“Gay and from New Jersey” are the only words I understand here. So I’ll just say this. BRUUUUUUUUUUUUCE
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“Gay and from New Jersey” are the only words I understand here. So I’ll just say this. BRUUUUUUUUUUUUCE
I was Jason Mewes’s (Jay and Silent Bob) video store clerk in the 90’s. Informed him a few times of his late fees, which were ample.
The DC I know is worth fighting for.
I’m Janeese Lewis George, and I’m running for Mayor.
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If you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.
It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.
35+ years of peer-reviewed studies confirm that publicly financed stadiums, especially publicly financed football stadiums, are a horrendous deal for taxpayers & for cities. Any public official proposing to invest in a stadium should be challenged to respond to those research findings directly.
Sounds crazy right? Now imagine this is *always* the situation for 700,000 District of Columbia residents
Txt STOP to opt out of updates on war plans
Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:
Title: Both Liberal and Conservative Judges Rule Against Trump Description: A scatter plot showing the rulings of judges against or in favor of Trump, categorized by ideology using the DIME score. The x-axis represents Judge Ideology (DIME Score), ranging from liberal (-1) to conservative (1), and the y-axis represents the case outcome (against or for Trump). • Blue dots represent liberal judges, purple dots represent moderate judges, and red dots represent conservative judges. • Some judges are labeled, including Rudolph Contreras, Lauren King, John Coughenour, and James Emanuel Boasberg on the liberal to moderate side, and Carl Nichols, Richard J. Leon, and Joseph N. Laplante on the conservative side. • A note mentions that Boasberg, though slightly right-leaning, was initially appointed by George W. Bush. • The visualization suggests that judges from both ideological backgrounds ruled against Trump.
1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
There are many Democrats who don’t agree with some or many of AOC’s policy ideas. But what she gets and more conventional Democrats do not is that political fight can be catalyzing and transformative. You can change the shape of the playing board in ways … www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/p...
The Star Ledger: Opinion: Pizza and bagels are delicious. And that Bruce Springsteen
Firefighter David Smith: “About 5 of the members in this picture are probationary firefighters. Who were in freezing cold conditions for 13 hours without hesitation facing a major disaster. Now, they’re facing uncertainty they will keep their jobs because congress is punishing DC.” Photo of DC firefighters saluting the victims of the deadly airline crash as their bodies are transported.
DC firefighters who rushed into the freezing Potomac after the deadly American Airlines Flight 5342 crash could lose their jobs if Congress does not fix the DC budget issue in the CR.
NEW from me: With House Republicans passing a partisan, damaging continuing resolution that gives Donald Trump and Elon Musk free rein to continue to strangle appropriated spending, Senate Democrats have to decide whether they will actively participate in their institution's own destruction.
Help thousands of students and scholars *in the middle of their academic experiences abroad* resume receiving the funding legally appropriated to them.
www.nafsa.org/ECAFundingFr...
Pitch perfect response from Georgetown Law reminding Ed Martin that it’s wildly inappropriate on both religious liberty and free speech grounds for him to attempt to use the power of his (interim) office to dictate what curriculum is “unacceptable” at the university.
Trump is trying to do two separate things: 1.) become an authoritarian leader, and 2.) implement a massively unpopular policy program. These goals conflict with each other and are hopefully self sabotaging in the end. 1x
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Laurie Anderson, Four Talks, Hirshhorn Museum
Jimmy Carter outlived one of his obituary writers:
Undergrads these days are really good, actually
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Rachel Pollack's 1995 TransSisters interview reads like it came out yesterday
Carol Moseley Braun was the first Black woman elected to the Senate in 1993. Jesse Helms once followed her into the Senate elevator singing "Dixie." He told fellow Senator Orrin Hatch, "I'm going to sing Dixie until she cries."
Thinking about that today.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...