If you like what happened in Virginia, you’re gonna love DC statehood

They think you're stupid.

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing.

(image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)

Want to Resist a Data Center? These Organizers Share How They Did It. Organizers from Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Arizona share strategies for resisting data centers in other communities.

"The community resistance on both sides of the aisle is so enormous. This feels like the one thing that is connecting everybody together."

My new @truthout.org roundtable with three organizers across the US fighting data centers - and their lessons for others.

End of an Era: Down Goes One of the (the very?) Last Pay Phones in Town - PoPville Thanks to Terry for sending: "Had been asking for 10 years for this broken pay phone at 2452 18th St NW to be removed and finally was." 2452 18th Street, NW RIP the era of payphones. From Wikipedia: "...

End of an Era: Down Goes One of the (the very?) Last Pay Phones in Town - There was a time www.popville.com/2026/04/down...

To Fight Heat, NYC Sets 2040 Tree Canopy Deadline, With Riskiest Areas First How the plan will be funded is unclear. The Mamdani administration has not earmarked money for its tree-expansion initiative.

trees as cooling infrastructure! this is a fascinating story from @smaldo.bsky.social:

Multiple oil spills are visible from space after Iranian and US-Israeli strikes hit oil facilities and ships in the region, with experts warning of an impending environmental catastrophe. https://cnn.it/3Ovxzwk

These two widely shared images claiming to show the IDF restoring a statue of Jesus that was previously damaged by an Israeli soldier near Debl, Lebanon, are AI-generated and fake.

A Google SynthID check finds watermarks that suggest both images were made with Google AI.

"Your job is so fun," yes, but did you know I have to single handedly fight no fewer than sixth algorithms every day for the privilege of telling people to not set their beds on fire.

Screenshot of a post showing a video of a dad falling into his toddler's crib while putting the toddler to bed. We commented with safe sleep advice that included not falling on your baby. It got over 4 thousand likes.

Screenshot of a video of a girl using her hair dryer as a space heater in bed. We commented the word oh. Our comment got over 6 thousand likes.

Maybe we've been too hard on the threads community

Check out more of my work on pelvic floor therapy. This time, I’m talking #endometriosis!

If he meant any of this he'd just retire from commentary because that's the only rational response to getting it this wrong, but instead he's just gonna endorse Vance next year because of under-the-hood articles about how he opposed the war

A watchful D.C. resident sent me a photo of something we haven’t seen in years; water flowing down the cascading fountain at Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park. NPS started work on the long-dry fountain late last year, as part of a broader project to refurbish the park.

Defund the hostile domestic troops who wage war against the civilian population of the United States.

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.

There's just gotta be a line somewhere.

Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

Infowars’ endless afterlife The Onion may finally boot Alex Jones from his studio, but years of damage have already been done.

NEW: How exactly has Alex Jones avoided paying the Sandy Hook families a single dime of what he owes? I wrote about it here, and spoke to Chris Mattei, an attorney for some of the families, and Lenny Pozner, the father of the youngest child who died at Sandy Hook: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

25-581 25-5343 CERTIORARI GRANTED ST. MARY CATHOLIC PARISH, ET AL. V. ROY, LISA, ET AL. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted limited to Questions 1 and 2 presented by the petition. BEAIRD, KENDRICK J. V. UNITED STATES The motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma 2 pauperis is granted. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted limited to the following question: Whether Stinson v. United States, 508 U. S. 36 (1993), still correctly states the rule for the deference that courts must give the commentary to the Sentencing Guidelines.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court takes up two new cases for next term, including a case over Colorado’s exclusion of Catholic preschools from public funding.

The case specifically raises a question the court has circled around for years: Whether 1990’s Employment Division v. Smith should be overruled.

NEW: Live Nation and Ticketmaster will pay $9.9 million to DC for charging predatory hidden fees and be required to display all fees up front in the total ticket cost.

This case is separate from our anti-monopoly lawsuit against Live Nation.

We are fighting for fairness for fans on every front.

Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...

Eyal Weizman: "The most systematic destruction was caused by D9 bulldozers made by the US company Caterpillar. These giant armored machines stabbed their blades into the ground, churning up fields, felling orchards, flattening homes, tearing through roads and ploughing through cemeteries."

Fig Newmans are far superior to the original AND to other dupes (sorry, Mr. Trader!)

Mike Nellis @MikeNellis "I'M NO LONGER CATHOLIC!" Hannity ABANDONS HIS FAITH for Trump NELLIS X.com • +*+

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

Photo of Pinto with Gretchen Wharton (older Black woman in sunglasses) to the left, and Shawn Townsend (Black man in a black t-shirt with a pink flower on it) to the right of her. Text: Dear Neighbor, We need a leader who doesn't hesitate to take action when she sees a crisis. That's Brooke Pinto. We're proud to endorse her campaign because she will bring new energy to lower skyrocketing housing costs and keep our longtime neighbors from being priced out of their homes. We've seen Brooke's leadership in action up close during her time as a Councilmember. There is no one better to fight for us in DC. We hope you'll join us in supporting her, Gretchen Wharton and Shawn Townsend

Second, the big highlight is a letter from her co-chairs, one of whom is the man behind the effort to rollback paid family leave (and I-82) in the District, RAMW’s Shawn Townsend. The women who Pinto’s counting on really like #PFL, so she better hope they don’t find out about that association.

[Top left corner of back of mailer:] PAID FOR BY BROOKE PINTO FOR CONGRESS BPIN-2026-1001 | PLEASE RECYCLE AFTER READING [Union bug is to the right of this text] 1350 PENNSYLVANIA AVE, NW, SUITE 106 WASHINGTON, DC 20004 Join our campaign. BrookePintoForCongress.com [social media icons]

Some things that stood out to me in this Brooke Pinto mailer we just got at our W4 home.

First, this jaw dropper: the return address for this campaign mailer is her COUNCIL address! 😳

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

“On multiple occasions in the past year, members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to information supplied to Justice Department and White House officials.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Why scientists are nervous about fungi They can pose a threat to human health — yeast infections are but one example. Scientists say not enough attention is paid to their ability to develop resistance to medications that treat them.

They can pose a threat to human health — yeast infections are but one example. Scientists say not enough attention is paid to their ability to develop resistance to medications that treat them.

Curfew Announcement Friday, April 17-Sunday, April 19, 2026 Note: The citywide curfew takes effect at conclusion of the zone at 11pm Map of Takoma/Manor Park showing a yellow box bounded by blue lines at 3rd St NW, Sheridan St NW, 5th St NW, and Van Buren Street NW Juvenile Curvew Zone 8:00PM-11:00PM Citywide Curfew 11:00PM-6:00AmM

A “juvenile curfew zone” has been announced for my neighborhood, encompassing schools and the rec center, for tonight through Sunday. It’s spring break for most DC kids.

We Forget About ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ at Our Peril The abuses are piling up, and Democrats and activists are desperate to get the word out.

"A large number of Cubans are being held at the Everglades facility. 'Predominantly, the population are Cubans whose families voted for or supported Trump, and they’re pissed,' immigration activist Thomas Kennedy said."

Every federal official involved in this shameful episode needs to be prosecuted.