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Michael Starnes
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When someone tries to take the bike lane away
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America doesn't have a shortage of gas. We have a shortage of bike lanes, five minute cities, and safe pedestrian infrastructure.
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@wmataGM Randy this is fare evasion
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Maryland has a D trifecta, Ds in the White House, and we're still doing highway expansion. We're locking ourselves into decades more of highway deaths and nobody cares.
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We literally beat the Nazis in less time than it makes to make a bike lane
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@EoinHiggins_ <coughs and shares cup with daughter> NO
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Three people were murdered on the streets of DC last night and policing students is taking priority over... actually policing.
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Andrew Leyden
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The DC Police Department has assembled a massive force of officers and vehicles near the GWU campus.
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Mayor pete in shorts sksksksks
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How it started: How it's going:
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@OlufemiOTaiwo If you noticed in the op-ed he also intimated he would sleep with his roomates if it weren't for homophobia???
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@nilocobau Apprently this is the description of the perp:
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@Noahpinion Literally isn't immigration.
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kind of funny that there is essentially no enforcement for actually *paying* tickets
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lauren
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saluting this hard working civic hero: the new speed camera that raked in a cool 6 mil from the republican side of the commute during the first half of 2024
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@ArlingtonModDem One more lane bro! One more lane!
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@tweetsbycurtis This is bad for students from disadvantaged backgrounds who need something objective to prove themselves
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@CherFeldman @GovKathyHochul respectfully this is a conspiracy theory. You don't make money with empty apartments. (Also this would make them pay property taxes without using services, which is awesome)
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Michael Starnes
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@UrbanLandRent Population density, a lot of those neighborhoods were denser. also churches. Harder to run a club when you have a 25 minute drive vs a three minute walk.
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Mark Elrich really is a supervillan
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@savion_blanc Kind of weird to take a photo of someone without permission on a flight??????
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@hawillisdc do you live with jk rowling
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@amandalhu the way most national teams could have just taken the bare minimum of covid precautions (respirators + air filters in room, eating outdoors) and won more medals from that alone. 🤦‍♂️
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Michael Starnes
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@HowlinFantods @NathanJRobinson @mattyglesias Their religion is empiricism till it stops confirming their preconceptions.
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Anne Hidalgo: Not just bikes! Muriel Bowser: Just not bikes!
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@ad_mastro The real human rights violation was the lack of free parking.
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@KathyParkPrice Caught this one recently
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Speedbumps and concrete bollards. Speedbumps and concrete bollards. Speedbumps and concrete bollards.
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Troyotathon
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@computer_gay down low (near the floor)
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@zimmerob glad Aaron Schock is doing well
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@data_bayes THE HANDS ARE HUMAN
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What Arlington will look like if missing middle is passed
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Michael Starnes
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Texas drivers are literally half of a percent of all carbon emissions. We could change the planet if we changed our communities. Everything counts in large amounts.
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Michael Starnes
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Mayor Bowser is more concerned with putting F1 on our streets over bikes.
@MayorBowser
Mayor Muriel Bowser
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Formula One is coming to Downtown DC this weekend 🏎️ Bring the whole family to see the transformation of Pennsylvania Ave into a temporary track and to get up close to the F1 fun. #BeDowntown to be part of the action ⬇️
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save me pete
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@EdmundGriffiths Stop gatekeeping
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Michael Starnes
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meanwhile in maryland
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Michael Starnes
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Step 1 : Propose a ban on new housing Step 2: Make fun of people for living with their parents
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Eric Goulet
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@Tim_Pnin @FeverPotomac Even more likely...their parents' Takoma Park basements.
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@maxdubler wtf I love lawfare
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Michael Starnes
9 months
This is climate arson.
@Kalinsky_
Kalinsky
9 months
This is an absolute disaster. Governor Moore campaigned on transit expansion, while his proposed budget kills essentially all expansion and slashes service funding. This will have devastating impacts on both the MTA and WMATA.
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@SoBendito Save midtown manhattan from skyscrapers is really a take
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Michael Starnes
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1/. DC is undergoing one of the largest changes to zoning in years, and it is going basically no media coverage 📰 The change is being finalized, but here are my biggest takeaways 👇
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Michael Starnes
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Beyond the slow erosion of 1st amendment rights, why the hell did they knock on his door at midnight over a civil matter?
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The Takoma Torch🔥🐓
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WARNING: This is not satire. Editorial: State of Maryland vs. The Takoma Torch via @takomatorch
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Michael Starnes
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Food $300 Data $150 Rent $800 Gift to Ted Leonsis $515 million Utilities $200 Someone who is good at budgeting, please help me. My family is starving!
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Michael Starnes
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most normal day in DC
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@mlstrat He's just trying to say he obamacares
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Michael Starnes
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@RahneAlexander Beyond the obvious racial justice impacts of only putting them in the ""black butterfly"" it is dumb to have gaps in the rest of downtown where ostensibly you still want to detect shootings...
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BPD getting kudos from "noted cyclist" upon hearing someone got doored
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Michael Starnes
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Nice to see Nick Delledonne win out over the lives of our children
@AdamTuss
Adam Tuss
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BREAKING - @DDOTDC Chief Sharon Kershbaum says a bike lane is now NOT being considered for a more than 3 mile stretch of busy CT Ave in NW DC. This has been a controversial project for years - a bike lane was recommended. But the new DDOT Chief is changing course #bikedc
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Going out on a limb to say transit hubs should be... transit oriented
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The Baltimore Banner
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Reimagined Penn Station would relocate drop-off area. Should cars or buses get curbside priority?
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Michael Starnes
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@sam_d_1995 Children who famously don't exist in Italy, Tokyo, Mexico City, and NYC
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Michael Starnes
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The narrative that cycling was only for lycra clad white bros was a lie the whole time. Never let the haters win: they are dead wrong.
@BmoreCityDOT
Baltimore City DOT
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Polling: What Baltimore Area Voters Say about Transportation The support for bike lanes was stronger among non-white people than among white people. 64% of Black respondents say bike lanes benefit people and 74% of Latino respondents agreed.
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@its_Xopher Arlington-pilled
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@alanthefisher "But the tax breaks" Yeah and you have a 400 dollar electric bill and can only go outside after dark
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Michael Starnes
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@MrDubC @darthweger this has got to be second base right?
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Michael Starnes
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@noculottes @RpwWilliams I demand homelessness or a 5 acre lot as God intended.
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Michael Starnes
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Muriel at the Masters Tournament as we have record cuts to schools, who still lack A/C
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Washingtonian Problems
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Caption this (DC Edition)
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Michael Starnes
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how is it that a celebrity kid has like a better position on public health than CDC
@joaquinlife
Joaquín Beltrán Free Palestine
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Violet Affleck holding it down at the LA County Board of Supervisors demanding mask availability, mask mandates in hospitals, and clean air in all government buildings including jails and detention centers. Go Violet! 😷🍉
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Michael Starnes
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Alexandria: no traffic deaths in the last year DC: traffic deaths doubled since starting "Vision Zero"
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Michael Starnes
2 years
Wrong week to be asking that question for the DC Pro-Life scene...
@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
2 years
Removed this anti-abortion bull shit near union station, keep your eyes out friends
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Michael Starnes
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@whitemishima @questionableway They couldn't even establish a method of death effectively????
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Michael Starnes
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I don't think a future filled with these is "project 2025". It's an option of not living in the streets for a lot of people.
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@ZeynabDay
Zeynab Day
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This is GOP rhetoric. Literally Heritige Foundation. There is a housing surplus in some areas. A shortage in others. "Rolling back red tape?" Quality controls? We had a surge of fly by night contractors in the 1990s, causing massive safety issues. Houses were falling apart.
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one billion "The Cairos"
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Andrew DeFrank
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NIMBYs: DC is full. Where could we possibly build more housing? Capitol Hill:
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@jappaji4 @mayer_philip Have you called the UN?
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@njnic23 @FlameCon we love a non super-spreader con 🫶
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Michael Starnes
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Masculine Hetersexual Men missing a key advocate today
@tomsherwood
Tom Sherwood
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#BreakingNews Ward 8 DC Council member Trayon White was arrested by the FBI this afternoon and will be held overnight to face charges tomorrow, informed sources tell me. Extent of charges unknown at this moment.
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Michael Starnes
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@gusselsprouts @rafaelshimunov Support for liberal housing policies are like 2x greater among African Americans than white people Opponents are largely whiter, wealthier, more affluent homeowners
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Michael Starnes
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@mnolangray I love the interior courtyards in Guate. they aren't that common in the West but I think they are a smarter way to have a little bit of geeen space without lawns.
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Michael Starnes
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@andrewdefrank Once we build something on these parking lots it is so over for historic NOVA
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Michael Starnes
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There isn't one good reason this spot shouldn't be carfree.
@alanhenney
Alan Henney
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2 PEDESTRIANS STRUCK WITH CPR REPORTED IN PROGRESS ON 1 --- 14th St and New York Ave NW DC.
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Michael Starnes
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32% percent of washingtonians are food insecure and the mayor is lobbying for the hobby of billionaires
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Mayor Muriel Bowser
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It’s time to get the Commanders back where they belong - at RFK Stadium. #SportsCapital See my full interview with @JBsportscaster ➡️
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Michael Starnes
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@thinkprogress Braiding hair without even needing scissors shouldn't require thousands of hours of training or a $10k certificate. Nor should florists need a license. Overzealous licensing just perpetuates economic injustice
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@KristinChirico @KeckMedicineUSC feel free to lodge a complaint to the medical system, no official compliant basically means it "didn't happen". Gotta do the paperwork.
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Michael Starnes
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Susan Shore, a researcher at U Michigan, just published her results showing a 75% reduction in tinnitus in 12 weeks. Pretty revolutionary science.
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Michael Starnes
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Back when Annapolis had high frequency transit
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Michael Starnes
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"Nobody rides public transit"
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Michael Starnes
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@RogerMissoCNY @carterforva "We shouldn't be too loud in decrying extrajudicial assasinationa by police because we might hurt people's feelings"
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Michael Starnes
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@SamLauter can we get apology for your support of the occupation while we're at it?
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Michael Starnes
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@upzone_CA We need an affordable ticket lottery
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Michael Starnes
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We need more seats + higher capacity trains
@tonymelone
Tony Melone
1 year
Two months out, this is the lowest one-way @Amtrak fare NYC-BOS for 2 adults+2 kids the day before Thanksgiving. We desperately need a regional transit policy that's not "everybody can just drive!"
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Michael Starnes
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This is what the anti-sign lobby stole from us
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Jack Chambers
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Cincinnati, 1880s
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Michael Starnes
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Every day people log on here and say that what is happening in this photo is against the ADA for reducing access for people in wheelchairs.
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Michael Starnes
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Being against new buildings isn't materially different than being against the people in them.
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Michael Starnes
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@Kdenkss @mattyglesias >implying there are decades left to come
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Michael Starnes
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@brad_polumbo Whatever gets clicks homie
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Michael Starnes
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@xdanharmonx @M_feeney @Popehat @CatoInstitute Your daily reminder the Koch bros have been actual leaders on economically inclusive policies and ending the drug war
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Michael Starnes
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@Engineer_Wong This makes sense, C-19 has shown in studies to increase likelyhood of diabetes in teens.
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Michael Starnes
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@Shredded_teat this goes really really hard
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Michael Starnes
2 years
MINT THE COIN
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Michael Starnes
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Is Trayon just on bigotry side quests right now or what?
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Michael Starnes
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Kamala Harris has announced, that if elected, she will mandate the construction of Town 2.0 complete with multiple dance floors. "People deserve a place to go to the club and hear club classics."
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Michael Starnes
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It's almost like upzoning wasn't a big deal after all
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Michael Starnes
5 months
Most of the cans on the right have 3/4g connections to tell when they are too full and the routes for trucks picking them up go dynamically rather than stopping where not needed. this is common in 🇨🇿🇵🇹
@MarketUrbanism
Market Urbanism
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Americans on Twitter are always like, how have you not figured out waste containerization yet like every other city in the US has? Well, we are a real city, not an overgrown suburb like San Francisco where a bunch of little cans are enough. We need a real man’s solution…
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