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The Northeast Corridor is not quite high-speed rail by the standards of Eastern and Western Eurasia, and the projects are good examples of the more easily feasible regional-rail improvements: speeding up slow spots like the Baltimore tunnels. I now turn to Eurasia-scale HSR in the making in the...

Home - Gateway Program and The Gateway Program | Amtrak Northeast Corridor and Gateway Program (Northeast Corridor) Hudson Tunnel Project - Gateway Program and The Hudson Tunnel Project | Amtrak Northeast Corridor and Welcome to the Hudson Tunnel Project website - the existing Hudson River...

Amtrak's Northeast Corridor got some awards a bit earlier: Amtrak Awarded Federal Funds for 12 Projects of National Significance Totaling Nearly $10B Across America’s Busiest Rail Corridor - Amtrak Media and FY 2022-23 Northeast Corridor for the Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger...

Back in 2023 Dec 8: FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces Billions to Deliver World-Class High-Speed Rail and Launch New Passenger Rail Corridors Across the Country | The White House and President Biden Announces $8.2 Billion in New Grants for High-Speed Rail and Pipeline of Projects Nationwide...

What happens if Trump gets convicted ahead of November? | The Hill Will that make him seem like a martyr? Will that turn off independent voters? Pennsylvania Primary Election Results 2024 - The New York Times Republican: Donald Trump 83.4%, Nikki Haley 16.6% Democratic: Joe Biden 93.1%, Dean...

Biden signs foreign aid bill providing crucial military assistance to Ukraine | CNN Politics When will aid get to Ukraine? New US military aid package to Ukraine expected to be worth around $1 billion | CNN Politics

Construction to begin on high-speed rail between Las Vegas and Los Angeles | AP News - "Rail spikes hammered, bullet train being built from Sin City to the City of Angels" Brightline West Breaks Ground on Vegas to SoCal High-Speed Rail - Streetsblog California - "Brightline West will be a...

Completing the humiliation of MTG and her friends: Biden signs foreign aid bill providing crucial military assistance to Ukraine | CNN Politics GOP senator: Greene ‘dragging our brand down’ | The Hill - Sen. Thom Tillis R-NC Dan Crenshaw Accuses Greene of Wanting Russia To Win - a Texas...

Bipartisan outrage boils over at threat to Mike Johnson's speakership - POLITICO 🍿 🍿 🍿

Marjorie Taylor Greene calls Johnson's foreign aid package his '3rd betrayal' of American people | Fox News - "'I’m thankful that America gets to see who this man is,' Greene says" "Everyone hung around to see if Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., would introduce her resolution to dump House...

Senate Approves Aid Bill for Ukraine and Israel, Sending It to Biden - The New York Times - "The overwhelming bipartisan vote for the long-stalled $95.3 billion aid package capped a tortured journey for the legislation on Capitol Hill. President Biden is expected to quickly sign it." US Senate...

H.R.8034 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress On Apr 20, 2024, 01:57 PM it passed R: Y 193, N 21, nv 4 D: Y 173, N 37, nv 3 Ttl: Y 366, N 58, nv 7 Another horseshoe vote, with the likes of MTG joining the likes...

H.R.8035 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress On Apr 20, 2024, 01:48 PM it passed R: Y 101, N 112, P 1, nv 4 D: Y 210, nv 3 Ttl: Y 311, N 112, P 1, nv 7 Of those present, every Democrat voted for it and a little...

H.Res.1160 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8034) making emergency supplemental appropriations to respond to the situation in Israel and for related expenses for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes; providing for...

How Speaker Mike Johnson got the supplemental foreign-aid bill passed, and how he got around the more hardline members of his party. The bill: H.R.815 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other...

Pennsylvania 12th Congressional District Primary Election Results 2024: Lee vs. Patel - The New York Times Summer Lee 60.6% Bhavini Patel 39.4% Fraction of votes counted: >95% Progressives 1, oligarchs 0

Deepity - RationalWiki

Daniel Dennett has died by PZ Myers PZM met DD at a Darwin Day event. In the comments, PZ responds to some others: and

Breaking the Spell (Dennett book) He has a predecessor from 2,500 years ago: Fragments of Xenophanes - Wikisource, the free online library

Daniel C. Dennett, Widely Read and Fiercely Debated Philosopher, 82, Dies - The New York Times I'm inclined to agree with SJG. A lot of evolution is just plain random, even though natural selection is a nonrandom effect. The Modern Synthesis of nearly a century ago recognized "genetic drift", a...