Now we just more people to realize it doesn't mean anything; it's a made up concept & total BS.
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The current GOP in Congress is a real piece of work.
Bleh, how creepy...
It has now been 3 weeks with no overflows entering the Potomac River. With the NPS permit in place, crews will begin hauling contaminated soil and brush from the collapse site. Upstream pipe cleaning is nearly complete, and repairs remain on track for mid March. 🔗 www.dcwater.com/about-dc-wat...
The House rejects an aviation safety bill that the Senate unanimously passed in response to the deadly midair collision between an American Airlines regional jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River last year.
NEWS: As was teased two weeks ago, D.C. is lifting its advisory for the Potomac River in the wake of the big sewage spill in January. Testing has generally found E. coli levels in D.C. to be within safe levels, and that’s held since mid-February.
D.C. has lifted an advisory steering residents away from the Potomac River, six weeks after a pipe collapsed and spilled more than 240 million gallons of sewage into the waterway.
Prince George’s County Council Chair Krystal Oriadha says the council is considering legislation banning the county from issuing permits to a new Hyattsville ICE facility. "It’s our responsibility to fight & use every leverage point. We know [we] may end up in court, but that's what we need to do."
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2025 was a historic year for job losses in the D.C. region, with more than 70 thousand federal workers laid off. Tens of thousands of positions were also cut in the private sector.
"Long answer: utility regulation, energy auctions, and a debate over who should foot the bill for powering the artificial intelligence boom..."
"Short answer, according to state regulators and energy experts...it’s been a brutal winter, driving up electricity usage. Natural gas prices rose in recent years. And a surge in data center construction is straining the regional power grid in ways few anticipated."
Soaring electricity bills have left many Maryland residents demanding answers and relief. Experts cite a range of factors driving up energy prices. buff.ly/sPXj6FA
This is DC’s most open secret. Those in the know have such a hard time holding in those secrets. And bars and restaurants are the best places to hear them. WaPo was known years ago to have reporters in Starbucks’ listening to conversations
Disgusting
The Middle East region does not hold us the opportunity of Winnable Wars. This a not a war like WW2.
This is a conflict of religious ideology going back thousands of years & Decades have proven that we have no business getting involved because we do not understand the complexity of the culture.
The guys on top know Trump is Bibi's pawn and, from appearances, are carefully trying to expose Bibi's manipulation to exculpate themselves.
Hegseth and people under him think they're some combination of Patton and the Knights Templar.
what do you mean preparation, brad? rubio is out there saying we HAD to do this because israel was going to attack.
www.bbc.com/news/article... "Amina's operations have been highly restricted by the Iran-backed Houthi movement, the de-facto rulers of north-western Yemen."
A photo of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., arriving for the State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 24, 2026, overlaid with the headline, "Democrats Finally Get Around to Forcing Iran War Powers Vote," and the DEK, "With Congress not reconvening until next week, there’s a chance the vote might come after attacks start."
Pro-Israel hard-liners Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., and Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., have both come out against the bill. theintercept.com/2026/02/26/i...
"For Iranians already suffering under repression, sanctions, and economic hardship, this escalation will mean only more pain," said the president of the National Iranian American Council.
Iran has the capacity to launch terror and cyber attacks against allies and US. Due to DOGE, partisan firings of FBI and cyber officials, and lack of focus or know how by AG Bondi and DHS Noem, they are ignoring this possibility completely.
WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack. www.wired.com/story/x-is-d...
🔴 Tehran responded to joint US-Israeli air strikes on its territory by launching a wave of drone and missile attacks at bases hosting US troops across the Middle East.
Here's what we know so far about the US military bases being targeted in the region: https://go.france24.com/N3s
"Absolutely nothing..."
🔴 After US-Israeli strikes on Iran, Tehran retaliated by targeting US military interests in countries across the Gulf 👇