among the takeaways: - Crime fell in D.C. as MPD headcount was *at its smallest size in half a century* - the national guard presence only lowered property crime and not violent crime, for a much higher cost than using MPD

Call it a hunch but I think the last CoD failed because it wasn’t fun, not Fortnite skins…

Our markets are divorced from reality.

‘Cost savings from AI are broadly falling short of projections, according to a new Bain & Co. global survey of large companies. The missed targets “should be making executives uncomfortable.”’ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I’m proud to have the endorsement of the workers who keep this city running. As Mayor, I’ll stand with DC workers for fair contracts, respect for collective bargaining, and making sure our budget reflects the value of your work.

Let’s be clear about Delaney Hall. A private, for-profit detention center run by GEO Group. Their business model is making money off human beings. Their incentive isn’t dignity. It isn’t fairness. It isn’t even deportation. Their incentive is keeping beds full and keeping the money flowing.

I love I Love Boosters

“Oh so you’re always saying the Democrats need to get younger and are a gerontocracy but suddenly you’ll reverse that if the old person kicks ass and the younger candidate sucks?” Yeah I guess, that seems to make sense to me

anecdotally, not a single rank-and-file liberal I know has any appetite for the anti-trans campaign (especially those with kids), and any overture to protect trans kids is always met with wild enthusiasm. Massive disconnect with our officials and media try

chat I can’t take it much longer

Nancy 5/30/26

This is incredible news. Between these guys and Dave Jorgensen all my post faves are freeing themselves from Bezos!

Their new girlfriend is women

We need to stop using short hand for why we dislike people. Yes, I think it should be legally impossible to be a billionaire and most of the bad actors destroying our country are billionaire, but everything Steyer has said and his endorsements show he’s a good candidate. Fuck can we just think?!

A judge ordered the removal of President Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, ruling that the iconic Washington venue cannot be renamed without an act of Congress reut.rs/4uKvdte

2 and a half extra hours at Newark Penn with these delays! The Northeast Regional corridor really needs modernizing :(

IS HE CHECKING?!

I feel like OBSESSION is the best movie about shit women deal with made by a man I’ve ever seen. Or at least it’s up there. Damn.

Obsession! Goddamn! What a movie!

"Ah shit misread the text and thought we were getting hammered with et"

HOW ARE YOU DOING SO MUCH GENDER

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

I feel like people forget that at this level of filmmaking you have a whole team of professionals. Like Ryan Coogler isn’t personally designing every set or framing each shot, he *directs* his team of artists. So yes, Parsons has a lot of help, but that’s normal!

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

God visited Chalamet and said “an Oscar or the knicks I can’t do both”

Adding to Tom Steyer discourse

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Bluesky is the less brain rotted site right…? Because the number of people who think this is some mission impossible mask is too high. So it’s perfectly fitted to the face, the actor has really close eyes like the admiral, but everything about the mask is perfect but the neck seam is loose? Ffs

McDuffie supporters relying on a frighteningly nativist line of attacks in these last few weeks of campaigning. If you live in DC, don’t rank McDuffie. His supporters are used to a political machine in DC that funnels wealth upwards to old money and government officials. They can’t lose that.

Spending more time on X makes one more right-wing. There is causal evidence of this!

When I talk about the NYT being a provincial little rag, this is exactly what I mean. They cannot comprehend agriculture in higher education when it is ubiquitous in ag-heavy regions. Our local college is building a big ag center because it’s so popular

Is this not the pitch meeting guy?

This surely cost more than the movie will ever make

Homelander tearfully explains that her toxic masculinity was a facade and after prayer and therapy, she has decided to start HRT. Her story will continue in The Girls.

Doubters is shambles, The Boys finale fucking rips

Give Anthony Starr a fucking Emmy I mean his last scene? Unbelievable

*gesturing to locked door* my girlfriend is in there. We haven’t met face to face but she’s fluent in Chinese

Shout out to the unphased ASL interpreter signing the whole thing 😂😂😂

NYT/Siena poll on approval of AI Mostly good 16% Neither good nor bad 45% Mostly bad 35% Net: 🔵 DEM: -28 ⚪ IND: -23 🔴 GOP: -5 18-29: -30 30-44: -31 45-64: -17 65+: -6 Men: -10 Women: -28 18-29: -30 30-44: -31 44-64: -17 65+: -6 White -19 Black -25 Hispanic -10 College -9 Non college -26

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

Bizarre little men. You're still in control of the board.

Losing my mind at this Brooke Pinto ad where she says making housing affordable is her priority. Except that’s something the DC congressional representative can’t really affect aside from talk about. She’s truly just throwing buzzwords out lol Anyhow vote for Robert White

Paul Reubens did a perverted thing but he did it at, like, the pervert store! Idk it’s like arresting someone for fishing in a bass pro shops, there are fish and a river! I’m just supposed to look?!

Josh Safdie, we will remember your crimes

Obviously the Reeves movies are much more thoughtful than either cinematic universe, but its so cool that DC keeps hiring Marvel Studios talent and gives them a lot more artistic freedom and juicier roles than Disney ever bothered to.

“Male Socialization” of trans femmes isn’t a real thing. Invoking it just shows you’re a bozo trying to misgender us. Trans people were never really socialized as our AGAB. At best, we were pressured to mimic norms that gave us dysphoria. It’s an obvious TERF / Blanchardist dog whistle. Do better.