There are some great flight deals from DC to Colombia for anyone interested. Stuff like $280 to Medellin, $313 to Bogota, $300 to Barranquilla on Copa Airlines with stops in Panama City. The BAQ flights might not be ideal times but they're swingable.

Tried to do the smart thing and buy something used off of FB Marketplace and was immediately reminded of how much of an awful experience it can be when you deal with society's nutjobs. Guy selling a squash racquet refused to meet me at a Metro station despite living a 10 min drive from one.

Monumentally boneheaded play by Josh Allen there. WOW

Congrats to everyone who voted for Trump to lower prices! You’re now paying more for everything so Trump can feel better about himself bsky.app/profile/twse...

Pretty good AP story on why the White House likes having Delcy Rodridguez run Venezuela www.detroitnews.com/story/news/w...

I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need “coaching” on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1

Imagine Danes using U.S. F-35 to defend against a U.S. invasion of Greenland

America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.

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I'm in love

It's cool living in a corrupt corporatist shithole without working regulators where major telecoms don't have to explain why essential utilities just stop working for half the day

City residents take nonstop abuse about how dangerous cities are and how cities aren't "real America" while rural Americans cry fakes tears into their beers about their lack of political power, which is currently at an apex as Republicans have diluted the power of cities where most people live.

This has been the fantasy of law enforcement and why they supported Trump. They wanted to exercise unfettered violence because even the whiff of regulation offended the rules of their Baronial Class. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Another moronic proposal from Ritchie Torres. That's two in two days. Amazing! www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

WHY are news stations reading DHS statements out loud as if they have ANY credibility at all? They literally murdered a woman in cold blood LAST WEEK and are still lying about what happened, even though we can see what happened. That any credibility would be given to their statement is insane

Um, these people are all going to prison for life. If you think anything less you’re part of the problem.

It’s time to stop the influx of immigrants who take drugs, father children out of wedlock, and steal from the government. by Elon Musk

Today in dystopian America www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms

i don’t know what’s worse: the brainworms sheriffs whining about getting two foia requests a day or the fact that a journalist actually wrote this and an editor read it and a newspaper published it

Very pro-fascist news packaging from @mlive.com. I'm also confused as to why a Mlive staffer is writing about this issue which doesn't impact Michigan. But this is pretty par for the course for Mlive, which is investing in trash news that's not relevant for its market for cheap clicks and SEO

From our pal, the amazing @laloalcaraz.bsky.social

The article appears to be partly paywalled and I would encourage anyone who can afford it to subscribe, Slate's got a hell of a sale going right now and subscriptions are how they can afford to pay freelancers for articles like this one For my fellow brokies, though:

The harassment of Powell was particularly braindead, but Trump is whiffing everywhere, particularly where he’s strongest, or thought he was strongest. www.offmessage.net/p/the-tiger-...

#WMATA is back! Only Randy Clarke could save WMATA.

Police Absolve Man for Dangerous Driving After Finding Out He Did Give The Little "Whoopsie" Wave.

Leila Fadel's interview with the MPLS mayor on @npr.org this morning was disgraceful. He complained of hearing feedback and she plowed through him saying "We don't hear it on our end!" before moving on. This guy is a gust on your show and you showed him up. NPR needs to die.

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

What's behind the affordability crisis? In large part, it's automobile dependence. It used to be that housing or rent was a household’s biggest expense, far exceeding any vehicle-related cost. But now those things are neck and neck for a lot of people.” [gift link] wapo.st/3Lkugqb

Paging @karlbode.com

Maryland things Oregon is embarrassing themselves against Indiana

As I've said before one of Trump's savviest first term moves was his effort to strip govt contracts from Amazon to retaliate against Bezos for owning WaPo. Overturned in court eventually, but it didn't matter, the oligarchs all got the memo: cross Trump and his admin will find a way to fuck you.

Driver Perfectly Describes Pedestrian They Couldn't See.

Hey @notmurielbowser.bsky.social look what I did

I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.

The lede of this story doesn't represent that the Rock Creek Park Tennis Center is in desperate need of upgrades. Which is true. It shows that RCPTC is run by a crappy contractor, Guest Services, that doesn't fix things and treats customers poorly. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...

“We will invade your city without permission, we will taunt you, we will kidnap and harass citizens, we will smash our way into schools and shoot tear gas at students, and if you stop to film us and we don’t like it, we will shoot you three times in the face.” Tyranny

Protests mounting against ICE in various parts of D.C. tonight. In the middle of the U Street corridor, occupying the intersection with 14th Street: “Remember Renee Good,” one of the many signs here reads.

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

This woman at WSJ just wrote a love letter about cigarette smoking. I kid you not. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wh...

Just under the wire

This obviously secondary, but why are government agents talking like this to a person who, at most, was passively causing them a temporary inconvenience? I'm supposed to believe she was the aggressor here?

my point in writing this polemic is that we as journalists aren’t absolved of our guilt in helping spread fascist propaganda just because we’re quoting an “official” statement from the government. we’re not stenographers. we should be more skeptical of people in power, not less.

Drivers who kill rarely face any punishment, and when they do, the resulting fine is typically so low — the same as parking in a bus lane or the cost of a monthly cable bill — that it makes a mockery of honoring victims or deterring future violence.

"A death squad is an armed group whose primary activity is carrying out extrajudicial killings, massacres, or enforced disappearances as part of political repression, genocide, ethnic cleansing, or revolutionary terror." Hmm.

How many times is @npr.org going to regurgitate this fascist administration's smear of Renee Good as a "domestic terrorist?" Anyone with half a brain and functioning eyes can watch the video and see for themselves. I hope NPR goes bust and all these people lose their jobs. NPR is unsavable.