Much like the overreach on immigration is moving the Overton window left, all this overreach is making an incredible case for DC statehood.

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

This has been my phone lock screen since 2019 and it's really sinking in that it's something we won't see again for a long time.

Yikes. “During the incident, McKenna allegedly assaulted an unidentified individual, leaving the victim with a broken jaw.”

Half this site is arguing about OPSEC while suburban women are out there going full Ronald Speirs

They do not have the resources and manpower to do the things they claim they are going to do. They can’t win and deep down they know it. Every grand pronouncement should be met with a sneering laugh and an invitation to try.

The debt the sport owes Howie can never be repaid.

Losing breeds losers

Good day to eliminate sports coverage in DC.

Gov Spanberger has directed Virginia’s state law enforcement agencies to end 287g agreements with ICE, saying the agreements "improperly cede accountability and discretion over VA law enforcement" to the feds.

Trashcanned the idea of him wearing an Astros cap, huh?

we should all yell about this loudly but just saying it is a scare tactic, they do not have the bodies to do this widely even in just one area. we should yell loudly about that too to decrease intimidation.

The Dodgers are hiring?

Unbelievable

Everyone's theory about Bezos' destruction of the Post is right, but there's an added thing: He thought he was buying the New York Times - a truly international newspaper, but the Post has never been that. The Post was a Company Town's local paper, except that company was the federal government.

NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning. Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

Jarrett gets to something I think a lot of fans don't understand and analysts usually do a a poor job of explaining - most things are better understood in buckets rather than specific numbers. Prospects, value stats, etc. - think of them less as absolutes and more as ranges with error bars.

Is DC the only city with teams in all of the Big Four leagues (and then some) without a full functioning sports section?

What's happening at the Post is just so fucking grim on so many levels, including, of course, for the professionals it's impacting (godspeed, Bailey et al) and the consumer. The enshitification of modern life continues unabated...

This is no longer a newspaper… it’s just a blog with a legacy name. Fucking Newsweek or US News with nothing under the hood. An embarrassment

As someone who was laid off is video call… this is incredibly shitty.

This was supposed to be what @theathletic.com was, but they no longer have a dedicated writer for the Capitals or the Nationals, nor do they appear to have regular coverage of the Wizards, DC United or any other non-Commanders team in town.

want to emphasize that this all started because a wellness guy from portland made a thread on twitter

Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore (John Prine)

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

Whoever figures out how to sterilize milk will be so famous they’ll probably name the process after them.

Rectum, it nearly killed hi- *pelted by croissants before I can finish the punchline*

feel bad for Bad Bunny because in context he was clearly very genuinely emotional for winning AOTY and is fighting back tears but this image is already being accompanied with like “when your boss asks you to do your job”

You literally hate to see it.

Playoff format discourse is always funny to me because no one gave a single shit when Washington was playing de facto Stanley Cup finals in the second round, but now that it might be an issue for more “traditional hockey markets” we Must. Make. Changes.

He wants to end poverty by killing all the poor people.

[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:

Forgive me, Jesus, because I genuinely deeply enjoy how perpetually unhappy and desolate these losers are.

The Blackhawks' brass quartet just played T.A.T.U.'s "All The Things She Said" on Pride Night. At least somebody here watched Heated Rivalry. Baffling how little the league is doing to capitalize on a true cultural phenomenon in a sport that's always looking for one.

Sending a snotty email to the @nationals.com ticket rep begging me to come back as a member really hits. I suggest you try it.

Fun Fact: My childhood home didn’t have cable until the early 1990s because our road was too sparsely populated - and I wouldn’t call my house “rural” (I hit both our neighbors’ houses with a moderately thrown ball).

The more he slams the “Boss Baby” button, the more people will push back. People hate this shit - they hate seeing it and they hate feeling it. And frankly the most American thing is voters unifying and telling our big wet president: “Fuck me? No, fuck you!”

a thing that puts the lie to everything every texas republican has ever said about the alleged wave of immigrants they’re so afraid of is that the trump administration is very regularly just dumping people in texas if they can’t deport them and no texas republican has said a word about it

Amazing coda here.

We should have clapped

Bill DeBlasio was right about groundhogs.

If you watch the reaction of everyone else in the room, it seems very unlikely that this “sound effect” has been added for comedic purposes. The fact that everyone sprints away like there’s a Sarin leak… I’ve seen enough, our president shit himself in the oval office on live TV.

Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent

The FBI worked for the Clinton campaign?

We really have come a LONG way in a pretty brief amount of time as a culture on “oh, maybe it’s actually creepy and gross to incessantly perv on teenage girls everywhere all the time.”

For @cnn.com, a story about gambling addiction, gambling sobriety and how that changes many young men’s relationships to friends, family, and sports fandom. www.cnn.com/2026/02/01/s...