Mikhail Berlioz
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Hello. Major Disappointment Reporting For Duty.
It’s crazy how many people in DC don’t want Waymo here. Have you seen the way humans drive in this city? Waymo will literally save lives.
@ScottGoldstein Right, winning a vibes election and over-interpreting it as a mandate for specific policies is how political coalitions fuck up. (See: Trump II). Also, listening sessions are nice but when you're governing you actually have to make decisions that involve winners and losers.
Sonny Hostin says she doesn’t understand why certain MLB players chose to write on their “Pride” caps the verse proclaiming the rainbow as a sign of God’s promises. She thinks it was a self-own on the part of these Christian players. What Sonny doesn’t understand is that the rainbow belongs to God—not to “Pride,” not to gays. And while we are all God’s creatures, we are not all His children. We have to actively choose that adoption into sonship, and doing so requires denying ourselves, forgetting ourselves, and even crucifying ourselves. Not affirming ourselves.
There's something very dark about our current political world where people rejoice in a problem that has nothing to do with politics just because they hate who's in charge at the moment. Don't we all want the pool to look good? Why is this a "win" for democrats? Why is this a political thing?
For an 80 year-old man, it is extraordinary how energetic the president is. When does he sleep? Compared to most octogenarians he is the energizer bunny. You might not like what he’s doing or where he’s going, but he’s running laps around his critics.
Recently several law firms (Ogletree Deakins, White & Case) signed leases for new offices in downtown DC. It would be easy for them to go: Fannie Mae threatened to break a 15-year, $770 million lease early. CoStar moved its HQ to Arlington. Downtown rests on the edge of a knife
One last thing on DC: I still have *many* concerns about the platform JLG ran on and think the harsh reality of governing in prose will soon set in. But the lesson I hope non-lefties trying to glean something from this election take is that you gotta give the people hope. People are tired of feeling despondent. You have to be FOR something. If the progressive left is the only faction that’s being aspirational in our politics, then they’ll only grow stronger.
Unlike Mamdani, JLG won’t be reigned in by a state govt or a local govt that sits to her right. Also, unlike NYC, it’s very easy for DC residents to move out of the city into MD/VA and still have a pretty easy commute to work, so loss of tax base. Going to be rough…
D-backs pitcher Ryan Thompson, who is a proclaimed Christian, spoke on the MLB warning SF Giants players who wrote Bible verses on Pride Night caps: "I think there's a perceived negativity with this stuff. Landen Roupp wrote a verse on his hat that means he's anti something. That doesn't mean that. It means that he's pro something. So the rainbow means something to him. It means that he believes in the Noahic Covenant being something that's special to us as Christians."
Wizards fans conflating players wanting to be picked #1 overall into this idea they are a premiere destination will never not be funny. Iraq could have the #1 pick and these kids would be angling to get picked there.
I'm really glad Zack Snyder & co. didn't include some ridiculous 2-Minute evacuation scene to pander to a portion of fans who get mad when actions from powerful beings have consequences on a world of regular ones. 'MAN OF STEEL' is incredible.
Sunny Hostin somehow turns a joke about Michelle Obama at UFC into an unhinged rant about slavery and racism, because of course. These people are deeply unhappy scolds, the hall monitors of America life. Men will reject this energy 100% of the time.
And in a tragic irony, national Democratic types who make their living trying to inform voters across the country about what's happening in Washington are themselves self-admitted uninformed voters on D.C.'s local races. One big reason: the destruction of WaPo's Metro section.
The irony is too rich to ignore. A piece lamenting that players made “a night meant for inclusion about something else entirely” …by simply writing Bible verses on their hats. Silently. On their own caps. Let’s think about what “inclusion” apparently means here: everyone is welcome, celebrated, and affirmed…unless you’re a religious person expressing your faith quietly, in which case you’re a problem to be ridiculed by a major sports outlet. The players weren’t protesting. They weren’t disrupting anything. They weren’t demanding anyone agree with them. They wrote scripture on their hats. That’s it. And yet the media framing treats this as an act of aggression against inclusion…while simultaneously being deeply exclusionary toward them. This is the core contradiction the mainstream sports media can never seem to resolve: inclusion only seems to flow in one direction. Pride Night deserves full-throated coverage and moral endorsement. A Bible verse deserves a condescending op-ed. If a reporter wrote a piece mocking players for putting an LGBTQ+ symbol on their cap, their career would be over by morning. The double standard isn’t subtle …it’s architectural. True inclusion, by definition, has to include people of sincere religious faith. The moment a media outlet decides that one group’s expression is a celebration and another’s is an embarrassment, they’ve stopped covering a story and started enforcing a cultural orthodoxy. That’s not journalism…it’s a dress code. @nytimes @TheAthletic
Again, you may not like the UFC thing at the White House, but the moment you hung a giant pride flag from the columns and had half-naked “trans” activists exposing themselves on the lawn, you lost all right to complain about desecration.
I was not born in the USA but thank God every day that I’m here and do what I can to show the country I love the respect it deserves. This is a Frenchman coming to the USA to earn hundreds of millions of dollars who doesn’t believe he owes this country respect.
Obviously he can't overturn home rule but there a is a ton he CAN do to ruin the city and we have to take these threats seriously!
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Scoop: Far-left DC mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George bought a million-dollar home in a residential zoning area in April after suggesting single-family zoning was a tool of “segregation”
these guys have way way too much power to shape legacies and history
