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Andrew DeFrank

@defrank.bsky.social

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Proud DC native, urban planner, sports fan, etc.

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Andrew DeFrank @defrank.bsky.social · 20h

First and last time I’ll have to take the school bus from College Park metro to the Terps stadium. Purple line tracks looked pretty much done!

Andrew DeFrank @defrank.bsky.social · 6d

Download every episode of In Our Time remotely related to where you’re going

Andrew DeFrank @defrank.bsky.social · 8d

The windows are my favorite part I think

Andrew DeFrank @defrank.bsky.social · 8d

I love realizing I forgot something critical while boarding an 8:14 NE Regional, so I bike home, grab it, bike back from Dupont in 9 minutes and hop on a just-booked 8:40 NextGen Acela for less than double my original fare, then use an about-to-expire upgrade coupon for First Class.

Andrew DeFrank @defrank.bsky.social · 8d

Red line PACKED at 11:30 on a friday

Andrew DeFrank @defrank.bsky.social · 8d

That’s a big facility!!!

Andrew DeFrank @defrank.bsky.social · 8d

The Seaport is very impressive. What’s going on over here tho?

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 8d

Rumor is that Gavin Newsom is wavering on housing and might veto SB 79. If you live in California, please reach out to the governor’s office today: cayimby.org/call-sb-79/

Call the Governor to sign SB 79!

Please call the Governor and urge him to sign SB 79!

Andrew DeFrank @defrank.bsky.social · 11d

AHHHHH!!!!

Andrew DeFrank @defrank.bsky.social · 13d

You pick a leader (say, Harriet Tubman) and then you pick an ancient civilization. Then, everyone enters a second era at the same time and “evolves” to a new set of “exploration era” civs. Repeat in modern age.

Some evolutions are logical (Rome>Norman>England) but it’s weird:

Andrew DeFrank @defrank.bsky.social · 14d

And a symbolic return to 12th and G’s pre-white flight identity as the shopping/department store hub

Andrew DeFrank @defrank.bsky.social · 14d

Absolutely. Growing up on the Hill, we just drove EVERYWHERE. Dinner in Arlington or Alexandria was the closest trip. Like 10 min on the highway.

Andrew DeFrank @defrank.bsky.social · 14d

I remember going to school in 2010 and the metro always being packed

Andrew DeFrank @defrank.bsky.social · 14d

I vaguely remember the Hill in the early 2000s. It was emptier. Smaller.

Andrew DeFrank @defrank.bsky.social · 14d

The population was literally bottomed out in the 90s in the 500ks. It was just emptier. Which lent itself to drivable vibes. I do think the modern conception of DC as a walkable connected fabric is 2000s on.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 14d

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record.

I just don't know what to say anymore.

Andrew DeFrank @defrank.bsky.social · 19d

Loved this question, did some thinking/googling old WaPo headlines. I think it's probably something like:

1. MCI Center opens
2. 1997-2004 ridership gains, tourism boom, Williams elected, crime drops
3. New York Avenue station opens.

At the end of that stretch its clear

Andrew DeFrank @defrank.bsky.social · 20d

“Free DC” shirts and a Chairman Mendelson name drop at FedEx Field… what a world

Andrew DeFrank @defrank.bsky.social · 22d

Montsourris including its RER station.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 23d

I warned last October that if Donald Trump returned to the White House, the fate of the free press would depend on the willingness of corporate media executives to fight for it.

It's not going well. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 26d

Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 26d

Stephen Miler is open about what's coming: a federal law enforcement crackdown on its political opponents

Andrew DeFrank @defrank.bsky.social · 27d

thank you i have seen south park and the book of mormon.

My point is that the meaning of using helldivers is not clear at all. it could mean he's a fascist who embraces the game, or it could mean he's not a fascist who embraces the game. i don't think we know.

Andrew DeFrank @defrank.bsky.social · 27d

You should go on youtube and watch a helldivers trailer! You really don't need a bachelors degree to get that "this 'super democracy' is actually the bad guys." it's like the whole thing

Andrew DeFrank @defrank.bsky.social · 27d

a public playlist with four followers. one single person combined groyper imagery with that song. it means nothing out of that specific context, which has no clear relationship to the shooter.

Andrew DeFrank @defrank.bsky.social · 27d

a public playlist with four followers. one single person combined groyper imagery with that song. it means nothing out of that specific context, which has no clear relationship to the shooter.