What Has the Guard Surge Actually Done for D.C.? Every week, I try to summarize the D.C. crime stats, because we only seem to talk about crime in cities when the numbers get worse, not when they're getting… https://mikethemadbiologist.com/2026/06/03/what-has-the-guard-surge-actually-done-for-d-c/

You might think the curb cut is there to improve accessibility for cyclists, wheelchair users, and anyone who wants to be able to wheel their grocery cart or suitcase. Wrong! This apparently benign component of urban design is a terrible menace. Thank god for President Donald J Trump

Another Great Week for D.C. Crime Stats Mostly. The great news is, as of 9am today, D.C. had another week without any homicides, …... https://mikethemadbiologist.com/2026/06/05/another-great-week-for-d-c-crime-stats/

I assume it is so they can keep an eye on the Dangers

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. Internally called “NameTag,” it’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.

This back to back standing thing seems to be something new. I see it all the time now around Dupont Circle too. It’s really funny when there are four of them because they’re all like a foot apart but not facing each other.

I love serviceberry and mulberry season in DC. It’s delicious and we are lucky @ddotdc.bsky.social and neighbors plant fruit trees :). Also, 10 months of military occupation is exhausting, and everything about the Federal District is a tacky dystopian mess.

Whether you find the story credible or not it is so messy and unfair to make victims litigate abuse through the press. State parties and other official bodies should have investigative processes led by independent victim advocates.

LFG!

“This is one reason why we see the National Guard patrolling some of the safest neighborhoods in D.C.”

This is so embarrassing

Brief bio of US Senate candidate (David Costello) who has the least baggage and the background, reform agenda, and experience to defeat Susan Collins. Money, press attention, and voter recognition won’t be an issue post primary #MEpolitics mainedems.org/primaryvoter...

anyway shout out to the guy just straight up lying down on the senate steps, we feel u

Timeline cleanse: handses! Video captured on my after-work walk today in Acadia NP, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot territory. Be sure not to mistake the tail for a lily pad.

The public needs to fully understand the repercussions of giving RFK Jr. access to identifiable medical records from 90% of the U.S. population. He is a eugenicist who wants to “reparent” Black childen, send people with mental illness to “wellness camps”, and to take away anti-depressants.

I'm almost sure if the new rules are enacted, Vought will blanket terminate all grants issued pre-2025. The new rules stated all grants must align with presidential priorities, and they can terminate grants any time. You can see it from a mile away. Submit a comment against it!

ALRIGHT EVERYONE HERE IS THE OFFICIAL SUFS GUIDE TO LEAVING PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THE OMB-2026-0034 PROPOSED RULE: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-advocacy/the-sufs-guide-to-writing-public-comments (share with all your friends!)

This makes me miss my Great Dane. I laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes. 🤣😂😂😭😭 #GreatDane

Prehistoric-sounding crane calling in the sagebrush. Is this a Sandhill Crane? I didn’t want to get closer in case it had a nest. 🌿🤗

genuinely stunned that a major financial institution is not joining the rush to fast-track SpaceX into index funds and your retirement account

The fundamental underlying problem in Maine is multiple younger-than-Mills normie libs deciding to run redundant longshot-at-best campaigns for governor because they were too chickenshit to challenge Collins in what is going to be something like a D +10 context

Links 6/4/26 Links for you. Science: ‘Corpse Point’ In the Arctic Is Melting, Disturbing Centuries-Old Bodies What The Fuck Is Happening With This Fish…...

Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat

It's amazing that Trump could've just done nothing and would've benefited (again) from an improving economy, but he made a big show of Shaking Things Up and here we are.

If you want to find people who might be a bit more aggressive in the research community, you need people with less institutional and social buy-in: grad students, postdocs, people on short term contracts. They're not going to have access to much in the way of resources though. A fun paradox.

🚨SSE members: check your inbox!🚨 SSE has sent an important email regarding the OMB's proposed overhaul of federal grant regulations--changes that could affect peer review, publishing, conferences, professional societies, international collaborations, and more. @sse-evolution.bsky.social

Among the wild things about this: Unitarian Universalists (4, albeit separate groups at the time) and Deists (arguably 2) were represented among the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Those are among the groups reportedly now excluded from faith codes. www.military.com/dod-official...

I guess they found the votes, but one Dem not showing up eliminated the opportunity to force JD Vance to affirmatively vote to keep the slush fund alive, good work people

WOW. The New Jersey AG has charged an Essex County Prosecutor’s Office sergeant for allegedly stealing a photojournalist’s camera equipment while the journo was at a hospital being treated for injuries she suffered outside Delaney Hall. The bag had an air tag and was tracked to the cop's house.

building this on gaudi's grave

New in PN: Why does the media ignore Trump’s madness? "The president frequently demonstrates a level of malignancy that still manages to shock. He doesn’t try to hide it, but the mainstream press covers his disordered thinking as a colorful 'quirk' rather than an escalating threat to the nation."

Like literally they were like "the dumbocrats want to spend MILLIONS on PARTY BALLOONS" and passed a law eliminating the reserve and now a couple decades later there are gonna be crippling economic problems because you need helium to make computer chips.

Though the Treasury Department of the 1860s (not a typo) was pretty bad too...

“Troops are largely carrying out what are called "high visibility patrols" to make their presence known around federal property & in residential areas, parks & city metro stations in an effort to free up D.C. police to redeploy to higher-crime areas. The report found that generally hasn't happened.“

this was fun to do www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-82...

fwiw, I wrote about this yesterday: mikethemadbiologist.com/2026/06/03/w...

Platner’s sexting scandal has been a bat-signal for misogyny among certain “progressive” men. Ken Kippenstein called his critics and other mainstream Democrats “smoothgroins.” Kyle Kulinski said Platner could sext his mother. I wrote about it all here: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-men-defe...

"Three scientific papers that raised questions about vaccine safety and were used by the Trump administration to justify controversial changes to US vaccine policies have ... been removed, retracted or placed under investigation ..." www.theguardian.com/science/2026... via @bymichellersmith.com

fwiw, I wrote about this yesterday: mikethemadbiologist.com/2026/06/03/w...

Dropping large brass spheres on the floor at 2am is a sacred ritual in upstairs neighbor culture

Endorse.

Sign of the Times Observed on Logan Circle NW, D.C.: https://mikethemadbiologist.com/2026/06/04/sign-of-the-times-14/

The Post's voter guide is always helpful in getting the candidates on the record on big issues: Among other things, I noted McDuffie says he now doesn't support congestion pricing. He told @ggwash.org earlier this year that he did. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...

There was a similar situation highlighted yesterday by @alexkoma.bsky.social: McDuffie told @ggwash.org that he favors congestion pricing, and then told the Post that he doesn't. bsky.app/profile/alex...

This snippet highlights a challenge for some D.C. voters deciding between McDuffie and Lewis George. They've told me they don't know what McDuffie believes, that he seems to sway in the wind. And they say Lewis George seems too ideological and tied to the DSA line.

A D.C. mayoral race tidbit 🧵: Recently opponents of @janeese4dc.bsky.social have criticized her for saying in a questionnaire that she supports safe-injection sites as a response to the opioid crisis. @kenyanmcduffie.bsky.social has slammed her, calling them part of "ideological wish lists."

More crap for the list of 'Let's destroy Science today' 🤬 @cdelawalla.bsky.social @standupforscience.net White House reclassifies federal epidemiologists and other scientists from civil servants to “at-will” hires www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

Small dick energy is strong here.

I have a longer thing I'm working on about this, with more data and stuff, but the key thing folks need to know: anyone on the left *CANNOT WIN* with any kind of content on platforms where the right owns the algorithm. Not just in politics — in entertainment media, or anything else.

hot-dog-man.gif but with undercooked hotdogs.