I worked with Om briefly when I was at Automattic. He was consistently kind, thoughtful, and a genuine pleasure to work with.

DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YA

We condemn in the strongest terms Governor Walz's willingness to assist Trump with this occupation. The National Guard are not here to protect people; they are here to protect the regime. These soldiers are armed, harassing our children, and detaining people without cause. We want them gone.

Appeals from moderation are arguments from nothing. "We need moderates". Why? To do what? What actual position do you think must be held? The gap left here is, of course, left because outright stating the Position would give the game away.

I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.

A year later, DC residents are still waking up to troops in the streets.

i think the reflecting pool has gone from “haha what a dumb ass” to “appointing a horse to the senate” level of story here

Were I not on a plane I would have jumped up and hollered while reading this.

people don’t realize that if they want DC statehood and to stop our military being deployed in this way, it is on them to *advocate for it* because they have actual representation, and these stupid clickbait accounts are making it all into a passive thing related to whatever is doing numbers today

only a few hundred of the guard deployed here are from DC, the rest of the 5,000 are from your states and almost nobody saying a ding dang word about it

I am flying so much in the next couple of weeks and it turns out Delta has all four John Wick movies in the in-flight library. I am blessed!

I wish people who aren't from DC would drop this messaging line that the National Guard are all standing around doing nothing playing on their phones weeding our flower beds. The National Guard presence is not benign and each Guard member is complicit at this point. 🧵

This is also where it's massing the biggest body count so far. Not of people within the USA, but using plague to kill abroad and letting the angel of death unfurl wings rotten to the bone with decay.

Breaking NYPOST: Graham Platner Caught Sexting With The Algae

You're not supposed to say this, but conservatives hate HPV vaccines because they think that removing the risk of cervical cancer from sex incentives women to be sluts. It's been a Christian thing since way before RFK Jr. was around, everybody knows what it's about, but you have to pretend not to.

🌈 Day 19 🌈 Happy #Juneteenth!

"It is in that .4% that we go to work" is going to be ringing in my ears for a while.

The National Park Service is closing Dupont Circle for DC Pride weekend because Republicans hate joy #FreeDC www.nps.gov/nama/learn/m...

My main carryaway from this isn’t Trump‘s narcissism or his sociopathy, which are expected and known, but his consternation that he is getting asked about it by foreign press. It just shows how little he gets asked by US media, about the dozens of school children he murdered. He expects enablement.

I am once again asking for just a little field that I can use to jot down a note about why I blocked an account. Just for me, so I remember later if I encounter it in the wild.

As I've been saying: The minute Trump drops dead, they're going to spin this narrative that Everything You Hated was Don's fault and this shiny new (white supremacist patriarchal Christian nationalist) future will all be better now that JD + Daddy Thiel are in charge. This is all part of that:

At my kid’s Scouting court of honor, and I am extremely here for the color guard being instructed to post “the colors of The Great District of Columbia.”

Had a comically short video call to get an updated CPAP prescription, facilitated by The Company That Sells CPAP Machines, and I thought about being mad about it, but they are literally just air compressors for your airway, not opioids, and honestly more healthcare things should be this hassle-free.

This whole "prove you're not a vegan and eat some BBQ" thing is the same tiresome right-wing tropes about masculinity. But "I've been eating BBQ since before your first indictment" is an outstanding retort.

Becoming exponentially more religious the more it becomes clear that god will no longer let this man throw a party.

We spend so much time thinking about how awful everything is that we forget Trump and The Turds don't get to decide what America is. I bought a birria ramen and tamale in the supermarket parking lot last night and sat on some folding chairs and watched soccer with some random people and had a blast

I need to staple this to my *own* forehead some days.

Hi, we saw you from across the bar, and we'd like to give you health care.

most Americans are decent people we just spend all our time elevating the worst of us

did you guys know they still allowed good news

Remembering a multi-day conservative freakout because Lizzo briefly played a founding father’s flute

Chiefly we should be trying to put the burden of training costs back on the employer, not the employee

I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand

They tried to hide but I got em anyway

You want me to keep these thoughts in my head? Where I live?

We are not going to get ICE off our streets or protect Home Rule by fearing this President. Threatening DC because you do not like how our residents vote is an attack on democracy itself. The people of DC elect the Mayor of DC. And they want someone who will stand up to Donald Trump.

I say regularly that summer weather arrives at the same time in DC every year and you can predict it almost down to the day, it's that consistent. It always shows up right around the second weekend in June. This was extremely foreseeable, if you cared enough to foresee it.

Your regular reminder that people live here, in the city the president is treating as his personal sandbox to play in.

Call me an idealist, but I think that a prerequisite for hosting an international sport event should be that you're willing to host an international sport event.

Maybe it’s the edit, but still.

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

I truly believe that New Yorkers are capable of booing someone to death. I know you can do it. I have never been so certain about anything.

It really is sort of amusing to watch LDS people learn that evangelicals haven’t considered them Christians all along.

if you need a random daily distraction, or if you're a democracy-minded etsy witch, the day of the UFC fight is now in the 10-day forecast and has been hovering around a 40% chance of thunderstorms

The existence of non-subordinated women with college degrees has driven a substantial proportion of men completely fucking insane. It's not great.

Quick! Where are our Georgetown/West End peeps at?

Wait, so standing around on metro platforms & street corners or roaming the National Mall with little knowledge of or connection to the community doesn't lower crime?!? This never was about crime, this has always been about power & the false projection of power. Our day is coming... #DCStatehood

Maybe I should not keep the glue stick next to the lip balm on my desk... that was a near miss.

Reminder that Klingons say TRANS RIGHTS BRING HONOR TO YOUR HOUSE

Literally other AI companies are buying SpaceX's unused compute capacity because only freaks and weirdos use Grok.