lol that is a very cool building but also so wildly inappropriate for both the function and the location 🙄
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lol that is a very cool building but also so wildly inappropriate for both the function and the location 🙄
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:
DC folks actually sort of need to demand that heads roll over this. It’s a real problem if law enforcement in the capital is so pathetic, weak, and supine that their instinct is to act as stormtroopers for illicit federal power grabs.
two pieces of artwork in a gallery; one a more traditional wall hung painting, and the other a bronze sculpture of two people prone on teh floor with flowers budding from underneath.
close up photo of an an artwork featuring a bronze sculpture of a closed human fist sounded by a splay of thick metal nails.
large woven tapestry of many colors hanging on a wall in behind a lifeguard-like wooden stand with a mimic mammoth head on top.
lifeguard-like wooden stand with a mimic mammoth head on top. behind the stand, a light table with hundreds of small objects and artworks on display.
mammoth by nick cave is extraordinary and i need to go back to take it all in. simultaneously extremely overwhelming and drawing you in for at more each turn. american art museum thought 2026.
This census data is for me the secret decoder ring of so much of what’s been going in the US in the last 20 years.
Downthread Kevin gave this context: “In 2006 and after, new home construction collapsed, and that's what moved it far from trend.”
the national children's museum will have to vacate the reagan building due to fbi's impending takeover. tl;dr: no timeline, yet; current lease is technically up in 2029; the museum is 30k sq ft; the fbi wants to eventually end all public access to the building.
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Fantastic news! Congratulations @rjuhasz.bsky.social!
keegan @FranziaMom all pop bands right now (diy, indie rock, pop punk, hardcore dudes making pop music) are in a frantic race to accomplish the exact same goal: write Hey Jealousy by the Gin Blossoms a second time 2:34 PM • 2022-11-06
Baudrillard: totally exonerated, no wrong doing
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Olivia Rodrigo really making things easy for parents these days
PLOT TWIST!!!!! 👀 “In contrast to a common view, globalization appears in many countries to have supported governments’ ability to tax capital.”
Really great work from a colleague
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Without Trump’s trade wars since 2017, US exports to China would have been nearly 60 percent higher in 2025, or roughly $90 billion annually.
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In case you wondered how trustworthy even “respectable” UK right-leaning media might be….
lol Boris Johnson level shenanigans going on over there
Extremely strong lineup here! If I didn’t have my hands full w international finance research, I’d definitely go!
The cost of the war in concrete terms: in March, avg daily U.S. gasoline consumption is ~368M gallons. This means for every $10/bbl increase in crude, Americans pay an extra $90M at the pump *every day* that prices are elevated (once the increase is transmitted to retail prices).
Welcome to the suck.
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the publisher of the new york times wants you to subscribe to the handbasket
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Overhead shot of snowy intersection with yellow cabs and dotted lines outlining where snow has created space that can be a future bike lane, public plaza and pedestrian refuge.
New BONUS episode: "What Snow Reveals About Cities (Plus More From Our Book Tour.)"
All the snow we've gotten has revealed some truths about what cars do to cities, and what we can learn from it. We also give our thoughts on Miami, Pittsburgh, Toronto and Phoenix!
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Crowdfunding is pretty much always a scam
📢 There’s still time to register for our first focus group on professional culture in economics, tomorrow 13:30–15:30 in London. We’ll discuss inclusion, fairness, integrity & trust in reporting systems, & help shape next steps.
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An earlier version of this paper was invaluable when I was writing the chapter on international currencies in last year’s Geneva Report on the world economy cepr.org/publications...
Mandatory reading if you want to understand what drives changes in the dollar share of international reserves.
A 13-year-old girl was fed food with a worm in it at an ICE facility in Texas and stopped eating afterwards. She was denied long prescribed medication for anxiety. Drawing materials were taken from her. Overly crowded conditions added to her stress. It reached a breaking point.
Sadistic monsters.
Sweetsie Cola!!
(I ran D1 cross country)
This was a typical weekend for me in college