I don’t think AMU will need to cut the jazz programming, I imagine that’s not super expensive for them to produce and they do a decent amount of fundraising
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I don’t think AMU will need to cut the jazz programming, I imagine that’s not super expensive for them to produce and they do a decent amount of fundraising
I think unfortunately that’s most FM radio everywhere these days, and has been for a long time, but true
NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com
It replaced a good local jazz station, WDCU, unfortunately, which was always one of my dad’s radio picks
Editors: I am extremely available to review D.C. United's new sporting director's self-published novel DEADLINE, about "a secret cabal of super agents," which according to Mesut Ozil "really opens your eyes to the dark side of football"
Deportations drive a new wave of family breakups www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
tired: thiel lawsuit was the trump-prefiguring gawker event wired: gamergate was the trump-prefiguring gawker event inspired: commenters flipping out because richard jokingly called them "peasants" in a private chat was the trump-prefiguring gawker event
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." wapo.st/3I6wiZr
Israeli government joins the boycott of Israeli film industry www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
so the Atlantic ended up paying Ruth Shalit Barrett more than $1m for her retracted article about high school sports which I think works out to infinity dollars a word
Definitely what’s going to happen is I’m going to win the lottery for a chance to buy World Cup tickets to all the matches I’m interested in, but my FIFA-designated time slot will be in the middle of Yom Kippur services and I won’t be able to purchase any.
“The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks, according to four people familiar with the matter, including a historic photograph of a formerly enslaved man showing scars on his back.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
The tug-of-war about what Kirk would have wanted is ongoing. In life, Kirk thought this episode was funny and changed his avatar to Cartman. But the Ellison-owned Paramount is now deleting it.
(However, now that I've clicked on a handful of tweets like that one, the X algorithm has basically decided that the only thing I want to read is more conspiracy theories about the Jews)
If they can get the conspiracy theory fully baked within 18 minutes, it's k for p
New 🐟 just dropped. 🧪🌎 www.mbari.org/news/mbaris-...
yeah but what ELSE can your phone do
Is it “being the queen’s only daughter”
www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/u...
The aging, latent police reporter in me can't help put pause to remark on the unforced error of the SAC in Salt Lake's FBI field office making the unforced error of announcing they have recovered a “footwear impression.” A shout-out to toss or destroy those shoes, ASAP. That's a detail you keep.
Highly recommend you don't go looking for the video of this, he's shot in the neck and it look like it hit his jugular vein.
Ahead of the IDF’s evacuation order for all of Gaza City, the Military Advocate General—the top IDF lawyer—advised Chief of Staff Gen. Zamir that the order would not be legal without further humanitarian preparation. Zamir cut the MAG out of subsequent discussions of the order and issued it anyway.
Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
Just gonna put out there for the record that assassinating people is bad no matter how much you disagree with them
[blinks in gen-x] WHAT
I will also accept chai-way robbery
Don't drive around Acadia (no r) for two hours looking for parking, take the Island Explorer
Lulav/etrog set through the synagogue is $60 this year! #sukkotflation
Obviously, you can and should listen to Zorn year-round, but as the high holy days approach, it’s a vibe
Elul = time to stream all the John Zorn Masada and “Book of Angels” albums
Every time someone on the @washingtonpost.com econ team sends @jenliberto.bsky.social a $4 Venmo to join our Powerball pool, her phone makes a cash register noise, and I absolutely love it (also, if you don't see any econ stories after Monday, assume we won)
We recently had a meeting about Slack channels
So let it be written, so let it be done
The real enemy in the Monday NYT crossword puzzles isn’t the puzzle, it’s typos caused by your own stupid fingers
It’s great! It’s just weird
Stuart Stevens, currently to the left of most democratic leaders on the Hill
Same, it’s very disorienting
Apparently D.C. is now a place where in late August, it never rains, there’s no humidity, and the temperature ranges between the high 50s and night and the low 80s during the day?
Trump's move to cancel nearly $5 billion in international aid sets up another conflict over who controls spending, which the Constitution delegates to Congress but which the White House says it should exert more power over www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Unexpectedly cheery “good morning, guys” from armed National Guard troops in the Farragut North Metro station — I’d let them have class outside today if I were their commanding officer, too nice to be stuck on the platform
(Don’t) Beat the Heat
True, though weirdly the climate here this week has been more like late September (high 70s, low humidity)
Tell it to DCPS!
Suffice it to say that my high school newspaper and drama club did not do most business before the sun was up (I did swim for my HS team, but we miraculously practiced at like 8 p.m. instead of 5 a.m.)
Daughter’s HS soccer team practices at 6:30 a.m. because of field availability after school, and now I’m interested in exploring options for forced cancellation of all other HS sports except soccer so they can just practice at 4 p.m. like normal people
A federal grand jury has declined to indict another person arrested as part of President Trump's D.C. crime surge. This was the only case we know of in which the National Guard participated in an arrest. After the grand jury declined to return an indictment, DOJ moved to dismiss the case.
Why does every NYT crossword or mini have “SMURF” as an answer this week
Israeli government set to block Israelis from protesting in favor of a hostage deal or to end the war, ahead of major demonstrations scheduled for outside Netanyahu’s house www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
They literally just were in court seeking an indictment, I don’t see a lot of evidence in what we know for the idea that the government does not want to indict that guy
I guess that could happen, but for now, the government is seeking an indictment
The National Guard is removing trash, mulching and removing graffiti in D.C. “I think it’s nice, as a D.C. resident,” said one Guard member. “But there are different things we could be doing.”
Grand juries will indict a ham sandwich, but not, apparently, a man accused of throwing one www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
"A federal magistrate judge said an arrest in Northeast Washington was preceded by the 'most illegal search I’ve seen in my life' and described another arrest as lacking 'basic human dignity.'” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Dying at the book he's reading
Oh, I just wanted to make a joke at the expense of the club I follow
MLS not always more competitive than some leagues in Europe, I can tell you from my Audi Field seats...
"Many said they are skeptical that an increased presence of federal officers, the bulk of whom are strangers to their communities, will make them safer."
"Law enforcement is part of the answer, they said, but only if their actions are just, an ongoing battle in a city where many residents are distrustful of police. One woman called the crackdown’s early days “a blessing,” while others expressed fear over what they called overly aggressive tactics."
"The Post interviewed more than 30 people who live or work in D.C. neighborhoods that experience the greatest share of shootings and homicides. While many residents are eager for help making their communities safer, their views on the president’s policing solution are mixed."
D.C. residents in neighborhoods with high rates of gun crime want help. But not like this: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
The Israeli government seems to believe that putting the word “Hamas” before any noun makes it a legitimate military target. It does not.
It was perhaps accurate in spirit, I’ll give the robots that
Trint just transcribed Trump talking about a "bunch of Tren de Aragua guys" as "a bunch of trendy arugula guys," please do remember to check your AI transcripts before quoting them
Yes, I am aware of the difference between Reconstructionist and Orthodox Judaism, being Jewish myself and a member of a Conservative synagogue. Can’t help you more with accessing the story, I guess, but it quotes multiple Orthodox rabbis.
From @theathletic.com: A 69-year-old Tennessee man who shares a name with baseball legend Babe Ruth is accused of using names of deceased or retired professional baseball players in an attempt to gain more than $550,000.
The photo apparently features a Reconstructionist rabbi, but here’s a gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
A complex issue I’ve been talking about for a while, underscoring the need for regulatory guidance as we have with other products. Unlike CharacterAI, a striking admission by OpenAI about its role: A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
I don’t know how much sway American Jews will have in Israel going forward
This morning in DC: three members of the National Guard spending over an hour so far just standing in front of the Krispy Kreme near one of the Dupont Circle entrances to the Metro
Israel’s government and its conduct of the war in Gaza has even managed to alienate some Orthodox rabbis in the United States, who have historically been among the state’s staunchest supporters (and yet, so far, the government is ignoring these critics, as well) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Tonight’s unexpected breaking news fell nicely into the window between dinner and cleaning up the kitchen/putting kids away, really ideal (well, during the workday would be ideal, but otherwise not bad)
Newsweek: Legacy tractor maker John Deere has announced layoffs at three Midwestern facilities as the company grapples with declining sales and the effects of tariffs on its bottom line. www.newsweek.com/john-deere-a... Workers are getting notice of termination this week.
No apparent sign of National Guard or federal police at Tenleytown Metro, near D.C.’s largest public high school, as the first day of school gets going
“Thank GOD the National Guard is here while I EAT MY PIZZA,” shouts a woman at Red Light on 14th in DC as yet another trio of guardsmen walk by.
Ben Cremaschi booed aggressively by people in Miami kits as he, and not the injured Lionel Messi, takes a corner
Stadium flyover by military helicopters while the National Guard is stationed around the city over the objections of local officials is… a choice
They’re making fans who showed up in Miami colors in the Barra Brava section wear D.C. United vs. Celtic shirts left over from last year
MRAP posted outside Audi Field for the @dcunitedofficial.bsky.social game
"Most of the park land that Trump has described as dirty and in need of repair is federal property: swaths of the National Mall, parks outside the White House and Capitol, and grassy lawns in Dupont Circle and in the heart of downtown Washington have long been his to clean up."
Soldiers posted in D.C. will be carrying weapons soon www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Trump will seek $2 billion to beautify D.C. from a Congress that... has yet to give back the $1 billion in D.C.'s own locally raised funds that an appropriations law froze earlier this year www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"Everyone is still wondering who the chief is,” said one D.C. police officer, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid professional retribution, “because it doesn’t appear to be her.” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Would be quite a bookend on the controversies over Adrian Fenty's installation of turf fields around D.C. if Donald Trump winds up replacing them all with new grass (and high-end sprinklers) www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Page One. @washingtonpost.com
Apparently this IS a (somewhat unconventional) ghost bike, missing a plaque, for Constance Holden, who was killed at that intersection in 2010
Maybe paint it… literally any other color?
Definitely thought this bike rack was a ghost bike at first glance — glad it isn’t!
Trump was motivated to federalize D.C. police in part because he was upset that there was trash on the side of highways... in Maryland wapo.st/4ov5lig
Calling out the (tiny) DC National Guard is one of the *only* things President Trump can do to DC without new legislation. Today’s “One First” goes deep into the history of the federal government’s relationship with the nation’s capital—and the significance of the 1973 Home Rule Act—to explain why:
I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Maybe follow it with this www.youtube.com/watch?v=efA0...
Soundtrack for this morning www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2M...
Gift 🎁 Link to the WaPo article.
Crime in D.C. is already falling to some of the lowest levels since before the pandemic, as Trump prepares to send in federal authorities www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted. These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.
New apocalypse unlocked
After a Martha’s Vineyard pierogi vendor refused to sell to him, Epstein’s lawyer plans to sue a farmer’s market so that they must sell to him.
Reddit has a sub devoted to killing invasive lanternflies, because of course it does www.reddit.com/r/LanternDie...
But will you tell people how to listen to gentle flute safely?