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I'm here for the pet photos!
Clap, I cooked. Yes, it's a tuna melt.
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Olga Nesterova
about 19 hours ago
Trump announces a “large public safety surge” in DC and possibly LA and NY ahead of 250th anniversary celebrations.
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Max Kennerly
about 19 hours ago
For all the talk of how Democrats aren't close enough to the mainstream, only Republicans act—consistently, through all of their members in every branch, federal and state—as if they know there is no chance they could hold power in anything resembling a free and fair election.
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Democracy Docket
about 23 hours ago
BREAKING: Virginia Democratic leaders asked SCOTUS to review the Virginia Supreme Court's last week ruling overturning the will of voters who approved Democrats' redistricting plan. Full story to come.
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Mark Jacob
about 23 hours ago
Canceling the Washington Post was the best money I didn't spend.
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A.J. Bauer
1 day ago
We have a Republican Party committed to building systematic advantages into the current system to maintain power indefinitely and a Democratic Party that cannot think outside the bounds of the current system even as it is being actively restructured against them.
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George Williams
1 day ago
newrepublic.com/post/210221/...
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Trump Issues Sinister Threat as He Tries to Rig the Midterms
Trump wants an “election integrity army” to help the Republican Party stay in power.
https://newrepublic.com/post/210221/trump-election-integrity-army-every-state
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Justin Hendrix
1 day ago
Overheard someone wondering aloud why anyone would want to make it appear that the reflecting pool is filled with the blood of a thousand Smurfs.
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Raider
1 day ago
Someone installed a functional arcade game at the DC War Memorial called Epic Furious. Play battles against schoolgirls, and threats like DEI or the Pope, and collect Trump-style trophies. The best part is you don't have to travel to DC to play:
epicfurious.com
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Jen Bendery
1 day ago
JUST IN: The Trump admin was hit with a lawsuit this morning for painting the Reflecting Pool blue. The Cultural Landscape Foundation claims the admin violated federal laws by altering the historic site without first having its plans reviewed.
www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
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Trump Admin Hit With Lawsuit For Painting Reflecting Pool Blue
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/latest-news-live-updates_n_6a01a0f2e4b06e786e3f4160/liveblog_6a01f486e4b088000125cfcd
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Robert Farley
2 days ago
Doing some canvassing today for
@erinpetrey.bsky.social
#ky6
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Mueller, She Wrote
3 days ago
Why did Trump pardon drug trafficker and Honduran president Juan Hernández? According to leaked audio tapes, it was an initial payment in part of a agreement between Trump, Bibi, and others to take down Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum.
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‘Hondurasgate,’ the alleged US and Israeli interference plot to destabilize Mexico and other progressive governments
A leaked audio recording points to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, Javier Milei, and Donald Trump as attempting to create a platform to spread fake news about the administrations of ...
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-05-07/hondurasgate-the-alleged-us-and-israeli-interference-plot-to-destabilize-mexico-and-other-progressive-governments.html
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Andrew Tobolowsky
3 days ago
I say this all the time but the way I would put it is that electoralism has eaten Dem politics. Things are viewed through the lens of the next election. But, the party often seems to have forgotten that winning that next election isn't an end in itself, bc for the candidate, it is
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Scott Dworkin
3 days ago
BREAKING
www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/hawaii-jus...
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Hawaii Just Killed Citizens United and More Great News That Ruined Trump’s Weekend
A grieving son rewrote the law. Small businesses beat Trump's tariffs in court. And Denver told the DOJ to go to hell.
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/hawaii-just-killed-citizens-united/
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The Bulwark
4 days ago
Trump is approaching the fiddling-while-Rome-burns level of corruption, and voters are not happy about it.
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Trump’s Corruption Is Going to Sink Him
Conditions are right for voters to stop turning a blind eye to his greed, grift, and gold leaf.
https://lnk.thebulwark.com/4thDB1F
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Blue Heron Farm
4 days ago
Really tired of stories calling things a blow to Democrats when they are actually a blow to democracy
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Josh Marshall
3 days ago
No, It’s Really Not a ‘Race to the Bottom’ on Redistricting
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/no-it...
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No, It’s Really Not a ‘Race to the Bottom’ on Redistricting
Callais, combined with today’s court ruling in Virginia, has jolted Democrats and...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/no-its-really-not-a-race-to-the-bottom-on-redistricting/sharetoken/ed4699d1-4b0a-4eca-8577-60ac1d94d32d
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Musicology Duck
4 days ago
it's not my fault your honor i was being driven slowly mad by low-flying helicopters
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Joel S.
5 days ago
"The humanities are not a luxury. They are how a democracy understands itself."
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...
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DOGE’s Termination of Humanities Grants Is Ruled Unconstitutional
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/arts/neh-grants-lawsuit-doge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.g1A.wuQx.Zji9qvdK6Qah&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Josh Marshall
4 days ago
It's become totally commonplace. But it's remarkable how quickly it became commonplace that having totally valid immigration/work permit documents just became irrelevant and these people are routinely tossed into detention by ICE.
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Quinta Jurecic
4 days ago
1970: A sleepless Nixon meets with Vietnam War protestors at the Lincoln Memorial in the middle of the night 2026:
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Isabela Dias
5 days ago
“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.
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ICE keeps detaining the same US citizen again, and again, and again. He’s fighting back.
“I only wish to live my life in peace,” Leonardo Garcia Venegas said in a declaration.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/ice-keeps-detaining-the-same-us-citizen-again-and-again-and-again-hes-fighting-back/
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Joey Politano🏳️🌈
5 days ago
US data center construction rose to a new record high in official data released today, hitting a pace of nearly $50B/yr (and this only includes data center facilities, not the expensive computers within) Spending is up 34% over the last year and 260% since the launch of ChatGPT
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Becky Hammer
5 days ago
Pretty infuriating that while we haven't touched the negative signs they've posted all over the neighborhood, bike lane opponents have gone around tearing down our supportive fliers and thrown them in the trash
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BeyondDC
5 days ago
This person rode only regional rail & local buses from DC to Boston. Took them 22 hours and cost $110.
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The Associated Press
5 days ago
President Donald Trump’s proposal to put a coat of white paint on the exterior of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, a 19th-century historic building next to the White House, is getting a hearing by a key federal agency. Public sentiment is overwhelmingly against a new paint job.
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Trump wants to paint the Eisenhower office building white. Now a key federal agency considers it
President Donald Trump's plan to put a coat of white paint on the granite exterior of a historic building that's part of the White House complex is getting a hearing by a key federal agency.
https://bit.ly/4cVClwv
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Broken mushroom omelette, chapati, and arugula salad
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett
7 days ago
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Catherine Rampell
7 days ago
VA conducted internal investigations into employees who attended vigil for Alex Pretti
www.cnn.com/2026/05/05/p...
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VA conducted internal investigations into employees who attended vigil for Alex Pretti | CNN Politics
Becky Halioua, who was investigated after attending a vigil for Pretti shortly after his death, feels the VA probe is a “scare tactic” and an attempt to silence those “with the loudest voices.”
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/05/politics/va-investigation-vigil-alex-pretti
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Asparagus and shrimp stir fry
7 days ago
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Seth Cotlar
7 days ago
Man, that sounds terrible. Killed with impunity by agents of the state for just being on the street and protesting? Hard to see how regimes like that can continue to claim a popular mandate.
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John Pfaff
7 days ago
I have a new piece up on Slate, on how the "tough on crime" Louisiana GOP is cutting prosecutor jobs and judges in New Orleans, and even eliminating one position solely so the person who won it (an exoneree) can't take his seat. Another case of "tough on crime" really being abt social control.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
8 days ago
Judge Reyes has since ordered the admin not to go forward with any plans to close down the golf course or start work to convert it into another Trump course.
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During the COVID pandemic, biking to Hains Point kept me and a large number of other users of East Potomac Park (tennis, golf, mini golf, biking, walking/running, fishing) sane.
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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump’s Percentages Calculator
9 days ago
As an example, two weeks ago House Republicans proposed a $4 million cut to D.C.'s HIV treatment and testing efforts. To be clear, *these were not cuts in federal dollars*. This was prohibiting D.C. from spending *our own money* on HIV treatment and testing. This is the shit we have to put up with.
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One More Reason Why D.C. Needs Statehood
Actually, by reason, I mean a list compiled by (non-voting) Rep. Norton’s office of policies that will be forced upon the mainland colony known as the District of Columbia in 2027 if the Hous…
https://mikethemadbiologist.com/2026/04/17/one-more-reason-why-d-c-needs-statehood/
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Micah
8 days ago
sounds great Ron, the version of Chuck Schumer who lives in your head is way more awesome than the one who lives in mine
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Skye Perryman
9 days ago
BREAKING: The Court has ordered the government to respond with answers at 7:30am — and there will be a status conference at 8am. Thank you team
@democracyforward.org
and co-counsel and clients!
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amanda moore 🐢
10 days ago
case you missed it yesterday, activist Guido Reichstadter scaled the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge in DC to protest the war in Iran and AI.
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Andi Zeisler
10 days ago
It took me three decades to become emotionally available enough to appreciate Tori Amos, please clap
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How I gave in to Tori Amos' divine feminine
"In Times of Dragons" is a confrontation with America — and a reckoning with my own learned misogyny.
https://www.salon.com/2026/05/02/how-i-gave-in-to-tori-amos-divine-feminine/
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Lauren Ashley Davis
10 days ago
Trump shares bizarre AI-generated image of himself lounging in Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool with Cabinet members Trump’s odd AI image came on the same day the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation site was vandalized with graffiti
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Trump shares AI image of himself and Cabinet lounging in Reflecting Pool
Trump’s odd AI image came on the same day the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation site was vandalized with graffiti
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ai-image-cabinet-reflecting-pool-b2969483.html
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The Tennessee Holler
10 days ago
REP.
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: “Well, that concludes our 250 year 🇺🇸 experiment, because Grandma Gone Wild @MarshaBlackburn decided to eliminate the last Democratically held seat in Tennessee, in MEMPHIS, where 65% of the constituents are Black. We need international attention on this.”
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Ken Jennings
10 days ago
My hot food take is that brunch is *solely for ordering breakfast-coded food later into the day*. It is not a Frankenstein hybrid of breakfast and lunch foods.
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Greg Sargent
10 days ago
Democrats need to accept that they're entering a new era of procedural Total War. This includes a big escalation in redistricting, but it's not limited to that. If Republicans don't like it, tough shit: They made this world, and they are the ones inflicting it on us.
newrepublic.com/article/2098...
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Brian Finucane
10 days ago
Who knew that authoritarianism, persecution of foreigners, and the wanton torching of US soft power would be bad for the US hospitality industry?
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Senator Ron Wyden
10 days ago
This ruling amounts to a nationwide abortion ban. Mifepristone is safe, full stop. This isn’t about science and protecting women, it’s a calculated plot by Republicans obsessed with controlling the private health care decisions of women in America.
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dewbert
11 days ago
Bad! This is really bad!
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‘We Know You Live Right Here’: No Secrets in America’s New Surveillance Dragnet
Technical wizardry used to combat illegal immigration also funnels the personal data and whereabouts of U.S. citizens to federal agents.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/immigration-ice-arrests-surveillance-6f1cef64?st=8KCvyR&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Don Moynihan
10 days ago
Louisiana not a state too bothered by democratic norms
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Free DC
11 days ago
HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of people are in the streets in DC as part of the
#MayDay
day of action and solidarity. We refuse to cooperate with a regime that is killing people, ignoring the law, and destroying our rights.
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Dom Ervolina
10 days ago
No, but it is treasonous to steal a bunch of classified documents, store them in your bathroom, and share them with people who are not authorized to view their contents with the aim of enriching yourself
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Senator Chris Van Hollen
12 days ago
Today, after 75 days, Republicans finally passed the same DHS funding bill they could have passed back in February — a bill to fund TSA, FEMA, & the Coast Guard without giving a penny to Trump’s lawless ICE & CBP. 75 days of pure political theater. Total incompetence.
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