I'm sorry it's fucking crazy that that billionaire lady is disrupting the busiest rail station in the Western Hemisphere the day before a holiday on a whim. We live in the tackiest second gilded age imaginable
There’s somebody making $22,000/year in rural America going to bed right now that sincerely believes Donald Trump spent his whole day fighting for them.
.@elonmusk says that no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts. In fact, I've met the kids who are dying, and I've talked to the families who lost children. In my columns, I've cited many, many names of people who have died because of Musk's aid cuts. A few examples:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of his cuts to malaria medication in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after he interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when Musk cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to the healthcare workers.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge Musk: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.
We need to bring back intellectual elitism. Sorry, but a virologist will always know more about vaccines than a yoga mommy blogger with a ChatGPT Plus subscription.
NEW: We defeated a lawsuit seeking to block new housing on upper Connecticut Avenue NW.
The lawsuit challenged zoning changes to allow multifamily housing in the neighborhood with the fewest affordable units.
We’re fighting for more homes to drive down costs for everyone in DC.
@wmataGM Even if there isn’t a viable funding mechanism, don’t you think a rail plan would generate enthusiasm and serve as a tool to make the case for secured DMV Moves funding? Studies are not cheap but the Potomac tunnel bottleneck and other capacity constraints need rail solutions.
Think about all the column inches and headlines devoted to Graham Platner over the past week versus Ken Paxton and then tell me again we have a ‘liberal’ media.