Screenshot of an online opinion article by the Editorial Board. The headline reads, "The Texas gerrymander freakout," with the subheadline, "What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy." The publication date is August 20, 2025.

​Screenshot of an online opinion article from The Washington Post by the Editorial Board. The headline reads, "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss," with the subheadline, "The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it."

The WaPo editorial board when Republicans gerrymander in Texas versus when Democrats gerrymander in Virginia.

Orange/Blue Line: Customers will experience significant delays in both directions as trains single track btwn McPherson Square & Smithsonian due to an ongoing investigation following a work vehicle making contact with a stationary train at Metro Center last night during close of service.

Green Line: Customers will experience delays in both directions due to a signal problem outside Branch Avenue.

This is just another reason why I don't even use the paper as liner for the bird cages.

You can’t do that to rural voters! What are they, black people? bsky.app/profile/coll...

Justice Department files complaint against Washington and its sewage authority for massive spill The leak, from a deteriorating pipeline, spilled 244 million gallons of raw sewage.

The Justice Department filed a complaint Monday in federal court against the city of Washington, D.C., and its water and sewer authority, seeking financial penalties for their role in a leak that led to millions of gallons of raw sewage spilling into the Potomac River. https://to.pbs.org/4u1cfOg

TMZ setting up in DC to follow politicians around is FINALLY the appropriate lowbrow "news" coverage this administration has merited all along.

Whew, you could write a whole grad student dissertation on this excerpt. One issue is the use of "elite." I'm sure Mamdani's parents are doing fine, but "Manhattan elite" is a realm of billionaires, not a filmmaker and a college professor. Their wealth and power is a rounding error to Jamie Dimon.

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Banner graphic created by Duolingo for completing a 1000 day streak of the language I’m learning, which is Italian.

I want a trophy for this milestone!

Of course James David Vance will do nothing substantive to defend the head of the Catholic Church from his boss’ belligerent attacks because he’s nothing but a big giant phony.

Donald J. Trump 9 0 @realDonald Trump Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy. He talks about "fear" of the Trump Administration, but doesn't mention the FEAR that the Catholic Church, and all other Christian Organizations, had during COVID when they were arresting priests, ministers, and everybody else, for holding Church Services, even when going outside, and being ten and even twenty feet apart. I like his brother Louis much better than I like him, because Louis is all MAGA. He gets it, and Leo doesn't! I don't want a Pope who thinks it's OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. I don't want a Pope who thinks it's terrible that America attacked Venezuela, a Country that was sending massive amounts of Drugs into the United States and, even worse, emptying their prisons, including murderers, drug dealers, and killers, into our Country. And I don't want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I'm doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do, setting Record Low Numbers in Crime, and creating the Greatest Stock Market in History. Leo should be thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise. He wasn't on any list to be Pope, and was only put there by the Church because he was an American, and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump. If I wasn't in the White House, Leo wouldn't be in the Vatican. Unfortunately, Leo's Weak on Crime, Weak on Nuclear Weapons, does not sit well with me, nor does the fact that he meets with Obama Sympathizers like David Axelrod, a LOSER from the Left, who is one of those who wanted churchgoers and clerics to be arrested. Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician. It's hurting him very badly and, more importantly, it's hurting the Catholic Church! President DONALD J. TRUMP 935 ReTruths 3.07k Likes Apr 12, 2026, 9:03 PM

Deranged anti-Pope Leo screed from the current president of the U.S.

here's Trump entering a UFC event as Vance says that negotiations with Iran have failed

FINAL: Green/Yellow Line: Trains are no longer single tracking. Customers will experience residual delays in both directions following an earlier train with a mechanical problem at Georgia Avenue.

Microsoft finally lets Windows 11 testers unlock experimental features without ViVeTool The changes are part of the fix Windows 11 effort

Microsoft finally lets Windows 11 testers unlock experimental features without ViVeTool

A parade with blossom trees in background and 6 women wearing traditional Japanese clothing, with floral patterns, holding fans and appear to be dancing. The scene is captured on a sunny day.

Celebrate Japanese culture in D.C. this weekend! Head to Sakura Matsuri, a street festival with cultural performances, authentic food, and handmade crafts via:

🚇 Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter

🚇 Federal Triangle

🚇 L'Enfant Plaza

🚇 Metro Center

Damn. Iran just dropped an A+ level troll on Trump in this new LEGO movie.

I’m no fan of Iran at all… but this one actually nails him. 😂😂

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We’re about to experience the largest loss of health insurance coverage in U.S. history. The Pitt helps explain how it will happen—in the mundane morass of undone paperwork. But this is exactly as Trumps One Big Beautiful Bill planned it.

3 former Psychiatric Institute of Washington workers indicted in patient's death Nearly six years after a patient died inside the Psychiatric Institute of Washington, three former employees have been indicted on a charge of criminal negligence. Two of the three were working as psy...

Nearly six years after a patient died inside the Psychiatric Institute of Washington, three former employees have been indicted on a charge of criminal negligence.

Red Line: Thru tonight's closing, trains are operating every 9-18 minutes with single tracking between Friendship Heights & Van Ness due to planned work. Some trains will offload at Farragut North to minimize train traffic.

Another day, another #TACO

Orange/Blue/Silver Line: Customers will experience delays to Ashburn, Vienna and Franconia-Springfield due to a train with a mechanical problem at Rosslyn.

BirdCast map showing 57.9 million birds in flight at 11:40pm EDT on April 4, 2026. Migration is constrained mostly to the Atlantic states and Arizona & California.

NEXRAD radar map showing birds and a big storm system running diagonally from upper NY to southwest Louisiana.

Tonight’s migration is coastal.
#birds #spring #migration #BirdCast

Red Line: Thru tonight's closing, trains are operating every 9-18 minutes with single tracking between Grosvenor-Strathmore and Medical Center due to planned work. Some trains will offload at Friendship Heights to minimize train traffic.

Hopefully, the weather will be nice today. It’s supposed to be scorching in the city today.

FINAL: Blue/Silver Line: Customers will experience residual delays to Franconia-Springfield and Ashburn following an earlier train with a mechanical problem at Addison Road.

Pam Bondi’s portrait already taken down at Justice Department Just a day after her firing, the former attorney general’s pictures have been taken down — and discarded in a trash bin.

Pam Bondi’s portrait already taken down at Justice Department

Just a day after her firing, the former attorney general’s pictures have been taken down — and discarded in a trash bin.

A photo of the Pike Place starbucks in Seattle Washington

We, the partners at Pike Place #301, are excited to announce our intent to unionize with Starbucks Workers United. As partners of the first Starbucks, we’ve decided to form a union to uphold the core values of our company and the Pike Place Market: fair and equal treatment, respect, and dignity for every single partner who makes this store so special. Thousands of partners around the country are working together to fight for a better workplace, and we look forward to joining them. Starbucks as a company was built on the core pillars of belonging, courage, and joy. Sadly, under your leadership – in our store and so many others – Starbucks has lost its way and veered from the core values that defined us. Store partners are the most important part of the Starbucks experience. We open the stores every morning and close them every night. We greet customers, make the coffee, clean up the spills, and remember our regulars’ names and favorite orders. But beneath the veneer of the excellent experience we craft for visitors every day, partners do not feel a sense of belonging and joy – unequal treatment is the norm, not the exception. When we speak up, that courage is punished, not rewarded. That has been most evident with Starbucks dispatching two national labor relations personnel to our store to surveil partners after the company heard we were discussing unionization, raising tension in the store that can be felt by both workers and customers. The market's founding gave us clear directions: "It is for you to defend, to protect and to uphold, and it is for you to see that those who occupy it treat you fairly; that no extortion be permitted and that the purpose for which it was created be religiously adhered to." The path to our union may be challenging, but we know this: We are better working together as a team, we have each others’ backs, and we respect everyone’s right to make their own choice. We call on Starbucks to live up to the core values of courage, joy, and be…

Today, the "original" Starbucks at Pike Place Market in Seattle, is announcing they're organizing their union. ✊

Read the letter workers addressed to CEO Brian Niccol about why they're joining thousands of workers nationwide fighting for a better Starbucks: