Reading archive 2024-11-15

Gift link: How The Ivy League Broke America [a forum with several takedowns of David Brooks' Atlantic think piece]

In Northeast D.C., a rancorous post-election fight erupts — over bike lanes: On the night after the 2024 election, residents of D.C.’s Michigan Park neighborhood focused their anger on plans to revamp local roads.

Amtrak gets hundreds of millions for D.C. and Md. as Biden leaves: The money will cover only a small part of Amtrak’s $10 billion redesign plan.

Can plastic fit in the palm of your hand? Don’t recycle it.: Most small plastics don’t get recycled, and putting them in your bins could end up doing more harm than good, experts say.

Muslims who voted for Trump upset by his pro-Israel cabinet picks - "Rexhinaldo Nazarko, executive director of the American Muslim Engagement and Empowerment Network (AMEEN), says Muslim voters had hoped Trump would choose cabinet officials who work toward peace, and there was no sign of that." [lol inject it into my veins]