At least Mar-a-Lago face is about to get a lot more expensive.

YUP, AMAZING. LET ME JUST PUT MY HOUSE BACK TOGETHER REAL QUICK.

Serious question: If you’re crossing an international border back into the US and you have protected info on your phone—health records (your own and others’), educational records (others’), attorney-client comms, and financial data—are there any protections for that data?

When you own a home, the soft, distant sound of water running when it shouldn’t be or the appearance of a mysterious damp stain are scarier than seeing a balloon coming out of a sewer grate.

Bright skin/dull skin is about as scientific as a witch offering to balance your humors. The beauty industry makes up deficiencies and then sells the cure. Now, pass me that vitamin C serum.

Part of the trouble is the number of K-12 and post-secondary educators who themselves rely on AI as a crutch. Faculty workload has been so untenable for so long that some career teachers will do anything to get their heads above water.

I know a lot of folks have good reasons for disliking DC cabs and preferring rideshare. But I grabbed a cab on Curb for $6 less than an Uber, and the driver arrived 8 minutes before the Uber would have.

Being in a two-decade relationship means having someone who understands the question, “Is this shirt too boobs?”

Language fact of the day: mια φέτα (mia feta) just means “a slice.” All of us feta enthusiasts have been enjoying the Kraft singles of the Mediterranean.

The 20-something bartender and I are wearing the same earrings. Maybe I’m still 15 percent relevant!

I can hear a child wandering the school hallways singing “Shot Through the Heart,” and it’s making my entire day.

Of course McCauley was a 4th District officer and of course he was on the clock, earning overtime when he crashed his personal vehicle in VA.

I have misplaced my favorite pair of jeans: an over-crowded small apartment drama

My spouse, unironically, whilst driving my tipsy self home in our sensible four-door sedan: “I do love a good choral showcase.”

Chevy Chase dining hazard: Running into my Chevy Chase clients.

I love a stuffy white tablecloth French restaurant. Even more so, I love celebrating another anniversary with the @benharris1.bsky.social.

Uh thanks for the prompt delivery, FedEx, but shipments arriving intact is the other half of the battle.

What do you do/say when you’re hosting a Zoom and someone on the call is driving a car?

*Becoming concerned with bone density *Listening to opera arias just as often as the music of one’s youth

Ah, it was a scheduled flyover. I suppose there are drawbacks to not paying attention to the news when the entire city is already on edge. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

Hey DC, what’s going on with the military aircraft overhead?

A neurologist went on TikTok to explain that an Excedrin and Gatorade is just as good as the McDonald’s cure (fries and a Coke) for migraine, while also being healthier. I don’t know why you’d put that negativity into the world. Anyway, the fries I had today are the best nutraceutical known to man.

Sooo exciting to find evidence of an ancient and ongoing water leak when moving furniture.

I’ve heard that if I don’t look the house move in the eye, it will simply go away, leaving me unscathed and able to continue hanging out on my own couch in my own living room.

The Missouri AG’s office is unparalleled in creating politicos who get promoted to fucking with our country on a federal level—Andrew Bailey, Josh Hawley, John Ashcroft, Clarence Thomas. As dark as the TX congressional delegation is, MO is really putting in the work.

Someone has created an apple rankings website, and it’s fantastic. applerankings.com/lucy-glo-app...

It is my least favorite time of year where I need to schedule students for the next 10 months. Early in day two of trying, I have already messed things up and double-booked an appointment slot.

Someone needs to tell Taylor that if you marry someone from Ohio you're gonna end up spending way, way, way more time in Ohio than you really want to. Like they're gonna be trying to teach her euchre and shit. It's terrible.

That’s some unfortunate text placement, Costco.

The grass doesn’t get mowed in my neighborhood because somehow it’s National Park Service land, and the chronically underfunded NPS took a budget cut.

Lighting prices are 100 percent made up. Every light fixture has maybe $60-$100 worth of materials in it, but the consumer cost is $200-multiple thousands.

One day you’re young and carefree. The next, you have a favorite plumber, and you’re ordering windows.

good evening

I think plane tray tables get wiped down at least once a day, but Amtrak tray tables contain multitudes—geologic strata documenting the c gastronomic proclivities of the Northeast’s lawyers, insurance salesmen, finance bros, and leisure travelers.

I don’t know why, but it’s hilarious to me to see a guy in a 2A 1776 shirt who is also rocking a Hard Rock Cafe, Rome baseball cap.

Since the first Trump term, I’ve spent considerable money and effort helping to elect Dems across the country—phone banking, knocking doors, sending Postcards to Voters, donating directly to campaigns. I know I’m not alone. It feels like betrayal when Dems don’t stand up for us.

I have tremendous respect for the guy in the West Village who raised his hiking pole to the driver running a red light. Five of us crossed comfortably in the crosswalk while the SUV sat in time-out in the intersection.

There’s an amazing, friendly dog inhabiting the same bar as I. This is not a drill.

Someone has way too much fun shipping out Cobb Gobblers every day.

I have partaken of the Japanese soufflé pancake, and it is absolutely worth the stupid food hype.

I’m rarely downtown, so this morning is my first experience with the police state. Got a lot of feelings about the weirdness of the occupied city in the early hours of the day.

Got into a taxi this morning and found the phone of someone who was flying out of DCA within the hour. Thomas Bock, I hope my message to the Southwest office reached you and that you are reunited with your belongings!

Brass signs can be had relatively inexpensively. We can commemorate the Big Balls Beatdown and Subway Sandwich Battle inside of two weeks for about $300 per sign.

As a break from the horrors, please enjoy this photo of my nephew paddle boarding.

A study found a positive correlation between calf circumference and reduced mortality. My chonky legs and I are now preparing to live forever.

One of the things that has pretty annoying is that if you have any kind of bullshit meter, if you have anything inside of yourself that doesn’t enjoy being lied to, the last couple of years of almost every area of public life have been driving you up a fucking wall

In every media appearance he’s made since the Biden administration, Buttigieg has engaged in terminally consultant-brained Magical Centrism. He seems to think it sounds nice but doesn’t acknowledge the on-the-ground reality that a lot of conservative goals are plain hateful.

DC Water put in a series of steel plates a block south of me. As morning rush hour stretches on it feels like I’ve been living through hours of the world’s worst timpani practice.

Experimenting with Pepto Bismol, cookie chaser. Will report scientific findings back to the community, n=1.