At the new location are they going to let people inside again or do we keep waiting in the blazing sun / freezing cold
OUTSTANDING Sandwich Scuttlebutt: Bub and Pop’s moving from Dupont to NoMa!?! - There is HOPE: www.popville.com/2025/06/dc-b...
OUTSTANDING Sandwich Scuttlebutt: Bub and Pop’s moving from Dupont to NoMa!?! - PoPville
1815 M Street, NW OK continuing coverage of the Bub and Pop's Dupont/M Street closure continues. Well they definitely closed on M Street and have moved out much of the furniture/kitchen. BUT scuttlebu...
www.popville.com
June 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
At the new location are they going to let people inside again or do we keep waiting in the blazing sun / freezing cold
A documentary made for me specifically. There goes my afternoon. youtu.be/HUtJO59eKJ8
Linotype | How One Machine Shaped History | The Real OG of Mass Communication
YouTube video by Moconomy
youtu.be
April 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A documentary made for me specifically. There goes my afternoon. youtu.be/HUtJO59eKJ8
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Checking in with the UK
King Charles plays music on carrot recorder, as joins in with London Vegetable Orchestra
King Charles played a recorder made out of a carrot as met with members of the London Vegetable Orchestra during a reception at Windsor Castle on Thursday.
apnews.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Checking in with the UK
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BOOKS are back! - Dig it: www.popville.com/2025/04/inte...
Interior Demolition Downtown for forthcoming Barnes & Noble store!! - PoPville
Thanks to Mark for sending: "Barnes & Noble is returning downtown to the former Zara space in the Woodies building at 1025 F St, NW. Demolition of the interior started this week. Not sure when it's pl...
www.popville.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
BOOKS are back! - Dig it: www.popville.com/2025/04/inte...
Cool cool cool
Breaking: DC Health was notified of a confirmed case of measles in a person who visited multiple locations in DC while contagious. DC Health is informing people who were at these locations that they may have been exposed:
March 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Cool cool cool
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Kaufmann: DOGE claims to have found Social Security loans going to 11 year olds and under. It's a survivor benefit annuity to young children whose parents have passed. That's the problem billionaires without a clue doing a job they don't understand
March 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Kaufmann: DOGE claims to have found Social Security loans going to 11 year olds and under. It's a survivor benefit annuity to young children whose parents have passed. That's the problem billionaires without a clue doing a job they don't understand
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It's Streisand Time, wotta thrill
Buy 'Careless People' by Sarah Wynn-Williams from independent bookshops:
bookshop.org/p/books/care...
Buy 'Careless People' by Sarah Wynn-Williams from independent bookshops:
bookshop.org/p/books/care...
March 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
It's Streisand Time, wotta thrill
Buy 'Careless People' by Sarah Wynn-Williams from independent bookshops:
bookshop.org/p/books/care...
Buy 'Careless People' by Sarah Wynn-Williams from independent bookshops:
bookshop.org/p/books/care...
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DC residents whose city is about to be immiserated by the GOP and Trump:
Here's a chance to ask Chuck Schumer to his face why he capitulated to the GOP CR that strips DC of vital funding
www.sixthandi.org/event/senato...
Here's a chance to ask Chuck Schumer to his face why he capitulated to the GOP CR that strips DC of vital funding
www.sixthandi.org/event/senato...
Senator Chuck Schumer - Sixth & I
In Antisemitism in America: A Warning, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer—the highest-elected Jewish official in American history—illuminates the Jewish American experience, including the prejudic...
www.sixthandi.org
March 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
DC residents whose city is about to be immiserated by the GOP and Trump:
Here's a chance to ask Chuck Schumer to his face why he capitulated to the GOP CR that strips DC of vital funding
www.sixthandi.org/event/senato...
Here's a chance to ask Chuck Schumer to his face why he capitulated to the GOP CR that strips DC of vital funding
www.sixthandi.org/event/senato...
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Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.
March 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.
Excited for this!
March 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Excited for this!
Quelle surprise 😮
Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.
Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries
Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.
buff.ly
March 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Quelle surprise 😮
The year is 2025 and I've just completed my first watch of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
March 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The year is 2025 and I've just completed my first watch of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Life hack: get a 100% discount by driving the speed limit and not running red lights.
This spring, D.C. is piloting a program offering low-income drivers a 50 percent discount on tickets from traffic cameras.
The fine line: Should low-income drivers pay less when they break the law?
This spring, D.C. is piloting a program offering low-income drivers a 50 percent discount on tickets from traffic cameras.
51st.news
March 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Life hack: get a 100% discount by driving the speed limit and not running red lights.
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I just posted this piece about “reading,” about the typography in Paris Is Burning, and all kinds of reads and reading, and how crucial it is right now to *spell it all out* while so many are trying to undo the grammar of queer & trans life soulellis.substack.com/p/reading
Reading
Paris Is Burning (1990), the notorious documentary by Jennie Livingston centered on ballroom culture in New York City in the mid- to late 1980s, is organized into 28 “chapters.” Each one is framed by ...
soulellis.substack.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I just posted this piece about “reading,” about the typography in Paris Is Burning, and all kinds of reads and reading, and how crucial it is right now to *spell it all out* while so many are trying to undo the grammar of queer & trans life soulellis.substack.com/p/reading
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Government efficiency is when every federal agency has to send a daily emergency email to its workers telling them to ignore another daily email from a different department trying to fire them without knowing what their jobs are.
February 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Government efficiency is when every federal agency has to send a daily emergency email to its workers telling them to ignore another daily email from a different department trying to fire them without knowing what their jobs are.
Devastating www.popville.com/2025/02/e-st...
As if everything weren’t bad enough – I can’t believe I’m typing this – E Street Cinema is Closing In March because of course it is - PoPville
11th and E Street, NW God bless it! Thanks to Justin, Jacob, and Daphney for sharing the terrible news: "I just left E St Cinema, where the staff confirmed they're closing. They said it's not official...
www.popville.com
February 19, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Devastating www.popville.com/2025/02/e-st...
Me last night seeing everyone’s White Lotus takes: “surely you’re just exaggerating/projecting”
Me tonight watching White Lotus: “oh I see…”
Me tonight watching White Lotus: “oh I see…”
February 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Me last night seeing everyone’s White Lotus takes: “surely you’re just exaggerating/projecting”
Me tonight watching White Lotus: “oh I see…”
Me tonight watching White Lotus: “oh I see…”
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the next time an originalist says anything about the Constitution, the appropriate response is:
You're implying that the Founders would support what you're doing. How do you know? Did you hold a seance? It is all well and good to think WWTFD (What would the Founders do?) but we really have no clue.
You're implying that the Founders would support what you're doing. How do you know? Did you hold a seance? It is all well and good to think WWTFD (What would the Founders do?) but we really have no clue.
“I could’ve written about any number of the important rule-of-law and ethics questions arising out of the Adams/Bove affair. But the *real* issue to which I’ll dedicate my time is that Danielle Sassoon invoked her Scalia clerkship in her letter to the Attorney General.”
reason.com/volokh/2025/...
reason.com/volokh/2025/...
February 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
the next time an originalist says anything about the Constitution, the appropriate response is:
You're implying that the Founders would support what you're doing. How do you know? Did you hold a seance? It is all well and good to think WWTFD (What would the Founders do?) but we really have no clue.
You're implying that the Founders would support what you're doing. How do you know? Did you hold a seance? It is all well and good to think WWTFD (What would the Founders do?) but we really have no clue.
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Crucial thing you must do right now is strengthen and expand your community. Serve together. Try a new activity. See each other in person. Over on the other site I am continually struck by how the rabid intensity does not actually reflect community or connection. Only way we get through this.
February 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Crucial thing you must do right now is strengthen and expand your community. Serve together. Try a new activity. See each other in person. Over on the other site I am continually struck by how the rabid intensity does not actually reflect community or connection. Only way we get through this.
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Please tell your people about The 51st. Our ~biggest challenge~ is letting folks know we exist.
We believe news is a public service, so subscription is free!
We immediately‼️saw more people give us a chance after some of our subscribers shared with their networks yesterday ⬇️.
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We immediately‼️saw more people give us a chance after some of our subscribers shared with their networks yesterday ⬇️.
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51st.news
February 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Please tell your people about The 51st. Our ~biggest challenge~ is letting folks know we exist.
We believe news is a public service, so subscription is free!
We immediately‼️saw more people give us a chance after some of our subscribers shared with their networks yesterday ⬇️.
Thanks in advance!
We believe news is a public service, so subscription is free!
We immediately‼️saw more people give us a chance after some of our subscribers shared with their networks yesterday ⬇️.
Thanks in advance!
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Missed the halftime show, but thoroughly enjoying how mad it's making every MAGA loser in America
February 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Missed the halftime show, but thoroughly enjoying how mad it's making every MAGA loser in America
Saw this last night and it’s a wild play (in a good way). Great cast all around, and especially the lead and his increasingly sinister puppet. keegantheatre.com/portfolio/ha...
Hand to God - The Keegan Theatre
keegantheatre.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Saw this last night and it’s a wild play (in a good way). Great cast all around, and especially the lead and his increasingly sinister puppet. keegantheatre.com/portfolio/ha...
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My latest.
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation.
The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My latest.
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...