I can think of one excuse for it. Maybe two 😬😬
Miss my homestate NY, love my adopted hometown DC. 🇺🇲🇯🇲 I take pictures of the sky. Sports obsessed (especially ⚽️, USWNT, EPL Liverpool, NWSL). Hey. What's going on?
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I can think of one excuse for it. Maybe two 😬😬
Give shit to press if tomorrow: A. Biggest story isn’t that Trump’s been incommunicado 5 days B. They aren’t pushing White House for a health update by medical professionals C. They aren’t questioning whether he’s currently competent to be commander in chief w same zeal they showed Re: Lloyd Austin
Canadians: Happy Labour Day! Americans: There’s no u in Labor Day. Canadians: Happy Labor Day, asshoules!
Feds don't like chaos and tend to vote for the candidate that they believe is less crazy.
I’m really tired of this little game where the GOP does something and people immediately blame the clean up crew for not cleaning up well enough to their standards instead of dressing down the dude who upended the trash can.
Please talk to some Black people before dismissing the psychological impact of having Feds running around the neighborhood hemming people up en masse.
No one circles the wagons better than people in the American media.
Oh really?
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lollllll
Great artist. RIP
What unity means is that you stop telling people to sit down and wait their turn, when it’s never their turn, and when they are the ones who need it the most. It certainly doesn’t mean “everyone agrees.” It will never mean that.
The car that aggressively zigzagged out behind my minivan thinking I was the problem and that there weren’t 50 cars ahead of me in traffic learned real quick as he got stuck behind the semi and then had to get back in behind me while I rocked out and shoulder popped to Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.
I'm an Allen Iverson fan despite the fact he played on the 76ers. Lollllll. Signed, typically a Philly sports teams hater
just guesswork, but 🤷🏾♀️
Enthusiasm grows when voters see a party fighting and winning. (And Democrats are doing both- fighting back on redistricting attacks and special election wins). Constant gloom, both sides coverage, and magnified Dem drama don’t inspire turnout — they smother it.
As a career fed, I absolutely believe that some in the executive ranks sanctioned the raid and helped arrange it. BUT I'm inclined to believe that a fellow firefighter (racist and/or jealous) made the call to the ICE hotline, not thinking about when the raid would happen.
Dear Baldies, I apologize in advance, but…
Have you seen that Viral Fairy-themed Proposal? Yeah, that's me.
it's a beautiful day in DC today
Fuck yeah, Gov Pritzker and Mayor Johnson. It will be fascinating what happens when ICE agents get arrested for flouting this.
Americans rely on public transportation to go to work or school. But @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social is walking from Philly to Harrisburg to protest PA State Republicans slashing SEPTA funds (Philly's mass transportation) and ⬆️ fares. We need to elect Dems to the PA senate so we can stop this nonsense.
Remember, if one Dem does something ill-advised or dumb, THAT reflects on the entire Democratic Party, but if JB Pritzker or Janet Mills or Wes Moore tell Trump to go fuck himself that does not.
A point I try to make with students about research and AI:
In August 2025, I raised $29.7K for Democrats nationally. For the 2025-2026 cycle to date, I've raised $268K. This is 3.4x as much as I had raised at the same point in 2021, and 2.6x as much as I had raised at the same point in 2023:
Because I know actual human artists whose work was appropriated without consent to train these "AI" models (as of course mine was, repeatedly, for LLMs), and using an "AI" to generate pictures is like kicking them in the teeth and then laughing at them whilst they bleed
"It isn’t that many more Americans wouldn’t like to belong to unions if they could —they don’t have the chance. That decline in union membership is no accident." By @paulwaldman.bsky.social in PN: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-labo...
YALL this is brilliant and mind blowing using the audio from Vietnam war on the national guard here in #DC
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
Oh? Someone needs to check out Ms. Townsend's own IG post where she's "throwing a fit" on the streets of Chicago.
Metro offers discounted rates for low-income residents, but few riders are using the program. Here’s who is eligible and how to enroll. 51st.news/metro-offers...
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
Me too. And the tops of my ear. The two places outside of my PJs that I didn't rub with bug spray while staying with family in Kingston. Smh. Woke up miserable.
This is what a regular traffic stop looks like in DC now.
just really f*cking terrible and foreseeable
Good use of scare quotes tbh
Yeah, trust us, we know.
Trump's dodging the cameras as much as he's been dodging the Epstein files
The rally cemented a monthlong boycott campaign, promoted by Black church leaders across the country, to denounce private companies abandoning DEI policies. religionnews.com/2025/08/28/b...
Thirty-two (32).
Phew. Liverpool.
I'm afraid to confess that I'm mostly feeling drowsy in the middle of a Liverpool v Arsenal premier league game.
And it's really irritating when more mainstream friends and relatives fall for it.
This! That’s why it bothers me so much when people complain about children making noise and having fun.
Friends were over sipping drinks and my kid (now adult) was playing online games in the basement. My friends kept looking at the basement door and I raised an eyebrow. One friend looked at me, amazed, and said "you don't you hear him, do you." I said "nope." He was LOUD, y'all. And happy. Lollllll
93 Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners from across the city have written a joint letter opposing Trump's takeover: "This takeover is a direct attack on the freedom and independence every community deserves." 51st.news/opinion-a-jo...
Residents are finding all sorts of ways to fight ICE: They're recording and reporting. They're wheatpasting and sharing know-your-rights materials. And they're stepping up to care for each other, from delivering groceries to walking kids to school. 51st.news/dc-residents...
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
Because of course.
Pretty much sums it up
Agree.
This Forrest v West Ham game is the most frustrating one I've watched this season. #EPL
Since I’ve lived in DC, two pedestrians have been killed on my block. High speed chases endanger all of us here in DC and MUST STOP: “Ten car chases. Six crashes. Park Police have new rules in Trump’s D.C.” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
The way people keep manifesting other people's misery 🙄
Brian Kelly not gonna be fired today, lollllll. #LSU
I went to join my sweetie on his work trip to a nice southern city. And when he opened the hotel room fridge and pulled out a cutwater he'd bought in anticipation of my arrival...
Charlatan
Hard agreed. bsky.app/profile/irie...
LSU was just ROBBED.
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One of the most believable codas to his story, imho. (That poor woman. Jesus)
@wmata.com so y’all got money to throw 1000 cops at the Anacostia train station but can’t find any bus drivers?
Normalize having a great outfit ready to go in case your sister/homegirl gets stood up. This is SO sweet! ❤️
I see that college football Bluesky is as messy as college football was at the other place. Not as toxic, but just as messy lollllll.
“It’s so useful. I saved exactly one minute by asking it to write one of my dry emails.”
Hi. Do you have suggestions for how I can dress for 115F degree weather? Also has to make me feel like it's 65F, takes no effort to put together, doesn't make me stand out, but also makes me look stylish, works for weddings and pool parties, is ethically produced, and doesn't cost more than $3? Thx.
Takoma DC neighbors, there is an ICE checkpoint near the Whole Foods, approximately Elder street on Georgia. If you’re around go (a) warn our neighbors and (b) go shame these masked occupiers
If the Democratic Party receives the majority of your ire, then our aims are not the same, and you may go ahead and block me. We do not have time for your dreams of a socialist utopia. This is triage. We don’t get to build anything while we’re bleeding out on the table.
"The nation's capital is under armed military occupation, against the wishes of its own government and residents. The armed military occupation is an empty, idiotic spectacle. But also the armed military occupation is armed." defector.com/well-he-sent...
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#DC 😂 🍩
Details here...I've been using this feature on my slate pages for years and have been surprised that almost no one else seems to even know about it, much less use it: help.actblue.com/hc/en-us/art...
Anyone searching for Trump should just look in the Epstein files.
New reaction GIF!
Same, Mikey. Same.
As elders with dementia experience shorter episodes of lucidity, their time in public drops off slowly at first, and then with a quickness that strangers notice. Health problems are hard to treat during this transition: they have difficulty following medical directions but don't want assistance.
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Tuned into the Chelsea v Fulham game late only to learn that VAR lost today.🤷🏾♀️ #EPL #soccer
Rather than folding to anti-science pressure, CDC employees are exposing the dangers of MAHA to the public health system. Already, some major drugstores are limiting COVID vaccines to follow new restrictive guidelines. Dr. Jen Layden, who resigned from her director position on Tuesday, joins @ 10aET
AL JAZEERA: Colleague pays tribute to journalist killed in Gaza aje.io/oyjwsp aje.io/06d1g3 @aljazeera.com #photojournalism #journalism
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🚨The worst of the worst criminals are going after kids with backpacks and leaving their scooters in the road. 📌 WAKE THE HELL UP AMERICA. We are running out of time. 🚨
Public servants should face the public. So why are federal agents wearing masks to hide their faces? Check out our mobile billboard driving around Washington, D.C. right now demanding federal agents take their masks off!
I’m so grateful that I have tenure and the academic freedom to call it like I see it. “Dr. Kathleen Bachynski, a professor of public health at Muhlenberg College, described Kennedy’s comments as “absolute gibberish” and slammed the HHS secretary as a “dangerous buffoon” who is “threatening us all.”
A measure of how terrible this country is about children and guns? Today I can't watch anything on YT without an ad popping up with a Sandy Hook parent pleading with us to take action. 12 years later, more schoolchildren lost to gunfire, and backsliding.
When we went to Five Guys for the first time our 2 kids were under 5. We asked for 4 orders of fries. Lollllll we weren't ready. Delicious, but we had to waddle out of the place and we had leftovers.
Suuiiiieee!!!!!
we've never done political Halloween decorations before, but this year may be different
oh man eff
Immigrants and advocates tell me that MPD's growing cooperation with ICE on immigration enforcement in D.C. has made them fearful to call local police if they witness a crime or are victims of one. Trust that MPD built up over years may have been demolished in recent weeks: 51st.news/ice-presence...
*winces and grabs the bottom of my right foot*
Epstein Don is ready to put everyone he can in danger to distract you from how he's hiding the Epstein files. Or maybe he just needs the money to pay for his weekly golf trips and JD's crazy number of vacations.
Why are federal agents hiding their face? Public servants should face the public — take off the masks! Keep an eye out for our billboard driving around D.C.!
not exactly sure which Fox's John Roberts they're referring tbh
“More than half of the people U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested through July in D.C., Maryland and Virginia have no criminal conviction nor pending criminal charges, according to ICE arrest data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and analyzed by the News4 I-Team.”
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