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Surreal experience today explaining to others who have seen this movie who Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie were. I forgot that not everyone was raised on folk music!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I find this hard to believe from the company that brought us OneDrive.

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Between the state of the world and hormones, I cried like three times at the Bob Dylan movie (to be fair, once was when he played Maggie’s Farm, which is important to me for obvious reasons)

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

instead of annexing a 51st state by force, statehood for DC and a binding referendum for Puerto Rico need to be Day 1 agenda items if and when Democrats ever win back a trifecta

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

That sound you hear is the screaming of 700,000 unrepresented American citizens in the District of Columbia.

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If you want your message to carry more weight, reference the park’s Foundation Document and Park Purpose, which specifically use the word transgender. They cannot erase this part of history so easily, use their own bureaucracy against them to make sure they don’t. www.nps.gov/ston/learn/h...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Our AirBnB hosts knew we were here to watch a bunch of Oscar nominated movies and they literally rolled out the red carpet for us.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Everything is bad but tomorrow I’m escaping to a vacation house with a theater room to watch all the Best Picture nominated movies and eat junk food all weekend with a bunch of friends, so there’s still one good thing.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

It’s not showing up anymore, but the first time I clicked on this story the ad that showed up was for the Kennedy Center.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Scenes from a morning walk in Mt Pleasant.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Plugged my phone in on the other side of the room last night, got in bed at 10 and read a book for 30 minutes before falling asleep, and have already gotten up and run 2 miles today. It’s annoying when all the advice is so right.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

This thread is hilarious and it gives me great comfort to know that if this country does descend into another civil war, I’m on the same side as the city of Philadelphia.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I am so, so sorry to my Kennedy Center friends. Your work is critical to the nation and to this city, and you deserve better. I take some comfort in knowing that Rubenstein’s name will remain on many buildings across this city long after Trump is gone.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I always feel better when I listen to Liz Warren.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I have had the most infuriating experience with Apple on this order, to the point that I’ve now cancelled the order and will be buying a laptop through Costco

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Today’s pleasant distraction is this very important piece of journalism that has me feeling homesick and hungry for pizza at 9 am www.boston.com/community/wi...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I am long overdue for a rewatch of Station Eleven, a series that not enough people watched because it’s about a deadly global pandemic, and more people need to watch because it’s about how to survive the end of the world by taking care of one another, making art, and telling stories.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I am in general morally opposed to the NFL, but… go birds.

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For my fellow unrepresented Washingtonians, what are we doing? It feels less than useless to flood Eleanor’s office with calls. Do we aim for MD and VA reps? Or for those of us who are transplants, call our home states? Or should I just take a day off from work and drop in on random members offices?

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Today’s pop culture ear worm inspired by The Horrors is “our country, guess it was a lawless land” from Taylor Swift’s Death by a Thousand Cuts. But specifically the version from her Tiny Desk concert where she sings it with a shrug and an ironic smirk.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Netanyahu at the White House. Bad news for the world, also v bad news for trying to catch a bus at 16th & K.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Ok here is the thing with action/praxis/protest/showing up: Sometimes you contribute by being a megaphone. Sometimes by being a wallet. Sometimes by being a physical body. Sometimes by being fuel or being relief. If you can’t be one thing at any given moment you can almost certainly be another.

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

Every time I read a headline about Elon Musk I hear Toby Ziegler saying “there was a coup d’état in this country!” It doesn’t really help, but I also can’t make it stop.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone say “Thank you, Beyoncé” for giving people a reason to come to DC for the 4th of July despite the current, y’know, situation.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Had avocado toast for breakfast this morning, one last time before it really does become the reason I can’t afford to buy a house.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Well, I was pretty close to needing a new laptop anyway, so I went ahead and clicked ‘buy’ tonight, since it wasn’t going to get any cheaper after tomorrow

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Spent most of yesterday offline: packed up 400 shortbread cookies for my best friend’s wedding favors, watched a weird movie, ordered takeout. Strongly recommend one day a week of tuning it all out.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Finished a grant application at 4:55 pm on a Friday, please clap.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Everything is terrible, but there’s a non-zero chance that I’ll get to sing/scream/cry this song alongside a bunch of other elder millennial indie hipster kids this year, and that’s the thought that’s getting me through today.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Went to a meeting at the French Embassy today, it was nice to escape the US for an hour.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Time for another round of the fun game "Why did I wake up in the middle of the night last night?"--is it anxiety? Perimenopause? The rapid deconstruction of my country and our democracy?

submitted 25 days ago • 77 comments

Liz Warren, forever and ever, amen.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

The Washington Post ran an article titled “Who is Caroline Kennedy?” and am I a million years old or just from Massachusetts for thinking this isn’t a question anyone was asking?

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Feels extremely on the nose that Destination DC had a press event at the National Archives this morning to kickoff their campaign for America’s 250th celebration next year. Hard to imagine there will be much democracy left to celebrate by then at the rate we’re going.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments