Jake Berg
@jacobsberg.bsky.social
Libraries. Beer. DC. You always go to the show.
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Jake Berg
@jacobsberg.bsky.social
· Dec 31
Beer and Music, Music and Beer, 2025
How this works: I pretty much only use the blog for this yearly post. I've got a bunch of music I liked this year with pithy comments that m...
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Good morning, everyone. Here's what I enjoyed listening to and drinking in 2025.
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
Post-War Japanese Cinema
The History of Chamber Music
US Foreign Policy
Geology
Urban History
Post-War Japanese Cinema
The History of Chamber Music
US Foreign Policy
Geology
Urban History
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen
2. History of the Vietnam War
3. The Collected Works of Stephen Sondheim
4. Ancient Political Theory
5. Music Theory III
1. The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen
2. History of the Vietnam War
3. The Collected Works of Stephen Sondheim
4. Ancient Political Theory
5. Music Theory III
January 31, 2026 at 3:03 AM
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
Post-War Japanese Cinema
The History of Chamber Music
US Foreign Policy
Geology
Urban History
Post-War Japanese Cinema
The History of Chamber Music
US Foreign Policy
Geology
Urban History
Update: 3 Black journalists
Also, not a coincidence that it’s two Black journalists.
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
January 30, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Update: 3 Black journalists
Also, not a coincidence that it’s two Black journalists.
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
January 30, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Also, not a coincidence that it’s two Black journalists.
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The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
January 30, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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Well that’s interesting
BREAKING: Judge dismisses murder, weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealth CEO killer Mangione reut.rs/45Fin56
January 30, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Well that’s interesting
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Mt Pleasant in DC wants you to shop @ independent businesses there Friday w/ profits to benefit Ayuda DC rather than to boycott all shopping and spending on Friday Jan 30
January 30, 2026 at 4:22 AM
Mt Pleasant in DC wants you to shop @ independent businesses there Friday w/ profits to benefit Ayuda DC rather than to boycott all shopping and spending on Friday Jan 30
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Nonsense. It's not possible to steal AI technology. I know this because Google's own LLMs are built using a complete copy of my legal blog, and that's somehow not stealing because, as Google says, a complete copy of my legal blog is both trivial and utterly essential for their tech to work.
Ex-Google Engineer Convicted of Stealing A.I. Secrets for Start-Up in China
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Nonsense. It's not possible to steal AI technology. I know this because Google's own LLMs are built using a complete copy of my legal blog, and that's somehow not stealing because, as Google says, a complete copy of my legal blog is both trivial and utterly essential for their tech to work.
Wonder how many people DHS can kill in the next two weeks...
Going to make a smooth transition from weather-related telework into another government shutdown. Wonder which Jose Andres restaurant to go to first.
January 30, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Wonder how many people DHS can kill in the next two weeks...
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Jesus, things in Minnesota are so fucked up, I am reading Playboy for the articles!
January 29, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Jesus, things in Minnesota are so fucked up, I am reading Playboy for the articles!
Going to make a smooth transition from weather-related telework into another government shutdown. Wonder which Jose Andres restaurant to go to first.
January 29, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Going to make a smooth transition from weather-related telework into another government shutdown. Wonder which Jose Andres restaurant to go to first.
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It is wild to me that a military incursion to steal another country’s resources so the president can have a personal slush fund in Qatar is like the 5th most scandalous thing currently happening.
this is a straightforward impeachable offense for trump, vance, rubio and every other person down the line who enabled it and the framers would have thought impeachment for it did not go nearly far enough
Marco Rubio: "The oil proceeds are being deposited into an account that ultimately will become a US Treasury blocked account here in the US. We will say 'this is what this money can be spent on.' They will submit to us a budget request -- 'we want to use the money on these things.'"
January 29, 2026 at 12:54 AM
It is wild to me that a military incursion to steal another country’s resources so the president can have a personal slush fund in Qatar is like the 5th most scandalous thing currently happening.
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You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.
Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
January 28, 2026 at 10:34 PM
You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.
That’s us!
January 29, 2026 at 3:27 AM
That’s us!
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nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted myself as a squared-up Ilhan Omar and you as a collapsing sewer ogre
January 28, 2026 at 5:00 AM
nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted myself as a squared-up Ilhan Omar and you as a collapsing sewer ogre
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Incredibly, this is an actual photo New York Post used for the guy who attacked Ilhan Omar.
January 28, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Incredibly, this is an actual photo New York Post used for the guy who attacked Ilhan Omar.
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Dc vigil for Alex Pretti
January 27, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Dc vigil for Alex Pretti
Bad news for the Speaker of the House and his large adult son
it's hard to explain how horrible and dangerous this app and the people who made it are but I tried: www.404media.co/app-for-quit...
App for Quitting Porn Leaked Users' Masturbation Habits
Hundreds of thousands of users told the app intimate details about their sexual urges, which are now exposed.
www.404media.co
January 28, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Bad news for the Speaker of the House and his large adult son
Sick of being inside? Come to Bluejacket tonight for a live DC Beer Show and a beer release. I got to name the beer, even!
You might be getting cabin fever, so we humbly suggest you leave the house on Wednesday night and head to Bluejacket for our live podcast and beer release.
DC Beer Show LIVE at Bluejacket!
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January 28, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Sick of being inside? Come to Bluejacket tonight for a live DC Beer Show and a beer release. I got to name the beer, even!
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Loudoun breweries can also use your help: www.protectthepour.org
January 28, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Loudoun breweries can also use your help: www.protectthepour.org
Phillip Glass and I used to live in the same apartment building and I heard he wasn’t very nice, but last time I saw him it was at the Kennedy Center for Koyaniqaatsi (sp) and that was dope
January 28, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Phillip Glass and I used to live in the same apartment building and I heard he wasn’t very nice, but last time I saw him it was at the Kennedy Center for Koyaniqaatsi (sp) and that was dope
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Two *Black* Democrats attacked. That's not a coincidence..
January 28, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Two *Black* Democrats attacked. That's not a coincidence..
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Two Democratic members of Congress attacked in three days. Maxwell Frost was assaulted on Saturday, Ilan Omar tonight.
January 28, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Two Democratic members of Congress attacked in three days. Maxwell Frost was assaulted on Saturday, Ilan Omar tonight.
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To clarify: consular (or diplomatic) premises are not 'foreign soil', no not an invasion. They are, however, inviolable under Art 31 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (USA still a party AFAIK). Local law enforcement can't enter even with a warrant.
Uh. So ICE just technically tried to invade Ecuador. Cool new international incident dropping.
1/27/2026 - Minneapolis
ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone
They did not have a warrant
ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone
They did not have a warrant
January 28, 2026 at 1:02 AM
To clarify: consular (or diplomatic) premises are not 'foreign soil', no not an invasion. They are, however, inviolable under Art 31 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (USA still a party AFAIK). Local law enforcement can't enter even with a warrant.
Is it a small geyser the size of a large geyser?
A "small geyser" of poop water is flooding into the Potomac River
"The collapse of a sewer line carrying wastewater from Virginia and Maryland isn't affecting DC's drinking water. But it's still unbelievably gross."
"The collapse of a sewer line carrying wastewater from Virginia and Maryland isn't affecting DC's drinking water. But it's still unbelievably gross."
More Bad News: A “Small Geyser” of Poop Water Is Flooding Into the Potomac River - Washingtonian
Look, we get it: the last thing you need to read is more bad news. Not when masked paramilitaries are laying siege to Minneapolis, prominent members of the executive branch of the federal government a...
washingtonian.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Is it a small geyser the size of a large geyser?