Nathan Converse

St Stephen’s is still going strong, still helping the community, and still hosting punk shows!

Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social I wish Stephen King had written the screenplay for Cocaine Bear. King: Ok, bear finds a bunch of cocaine in the woods and eats it. He then finds a typewriter and cranks out 15,000 words a day. Producer: That doesn't seem plausible. King: I've tested this and this is exactly how cocaine works. May 31, 2024 at 1:27 PM

LSE is by far the top non-US school where US student loans are used, so maybe something to do with that?

u chicago not on the list lmao

You are a real life super hero!

i really hope maduro escapes just cause i wanna watch kash patel have to handle that. imagine the energy at those pressers. he's lookin like a bird that got inside through the chimney, pure terror, but he's going "and to mr maduro, if you're watching: hasta la fuego." eyes darting around for an exit

Several decades of Head Start early childhood care and education research provide insight into variation in program effectiveness, over time, across communities, and by child and family characteristics, from @chloergibbs.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34812

(people i don't know at a party)
GIRL: right? all these fuckin creepy old white men
GUY: like a broken record, it's this shit over and over every day
ME (pretty sure this is a conversation about Dark City): yeah plus who they bald asses tryna fool with those hats?? you know the homeboy psychic

Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies. 
 
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York. 
 
 Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice

Kendra "Kenny" The Kid @kendrawcandraw Me watching some high fantasy shit: I would simply not be corrupted by the magical object. If it is actively harming you why don't you just put it down. Idiot Me receiving psychic damage 23 hours a day from my phone: Ouuughhhh oouuuuwwwwaaaaaa ooaaaaghuuuuuhhhowwgahhhhh guuuuuwah 3:52 PM • 2022-02-27

Per DPW: Escalation teams will continue to pick up missed trash and recycling collections on Monday as needed.

DPW will operate on a one-day slide schedule for collections of household trash, recycling, and food waste. Households that receive collections on Monday will be serviced on Tuesday.

After nearly a decade of advocacy, Cobb Park is partially open! 🌳

Starting today, the 2nd St NW gates are open sunrise to sunset — with paths, an open field, and a playground ready to go.

More to come this spring, but for now: enjoy!

1 woman killed, another hurt hit-and-run crash with garbage truck in Northwest DC Two people, both females, were hit by a garbage truck Friday afternoon in Northwest D.C.

The Georgia, Kansas, and Upshur intersection is a dangerous design for all users. We need safer streets that prioritize safety for everyone. #RethinkGeorgiaAve
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PHOTOS: When did you first realize the District had changed? Eleven D.C natives on how they remember their city.

NEW: Contributor India Kea asked D.C. natives from across the city to reflect on what it was like growing up here — and the pivotal moments when they realized their hometown was no longer the same.

From changing faces and street signs to rows of newly planted trees, here's what they said:

(RFK Jr walks by my desk eating bees by the handful) workin’ hard or hardly working’ eh??

To have one ICE employee arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness.

This post is for the true Mr Show heads. Literally laughed out loud at work.
@blmckean.bsky.social @toddntucker.com

New data on ICE arrests (2015–2025) show that as arrests surge, the share of arrested people with criminal convictions fall sharply, from Chloe N. East, Caitlin Patler, and Elizabeth Cox www.nber.org/papers/w34794

As @michaelpettis.bsky.social says at least 1x per week, China cannot maintain a direct or indirect export surplus and also avoid acquiring some non-RMB asset. If not USTs, then something else, and if not USD denominated then -> ⬆️ deficits in other countries -> ⬆️ protectionist policy there.

Quantifying the effects of large-scale deportations on wages, prices, and real incomes in the United States, from Javier Cravino, Andrei A. Levchenko, Francesc Ortega, and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar www.nber.org/papers/w34790

textbook example of the sufjan stevens fallacy

Interesting: In an ongoing fight between federal prosecutors and Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White's defense attorney over whether White's gambling can be brought up during his bribery trial, prosecutors have shared the value of chips he purchased at the MGM Casino after allegedly getting bribes.

Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.

Details here from @sammyroth.bsky.social

People of DC, more than two weeks into being totally iced in, now get news of measles spread—brought in by Right to Life marchers.

Looking for people exposed on the Metro, at DCA, at Children's Hospital, on Amtrak.

Gee, thanks, RFKJr et al.

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When I was 9, I was not in a for-profit prison camp - I was reading “Farewell to Manzanar” in school and couldn’t believe what my country had done. Now we are doing it again. And if the people responsible aren’t held accountable, it will keep happening.

This is an obvious and egregious perversion of our immigration enforcement system. Among many.

When public officials entrusted with the power to seize and imprison our family members are not accountable for flagrant abuses of that power, everyone in America loses. Every Conservative, every Liberal.

This is a good moment to note that Daniel Immerwahr's "How to Hide an Empire" is fast read and does a good job of contextualizing the last 128 years of U.S. rule over Puerto Rico.

LOLOLOL

The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

And while everyone is feeling good about Benito giving a Grammy to someone who is not Liam Ramos: Congress can pass a personal bill to grant citizenship to Liam Ramos, his family and Kilmer Abrego Garcia.