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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Never knew MARC does single tracking, but here I am sitting still for 20 minutes thanks to “signal issues”
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
🤔 None of the bus routes, streets, or quadrant named in this post are seen in this photo
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Most unexpected moment of the pride parade: former Councilmember Carol Schwartz marching with Whitman-Walker
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Was Mayor Bowser in the Pride parade? I didn’t see her
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Looks like they’re testing the UFC lights at the White House
Beams of light emanate from the spot where the White House is located. it can’t be seen because it’s in the distance.
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
When I tell you to buy a newspaper, I mean this one column and nothing else
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Coming home from a vacation at Universal Orlando and the contrast between the ads in MCO and DCA is nuts. Orlando: It’s a me, Mario! DC: This fukkin’ submarine will kill people without being detected!!!
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Fighting antisemitism by demanding universities name the Jews
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
In an administration that posts Nazi iconography online and is full of people with ties to white supremacist groups, what could possibly go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...
nytimes.com
Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Extract List of Jews From Penn
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Judge Leon is so exasperated by the administration’s weak arguments that he writes “Please!” four times in his ruling 🤦‍♂️
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Do the big brains at NPS want people to drive to see the cherry blossoms? If you leave now, you might make it before peak bloom ends.
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Looking forward to the Bowser administration’s storm response
Mayor Bowser at a microphone on a yellow bucket hat and trench coat
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I plan to mark this occasion by doing nothing for 3-5 days, then marking it as done
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The mayoral candidate who permanently eliminates mosquitoes will get my vote
washingtonian.com
Sorry, DC’s Mosquitos Probably Survived the Snowcrete - Washingtonian
After a harsh winter in DC, the forecast is finally showing warmer days on the horizon. But balmy weather brings its own nuisances—namely, mosquitos. Is there any chance the brutal freezing streak mea...
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This should be embarrassing. A totem to DC’s inadequate storm response.
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Today in @wcp.bsky.social’s daily newsletter, all of the politics stories (except those about the Post layoffs) are published by local newsrooms (that’s unusual, usually some are national). Each of them raises the Needle (an index of DC quality of life) by an unusually large 50 points.
washingtoncitypaper.com
The Needle: Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Laid Off More Than 300 Journalists, With Significant Cuts Hitting the Metro Section
The Needle jumps 111 points for all the essential reporting local journalists recently published.
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Watergate began as a Metro story
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Democracy dies in a billionaire’s profit and loss statement.
theguardian.com
‘It’s an absolute bloodbath’: Washington Post lays off hundreds of workers
Former Post executive editor blasts owner Jeff Bezos’s ‘sickening efforts to curry favor’ with Trump
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
“I’m not selling the car. I’m keeping the chassis but replacing the engine, transmission, wheels, body panels, and interior.”
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I got my 2025 unwrapped from @bikeshare.bsky.social. Did not realize my streak was so long! One note: I reduced my ebike use when the price increased in August. #bikeDC
Graphic showing my riding:

Capital Bikeshare
2025 on Two Wheels

The Messenger

Fast, focused, always findings shortcuts. You kind of own this city.

Rides: 959
Stations visited: 107
Streak: 53 days
Favorite ride: Ebike
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This is what @ddotdc.bsky.social considers a cleared protected bike lane. It’s blocked by snow where I stood, and halfway down the block, it’s full of snow. There is no bike lane on this street right now. (Columbia Rd NW b/w 16th and 17th Sts.)
An impassable protected bike lane next to a clear automobile lane
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
What’s happening at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is an absolute disgrace and subversion of civil rights laws. Its Trump-appointed chair is openly hostile to LGBT people and threw out the agency’s guidance on sexual harassment just so queers could be humiliated at work.
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Digging out from the winter storm would be a great task for the DC National Guard. Too bad they are busy walking around U Street.
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The walkways inside Franklin Square are shoveled but the sidewalks of its perimeter have barely been touched. Be downtown, and fall on your ass.
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Spotted a crew clearing a @bikeshare.bsky.social station 👀
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I walked to and from my destination in the street because it had been taken care of better than the sidewalks. Extra special 🤨 to the buildings where someone shoveled out the driveway but didn’t touch the sidewalk.
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Watching the DC Bike Walk and Bus PAC Ward 1 candidate forum and one thing is clear so far: candidate Terry Lynch (off camera) is wrong on every issue.
Screen shot of the candidate forum. In attendance are Aparna Raj, Rashida Brown, Miguel Trinidade Deramo, and Jackie Reyes.
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Missed this story the other day: Since 2019, DC has added 50 miles of bike lanes and 11 miles of bus lanes. But commute times have not changed, sinking opponents' arguments that the new infrastructure would cause havoc.
washingtonpost.com
Five ways D.C.-area commutes have changed since the pandemic
A new survey by the Metropolitan Council of Governments found that many people are still working from home part of the time -- but not federal workers.
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Sheer joy in Malcolm X Park @capitalweather.bsky.social
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The Star Tribune is covering the siege on Minneapolis like no one else can. Follow.
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Strange things are happening in Minnesota
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
[Yoda voice] Begun, the snow wars have
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Headed to the supermarket to pick up a prescription at the pharmacy
media.tenor.com
a man wearing a floral shirt says honey we 're going into battle
Alt: a man wearing a floral shirt says honey we 're going into battle
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Peacefully protesting: 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 Shooting a peaceful protester: 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Looking forward to the reaction from critics who dinged Elissa Silverman for not being a DC native when she ran for reelection to this seat
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
No way
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
FYI if you're heading out tonight -- Metro rail and buses are fare-free after 8 pm. And there's a code to get $15 off your Lyft ride.
wusa9.com
Metro rides free after 8 p.m. New Year's Eve
Hours are also extended until 2 a.m.
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Unless something unexpected happens, this is the final tally of my year in reading. Definitely my most literary year so far.
A tally showing I read 42 books, an average on 9 days each. A bar graph shows I read informative books more than any other type.
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Reporting what the government is doing on our behalf, with our taxpayer dollars, is a core element of journalism. That the government refuses to explain itself is part of the story. It is not a reason to withhold reporting.
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Miracle, publicized
A lit menorah
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Happy anniversary to this email from @mayorbowser.dc.gov
Mayor Bowser’s newsletter, dated Dec. 2015. The subject is “our vision is zero.”
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
The tip wage ballot initiative is dead! Long live the tip wage ballot initiative!
washingtonpost.com
A $25 minimum wage for D.C.? It might be on November’s ballot.
D.C. lawmakers have overturned the will of voters twice over ending the tipped minimum wage. Labor advocates are now aiming higher.
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
"Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this administration always wins.”
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Business owners constantly say they need clear guidelines so they can actually run their business. There simply was no need for the Bowser administration to upend the new normal.
washingtonpost.com
After restaurant pushback, D.C. likely to change streatery rules
Some restaurateurs have said they can’t afford to comply with the city’s new program.
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Wondering where the before/after is for the $750,000 DDOT spent on streateries in Adams Morgan
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Shout out to all the supermarkets that set up their Hanukkah displays and remembered the matzah
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Ranked choice voting, explained with divas
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I simply can’t understand the city’s obsession with reducing customer capacity to make room for car parking
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
While you're shopping for deals, remember that Starbucks workers are on strike! Do not cross a picket line!
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Jon Steingart @jonsteingart.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Spending Thanksgiving Eve as my ancestors dreamed: in an emergency room because I sliced my finger while cooking for my family
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