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Last fall a couple retiring members started an uncomfortable talk: What if a madman changed House majority by shooting a few members? In today’s narrow margins for majorities - and more threats than The U.S. Capitol Police can handle - it seemed possible. Then Minnesota ….

‘The best poles anywhere in the country’: Trump installs gigantic US flags at the White House cnn.com/2025/06/18/pol…

It’s breaking news in Virginia when the GOP Governor and Lt. Governor candidates talk to each other We’ll see if this is a start of a rapprochement (Busted out my thesaurus today) Imagine there will be more pressure to do a joint campaign event at some point

Zookeepers Confirm Pandas Not Mating Because They’re Scared Of Messing Up Friendship theonion.com/zookeepers-con…

What is that rationale?

President Trump, who ran on making Juneteenth a national holiday in 2020, has a Juneteenth message for the masses

Hard to think of many poll questions where the D % and R % are this similar.

"I was surrounded by a lot of grease and grime" *checks notes* The wealthy Oakland County suburbs of Rochester Hills and Birmingham

Belatedly noting a great tribute from Nathan Gonzales: Amid change, Roll Call endures rollcall.com/2025/06/18/rol…

BREAKING: A federal appeals court has indefinitely blocked Judge Breyer’s order to put Gavin Newsom back in control of the National Guard. The three-judge panel, which included two Trump and one Biden appointee, was unanimous.

Gonna have to delete multiple years of childhood memories to clear up all the space in my brain this play will take up.

Good ⁦Katelyn Polantz⁩ deep dive into the DOJ’s case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia. cnn.com/2025/06/20/pol…

Israel’s bombardment of targets across Iran is testing the limits of what air power alone can achieve in conflict wsj.com/world/middle-e…

Scuttlebutt Confirmed: Bub and Pop’s teases “we’re getting close!” for new location in NoMa: popville.com/2025/06/bub-an…

California's Secretary of State has quietly deleted this post, preserved here for posterity.

This saddens me greatly. WaPo Metro is still the first thing I read every morning out of my stack of papers, nearly 20 years after I worked for the section. Utterly bewildering why the paper has diminished local coverage so much in such a large, news-minded, prosperous region.

"Across four recent polls...the legislation was an average of 24 points underwater. On average, 55% of surveyed Americans opposed it while 31% supported it. That makes the bill more unpopular than any piece of major legislation passed since at least 1990" cnn.com/2025/06/20/pol…

Home to long-simmering separatist movements that have vied for power and independence, Iran could face internal fragmentation and chaos if its government falls. cnn.com/2025/06/20/mid…

Incredibly amazing chart by Jess Remington with an important point about American housing—NY/CA build nothing, TX/AZ sprawl, but only a few American cities like Seattle, Atlanta, (& DC) are actually building lots of new dense housing in their core neighborhoods (full article below)

because this is my lot in life, must note - 1.) Trump did not oppose Iraq before it happened 2.) he was on record supporting the invasion 3.) he celebrated it as a success at first 4.) he did not turn against it publicly until a year a later. x.com/samstein/statu…