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Here’s ABC’s programming comment form for no reason in particular. support.abc.com/hc/en-us/req...

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Today, Congress is marking up anti-DC bills to:

— Criminalize sleeping in a car

— Prosecute 14-year-olds as adults

— Give Congress a line-item veto of the DC budget

— Force MPD to rehire officers who commit serious crimes

— Let Trump handpick the DC Attorney General with no Senate confirmation

some of my favorite former NEH employees have channeled their collective grant-making wisdom into an opportunity for funders. thrilled to see it! hire them. 💫

Appeals court, weighing Trump’s Library of Congress takeover, reinstates copyright chief Shira Perlmutter sued the Trump administration following her May dismissal.

www.politico.com/live-updates...

These are all the Independence Park exhibits that could be removed by the Trump administration next month Under an executive order by President Donald Trump, the displays could be removed in the next month.

"Trump ordered Nat'l Park Service employees to review exhibits in connection with an order to remove or cover up materials that 'inappropriately disparage Americans,' incldg those at Independence Nat'l Historical Park. The Inquirer obtained + reviewed internal comments submitted by NPS employees."

Burchett represents Tennessee. Over the last few years, Nashville, Memphis, and Chattanooga have all had higher crime rates than D.C.

Knoxville, where Burchett was mayor, is lower, but still among the most violent 10 percent of cities in the country.

Donald Trump threatens to clear encampments in D.C. With D.C.’s MPD now under federal control and the National Guard coming to D.C., the fate of people in encampments remains up in the air.

the analysis in here from people living in encampments is more incisive and direct than a lot of the coverage from national media streetsensemedia.org/article/home...

A Tell HN: Regulations.gov Comments API is shutting down on Friday 9 points by sadmiralakbar 22 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment Subject: Regulations.gov API Date: August 11, 2025 at 10:15:00 AM EDT To: undisclosed-recipients:; Good morning, If you are on this distribution list, you have previously been approved to use the POST method for the Regulations.gov API. This is used by third parties to aggregate and electronically submit comments on behalf of a group or constituency. As of Friday, the POST method will no longer be allowed for all users with the exception of approved use cases by federal agencies. Any attempted submissions will result in a 403 error response. We apologize for not being able to provide advanced notice. I wanted to reach out to the impacted API key holders as early as possible. We are in the process of updating the references to our POST API on Regulations.gov and https://open.gsa.gov/api/regulationsgov/. Please note that your groups and constituencies can still submit comments through our web user interface on Regulations.gov.

This will make it harder for groups like the @ACLU.org to organize public comment campaigns. Cutting off this access limits organizing power and is another step in a wave of anti-democratic, techno-fascist measures.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4486...

Super helpful analysis here:

NEWS: President Trump is federalizing the Metropolitan Police Department, which means he will control it for up to 30 days. He is also deploying the D.C. National Guard, all to fight what he says is an increase in crime.

A LOT of Americans don't understand that "public funding" streams back into enriching their communities. They scream about their tax dollars being used for handouts without realizing that's what's been keeping every small business in their whole town afloat.

This is the 3rd or 4th time in the past few days that someone has found themselves quoted in an article they were never interviewed for saying something they never said which seems like maybe we have a big problem on our hands

The evil that men do lives after them

IU has the oldest Folklore Department in the country--no longer a major. Cognitive Science? gone! PhD programs also sacrificed. Full list here: www.in.gov/che/files/In...

5yo: I'm going to make you mutton for dinner
Me: ok
5yo: WHAT?? YOU'RE GOING TO EAT ROTTEN OLD SHEEP??
(we've been reading the Hobbit)

BREAKING: Justice Jackson cites the Colored Conventions Project Digital Archive her dissent in Medina v. Planned Parenthood. These public collective digital projects MATTER and they WILL be heard. 👏👏👏

@ccp-org.bsky.social
@profgabrielle.bsky.social
@jimccasey1.bsky.social

Reminding you all, local journalism saves money

When local papers close, costs rise for local governments - Columbia Journalism Review share.google/AHjAKtBRIyS2...

The DC Archives matter! 📣 The DC History Center is deeply concerned that funding for the District of Columbia Archives building at UDC has been eliminated in the Mayor’s FY26 proposed budget. This is an alarming development with far-reaching consequences.

@dcarchivesfdn.bsky.social

Seriously better than it was and I love that it's introducing more small footprint parks and play spaces to DC BUT the the playground seems super unsafe?? There are no barriers between it and the (often unhinged) NY Ave drivers

The Portrait Gallery is part of the Smithsonian. In her US Institute of Peace opinion, Judge Howell does a fine job of explaining how and why the Smithsonian is not part of the executive branch. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Mayor Bowser’s proposed 2026 budget completely eliminates the new DC State Archives building at UDC. This last minute, irresponsible decision, which was made in secret without any input from experts or the community, erases a decade of grueling work.

this timeline is fucking wild

The number of videos and reviews I've seen of people calling themselves huge fans of the Murderbot Diaries while also rendering Murderbot as he/him is rivaled only by the number of people arguing that no, every real fan knows rhat Murderbot is actually canonically "female-bodied"

This is a totally normal time to promote my blogpost about OCR-aided transcription! Here it is!

Supreme Court Ethics: Ta-Nehisi Coates Case Won’t Be Heard Due To Recusals The case involves the publisher behind many of the justices’ books.

Apologies for yelling, but—

SCOTUS COULDN’T DO ITS JOB BECAUSE TOO MANY JUSTICES HAVE BOOK DEALS WITH A PARTY IN A CASE

I think what the fake summer reading list reinforces is how much writing is written by people who don't care about it, to be read by nobody