearing a “Know Your Parasites” t-shirt. These people have no self awareness.

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You might think American building regulations are informed by science and best practices; but you would be wrong! Mostly, they’re made up by people with no real expertise and no understanding of the regulations’ real world impact. From the Center for Building in North America elevator report:

My first block list subscribe

If you want to block all the people who harassed Jamelle Bouie off the site at once, this list is handy. Hit subscribe, then block.

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There's a lot of leftists (and this is not a new phenomenon) who are allergic to any compromise with power or with the imperfect reality of the current day, and the result is that they accomplish nothing and mostly just make everyone around them miserable. It's bad praxis for social change.

Holding a black man who writes EXCELLENT and helpful essays about democracy responsible for the acts of a heinous and hateful white woman so powerful at the NYT she was the *BOOKS EDITOR* for like a decade before becoming an opinion writer says everything about you and nothing about him.

Free speech absolutist

"Hopefully, some states will consider criminal prosecution," Musk wrote, suggesting he wants it to be illegal for brands to refuse to advertise on X. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Elon Musk calls for “criminal prosecution” of X ad boycott perpetratorsarstechnica.com Congress accused advertisers group of colluding to tank X's revenue.

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Breaking: hackers stole call and text records for "nearly all" AT&T customers. Shows which phone numbers a customer called or texted. A staggering and unprecedented data breach. Data usually only available to authorities; now hackers got it www.404media.co/hackers-stea...

Hackers Steal Text and Call Records of ‘Nearly All’ AT&T Customerswww.404media.co In one of the most significant data breaches in recent history, hackers stole AT&T customers’ call and text metadata spanning several months.

TIL that the colonial governor of Italian Eritrea opposed mixed-race education because he believed in the racial inferiority of... Italians

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This pretty much sums it up.

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this is powerful, whatever else you think about the paper of record. i suggest skipping the sniping and just embracing and sharing this widely.

Opinion | Donald Trump Is Unfit to Leadwww.nytimes.com He failed the tests of leadership and betrayed America. Voters must stand up to him in November.

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One nerdy housing note: When OER picked up unexpectedly in May, some folks noted it was driven to a large degree by a surprising spike in New York. Omair Sharif (among others) was adamant it was a fluke and would reverse. Well, looks like he was right.

Very good news on housing in this report. Owners' equivalent rent rose just 0.27% on a month-to-month basis -- the slowest pace since 2021. (Looking better on a three-month basis as well.)

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Full story. US discovered a Russian plot, notified Germany, Germany protected him. This feels like a really material escalation against countries supporting Ukraine but I will leave that to the IR people to decide.

Exclusive: US and Germany foiled Russian plot to assassinate CEO of arms manufacturer sending weapons to Ukraine | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com Earlier this year, US intelligence discovered that the Russian government planned to assassinate the chief executive of a powerful German arms manufacturer which has been producing artillery shells an...

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"We're gonna put kids in cages. It's gonna be glorious." - Mike Davis, former Chief Counsel of Nominations for Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Grassley, on what he'd do if he worked in the next Trump administration's Justice Department.

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When polls are saying Biden is up five in Michigan but New York is a battleground and Trump has 40% of the African American vote but Biden has 60% of the elderly, idk man polls are fucked some sort of way. Maybe Biden loses a historic landslide or he’s up by 5 but they’re fucked some sort of way

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McKinsey consultants billing out at $1000/hr:

I need to become a consultant. I could have told them trash cans are good for half the price!

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THE WIRES: How deferred maintenance, short-staffing, a shelved modernization, mismanagement, and starving Amtrak for decades set the stage for crippling electrical failures on NE Corridor — a decrepit power grid that slows down service, even when it works: www.curbed.com/article/amtr...

Amtrak’s NE Corridor Power Supply Is Ancient and Failingwww.curbed.com Those hot-weather slowdowns and stoppages are largely the fault of one outdated piece of infrastructure.

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5th Cir., 2-1, holds that George Floyd protesters that were "subdued" by PepperBall rounds did not sufficiently plead that City of Dallas should have known about the officer's propensity for violence bc his 19 prior incidents were not sufficiently similar. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

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TPUSA ambassador and speaker Evan Kilgore has now taken the “brave” stand of denying the Holocaust.

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Something big has happened over the past few decades in Paris & its suburbs: Car use has declined dramatically. Some key explanations: —Large reductions in car-centric street space —Vast investments in noncar transport modes I investigate @urbaninstitute.bsky.social www.urban.org/urban-wire/h...

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THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

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NY Times: You thought this election might be about an unprecedented convicted criminal running to overthrow Constitutional democracy? You think you decide the narrative? Oh no. That’s our turf. And we say the most important thing in the election—nay, the world—is Joe Biden’s age.

They literally could not have picked a better choice. If they give him the power to so what's needed, this bodes extremely well for the railways. Labour off to a great start www.railmagazine.com/news/2024/07...

Network Rail Chairman Lord Hendy appointed Transport Minister in new Governmentwww.railmagazine.com Current Network Rail Chairman, Lord Peter Hendy has been appointed as a minister of state for transport in the most recent government appointments made by 10 Downing Street.