New: Trump admin is NOT planning to require health insurers to cover IVF, sources say, in retreat from 2024 campaign pledge Another apparent L from this admin for the conservative natalists

I’ve lived in DC for 10 years. The only crime I’ve ever seen on the National Mall was when a mob ransacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021 at the direction of the man who lost the 2020 presidential election.

Inventing a crisis then using that invented crisis to weaponize the military is how fascists take power. DC crime is at it's lowest in 30 YEARS. This goes against every ideal of personal freedom that America is supposed to stand for.

Meanwhile me riding the metro at night

Downtown DC is so scary that Barnes & Noble is coming back!

The Trump CDC just took down its public database showing that red states have higher homicide rates than blue states.

We now have armed soldiers, not trained for civilian policing, patrolling an American city where violent crime is at a 30-year low. This isn’t about safety; it's about intimidation.

A reminder that Trump himself has never been to a DC restaurant as president, except the now-closed steakhouse in his former hotel.

Getting rid of national parks service employees just to end up dragging national guardsman to do the same job is like the 8th dumbest thing done by this admin this week

Continued signs of a weakening labor market are evident in this month’s #JobsReport, just published by BLS-Labor Statistics. The labor market added only 22k jobs while unemployment went up slightly to 4.3% in July. Black and Latino/a workers are being hit hardest with rising unemployment.

Getting fired for quoting him directly. The fact that the American government and the media in this country have gone on an all-out suppression blitz for anyone who doesn’t praise and lionize a bigot really shows how dystopian it’s all become.

Imagine if this many people cared about school shootings

RFK Jr is set to announce Tylenol causes autism. And then he’ll push the “cure”: leucovorin (folinic acid). Who sells folinic acid? Dr. Oz’s supplement company, iHerb. The same Dr. Oz who is now the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in Trump’s

Rescued chimpanzee thanks Jane Goodall by giving her a hug

The Washington Post paywalled this so you wouldn't get to read it

Digital comms imposter syndrome cured for the day.

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