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cwfunhouse.bsky.social
Le etat c’est moi. Le ballroom c’est Triangle Shirtwaist.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12d
WAPO: The architect quit “after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures ..

.. ‘I am the code,” Trump said.”

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
September 23, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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jacobharr.is
Typical DOGE person: we need to make the federal workplace more welcoming for high achievers unlike the losers who work for the govt now.

Same DOGE person: lasts just 5 months in a federal role despite being given every material advantage and license to disregard laws and processes
September 21, 2026 at 10:07 PM
cwfunhouse.bsky.social
Every season the Mets find a way to have a catastrophic injury on a play to first.
September 18, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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dabeard.bsky.social
What an absolute Trump administration waste of taxpayers’ hard-earned money. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...
Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort (Gift Article)
As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.
www.nytimes.com
September 16, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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preachypreach.bsky.social
quite something this paragraph.
After meeting with delegates from the two sides in South Florida, Kushner and Witkoff emerged with a peace plan that would have required Ukraine to accept nearly all of Russia’s demands: ceding territory, promising never to join NATO, and drastically shrinking its army. Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, hailed the proposal as “a good plan for both Russia and Ukraine.” But, when the plan became public, it collapsed under a wave of outrage. Even Rubio reportedly derided it as “Russia’s wish list.” Some observers suspect that Russia has effectively offered the Americans business deals in exchange for a favorable peace agreement. “This is the generally held view,” the former U.S. official in the region told me. A classified report produced by a European intelligence agency states that Trump and people around him have discussed several potential contracts in Russia. The report is not dated, but the European official who gave it to me said that the details were first discussed sometime after Trump invited Putin to Anchorage, in August, 2025. Twice that year, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, was allowed to enter the U.S., where he talked about investment opportunities. “The privatization of American foreign policy is quite far along,” the official who gave me the report said. (A spokesman for Kushner denied that U.S. officials would profit from the deals under discussion.) The document lists ten potential ventures, which it says appear to “have been originally designed by the Kremlin’s political and business elites.” They include reopening the Nord Stream 2 pipeline under American control, resuming ExxonMobil’s operations in Sakhalin, and drilling for oil in the Sea of Okhotsk. According to the report, there was discussion of unfreezing Russian assets that are held under American sanctions. The document mentions people who might participate, including Trump, Witkoff, and Kushner. It also names Richard Grenell, the former Presidential en…
September 15, 2026 at 10:54 AM
cwfunhouse.bsky.social
Another great win brought to us by USDA, DOGE and the White House.
September 11, 2026 at 12:46 AM
cwfunhouse.bsky.social
Tapestry, Court & Spark, Harvest, Elton John’s Greatest Hits, some random Moody Blues album.
September 8, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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springfieldians.bsky.social
happy labor day to all the workers and parasites
September 7, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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mattgertz.bsky.social
I think it’s bad that the president is effectively blackmailing voters to support Republicans in order to have any hope of federal help if there’s a disaster.
volts.wtf David Roberts @volts.wtf · Sep 4
Trump continues to disperse disaster recovery funds based on how states vote, which for any other president or public official, in any other time, in any other country, in any other context would be a morally horrific scandal that would dominate headlines for months.
POLITICO Pro: Trump rejects disaster appeals by four Democratic governors
New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will have to pay the entire cost of recovery from a major February snowstorm.
subscriber.politicopro.com
September 4, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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mszafranski.bsky.social
Virginia probably has standing to sue given the traffic impact alone. Anybody have Jay Jones's number?
adamkeiper.com Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · Sep 3
(1) 🤮

(2) A "Military Observation Deck"? Huh? Seems to be a newly tacked-on idea. Was it added just to provide a national-security rationale—à la the ballroom having a bunker, which helped Trump in lawsuits against the ballroom?

(3) The traffic is going to be awful, ugh.

(4) TEAR IT DOWN 2029.
Screenshot of a tweet from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum dated 3 September 2026. Above some pictures — artistic renderings of Trump's proposed arch — Burgum writes: "We are pleased to announce that after a very long wait (over 125 years!), we are preparing to start, over the next two-week period, the excavation work necessary for the Great Triumphal Arch and Military Observation Deck, at Memorial Circle on Columbia Island between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. This will be one of the Great Pieces of American Architecture, honoring the history and significance of Arlington Cemetery and befitting the most powerful Capital in the World."
September 3, 2026 at 8:13 PM
cwfunhouse.bsky.social
Holyyyyy shit. Phenomenal.
rodger.bsky.social Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · Sep 2
Sorry it just occurred to me that there may be people who haven’t seen clip from the Quibi show where Rachel Brosnahan plays a woman dying because of her golden prosthetic arm and I needed to fix that
September 2, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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cptowers.bsky.social
oh the nationals have played some of the worst baseball you will ever see by a big-league team in the top of the ninth inning
August 30, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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musicologyduck.bsky.social
I honestly don’t know how these senators hire more comms staffers than case workers and they are all terminally online chuds and absolutely rookie-ass internet mistakes still happen
August 28, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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errant-signal.com
"Milo got arrested!"

"That's good!"

"By an unaccountable secret police force"

"That's bad"

"He supported them, though, so there's delicious irony at play."

"That's good!"

"But they came for him because fascist power has reached a point where petty infighting can lead to arrests"

"That's bad"
August 28, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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aohnsman.bsky.social
NEW: The cost of DOGE: America’s environmental intelligence is going stale

Elon Musk gutted staffing and budgets at NOAA and the National Weather Service last year. It left America’s fishing fleets, farmers and insurers exposed to the fallout #NOAA #climate www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
The Cost Of DOGE: America’s Environmental Intelligence Is Going Stale
Elon Musk’s DOGE gutted staffing and budgets at NOAA and the National Weather Service early last year. It left fishing fleets, farmers and insurers exposed to the fallout
www.forbes.com
August 17, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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musicologyduck.bsky.social
the rest of the article is informative, i just get so irritated by how often coverage of the guard occupation starts with the fact that people in DC still have picnics
August 15, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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samtlevin.bsky.social
Inside DHS' "mass spying campaign" targeting leftist groups + ICE protesters:

-undercover agents posed as protesters at meetings + secretly recorded

-agents infiltrated Signal chats + encouraged others to do "direct action"

-DHS got financial records of major groups, incl SEIU + Sunrise Movement
US conducted ‘mass spying campaign’ against leftwing groups and anti-ICE protesters, records reveal
DHS sent undercover agents to meetings and infiltrated chats of groups opposing Trump’s immigration crackdown
www.theguardian.com
August 14, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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attackerman.bsky.social
“For smaller officers or weaker officers or older officers, I think it has a great advantage” is a quote in this story
murshedz.bsky.social Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · Aug 11
"Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks intended to gain compliance from combative individuals."

Susan Collins & Congressional Republicans voted to fund all of this.
AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
apnews.com
August 12, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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jonnyauping.bsky.social
posted this six years ago on twitter and it went viral but here’s daryl dawkins on don nelson in his memoir
I never had much to do with the other coaches in the league. I wasn't a big fan of Don Nelson's until one night when we were playing the Bucks in Milwaukee. I was squatting in front of the scorers table waiting to come into the game and Nellie happened to be standing nearby. "You know what?" Nellie asked me. "What?" "You guys are kicking our ass, the beer's cold in the locker room and I gotta get the fuck out of here." So he shouted to the nearest referee, "Hey, you fucking asshole! That was a terrible call!" BOP! The ref gave him a technical foul, our Nellie wasn't through. "You'e still a fucking asshole and that as il a terrible call!" BOP! The second tech meant that Nellie was banished from the bench. Before he left, Nellie winked at me and said, "See you later."
August 9, 2026 at 8:34 PM
cwfunhouse.bsky.social
The fact that Josh Naylor, baseball impaler isn’t a thing is an indictment of T-Mobile Park’s dimensions.
August 9, 2026 at 6:09 AM
cwfunhouse.bsky.social
DeGrom refusing to go to Atlanta is one of the top moments of this Mets season.
August 4, 2026 at 2:38 AM
cwfunhouse.bsky.social
Toss this in with most of the renovation bill getting passed along to folks flying out of Dulles and we have a ripe ol’ cluster.

More than anything else there, I want an end to the people movers and bags out in under 20 mins.
maustermuhle.bsky.social Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · Aug 3
One part of Trump's $22 billion makeover of Dulles that's been missed is his big, beautiful, world-record 32,000-spot parking garage. That's *way* more parking than recent estimates show the airport needs, and it would tower over the historic terminal: www.notus.org/metro/dulles...
Let’s Talk About the Massive Parking Garage Trump Wants to Build at Dulles
The 32,000-spot deck would surpass both existing parking capacity and what airport officials have said is needed.
www.notus.org
August 3, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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tonyromm.bsky.social
NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024.

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
it does actually sound like taylor farms and the white house teamed up to try and blame taco bell for the outbreak. unprecedented corruption
Within hours, the White House agreed the patient surveys painted a clear picture, the people said. In an internal call, the White House aides approved statements from the public health agencies for public release — though they still only identified Taco Bell as linked to the outbreak, without naming Taylor Farms specifically. Taco Bell moved first, releasing a statement. While it did not explicitly name Taylor Farms it said it believed "public health is a shared responsibility among restaurants, their suppliers, and authorities, and we are proud to have consistently acted quickly and proactively to protect our guests." The agency updates on the outbreak were finally posted after 10 p.m. New York time - hours behind schedule - and also omitted directly naming Taylor Farms or saying if the company would recall products.
July 22, 2026 at 8:09 PM
cwfunhouse.bsky.social
Boooooooo
fritzhahn.bsky.social Fritz Hahn @fritzhahn.bsky.social · Jul 20
End Of An Era klaxon (for real): After 24 years, the Pizzeria Paradiso in Georgetown is closing its doors on July 26. RIP to Birreria Paradiso, a key player in the rise of the D.C. craft beer scene.
July 20, 2026 at 11:20 PM