D.C. will be hotter than 99 percent of the planet on Friday.
Only parts of Africa's Sahara Desert, the Middle East, China's Gobi Desert and a few spots in the Desert Southwest will be hotter.
I have no respect for anyone who’s angry about this. This is exactly what taxes should be spent on. Not subsidizing corporations and giving bombs to Israel.
One of the reasons that both Neoliberals and fascists hate people like Mamdani is because he proves they are all liars who have effectively sold out their constituents to billionaire interests.
All of the pain we have been told to endure has been a choice to sate the wealthy
While the world focuses on the destruction in Iran, we must not ignore what Israel is doing in Lebanon.
1,461 have been killed.
4,430 have been injured.
1.2 million have been displaced.
Israel now occupies 14% of Lebanon.
Enough is enough. No more US military aid to Israel.
What the US and Israel are doing in Iran and Lebanon is depraved beyond imagination. Assassinating scientists, journalists and medics, bombing schools, universities and hospitals, attempting to destroy society itself... we are staring evil in the face.
The Pope is right. Up until WWII, indiscriminately bombing cities from a distance was considered clearly immoral and cowardly. Soldiers were expected to fight soldiers not citizens.
Now we have leaders who brag about doing it.
Just a reminder that DOGE failed at every possible level:
* At the micro level, they misread, misled and straight up lied about many of the 'savings'. They'd announce '500m saved!' and it would be some contract where the money was 98% already spent and already wasn't being renewed.
* At the macro level, they didn't impact spending at all. The government spent more in 2025 than 2024.
* At the institutional level, they didn't even convince the GOP that deficits are a problem worth caring about. The GOP only signature bill in 2025 exploded the deficit by trillions of dollars.
* At a personal level, Elon got run out of town with his tail between his legs. The most notable public facts about the Cracked Coders are that one of them was a mini-Hitler, one was called 'big balls', and none of them bothered to learn how the government actually works before they set it on fire.
They gutted a bunch of important institutions, fired whole departments at random, decimated medical research funding, killed millions of people dependent on USAID, and still failed at every possible level.
The bad news: Airport traffic control is so bad that it's genuinely dangerous to fly in America now. Also you need to arrive at the airport 4 hours early so the gestapo can menace you in the security line
The good news: oil is so expensive you can no longer afford to fly anyways
Don’t let it ever escape you that it is by a mere twist of fate that you are not the person being subjected to colonization and genocide and the entire world being at best indifferent to your existence if not actively hostile to it as you sit on your perch judging the words and feelings and souls of someone who has lived through and is still living through things you cannot and will not ever comprehend.
This war is costing a billion dollars a day. In one fucking month we will spend more over there than we needed to save healthcare for more than 2 million Americans. They literally are taking away your food and your healthcare for this regime change war of choice.
ProPublica is publishing the letters of children incarcerated inside ICE facilities.
If you are from another country, do not come here. Not even to visit. Some of these children have been inside almost a year and only came here for family vacation.
After reporting ecoli rate at sewage spill in Potomac River was going down, @dcwater now admits they released very incorrect data. It’s actually 100 times higher than they reported.
DC Water Reporting Error
Reported: 2,420 MPN/100mL
Actual : 242,000 MPN/100mL
@nbcwashington
Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake.