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As a reporter it's easy to always be cynical, but yesterday I got to witness a heartwarming event: the announcement of D.C.'s teacher of the year. My colleague Shamira Muhammad talked to Ramon Griffin from Thurgood Marshall Academy in Ward 8: www.washingtonsun.com/metro/dc-tea...

i've waited a decade to make this joke slate.com/news-and-pol...

A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

If you listen to the whole thing, he’s not exactly disproving Obama’s observation that all Trump cares about is home renovations. He just goes on and on about the details. Trump is our groundskeeper in chief.

... I'll allow it

So many people I know going through this and the ripple effect is VERY real across the city.

I’m 30 minutes outside DC and we’re actually hiring in my department lol. DMs open if you have an urban planning background

A timeline of Russian election interference.

boy it sure seems like the main threat to democracy everywhere across the globe is right wing media and certain social media companies

I love how On-Some-Other-Shit Penzy’s is, man

Never would have guessed the subject based on the length

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

Bad night for Trump and the global ethno nationalist right. Couldn't happen to a more deserving group of villains.

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

your yearly PSA: want to do something positive wrt the ecosystem while saving yourself a bunch of time and effort? skip the bagging and just rake leaves into a pile wherever convenient (bonus points if you do it under a tree). www.nps.gov/articles/000...

Great, timely thread.

can you even

Residential buildings in NYC With the largest interior yards. The Dakota is in 25th place.

NEW: Ingram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of the town. with @nytimes.com

Everyone was afraid a World Series game would end on a pitch clock violation or an overturned strike call or whatever so of course it's an unchallengeable check swing

Yes, that’s why it was so hard to get into any of the popular restaurants - because of all the Jesse James-style robberies happening during peak dinner hours.

Love to regularly perform my one woman show "Will This Bus Ever Come Or, How Can I Tell If It Is Late Or Just Skipping This Cycle Entirely.” (I hear there’s a lot of awards buzz.)

That’s Trump’s U.S. Park Police tackling and trampling people at a concert in DC today. These are the same police whose practices killed Josue Chavez in March and Nolberto Meza in June.

It is easy to forget truly how good Obama is when he is locked in like this.

Given the shift in media ownership over the Trump era, Democrats REALLY need to learn to ignore media handwringing now. Because I have no doubt their every move for accountability will be attacked from every possible angle.

Seems like the Trump White House agrees with everyone who says the Trump White House had committed countless crimes

TODAY at MLK Library! 🎃🍂 Fall fun is taking over from 10 AM–2 PM with a pumpkin patch, train rides, a petting zoo, live entertainment, crafts, seasonal treats and MORE! FREE fun for the whole family!

YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING (2026), dir. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim

and so the next Nathan Fielder project presents itself

All these involuntary noises have to be a symptom of something that can be diagnosed clinically, right?

Beyond parody.

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A few words on Laika's Wildwood, which is the best animated movie I've seen in a very long time. letterboxd.com/mousterpiece...

The hottest club in DC? Any screening of You Can See Everything, apparently. 3pm on a Thursday and it was nearly sold out.

That the Pentagon didn't want to give the Washington Post photos of the historic globe they broke but the Washington Post got those photos anyway is another sign that everyone there hates Hegseth.

The Russians hacked Jared's phone. Then Dutch cyberspies then reverse-engineered that hack, giving them unprecedented access to his world. Bananas story in @vanityfair.com

Last summer, Scientific American's owners were stalking the site, making sure it wasn't being too critical of Trump. This summer, the magazine was sold and gutted. I wrote about it for The Nation www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

Being the most compromised media organization given the competition is a real achievement.