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Jacob Shepherd
@jnshep4
Methodism, urbanism, minimalism. Corporate finance attorney. Go Dawgs. Opinions are my own and correct.
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The reason legacy Supreme Court reporters never reported on Supreme Court corruption is that legacy Supreme Court reporters care about getting book deals and maintaining access to the justices, not about holding powerful people accountable
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#BREAKING: At least eight of the Georgia Republicans who served as “alternate” presidential electors in 2020 have accepted immunity deals with the Fulton County District Attorney’s office in exchange for their testimony.
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Almost every city in America west of Chicago started as a railway station. This is revisionist
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I love the European rail system but I am concerned about the recent tendency to "Europe" American transportation. America is an enormous country, built on the backbone of the automotive industry. I'm not necessarily opposed but it seems impractical.
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Until local leaders are ready to reform land use regulations that isolate us, good luck with any of this.
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This is rightly being dunked on.
- 3700-square-foot house for two people
- plus a full basement!
- suburban, i.e. they drive everywhere
-“environmentalists”
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Most people aren't leaving New York & California because of high taxes, crime, ideological opposition to the government, or any number of cultural issues.
They're leaving because they can't afford to live there, and think they have better opportunities elsewhere. It's simple.
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People outside of DC may not realize how seriously government employees take the ethics rules — at least the govt lawyers I know. You can’t buy them lunch or drinks. They reimburse you for an event that goes over a minimal $$ limit. It’s not a big deal. /1
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Join our team and be a part of the next generation of air traffic controllers!
These are rewarding, entry-level jobs with an average salary of nearly $130K in just a few years.
Applications are open 5/5 - 5/8.
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110 mph is not true HSR, but this kind of higher-speed rail crosses an important threshold: the drivers see the train pass them.
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Amtrak, IDOT and the Union Pacific started running at 110mph today on the Chicago - St. Louis Corridor!!! Big step forward.
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Shopify trying to compete with Amazon in logistics was a zero interest rate phenomenon
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Butterflies will sometimes land on a Caiman and drink its salty, crocodile tears to in order to survive. This helps the Caiman to feel both less sad and more fabulous.
📸: Mark Cowan
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Uber is not, in any real sense, profitable. It has positive free cash flow (OCF-Capex), but if you treat stock comp as a cash expense (WHICH YOU SHOULD) here is what cash flow looks like
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It’s heartbreaking to hear that NYC is giving up 150,000 parking spaces to trash receptacles. I guess I’ll just have to use one of the other… *looks at notes*
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A decade ago, the Netherlands began building a national network of bicycle garages integrated with railway stations.
The investment paid off by boosting access to jobs & education, elevating train travel, and creating more livable cities with less cars.
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Today announced 3/12/24 as the date for the Pres Pref Primary. On this day GA will be the center of the political universe. Also he announced that we would like to work with BOTH parties to move GA up in 2028. #gapol
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Georgia Votes 2024: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announces that Georgia’s 2024 presidential primaries will be March 12th.
Idaho, Mississippi and Washington state are currently scheduled for that day as well. #gapol @GaSecofState
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There is an industry that is profiting off of easy answers to complex problems by offering incomplete solutions.
Therapy is good. But Therapy Speak might be creating the opposite culture than we hoped it would.
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The spiraling chaos forced me to shelve this newsletter.
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Begging the architecture/design community to realize that a home is not 'as green as it gets' if you have to drive to it.
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People experiencing homelessness and/or mental illness deserve warmth, compassion, love, high-quality care and treatment.
People also have a right to a calm, relaxed and safe experience using public transit.
We can do both.
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Happy Birthday to the iconic Jane Jacobs who is responsible for giving us our beloved car-free Washington Square park.
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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” - James Baldwin
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Name one right the Founders were more demonstrably—even obsessively—concerned about than the right to a criminal jury trial. And show your work. Go ahead—I’ll wait.
Now name an enumerated right that has been more relentlessly denied and disparaged by the govt. Again, I’ll wait.
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Texas Republicans are trying to force public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom.
I told the bill author: “This bill is not only un-constitutional and un-American, it’s deeply un-Christian.” #txlege
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Accidentally turning your evil military faction into fan favorites by giving them too much drip is a staple of the sci-fi genre
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Replying to @Bolverk15
"Im making a movie about Army Bad , Nature Good but ill make the blue natives unsimpatetic and the bad guys one of the coolest sci fi factions ever"
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For nearly 3 years, Esther Street in Peekskill, New York has been closed to motorized traffic, becoming a beloved gathering place. Now, the city may reopen it due to “numerous complaints.”
Let these before and after pictures remind us all that great streets are for PEOPLE.
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The sign says 35, but the design says floor it.
Civil engineers should learn about psychology & human factors before they get near AutoCAD.
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In 2020 I did a lot of reading into the 2007 Writer's Strike and I very quickly realized we would have another one of these.
In 2007, the main thing writers were asking for was equal royalties on streaming as on cable. They had to settle for less, which was disastrous.
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this is literally the entire United States
we have a crushing housing shortage, and our cities are going broke, because of car culture
too many of our city leaders value empty parking spots more than they value their children and economies and communities, and that’s a fact.
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this is what policy failure looks like
the underused parking lots and empty freeway pictured here sit on some of — if not *the* — most valuable land in all of Wisconsin
meanwhile, Milwaukee is going broke and we’re facing a severe housing shortage
you can’t make this stuff up
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“the bible is clear” yeah, it’s clear about forgiving debts and caring for immigrants
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After no fault divorce was legalized in the 1970s, the female suicide rate dropped 20%
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Remember, Paris wasn’t “always this way.”
It wasn’t even this way in late 2019 when I was there last.
Just a few years ago, all of #Paris was choking in car traffic.
This is new. This is leadership.
Cities are a result of choices.
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Suburbia at its finest - Park Slope!
This sort of walkable neighborhood with a gentle density, tree lined streets & a robust offering of retail/commercial amenities was the standard for suburban development in pre-war America. We'd do well to re-apply its form today!
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In praise of tiny trucks: in my Straphanger dispatch, i look at how some farmers in the US are opting to import tiny trucks from Japan, and shunning heavy pick-ups that won't fit in their barns—and what this can teach us about service vehicles in cities.
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America’s $875 billion trucking industry is struggling.
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