What happens when a museum decides it's just an "organization"?

idk maryland state highway administration maybe there is a solution that isn't "destroy $26k in flexposts every time you need to plow old georgetown road"

Whoa. I'm just going to stare at this for the next hour. From the 1963 Birmingham campaign. HT: @revchrisdavis.bsky.social

Assume Quinn is right that it's more efficient to have multiple people specialize in a portion of one reporter's job. He is saying making reporting into a game of telephone — with an AI hallucination machine added in to several steps on the way — will produce higher quality, accurate reporting.

this is basically my takeaway from reading City Power: focus on delivering good services and making people’s lives better and your economy will grow. DC has invested in this over the past 20 years and MoCo, tbh, has been coasting

for decades Montgomery County’s growth came, in part, from upwardly mobile families in DC moving there. that hasn’t been the case for a while: DC’s property taxes are lower, commutes are shorter, new homes are being built, there’s more to do— dclocal.substack.com/p/how-and-wh...

Am I going to be the only one to suggest that firing a public school teacher for speaking out on a matter of public concern raises profound First Amendment issues, and we should pause before cheering on such actions when that power can be weaponized against progressive teachers in red places? 1/3

Even better: The Continuous Sidewalk. ​Instead of forcing people to step down into the street, we make the cars step up into the pedestrian space. It prioritizes the person walking or rolling, keeps the path level for accessibility, and physically forces drivers to slow down.

Only on a Silver Spring parents listserv will you get "It's bar mitzvah planning time. Can anyone recommend a caterer for Ethiopian food?"

wake up homie, new culture war just dropped

Biden was the most economically progressive president since LBJ at least, he pursued a full-employment economy at huge political risk, it worked spectacularly. And what happened is that the entire progressive universe decided that he must not have done any of it, or else he would have been popular

1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.

This is not a genuine Frog and Toad quote.

In a secret deportation arrangement, the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home countries, to Cameroon. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message: - the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next - a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9

WE SHOULD LEARN TO SPEAK IN A LANGUAGE THAT RICH PEOPLE WHO DON'T DREAM CAN'T COMPREHEND.

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

When the subtitle is actually the headline: “In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

It's corny as hell but the solution to fascism is loving thy neighbor

The Banner announces coverage of Washington sports

This comma causes me almost physical pain. @politico.eu @politico.com

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist. Cool. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

Kristi Noem has to go. Gregory Bovino has to go. Stephen Miller has to go.

Me: *puts on a movie* *soundtrack starts on a black screen* 6yo: "What are we watching, Dad?" Me: *whispering* "I amar prestar hen" 6yo: "Whut?" Me: *whispering* "Han mathon ne nen" 6yo: "What are you saying?" Galadriel's voice: *whispering* "I amar prestar hen..." / "The world has changed..."

He got out after 3 months in an ICE gulag.

If you haven't seen the 1995 Superbowl Halftime Show, you really should Unsure? Do the words "Indiana Jones Halftime Show" mean anything to you? m.youtube.com/watch?v=wjXS...

sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

Another useful guide from your friends at Buckinghamshire Archives

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

If you haven’t already, delete your TikTok

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

I don't really know what a moor is. A French person once asked me what moors are and I said, "I don't know, I think it's like a bog or something" and a nearby Englishman got so angry that he almost punched me. #WutheringHeightsDiscourse

Good morning to everyone who knows there used to be a Montgomery County Gazette for local news (including coverage of high school sports) but Jeff Bezos's Washington Post killed it in 2015.

Worth noting that this response actually concedes that what Pritzker said is true.

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

It is currently 'packs of coyotes walking across the Charles River' cold outside.

On this day in 1992, George H.W. Bush sent a memo to all White House staff about how fat his dog was

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring

How it started. How it's going.

After the first line, I filled in "I want to solve it aaall niiight loooong"

They closed the CIA World Factbook and deleted it entirely.

(2019) THE OLYMPICS: OK Italy, we're giving you 2026, can you pull it off? ITALY: Yes, we just have to build one arena, very easy, the easiest of any Olympics (2026) THE OLYMPICS: OK we're here! how is that one arena looking? ITALY: (sitting at a cafe, reading a newspaper) mi scusi????

How many of these history myths did you think were real? Catchy details and clean stories can quietly replace what evidence shows. From Vikings to Newton, Wikipedia’s list of common misconceptions debunks myths we’ve heard since childhood.  🧵⬇️ (1/8)

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…