Senate confirms new director for Alexandria's patent office www.alxnow.com/2025/09/19/s...

The unveiling of the official court portrait of Chief Justice Grumpy Face Blacky Whitey aka Grumps

I played it, there was one in the Crystal City Underground in Arlington, Virginia!

The National Parks and Wildlife Service has confirmed that there have been 24 verified sightings of Asian hornets and two nests have been found. The vast majority of the sightings have been in Cork, while there has been one single sighting in Dublin

My photographs from this past weekend's Family Day: USMC LEGO Showcase at the National Museum of the Marine Corps with contributions by people from Wamalug, NOVA-LUG, and Charm City LUG.

LEGO teases the very first official #StarTrek collaboration...

The National Parks and Wildlife Service has confirmed that it has found a new nest of Asian hornets in Cobh, Co Cork

After 10 months of dissent, protests show no signs of dying down as fury at alleged government corruption grows.

A 1937 photography project that aimed to illuminate the impacts of the Great Depression instead whitewashed the experience of rural America. Now, the once-excluded photos of Black Southerners will finally be displayed.

Argentinian police have recovered a 17th-century painting stolen from a Dutch Jewish art collector over a week after it appeared in a property ad, investigators have said.

I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org

My contribution to the "Four and a Half Vulcans" discourse is the moment when Pasalk says “Captain, I will make this quick” and Batel replies “That would be merciful” in which I hear an echo of the Gorn's promise to Kirk in “Arena” to be both, and I remembered this:

Thanks to America’s ever shifting trade policies and Trump, LEGO has stopped shipping more than 2,500 pieces from its Pick a Brick program to both the United States and Canada. 🔗 www.404media.co/lego-stops-s...

The radio station @wtjuradio.bsky.social plans to celebrate its 70th anniversary in 2027 and while this isn't a marathon guide or a show recording, it is ancient

A 17th century masterwork allegedly stolen by the Nazis from a Dutch Jewish art collector re-emerged this week in pictures of a house for sale in Argentina, only to disappear again

The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...

The faith presence at the rally testified to a growing religious pushback to Trump’s immigration agenda. religionnews.com/2025/08/25/o...

Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)

In Serbien eskaliert die Gewalt. Die Demonstranten stehen nicht mehr nur der Polizei gegenüber, sondern auch regierungstreuen Schlägern. Eine Lösung ist nicht in Sicht.

Serbia's president has vowed a "strong" response to anti-government protests after nearly a week of violent clashes involving his supporters, police and demonstrators across the country

I’m back! I saw your messages on here & elsewhere—thank you all <3. I’m deeply disappointed in @bsky.app moderation; equating pushback against people like JKR with the harm they cause to trans ppl only enables more violence. I’ll talk more soon but even a day away from social media has been healthy.

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My photographs from WamaLTC's display at BrickFair Chantilly earlier this month.

I tried to take photographs of all the “I’m a part of Wamalug“ cards that people displayed at BrickFair a week ago.

Time to start this new arrival

NEWS: The Library of Congress has launched a significant upgrade to the Chronicling America website, the nation’s leading free resource for historical U.S. newspapers. newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...

Call us crazy but when the president is breaking the law left and right, federal judges shouldn't have to assume he isn't

NEW: Fairfax police identify child found dead under Lorton bridge in 1972 www.ffxnow.com/2025/08/04/n...

I wrote an essay about misbehaving opera divas (which ties in with my new book THE UNDERSTUDY, which is about homicidal opera divas battling for the lead in an opera based on Barbarella) for @people.com: people.com/the-understu...

One week until my thriller THE UNDERSTUDY is out in the world! Please consider pre-ordering it. Booklist calls it "tense, taut, and compulsively readable." www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/731133...

Villages and castles from 12th century England came to life in a small town in Serbia for the filming of a new series about Robin Hood that has just wrapped in the landlocked country in southeast Europe.

1/My primary concern as an investigative reporter is unearthing what the gun lobby/industry does not disclose to the public. In that regard, I consider my latest story for @thetrace.org and @rollingstone.com to be among the most significant I've ever published: www.thetrace.org/2025/07/gun-...

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Sad to see him go, but his music lives.

The board that will hire the next president of UVA consists entirely of Glenn Youngkin appointees. Drawn for the FXBG Advance. #GlennYoungkin #DEI #UVA

You may not feel it, but the ground beneath you may be sinking. In fact, the surface of California’s Central Valley is nearly 30 vertical feet lower than it was a century ago. Why is this happening? Because our planet is rapidly drying. THREAD/

📢 The State of HTML Survey is live survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey... The #HTML and #CSS surveys are the only web surveys I don't want to miss. Thank you @sachagreif.com for making them, and @lea.verou.me for curating. Please take a few minutes to fill the survey if/when you can. ✨

The rescission package passed by Congress+Senate withdraws all funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in FY2026 and 2027, leaving even stations that remain operational scrambling to restore their budgets. (The federal fiscal year runs from 10/1 to 9/30; Virginia’s runs from 7/1 to 6/30.)

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are in merger talks to create the largest railroad in North America that would connect the East and West Coasts.

I'm gonna be real transparent and tell y'all that I am 50 copies away from having sold 2,000 copies of my debut novel!! My sales have been pretty disappointing and I'd love your help hitting this milestone so I can look my team in eyes and hopefully write more books. sites.prh.com/but-how-are-...

More than 1,000 U.S. counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/new-...

Interpeting the law is always a "political" task. It's just that Supreme Court justices aren't usually this comfortable saying so in public

Trekkies: If you see this post your first experience with Star Trek. A classmate let me borrow The Making of Star Trek overnight, I tried to watch the rerun on WTTG that afternoon, but was thwarted by a sibling, then the next day <- was the "Errand of Mercy" episode. This -> arrives 52 years later.

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars," "Star Trek," "Dr. Who," or "Transformers."

Me and the boys heard you were talking shit.

Me and the boys heard you were talking shit.

My thriller THE UNDERSTUDY (August 5th, Knopf) is available for pre-order (hardcover, ebook, audio). Dark, pulpy, deadly All About Eve-style (or perhaps Showgirls-style) shenanigans during rehearsals for an opera based on Barbarella. Malevolent good fun. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/731133...