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In Congress, I’ll push for a fundamentally different approach to Amtrak and public transit, including a national transit-oriented development strategy so we’re building housing and infrastructure together. We can have nice things - like faster trains, affordable housing, and better opportunities.

We don’t need to reinvent anything. We need to modernize what we already have and treat rail as a backbone of our region alongside I-95. With gas prices rising, people are looking for alternatives. The demand is there, but the system isn’t built to meet it. We just need the leadership to build.

Cutting travel times in half would fundamentally reshape how people live and work. Suddenly, northeast cities are all part of the same daily economic region. It opens up job opportunities, housing options, and makes life a lot more flexible and enjoyable. We’re leaving huge potential on the table.

Second, Amtrak must coordinate better with the commuter rail services that share its tracks (MARC, SEPTA, NJ Transit, etc). Lastly, we simply don’t have enough trains. Amtrak only ordered 28 new Acela sets, and demand is already far higher. The rest of the fleet is unreliable, causing delays.

It’s entirely achievable, and a NYU study shows us exactly how (and at a reasonable cost). New Acelas can run up to 186 mph, but some tracks are 190+ years old and speeds are limited to <40 mph. So step one is to fix chokepoints at a few sharp curves and old bridges, unlocking massive time savings.

We’re here at the Odenton MARC rail station doing some trainspotting. An Amtrak train just passed us heading north to Boston. According to the schedule, it won’t get there for another 7 hours. But what if that trip only took 4 hours, instead? 1h 56 min DC <> NYC, and 1h 56 min more NYC <> Boston.

Nope, don't need a thread on this nope nope nope oh boy

Oh come on now, you are not JUST "Tim Onion's girlfriend"

(You are also a cat mom)

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To rebuild trust: ban Congressional stock trading, overturn Citizens United, and break the grip of corporate money and big donors. And most importantly, hold Trump and his accomplices accountable for their crimes. This won’t stop happening until the people doing it face consequences.

This is part of Trump’s strategy: poison people’s minds until everyone assumes the whole system is rigged. Make corruption feel normal so no one reacts to it.

Oligarchs in Russia have used the same strategy for years with great success (Vladimir Putin is the richest person on earth by some counts).

This admin has been swimming in corruption from the start, with Trump himself adding billions to his own net worth since returning to office.

But the sad part is that many don’t trust Democrats on this issue, either. Fox News blared on for years about Hunter Biden selling his terrible paintings.

(Note: Martha Stewart went to prison for trying to avoid a $45,000 loss.)

So who made this enormous trade? Shouldn’t be hard to figure out. Not many people, companies, or institutions have that much to throw around. But how can we trust the SEC to investigate when Trump insiders run it?

On Fri am, Trump announced the Strait of Hormuz was suddenly open. About 15 min before his post, someone placed a massive short in the oil markets. When Trump’s statement hit, oil prices dropped fast, and that trade reportedly netted $2-3 BILLION in minutes.

So who was it?

Mamdani: "What are we fighting for?. When you look back at the history books of our party, 100 years ago we had a very clear vision of what we were fighting for. It's sad that for too many Americans, when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, then have to turn to a history book."

Back home after a beautiful day knocking doors and having great conversations with residents in Crofton and Odenton.

Thanks to my friends Spencer Jones and MK Fowler for teaming up today. If you're in AACo, be sure to vote for these candidates in Nov.

(And vote for me in the primary on June 23!)

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Knocking doors in Crofton & Odenton tomorrow - come through and be part of the conversation about bringing real change to DC!

We’re meeting @ Crofton Woods Elementary (1750 Urby Dr) 12 PM and heading out from there.

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The other half is how we plan our communities. Transit alone isn’t enough: we also need dense, walkable communities to be built around the new stations. That’s how we generate ridership, lower housing costs, and actually make projects like Southern Maryland Rapid Transit (SMRT) pay for themselves.

That’s a policy failure. We know how to build transit, we just don’t do it efficiently: years of delays, endless studies, legal battles, and a broken planning process all drive costs up. At our prices, we can’t build anything on the scale or timeline we need.

It cost about $9-10 million/mile to build. Compare that to Maryland's Purple Line, which is now over $600m/mi! Bogotá is also building a full metro system for $300m/mi, while NYC is spending $3-4b/mi on the 2nd Ave subway. Even compared to wealthy European countries, the US is 5-10x as expensive.

Unsurprisingly, traffic is terrible. But a few years ago they built a bus rapid transit (BRT) system that functions like an above-ground subway with dedicated lanes and metro-style stations. It has become a lifeline for millions of working people and has done wonders to reduce traffic.

TransMilenio is the transit system of Bogotá, a sprawling capital of nearly 12 million people. Bogotá is like Los Angeles in that it was a small town until the 1950s, but then quickly built-out based on American principles of cars and highways (while tearing up their streetcar network).

Why does Colombia, a country about one-tenth as wealthy as the US, have better transit than we do here in Maryland?

In Congress, I’ll push for a national transit-oriented development plan to make public transit and affordable housing a reality for more Americans.

Yeah, it's Friday morning: have to pump up the markets a bit before the weekend. I'm sure we'll get the real story tonight after Trump's insiders sell off at 4pm.

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Most importantly, I will make sure that we don’t make the same mistake we did after the Civil War: all the criminals and traitors in the Trump administration must face justice.

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We never adequately confronted our own history of white supremacy; it was only suppressed for a time, so is it any wonder that we now have MAGA, a white supremacist fascist movement? In Congress, I will fight this tooth and nail. No more Confederate statues or schools named after traitors.

It shows you how far some will go to soften uncomfortable history, especially when it involves white Americans doing crime. In this sense, Donald Trump’s rehabilitation of January 6th rioters seems par for the course.