Mary Beth Corrigan

Hyattsville Renames Forested Area After Nacotchtank Indians Hyattsville Wire The city of Hyattsville renamed a forested area around Driskell Park after the Native Americans who used to live in the area.

hyattsvillewire.com/2025/11/03/n...

I want him to challenge Schumer. He would be good.

This is set in an alternate version of Maryland where the Catholic colonists revered wolves instead of destroying the region’s population.

That's right. 🥪

This is important.

Nicely done!!! Thanks!

White House Architecture Was an Honor System. Trump Noticed. For 125 years, informal norms constrained what a president could do to one of the nation’s most famous landmarks.

When I got the chance to write this article, I wanted scholarship that put the preservation of the White House in context. I see three themes in the story:

1. Reification of expertise
2. Growth of executive power
3. Use of DC as a testing ground

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Turns out that trying to prove you’re not really a misogynist by proving you are most definitely a racist isn’t as persuasive as the consultant class thought. But how could they have known??

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Yeah, marble bathrooms were all the rage in Civil War Washington. It was just the water that was so putrid, leading to Willie Lincoln's death of typhoid fever.

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

They are good!

Mostly for @jcassedy.bsky.social

Kind of think that he probably WAS an invited guest, but not so any more.

FFS

Meme featuring two well coifed, intellectual looking Wojacks reading: PEOPLE WHO READ Beneath them are two disheveled, sick looking people with black circles under their eyes reading: PEOPLE WHO WRITE

Ouch. This one cuts to the bone.

This is the President of the United States. At this point, I should not be shocked by his petulance. But yet. . .

Yes. On the Georgetown tracks. Still visible on O and P Sts.

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.

"Where they make a wasteland, they call it peace."

-Calgacus, a Caledonian warrior, speaking about the Roman conquest of Britain in the First Century AD, via Tacitus

A home in San Jose is listed for $500k. 2 beds and 1 bath on a 2,720 square foot lot.

The home looks bad

The home looks bad

The home looks bad

this is the housing market but at least we're investigating what happened to amelia earhart

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Dutch late night TV has its take

HAPPENING NOW: AFT and @aaup.org are in Washington DC to launch our new campaign, to show the country that #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone.

Follow along in the thread below!

Mostly for @jcassedy.bsky.social

Union Warns Professors About Posting In the ‘Current Climate’ Academic workers are re-thinking how they live and work online after some have been fired for criticizing Charlie Kirk following his death.

A union that represents university professors published a guide tailored to help its members navigate social media during the “current climate.”

The advice? Lock down your social media accounts, expect anything you post will be screenshotted.

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I am not aware of any gun violence that happened when I was a kid.

by RFK Jr.

Woman making disgusted face, saying, "Race as a part of college application" Woman making inquisitive face, saying, "race as part of deportation considerations"

The Supreme Court: