I've had my differences with @chenderson.bsky.social on some of her Council votes but I really hope she jumps into the race for Chair. She's super competent and I even think some of the things I don't like about her actions on council (a certain above-the-fray vibe) would serve her well as chair.

Pete Hegseth is incredibly comparing the downed airman in Iran with Jesus, which I find incredibly offensive as a Christian!

this could not rule more, wow

My grandpa was born in Stanhope, New Jersey in 1912. He went back to Poland a few months later. In 1930, he returned to the United States age 17 as a US citizen. Here he is, left, liberating Europe from fascism in 1945. Birthright citizenship forever.

Another way to frame this story (not that "brave librarian stands up for everyone" is wrong!) is that there is a group of elected officials in Tennessee that would rather bankrupt their local library than allow children to choose what to read

I appreciate NYTimes putting together a story on the immigrant/enslaved roots of the members of the Supreme Court but I wish they had included that Clarence Thomas grew up partly in the Gullah community, whose Civil War service in earlier generations ultimately won the 14th Amendment

if anything TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT are about the extraordinary efforts taken by the crews of Starfleet to avoid shooting others. Even Enterprise, where there are a lot of firefights, is largely pointing towards the resulting commitment Archer has to forming the Federation because it was so bad.

DC has a once-in-a-generation chance to fix its housing crisis through the 2050 Comp Plan rewrite. OP's current proposal squanders it. I built a tool so you can see exactly where they're falling short: dc2050.org 1/4

the reason hegseth lobbied trump to pardon war criminals in his first term and why he has done everything possible to make war crimes more likely is that hegseth believes war crimes to be Objectively Good. war to him, in fact, consists of committing indiscriminate war crimes.

Trump claiming the paper clip was invented 182 years ago has got to be one of the most fascinating statement's he's made recently. Who's talking to him about the history of the paper clip? Why 182 years? Is he a proponent of the Herbert Spencer origin theory? Is someone talking to him about Spencer?

e15 is a scam

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

Absolutely despicable move by Mayor Bowser, once again showing how little regard she has for DC residents. @councilofdc.bsky.social should override the veto ASAP.

man i really don't know what you could conclude from looking at Jeremy Peters's reporting in the New York Times other than that he thinks trans people shouldn't have healthcare. this here is presented completely uncritically www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

People shouldn't feel bad about previously admiring someone when they didn't know about the terrible harms that person committed, but we should challenge ourselves to consider how pedestalizing and prioritizing the legacies of charismatic leaders can create harmful dynamics. That can be addressed.

Joe Kent's resignation letter is an antisemitic tract — the ur-text of a "stabbed in the back" myth that could do enormous damage to American Jews www.vox.com/politics/482...

The fracture in the maga world is between zionist antisemites versus the anti-zionist antisemites

the thing that scares me about the Joe Kent resignation is how reasonable people are uplifting any of his statement. he is an active part of a movement to twist the political awareness raised by Palestinians and the global left into service of American white supremacy

The war & AIPAC are nightmares, but so is Joe Kent, one of the most openly fascist figures in Trump’s regime, a comrade of Proud Boys and Fuentes, a man who says Black Lives Matter was a child trafficking ring, a guy who complains that Hitler is misunderstood. Don’t take the bait.

This guy is a straight-up Nazi and one of the more dangerous people in American politics, you do not ever have to hand it to him

besides ADHD the main thing that makes me worried I won't hack it in law school is that I hate citing through footnotes. currently swapping my dear in-line babies for footnotes at work and it's like my soul taking a tiny tear each time

Nekima on the Target boycott.

"Bhatt does important work here by showing us how these misguided, prejudicial critiques are still baked into discourses that bind us to inaction today." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-radi...

“Sudden release of document I’m being sued for,” an action famously unrelated to lawsuit

the Mamdani landlord piece in the NYTimes is actually a solid article. I appreciate Cea Weaver being such a skilled communicator and highlighting that one fundamental problem in rent-controlled markets is speculators that think they can erode those protections to get their needed return

literally when will DC be free of Bagshaw, the fascist Forrest Gump of MPD? somehow at every turn is Commander Bagshit, doing something illegal, getting people hurt or killed, and facing no consequences

The end of streeteries in DC is the most idiotic, self inflicted harm imaginable. Just fully a decision to have less of a good thing, a decision that benefits no one. It’s just unbelievable.

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American war planning in Vietnam was not infrequently just genocidal! Planners would talk about being at war with the demographics, that they wanted to inflict enough casualties to negate how many Vietnamese might reach military-age in a given year. And fascists like Hegseth think it wasn’t enough

yesterday I met a guy out in the wild who had been super indoctrinated by the Tyler Oliveira New Jersey video - just genuinely alarming to meet a budding antisemite who is really eager to drunkenly talk about it at a bar with total strangers

NEW: When cold weather arrives, most people expect to see a bump in their utilities. But recently, many D.C. residents have been shocked to see their electricity bills had double and even triple — in some cases, climbing $1,000+ in a single month. What's going on? @samdelgado.bsky.social reports:

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

The throw-down style analysis of the SOTU you get from The Daily is so brain meltingly stupid

cops are so stupid: "Emergency medical workers later took the two injured officers to the hospital in stable condition, the police said." they walked their stupid asses into a snowball fight and got some snow down their shirts and called an ambulance

i will continue beating the drum that blue cities and blue states need to build as much housing as possible not just for economic or demographic reasons but for the sake of protecting vulnerable people

is it toxic masculinity if the most I have cried at a movie this year was Godzilla Minus One

I am heartbroken to hear the news of Rev. Hagler passing away. He was an incredible human being, a human rights activist, a fighter for justice for all people for income inequality, racial inequality.

NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives. futurism.com/artificial-i...

The Canada Goose in Brooklyn Park is wild.

People sneer so much at this basic-ass shit sometimes and like, I get it, maybe to you it’s very basic, rudimentary, not illuminating. But I promise you there are people out there who need to hear it.

The 51st has produced so much valuable reporting in just a single year, with only one full-time reporter. Can you imagine what a second year could look like if this newsroom had triple the reporting capacity? The good news is that we don't have to imagine — we can make it happen. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Paul's argument is absolutely correct and really critical to how we can comprehensively leave this moment in the past. The idea of any "immigration system" that doesn't just look like a family finding jobs and a new place to live should be abhorent to anyone that abhors the violence of CBP.

“You can no more slap a few reforms on our current system of immigration enforcement than you can create a safe structure for child abuse. You can’t tidy up a mission in which harm is the core principle.”

this is why we need local sports journalism

BREAKING: Sunrise DC woke up Hilton CEO Christopher Nassetta this morning. Millions of people aren't sleeping soundly because they are afraid ICE will knock down their door. We're making sure the CEOs making millions housing ICE aren't getting a good night sleep either.

zero fucking surprise that this is landlords using CBP thugs against tenants. the Italian Fascist paramilitary, the squadristi, were funded by working for agricultural landlords to break up farmworker organizing and evict tenant farmers

Journalists have critical skills we need! BUT don't blame "people" and "consumers" for this loss. Bezos killed the Post by: deciding not to pay its workers, offending readers by running his personal opinions, & hiring management that hates reporters. "Consumers" aren't the problem; billionaires are.

the smirk after he says "for what?" has got to be one of the most physically repulsive gestures out there. vile little pig man!