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Waiting for the rapture

This sign wasn’t on my bingo card.

Federal judge tosses Trump's lawsuit against the @nytimes.com, less than four days after it was filed. The ruling calls the lawsuit "improper and impermissible." Trump is allowed to refile a new, shorter complaint if he wants.

Just thinking about the 2005 film “V for Vendetta” today for some reason…

@amtrak.com - love the Quiet Car. But can you look into a “No Finance Bros Will Talk About Crypto All The Way To NYC” car next, please?

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Is the big red line going down a good thing, or no?

Fascinating new press release from the WH trumpeting "President Trump’s Top 100 Victories for People of Faith." The list includes: "Keeping Men out of Women's Sports," "Restoring Biological Truth," "Strengthening our Military," "Ending DEI," and "Supporting Israel."

BREAKING: Federal prosecutors said today they went to a grand jury twice to indict a D.C. woman for assaulting an FBI agent during an arrest by ICE — and were twice rejected. Notably, she faces the same charge as the District's alleged sandwich thrower. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

I would read the hell out of an @xkcd.com post about the physics of tossing a submarine sandwich at a federal agent. Like, from what distance and at what velocity would it be enough to cause serious bodily harm, or death...or would it simply disintegrate. Do condiments add structural integrity?

What DC bar has the best/funniest “federal takeover” drink specials?

Breaking News: A federal appeals court allowed Department of Government Efficiency-affiliated teams access to potentially sensitive data on millions of Americans, overruling a lower court that had blocked that access in February.

"Will the President consider giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Big Balls?" - an actual question that was just asked in the White House Press Briefing Room in the year twenty and twenty-five

Trump "painted a dystopian picture of a capital — including 'bloodthirsty criminals' & 'roving mobs of wild youth'” — NYT 2025 "The program for the reconstruction of the Volk & the Reich is determined by the magnitude of the distress crippling our political, moral & economic life.” - Hitler 1933

So, this is actually happening, huh?

Playing around with a Canon R5 MkII and the RF 100-500 L. Camera tech is sooooo good these days.

This morning, ICE sent out a memo offering cash bonuses for quick deportations. The New York Times reached out to DHS about the memo. It then got cancelled. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

very cool that the same chuds screaming about “unqualified DEI hires” are giving ignorant 23-year-olds the power to destroy federal agencies

Elon Musk's anti-woke MechaHitler proudly announces a new contract with the Department of Defense

Connections Puzzle #759 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦

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I mean, not like they were doing much enforcing of this anyway…

I’m gonna run for mayor of DC and a key plank in my platform is that whenever Metro shits the bed, you get your ride automatically refunded.

NEW: Workers at Snopes.com are unionizing because fact-checkers deserve transparency, too! Follow @snopesguild.bsky.social and read their full press release here: newsguild.org/snopes-worke...

NEW from me: A deep dive into OMB Director Russell Vought — specifically, how his plan to reshape the government is rooted in a specific ideology: Christian nationalism. Also, his favorite religious quote from an early president may be, uh…not true. religionnews.com/2025/06/23/r...

Big Balls, we hardly knew ye…

Top Trump lawyer nominated to be a federal judge privately suggested defying court orders, whistleblower says. "Bove stated that D.O.J. would need to consider telling the courts 'fuck you' and ignore any such order." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...

RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999)

The rapid dismantling of USAID remains one of the most consequential outcomes of President Trump’s efforts to overhaul the federal government. Here is how the global aid agency’s demise unfolded.

Sunday’s @nytimes.com front page

“We love you god”

Breaking News: President Trump said that the U.S. had bombed Fordo, Iran’s heavily fortified nuclear facility, as well as two other sites.

Welp

Protesters in all 50 states marched against President Trump's policies on Saturday as Trump held a military parade in Washington. Read more: https://trib.al/JnBJSdw

‘Murica

ea nasir is back baby awooo

I have lost track of how many times I've said "holy shit" under my breath while reading this piece...

In April, President Trump and Salvadoran President Bukele shook hands in the Oval Office to celebrate a deal to ship gang members to the notorious CECOT prison. But a new ProPublica investigation found there’s more to the story. 🧵👇

Very cool that a verified Twitter account apparently claiming to rep DHS has gotten thousands of retweets of its claim of civil war after sharing a stock photo of bricks. bsky.app/profile/roth...

Seeing images of protesters pushing back against federal agents in NYC and LA as tear gas fills the air alongside clips of tanks/military vehicles are being rolling into DC by train (presumably for the upcoming parade) is…quite something.

The Trump administration said it would deploy the National Guard in Los Angeles as immigration agents clashed with protesters for a second consecutive day. Follow live updates. https://trib.al/hNUn74W

Yikes.

I don’t know for sure how I want to die, but I am increasingly feeling that it’s going to be from being run over by a family of beefy Nebraskan tourists riding electric scooters on the sidewalk…

NEW: Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner The warm welcome for a technology executive whose purchases of the $TRUMP coin won him a White House tour illustrates inconsistencies in Trump's views toward visitors from China nyti.ms/4mUDTtG

CONCORDE 2.0 BABYyyyyyyyyyyy

Anybody got tracking info on the Abrego Garcia plane?

Missed in the other news of the day, but sad to hear Walter Brueggemann died today. He was someone I read in seminary and shaped a lot of my thinking back then, especially wrestling with my fundamentalist denomination… www.walterbrueggemann.com/2025/06/05/i...