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@wmataGM @wmata @Nationals @dcunited @Capitals Way to go Randy. I love the short waits for trains now

New Record! @wmata Navy Yard 🚇 had 76K customers on Sat w/ Petalpalooza, @Nationals & @dcunited games, for the busiest ridership day EVER at that station even beating the Nats World Series run in 2019! Plus we moved the @Capitals game & big zoo crowds. Metro moves our region!

As a flashback to what we’ve lost, and what we can strive to be again, here is my favorite Kennedy Center Honors performance—from 2012. Heart and Jason Bonham absolutely crushing Stairway to Heaven to honor Led Zeppelin—who watched in tears. It’s worth every second.

Safer, faster, more reliable, more frequent…America’s Metro System is laser focused on continuous improvement.

All this talk of a ballroom to service the super wealthy while the rest of us continue to pay more for healthcare and basic essentials makes me think of this powerful political cartoon from 1906, the artist is William Balfour Ker.

Finally the map of Alps is here! We sought a style halfway between classic and modern, with elements such as sealines but adopting the division of the Alps proposed by SOIUSA in 2005. Link in bio to read the blog article! #alps #cartography #maps

In case you wondered how summer visitors to Washington coped with the heat and humidity before air conditioning, they didn’t. They stayed home. Most Washington hotels closed in the summer, according to Karl Baedeker’s US- Hbk for Travellers, 1909, p 211. #dc #heat #climate #swamp

Where most US food is imported from

@mluckovichajc,

To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 canada.ca/en/public-heal…

I don’t check this account anymore, find me on BlueSky at davidrain.bsky.social

Obit from Wapo for my brother-in-law Bruce Reedy, who lived in DC Friendship Heights and worked as a photographer, first for WUSA and then freelance, for more than three decades. legacy.com/us/obituaries/…

@wmataGM @scottfaucettmd Get well soon Randy!

Left knee surgery done! Glad I didn’t have a 3rd knee to mess that up too🤯. Thankful to @scottfaucettmd & team @ Center for Advanced Orthopedics who are rebuilding me incl the great nurses who I’d like to recognize on #NurseAppreciation week. Thx for all the support 🙏. Onward.

@jenniferquail you’re on the tv honey

I am trying to imagine Mayor Bowser doing this and it is hurting my brain

I will never recover from this student email.

vox.com/health/2023/11… US life expectancy (77.5) is now halfway between that of the Czech Republic (78) and Slovakia (77)

BREAKING: GW suspended Students for Justice in Palestine at GWU from organizing or participating in campus events for at least 90 days after four of its members projected anti-Israel and anti-GW messages onto the side of Gelman Library last month gwhatchet.com/2023/11/14/gw-…

I made a video essay about failure, aging, Tupac, and my ten+ year battle to land a switch backside 360 kickflip down a stair set. Hope you enjoy. oldfriendsandco.com