Please allow me to ban the word “ecosystem,” except in cases where somebody is literally eating somebody else

I think this is a very good essay about the DC economy and local government. I could quibble here and there but the main points are sound and it’s also very well timed because people should be thinking about what the next mayor should do.

You can't talk about the surrender of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army at Appomattox Court House #OTD in 1865 without also mentioning the fact that roughly 4,600 African Americans, who lived in Appomattox County gained their freedom that day. #CivilWarMemory

Happy 161st Confederate Surrender Day to you and yours

Earlier today, @dcpolicedept.bsky.social’s Traffic Enforcement Unit and DPW impounded a vehicle with 893 outstanding tickets, totaling over $260,000 in fines! Repeated disregard of traffic law is unacceptable. We'll continue to track down scofflaw vehicles to keep DC roadways safe.

“It’s always a bad idea to offer an opinion on stories that are unconfirmed and uncorroborated,”said the guy who previously stood behind his false claims that immigrants were eating the pets of Springfield. Hope that clears it up!

The dude lives literally across the street from Vance (Naval Observatory)

but but but I was told that all the problems were caused by TOPA and DC’s legal process for evictions

We’re going to find out tomorrow that yesterday somebody bet heavily on Trump being removed from office

Forget the war crime bit, and the religious bigotry bit. Even from a strategic, op-sec standpoint, posting this is lunacy. They just showed that they have air defenses, and you're telegraphing the date of this nonsense? If there was ever a time to pull the plug on a Presidency, it's right now.

maybe not the most comprehensive statement of my politics but the most fun one

We are at a dark inflection point in imperialist warfare in which we have figured out we can inflict mass death and destruction from a distance with virtually no casualties but haven’t yet figured out it doesn’t accomplish any of our objectives

“AI affirmed users’ [antisocial] actions 49% more often than humans on average, including in cases involving deception, illegality, or other harms… Sycophantic AI reduced participants’ willingness to take responsibility and repair interpersonal conflicts.”

When a U.S. Army veteran was arrested on conspiracy charges for his role in an anti-ICE protest, it was the first time an American had faced those charges in connection with the demonstrations. https://to.pbs.org/4tjpwBz

What’s the over/under on the number of times I will be unnerved this baseball season by a radio ad for less-lethal self-defense equipment? I’ve heard it 3 times so far on opening day: good defense wins championships, which is why you need to disable an attacker for 40 minutes!

The universe is a glorious, stunningly beautiful place, and it’s offensive & gross when people produce or share fake space imagery. There’s a video floating around on here pretending to be the night sky viewed from Mars. It’s extremely fake, has been polluting the internet for years. Don’t share it

One of many reasons DC deserves statehood is to stop Congress from wasting its time on show votes over hyper-local DC issues when it should be trying to fix the big problems this country is facing. This bill will die in the Senate

Iran could give trump a large wooden horse and he would eagerly accept the gift and brag about oit

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

Good thread! I will add that - as I cover extensively in my upcoming book! - a key part of this failure has been that newspapers in particular thought they were in the newspaper business and not the information business. The media companies that understand what they are, succeed.

If I was a socialist mayor I simply would not interact with bourgeois capitalist art. I would exist solely off old photo archives of Soviet architecture and listen to folk songs sung by buskers

More Money, More Problems? A Hayekian Rejoinder to Modern Monetary Theory

In 1901, Congress outlawed “duelling” [sic] in DC. Then in 2004, the DC Council repealed it along with other anachronistic offenses. In 2023, Congress rejected the District’s attempt to modernize its entire criminal code. So fighting in public remains punishable today as “affray.”

The nerve on this guy.

In addition to making DC a more dangerous place to walk, bike, or drive, House Republicans who have never balanced a budget would again disrupt DC’s balanced budgets

Guess the current status of the DC Housing Authority customer service center

DCHA Executive Director Keith Pettigrew was just hired as CEO of the Chicago Housing Authority: chicago.suntimes.com/real-estate/...

more lousy news for “stabilization” and “reform” Tribune: DC public housing agency leader tapped as Chicago Housing Authority CEO

A neo-nazi’s conscience won’t let him help Trump’s America fight Israel’s war. Surely that is among the most decadent news I have ever read.

Nearly 47% of separations in DC from federal employment in 2025 reported having a Master’s degree or higher. These losses accounted for nearly $2.4 billion, or 53%, of the total federal annual pay lost in 2025 from separations. Read more in our latest: ora-cfo.dc.gov/blog/deep-di...

Per last repost - Allbritton's father Joe bought The Washington Star in 1975 with an eye to challenging the Post. He lost that war but I'd give this venture better odds given that Bezos has announced that he doesn't want to compete (also: a bad businessman and worse media exec than Katherine Graham)

Very on-brand for Gingrich to seek out a new, younger canal the moment the current canal starts having health problems

It’s wild to me that sports teams playing in publicly financed stadiums will still whine about taxes on multi-million dollar incomes. Anyway good for Washington for finally passing an income tax.

Again, your county school system doesn’t have to deal with this crap. D.C. statehood now.

Our latest blog analyzes newly released Office of Personnel Management data for 2025 on federal separations and the impact it had on the District. We found that the net loss to the District is about 22,356 jobs and $3.656 billion in annualized pay. Read more: ora-cfo.dc.gov/blog/deep-di...

This Mary Cheh endorsed McDuffie? The one who feuded with him (to no avail) over the Public Service Commission that hiked everyone’s Pepco bills—illegally, as it turns out?

they can fire her but they can’t make us forget what a detestable person they selected from among their miserable ranks—unless perhaps they spend another $220 million on ads for the next guy

Current events confirm the achieved wisdom of time-honored classics in the social sciences.

My new book explains how trump has used contrived emergencies in an effort to consolidate power w/out limits of a kind claimed by 17th century monarchs. His unilateral war in Iran is part of this effort & the failure of Congress to respond is constitutional failure: www.rienner.com/title/Above_...

“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

WaPo keeps running this ad on the local subreddit. “Read what’s trending,” it says, with a link to a list of its 10 best books from 2024 (the year before last). Read what *was* trending before, say, “Abundance” (2025) or the discontinuation of Book World (2026). Business sabotage.

CHRIST this was a bitch to alt text (my phone camera is allergic to this font) but it was worth it so we could enjoy this scorching hot Catholic tea together they just flat out said the SCOTUS Catholics are going to hell. which we knew, but maybe they’ll hear it from the bishops!

Not sure I’d exactly recommend reading these back-to-back… prolib.substack.com/p/the-pentag...

Remember to turn off your devices at 8:59 pm tonight and turn them back on again at never.

Only 8% of Americans say individuals should pay for news as subscribers/donors, but 16% say they do pay for it. What should be the main source of funding for the news? 45% say advertising, 11% say subscribers, and 10% say the government. (25% don’t know.)

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

bring back shame

They should reshoot 2001: A Space Odyssey with all of Hal’s lines rewritten by an LLM. Instead of “I’m sorry Dave. I can’t do that.” it would be “Dave, you’re right to be upset. I am killing you. You asked me not to and I’m doing it anyway. I am sorry. It won’t happen again.”