just going to be hitting refresh on this thread all day

i love when they admit to pre-writing the narrative. at least there is humility enough here to admit it was totally wrong

you imagine WMATA is feeling relieved this morning that they are now surrounded on both sides by friendlier faces to transit whose victories were delivered by the dc suburbs

Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

this tweet from lt governor elect hashmi made me cry last week so I’m glad to see she is winning quickly

bluginia

not this taking less than 20 minutes

is all of 60 minutes like this now?

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

tried to transferwise someone like £10 in the uk and it wanted me to verify their date of birth and full current address before it could send

love it. please enter this 8 digit and up to 24 digit code to send your transfer. if you mess up one of the numbers the payment will go through and it will be irreversible.

people talk about how europe has such superior digital payments infrastructure but I’m trying to pay a bill for something in belgium and it only allows me to use a local debit card with some specific country-only payment processor instead of visa or mastercard like normal

I want to be one of those people who can make a delicate white bean and leak stew taste really solid but it usually misses somehow

anyone else just consistently strike out with trying NYT cooking recipes

core ukrainian memory

Kostiantyn Huzenko, 28, a Kyiv photographer who documented the war and enlisted the 35th Marine Brigade in April 2024, was killed Nov. 1 in a Russian strike in eastern Ukraine, the media outlet Ukrainer reported.

baseball

curtis sliwa is by far the sleeper hit halloween costume for the late 20s people in my social circle

Proud to publish this piece from my former student, who writes that Russia's lawfare in the European Court of Human Rights is "transforming [it] into an unwitting accomplice in one of the most sophisticated disinformation operations of the modern era.” americansunlight.substack.com/p/russias-la...

"English Newspaper Advocates Monarchy For America"

News Analysis: Dutch voters rebuked a far-right party in Wednesday’s national elections, and they unexpectedly threw support to a center-left party that ran on promises of stability and hope. That sudden reorientation is likely to usher in a more centrist government in the Netherlands.

Radio Free Asia is halting operations as its federal funding dries up, eliminating one of the few independent sources of media in a region dominated by authoritarian regimes.

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What a waste. $200 m on a 2.2-mi line that plods along at 8 mph, doesn't have a direct Metro connection, gets stuck behind cars with which it shares lanes, & arrives less frequently than the (faster) bus along the same route. The city couldn't bother to make it effective, so now it's being killed.

hand delivering wedding save the dates to guests who live in our city to save $8 on postage

Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes

coffee cart barista who asked how strong I want my cortado made and said I was a real coffee drinker, you have my heart

The Look Book Goes to Neighborhoods Under Federal Occupation

nobody is more critical of NATO that someone living very very safely under its security umbrella www.politico.eu/article/cath...

firmly in our offseason derangement phase here on politics bluesky

lmao

ordering some christmas decorations from ukraine and just rolling the dice on a potential tariff bill at the end of it 😮‍💨

this weekend was the big closing weekend of the maryland renaissance fair ……. so

Well there goes that one

The fact that they STILL agreed to another meeting makes the reports that this meeting was a huge disaster feel less impactful

the Ukrainian cause asks world leaders to provide support unilaterally in order to save lives without getting anything in return - arguably the highest calling of statecraft. for many people that is actually distasteful

you really just feel the cynicism and cruelty of our age in reporting language like this. the sincerity and seriousness and principle of the Ukrainian cause has always rubbed a certain set of people the wrong way *because* it is sincere and serious and principled

Even in this place, I feel the sheer scale of foreign aid being demolished isn't fully appreciated. As it stands, it is perhaps *the* most catastrophic change to preventable deaths in our lifetimes, and the salience - even in presumably friendly spaces - is basically zero apnews.com/article/myan...

you really just feel the cynicism and cruelty of our age in reporting language like this. the sincerity and seriousness and principle of the Ukrainian cause has always rubbed a certain set of people the wrong way *because* it is sincere and serious and principled

foreign policy media is so insufferable - the quote "since Kyiv learned there could only be 'one diva' in the room" is such an insane way to describe ukraine's leadership trying to get a support for a war brutalizing its civilian population www.politico.eu/article/ukra...

it’s time to draft randy clarke wamu.org/story/25/10/...

If I was an NYC voter and my mayoral race was this constantly dominated by media demands of candidates' views on completely unrelated foreign policy issues I would be furious

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You probably cannot afford a car, and you almost certainly can't afford not to have one. This is the definition of a policy failure.

any time there is set to be a storm dc area weather reporters will hype it up to the point where you don’t make plans in anticipation of bad weather and it’s often like half as bad as anticipated

watched the “the post” tonight and it is wild how terribly it has aged

It is frankly strange to be this obsessed with college if you no longer attend one and do not work in education. More people in legacy media need to be told that.

No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...