UstreetShawCitizen

Intrigued by the decentralized future of city-building, capitalism, democracy and money.

[Cuneyt Dil @cuneytdil]

Pirro calls out council members by name

[Alex Marshall @a_r_marshall]

@kevsaucebro There’s a lot more to this story. The club is operating above legal noise limits but no DC agency will enforce it. I have constituents sleeping on the floor in interior bathrooms because one rooftop club refuses to follow the same standards all the other clubs do.

[UstreetShawCitizen @_FranklySaid]

@cuneytdil @RobertWhite_DC @tomsherwood Timestamps for each topic? Excellent upgrade. This is the kind of detail that keeps me coming back. Keep it up — you’ve got more of my eyeball attention!

[Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle]

NEWS: In the first public poll of the D.C. mayoral race, @CityCast_DC finds that @Janeese4DC has a five-point lead over @kenyanmcduffie, just outside the margin of error. But: Ranked-choice voting could help McDuffie more; he's ahead on getting voters' second rankings.

[Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle]

Big revelation in the @CityCast_DC poll: 72% of residents favor a teen curfew. And recall, this poll was done May 12-17; the Chipotle brawl was on May 16. I could see that incident alone moving people in one direction or the other.

[Matthew Chayes @chayesmatthew]

Mamdani’s NYPD to deploy more cops to patrol in high-crime areas: “More than 2,600 uniform officers will walk the beat in 72 zones across the 5 boroughs at night and in the early morning — times when we know violence tends to spike,” he says.

[Rini Sampath @RiniSampath]

Janeese Lewis George and Kenyan McDuffie keep treating the MPD overtime crisis like a budget talking point. It's a workforce management failure. You fix it with recruitment, retention, smarter scheduling, better staffing models, career pathways for young DC residents, and moving officers out of administrative work so they can focus on public safety. DC needs a true administrator and operator in the Mayor’s office, not career legislators talking around problems they don’t know how to fix.

[Build more homes @john102414]

dc is *the * state for young professionals h/t paul goldsmith-pinkham

this is fantastic but by age 45 they’re all gone. dc should improve livability for young families.

[Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos]

Cops in cars are not policing. They may be on their _way_ to police, and sometimes a quick response matters, but real policing doesn't generally start until police officers get out of their car.

[Mark Segraves @SegravesNBC4]

Feds launching a “Summer Surge” to increase efforts and resources around DC Safe & Beautiful Task Force. Sources tell @nbcwashington that @USAttyPirro will announce more resources aimed at reducing juvenile crime as soon as tomorrow.

[Rini Sampath @RiniSampath]

There has been no public polling of this race. Further, with ranked choice voting it’s more important than ever that voters get to hear from all candidates. We ask that @Georgetown and @fox5dc allow our message to be shared.

[Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt]

War is US trade that acts as a stimulus for financial markets and government spending, particularly in the US where defence contractors, energy companies, and debt markets benefit from conflict.

The US dollar is a debt-based currency.

New dollars are created through credit expansion and government borrowing.

Because the system relies on perpetual debt growth, the money supply must keep expanding to service both principal and interest on existing obligations.

That makes long-term currency debasement structurally embedded in the system, not an accident, but a feature of fiat monetary design.

It’s why perpetual war is a feature, not a bug.

The structure was designed by the Dutch & British after Alexander Hamilton visited the Bank of England.

Check the value of your 401k before and after the Iran war if you don’t believe me.

[Rob Galvin @thevkr68]

Just finished "Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine..." https://t.co/hdSiVUYYYf

[Barred in DC @BarredinDC]

Great profile of Dan Silverman, aka the Prince of Petworth, aka PoPville in the Washington Post. I had a fun 30 minute interview with the journalist, Liam Scott

Gift link:
https://t.co/igHLrGs0Rd

[Tom Sherwood @tomsherwood]

DC Council members vote for a curfew … but not one that covers the summer months. Watch that space.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The NYPD is using “Barnacles” to tackle illegal parking.

These are commercial-grade suction devices that attach to vehicle windows with around 1,000 pounds of force, making them extremely difficult to remove without proper release.

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

Friends in the Washington, DC area: You are cordially invited to attend a forum entitled "We Still Hold These Truths: America at 250" featuring Professors Akhil Amar of Yale, Harvey Mansfield of Harvard, Julia Mahoney of the University of Virginia, and myself, hosted by the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. It will be held on June 16 at 7:00 p.m. at Anderson House, 2118 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, near Dupont Circle (the historic home of the Society of the Cincinnati--look for the statue of George Washington out front). Free of charge and open to the public, but registration is required. RSVP to Karen Taliaferro at: [email protected]

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Read George Packer's profile of David Sacks if you want to understand how a part of Silicon Valley turned against American democracy

https://t.co/VWz6USvWR8

[Mike Carbone 🇺🇸 @mikecarbone]

update: the flatiron building lit up for the first time tonight

[Noel Y. Calingasan • NYC @nyclovesnyc]

The Flatiron Building in New York City Just Got A Glow-Up

New York City nights hit different when history shines this bright. For the first time in its 123-year history, the Flatiron Building is equipped with a permanent exterior LED lighting system.