beccagrawl
@beccagrawl.bsky.social
Ward 4. DC tour guide, author, & public historian by day. Musical theatre, movies, & travel by night.
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is just gutter racism
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if you steal a cell phone or wallet in paris they kick you out of the french thieve's guild for insufficient whimsy
Thieves have stolen €90,000 worth of fine French snails destined for some of the country’s most prestigious restaurants
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
www.thetimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
if you steal a cell phone or wallet in paris they kick you out of the french thieve's guild for insufficient whimsy
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Remember, don’t dump grease down your pipes or this guy will visit your house and talk to you about Congressional Cemetery.
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Remember, don’t dump grease down your pipes or this guy will visit your house and talk to you about Congressional Cemetery.
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National Dog Show contestant Jolene is relatable on so many levels.
November 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
National Dog Show contestant Jolene is relatable on so many levels.
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Enjoying my people’s annual IP Parade, which expresses thankfulness for the intellectual property totems that ensure continuity of our social world.
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Enjoying my people’s annual IP Parade, which expresses thankfulness for the intellectual property totems that ensure continuity of our social world.
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Sad to see that Bob Stern passed away. He brought a lot to the field of architecture by understanding what worked from the past and knowing how to bring that into the present. Also he didn't use a computer, which sounds fantastic right now
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/a...
Robert A.M. Stern, Architect Who Reinvented Prewar Splendor, Dies at 86
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Sad to see that Bob Stern passed away. He brought a lot to the field of architecture by understanding what worked from the past and knowing how to bring that into the present. Also he didn't use a computer, which sounds fantastic right now
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/a...
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My annual reminder that THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU (1944) is possibly the loveliest Thanksgiving movie ever made. It has everything: romance via Eleanor Parker and Dennis Morgan; blacklist interest via co-screenwriter Alvah Bessie; great DP in Bert Glennon; and an underrated auteur, Delmer Daves.
November 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
My annual reminder that THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU (1944) is possibly the loveliest Thanksgiving movie ever made. It has everything: romance via Eleanor Parker and Dennis Morgan; blacklist interest via co-screenwriter Alvah Bessie; great DP in Bert Glennon; and an underrated auteur, Delmer Daves.
Look, I’m not an economist and I was told there would be no math, but I think it says something that on this particular app, there are many people who cannot wrap their head around the fact that no matter what the traditional/standard economic indicators are, people truly were struggling in 2024.
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Look, I’m not an economist and I was told there would be no math, but I think it says something that on this particular app, there are many people who cannot wrap their head around the fact that no matter what the traditional/standard economic indicators are, people truly were struggling in 2024.
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I have trouble with the macy’s parade because inevitably savannah and hoda come out in their winter coats to interview a celebrity and their backup dancers just have to stand there in their tank tops and mini skirts until it’s over, pretending they’re not freezing
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I have trouble with the macy’s parade because inevitably savannah and hoda come out in their winter coats to interview a celebrity and their backup dancers just have to stand there in their tank tops and mini skirts until it’s over, pretending they’re not freezing
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Get me a mayor whose achievements are making DC more equitable, affordable, inclusive, safe, & just. A mayor who can say all public schools improved. A mayor who can demonstrate historic environmental protections & investments. Get me a mayor who we end up calling Governor. #DCStatehood
Muriel Bowser, who helped make DC the vibrant city it is, kept the Capitals and Wizards from leaving, lured back the Commanders, navigated Trump's attacks and offered steady leadership in turbulent times, opts not to run for a fourth term. @campbellnyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser Says She Won’t Run for a Fourth Term
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Get me a mayor whose achievements are making DC more equitable, affordable, inclusive, safe, & just. A mayor who can say all public schools improved. A mayor who can demonstrate historic environmental protections & investments. Get me a mayor who we end up calling Governor. #DCStatehood
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When I see the Rich get owned by the Poor.
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
When I see the Rich get owned by the Poor.
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This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
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Happy Thanksgiving. Some viewing orders from me. www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
Watch 'Death By Lightning' this Thanksgiving or go to hell
SFGATE columnist Drew Magary on Netflix's presidential miniseries.
www.sfgate.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Happy Thanksgiving. Some viewing orders from me. www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
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So quit
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made several revealing admissions about the stressful and chaotic nature of his job, according to a recent New York Times report.The Times' Annie Karni wrote in a Wednesday article that Johnson turned what was meant to be an easy interview with a friendly podcast h...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
So quit
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You can read the Lizza stuff without paying for it but it will still come at a terrible cost
November 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
You can read the Lizza stuff without paying for it but it will still come at a terrible cost
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I'm with @hcrichardson.bsky.social "every day, I am struck by all the ways in which we are reliving the 1890s. In that era too, consumers organized, using their buying power to affect politics...." tariffs, power of protest, power of corporate capital, relationship between consumption and reform🗃️
November 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I'm with @hcrichardson.bsky.social "every day, I am struck by all the ways in which we are reliving the 1890s. In that era too, consumers organized, using their buying power to affect politics...." tariffs, power of protest, power of corporate capital, relationship between consumption and reform🗃️
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The new Vanity Fair editor sought to make his magazine less woke and some of his first moves were hiring Olivia Nuzzi, publishing an abstract nude of Nuzzi by a person now alleged to have made illegal recordings on her behalf, and putting only men in the Hollywood issue
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The new Vanity Fair editor sought to make his magazine less woke and some of his first moves were hiring Olivia Nuzzi, publishing an abstract nude of Nuzzi by a person now alleged to have made illegal recordings on her behalf, and putting only men in the Hollywood issue
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worth noting that there have been no reported violent assaults w/a gun near 17th & I since 2018, and no homicides from 2008 on (the publicly available data only go back to 1/1/2008). This is not a dangerous area–there was no reason for them to be there. (data from crimecards.dc.gov/homicides:cr...)
one thing we *can* conclude at this point — those two national guards would not have been shot if trump had not abused his power to deploy them to DC
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
worth noting that there have been no reported violent assaults w/a gun near 17th & I since 2018, and no homicides from 2008 on (the publicly available data only go back to 1/1/2008). This is not a dangerous area–there was no reason for them to be there. (data from crimecards.dc.gov/homicides:cr...)
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one thing we *can* conclude at this point — those two national guards would not have been shot if trump had not abused his power to deploy them to DC
November 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
one thing we *can* conclude at this point — those two national guards would not have been shot if trump had not abused his power to deploy them to DC
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My heart aches for the National guardsmen who shouldn’t even be in DC and for their families who face a truly horrific holiday now and for my city that didn’t ask for this and continues to used as a political pawn
November 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
My heart aches for the National guardsmen who shouldn’t even be in DC and for their families who face a truly horrific holiday now and for my city that didn’t ask for this and continues to used as a political pawn
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Horrible. And the inevitable retaliation from the state on our community here in DC is going to create even more devastation, above and beyond what we’ve already been getting from ICE and feds every day for 4+ months.
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Horrible. And the inevitable retaliation from the state on our community here in DC is going to create even more devastation, above and beyond what we’ve already been getting from ICE and feds every day for 4+ months.
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Psst... The Reveal is having a Black Friday sale. First-time and returning paid subscribers can now get 20% off an annual subscription. That's just $40 for one year of everything we publish and more. Here's the link: thereveal.film/reveal-black...
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Psst... The Reveal is having a Black Friday sale. First-time and returning paid subscribers can now get 20% off an annual subscription. That's just $40 for one year of everything we publish and more. Here's the link: thereveal.film/reveal-black...
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And yes, I did shoot half of this video halfway through making the previous video bsky.app/profile/dave...
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
And yes, I did shoot half of this video halfway through making the previous video bsky.app/profile/dave...
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also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay?
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So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay?
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
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It's not hip, and it's not going to become a buzzy destination for D.C.'s scenesters. But the drinks serve a higher purpose: to help train MPD cadets and officers on spotting drunk drivers, and get them off the road. My dispatch from MPD's wet lab for @51st.news: 51st.news/wet-lab-dc-p...
D.C. police got me buzzed to help stop drunk drivers
A dispatch from MPD’s wet lab, where police train to spot impaired motorists.
51st.news
November 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It's not hip, and it's not going to become a buzzy destination for D.C.'s scenesters. But the drinks serve a higher purpose: to help train MPD cadets and officers on spotting drunk drivers, and get them off the road. My dispatch from MPD's wet lab for @51st.news: 51st.news/wet-lab-dc-p...