New report from @jmooreotto.bsky.social on using RRIF and TIFIA to provide a stable source of capital funding for rail electrification and automation projects! Shifting off discretionary grants is one step towards helping agencies build long-term capacity. publicenterprise.org/report/the-t...

The Transit Infrastructure Lottery

Read the full report here. Executive summary Federal transportation investment in the United States suffers from both a quantity problem and a quality problem. The quantity problem is much-d...

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Got a new paper out today... "Urban areas with lower commute mode share by car and, to a lesser extent, lower VMT are most strongly associated with lower per capita transportation fatality rates." (and it's open access if you are the type of person who wants to read a research paper)

What drives urban transportation safety? Exploring the role of modal composition and travel exposure

Purpose. Past urban transportation safety efforts have largely focused on controlling road user behavior through tactics such as speed management and separating users in space and time. This research ...

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from the video (on FB) bro got off his electric unicycle (lol) when he heard cries for help and just kind of maneuvered to give the woman a chance to get away. he didn't even end up having to fight the guy. peak performance www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/g...

Good Samaritan describes helping stop Georgetown attempted sexual assault

A man leaving an early morning showing of the new Spider-Man movie at the AMC Georgetown sprang into action to help a woman yelling for help from the bushes in the nearby waterfront park.

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Ambulances are woke, you heard it from Sean Duffy folks

Ken McLeod@kenmcld.bsky.social · 9h ago

The USDOT has published a new National Roadway Safety Strategy: www.transportation.gov/nrss/nrss-ac... It no longer has the objectives of Safer Speeds or improved Post-Crash Care "Designing roads to mitigate crashes helps to remove one of the primary causes of unexpected congestion"

i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten

When you’re down to “I’ve been investigated multiple times by multiple jurisdictions for assault and every one came back clean” you’re not in a great position are you. god, watching that interview

“A p-value is the most widespread statistical concept that is not definable in a single sentence“ CHECKMATE

Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social · yesterday

Stop trying to explain what a p-value is in a single sentence (ICYMI) statsepi.substack.com/p/no-you-can...

A medevac plane in New Mexico in May crashed in the Capitan Mountains, killing everyone on board, as the U.S. military conducted a GPS jamming exercise, @wired.com reports. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?

Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.

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every journalism student is familiar with the famous"13 Ws": who, what, where, when, why, which, whence, will they, won't they, whose, why not, and wherefore

Imo a really important part of the illegitimacy of Dobbs, the whole "return it to the states" idea was a transparent lie. scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-arti...

“€84 M (including 15 artic buses) for some 30-ish km (70% in dedicated lanes)” Crying rn

Marco Chitti@chittimarco.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today Bergamo's suburban e-BRT line started regular revenue service It mostly connects Bergamo's main station to a few large suburban municipalities and industrial areas to the south-west. It cost €84 M (including 15 artic buses) for some 30-ish km (70% in dedicated lanes) ebrt.atb.bergamo.it

Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul

Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul

Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.

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quarter zip -> definitely did it

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

Head of a Girl https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/994230

do better

The great historian Robert A. Gross, author of the prize-winning, The Minutemen and Their World, has written a historically-informed, nuanced rejoinder to J.D. Vance’s use of U.S. history as a tool of blood-and-soil nationalism. theamericanscholar.org/gratitude-is...

Gratitude Isn’t Everything - The American Scholar

The revolutionary Patriots owed much to their forefathers, but their fight for universal rights embraced a wider mission

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Data-driven Enterprise solutions

www.brookings.edu/articles/get...

Getting to universal health coverage in China and Vietnam | Brookings

Tra Tran, Shenglan Tang, and Wenhui Mao share lessons from progress on universal health coverage in China and Vietnam.

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Woah, this is huge news: most ovarian cancer begins in the fallopian tubes, which can be removed (if patient desires) during other abdominal surgeries. Ovarian cancer has vague symptoms and often isn’t diagnosed until late stage with low survival rates. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/h...

There’s a Way to Prevent Ovarian Cancer. Few Know About It.

The vast majority of cases begin in the fallopian tubes — and removing them can reduce the risk by nearly 80 percent.

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If I won the lottery I would hire an interior designer and just say “Columbo murderer” while waving my hand around my home office.

God the grocery store stuff is tiresome

Fascinating chart, would be interesting to see it correlated to one of the indices of ”economic freedom” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Only 70 years ago, a white Virginia librarian was arrested for sitting next to a Black person at a public political meaning in Arlington, VA.

"Before, I was saying, ‘As long as you have an ID, you can travel domestically. Now I am turning around and saying, ‘If you are in the process of changing status, avoid any travel.’” – Shannon Shepherd, immigration lawyer

Just coming across the "Return to Wymer's DC" site, a interface to John P. Wymer's 1948–1952 photos of street scenes in the District, developed by Jessica and Thomas Smith. (There are 4,000+ photos, presented on maps w. modern imagery!) map.wymersdc.com#WY2237

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I just call them pants

The Verge@theverge.com · last wk.

HBO Max is putting on vertical shorts

“Without the nuances of Morton’s performance, the Circe scene as written by Nolan is rooted in men’s questionable fear of being accused of violence against women rather than the tragedy of how women navigate that very real threat to our lives.” My latest. www.vulture.com/article/circ...

The Odyssey’s Circe Is the Best Female Character Nolan Has Ever Written

Nolan’s never been great at writing women, but what doesn’t exist on the page Samantha Morton conjures through a tricksy, powerhouse performance.

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