The @washingtonpost.com can't even cancel my subscription without messing up. What is Bezos good at, again?

Power is out, has been out for hours, at Tyson’s Corner mall. Nordstrom has power and is open, but nothing else.

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We should all be yelling at our state officials about the complete insanity of posting vital emergency information *exclusively* on Twitter/X and/or Facebook in 2025. There is absolutely NO good excuse for this. Many, many people don’t use those platforms. Many never did.

I hope Elon Musk does try to make a new party, and that he figures out what has to happen first to make it fly…

I had such a sad reaction to this exclamation point. This will be my second season of not watching #Nats games because I finally got around to canceling cable. It’s just too expensive to justify. I’d pay a reasonable amount to watch my team but not if it requires me to pay for a whole cable package.

Tomorrow in the NYT: I voted for Donald Trump because I hate the people he hates and wanted to see them suffer. Now that I am suffering, why can’t you find it in your heart to be sympathetic? RUDE

Let it be noted that on the day Trump portrayed the United States as in deadly peril from which it needed to be "saved" it was prosperous, at peace and experiencing no civil strife following an election accepted as democratic by Trump himself. /5

Virginians -- since our AG Jason Miyares didn't sue, the judges order doesn't apply to us. He's up for re-election this year...

And the last guys to fight a civil war left very clear instructions on how to avoid the next one in the 14th amendment: (1) make sure everybody born here is a citizen (2) if states abridge voting rights, cut their seats in Congress (3) don't let insurrectionist hold public office

You mean Trump got a whole bunch of people to give him lots of money and power and then left them out in the cold? www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/s...

Those of us who couldn’t feel our toes until Valentine’s Day after the jam-packed, joyous inauguration of President Obama, suspect this move indoors may be driven more by the prediction of a relatively thin crowd, rather than the cold.

There’s no panacea to fix US politics, but proportional representation in the House would be a big positive step, and it is attainable. It goes well with #RankedChoiceVoting but either one could also be adopted on its own. #giftlink #proportionalrepresentation www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Folks are reacting to what they think this article will say, but in fact it recognizes that the non-story was due to preparation. Here’s a #giftlink “… Mr. Loeb soon learned that it had been “a serious problem, and how seriously it was taken by serious people.””

What I really appreciated about Rickey Henderson was that he kept playing even when he was only a marginal major leaguer. He wasn’t worried about tarnishing his “legacy.” If I were barely good enough to play in MLB, I would. Rickey wasn’t too proud. He loved to play. #RickeyHenderson #RIP

Where’s my ring? #Nationals https://www.mlb.com/news/michael-soroka-nationals-free-agent-contract?partnerID=mlbapp-iOS_article-share

I finally listened to this episode of #ExplainItToMe about #RankedChoiceVoting. It was good and balanced, but I think it ended on an unnecessary downer, with the questioner (William from Richmond Va #RVA) acting as if the positives had been debunked. They weren’t. https://overcast.fm/+AAFOOT6g3Xo

Yes to all three of these. Informed by #2, isn’t it also humane to recognize that in a capitalist economy it’s not up to the CEOs to carry on their business in a humane way? They need to obey the laws but otherwise maximize profits. It’s on us, the people, to make the rules. We allow the inhumanity.

Some good #Nationals news!

It is exhausting having to research and figure out everything from black plastics to best ventilation practices to COVID vaccine schedules, I know this is a wild idea but have we thought about creating publicly funded government bodies that could manage and regulate this stuff on our behalf

Can the #Commanders play the #Titans every week?

I hope he’s committed to this as much in his second term as he was in his first. https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/245884-trump-i-would-rarely-leave-the-white-house/

The @washingtonpost.com gets this right. The setbacks in some state referenda were unfortunate, but people who try #RankedChoiceVoting like it and want to keep it. It doesn’t favor either party over the other. It doesn’t fix every problem either, but it makes politics better. wapo.st/49aZAyZ

Hi Blueskyers. I run the organization @protectdemocracy.org which aims to do just that. Over the past decade we’ve won countless cases to protect voters and truth, helped pass legislation, and unfortunately predicted much of what’s happened. Follow and repost so we can keep doing that here.

Anyway, this kind of abuse of government power is going to get much worse and it’s essential that we keep rubbing the noses of the shitbirds and the useful idiots in it

#ArlingtonVA residents! Weigh in here to support #RankedChoiceVoting It was nice being able to vote for your favorite without having to worry about spoilers, right? #RCV

Part of the project of the next four years must be holding Senators responsible for the nominees they confirm. #giftlink https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/well/dr-oz-health-medicare-record.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bk4.7eVq.6pxAn1DJtffX&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

These Trump Cabinet nominations. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people

Boom. I think this is final from #Alaska. #RankedChoiceVoting survives by 664 votes. Still unofficial, but now a big enough margin that it seems likely to survive. #RCV www.elections.alaska.gov/results/24GE...

Whoa, maybe the best news of the evening is that, as the last few votes are counted in #Alaska, "no" just pulled ahead to save #RankedChoiceVoting from a repeal effort (50.03%, with 98.8% of the vote counted). This may let Sen. #Murkowski keep her spine against MAGA. #RCV

Looking at election results for #ArlingtonVA. 130,522 ballots cast out of 189,605 registered voters: 69%. That means 59,083 registered voters did not vote. Some, presumably, moved away or died. 69% is better than most of the USA, but it still seems low. What would it take to get it to 80%? 90%?

Hi Doug -- Cooking grease, yes. Just try to keep it inside a paper ball or something like that or even surrounded by leaves. Grease from your 1973 Gremlin, no. Thanks for asking.

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/how-to-dispose-of-cooking-oil-at-home/ Hey @arlingtondes.bsky.social , it’s okay (good, even?) to put grease in with the organics, bound for the green cart, right? (Of course, reuse is best.)

#Arlington residents, register your support for #RankedChoiceVoting here. This year’s election went smoothly. It could still be improved (by releasing all permutations of votes earlier so it doesn’t play into the fiction that #RCV necessarily causes delays), but it’s worth keeping and expanding.

“It wasn’t the economy, it was the disinformation about the economy. That disinformation successfully led voters across the country to believe they were worse off, despite October reporting in The WSJ and elsewhere that we have the best economy in the world, a remarkable recovery from Covid.”

Obama: "You know why gas was so cheap? Because there was a global lockdown during covid and nobody was driving, and he's talking about it like it was the good old days!"

Trump supports measles AND tooth decay. We really do live in the dumbest timeline

Can we talk about how awful Trump's presidency was? It can be easy to forget. Some might want to forget, but day after day there was a new crisis at the expense of the American people. We need a reminder, so I’m breaking down some of his worst moments in this thread:

Folks considering canceling their @washingtonpost.com subscriptions because of #Bezos’s meddling should really consider taking out their frustration on another Amazon property instead, since that’s what Bezos was trying to protect.

It’s so sad when you realize that Ulysses S. Grant never got to log into his computer with a PIV card and PIN.

I never paid attention when #Trump was just a tabloid clown, a TV clown, a birther clown. Nice to have everything in one place. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/us/politics/trump-scandals.html?unlocked_article_code=1.T04.GakT.UUy29-MlOqyN&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Will people allow themselves to be fooled by this? Share widely.

At this point, anyone who can’t bring themselves to vote for Harris and Walz should just decide to stay home. Sit this one out, or leave that one blank. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-fascist-general-woodward-book-b2627972.html

Ohio has a chance this year to stick up for itself against the “Hillbilly Elegy” insults of its own Senator Vance and the MAGA candidate, TFG, who it supported for President in 2016 and 2020. How much will #Ohioans put up with? https://wapo.st/4gWOilx#Ohioans#Ohio

Some introspection from folks being counted on by MAGA racists could go a long way. https://wapo.st/482GNFJ Nice reporting here, @washingtonpost.com