This is exactly the flag I would have expected them to come up with!

WBOC@wboctv.bsky.social · 20h ago

A debate over Maryland's congressional districts took an unusual turn Monday night when an Eastern Shore lawmaker proposed asking local voters if the Shore should secede from the state.

what did y'all think never forget meant? vibes? papers? essays?

CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · 23h ago

Oh my god I think I found the video.

"More needs to be made of this," a senior CBS News staffer tells me about the 60 Minutes story that Sharyn Alfonsi was working on about Epstein and banks that appears to have been scuttled after her firing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Are you wearing the—" "The airbrushed T-shirt version of the 1974 artwork Lynda Benglis ran as an ad in Artforum printed as an almost unrecognizably ethereal palimpsest on a sheer, beaded, short-sleeved dress in the Dior Haute Couture F/W 26-27 collection? Yeah, yeah I am." greg.org/archive/2026...

Okay I gotta hand it to them on this one

We're working with @metroabundance.bsky.social to collect cost drivers in California building codes and standards above and beyond national model codes/standards. See here for more – please circulate among architects, engineers, etc. in the state! admin.centerforbuilding.org/wp-content/u...

And note the headline. This is United's plan, not Trump's!

◥◤Kriston Capps 250@kristoncapps.bsky.social · 2d ago

Must-read piece from @byerussell.com on United's vision for Dulles. I don't know if Dulles needs to be the best airport in the country (much less the world..) but it deserves a plan that isn't so ad hoc byerussell.substack.com/p/uniteds-vi...

Must-read piece from @byerussell.com on United's vision for Dulles. I don't know if Dulles needs to be the best airport in the country (much less the world..) but it deserves a plan that isn't so ad hoc byerussell.substack.com/p/uniteds-vi...

United's Vision for Dulles is a Go

The devil is in the details of the revitalization of Washington Dulles International Airport.

byerussell.substack.com

Blanche’s written update to the slush fund and IRS immunity for Trump is nothing more than a shell game. My thoughts in @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Trump Still Has That IRS Immunity. Don’t Be Fooled

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s assurance to senators about the $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” and President Trump’s immunity with the Internal Revenue Service is nothing more than a ho...

bloomberg.com

oh yeah the broader newspaper industry is turbo fucked. down ~80 percent since 1990

@rst.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is one where it might also be useful to see absolutely numbers. It is sadly likely that a lot of this is due to a drop in newspaper staffing elsewhere.

more than 8 percent of all American newspaper journalists work in Manhattan, up from 2 percent in 2005 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

In recent days, The WaPo's opinion editor Adam O'Neal engaged in private convos in which he struck a triumphant and boasted he had moved the section to the right. But now he's out at the Jeff Bezos-owned paper. More from @nataliekorach.bsky.social in @status.news: www.status.news/p/adam-oneal...

The Post's Opinion Parting

Days before his abrupt exit from The WaPo, Adam O’Neal was privately boasting that he had pushed the Opinion section further to the right—raising new questions about what really drove his departure.

status.news

In this week's newsletter, I wrote about something the media got wrong about Dulles: The plan to rebuild it wasn't Trump's. It's a vision by United CEO Scott Kirby — who showed that the entire federal approvals process now is getting Trump to say it's his idea. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

United Proposal for Dulles Wins a Powerful Ally in Trump

With pre-approval from the White House, a $22 billion plan from United Airlines for Dulles shows how federal building projects are changing.

bloomberg.com

Finally, someone willing to speak up for throwing your garbage onto nasty streets: "The bins will contribute to the sense of New York becoming more 'sanitized' each day, where it is gentrified and perhaps physically cleaner but losing its character and history." www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...

You know the lame duck has arrived when the majority starts doing little message bills targeting DC

Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 5d ago

NEWS: Sen. Ashley Moody (R-Florida) has a new bill to require the U.S. flag be displayed in all D.C. school classrooms and mandate the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of the day, though students could opt out. "We should be teaching kids why America is worth loving," she says.

let me just look at commercial crude inventories and draw rates and take a big sip...

Hyde T. Voltyge@hydevoltyge.bsky.social · 6d ago

Folks... this is a reputable pollster.. And the gov race!?! With "extremely interested" voters it's 53 Talarico - 47 Paxton. GOV: Abbott 50 - Hinajosa 49 !!!! Article claims "extremely motivated" there... 53 Hinajosa - 47 Abbott. Yeah uh what??? www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...

I'm sorry but I don't think fish should be this big. I think fish need to be smaller than this.

Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · last wk.

The giant white sturgeon of the Fraser River in Canada

This is true about every project in DC except Dulles. The plan for Dulles isn't Donald Trump's, it's Scott Kirby's.

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · 6d ago

living in DC right now is experiencing the daily humiliation of “what if Robert Moses had the most garish taste possible and randomly got obsessed with musical theatre”

Reactionary racial politics aren’t a glide path towards redistributive economic policies part the infinity

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 7d ago

What the fuck?? “While Mr. El-Sayed is fringy and radical, he’s also a Muslim man. Ms. Stevens is a white woman. This puts her at a disadvantage in the identity Olympics that internal Democratic Party politics have become.” www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

Bad news: The 30-year Treasury yield hit a 19-year high today. 🚨🚨🚨 America's going to have to pay more for its colossal debt, which will soon hit $40 trillion. Interest already tops $1T a year and is growing rapidly. Latest GOP/WH plans would increase the deficit. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Treasuries Jolted as Fed Hold Trims September Hike Bets

US bond traders lowered their expectations that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at its next meeting after officials kept their benchmark steady on Wednesday, while 30-year Treasury yield...

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Trump and United Airlines are promising that all the pieces can come together for Dulles — reviews, approvals and construction — by 2034. Meanwhile, after years of progress toward an expansion for Union Station, Trump just dumped it unceremoniously. www.enr.com/articles/633...

USDOT Scraps Approved Washington Union Station Expansion Plan

Federal officials are replacing years of planning with a public-private strategy, even as key questions about scope, financing and environmental approvals remain unanswered.

enr.com

United's Scott Kirby is not shy about his plan to make Dulles the "greatest airport in the world." But Dulles isn't even in the top 20 airports in the US, much less any list of global hubs. The cost will fall on passengers, but like, to what end? www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Can Dulles Become America’s First World-Class Airport?

A $22 billion plan to remake the Washington-area airport would test whether the US can still deliver ambitious infrastructure projects.

bloomberg.com

Hey, congrats to @danielkayhertz.bsky.social and @atrubek.bsky.social on the second edition of The Battle for Lincoln Park! Must-read book (and not that long) on the history of gentrification in Chicago beltpublishing.com/products/the...

The Battle of Lincoln Park, second edition

Urban Renewal and Gentrification in ChicagoBy Daniel Kay HertzWith a foreword by devin michelle buntenAugust 25, 2026 Now with photos! “A brief, cogent analysis of gentrification in Chicago . . . an i...

beltpublishing.com

Twitter: Train Dog, Jimothy, Emeril Lagasse Bluesky: Will Stancil, Will Stancil, Will Stancil

The Big Bad Wolf huffs and puffs and blows down the house of straw. The little piggy who owns it cries out. The Big Bad Wolf huffs and puffs and blows down the house of sticks. The little piggy who owns it sues. The owner of the brick house was already planning $7 billion in capital upgrades....

Who knows but one thing that everyone should understand is that Dulles *isn't* like other Trump projects. It isn't his administration's vision. It's United's

Kevin Collins@kwcollins.bsky.social · last wk.

I hope I'm wrong, but Trump announcing Dulles renovation plans seems likely to me to be another in the long list of things in the category "Things that if done normally everyone could get behind but Trump will screw up because of narcissism, corruption, or both"

The great @byerussell.com broke the story about United's plans for Dulles two whole months ago (!) and it's unfortunate that the CBS News story doesn't cite him, because he also gets some nuance their story lacks. It's very much a plan by United (and MWAA), less so by Donald Trump.

Donald Trump and more importantly United Airlines want Dulles to be the nation's first world-class airport and now the plan is in place to make that a reality. But does that make sense? Do we need Dulles to be America's best airport? I have questions www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Can Dulles Become America’s First World-Class Airport?

A $22 billion plan to remake the Washington-area airport would test whether the US can still deliver ambitious infrastructure projects.

bloomberg.com

Read this post by @brianbeutler.bsky.social that I inspired. With a nod also to Homer and Christopher Nolan www.offmessage.net/p/odyssey-in...

Insecure Right Wingers Want Conan The Barbarian To Be Real

Their "high-minded" complaints about The Odyssey movie deny the human condition.

offmessage.net