McDuffie’s term is up next year anyway. Would they bother with a special election for less than six months, or would the appointed member just serve through the end of his term?

🙀

it's hard to process the death of an artist whose work is vitality

If you're one of the thousands of federal employees who Russ Vought/the Trump admin just RIF'd, I'm very interested in hearing from you about the work you've been doing and what services will now be hurt/gutted with you gone.

Anonymity granted.

[email protected] / Signal: jbendery.41

🙏

If I heard last week's episode of @99pi.org correctly, this is the pinball game on which Tim Kitzrow, the voice of NBA Jam, got his start as an arcade-game voice actor...
99percentinvisible.org/episode/hl-0...

Dear hivemind: please share your favorite bike+bus commuter backpacks, as mine is suddenly...not as waterproof as it used to be.

Must have laptop sleeve; outside pocket capable of holding a travel mug; and, if roll-top, outer pocket for access to umbrella/rain jacket w/out opening the whole thing.

never mind the highlighted sentence, there's a whole breakout--perhaps a whole conference--to be made of the quoted line at the end of the first image.

“We even have a Muslim coming”: Interfaith Dialogue in the 21st Century.

Don't make us tap the sign.

Thread!

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

Remember when buses had dimmer lighting they'd use at night that allowed passengers to see outside (and maybe not be completely blinded when getting off or on the bus)?

I miss those days.

Join @erinpalmerdc.bsky.social at @peoplesbooktakoma.com in Takoma Park, MD, today at 5 p.m. for a conversation with @karenpalmer.bsky.social (SHE'S UNDER HERE, @algonquinbooks.bsky.social). It's our Spotlight Event! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/kar... #booksky

Really good explanation of what the Catholic priest who demanded admission to an ICE facility while carrying the Eucharist was doing, and why it was so symbolically effective.

Today is National Coming Out Day!

It's also Freedom to Read Day, aka the last day of Banned Books Week.

This feels right — because the main reason they try to ban books is to keep people from dreaming they could ever come out.

My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

It's utterly devastating to see decades of progress for the disability community being wiped out in just a few months.

There was of course much work to be done, but now that effort will have to be devoted to clawing back the gains now being ripped away.

Always a good time, this.

(The wine and cheese and books part.)

First it was delivery drivers on mopeds in D.C. and now rideshare drivers in Chicago. I've been amazed that Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, etc. haven't said anything (that I've seen) about this.

193+ times in 21 months might sound like a lot, but that's only...

...[checks math]...

....over twice a week, every week, for nearly two years....

five months after a driver hit me and my dog, MCDOT has again refused to install a stop sign at the intersection, calling it “unwarranted.” they will build a crosswalk, which should already have been there! it took a month to get this response. i am furious and, frankly, defeated

‘Member when ‘28 presidential hopeful/then-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel picked Musk to tunnel from downtown to ORD?

Never happened, of course, and judging by this story from out West, it’s probably a good thing it didn’t happen

So much about this is disgraceful, but it is good that DCAG worked to secure all the justice they could.

Some people really need to think more
about how they punctuate their email headlines.

Not that I wouldn't believe cars are the number one killer of Americans (they're certainly up there), but I'm pretty sure that's not what this meant to imply...