wrote about the most important architectural legacy of the Trump administration: the conversion of logistics warehouses into detention centers www.thenation.com/article/soci...

It's kinda funny that movie critics have to review The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Do architecture critics have to write about the ballpit at a McDonalds Playscape?

The Knesset passed a bill today mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of terror - but not for Jews. There is a word for a legal system where different legal standards apply to different categories of people. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

a very thoughtful piece about Kevin Roche’s wild Union Carbide campus www.irisyaun.com/writing/for-...

shoutout to the dc metro, a legit good public transit system. clean, wide-reaching, new cars, (mostly) on time. bonus points for ~brutalism~ an unequivocal point of pride for my second adopted home vs my first, boston

Whatever SB says here, the controversy around this project is not like a few local NIMBYs being mad about an office addition. It’s not even like that scaled up, it is qualitatively different (and he must know that)

"CEO Steven McKay wrote to employees that “moving forward, DLR Group will not do work—be it upgrades, modernization, or new construction—for ICE detainment or deportation facilities.” DLR Group wouldn’t walk away from its existing contract, or commit to ending its relationship w private prisons"

tonight my knight: - had his soul ejected from his body by an abbot with wine for blood - watched his own body get sucked into an enormous dirt hole in order to birth a god - got pulled out at the last minute, his body covered in molten gold down to the waist

A good metaphor for why appeasement never works: You give him neoclassicism and he just wants MOAR neoclassicism

Hundreds of #JewsAgainstICE protested outside ICE headquarters in DC today. We won’t stand idly by while they abduct our neighbors. Thanks @truahrabbis.bsky.social @bendthearc.bsky.social (and rabbis & cantors & lay leaders from pretty much every synagogue, youth group & summer camp I’ve gone to)

They got the big game on at the bar

*covered in gremlin blood* yeah, you know, it was a tough first half, a lot of distractions but we got some good points on the board. i'm just focused on killing the wasp queen, you know, that's been my focus all season, really just hoping to get the chance to do that tonight

This is the way, make “ok, abolish only ICE” the moderate position.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Statement from the entire Minneapolis City Council in support of a General Strike and Day of Truth & Freedom on January 23rd.

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

Trans kids are so goddamn brave and strong and we are letting them down as a society and we should be ashamed

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

BREAKING: At 7am ET, in response to the emergency overnight filing, Judge Xinis issued a TRO barring the Trump administration from re-detaining Abrego Garcia. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...

This is like paying the guys that robbed your house to also burn it down.

very difficult to have rule of law when the government routinely lies in court

NEW: A judge ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from the Trump admin’s custody, concluding he's been illegally held by ICE for months.

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YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????

This has not gotten much attention, but it should. Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE. Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.

Still need more baseball? We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.

i don't understand why they're called the toronto blue jays and not the toronto baseballs. i'll never understand it. same with the dodgers, they should be called the baseballs too. more people should be like me and speak out when they see that something is wrong

y’all I’m going to be real, the workers at the biggest music venues in DC are trying to unionize we need IMP the parent company to recognize voluntarily that won’t happen without noise please, bluesky, do what u do best @930club.bsky.social @theatlantisdc.bsky.social @theanthemdc.bsky.social

Trump has -ordered that new federal structures be built in the “classical” style -paved over the Rose Garden -ordered that 2 DC Confederate statues be restored -proposed a triumphal arch in Arlington -demolished part of the WH to make room for his $200M ballroom talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-c...

i'm playing through SILENT HILL 4: THE ROOM for the first time. mondays at 8pm. spooky season's here baby www.twitch.tv/toastywheels

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

The hole in a guitar is traditionally used to store soft cheeses and dried meats which are fed to the drummer when he does a good job

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

The bees have discovered Brutalism

NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders. I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

This is trans rights, too. There is no viable position for the Democrats other than “trans rights are human rights.” Trying to triangulate a position where you throw trans people under the bus “just a little” to woo swing voters only feeds the right’s argument that trans people are a threat 1/x

The funny thing about this is that the Smithsonian African American History Museum is built around the exact "Success" narrative Trump claims to want. You climb through the Middle Passage, slave cabin, Jim Crow train, etc, and come out into Oprah's studio and Obama. www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/p...

As a DC resident who loves it here, this announcement is the most unsafe I've felt in this city.

D.C. residents rallied near the White House this morning to protest President Trump’s federal takeover of city law enforcement. Free DC led a rally near LaFayette Square this morning, where speakers called on D.C. area residents to fight back President Trump’s ‘fascist’ federal takeover.

I heard from someone who works there that management needs better messaging skills - I mean, that: the research rooms are still open to researchers, no change in that policy buses and cars will no longer be able to drive up right to the building, that is the change in policy

The road here was paved by the last few years of cultural persecution from the right and a cowardly abandonment by the Democratic establishment, who ignored so many warnings. Imperative that we loudly defend our trans siblings, and begin to organize together towards building safety and equality.

The cruelty of this is, genuinely, staggering. This is a policy that saves virtually no money whatsoever whose success is measured in the number of children it kills.

why do you even bother posting if everything you say, every response you have to every single thing happening is "this is just a distraction from what's really important: a piece of legislation we don't even plan on blocking"

this report from media matters is fucking wild. fox news has aired 424 segments about trans athletes since feb 5. the week democrats vetoed the GOP trans sports ban bill, they aired 59 segments. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

Heightened Scrutiny, a very good doc about the Supreme Court case that was just ruled on, does an impeccable and infuriating job laying out just how culpable the NYT and Atlantic are for the nation’s transphobia www.avclub.com/sundance-202...

"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."