Jacob Barss-Bailey

NEW: "It’s been hell." "I’m dead inside." "I honestly don’t know if I will ever find work in the U.S. again, let alone D.C." "It’s akin to screaming into a void." What is going on with D.C.'s job market? Contributor Abi Newhouse investigated:

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They should make a database of everyone who gets mad at a post like this and permanently strip them of their driver’s license

Ummm, there's apparently a driver with a Florida tag who has gotten 57 traffic camera tickets in D.C. — including one for driving *141 mph* in a 35 mph zone. And another driver with a Virginia tag that has 405 traffic camera tickets, including going 108 in a 25. Insane.

there's been a huge gender gap in who reads English literary fiction forever. even in the 1950s, when authors were 3:1 male and the academic canonization of the novel was in full swing, 70-80% of readers were women. changing the books won't help, you need to change men.

Morton Feldman, Julius Eastman, Ralph Jones and Peter Gena on a train to Scotland. Feb. 13, 1974

"If Democrats hold back from court reform for the sake of maintaining norms, they will be maintaining something that no longer serves its purpose." www.liberalcurrents.com/clausewitz-a...

this could be us but you playing

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You ever wonder where fish sticks came from? hakaimagazine.com/article-shor...

youtube should have a setting that only shows videos made by people with autism

I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

a giant furry sack of potatoes

glad to see duke's collection will continue to be cared for after its sad closure

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The squirrel slo-mo tumbling out of Leody Taveras' glove really just brings it all home

Herbie Hancock literally in the studio

the newly restored malcolm x park fountains have turned a worrying shade of ochre since last night

I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

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ADDAC's Four Strings electroacoustic modules are very exciting. Not seen much else like them in the eurorack format. www.youtube.com/watch?v=okrl...

a candidate explicitly running on sewer socialism in not only a major US city but its capital. what an era

The place I donate blood gives points that you can exchange for gas cards which means I actually know the current exchange rate of blood for oil. Blood is going for 20.618 times an equivalent amount of oil.

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Authoritative essay by leading election law expert. On how the Roberts Court's voting rights cases - now, most recently, the Alabama decision - have thrust the country away from multiracial democracy and toward the undoing of the Second Reconstruction. By Professor Pamela Karlan

nice to have the fountains and cascade working again at malcolm x park

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new hampshire has 234 towns and cities i don't have time to list them all here

(as a teenager) $5.25/hr stripping and resurfacing linoleum floors. caustic fumes did not improve job satisfaction.

Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891

Emulating a CPU in Postgres is an affront to God.

Direct File was an exemplary model for future civic tech projects. A lot of what the 18F team accomplished could be replicated and extended by a non-profit who was sufficiently funded and I bet a lot of the same people would help you.

A lot of people have asked what the Oakland Review of Books is. One good answer is that ORB is the opposite of whatever these guys have become. Give a thought to subscribing, won't you? www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org#/portal/signup

i've been quite skeptical of manned spaceflight but we have big machines that turn pilots and scientists into poets and i think we should keep using them

Monocle and Eye (light blue), from Jocular Ocular series (N221) issued by Kinney Bros. Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company 1889 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/719639

We have a very simple solution to universal programs benefiting the wealthy. You claw back the money through taxes on the back end. Everyone has known this for 100 years, but people get to pretend they don’t when it’s convenient for their ideology.

On the centenary of his birth year, a nice profile of Morty Feldman from the NYTimes.