It’s a little ironic that you also say “I do” at your divorce hearing when they swear you in.

~Every ash tree in the country will be dead within the next couple decades because of the emerald ash borer. 75% of the ash trees in the DC area are already gone.

Need a museum curator bold enough to show this in its appropriate context

“but he died. ? !”

Called it

Called it

And it’s not just making a good latte, it’s doing it 300 times in a row on a Sunday farmers market day with a line down the block and no air conditioning. I loved the job, but it was not easy.

Never Forget

The worst way to learn the next day is a federal holiday is from the person you’re counting on to care for your kids at the end of the day.

Predator Badlands understands that the secret to a good Predator movie is 70 minutes of toxic masculinity and 30 minutes of "toxic masculinity has failed, time to build elaborate booby traps."

Agreed, but related to this: SCOTUS, Congress, and the president should all be paid dramatically more than they are now. It would not be unreasonable to pay them like the college football coaching staff at a public university: say $10M/yr for the president, $1.5M/yr for SCOTUS, $750k/yr for Congress

To be noted: right now there are states where app-based sports gambling doesn’t exist, like WA. We still get all the ads during the national broadcasts, but we can’t download or use the apps. I would love to see data about foreclosure rates and Gen Z and Alpha debt-to-income ratios vs gambling laws.

Dead

whether your response to your group house being profiled in the national news is 'sure, that makes sense' or 'well that was fucking weird' turns out to be a key inflection point in life

This is so people can pose for pictures in front of the sign, right? It’s an Instagram wall.

I enjoyed Frankenstein and all the performances in it were fantastic but there’s something about Netflix-produced movies that makes them come off a little half baked. Glass Onion had the same problem.

Nic Cage immediately following up LEAVING LAS VEGAS with THE ROCK, CON AIR, and FACE/OFF is one of the greatest power moves in American cinema.

Holy shit

Ernesto Jerez on ESPN Latin America:

“Rojas, of all people!” from the play-by-play guys had me cackling.

“The Password” for Jhostynxon Garcia is one of the best nicknames in sport

Weirdest way I've ever gotten a book recommendation, but sure, I'm in. It's on the list.

Does lead exposure make you a MAGA Republican? A non-controlled N=1 investigative study

They're calling him the most French man in history

In about an hour Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto @CMBrookePinto will hold a public hearing on the expanded teen curfew that was imposed during the summer, and which @mayorbowser.dc.gov wants to extend into the fall. MPD Chief Pamela Smith will testify, and some 50 residents are signed up to speak.

(extremely I'm-trying-to-delete-it voice) DeBloppelgänger

I'm pro-union because I think workers should organize to balance the power that business owners have in various negotiations. It's true that unions have been weakened, but it's not because of multiculturalism. I would argue, it's because people seek to exploit divisions for their material interests.

It’s funny that this is about Bowdoin because someone could have written an identical article in 1863

My dad has been involved with Gaithersburg HELP, a food pantry just outside DC in Montgomery County, for a number of years, they do great work and are about to get slammed next month. Donations there can make a big difference. www.gaithersburghelp.org

OH SHIT THE PLANT HAS A GUN

My dad has been involved with Gaithersburg HELP, a food pantry just outside DC in Montgomery County, for a number of years, they do great work and are about to get slammed next month. Donations there can make a big difference. www.gaithersburghelp.org

Years ago at the National Zoo, I saw a little kid drop his ice cream and then dramatically wail, hands on head, “it’s an ice cream catastrophe!” Whenever I’m feeling agitated about a minor thing I tell myself I’m having an ice cream catastrophe and it helps put things in perspective.

That’s right

This is like a whole @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social bit youtube.com/shorts/7vvxE...

Scroll through the section that says “Major Events Timeline”: www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...

Our week of breaking news about the demolition of the East Wing. A few thoughts from inside the reporting — and on the power of a newsroom to tackle stories like this one.

Workers at Washington D.C.’s major concert venues are working to unionize.

Hell yeah

In the 00’s, before Uber, a bunch of new bars opened up on H St NE in DC. It’s over a mile to the nearest Metro station and there were no cabs at the end of the night, so the bars collectively had an arrangement where you’d ask the bartender to call a dude with a van to come drive you to Chinatown.

People should not have dogs in homes with kids. There are something like 5 million dog bite injuries per year in the US, the vast majority are children bitten by familiar dogs at home. It’s incredibly reckless.

Conservative-leaning tech investors are racing to build a new American colossus, and they want something much, much bigger than the Statue of Liberty. Meet the new monuments men of the tech right and their plans for statue-maxing: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

oh no

The fact that nailers work like this btw is a concise illustration of the biggest plot problem in the otherwise fantastic 1972 film SLEUTH

This profile of Burt Rutan from 2004 is fascinating, but hits a little different now knowing that in the decade following its publication the company would kill 4 people in two different accidents. www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

to expand this you should basically never pay for grad school—find a funded PhD program if you must—unless 1) it is a professional certification with near-certainty of a lucrative job immediately on graduating or I guess 2) it’s a hilarious shitshow involving Eric Adams.

Using a powder-actuated nailer* on Capitol Hill in DC is always a high stress experience for a few minutes while I wait to see if the cops show up. * a tool for driving nails into brick or concrete by using a .22 caliber blank cartridge. Sounds like a gunshot going off because it kind of is.

my culture is not your costume

A D.C. resident is suing the city and a private company for $500,000 each over claims that one of the company's vans was parked in a downtown bike lane, forcing the resident (who was on bike) to swerve into traffic where he was hit by the trailer on a D.C. government vehicle.