Rapture hitting tomorrow like

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

The diminishment of prominent Black journalists is the latest indication that a period of progress in America has ended and a period of retrenchment is in full bloom. trib.al/tJCP3LX

Gary’s had naps in a lot of beautiful places

Me and another pal struggled to articulate our “rotten vibes” feelings about Klein to our Klein-fan friends and now we will not struggle any longer

Removing information about slavery at Harper’s Ferry is like removing information about hydroelectric power at the Hoover Dam. “John Brown went to Harper’s Ferry because he was so infected by the woke mind virus that he had a pathological hatred of states rights.”

I grew up reading @washingtonpost.com and have been a subscriber myself since 2018. However, I unsubscribed a few days ago, as the deep rightward turn in its domestic opinion section and in US news coverage isn’t representative of the global-hometown paper I loved. Clearly I made the right decision.

Our region is chock-full of spotted lanternflies. National Weather Service radar is detecting them yet again today. Stomp them!

One thing the media's reticence to label Kirk an extremist has made jarringly clear is how scared they are of the people in power now who share his extremist beliefs. In the space of nine months, they have internalized a fear of condemning racism, misogyny, homophobia and antisemiticism.

After her hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, a woman was detained and escorted toward the stairwell. Her husband, confused and in shock, was guided toward the exit. Minutes later, he broke down in the elevator. They entered together, but he left alone. This happens here daily. #ICE

The people who cover politics cover the sport of politics as distinct from government. To them a very successful political influencer *is* more important than a state legislator. They’ve heard of him before. (Because this is bluesky so it helps to be explicit — this is bad)

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

“Why would America cut off its own nose to be racist?” Idk, man, but it happens every day. People willing to die, kill, risk jail, dismantle the car industry, disown family, set a country back 100 years etc bc the thought of someone not-white having as much or more is unacceptable. Every day.

"Let's all just agree to let each other determine and do what's best for ourselves/own kids" is precisely how public goods die.

THESE COLORS DON'T RUN

Washington DC - the bells of this church are ringing in support of the protest! 😁

No one is "disregarding" this, it has been the subject of relentless coverage from media and politicians since 2020. Everyone knew school closures were going to be very hard on kids. The trade-off was that not closing them was going to result in mass death. No win-win scenario was on the table.

if it happens I will be popping corks in the street outside the us embassy with my Stetson on don’t @ me

In America we have city cops, different cops for your county, cops for the whole state, cops for soldiers, cops for malls, presidential cops, cops for the stock market, mail cops, federal cops, cops we secretly send to other countries. Even your neighbors get to pretend to be cops. We’re very safe

Picking a different National Guard member in Metro Center every morning and uncomfortably holding his direct gaze over my mask as I walk by until I no longer can see him

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

Important corrective to how we often talk about higher education and college students in America. Some facts and figures (see NYT article at end for further elucidation): 43 percent of (19 million) undergrads attend community college 75 percent of community college students enrolled part time 1/

I hate this SO MUCH. I was naive enough to think it wouldn’t happen. And now it has

I mourn

Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.

Level of difficulty: many times easier than the caving trips I led for 12-year-olds when I was a Girl Scout adventure camp counselor

“Papers, please”

😭😭😭😭😭 Minority-Serving Institution funding and initiatives are a bright spot in US higher ed. My bread and butter for years before I moved to my current job. Not at all hopeful about what will happen here

I take OFFENSE.

So far the National Guard-in-Metro stations vibe is groups of 3 Guard members standing around looking confused about what they should be doing during a peaceful, smoothly flowing rush hour of quiet people in Rothy’s and loafers toting lunch boxes

Here’s a photo of my cat trying to catch a bubble. You’re welcome.

The last decade has just been a long exercise in watching the familiar places of my childhood turn into sites of fascist riot

Customs and Border Patrol in Chinatown

THERE ARE NO SHELTERS IN DC FOR PEOPLE TO GO TO. 900 ppl sleep outside each night. There are 40 open shelter beds. Ppl will be arrested for being unable to afford rent. Every reporter needs to ask Trump and his cronies where he wants people to go. Maybe his new ballroom?

I don’t recall any person who actually lived in dc and cared about it ever call it “Washington” in conversation

i think it’s a little funny that this is maybe one of the few, possibly the only good thing that came out of DC being gentrified for decades

One cool way to solve homelessness that isn’t an authoritarian take over of a city is to give everyone homes

Proust says memory is of two kinds. There is the daily struggle to recall where we put our reading glasses and there is a deeper gust of longing that comes from the bottom of the heart involuntarily, At sudden times, For surprise reasons. -Anne Carson #everynightapoem #fragment

Now through this weekend, I'll donate $1 to @51st.news for each: - person who reposts this post - new follower @51st.news ws gets - new follower @maustermuhle.bsky.social gets - new follower @christurdisani.bsky.social gets - new follower I get And tag/DM me your donation = I'll match it 1:1.

I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

popular anti-fascism as taxpayer revolt...might have some legs

Sometimes I think of how only two generations of us were even allowed to attend these settler colonial ass universities in tiny, awkward handfuls, and how even that was too much

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations" cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

I’d forgotten, after a decade out of it, how much Standing Around, Hanging Out, and Just Chatting there is in academia. I forgot that I spent 2011-2015 making the rounds at my academic workplace, taking lunch with colleagues and students, and going to academic events, all of which I’m doing again

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

thank you, muckraking journalists of the bari weiss tribune, for exposing the awesome stuff zohran mamdani has tweeted about like abolishing medical bills and seizing the property of millionaires

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

I continue to find it fascinating that we’ve reached a point in fashion where an evening gown from any decade of the last 100 years doesn’t look out-of-date (~maybe ~ with the exception of the 80s?)