four-oh-three forbidden

[extremely on-mushrooms voice] hear me out. what if we destroy capitalism by feminizing having money

The relationship between the city and the MPD after this is going to be unrepairable and it’s going to make everyone a lot less safe. What. The. Fuck.

Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V, here in northwest DC. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped.

Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)

Remember: Turn Around, Don't Drown.

or

Keep it Dry, Don't Try

or maybe

Please, Don't Make Me Ask You Again to Stay Out of Flooded Roadways

Whatever slogan works on you, don't drive or walk into flood waters!

I’ll also note that aggressively means-testing gov’t programs is how centrist Dems like Cuomo keep them small and unpopular and badly-managed and ineffective at addressing precariousness that, in NYC and elsewhere, extends well into the middle class.

Cuomo’s Attack on Mamdani’s Apartment Struck a New York Nerve

You always knew that the Times would eventually put an oar in the water for Cuomo. No one cares about Mamdani’s rent-stabilized apartment. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/n...

GOP senator's bill to make all porn a federal crime advances to committee GOP Senator Mike Lee's bill to make all pornography a federal crime in the US has advanced to a committee for review.

Romance writers? You are not going to be exempt from this. GOP senator's bill to make all porn a federal crime advances to committee www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/12/s...

As I was saying.

Donald Trump, ‘numbers’ guy The day Donald Trump announced his 2016 presidential candidacy at Trump Tower, I was tasked with evaluating the factual claims he made in his speech. I did so … for the first couple of inaccurate clai...

Trump has always cherry-picked data. But now he's poised to use the power of the federal government to grow his own cherries. www.pbump.net/o/donald-tru...

The Trump administration is now seeking to replace PBS with “Prager University,” a far-right propaganda organization that isn’t actually a university.

One of their “kids videos” has Christopher Columbus telling them that slavery was “no big deal” and “better than being killed.”

The American press and public really need to figure out how to simply dismiss Trump's pretextual claims for authoritarian attacks and then resist the attack itself, not debate the claim. We have spent months asking "but is the Ivy League really antisemitic?" and now "but is DC really crime-ridden?"

Troops in the streets is not normal, it's never been normal, it was a grievance in the declaration of Independence.

Wyoming and South Dakota Age Verification Laws Could Include Huge Parts of the Internet By omitting the "one-third" provision that most other states with age verification laws have adopted, Wyoming and South Dakota are placing the burden of verifying users' ages on all sorts of websites,...

Two new pieces of age verification legislation in the US are patently batshit and will, as written, result in the blocking of huge swaths of the internet

www.404media.co/wyoming-and-...

Zelenskyy: "I told President Trump and all our European allies that Putin is bluffing. He's trying to push before the Alaska meeting on all directions of the front. Russia wants to occupy the whole of Ukraine. This is his wish ... he does not want peace."

next time you hear me say that originalism is just 'make America great again' with a law degree, remember this demand for Smithsonian museum exhibits to align with "Trump's interpretation of American history"

That is the second stage of a rocket venting its fuel overboard to passivate itself after a deorbit burn. *Probably* the Ariane 6 that launched out of Kourou around 8:30 US/Eastern this evening.

Via the BasicBloggerBitch on Instagram…

Democrats need to directly attack and pressure institutions for caving to Trump. As in, they need to give speeches and call out - by name - companies, universities, and law firms that have acceded to his illegal demands. If they don't, the path of least resistance will always be acquiescence.

A moving, unexplained (by me, anyway) phenomena in the sky. It looks like a white dot with lights emitting from two ends.

Ok what the hell is this? Apparently visible over a really large area?

She says "Cockroaches. I have trauma."

"I can't tell any horror stories, they're all busy telling zoning horror stories." - my niece, around the campfire.

A white man in a backwards facing ball cap and a pink Polo brandishing the submarine sandwich with the caption battle for DC

man leave it to the Internet

I have been trying to tell anyone who will listen that right now we need a Teddy Roosevelt, an FDR, someone who is willing to break the robber barons and do the “unpopular” things the wealthy don’t want to see done but are necessary to claw back some power for those who don’t normally wield it

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

FEDERAL AGENT PULLED FROM THE FINAL STAGES OF A TEN YEAR INVESTIGATION TO CAPTURE THE KILLER RESPONSIBLE FOR THE "HOUSTON HATCHETMAN" SERIAL MURDERS TO PATROL TOURISTS ON THE NATIONAL MALL: hey. you can't vape there

Never seen such baffling confidence as that of an analyst, nearly a quarter century after Bush v Gore and 10 years into the trump era, pushing a 'don't worry, they'll never do that—not the Supreme Court'-type narrative.

supreme court is going to do everything it can to keep the house in republican hands

yeah they are going to decide this and give republican states enough time to draw new maps

trump take job

Great news! It also doubles the input price from $3 to $6 and raises the output price per million tokens by $7.50. Another price hike