Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com

Alex Zalben@azalben.bsky.social · 4w ago

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

i’ll take “on the nose metaphors” for 200, alex

Metro Rail Info@metrorailinfo.bsky.social · last mo.

Commemorative Freedom 250 Grand Prix cards were made available at select stations this morning. Team Metro quickly identified a defect in the card technology which makes them unusable.

NEW: One year in, Trump's troop deployment in D.C. is ongoing, unending, pointless — and very bad. The "America 250" flags are a particularly empty emblem on the uniforms of troops deployed on the streets of the nation's capital. Tonight, at Law Dork:

One year in, Trump's troop deployment in D.C. is ongoing, unending, pointless — and very bad

The "America 250" flags are a particularly empty emblem on the uniforms of troops deployed on the streets of the nation's capital. And for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

lawdork.com

now skip you KNOW i hate the indycar race around the mall BUT

Metro@wmata.com · 2mo ago

Commemorate the Grand Prix race on Aug 22-23 with a limited-edition Smart Trip card! 🏎️ Available at specially marked station fare vending machines beginning August 20… while supplies last! 🏁: www.wmata.com/news/metro-a...

on vhs: BILLY ELLIOT because my mom didn't know how it has like 50 f-bombs in theaters: FROST/NIXON, inexplicably

Patrick Klepek@patrickklepek.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Do you remember what *your* first R-rated movie was? I finally asked my mom (I couldn't remember), and she told me it was The Lost Boys when I was roughly the same age as my daughter (about 9). The movie traumatized her more than it did me, apparently

this is where your money goes when you buy harry potter stuff. rowling isn’t shy about it. amnesty wrote an even-handed report that laid out what anti-rights groups do; rowling uses her billions & clout to suppress it. when you give rowling money; she spends it on stealing people’s human rights.

Miffythegamer@miffythegamer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In my opinion, this is litigious thuggery. Amnesty spoke their truth and it hurt the feelings of the anti-trans brigade. TERFs destroy everything they touch. I mean, imagine suing Amnesty, of all organisations?

Second time in just about a week when a man not targeted by ICE was killed by them

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“The motorist killed by ICE officers in a Maine shooting Monday was not the target of the warrant the officers were executing, Sen. Angus King said Homeland Security Secretary Mullin told him.”

NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.

thebulwark.com

DC is, flatly, owed statehood after what they have been through under this man to make sure this shit never happens again

Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The entire city is on edge right now. It’s 96 degrees, we’re interrupted every 5 min by the sound of low-flying fighter jets, and the president has managed to ruin July 4th. Quietly muttering to myself: “just wait until IT happens. Everyone will be so happy when IT happens. It’ll be incredible…”

The NPS will launch 850,000 fireworks in the middle of the night. (Last year, they launched 7,000) That will dump perchlorates and heavy metals into the Potomac River and cause the amount of soot and smoke particles to skyrocket (pardon), at great danger to any creature that breathes.

Bill Kuchman@billkuchman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"The Park Service, in a separate document, similarly said that people should ‘wear an n95 mask when outdoors’ and ‘remain indoors as much as possible during and after the show.’” The guidance is to remain indoors ... during the fireworks. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Kentucky Route Zero and it's not even close

Chris Plante@plante.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What is the definitive game about America?

Mona Khalil, who devoted her life to protecting turtles, killed by Israeli airstrike: defector.com/mona-khalil-...

Mona Khalil, Who Devoted Her Life To Protecting Turtles, Killed By Israeli Airstrike | Defector

For half a century, a house on the coast in southern Lebanon has kept vigil over Al-Mansouri beach and the blue Mediterranean waters beyond. Mona Khalil’s grandfather built the house in the 1970s,…

defector.com

reading persepolis in high school english class basically changed my life. man this one hurts

Sarah Weinman@sarahweinman.com · 4mo ago

What a staggering loss. RIP Marjane Satrapi.

this is incredible

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 4mo ago

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

Road & Track@roadandtrack.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Ferrari's first all-electric car, the Luce, brings radical change to Maranello. www.roadandtrack.com/news/a713981...

While most people understandably focus on D.C. statehood leading to 2 Dem senate seats, for D.C. residents, lack of statehood means the federal government gets involved in local teen curfews, which is a stupid waste of time for everyone. Your state or county doesn't have to worry about this; we do.

Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In her order, Bowser specifically cites the brawl at the Chipotle in Navy Yard as a reason to reinstate the teen curfew zones. She also says it's preferable to letting the federal government come down on D.C., which it has started doing.

Today @victoriascott.bsky.social writes about Juniper Blessing, a University of Washington student who was murdered last week, and worries about the potential loss of a better future for young trans people she had always hoped was coming. www.welcometohellworld.com/this-pain-ha...

This pain has to become foreign and unknowable

In memory of Juniper Blessing

welcometohellworld.com

wrote about the most important architectural legacy of the Trump administration: the conversion of logistics warehouses into detention centers www.thenation.com/article/soci...

America’s True Fascist Architectural Legacy

It’s not the kitschy White House ballroom—it’s logistics warehouses converted to ICE detention centers.

thenation.com

It's kinda funny that movie critics have to review The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Do architecture critics have to write about the ballpit at a McDonalds Playscape?

The Knesset passed a bill today mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of terror - but not for Jews. There is a word for a legal system where different legal standards apply to different categories of people. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Israel passes bill mandating death penalty for Palestinians convicted of terror

The Bill's Wording Creates a Distinction Designating It Almost Exclusively for Palestinian Terror, While the Ideological Burden of Proof It Sets Is Expected to Make Its Application to Jewish Nationali...

haaretz.com

a very thoughtful piece about Kevin Roche’s wild Union Carbide campus www.irisyaun.com/writing/for-...

for sale: mausoleum, used — iris yaun

In 1983, the industrial chemical titan Union Carbide commissioned and built a gleaming modernist headquarters hidden between ridges in the hills of Danbury, Connecticut, officially known as the Union ...

irisyaun.com

shoutout to the dc metro, a legit good public transit system. clean, wide-reaching, new cars, (mostly) on time. bonus points for ~brutalism~ an unequivocal point of pride for my second adopted home vs my first, boston

Yonah Freemark@yonahfreemark.com · 6mo ago

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

Whatever SB says here, the controversy around this project is not like a few local NIMBYs being mad about an office addition. It’s not even like that scaled up, it is qualitatively different (and he must know that)

President Trump’s Ballroom Architect, Roasting in the Hot Seat

nytimes.com

"CEO Steven McKay wrote to employees that “moving forward, DLR Group will not do work—be it upgrades, modernization, or new construction—for ICE detainment or deportation facilities.” DLR Group wouldn’t walk away from its existing contract, or commit to ending its relationship w private prisons"

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 6mo ago

“I think what ICE is doing is the worst thing America has probably done since the internment camps during World War II.” One of the nation's top "justice facility" architecture firms will no longer work on ICE detention centers or deportation facilities after its employees staged a revolt.

tonight my knight: - had his soul ejected from his body by an abbot with wine for blood - watched his own body get sucked into an enormous dirt hole in order to birth a god - got pulled out at the last minute, his body covered in molten gold down to the waist

will jobst@willjobst.bsky.social · 6mo ago

the valley of flowers has created more "that-was-the-best-session-evers" than anything else i've ever played or ran. go get it: phantom-mill.itch.io/the-valley-o...

A good metaphor for why appeasement never works: You give him neoclassicism and he just wants MOAR neoclassicism

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 6mo ago

For nearly 200 years, these iconic — and Ionic — columns have welcomed visitors to the White House. Trump has privately mused about changing them to his preferred style, and now his top arts commissioner has proposed a plan to do exactly that. With @asteckelberg.bsky.social.

Hundreds of #JewsAgainstICE protested outside ICE headquarters in DC today. We won’t stand idly by while they abduct our neighbors. Thanks @truahrabbis.bsky.social @bendthearc.bsky.social (and rabbis & cantors & lay leaders from pretty much every synagogue, youth group & summer camp I’ve gone to)

They got the big game on at the bar

*covered in gremlin blood* yeah, you know, it was a tough first half, a lot of distractions but we got some good points on the board. i'm just focused on killing the wasp queen, you know, that's been my focus all season, really just hoping to get the chance to do that tonight

will jobst@willjobst.bsky.social · 7mo ago

discovered some life-changing ttrpg tech during friday’s session: after taking a mid session break, before getting back into the scene, do a sports style locker room interview with each player (in character). it’s 1) funny 2) focusing 3) immediately and personally characterizing