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Opinion | Zohran Mamdani drops the mask The mayor-elect divides New Yorkers into two groups: the oppressed and their oppressors.

I'm no Mamdani stan, though he was by far the best choice in the field. But this @washingtonpost.com hatchet piece is a spew of incoherent fearmongering. It's really disingenuous writing, below the dignity of a good newspaper.

Even lackeys and bootlickers should do better.

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Rosmonde Kouassi #19 and Gift Monday #21 of the NWSL Washington Spirit are better than your team's strikers

SPIRIT

Deborah Ager photo.

It's 2025. Imprisoning and murdering people on a rumor is back in! Flash your fascist style in a SALEM MASS 1692 sweatshirt.

Available in all sizes at Target.

Storm took out the power on my street, so I'm holding some late evening office hours. @pepco

However, today only one facility in Panama breeds sterilized New World screwworms for dispersal, and hundreds of millions more sterile flies are needed to slow the outbreak, writes Kameryn Griesser of CNN.

Stephanie Labbe taunting the Swedes will live forever.

Me, there are two trophies, one national, one local, that have the Kelley O'Hara goal face engraved upon them.

‘Naughty’ bears escape, steal a week’s worth of honey and take long nap European brown bears Mish and Lucy, both 5, escaped their enclosure at the Wildwood Devon conservation park in Britain and promptly helped themselves to lots of snacks.

#RESIST

#BEARS

#THEBEESENVYME

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Riverdale, Maryland wasn't the biggest #NoKings gathering of them all, but it was spirited and friendly and democratic, and the guy who parked his ice cream truck down the sidewalk absolutely cleaned up.

entire block of crowd control barricades arranged to accommodate a long line of people at security, empty

One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup

That's the keeper

Ghost evenings.

when you mobilize your teaching colleagues to better detect, discourage, police, and punish academic misuse of AI --

for America's sake, DON'T DO IT ONLINE

Every year in my weird class about stories, the students pick their favorite at the end of the term. This year's runaway winner was "Jerry's Crab Shack, One Star," by Gwen E. Kirby.

Much love too for Jade Jones and Senaa Ahmad.

@gwenekirby.bsky.social

It's not all bad news

If you aren't watching Dawn Staley's Gamecocks vs. Geno Auriemma's Huskies at 3 pm, then what the fuck is wrong with you.

This is a battle of the titans.

THE FAILURE IS THE POINT

Total domination does not allow for free initiative in any field of life, for any activity that is not entirely predictable. Totali- tarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.u

This seems like a good time to remind folks of what Hannah Arendt once wrote:

Tis then when the hurdy gurdy man comes singing songs of love, motherfuckers.

Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.

As season nears, Spirit adds Mexican national team star Rebeca Bernal Bernal arrives in Washington after winning four titles with Mexico’s Monterrey and will contend for a starting spot at center back.

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@washspirit.bsky.social

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ICONIC: Yosemite National Park workers just hung an upside-down American flag—THOUSANDS of feet up on El Capitan. That’s not decoration. That’s a distress signal. They’re telling us the country is in danger. Are you paying attention?

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Still champion of the world.

KTKT Tucson, February 2, 1962.

Fifty years ago today. Park Ridge, Illinois, comes so hard that BLOOD ON THE TRACKS is filed under Easy Listening.

I enjoyed the #SNL50 broadcast. Fun to watch the SNL generations mix it up.

“Let your motto be resistance.” — Frederick Douglass #blackhistorymonth

OH HELLO

I drove by a Humvee on the street this weekend and was struck by how Elon's Fuckheadmobile has made the Hummer look comparatively human and comfy, like a Jeep that eats way too many cookies.