Too bad that our legal and institutional safeguards only work to prevent good policies. It would be cool if they also stopped the evil stuff

I do need the record to reflect that no one in DC wants this. No one in DC has asked for this. I live in DC. I work in DC. I go out in DC. I feel safe, I don’t feel threatened by crime. I will feel threatened by Trump’s troops.

i don't really ascribe to the "touch grass" theory of mental health but offer instead a similar "big lizard" model where a trip to the zoo to see a big iguana or gila monster from a few feet away really does wonders

nation rejoices as "freak pervert sex pests out of politics" finally polls at 44%

all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

How do we electrify/decarbonize our transit systems? They used to be 100% electric. We don’t need to wait for battery tech or hydrogen to “catch up.” We did this a century ago. Wires. It’s time for both the transit and environmental communities to collectively pull their heads out of their asses.

there should be one new video game console, it should only be updated once every 10 years, it should play all the games, and it should have cigarette style warning all over it about the perils of the Gamer lifestyle

lord i do not often pray for you to deliver wet bulb temperatures and/or flash floods to my home in the district of columbia, but

homophobic pope is back. hopefully this deters youth from becoming devoutly religious

Getting a text alert saying the National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning and just being happy knowing the National Weather Service still exists.

*crab-walked

A flight carrying a group of 59 White South Africans granted refugee status in the US by the Trump administration arrived at Washington Dulles airport on Monday, a State Department official said.

Headline idea: Manic? This aging twink just spent $200+ on “storage solutions”

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Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’

i actually think it's disgusting that slack automatically changes :) to 🙂. they do NOT communicate the same meaning! you're embarrassing me!!

Imagine if art could be about anything other than profits again

With these posts, they’ve made it essentially inarguable that they’re deliberately defying the Supreme Court.

I am dead convinced that a lot of my problems wouldn’t exist if I had had access to mirrors with good lighting growing up 🥴

AOC: When he talks about rapists and criminals, he should look in the mirror

Privately, sources close to Jared and Ivanka say they oppose kidnapping Americans and sending them to die in El Salvador torture prisons.

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

Absolutely brutal

As others in the replies & quotes have said — duh!!

Open your eyes and take electric bikes seriously. Please. Write about them. Interview users about their utter joyfulness. See how much they haul. Do the climate math. Do the public infrastructure math. Do the family finance math. Design roads for them. Design communities for them.

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

my new theory is that once you have a certain amount of money and wealth you start to go crazy and detach from reality. that number is different for everyone. for me it's $20

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

how to punish brain for hallucinating Teams call jingle

Measles

Tariffs + degradation of US Ecosystems = 💀

Not being allowed to hand water to people in line to vote no matter who they are voting for, while being allowed to hand people million dollar checks to get their vote, is the most American thing ever.

Devastated to discover that the ideal recipe for a productive day still includes 3.75 large, highly caffeinated beverages

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The Senate voted Thursday to strike down a rule capping most bank overdraft fees at $5, a measure adopted late last year by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that had been expected to save Americans billions of dollars per year.

thankfully, "Grok, welcome to the resistance" is the sequence of words that summons the meteor

In 1862, a Union soldier found cigars wrapped in a piece of paper in a field of clover. The paper was a copy of Confederate Gen. Lee's invasion orders. The Southern sloppiness helped the Union stop Lee at Antietam. It's unknown who lost the orders in the field, or if he was related to Pete Hegseth.

HOW does she have this job?? I am shocked and embarrassed by everything she says or types!!!!

Sorry texting a little too fast! 😅 Yeah so we saw a target go in his girlfriend’s building and just collapsed the whole thing down on everyone inside! Oh nice! ❤️✝️👍