The message should be loud and clear: slow down on DC streets. More from CM Allen on the OAG's first court judgment against a dangerous driver + 12 more lawsuits under the STEER ACT:

“OAG also filed 12 new lawsuits against Maryland and Virginia drivers who have amassed a combined total of 1,989 driving infractions and who collectively owe the District nearly $620,000 in unpaid fines, penalties, and fees.” - Details: www.popville.com/2025/09/spee...

Nice day for a disability history refresher: www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-doe...

It is very funny that Arabs and Muslims were told for a year that they had to swallow every single conceivable bitter pill and support a candidacy and a party that was sponsoring the murder of their families but suddenly a Muslim wins a primary and the two leaders of the DP can skirt around it.

"Today, in its words and deeds, the government seems to treat autistic life as a deadly infection while dismissing the very real threat of preventable disease as merely the cost of liberty. This is exactly backwards."

the Yankees in one day, collectively, kill more whales than all the English, collectively, in ten years

Nice day for a disability history refresher: www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-doe...

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

If your kids are old enough to appreciate urban shipping infrastructure: www.georgetownheritage.org/canal-day

big part of this is because they sent the health reporters, not the political reporters

Everyone's saying it but I really love the idea of Uzbekistan Airways having 23000 airplanes, thereby equalling the number of commercial airlines in operation worldwide. There are now twice as many airliners flying, and half of them are Uzbek. Yashasin O'zbekiston.

nocturnal baby screams

cluster feeding

Stiob is a particular mode of soviet parody "that imitated and inhabited the formal features of authoritative discourse to such an extent that it was often difficult to tell whether it was a form of sincere support, subtle ridicule, or a peculiar mixture of the two"

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou...

overnight diaper duty

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

They should invent a type of neighbor whom Jesus doesn’t expect me to love

I made no more ado, but jumped out of my pantaloons and boots

Babies for DC autonomy! (Baby autonomy comes later.) @freedcproject.bsky.social

I made it a point to say, "Who?" in front of some white ppl when my boss asked had I heard about Kirk getting shot. "Oh, yeah? What's his thing? I mean what kinda stuff did he talk about?" 😆😆😆

Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police. Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack

It's fair to point out that one of the 14 bills is good for D.C.: It would allow the D.C. Council to email bills to Congress for the usual 30-day review. Yes, that's what it would do. Because right now bills have to be *hand-delivered*. In this, the year of our Lord 2025.

Some Old Georgian words of encouragement (/Leimonarion/, ed. Abuladze, 2.4-6) კეთილ, ძმაო, კეთილად იქმ აწ "now you're doing really great, brother"

Side note: The number or participating organizations (37, some of which are based around one person) is less than the number of religious organizations that have already sued the Trump administration this year (at least 55, including 15 entire religious denominations).

Gifted-kid discourse is going from listening to Mozart Effect cassettes as a toddler to realizing as a dad that like 15% of their stuff is by Leopold, not Wolfgang.

When you have a baby in DC, the official forms start with a little bureaucratic poem, which ends: “Your data help shape your city.” DC has shaped us far more than we have shaped it. Our new baby resident deserves equality under the law. Thanks to @freedcproject.bsky.social and those marching.

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

Muppet Show as architectural vanguard

Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol is what happens when a 19th-century Russian serf imagines his potato being slightly spicy one time.

for the birth of my firstborn, a friend of ours offered to be our doula in exchange for me making them a kids' dining room table. a Doula can be a type of Guy

RFK Jr. taps his top deputy, Jim O’Neill, to be the new CDC director. Both men appear to wear skinny ties from Otaa. Otaa's ties are made in China from microfiber, a kind of plastic that, under the right conditions, can migrate to your balls.

One thing that I think is holding back both normie democrats and leftists is an inability to be normal about religion and religious people. You will never build a meaningful coalition with attitudes like this because it’s fundamentally intolerant.

Wow! RFK Jr single-handedly slashes autism diagnosis waiting times

That's right, the reason Germany has so many fewer mass shootings than America is because they don't have antidepressants.

I had a dream that Elon Musk bought Lyft and made it terrible

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

a thing that is increasingly talked about in disability advocacy and accessibility is the primary importance of /plain speech/ and only using jargon where it assists and does not detract from effective communication strategies in other words, don't be weird

who would win: THE UNITED STATES or A GREAT-AUNT WITH MULTIPLE THEOLOGY DEGREES (it’s the lady)

it’s so funny how deneen et. all spent years bleating about the “soft totalitarianism” of liberal society and now it’s very clear that what they were really objecting to was not totalitarianism but softness

Your tax dollars at work: standing, bored, as tourists board (at Dupont Circle station) @freedcproject.bsky.social @remorahousedc.bsky.social @dcmigrantmutualaid.org

When and if public comment time comes, remember: “The COVID-19 vaccine is President Trump’s single greatest accomplishment, a miracle of modern lifesaving medicine.”

AI agents will make getting your bank account cleaned out by scammers so much quicker and easier 🥰

Kilmar, speaking to “all the families who have been separated, or to all the families who have been threatened with family separation” near the end of his remarks: “God is with us, and God will never leave us. God will bring justice to all of you.”

the right has long labored under the misconception that ordinary liberals have always hated them and their way of life with a burning passion, something which is only just now becoming true

The main reason to not use Twitter is that there is no such thing as Twitter. The guy who made me unemployed replaced Twitter with something called X, and made it impossible to opt out of feeding your words into a robot that calls itself “MechaHitler.” QED.

Kateryna Bilokur, Abundance, 1944-1947

Wait until the contrarian right learns how every human being is a precious, unique creature in God’s image