TODAY: PEN Guild heads to arbitration over POLITICO’s contract-breaking use of AI. This fight could set the standard for how AI is used in newsrooms across the country. ✍️ Sign our petition and help us go into arbitration with full support: bit.ly/PENGuild

Politico’s new AI product has generated garbled or made-up Washington intelligence, including a lobbying effort by a fictional basket-weaver guild, the outlet’s unionized staff has complained.

Is there any place as hot and humid as D.C. where such a large portion of the workforce is expected to wear dark suits year-round?

All hail the ‘Next Generation Streetcar,’ a bus www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Politico has rules about AI in the newsroom. Staffers say those rules have been violated—and they’re gearing up for a fight. www.wired.com/story/politi...

The Senate is currently voting on a motion to table the point of order that points of order are not in order This right after voting against a motion to table a point of order, on the grounds that points of order are not in order

Is ‘Beltway Series’ really the official name for a Nationals-Orioles series? Why not ‘Parkway Series?’ Or ‘MARC Series?’

Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion

Confirmation hearings for the new Pope will be LIT

Can't believe I got snubbed once again www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

Something about how 'budget' has at least two meanings in DC, and neither one is actually granting money to be spent

Happy Budget Day to all who celebrate

NEW: Elon Musk committed $100 million in 2021 for a contest to advance tech that removes CO2 from the air or sea. On Wednesday, the climate competition's winners are being feted — with a dark MAGA shadow over them. “People are going to hear Musk and just walk away.” www.eenews.net/articles/elo...

Can super PACs directly contribute to papal candidates or does it have to be an arm's-length, non-coordinated spending kind of deal?

'I suggest the absence of a quorum' sounds so passive aggressive

Whoever trains every single congressional witness to obsequiously thank every senator for every question needs to stop

Reporters who never go to the Capitol except to get their badges renewed = people who only go to church for Christmas and Easter

Your April Fools Day joke is bad and you should feel bad

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has thoughts on the future face of Mount Rushmore from @hroxaner.bsky.social subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

‘Deal or No Deal Island’ sounds like a Jack Donaghy concept

No new national secrets on Signal this morning 🙁

It implies the existence of a Houthi PC large group, and I shudder to think about who's in that

Feel free to add me to sensitive Signal group chats strategizing on national policy decisions timothycama.29

Love to add things to my to-do list as I do them and cross them off immediately

‘[sic]’ is so passive aggressive

A look at FERC amid Trump's move to assert power over independent agencies and fire Democrats subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene... via @eenews.bsky.social's A.J. Camacho

American Clean Power Association sponsoring a Breitbart event this morning

BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Trump EPA move to claw back $20B in climate grants. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Seems like this will either lead to unprecedented transparency into a powerful new force in government or a new binding appellate precedent on what counts as presidential records exempt from FOIA

This is maple sugaring weather

DST is not actually ’saving’ any daylight It’s just robbing daylight from the morning and redistributing it to the evening

It’s like the ‘Don’t have to be a member of the House to be speaker’ fun fact, but they actually did it www.npr.org/2025/03/09/n...

Is this why the vibes are so off?

Energy Secretary Chris Wright is expected to deliver a message this week about ending energy poverty in Africa, days after the Trump administration eviscerated a 12-year-old initiative called Power Africa that was created to do just that. www.eenews.net/articles/wri...

Joint session/SOTU has my favorite red carpet A bit too much Jos A. Bank though

Crazy idea for a SOTU/Joint Session response: One that actually responds to the speech that was given, not a prewritten response to the vibes

Selective transparency is just PR

Not every subreddit needs a circle jerk subreddit

Perennial reaction to the news

No, I don’t want you to summarize my texts

Kind of ruins it when Law & Order flat out tells you what real events it’s based on

Daughter was shocked to learn today that ‘nonchalant’ isn’t a new word created by Gen Alpha

NEW: A group that received a $2B climate grant is spending $539 million — even as EPA tries to claw back those funds. I spoke w/ Power Forward Communities’ CEO about the plan to use Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund $ for energy efficient housing. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Make RSS Great Again

Anecdotally, I'm noticing fewer instances of gen AI completely making up cases to cite, and more instances of it citing real cases but completely making up their holdings

Fireside must have real fires I don't make the rules (And roundtables must be at tables that are round)

What am I missing about RECAP/CourtListener? Seems like it's doing, for free, what PACER charges 10¢ per page for And RECAP/CourtListener has a much better interface

Deficit-neutral reserve fund season is one of my favorite seasons

From my colleagues @timothycama.bsky.social & @ameliadavidson.bsky.social @eenews.bsky.social subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...