yiiiikes

Brisk today, freeze threat tonight… then we’re right back to near 80 by late week 😅

• Highs today: 50–55, breezy
• Lows tonight: near 32
• Tues: sunny, near 60
• Wed–Fri: 70s to 80s
• Cooler again Sun

🎢 Spring roller coaster in full swing

Forecast: cwg.live

Photo by @rivergirl202.bsky.social

“Frustration with modern dating” feels like an awfully charitable phrasing for what’s motivating these guys

i can't help but think about 10 or 11 years ago when conservatives insisted that obama was uniquely anti-catholic because his administration thought that catholic-led orgs could just fill out a form if they didn't want to cover contraceptives in their health plans for employees.

New: Feds allege SantaCon con

Breaking:

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota county investigates ICE arrest of Hmong American man as a potential case of kidnapping and false imprisonment.

Temperatures showing high forecast and comparison to normal on Wednesday.

Get ready for April to act like July 🥵 Near and above 90 Tue-Thu, with records under threat daily.

A 3-day 90s streak? Would be the second earliest on record if it happens. Earliest 90+ since 2013 almost certain. DC’s avg first 90 isn’t until May 18. Close to 30 degrees above normal at peak...ick.

NEW: Statement from Swalwell's senior staffers: "We stand with our former colleague and the other women that have come forward. We believe you should stand with them, too."

How ‘A Pox on Fools’ by Thomas Levenson Got Made An inside look at the publication process for the science writer’s latest book

Time for book promotion!

A Pox on Fools is a historical indictment of RFK Jr. & his anti-vax allies. I believe it's an important work; advance praise has been great, & I'll be posting examples at regular intervals.

For now, check out this lovely Publishers Weekly piece on how the book came to be:

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago.

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Exclusive: ICE arrested more than 800 people after tips from US airport security agency U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested more than 800 people following tips ​shared by federal airport security officials from the start of Donald Trump's presidency through February 2026, i...

Exclusive: ICE arrested more than 800 people after tips from US airport security agency, w/ @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/ice-ar...

Trump's VA killed a home loan program. Vets are now losing their homes because of it Foreclosures on VA loans are at their highest level in a decade. VA has a fix but it is months away and could still leave vets worse off than most other homeowners.

More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May of last year, when the Trump admin shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program, according to the latest industry data.

That is the highest pace of foreclosures for VA loans in a decade.

Screenshot from the NASA Artemis II launch livestream showing the core stage separation from a camera on the rocket.

What a fucking shot holy shit

#NASA #ArtemisII - And Liftoff of the Space Launch System Carrying the Four-Person Artemis II Crew on the first journey to the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. Go Integrity!

No sitting president has ever appeared before the Supreme Court during oral arguments in the history of the United States.

Trump signs order directing creation of a national voter list, a move sure to face legal challenges President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that creates a list of verified eligible voters nationwide.

Elections officials in Oregon and Arizona are the first to pledge legal challenges to President Trump's executive order to create a nationwide list of verified eligible voters and to restrict mail-in voting.

Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Extract List of Jews From Penn

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Screenshot of an article titled "Roxane Gay co-writing romance Novel with Channing Tatum"

okay finally there is good news (please don't let this be an early April Fools joke)

JUST IN: US judge halts Trump's $400 million White House ballroom project for now reut.rs/3QcrULO

I know there's far worse stuff in the world but the Amanda/West stuff? Just gross. Just no.

Drove through a local No Kings protest on our way to an Easter Egg hunt, and both my kids (3.5 and 5) were excited to wave and read the signs and learn why so many people cared to turn up. Made me feel hopeful for the first time in a while.

BREAKING via @cbsnews.com: About a dozen U.S. service members were injured in an attack on Prince Sultan airbase in Saudi Arabia, according to multiple U.S. officials. A small number sustained very serious injuries; others were considered seriously injured. @JimLaPorta @ellee_watson and me.

maine's zohran mamdani is a WILD claim lol

I both feel like it would be useful for some folks and also cannot believe it would be worth the vitriol and abuse I'm sure you'd get.

Welcome back!

For all of my complaints about Metro over there years, and there have been a few, it allowed me to live in DC, MD and VA over the course over a decade without owning a car, a feat which would be very, very hard in nearly any other part of the US. More cities should invest in public transit!

Share of commuters using transit to get to work, among select big cities

Share of commuters driving to get to work, among select big cities

Since the Metro opened in 1976, DC has consistently had some of the highest transit use among any big US city—higher than Chicago, Philly, or SF.

The share of residents using cars to get to work is the lowest in the country outside of NYC.

That's been made possible thanks to Metro.

The DC Metro

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi.

The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

If a secdef violating the 14th amendment rights of US servicemembers by denying promotions based on race isn’t impeachable then I don’t see what is. The man would rather the military be racist than effective.

you deserve a fluffernutter