when i see sniping about different parts of the democratic party i think about the time when I was in college in a swing state and the local dems sent Paul Newman in as a surrogate and none of us had really heard of him. When they lost the youth vote he got mad and called us entitled on tv

Gregg gets it correct here. “New OMB grant rule” sounds nerdy. But this is a huge and insane plan. This is the Trump admin writing down their goal of fundamentally changing the relationship between government and society. Funding for everything will be taken over. 1/

In-town pool 4: Miller gaggle White House adviser Stephen Miller reacted to Thursday's Supreme Court decisions on immigration, saying the U.S. is completely closed to asylum seekers and Haitian refugees who received temporary protected status should leave the country. (1/10)

every hometown’s got the ominous megastructure, what’s yours? www.theguardian.com/world/2010/j...

you've raged your last machine

Little known fact, the ?utm parameter in URLs stands for "under this manifesto", an explicit nod to Karl Marx

this supposed incident took place 20 minutes after i saw them let a white guy with a bag of knives go

was trying to figure out why im a bit sore today and my phone let me know there were multiple days in the last week, including yesterday, when i walked roughly a half marathon

man i had the weirdest drea--oh wait

i just watched this back, does he totally flub the diction on the last "vincero" or is it just me lol

Latest in "DC's adventures with the National Guard": the Guard deployments appear to have expanded to include troops from Michigan, Minnesota, and North Carolina. As far as I know these are the only NG troops from states with Dem governors to be sent here

I WAS TOLD THIS WAS A NONPARTISAN MILLI VANILLI CONCERT WTF

if you missed the thread as it happened picture this in your head then click thru

also icymi, other than a weird section of fencing that seems like it's probably for the upcoming fireworks, there does not appear to be fences going up at the reflecting pool let alone covered ones

also icymi, other than a weird section of fencing that seems like it's probably for the upcoming fireworks, there does not appear to be fences going up at the reflecting pool let alone covered ones

if you missed the thread as it happened picture this in your head then click thru

what the fresh hell is this

lol I just walked by Bill Cassidy for the first time in a long while

Trump wanted Pamela Evette to become the governor of South Carolina and endorsed her before the primary. But just a few days ago, at the 11th hour, realizing Evette was about to lose badly, he *also* endorsed her opponent Alan Wilson. Indeed, Wilson is crushing Evette all around the state.

god do I have to go down there and see if the tarps are real

DC pub trivia team names this week: why did they let my landlord renovate the reflecting pool, I went to the reflecting pool and all I got is this yeast infection, DC ducks (👏👏), all-gea lives matter, what like it’s hard?, four seasons 2.0

we are clearly biased but seeing art live - a punk show, a symphony, an art exhibit, whatever - is a beautiful opportunity

we all feel you, star that almost exploded in 2024 and might still explode, we all feel you.

ok who wants to hire me to write about my viral busnapping, the current physical state of our nations capital, and the American public's extreme hunger for real-life metaphors for what it feels like to live through this moment in time

when republicans start their inevitable whining about people making a big deal over the paint peeling algae infested reflecting pool remind them who made it a big deal in the first place lol

can not believe i missed the pocket sized version of the comparison between the reflecting pool and the skyscrapers that trump pulled out to a couple of bewildered farmers lol

The crazy thing is that for most of my life I would go ten, fifteen, sometimes even thirty minutes at a time without thinking about the Reflecting Pool.

whew boy

1. Park Police chase leads to fatal crash 2. Charges in fatal crash dropped by USAO this story is ceaselessly infuriating

of course DC has a grateful dead coverband called the jerrymanders

a chunk of the social media manager community on LinkedIn was pretty pissed about this today (rightfully)

it is turning out that i have to be very careful to remember if i am wearing this or not when i leave the house

literally the same people that were out there the other day just in a frog suit this time

regarding the 350 foot gash made with a knife (i don't think it exists, but the park police LETTING A GUY GO after finding him with a knife SUDDENLY SEEMS MORE NEWSWORTHY)

this is great www.instagram.com/timeforthree...

monday after a three-day weekend beginning on a friday hits harder than tuesday after a three-day weekend including monday in this essay i will

Using criminal charges to scapegoat innocent people for the regime’s mistakes is about as authoritarian as it gets. www.reuters.com/world/us/peo...

the other night Raphael Warnock, who still flies home to preach at Ebenezer Baptist in Atlanta most weekends, referred to Vance as "the other guy on a book tour about religion" and then laid into him about all the ways he doesn't practice what he preaches

yeah unfortunately the point at which security agents started manufacturing crimes to so they could arrest people to support the delusions of a single personalist ruler was the point at which the story stopped being silly heavy-handed metaphor and started being of real concern

Since March, Vivek Ramaswamy has traveled to Portugal, Greece, the Bahamas, Port Clinton and Akron aboard the new private jet that he worked hard to hide ownership of. Full logs, here: www.rooster.info/p/vivek-rama...

pretty much all of the renovated monuments, etc. have their own armed guards I also saw a group of soldiers standing in a circle around Christopher Columbus at Columbus Circle yesterday

The wizard is attending a relief printing class at the library. He's sketching a simple design.

DHS has also been at the reflecting pool for WEEKS now

what do you think the news would have looked like if Joe Biden sent this many forces to Wyoming or something

ok it is great timing for me to have meditation class right now lol sorry everybody #freedc

hi please stop tagging me re: pictures and stuff of the dead duck

there is a woman at Union station right now with a small pig

I’m pretty sure I’d be at 6 figures of followers or more if I just had quote tweets turned on and let OTHER people turn my pics and videos into this kind of shit, but this is exactly why I don’t

this is a regular thing