Kinda sucks how one day you’ll post stuff like “does the Grinch use the toilet?” and then the next it has to be “I reject those who worship death”

When I lived in Nashville I sadly didn’t have great bike infrastructure near me, but now living in DC where there are protected bike lanes everywhere, I always feel such joy and connection with the city by getting to most of my destinations by bike

An agent of the state murders an American, and government leaders rush to media to call the victim a "domestic terrorist" before any pretense of an investigation. We are so far down the fascist hole.

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.

they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.

I feel like letting every president of my lifetime get away with Unlimited War Crimes was a serious mistake

If you let him get away with this, he’ll do it with Iran and whatever other neocon bugaboos have been lingering around conservative media since Obama first started running. Maybe Greenland but less intense because white. One of them will invariably respond in the mainland U.S. Stop him before then.

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

I’m thinking this morning about all the people I spoke to last year who were absolutely convinced, and tried to convince me, that Trump would be antiwar compared to Biden and Harris. In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

an “inherent power” to respond to an “imminent” attack is just a license for aggressive war on the president’s whim

So we’re just announcing foreign strikes and kidnappings of foreign leaders on social media now? No Congress. No explanation. This is madness.

only american football can make 1 second last 15 minutes

merry 2026, this 250 stuff is already insufferable

they should invent a year that's better than the one before it

Happy new years from aus! May all the corrupt people in power have justice and accountability held upon them for once For once Please

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

for no reason whatsoever, feels like a good day to promote this stellar, independent, local media

DC residents have been refusing to call that airport anything but National for almost thirty years, we certainly can refuse to call that arts center anything but the Kennedy Center for three

Of all the inexplicable, shocking, disorienting events of this decade, the Nashville "Downtown" Christmas morning RV bombing and the national media's almost complete refusal to pay any real attention to it remains at or near the top of the list.

weekends like this one really enforcing why I don’t want to have kids, there’s way too much daily trauma they would have to live through

i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.

shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights

I’m in a training about Copilot and half the demos don’t work and the instructor keeps reiterating how you need to check its accuracy. Like what’s the point of using a half-baked tool that _also_ requires more effort to make sure it’s not making things up? I’m trying to be open minded but come on

one thing I’ve learned as a Duke grad alumnus is just how much Duke loves to ruin Virginia’s day

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

Hegseth announces plans to order deployment of 500 additional National Guard troops to DC following the shooting.

I know nearly everyone who follows me is already subscribed, but— There‘s a reason why my puzzle work these days is almost exclusively with AVCX. We all know someone in our lives who does mainstream puzzles, but doesn’t know that indies exist or how good they are. If you can, gift them an AVCX sub.

We gotta normalize responding to bullshit with "dude who fucking cares"

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci

i know we've all laughed about the worm and the affair but this is a profoundly dangerous person who should be expelled from the government.

ICE just hit Durham, community is activating, message me if u wanna help

this is the correct framing

WE ARE HEADED TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP

“Maybe this will fix me,” he thought as he completed the purchase for the LEGO “Happy Plants” building kit

Dozens of Washingtonians get killed and thousands more injured every year by cars, and now @ddotdc.bsky.social is claiming e-bikes are the "same as" that. Like claiming baseball bats are the same as machine guns. 🚩🚩🚩🚩

i look forward to DDOT supporting speed limiters on cars

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not

started from the bottom, now we here (a new bottom)

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is

I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy