David Ensign

She done lost her damn mind.

Re-post. This GOP attack ad is in heavy rotation during NFL games. TERF Soren Aldaco says Ohio's Sherrod Brown "supports sex changes for minors, irreversible surgery on kids like me.” 1. Aldaco has never lived in Ohio. 2. She had her surgery in Texas. So blame them. 3. She was 19, not a "kid."

A Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportations -Gave $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania doc -Donated to Trump's ballroom -Wants to reboot The Apprentice w/ Don Jr

The planet may be boiling but hell is getting dangerously cold. George Will and Karl Rove endorsed Democrats this week.

A few years after I graduated high school, the school’s long time football coach didn’t show up to school one day. When he didn’t answer a call the principal went to his home and discovered that he had died of a heart attack. I wonder if someone could send the principal to check on Mitch McConnell.

I have lived a rich, full 66 years, but in twice that many I’d never top the lunch I got to share with Wendell Berry and Cornel West. Rest in peace, Mr. Berry. No writer has meant more to me than him. The world has lost a giant.

Turns out there are plenty of alternatives to Google. This week I’m going to see how much of my digital life I can remove from a company that coddles nazis. I’ll write about it later and share the experience of an old man shouting out the virtual clouds.

Just loaded the Mapquest app where Lake Ontario remains.

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi, I’m my older sister who put a pillow over my infant face to shut me up. I’m still making noise.

If you can spend $100 million in a campaign to stop a wealth tax you're making a perfect case for a wealth tax. Thanks Sergey Brin. Also, fascists not welcome.

Consecutive headlines this morning: Trump raked in $2bn in 2025 500,000 New Yorkers lose health insurance due to Trump cuts Happy birthday, 'merica

Watching the joyous clips from NYC after last night’s game has me wondering why we jump repeatedly when we are happy and excited. It’s kinda odd, but also kinda beautiful. Also, congratulations to the Knicks

The mayor can repeal bedtime for kids but he can’t make the game end at a reasonable time for the rest of us. Made it to halftime.

A friend has taken to carrying a baggie full of glitter to throw when it finally happens.

8647. It’s just a string of numbers.

You would think the media would have moved past simply reporting on the president’s posts and perhaps begun to report on his craziness instead.

Friday the 13th at the DMV. Do I get a prize?

Very young cyclist pedaling past our house, chasing after one of his grownups, gleefully hollers, “this is incredible!” And I completely agree

So the administration wants to track anti-ice social media accounts. Let’s help them out. Fuck ICE.

Fuck ICE, and all of the lawmakers who empower them. If Jeremiah were around, he'd be saying this, and preachers would quote him and say, "this is the word of God for the people of God." Jeremiah is not here, so I'll say it for him. Fuck ICE, and everyone who empowers them. Word of God.

Number nine on our top news stories from 2025: “D.C. churches respond to federal show of force” D.C. churches unite against heightened federal policing, defending vulnerable neighbors and calling for justice over fear-based governance. #pcusa @askforshani.bsky.social @davidensign.bsky.social

Hey Megyn Kelly, 14-year-old Eloise would like a word: “If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good… because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.” Sound up! 🔥🔊 1/2

I voted in VA this week. I hold on to vestigial hope for democracy.

Glad I don't have access to whatever platform the World Series is on these days. I can't lose that much sleep.

No Kings, Arlington VA. An event organized by the residents of the retirement community across from the park. My favorite sign: I'm Too Old for This Shit!

As of Sunday, the 271st day of 2025, there have been more than 320 mass shootings in the US, according to the non-partisan Gun Violence Archive. All I can say is, "hey, hey NRA, how many kids did you kill today?"

It's not complicated. It's the guns.

10-ish year old kid just ran on the field at the Nats game. Doesn't he know the National Guard is in town to stop marauding youth?

At the Nats game alone listening to the game with earbuds. Tapped them to get the "ambient aware" setting and suddenly got a whiff of pot. I don't think that's how that's supposed to work 😎

Remember that line about when fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and waving the Bible? The thing is I never thought I would see it, but here we are.

D.C. churches respond to federal show of force D.C. churches unite against heightened federal policing, defending vulnerable neighbors and calling for justice over fear-based governance. #NationalCapitalPresbytery #pcusa @askforshani.bsky.social @davidensign.bsky.social

The president is right. There is a crime wave in DC. It's centered at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Send in the guards.

To pay down the deficit created by letting billionaires and corporations skate tax free. This song from the Bush meltdown still fits. youtu.be/_M8fOwHnwg0

If Joe Biden said "I appointed Jerome Powell" the media would go nuts with stories about Biden losing cognitive abilities (and rightly so, if he did that). But when Trump says he's surprised that Biden appointed Powell: crickets. I'm surprised about that too since the appointment came in 2018.

Happy Canada Day. Must be nice to get a chance to be proud of your country every now and then.

Question for historians: did Hitler sell perfume?

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Via Sam Stein on twitter

This is a helluva letter

Our youngest child ages off of our insurance this month. She does gig work that serves kids in Title 1 schools. Helping her navigate the market and she asked "why is this so stupid?" Our answer: capitalism with a heavy pour of racism.

What, exactly, are the U.S. Marines being faithful to as they land in L.A. to occupy a U.S. city?

They come for the librarians because libraries are where we preserve culture and where people can discover truth. Fascists want to control culture and undermine truth.

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

@nationals.com what's up with the MASN live stream today?

I love that little determined face...

Losing a job is not the worst thing in the world. This post is about ICE agents.

One of our grandkids is on the spectrum. So this is a nice old grandpa saying to RFK, Jr. with all due respect, and I mean every ounce of respect due you: go fuck yourself.

Estimates range from 3-5.2 million Americans in the streets over the weekend protesting against the administration. Or about 100 times as many as showed up for the inauguration in January. Bummer that it took seeing the first two months instead of stopping it in November, but here we are.

Why DEI matters: I was watching a Nats’ game with a queer person who has a lot of experience in lesbian circles. They pointed out to me that the hand gesture Nats players make after a hit is a gesture for lesbian sex. Organizations need diversity so they don’t embarrass themselves. #MLB

I love my little neighborhood. Five of us squeezing into our Subaru this morning to head down to the Mall and make a little ruckus.