dcactuary
@dcactuary.bsky.social
An actuary in DC. Medicare, Part D, health care policy. Father of 2, cargo biker, urbanite.
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very specific to DC complaint here but when trump is threatening to take over the city's historically significant public golf courses so he can privatize them and make them another getaway for the 1% i don't think going "well maybe they shouldnt be golf courses to begin with" is helpful or realistic
December 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
very specific to DC complaint here but when trump is threatening to take over the city's historically significant public golf courses so he can privatize them and make them another getaway for the 1% i don't think going "well maybe they shouldnt be golf courses to begin with" is helpful or realistic
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That was fast.
December 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
That was fast.
When we finally ban cars people will feel the same.
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
When we finally ban cars people will feel the same.
We do love sports don’t we?
December 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM
We do love sports don’t we?
I oppose immigration enforcement activities.
Our new golden age of free speech, where opposition to immigration enforcement can trigger a federal investigation
December 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I oppose immigration enforcement activities.
Gonna be both a better qb and broadcaster than rg3…
“I’d love to get into it.”
Allow Kirk Cousins to take you to school
Allow Kirk Cousins to take you to school
December 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Gonna be both a better qb and broadcaster than rg3…
Know how I know Bluesky has the juice, Matty realizes he needs to be over here annoying the shit out of everyone constantly
December 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Know how I know Bluesky has the juice, Matty realizes he needs to be over here annoying the shit out of everyone constantly
Remember this when “it happens” and everyone demands dignified and somber reflection.
December 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Remember this when “it happens” and everyone demands dignified and somber reflection.
On the ferry back from Ellis island listening to the overhead asking us to consider how the immigrant experience has shaped America and how we are a “nation of immigrants” and all I can feel is overwhelming sadness that so many in the country don’t agree and would rather burn it to the ground.
December 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
On the ferry back from Ellis island listening to the overhead asking us to consider how the immigrant experience has shaped America and how we are a “nation of immigrants” and all I can feel is overwhelming sadness that so many in the country don’t agree and would rather burn it to the ground.
Brought my kid to manhattan and it’s the first time I’ve been here in a minute and it’s shocking to me that so much effort is being expended on regulating e-bikes when I see tons of people driving around in dodge rams.
December 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Brought my kid to manhattan and it’s the first time I’ve been here in a minute and it’s shocking to me that so much effort is being expended on regulating e-bikes when I see tons of people driving around in dodge rams.
This fuckin rules
that’s right, @whstancil.bsky.social is oomf now
December 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
This fuckin rules
The grim reaper
Who is he shaking hands with? The Incredible Hulk??
Q: Can you explain what's going on with the bandages on Trump's hand?
LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.
LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.
December 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The grim reaper
It’s intolerable
The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
It’s intolerable
Under what authority? The goddamn tariffs aren’t legal… using the revenue to do whatever the hell he wants isn’t legal. Banana republic shit going on - founders spinning in graves etc etc
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Under what authority? The goddamn tariffs aren’t legal… using the revenue to do whatever the hell he wants isn’t legal. Banana republic shit going on - founders spinning in graves etc etc
Exactly.
@davidzipper.bsky.social: "The real reason to fight robotaxis are the ways in which they increase vehicle miles traveled and lock cities into a car-dominated future."
December 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Exactly.
This isn’t the point but these people aren’t “surrendering” - this isn’t armed conflict. Ceding the framing of this whole thing to a war footing is a mistake.
December 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This isn’t the point but these people aren’t “surrendering” - this isn’t armed conflict. Ceding the framing of this whole thing to a war footing is a mistake.
You have gotta be fuckin kidding me
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 2:51 AM
You have gotta be fuckin kidding me
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I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
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#DCStatehood is morally just, constitutionally sound, the democratic thing to, and…
Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.
NEW: Republican-led states, in a new filing at the D.C. Circuit, say D.C. residents are irrelevant, D.C. belongs to everyone else. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
December 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
#DCStatehood is morally just, constitutionally sound, the democratic thing to, and…
This would be intolerable.
Im starting to believe they are fully willing to let Texas gerrymander for political advantage on the basis of race but slap down CA’s doing do for purely, explicitly political reasons
The fact that both the unsigned 6–3 majority opinion and Alito's concurrence (for Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch) open with a reference to California's redistricting leaves one with the strong impression that this decision, like California's, is about tit for tat.
December 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
This would be intolerable.
Fuck the Supreme Court
December 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Fuck the Supreme Court
NYT rightly takes a lot of shit but this is a good headline.
President Trump on Tuesday delivered blatantly xenophobic public remarks, which included attacking Somali immigrants in Minnesota and calling them “garbage.”
Listen to "The Daily."
Listen to "The Daily."
Trump Rants: ‘Let Them Go Back to Where They Came From’
President Trump has attacked Somalis with increasingly inflammatory rhetoric in recent days.
nyti.ms
December 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
NYT rightly takes a lot of shit but this is a good headline.
Hate to earnest post here, but hamnet is an incredible work of art that absolutely devastated me and my wife. Crying communally in a packed theater is underrrated af
December 4, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Hate to earnest post here, but hamnet is an incredible work of art that absolutely devastated me and my wife. Crying communally in a packed theater is underrrated af