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Lee Farmer
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Urban Planner. City Lover. Public Transit Enthusiast.
I’m also a huge fan of mountains and my cats.
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And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.

We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
April 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Big weekend for DC, big weekend for Metro!

🗓️Fri, Sat, Sun - Busiest days since 2020
🌸Smithsonian - Busiest day since 2012
🐼Woodley Park - Busiest day since 2016
🚇28 stations set new single-day post-2020 records
📱Record 250k mobile SmarTrip taps
⚾️35k riders to @nationals.com games
March 31, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.

Find out how your community may be impacted.

Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org

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March 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

—FDR, 1937
March 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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This week, we’re asking you to plan a visit to your closest US Senate office to push senators to stand up against Trump’s lawless overreach. The ask will be slightly different if your senator is a Democrat or Republican. We put together a toolkit with everything you need: indivisi.org/choosetofight
February 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Some good news for the day! Run on renewable energy and sends 23% of power used back to the grid. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ www.caltrain.com/news/caltrai...
Caltrain’s Electric Fleet More Efficient than Expected | Caltrain
Caltrain announced at its monthly Board of Directors meeting that regenerative braking on the new trains is generating and sending back to the electric grid approximately 23% of the energy consumed by...
www.caltrain.com
January 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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"I will always feel fortunate that I got to help build DCist. But getting to build The 51st is a more exciting challenge – because we’re all building this together." - @maustermuhle.bsky.social

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December 28, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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A few years ago I made a series of mini drawings of interesting Irish women (available as a print here www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...) - this thread is a little information on the women featured, partly because it's useful, but mostly because I'm trying to be sustainable by recycling content.
November 20, 2024 at 8:32 AM
I’ve been away from The Other Place for a long time and I’m loving rediscovering the accounts that made me smile!
November 20, 2024 at 4:56 AM
Seems like I should make my first post here a good one. So how about a rainbow after a summer storm at my favorite place on this earth?
November 17, 2024 at 5:45 PM