The year is 2023. Gas is $3.50 a gallon, you're only in the office 2 days a week, and adley rutschmann is the face of your beloved Baltimore Orioles who are stomping on the AL East on their way to 101 wins. you don't know it will never be this good again
Lamentation (flipped, detail), by Gerard David, 1515-23, 📸 by Roberto Schmidt
You can tell that this game will destroy at least one nation's psyche and that's what sports are all about baby
still the definitive statement on "can you cheer for team usa if the usa does bad things" discourse:
Worked at the gym in college and Closer by the Chainsmokers and Halsey haunts me.
Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 2mo agoevery person who has ever worked retail for even a week has at least one song they can never hear again without being involuntarily transported back to the store
If a side effect of this era were to permanently kill law school elitism in the profession, that would be a silver lining.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2mo agoYaakov Roth was a Harvard Law School grad, SCOTUS clerk, and longtime BigLaw partner. His resume, law students were always told, was a sign that he was among those at the top of the legal profession. Today, he said Trump could tear down the Statue of Liberty tonight and no one could stop him.
Can someone at DoD look at the SEAD-4 guidelines? Please.
Tyler King@tyleraking.com · 2mo agoThe Pentagon has appointed a former Citadel cadet and J6 convict to one of the most sensitive top-secret posts in the DoD. He has none of the relevant experience that would make him eligible for the 40-person team. wapo.st/437arYG
BREAKING: Senate advances resolution to limit Trump's Iran war powers for first time, after four Republicans defect.
Senate advances resolution to limit Trump's Iran war powers for first time, after four Republicans defect
Four Republicans voted with nearly all Democrats to advance the Iran war powers measure, with GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy joining the Republican defectors for the first time.
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went on a walk during lunch and the entire national mall appears to be fenced off????
Some evenings downtown Baltimore is just impossibly beautiful and peaceful.
the only allowable food delivery is pizza and chinese food
The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhat’s your most old-coded opinion? Mine is that the Apple Watch is the least value added product* on the market today. It’s like what if you had a Fitbit with a bunch of apps you never used and you have to charge it twice a day? *over something like a basic Fitbit
Public sector workers made that rocket launch happen.
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.
lol at team usa for not starting gunnar henderson, one of two people who scored runs on sunday, in this final. guess at least I'm less conflicted about my rooting interests!
republicans are in charge of everything and they are getting everything theyve ever wanted and doing everything theyve ever wanted and the world is on fire and the global world order is collapsing. is there a correlation? who can say
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy
It would be funny, if it wasn’t so infuriating, that this is the second time people have elected Donald Trump and then almost immediately been like “wait what the fuck we hate this guy”
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 7mo agoTrump’s net job approval rating right now is actually lower than it was at this point in his first term
Man this is shocking. No I've never heard of dennis hastert or strom thurmond, why do you ask?
they know they're supposed to be blaming the Democrats for the shutdown making people's lives worse, but they're so passionate about the concept of making people's lives worse that they can't stop themselves from talking about how they think people's lives should be worse
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo agoBrooke Rollins: "I guess the silver lining in all of this is that we're having a national conversation on our SNAP program. This has shined a light on a program that especially under the last administration has just become so bloated."
This is a DC area food bank that has helped laid off and unpaid government workers. They need help. If you have a few bucks to spare consider this charity. www.capitalareafoodbank.org?utm_referrer...
Food Bank for the Washington, DC, Region | Capital Area Food Bank
The Capital Area Food serves the entire Washington, DC, metropolitan region, providing meals to thousands of people a day while also addressing the root causes of hunger.
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ask every republican in congress whether they think the treasury should pay donald trump almost a quarter billion dollars while federal workers are in their third week of not getting paid
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 10mo agoBreaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X
if you want me to extend grace to a schlubby white millennial man with questionable tattoos and a history of incoherent social media posts he better be slugging 40 homers in the bigs every year that's all i have to say
my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract
