Sam Myszkowski
@sammyszkowski.bsky.social
(he/him) DC policy advocate and organizer, urbanist, Trekkie
The State Dept Calibri thing sucks. When I was in high school, I had this stupid combined econ-American govt class that the teacher refused to teach, so I took both textbooks home to read and the thing I remember was that the econ book was in sans-serif font and I read the whole thing in a month
December 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The State Dept Calibri thing sucks. When I was in high school, I had this stupid combined econ-American govt class that the teacher refused to teach, so I took both textbooks home to read and the thing I remember was that the econ book was in sans-serif font and I read the whole thing in a month
This is why we need both Janeese for mayor and a full takeover of the DC Democratic Party
We need more journalistic attention paid to this message. The Democrats aren't capable of meeting the moment. All they want to do is repeat focus group approved bland attacks on Trump, rather than lead the way with proposals to make people's lives better
December 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This is why we need both Janeese for mayor and a full takeover of the DC Democratic Party
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everyone involved in this--from that nameless fuckface guard to john roberts himself--should spend their rest of their lives in prison
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
everyone involved in this--from that nameless fuckface guard to john roberts himself--should spend their rest of their lives in prison
"partiful is problematic" has gotta be one of the least fruitful leftist discourses out there
December 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"partiful is problematic" has gotta be one of the least fruitful leftist discourses out there
The thing at the core of Bowser being so accomodationist with Trump is that she doesn't think she could win, and she's right - not because DC is at such a political disadvantage vs national Republicans but because she herself is inept at anything except managing her local whiskey ring administration
December 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The thing at the core of Bowser being so accomodationist with Trump is that she doesn't think she could win, and she's right - not because DC is at such a political disadvantage vs national Republicans but because she herself is inept at anything except managing her local whiskey ring administration
to go to the Janeese event with a cold or not to go
December 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
to go to the Janeese event with a cold or not to go
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Say more about why they are afraid to say “bombing”
President Donald Trump suggested the Pentagon will soon start targeting drug cartels with strikes on land in Venezuela and beyond, after a campaign that has mainly focused on alleged trafficking vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean.
Trump Said US Will ‘Soon’ Do Land Strikes on Drug Traffickers
President Donald Trump suggested the Pentagon will soon start targeting drug cartels with strikes on land in Venezuela and beyond, after a campaign that has mainly focused on alleged trafficking vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean.
bloom.bg
December 3, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Say more about why they are afraid to say “bombing”
Hegseth has crazy game for mimicking Trump's sideways mouth droop like this. a murderer with levels of sycophancy never before seen. From www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/u...
December 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Hegseth has crazy game for mimicking Trump's sideways mouth droop like this. a murderer with levels of sycophancy never before seen. From www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/u...
I am a non-profit board member and this is a correct take!
I would argue pretty strenuously that overreliance on nonprofits for social services is, in fact, a centrist position at best. NGO world cloaks itself in progressivism by adhering to cultural signifiers of social justice. Endless land acknowledgements as they take public jobs from union workers.
December 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I am a non-profit board member and this is a correct take!
dude typed "who's the most hated secretary of defense" into chaptgpt last night and learned a new combination of words but not really what they meant
Hegseth denies seeing survivors after initial boat strike, calling it 'the fog of war' (NBC News)
Main Link | memeorandum Permalink
Main Link | memeorandum Permalink
December 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
dude typed "who's the most hated secretary of defense" into chaptgpt last night and learned a new combination of words but not really what they meant
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no one else has been so consistently artful in describing the last decade of conservative politics than David Roth, and for this accursèd talent the least he deserves is a Pulitzer defector.com/the-conserva...
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...
defector.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
no one else has been so consistently artful in describing the last decade of conservative politics than David Roth, and for this accursèd talent the least he deserves is a Pulitzer defector.com/the-conserva...
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My opinion about the accommodations discourse today is:
1) Universal design. Universal design is the answer. Accommodations for everybody.
2) It's the carceral bullshit around grades and testing that makes accommodations seem like a problem. Stop doing it! Just let the carceral bullshit go!
1) Universal design. Universal design is the answer. Accommodations for everybody.
2) It's the carceral bullshit around grades and testing that makes accommodations seem like a problem. Stop doing it! Just let the carceral bullshit go!
December 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
My opinion about the accommodations discourse today is:
1) Universal design. Universal design is the answer. Accommodations for everybody.
2) It's the carceral bullshit around grades and testing that makes accommodations seem like a problem. Stop doing it! Just let the carceral bullshit go!
1) Universal design. Universal design is the answer. Accommodations for everybody.
2) It's the carceral bullshit around grades and testing that makes accommodations seem like a problem. Stop doing it! Just let the carceral bullshit go!
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I cannot apologize to the college feminists on my campus in undergrad enough. They were clearly the real materialists and I was LARPing. It really is gender all the way down.
lol it's just "big truck big".
*TRUMP TO ANNOUNCE PROPOSED ROLLBACK IN AUTO FUEL ECONOMY RULES
*TRUMP FUEL-ECONOMY ANNOUNCEMENT EXPECTED WED. AT WHITE HOUSE
*WHITE HOUSE MEETING TO INCLUDE EXECUTIVES FROM GM, FORD
*TRUMP TO ANNOUNCE PROPOSED ROLLBACK IN AUTO FUEL ECONOMY RULES
*TRUMP FUEL-ECONOMY ANNOUNCEMENT EXPECTED WED. AT WHITE HOUSE
*WHITE HOUSE MEETING TO INCLUDE EXECUTIVES FROM GM, FORD
Trump to address White House at 2:00 pm ET Tuesday
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I cannot apologize to the college feminists on my campus in undergrad enough. They were clearly the real materialists and I was LARPing. It really is gender all the way down.
I think there's a really good if expensive option here - leave the outer concourse of the building intact, renovate the central concourse into a more contemporary office building, and convert the courtyards between them into exterior spaces. This land on should absolutely stay federal property.
A lesser-known federal office building that deserves some attention:
streetsofwashington.substack.com/p/the-monume...
streetsofwashington.substack.com/p/the-monume...
The monumental Cohen Building on the chopping block
It's been called "The Sistine Chapel of the New Deal"
streetsofwashington.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I think there's a really good if expensive option here - leave the outer concourse of the building intact, renovate the central concourse into a more contemporary office building, and convert the courtyards between them into exterior spaces. This land on should absolutely stay federal property.
being anti accommodations is just Social Darwinism and is quasi-eugenicist
The administration is extorting universities for billions of dollars and attempting to destroy free speech, academic freedom, and independent thought but the Atlantic talked to a few professors at elite universities who think the problem is that some students need a little extra time on exams
December 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
being anti accommodations is just Social Darwinism and is quasi-eugenicist
look I know this is tired at this point, but it should be said that the process of continuous adversarial press inquiry has forced them to acknowledge a reality they're supposedly just not aware of, rather than just describing a fantasy world as most Trump admin people do
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
look I know this is tired at this point, but it should be said that the process of continuous adversarial press inquiry has forced them to acknowledge a reality they're supposedly just not aware of, rather than just describing a fantasy world as most Trump admin people do
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I have come to see stadium politics as a real commentary on state capacity and political imagination. In a world where avg citizens see govt as ineffectual, stadiums become the only conceivable public works project, onto which they then project decades worth of hopes and dreams.
When it comes to stadiums, people will believe the most ridiculous obviously untrue things. This stadium could "potentially save lives"?... It's embarrassing that someone would say something this asinine out loud. buff.ly/fN8kCUC
December 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I have come to see stadium politics as a real commentary on state capacity and political imagination. In a world where avg citizens see govt as ineffectual, stadiums become the only conceivable public works project, onto which they then project decades worth of hopes and dreams.
democratic leaders with brains so swollen they've pushed all the oxygen out of the room: it's a distraction to try to impeach the secretary of defense for mass murder
December 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
democratic leaders with brains so swollen they've pushed all the oxygen out of the room: it's a distraction to try to impeach the secretary of defense for mass murder
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DC, I'm so grateful!
Thanks to your support, we qualified for public financing in just 4 hours and set a record in qualifying for Fair Elections with more than 1,000 DC donors.
This is a people-powered movement, and we are just getting started.
Let's keep up the momentum! 💪🏾
Thanks to your support, we qualified for public financing in just 4 hours and set a record in qualifying for Fair Elections with more than 1,000 DC donors.
This is a people-powered movement, and we are just getting started.
Let's keep up the momentum! 💪🏾
December 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
DC, I'm so grateful!
Thanks to your support, we qualified for public financing in just 4 hours and set a record in qualifying for Fair Elections with more than 1,000 DC donors.
This is a people-powered movement, and we are just getting started.
Let's keep up the momentum! 💪🏾
Thanks to your support, we qualified for public financing in just 4 hours and set a record in qualifying for Fair Elections with more than 1,000 DC donors.
This is a people-powered movement, and we are just getting started.
Let's keep up the momentum! 💪🏾
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Ex-official explained this in a way that will stick with me forever: Within fire departments, the EMTs are overworked and underpaid and don’t have time to advocate for policy. The fire chiefs, on the other hand, have a lot more time on their hands. So fire response, not medical, dictates policy.
November 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Ex-official explained this in a way that will stick with me forever: Within fire departments, the EMTs are overworked and underpaid and don’t have time to advocate for policy. The fire chiefs, on the other hand, have a lot more time on their hands. So fire response, not medical, dictates policy.
I love how every crypto thing is like a quantum ponzi scheme, where the actual investment is a statistical distribution between speculative asset and total scam.
Bitcoin champion Strategy launches ‘dollar reserve’ amid crypto sell-off on.ft.com/3Y16mm6
Bitcoin champion Strategy launches ‘dollar reserve’ amid crypto sell-off
Shares tumble as group warns of loss of up to $5.5bn if digital asset prices do not rebound
on.ft.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I love how every crypto thing is like a quantum ponzi scheme, where the actual investment is a statistical distribution between speculative asset and total scam.
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The DC I know is worth fighting for.
I’m Janeese Lewis George, and I’m running for Mayor.
youtu.be/aOBD45c3wVM
I’m Janeese Lewis George, and I’m running for Mayor.
youtu.be/aOBD45c3wVM
The DC I know
YouTube video by Janeese for DC
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The DC I know is worth fighting for.
I’m Janeese Lewis George, and I’m running for Mayor.
youtu.be/aOBD45c3wVM
I’m Janeese Lewis George, and I’m running for Mayor.
youtu.be/aOBD45c3wVM
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you should support liberal currents!
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
you should support liberal currents!
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Wow, Annemarie Gray AND Paul Williams on Zohran's transition team for housing! Nice!!! Very pro-housing picks. Big indicator that Zohran & the NYC DSA genuinely favor zoning and permitting reform, despite the defamatory, toxic and apparently ineffective, slander online.
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Wow, Annemarie Gray AND Paul Williams on Zohran's transition team for housing! Nice!!! Very pro-housing picks. Big indicator that Zohran & the NYC DSA genuinely favor zoning and permitting reform, despite the defamatory, toxic and apparently ineffective, slander online.