Thursday, August 28, 2025

Today's news and jokes







National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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— Brad Heath (@bradheath.bsky.social) August 27, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Scabs, in addition to everyhting else



Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

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— Corey Frayer (@csfrayer.bsky.social) August 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This photo, too.



Governing badly enough to remind us why they had to invent grand juries in the twelfth century

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— Ted Underwood (@tedunderwood.me) August 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM






Here’s the clip of CM Padilla bragging about reducing the size of a 100% affordable housing project in her district and increasing the amount of parking while arguing against the transit oriented upzoning bill SB 79. (ED 1 is an affordable housing program in LA.)

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— Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 (@maxdubler.com) August 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Victory and Balboa (she speaks so proudly of fighting for more parking lots instead of ugly housing)







Greater Richmond's road system, with its near-total embrace of the stroad-and-strip mall approach directly outside of the city core, is cartoonishly dangerous to pedestrians. RIP to this poor woman: richmond.com/news/local/c...

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— Dave Infante (@dinfontay.com) August 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM








Message from Florida Division of Emergency Management Executive Director Kevin Guthrie says “we are probably going to be down to 0 individuals within a few days.”

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— Thomas Kennedy (@tomaskenn.bsky.social) August 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
























I will also do literally anything to get out of a 50-minute conference call www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/u...

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— Choire (@choire.bsky.social) August 27, 2025 at 3:59 AM
(He was on with five engineers trying to solve the problem of a jammed nose wheel, and it sure sounds like the suggestions made it worse and worse until it crashed)























After 22 years, Typepad is shutting down with one month's notice. Go back up your old blogs, old-school blogger friends. everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08...

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— Andy Baio (@andy.baio.net) August 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I can't believe Blogger has been so reliable







Enough people asked me to go do the #ZcavengerHunt for them that I felt obliged to write up the experience / my thoughts on it. Obviously I would have loved if they printed out more cards...but the hunt was surprisingly resilient in spite of that miss, and dodged a lot of common mistakes.

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— Michael Andersen (@mjandersen.bsky.social) August 26, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Detailed write-up about the puzzles







(Do people still enjoy Simmons?)















@thetimes Venice residents are raising their frustrations after social media influencers tipped off tourists about cheap gondola ferries used by locals to cross the Grand Canal. #italy #italytiktok #travelhacks #veniceitaly#gondolatok ♬ original sound - The Times and The Sunday Times








@the.golden.girl05 No…not happening. Not falling for this. #goldenretriever #goldenretrieverlife #goldenretrieversoftiktok #dogsoftiktok #funnydog #puppytiktok #dogmom #megaesophagusdog #specialneedsdog #redgoldenretriever #goldenretrieverlove ♬ Oh No - Kreepa








@noodleknowsnovels We loved seeing Fitz at @Louisville Zoo and miss him so much! #louisville #zoo #louisvillezoo #elephant #baby #butterfly ♬ original sound - Chelly 📖








@maria.navarro.de.castro To throw us out of his house 😬 📍Muelle Tijiretas #sancristobal #galapagosislands ♬ Panic 002-JP - D Sirrom / David Morris








@abc7la A pair of unlikely friends were seen strolling together in #Altadena. 💕 #bear #coyote ♬ original sound - ABC7LA




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