Phil Guire
@philguire.bsky.social
DC resident, occasionally(ok, rarely) clever, urbanist, biker, Dem, former hill staffer… No DMs please!
Is there a way to “short” a person?
A startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm just got a $620M loan from the DoD, months after the Pentagon gave a major drone contract to ANOTHER Trump Jr.-backed company.
This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives
This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone comp
popular.info
December 5, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Is there a way to “short” a person?
I challenge our Capitol Hill bartenders to create a Fog of War cocktail in honor of the war secretary. It should be bitter, very strong and burn.
By invoking “fog” as a catch-all excuse, the secretary risks creating the conditions for blame to be pushed downward onto the very service members who executed an order under pressure. lnk.thebulwark.com/4ptOmNe
The ‘Fog of War’ Is No Excuse
Mistakes are one thing; failures of moral judgment are another.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I challenge our Capitol Hill bartenders to create a Fog of War cocktail in honor of the war secretary. It should be bitter, very strong and burn.
You pick! What am I reading next?? My last book was thick so I am a little behind!
November 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
You pick! What am I reading next?? My last book was thick so I am a little behind!
I’m sure no house members are worried about a D+6 midterm.
Johnson: This is not a bellwether of things to come. Blue states and blue cities went blue. That was no surprise to anyone.
November 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I’m sure no house members are worried about a D+6 midterm.
“Strategy” indeed. About as successful as his time in “higher” ed.
November 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
“Strategy” indeed. About as successful as his time in “higher” ed.
Just a photo of World Central Kitchen feeding federal government workers. Totally normal stuff. Would be nice if WCK didn’t need to focus resources on feeding people in the wealthiest country in the world.
November 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Just a photo of World Central Kitchen feeding federal government workers. Totally normal stuff. Would be nice if WCK didn’t need to focus resources on feeding people in the wealthiest country in the world.
We need to fight for arts education for many reasons but maybe the most pressing reason is that the rise of AI will mean that we will be an economy of creatives. We need to foster that now.
I’ve spent the past 2 months fighting to protect arts programs at my kids’ school. Community organizing, emails, social media, testimony. The district finally listened.
At the fall concert, parents kept coming up to me to say, “You did it! Thank you!”
If I do nothing else in my life, I did that.
At the fall concert, parents kept coming up to me to say, “You did it! Thank you!”
If I do nothing else in my life, I did that.
October 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
We need to fight for arts education for many reasons but maybe the most pressing reason is that the rise of AI will mean that we will be an economy of creatives. We need to foster that now.
I mused with a few of my higher ed friends this summer about ending tenure once you can collect SS. We need to create movement in the ranks and free up budgets to support the next generation.
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I mused with a few of my higher ed friends this summer about ending tenure once you can collect SS. We need to create movement in the ranks and free up budgets to support the next generation.
If the reporter asked him about Epstein would his pants have fallen down?
October 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
If the reporter asked him about Epstein would his pants have fallen down?
Weird, I assumed Butker would miss his kicks too far to the right. Either way good to see him miss.
October 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Weird, I assumed Butker would miss his kicks too far to the right. Either way good to see him miss.
I’m shocked that Trump and Hegseth wanted to show off their dazzling intellect in front of 800 much smarter people. Never thought they would actively invite a cop either.
September 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I’m shocked that Trump and Hegseth wanted to show off their dazzling intellect in front of 800 much smarter people. Never thought they would actively invite a cop either.
I don’t lightly correct a hero of mine BUT the second to last word should be “and” not “or”.
September 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I don’t lightly correct a hero of mine BUT the second to last word should be “and” not “or”.
Sunday musings… the Republican party was created out of anti-slavery Whigs and the nativist Know Nothing Party. They have completely returned to the nativist know nothing party and I think the name fits perfectly.
September 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Sunday musings… the Republican party was created out of anti-slavery Whigs and the nativist Know Nothing Party. They have completely returned to the nativist know nothing party and I think the name fits perfectly.
Staff work at the WH continues to impress. If he can’t read words you should not try and make him do it in a “major” news conference.
Also, Tylenol manufacturer (kenvue?) should sue the pants off this administration or they will get sued themselves. This is bonkers.
Also, Tylenol manufacturer (kenvue?) should sue the pants off this administration or they will get sued themselves. This is bonkers.
September 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Staff work at the WH continues to impress. If he can’t read words you should not try and make him do it in a “major” news conference.
Also, Tylenol manufacturer (kenvue?) should sue the pants off this administration or they will get sued themselves. This is bonkers.
Also, Tylenol manufacturer (kenvue?) should sue the pants off this administration or they will get sued themselves. This is bonkers.
So fucking brave. That place is basically attached to the White House.
President Donald Trump dined at Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab in Washington, DC, Tuesday evening, stating that his administration’s crackdown on DC crime was instrumental in his decision to dine out.
Trump dines out in DC for first time in his second term, asserting crime crackdown made city safe | CNN Politics
Trump dines at ritzy seafood and steak restaurant near White House, crediting crime crackdown
www.cnn.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
So fucking brave. That place is basically attached to the White House.
I can’t fathom the cost but Disney should move the fuck out of Florida. If that’s too hard at least ask for the kids vaccination certificates before entering the park.
Florida plans to ban all vaccine mandates
www.salon.com
Florida plans to ban all vaccine mandates - Salon.com
twp.ai
September 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I can’t fathom the cost but Disney should move the fuck out of Florida. If that’s too hard at least ask for the kids vaccination certificates before entering the park.
Rewatching The Death of Stalin. No reason.
August 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Rewatching The Death of Stalin. No reason.
Failure to Lunch.
8/27/2026: D.C. Residents rebuke Trump and decline to indict man who threw Subway sandwich at cop.
August 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Failure to Lunch.
This little confab is happening in front of of the Surrat house where the assisination of Lincoln was planned.
August 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
This little confab is happening in front of of the Surrat house where the assisination of Lincoln was planned.
Reposted by Phil Guire
That mushroom is unnecessarily large.
August 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
That mushroom is unnecessarily large.
Finally we have proof there is no benevolent god.
August 16, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Finally we have proof there is no benevolent god.
Catching me when I’m in a mood. We don’t win the civil war. We beat them and then capitulated. Lee, Forrest and all the other traitors should have been tried and executed for treason. We allowed the south to dictate reconstruction…
August 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Catching me when I’m in a mood. We don’t win the civil war. We beat them and then capitulated. Lee, Forrest and all the other traitors should have been tried and executed for treason. We allowed the south to dictate reconstruction…
She can also say that more confidently when Rep Corey Mills is back in his district and not in DC
August 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
She can also say that more confidently when Rep Corey Mills is back in his district and not in DC
I’m not a political savant by any stretch so take with a grain of salt. If Texas wants to dilute safe R house seats by taking them for r+10 to r+5 they might lose them all if next year is a D+7 election which is very possible. Just saying…. House R’s might not like their new thinner margins.
August 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I’m not a political savant by any stretch so take with a grain of salt. If Texas wants to dilute safe R house seats by taking them for r+10 to r+5 they might lose them all if next year is a D+7 election which is very possible. Just saying…. House R’s might not like their new thinner margins.