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SOUTH KOREA COURT ISSUED ARREST WARRANT AGAINST FORMER SPY AGENCY CHIEF UNDER PROBE INTO MARTIAL LAW
November 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
my fed friends are about 50/50 split on "actually fuck you, I'm glad the shutdown is almost over, I'm already borrowing money until my next paycheck lands" versus "I would have quit my agency job and moved back in with my parents if it meant the Dems could claim a single win this year"
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Streeteries are widely beloved in DC but a couple tasteless people from Georgetown don't like the way they look so now the mayor is effectively getting rid of them. Really embarassing. @cmcharlesallen.bsky.social et al please stop this.
DC's streateries are dying off thanks to... DC

“This feels like a way to say ‘I don’t want streateries, but I don’t want to say that part out loud, and so we’re going to create this really onerous process.’”

washingtonian.com/2025/11/11/i...
Is This the Haphazard End of Streateries in DC? - Washingtonian
DC’s stricter new outdoor dining rules go into effect November 30. Many restaurants plan to tear them down altogether.
washingtonian.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Brisket is up, what, $12 over last year? Maybe $15?
November 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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My last word on the matter
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I 'member when Westinghouse, GE, and Disney snapped up the legacy broadcasters in the 1990s (and even after the 1996 Telecom Act). back then, there was enough FCC oversight in place to tip the cost/benefit in favor of having internal standards depts. today's FCC mostly exists to sell spectrum.
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
quote-posting my capo's bangers from a year ago so he knows I'm a loyal soldier 🫡
November 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
the American Apparel guy saw this album cover in 1999 and had a transcendental revelation
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I have revealed a new $15 investment into delicious chocolate chip cookies that I baked myself and whether I deserve to eat the whole tray.
GOOGLE HAS REVEALED A NEW $30 MILLION INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION PROJECTS AND SHARED RECENT RESEARCH ON HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AFFECTS LEARNING
November 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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lmfao
POLITICO: “.. The White House was blindsided by the idea, according to two people familiar with the situation .. and is now dealing with a furious backlash from conservative allies, business leaders and lawmakers.” 🤡

@politico.com $XHB
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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we never should have shot that gorilla
We fell off the canon timeline sometime in '15 and haven't been able to get back.
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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he only knows one Maxwell, and it ain't James Clark
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Fine, I'll do it: Rep. Ro Khanna, a member of the Medicare for All and Congressional Progressive Caucuses who represents Silicon Valley, is the first sitting Democratic congressperson to demand the resignation of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

This tracker will be updated in real time: 🧵
Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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🎸 Workers at the House of Blues Houston have voted overwhelmingly to join @IATSE Local 51!
The new union covers lighting, sound, video, carpentry, props, stage mgmt, hospitality & more — building a safer, fairer, more respectful workplace for all. 💪🎶
👉 Follow @IATSE
Workers at House of Blues Houston Vote to Join IATSE - Labor Heritage Foundation
Workers at the House of Blues concert venue in Houston voted overwhelmingly last week to join Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 51. The new bargaining unit covers workers in lighting, sound, video, carpentry, props, stage management, hospitality, freight and bac
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Shaheen's own daughter disavows the deal her mom struck lol
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
honestly, there's only one thing involving elon musk that I would ever care to hear about and if it does happen, I have a feeling I'll get a text
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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October 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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it’s fucking settled: this is the most owned anyone has ever been
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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We have to keep shoveling all money, labor, water, and the environment into this mulcher so it will one day attain sentience and solve climate change, the first of which is impossible and the latter is a problem we have known the cause of and solution to for over a hundred years
is it better for countries to invest in boring things like transport and energy infrastructure or should they invest all their money in useless chatbots that talk in reddit-voice on the vague and completely unsubstantiated hope that they'll be able to do something profitable one day
November 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
walk into a store called Levers of Power to buy some political recourse for my grievances. ah, damn, looks like they're all out. rows and rows of empty shelves.

but then I see the curtained-off room in the back under a sign that says Adults Only. hmm. wonder what they got back there.
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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genuinely concerned that basically no one is talking about the new Now You See Me film, and also nobody seems to be hyped for the new Avatar coming out next month
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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A number of soft-touch moments lead us to this moment, and now there are no consequences for breaking with the party line. Dem leadership should have sent Joe Manchin's daughter to Guantanamo over the EpiPen scandal just to set an example.
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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This might be totally unfair, but the only way to send a message to Shaheen and King who can't be primaried is to nip their family members fledgling political careers in the bud. A King is running in Maine for something and a Shaheen is running in NH-01.
November 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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so, schumer has been shepherding this deal every step of the way but even if you take him at face value idk if anyone should be reassured by the concept of a senate minority leader who cannot control his own party to stop what he believes to be a catastrophic capitulation
America is in the midst of a Republican-made health care crisis—a crisis so severe, so urgent, and so devastating for American families that I cannot support a continuing resolution that fails to address it.

I am voting NO.
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM