Jake Berg
@jacobsberg.bsky.social
Libraries. Beer. DC. You always go to the show. DCBeer.com Editor/Co-Owner He/Him
They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 23h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Of all the things to admit on the internet, “I don’t know how bananas work” is one of the funniest
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 22h agoSpoken like a man who has never had to shop for himself.
Dog groomer has a shirt that says “your doodle is a mutt,” I like them
I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs.
Sorry but the OP is so funny. "Oh you hate AI? Well what if all these things that suck and burn natural resources, and that also stole from you, which you have never used even once went away?" What point is this meant to prove?
Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 18h agoI have one answer.
"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!
Nine years ago, there were over 100,000 barrels brewed in Frederick, Maryland. Where did they go? The short answer is New York, or to hard seltzer and canned cocktails. But that’s not an honest accounting. Let us explain.
100,000 Barrels Lost, Wherefore Art Thou? | DC Beer
In 2025 Frederick County, Maryland brewed about 7500 barrels of beer. In 2021 Flying Dog themselves brewed over 81000 barrels. Where did all that beer go?
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No one ever had to spend $175M on librarian misconduct settlements Not even when we drank that Dallas bar out of tequila
sara@saract.bsky.social · 3d agowe're on pace to spend something like 5x the total public library budget on misconduct settlements alone. do we think that number will go up or down with 1,000 more officers? you cannot propose this kind of stuff and be taken seriously as a "fiscally responsible" candidate
if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it
wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d agoThe DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.
It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough
ATLiens, Aquemini, Stankonia The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A 3 Feet High and Rising, De La Soul is Dead, Buhloon Mind State Guerrilla, Mwng, Rings Around the World Agaetis Byrjun, ( ), Taak
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
You don't really need a reason to stock up on Penzey's spices, which are AMAZING, but they happen to be having a sale www.penzeys.com/shop/spices/...
The only creative industry that is inarguably both doing well and doing great work right now is "new baseball guy names."
Bobby Nightengale@nightengalejr.bsky.social · 5d agoJhomnardo Reyes is going to the Orioles for Dean Kremer, per source.
Winner's been declared but god dammit they're still trying
Philip Bump@pbump.com · 5d agopleased to announce the Winner of Bluesky
Direct action is a powerful activist tool because of all the information it provides- you essentially learn to do politics while outside of power.
wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d agoThe DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.
The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.
Democratic Socialists’ bus benches remain, city mum on next steps | Port City Daily
WILMINGTON — The handmade bus benches installed by the Wilmington Democratic Socialists of America have highlighted a problem nearly everyone agrees exists: most Wave bus stops have nowhere for riders...
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Flawed installation. Oh. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
Charges to Be Dropped Against Ex-Olympian David Hearn Accused of Damaging Reflecting Pool (Gift Article)
President Trump had repeatedly accused vandals of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. On Friday, federal prosecutors acknowledged it was “the result of flawed installation.”
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Let’s do this late on a Friday in July. Maybe no one will notice www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/t...
Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool charge against Olympian, faults contractor
The Trump administration dropped a felony charge against the U.S. Olympic canoeist accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
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People need to start getting disbarred for this shit.
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoThe Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
"The mobile gambling applords...don’t care about the social fabric. They don’t even really care about sports all that much. They are using every tool we’ve made available to them to sprint, hurdle, and dive toward exponential profitability." www.liberalcurrents.com/betting-alone/
Betting Alone
Sports betting is destroying an important part of the American social fabric.
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I'm not an attorney, but this sure looks like second-degree assault under New York law
Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 6d agoMasked ICE thug just casually shooting pepper spray at a few old ladies standing peacefully on the sidewalk filming them in uptown Manhattan today. Just because these monsters are quieter now doesn’t mean they’re not still out there violating people.
