Darrow Montgomery

Why have battles over healthcare? Imagine if it was just a thing like in most advanced countries.

Remember that @dcdoes.bsky.social professional development event that looked a lot more like a party (a go-go band, acrobats, DJ EZ Street as emcee)?

Some of the spending for that event (and others) violated local rules against using public funds for entertainment and food, according to the OIG.

Why do you do social media like he might cut your funding? He already has!

Marking the Day

He should write his own check to bail out the farmers, he’s already skimmed more than that

You can’t resign from a job you never legally held. These people suck

There’s still a store called BJ’s

lol. It’s a celebration of the hand ball violation

Someone hurt him at his 8 year old birthday party and he’s been chasing that goody bag ever since. FIFA recognized that.

AFP actually

This week's page three photo @wcp.bsky.social

I don't think they can say that which is why they don't. Some of them don't have a problem with what he is saying. The entire caucus should have been up in arms on their COLLEAGUE Ilhan Omar's behalf. They haven't been.

Strong floor, no ceiling (on corruption)

Spoiler: all the first strikes were also illegal

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This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"

Back in the office every day days

I went 8k away last month and it didn’t really help

Part 1: My Life Is a Lie How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America

This was a mind-blowing read. It seems preposterous to suggest that $140k should be the poverty line for a family of four, but the math checks out.

Also: the current metric for calculating poverty is appalling.

www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

Probably Stolen

On Places: Repurposing—and Queering—an H Street Corridor Carriage House Once home to the ENIKAlley Coffeehouse—a refuge and an incubator for Black gay and lesbian artists and activists.

Looking for a mediumread while you wait at the airport or hide from your family? My latest @wcp.bsky.social has queer artists, a woman courts labeled a “lunatic,” and 19th-century horses: washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7748...

Unlikely Japan

The broken hotel coffee machine in Tokyo has a hand-written sign describing it as “in the middle of failure ” . Been there, little guy.

Back -lit Brunch Spot, Tokyo

Mayor Wu stunting on em heavy

One of those parties is his, it’s not an equivalent threat

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Top military lawyer raised legal concerns about boat strikes The lawyer at U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the operations against alleged drug-smuggling boats near Venezuela, disagreed that the strikes are legal and was overruled, according to six sources...

“The JAG at Southern Command specifically expressed concern that strikes against people on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean…could amount to extrajudicial killings, the six sources said, and therefore legally expose service members involved in the operations.”