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Energy Secretary Deletes Tweet Saying U.S. Escorted Tanker Through Strait of Hormuz Oil prices slid at their steepest pace in years after Energy Secretary Chris Wright said in a now-deleted social-media post that the U.S. escorted an oil tanker through an important energy chokepoint ...

Nope, that got walked back (but not until someone made bank on the oil market)
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since ​the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high f...

Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

I was originally going to dunk on this suburban Chicago letter to the editor opposing Illinois' state-level zoning reforms, but this must surely be parody, right? www.dailyherald.com/20260309/let...

I love how the unusual cold in the east was for the most part average against the long-term record.

Already, people have forgotten what winter is supposed to be.

Preservation League challenge level: impossible

“Sudden release of document I’m being sued for,” an action famously unrelated to lawsuit

110% WMATA ridership recovery with one easy trick

NEWS: @mayorbowser.dc.gov has very unexpectedly released a report @ddotdc.bsky.social finished five years ago on what implementing congestion pricing in D.C. would look like. She had refused to make it public since it was done, but now calls congestion pricing "the wrong policy at the wrong time."

The Atlanta 1996 logo was still there a few weeks ago. Street View is from last fall, though

If you’re ever anxious about having imposter syndrome consider the custodians of the greatest military arsenal the world has ever seen, no that’s not helping

Tesco, 7/11, Starbucks, etc. have tried fresh grab & go in the US, but most failed in the face of our low densities and demand for more customization.

TV-B-Gone - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV-B-Gone

Muncie, the Ball company town, was the subject of "one of the most famous community studies in the history of sociology"
www.sup.org/books/sociol...

Croutons are completely legit snack food. There's even a brand that's sold in snack packs, for snacking.

Far Side comic: A cruise ship is sailing, with a party on the deck. In tbe water in front of it are a swift boat, & a larger warship. Three sea mines are in the path of the cruise ship. Caption: Through a gross navigational error, the Love Boat steams into the Strait of Hormuz.

Just as Gary Larson predicted

The Road to Housing Act has gotten a lot of attention for banning institutional investors. That ban won't make housing more affordable, but the rule changes around manufactured homes could!
Lets cut the bad parts and keep the good, and get this act passed.

👇🎯 It's also not how polities/societies work. "No one under six figures of income should pay taxes" is both economically unsustainable & utterly, corrosively disastrous for the existence of democratic polities/societies.

The site would qualify under HB538: within 3/4 mile of Metro, and 15%-at-60%-AMI is similar to MoCo's MPDU requirement (15% at 65% AMI). But that's still not exactly by-right.

Grow-vernight scenario: Where OP has suggested more density is and is not on the table Just before the release of the new proposed FLUM, here are some maps to help you visualize the Office of Planning’s DC2050 “growth scenarios.”

Good primer by @alexbaca.bsky.social and co. on the changes coming to DC's Future Land Use Map and why none of the proposals goes far enough: ggwash.org/view/102637/...

This is so shitty and disrespectful. Marisa fought for MONTHS to get access to this information and NBC sliding in to try to scoop her is unprofessional and shameful. Seeing mainstream outlets consistently use her reporting, including her FOIA work, with no credit is galling.

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I don't think you have to Nostradamus to figure that bombing Iran might raise oil prices. And it seems pretty obvious that buying oil in advance of causing an oil price spike might just save Americans a lot of money. But...

...maybe there wasn't much planning?

Or expenses.
My HOA fee includes all utilities (except cell); a lot of people just filter out anything with HOA>$X, without thinking about what goes into it. Much less the peace of mind knowing that if water leaks, that's somebody else's job!

1. House parties are an invitation to put beer directly into other people's fridges. Maybe limit yourself to 4-6 per fridge.
2. Summertime is around the corner, which means big cookouts with giant coolers. 18 beers can disappear into one of those without a trace.

"A Greenwood Village spokeswoman said the proposal for the traffic light is still being reviewed." 😠

book a cheap off-season room in OC as a base to see Assateague, Berlin, Bethany, etc.

Bankruptcy courts are obliged to take the bidder who offers cash now. They can't wait for the bigger, longer-term payout that rezoning offers.

this is the way

Everything that's been built has been built by-right -- and therefore half as big as it should have been.
The entire Saks parking lot is zoned R-60, i.e., 7 DUA SFD.