Darrow Montgomery

I’m in Bangkok and just googled: “Thai food near me” to see what would happen

it feels truly insane that it’s not

Monday by the sea

Elon Musk is spending $158 million on Ken Paxton’s campaign. That’s more than the Make-A-Wish Foundation's annual revenue. Some people grant wishes to kids fighting serious illnesses. Other people bankroll a crooked pol whose make-a-wish was partying in Dubai with 2 fugitives from fraud charges.

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

Katie Zacharia was practicing law the right way. by Ezra Klein

I also have a hard time passing a bar but never thought of calling myself a lawyer

This is always worth a share😁

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

The execution will be televised.

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

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Twenty five birds

The United States of America where the Supreme Court urges on an execution that the state just botches . Barbaric.

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Everything is a fucking horror show

our country is a death cult.

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Our system of governance derives its legitimacy from the consent of the governed. When public servants use propaganda to manipulate the people they are supposed to serve in order to MANUFACTURE that consent, our SERVANTS soon become our MASTERS. Your tax dollars paid for this ad.

Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished

If you’re a talking head on NPR and you use a America as shorthand for the US I’m going to think you’re not that serious

This is the country that four decades of "personal responsibility" politics have wrought.

Waiting Room

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Thousands of protesters gathered at the Kennedy Center on Friday to demand the Trump administration take its “hands off” the performing arts institution. City Paper’s @darrow-m.bsky.social was there to capture the moment.

Night at the Opera

My dog is a depression era baby , completely happy to play with a used beer cap

Amy Cutting Beets, 2012

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washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7913... @wcp.bsky.social I wrote a small thing about a big event I tried to photograph 25 years ago

WiFi is out in the building and I stuck reading a book with pages like it’s still 1997 or something

Holy Crap!

Staff photographer @darrow-m.bsky.social went through his photo archive to find the images that captured how D.C. and its neighbors fared on and after September 11. "We all have memories, I have some photographs to go along with them," Montgomery writes.

washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7913... @wcp.bsky.social I wrote a small thing about a big event I tried to photograph 25 years ago

“Questionable and provocative” is a misleading-to-the-point-of-deception way of describing his fundamentally incompatible statements. At the least, some of them (if not many or all of them) are lies.

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Someone in a truck with Maryland plates actually yelled at a person on the side walk in front of me tonight. F you n word. Where does this permission come from , I wonder.

Sitting in my kitchen with the window open and a cool breeze on my back . Weather can make or break my day

So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...

R.I.P. Cassandra Wilson and thank you for the music.

The illegal boat strikes began exactly one year ago today. The boat strikes weren’t really about stopping drugs. They were about testing for compliance to see who would obey illegal orders & purge objectors. Trump was normalizing his ability to smite anyone—like the angry God of the Old Testament.🧵

The governor of Florida and his wife stole ten million dollars from a charity, but CNN would rather spend another week on blatant Islamophobic character assassination of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, because they work for MAGA billionaires.

I’m now on team paper maps from the 80s. Thanks AAA

This past week: CHINA: Announced the discovery of a probiotic that reverses diabetes. USA: Made up the name of a lake without any legal authority. CHINA: Invented EV battery with 600+ mile range. USA: Used AI to create silly video of a fake battle in unpopular war.

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On Friday, thousands of people from across the country attended the March on Washington 2026: Defend the Vote at the Lincoln Memorial, 63 years after the original March on Washington. @darrow-m.bsky.social was there to capture the scene:

Google pumping out lake news. Pathetic

It's a whole political party dedicated to the type of people who don't return their cart at the grocery store.