My phone actually gave me an alert to “clean camera lens”
05.03.2026 12:48 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My phone actually gave me an alert to “clean camera lens”
05.03.2026 12:48 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
NEWS: D.C. CFO Glen Lee has spoken! In a letter to @mayorbowser.dc.gov and D.C. Council, Lee says that tax-filing season *will continue* and that the council's decoupling bill is the law of the land.
04.03.2026 17:25 — 👍 63 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 8
Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TK”
GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn
03.03.2026 01:03 — 👍 1665 🔁 579 💬 19 📌 36Merriweather Post ALSO built an estate in NY that she tried to donate to the state, which also declined, and now it’s owned by Harlan Crow who uses it to vacation with his bff Clarence Thomas. Talk about your faustian real estate deals.
28.02.2026 16:03 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I just read this book about Marjorie Merriweather Post (thx @isa-lara.bsky.social!) and learned SHE built Mar-a-Lago and tried to donate it to the gov as a Winter White House but NPS declined because the upkeep was too expensive. So it went on the market and ended up as…the winter White House.
28.02.2026 16:00 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0i'm a big fan of magazines, investigative reporting, and longform, all of which requires staff and institutions, but the really really dire thing that indie media can't replace? the fucking wire services
27.02.2026 01:35 — 👍 1536 🔁 286 💬 16 📌 17
Astronomers scrambling to enable push notifications so they don't miss a ping from Vera
www.scientificamerican.com/article/rubi...
President Trump will deliver his State of the Union address tonight in front of Congress and the country.
Ahead of the speech, take a look back at how the U.S. science enterprise was affected during the past year in our report, “The State of the Science 1 Year On.” 🧵 eos.org/report/the-s...
Oh I had it on my Netflix queue for awhile but I see it’s gone now! That’s what I get for procrastinating. I’ll check out Kanopy though, thanks.
24.02.2026 16:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ooh I’ve seen the first one but still haven’t watched the second. Sounds like good enough motivation to do it tonight if you ask me.
24.02.2026 16:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Matthew Henson was an explorer who spent a total of 18 years on expeditions to the Arctic—including a 1908-1909 expedition that may have been the first to reach the geographic North Pole.
#BlackHistoryMonth
“I’ve already spent $17,000 on lawyers to deal with ICE for me... And then I got an email last week to my attorneys saying, basically, we need to let go over two-thirds of our staff.”
washingtonian.com/2026/02/19/i...
A year ago today, 168 of my NSF colleagues were fired suddenly & illegally. Half got their jobs back after an intense legal fight, but none of this is over for our small/mighty agency. Even while there are so many things happening everywhere all at once & it’s exhausting, I’m glad to keep pushing.
18.02.2026 17:00 — 👍 173 🔁 29 💬 5 📌 0
You can't call every step of creeping fascism a distraction from kitchen-table issues and then punt whenever you have a chance to address the kitchen-table issues.
16.02.2026 18:06 — 👍 1949 🔁 345 💬 52 📌 33
Please read this long but important thread from an immigration defense attorney.
If this administration is permitted to scale its current abuse, neglect, and inhumane treatment of immigrants to the breadth and scope for which they’re currently planning, we’ll all be witness to mass atrocities.
President Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin are holding a press conference to announce the repeal of the Endangerment Finding at 1:30 p.m. ET. Follow along here for live updates.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cSW...
Sorry if you liked breathing clean air.
12.02.2026 18:53 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I can’t imagine why this incident would make you *announce* an unprecedented *10 day* ground stop rather than a temporary one that you extend until you had more info.
11.02.2026 18:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I feel like you guys are overcompensating for the lack of democratic representation everywhere around you.
10.02.2026 18:00 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Nothing bonds you immediately with a stranger like approaching each other on the sidewalk by a 5-foot high raised lawn right as a giant rat casually jogs across it a foot from your faces.
10.02.2026 01:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Planned changes to D.C.'s Temporary Cash Assistance for Needy Families will impact 15,000 children, pushing them deeper into poverty.
@childrenslawcenter.org CEO Judith Sandalow and United Planning Organization CEO Andrea Thomas explain in this opinion piece:
6/ The Post has lost over 375,000 subscribers in just over a year. If 10% of those readers subscribed to The 51st instead, we could hire 10 reporters and five editors, dramatically scaling our coverage of the city at this critical time. 51st.news/signup
04.02.2026 19:21 — 👍 584 🔁 359 💬 10 📌 35
The morning after mass layoffs, The Washington Post publishes this as their lead editorial. The owner and publisher clearly have no idea why they are losing subscribers. Meanwhile they have destroyed a storied brand.
Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
Like way too much of my mental health depends on these two boys dragging terrible authors for an hour.
05.02.2026 12:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Every two weeks when I wake up to find an If Books Could Kill episode nestled among my 20 morning news podcasts documenting the modern American hellscape my shoulders physically release a little.
05.02.2026 12:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Washington Post has laid off least 14 climate journalists, newsroom sources told @sammyroth.bsky.social, effectively decimating one of the most important reporting teams in American climate journalism.
A sad, terrifying, enraging day for the planet.
It is worth noting the Post slashed the bulk of its arts coverage, including most of the critics, ending a great tradition in journalism.
04.02.2026 17:03 — 👍 72 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 5
bro! Paying Wizards-value ticket prices to see Anthony Davis play* is the best news I've heard all year.
*sit on the bench for 40 games with an injury
Whatever you think of the Washington Post at this moment, here's a chance to support the dedicated, hard-working journalists who were just laid off. If you have the means, your donation is most welcome. If you don't, a kind thought and maybe spreading the word to others is support enough 💙
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