I wish [redacted] would [redacted].

Any media outlet that doesn’t portray this as an illegal, grossly unhinged and utterly deranged event is gaslighting you.

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This feels too on point

I have zero faith Democrats are going to pursue this strategy, but every faith they will try and fundraise off of it.

My country has been at war for 80% of my post-college life.

Me, waking up and logging into the news:

Improvements in bus operations have been significant and represent huge improvements. But the biggest issues—frequency and reliability—remain a problem far too often.

I was given no choice here

This is the saddest, most depressing thing. What are we doing here? The bottom can’t fall out of this industry quickly enough.

Just add to the list of things to unceremoniously rip his name off of the moment he leaves office.

Some winter scenes at dusk in the Blue Ridge on this first winter evening of 2026.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!/BLWYDDYN NEWYDD DDA!

Last winter dusk of the year #HNY

Normal service has resumed on the Green Line, and the Yellow Line now extends to Greenbelt! 🚇

Yeah, I dunno, but it can both be true that the BlueSky-ariat is by all accounts significantly more informed than your average U.S. voter, and also that Trump was exceedingly forthright about what he intended to do. Voters were either willfully ignorant of his goals, or willing to overlook them.

As we close out 2025, it’s important to check how we’re doing on improving roadway safety. ⚠️ Roadway fatalities ⬇️ 52%. This is the lowest number of roadway fatalities since DC adopted Vision Zero in 2014. ⚠️ Major roadway injuries ⬇️12%. Great progress, but more to be done!

The past year has been terrifying. Really, the past two—I lost a lot of sleep in 2024 over the promises of the Trump campaign, promises they immediately sought to make good on. But at the end of the first year of his would-be dictatorship, I am calling it: we are going to win.

We’ve got to destroy the Kennedy Center to save it.

If you want to see how skewed the construction of affordable housing has been in D.C., see the graph below on where it was built since 2019. (Now, it can also be true that building affordable housing in more expensive areas is less cost-effective for public dollars.)

I think I’m an astronaut trying to figure out why the moon turned into cheese. (Courtesy of @scalzi.com’s When the Moon Hits Your Eye)

Prestigious? There literally used to be a bowl game called the Poulan Weedeater bowl.

Baltimore, yo.

Come hang out with me and @seriousllama.bsky.social at the bar for some scintillating conversations.

Baltimore, we are in you.

Don’t forget this holiday season to unplug your crab when you’re not at home.

About a 2:1 ratio of guard members to passengers here at Metro Center. Great use of resources all around!

Given the number of people streaming TikTok videos on their speakers on this metro car, I’m beginning to think that making cell service available throughout the system was a mistake.

DO YOU KNOW HOW BAD THINGS ARE WHEN JAZZ MUSICIANS DECIDE *NOT* TO SHOW UP FOR A GIG?

Celebrating Christmas Eve in the traditional way, by visiting Boss Shepherd’s tomb.

Happy holidays! Please don’t enjoy my rendition of @beckyhammer.bsky.social’s AI song about Alexandria, Virginias girthy holiday tree.

Holiday Reuben (cc @hgil.bsky.social)

These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

Your holiday reading list should include this @alexbaca.bsky.social piece spitting fire regarding the RFK stadium deal.

The guy who wants you to believe immigrants are stealing and eating your pet cat has absolutely taken a side in the fight over bigotry.

Maybe it’s less of a retro renaissance and more that they don’t want to lose access to their music when a label decides to remove it from streaming services.

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

Local man questioning what life choices led to him physically going into the office this week.

Spent the evening with my father in law who reads David Brooks, David French and the WSJ, and who is advocating for a wealth tax and decrying the pathological immorality of billionaires. “They say we shouldn’t punish success? F*** that.” To quote @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, we’re gonna win.

Accidentally took a Level 1+ reformer class with @seriousllama.bsky.social and I nearly died.

Obligatory post-concert libations

At the Kreeger for their annual holiday jazz show. Got to check in on some friends while I’m here.

<whispers> Cadwalader was facing big structural financial problems long before the Trump deal.

These will be fun and easy to pop off

This is the latest in a depressingly long list of examples that demonstrate that “laws” are simply gentlemen’s agreements that we collectively decide to abide by. Otherwise, they’re simply words.

Top 3% baby

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

It is a perfect indictment of the stenographic political press that they’re uncritically repeating what the WH spokesperson says will happen without ever once questioning whether the WH has the power to make it happen.

The Kennedy Center name is established by federal statute, and therefore may be repealed only by federal statute. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...