Unwanted National Guard deployment in D.C. now on its 211th day
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Unwanted National Guard deployment in D.C. now on its 211th day
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➡️ $602,000,000 yearly cost
➡️ 0 effect on crime
"Pests"??? 🍆👹🤢
The bit writes itself.
Especially when it's Michael Oren.
um...
Paging ... Mike Johnson?
Can we not do the Cuba war. I'm all warred out
On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.
hard to believe how many people across the entire world want one simple thing that just never seems to happen
Tesco the golden retriever lies on a porch outside, with sun and shadows streaming over her, smiling up at the camera like the happiest girl alive. Her favorite blue and orange ball is between her paws.
The spring enjoyer
"You, preferred, human, writing."
Hard to believe the Nobel committee snubbed him.
Also the fountains have too few gold gew-gaws. May as well add some as part of the Erratic Totalitarian Infrastructure Improvement Plan.
me: if i had kids, i’d be such a helicopter mom
you: you DO have kids
me: WHAT
If the elevator at Fox News was broken, Brian would turn around and go home.
Anytime he’d like to pilot and/or financially underwrite a tanker through the SoH under threat of attack, I’m sure he’d be welcome do so
Headline and subhead: U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows The evidence contradicts President Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for a strike at the school that killed 175 people, most of them children.
Good for the hed/dek writers at @nytimes.com just now:
Not "appears to contradict" or "is at odds with" or "may give rise to suspicions that."
Flat out: "Contradicts." "Video shows." About the US blowing up a school full of little girls.
And of course, terrible for the world.
"For the next phase of my career, I look forward to some independence and finding new spaces to share my work in line with my personal goals."
Another CBS News journalist leaving and talking about independence. Bit of a not-so-subtle hint at what's happening over there.
My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it. On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned. Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.
What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right. "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.
I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:
Wife, touches a fake button on our tiny toddler’s chest saying: boop! I pushed the dancing button you have to stand up to dance now
Son: *nonchalantly and slowly pushes “button” on his shirt, deadpan expression*: I turned it off
Keeps chilling on the pillows on the floor
Ukraine sends drone interceptors to protect US bases in Jordan in a remarkable strategic twist.
My article for LLB
londonlovesbusiness.com/ukraine-send...
Thought I would have gotten used to it by now, but I’m still grappling with the realization of just how stupid the men running this country are.
#craftivism
@theactionnetwork.bsky.social, please explain why options for sharing this campaign include only X (yuck) and Facebook (Meta - also yuck), when I actually would share via @bsky.app.
{@joshuajfriedman.com, thoughts?}
SAME! An excellent communicator.
BREAKING: Our member was FIRED when he reported sexual harassment and physical violence at this Taco Bell in Carmichael.
Today workers walked off the job on strike in solidarity with him.
Before firing our coworker, management failed to pay him hours of wages. 🧵
#UnionsForAll
A handicap blue and white painted sign on the asphalt of a parking space. The symbols are meant to be a pregnant women and a baby stroller, but it doesn't look like that. It looks like pac man being killed with scissors next to a dancer
Twerkers at the barbeque get priority parking 🫡
When Trump tells Americans to tirn down the thermostat and wear an extra sweater, will it tank his presidency?
I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.
Please do not make me reflect on how my sleek induction stove’s touch controls work only if … your finger is clean and dry.
Mr. Engineer Sir, I am cooking. Of course I’m gonna have wet, greasy hands.
i’m sure if trump just calls the oil companies they’ll bring the prices back down
