Also, just in: A code red air quality alert has been issued for the entire DC area on Friday by the Metropolitan Council of Governments because of the anticipated smoke pollution.

Boris Tomatoes

important reminder that Argentina invaded the falklands because the far-right military junta wanted to boost its popularity and 99% of people who live there want to stay with the UK

“Everything is temporary! That don’t excuse nothin’!”

in a lot of ways the current republican government is just the worst, extractive red state governance taken national. total hostility to public goods, total indifference to long-term investment, and a monomaniacal interest in using the state to enrich private benefactors

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mitchell’s right. if you come from a faith tradition with a sacred text replete with warnings against wealth, you need a pretty damn robust argument to explain why, actually, the people protesting wealth are the real bad guys. this piece does not rise to the occasion. unserious.

I would love three examples of ways Rod Dreher has “been right before.”

Literally my only complaint about @puzzmo.com: this is definitionally not an accomplishment

Pretty sure it was God that built the continent

hair gel is short for Harold Gelatin

Don’t breathe too much if outside this morning www.capitalweather.com/health/

the list of reasons to stay inside today just gets longer

Horrifying. A building where over 100 disabled people with developmental disabilities live in New York has allegedly not had functioning AC for three years. www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...

If you belong to a church, you can get married there for free.

Are these guys really gonna give us an American Khodynka en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khodynk...

While it is neat to watch a jet do acrobatics over the Washington Monument this does feel like crossing a line. Would be amazing if we celebrated something other than war.

between the hundred-degree heat index and the nonstop military flyovers it’s a very normal and chill day to have a baby in DC

Sweet for the 250th we get to pretend we are 2003 Baghdad

D.C. will find itself in the top 1.1 percent of the planet’s hottest places on Friday, when high temperatures will soar toward 105 degrees.

12. learning a language is a lot like learning an instrument, insofar as most of what you’re doing is trying to turn a thought into action via reflex. as a corollary, if you try to do either as an intellectual exercise, or get in your head at all about them, the results will not be pretty.

Who up walking their baby to the supermarket before 7 am because the heat index is getting up to 110 today

@abhigoyal.bsky.social type of post

Annoyed by my certainty that this is an ableist reference to the Capitol Crawl (@ericmgarcia.bsky.social, what say you?)

Heck, we DC residents just do this to go to the library

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Thank you @emilymbender.bsky.social and Nanna Inie! So many great alts to anthropomorphism in this piece! buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

the Latin alphabet probably

Your nun friends may not have seen the @capitalweather.com forecast

🙂‍↕️ britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

USAID was literally a body that distributed resources to local actors who then handles logistics.

It’s actually cerulean

what a great transliteration لیپسیق is

And who are the other guys supposed to be? Just looks like a bunch of off-brand Washingtons

average Silk Road descendant opinion

do cops have real jobs? these guys are hundreds of miles from where they're supposed to be protecting & serving because they're guarding Trump's decaying slime pool

my man that is a midmarket business retreat center

Carpatho-Rusyns are the Scots-Irish of Slavs. In this essay I will

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when you’re the only stay-at-home dad on the playground

The people of DC elect the mayor of DC.

lol @ the Tenleytown Lozenge

ok i’m not done. it’s really fucking rich that this hobgoblin wants to cut funding for services *that enable autistic people to do these things*

Look, whether I appeared on two episodes of a nationally syndicated TV quiz show in 2017 is my business, and mine alone.

*taps the sign* www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-doe...

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Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.

reasonable future pathway for me tbh

Shakespeare is directly across the street from whatever the MCI Center is called now

The NBA final is Pants vs. Shoes much as Super Bowl XLVII was Literature vs. Geography.