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Jake Berg

@jacobsberg.bsky.social
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Libraries. Beer. DC. You always go to the show. DCBeer.com Editor/Co-Owner He/Him

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DC Beer @dcbeer.com · 5h
Snallyposting time. First up, the fresh hop beers of Snally!
dcbeer.com
The Fresh Hops of Snallygaster 2026 | DC Beer
The mid-Atlantic has never been great for making beer with freshly picked hops. Last year brewers from elsewhere blessed Snallygaster with ten beers
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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 5h
I believe this to be the last album I bought on cassette
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 16h
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h
God everything is so DUMB.
United States
Attorney's Office
Southern District of New York

PRESS RELEASE
North Carolina Man Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison For Super Intelligence-Assisted
Music Streaming Fraud
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 21h
I’d like to walk around cherry blossom and magnolia trees, dammit
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 22h
I and others have made the observation that if you are not a current or former DC resident it's difficult to fathom the emotional toll the physical destruction of our city has been going through. And the ever present thought that even worse is to come.
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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Here's a take: the beers coming off Guinness' 10 bbl system didn't make it to DC, which is flabbergasting. Diageo is a giant company and they never put their cans or kegs into DC distro beyond Baltimore Blonde and a milk stout in 2019! It's malpractice! There's a giant market just south of you!
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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s fucking great outside. I took several deep breaths of fall air
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Count Draugula @artd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BBW? You mean the Broad Breasted White? Th most common commercial breed of turkey?
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
so incredibly massively fucking tired of this
Three National guard soldiers walking through a metro station
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
forbes.com
Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Watching baseball with my friends, who are just out of frame
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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm still hurting over missing out on Kali Malone there earlier in the year.
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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
youtube.com
Angélique Kidjo - Once In A Lifetime
YouTube video by Angelique Kidjo
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
come on, now
The goose chasing man meme, where the goose asks "why was he in jail so long," and then in the next panel the goose is chasing a man, saying "why was he in jail so long, motherfucker?"
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Count Draugula @artd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the abolitionist's dilemma
venn diagram
left
some people need their ass beat
right
punishment does not transform people
middle
me
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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hot take, I'd pay $7.50 to go to Dulles
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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wait, the eyeware company does that??? Evil!
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Team Trump likes to tout the sky-high number of arrests they are making in DC. But these arrests are often an unconstitutional mess — and DC Courts are the ones who have to clean it up.
nbcwashington.com
Safe and beautiful ‘is not free': DC Courts under pressure with flat funding since 2022
Since Congress left D.C. Courts’ funding at 2022 levels, criminal cases are up 160%, with President Trump pushing a tough-on-crime agenda.
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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
DC People: for your rainy day inside, I wrote about our nosy Federal in-law.
thebirthofacapital.info
Who made NPS the boss of DC?
Et in arcadia, Hoover?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
they are here literally committing crimes
koco.com
Oklahoma National Guard member deployed to Washington, DC, is arrested on firearms charge
A National Guard member deployed to Washington, D.C., as part of a mission launched by President Donald Trump has been arrested for carrying an unauthorized firearm after a traffic stop by U.S. Park P...
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Somebody Somewhere @agrrl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This student was charged with Assault on a Police officer for calling armed National Guard soldiers from Oklahoma occupying DC “little bitches” & telling them they “need to go home.” #1. The 1st Amendment gives everyone the right to share their opinions with government officials
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Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The internet caught on because people enjoyed the internet. Netscape didn’t have to threaten people with it.
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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🤬🤬🤬
tucson.com
Researchers: Damaged Arizona border-wall site older than Egyptian pyramids
According to a new study, an Arizona archaeological site damaged by border wall work was thousands of years older than previously thought.
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Mx Wolfkitten @wufkitn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s still possible for nearly all public figures to stand against Trumpism without facing arrest or violence. To the degree that powerful individuals may be at risk, this is still the optimal time to come forward, because that risk will only increase if Trumpism isn’t stopped now.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
fun fact: The Treaty of Tripoli, 1796, Signed by Prez John Adams, includes: "As the government of the United States of America is *not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion*, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of [Muslims].." Just saying.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is the kind of thing you put in dystopian movies, except the Trump admin is doing it in real life and our political press strokes their chins like, ‘Mmmm, yes, we should treat this as very normal.’
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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yes, new apples!
static.klipy.com
Stephen Colbert: Give It To Me Now
ALT: Stephen Colbert: Give It To Me Now
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I watched it closely because I thought it would tell me where we were. And it did. And no you don’t want to know.
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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tulip ass economy
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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur, Espooky. @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
screenshot from I Think You Should Leave of a guy in a hot dog costume standing in a clothing store surrounded by suspicious shoppers, who is loudly saying "we're all trying to find the guy who did this [drove the hot dog car into the store]" but his face has been replaced by Karl Rove
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh yeah that’s the good stuff
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
These guys gave cheered for the maddest, most incoherent sentences this evening, and he still can’t sell them data centres. You can literally hear Trump’s freeform-speech brain tacking away from a toxic issue.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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Booort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'd be super comfortable if I'd done a bunch of horrendous and/or illegal on behalf of my boss who now sounds like Horse_ebooks
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Officiant: If anyone present knows of any reason why these two should not be wed— Fan standing up in back of the church: 71 OPS+ by the way
Talkin’ Yanks: Austin Wells is engaged

AmericanMade: Instead of being in the batting cage and working on his hitting while batting .170 on the season, our catcher is doing this bullshit.
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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Austin Wells wyd
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Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 03/10/2026
Lane || Boot.dev v @wagslane
Holy shit, America is cooked. They were able to perfectly clone the Microsoft Teams experience.


POLTICO
POLITICOEurope
@POLITICOEurope • Oct 1
The European Commission has rolled out an alternative to Microsoft Teams.
But officials using it aren't impressed, with one describing the tool as "absolute shit."
vist.ly/5kje9
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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Happy Saturday
Michael Tracey: “Go fuck yourself”

Jared: “Buddy I would rather drive off a bridge than live the life you make for yourself”
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Elizabeth DeLoria II: THE GHOST DIMENSION @yourdadloves.me · 03/10/2026
A two panel meme of the Simpsons. The top panel has kirk van houten gesturing to a race care bed. The text reads "im an AI guy. How many local models do YOU run?" The bottom panel is homer with a pope hat photoshopped onto his head. The bottom text reads "I run the catholic church."
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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Good read
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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is as close as anything to the molten core of modern democracy: can legislators and laws bind executives? That question has been the motive force of a lot of revolutions, democratic collapses, and democratization
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
nytimes.com
National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🧪 "Mr. Trump’s science adviser, Michael Kratsios, has criticized the agency’s system for deciding which grants to fund ... He also argued the N.S.F. should ... bypass external review panels.” Kratsios lost 90% of assets while CFO of Clarium Capital. Do you trust him with the US science portfolio?
nytimes.com
National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not even The Onion could make this up: Before deciding whether to intervene in Venezuela, Trump reportedly spent hours consulting an AI chatbot about how Venezuelans would react to his plan to invade the country and overthrow Maduro.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
General Zod: "Kneel before Claude"
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Josh Hadro @hadro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I broke this story in 2011, about the first major publisher-imposed loan restrictions on ebooks (the only truly big story of my trade journalism career). It’s been 15 years, and the only major difference is that public library budgets are lower and what publishers charge libraries has gone up.
libraryjournal.com
HarperCollins Puts 26 Loan Cap on Ebook Circulations
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