Andrew Exum

Public Health On Call: 1012 - A “Giant Geyser of Poop” Along the Potomac River About this episode: A pipe collapse outside of D.C. has spilled nearly 300 million tons of sewage into the Potomac River. Recent frigid temperatures and long-term infrastructure challenges are making ...

If you’ve been following this ecological disaster taking place in the Potomac River, and the politics of it, I should probably tell you that my wife is to sewage mishaps what John Madden was to NFL games. podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/1012-a-giant...

Bridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada

Best of luck to any Republicans running for office in Michigan this year. This is one of the most unbelievable stories of corruption I have read since that last story about corruption from last week. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...

I can, sadly, understand a business case for the Washington Post dropping its Metro, World, and Sports coverage and doubling down on political and regulatory journalism. Can’t understand what was more important for Will Lewis to do today than attend that meeting, though. Just POS leadership.

YouTube video by KWICK Music Tom Morello & Rise Against - Killing in the Name - First Avenue Minneapolis, Minnesota 1-30-26

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I hope every Democratic foreign policy official who served in the Biden Administration and/or hopes to serve again noticed what Benjamin Netanyahu just said about Joe Biden allegedly starving the IDF of ammunition in Gaza.

say what you like about Saruman but at least he was a YIMBY

Update from Mitch Smith

It’s says a lot about the state of the Department of Justice that the person they found to argue on behalf of the U.S. government here has been at DOJ for less than two months and is three years out of law school at the University of Florida. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Man, yesterday was a real banner day for people with “Follower of Christ” in their Twitter bios as well as those ladies who yell at Evangelical Pastors when they flirt with progressive political thoughts.

Congratulations to everyone who has taken Bridge Colby seriously and helped along his career for the last two decades.

Pentagon Investing $1 Billion in L3Harris’s Rocket Motor Business The defense contractor plans an IPO for the unit that supplies parts for missiles for the U.S. and its allies.

The Trump Administration continues to seize the means of production. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

I love this! Spent three days hunting in the week after Christmas. Shot two deer, which I then skinned and butchered in my garage. They’re now in the freezer and will last us until mid-summer.

Trump ‘Inclined’ to Keep Exxon Out of Venezuela The president said he didn’t like comments from the company’s CEO during a meeting Friday at the White House.

It is, we all have to admit, very funny to respond to Exxon’s statement saying they don’t want to invest in Venezuela by not allowing them to invest in Venezuela. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

If you asked a conservative Texan, or Tennessean, between the years of 1993-2001 or 2009-2017, what they would do if masked federal police came into their town and killed an unarmed person …

Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain

Gianni Infantino is responsible for this. As long as Trump held out hope for the Nobel Prize, he was not going to go to war in Venezuela. But that dang FIFA Peace Price has satiated his appetite for peace, freeing him up for war. I say all of this only 5/6 jokingly.

This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.

Mamdani picks his mentor: The woke, radical, anti-Israel YouTuber Ms. Rachel Successful American politicians always know how to pick savvy mentors.

Polling suggests Israel is historically unpopular in the demographic corresponding with people likely to have small children, so I need someone smarter than me to explain how picking a fight with Ms. Rachel of all people makes any sense whatsoever. nypost.com/2025/12/26/o...

A wild statistic from @katie0martin.ft.com here. www.ft.com/content/a9f5...

Can’t help but think some people would love for this to all be about journalism standards and best practices and not, say, the rendition of human beings to some medieval dungeon without due process.

How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Okay, but which New York Times columnist would it be *funniest* were we to discover they were tied up with Epstein, and why is it Gail Collins?

Adam Scott meeting the Pope

"You see, your holiness, there are 8 to 12 players. Two wizards. A maverick. The arbiter. Two warriors. A corporal, and a ledgerman. Now the ledgerman just keeps score, and he wears this hat"

Review | In her new book, Biden’s former press secretary lets Democrats have it Karine Jean-Pierre’s memoir offers a critique of Biden and the Democrats that is outdated, impractical and driven more by personal grievance than policy.

One of the best book reviews I have read in a long time. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

Like, I bet there are a lot of people in Miami who want to talk about the fact that the commander of SOUTHCOM has elected to retire early. If I’m the NYT or WSJ, I would put some of the team you had covering the Pentagon into your Miami bureau.

We have an MLB subscription. You can’t wait the playoffs games live on the app (annoying) but you can watch the replays.

My friendly advice for any news outlet struggling to now cover the Pentagon would be to adopt a COCOM-based strategy for coverage. Send reporters down to Tampa and Miami and Colorado Springs and have them develop sources there. The COCOMs were often “leakier” than the Building anyway.

I’m obviously rooting against the Dodgers in the playoffs, but I still woke my sons up early today to watch the Ohtani performance over breakfast before they play baseball later this morning. Greatest individual performance in a game ever, no question.

This week has confirmed my suspicion that Biden’s Middle East policies will look worse, and will be even more embarrassing for Democrats, with the passage of time.

‘Bow to the Emperor’: We Asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency

A survey of the Washington legal establishment, evenly divided among Republicans and Democrats, captured almost universal fear and anguish over the transformation of the Justice Department into a tool of the White House. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...