Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 8hLeast surprising quote in the piece: "The contract that Trump claimed would save money is now billions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule." I'm going to guess that every reporter has a two-key macro for this sentence. 000
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.” -Al Franken 010
Reposted by Robert PohlChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Some authores trye to wryte lengthye frame-tale narratyves thei get called assholes That nevir happenid to Giovanni Boccaccio 3673
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I remember showing my friends my new toys. When I was 5 030
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I suggest you get a search warrant for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Lots of fleecing going on there! 020
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Today in synchronicity, @kevinmkruse.bsky.social & @effinbirds.com 000
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026But Mike Johnson can claim that he has never read a tweet of T*ump's and the media is all "ok, then." 010
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026As someone deeply interested in the location of hand dryers in pub bathrooms, I am gravely disappointed in the Clacton electorate. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comNigel Farage wins Clacton byelection in contest boycotted by other main partiesReform UK leader fails to appear for result, despite beating nearest challenger, Count Binface, and 32 other candidates 030
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026“The buck stops on my cabinet member’s deputy’s desk” has a ring to it, doesn’t it? 010
Reposted by Robert PohlKaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 18/07/2026Before sports betting was legalized everywhere, I was neutral about it, thinking that it was a personal choice. Now that it exists everywhere I have been radicalized against it like a 19th century suffragette 7454101004
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Stop scrolling and post 2 characters who bring you happiness. 010
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken 03716
Reposted by Robert PohlDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Trump ruins everything he touches. Before; After. 12250102
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 07/07/2026"Every job is easy. Except mine. That requires a rare combination of brains, hard work, and subject matter knowledge" -everyone 000
Reposted by Robert PohlDave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Cloud-to-ground lightning, ground-to-cloud fireworks in DC. 251608312
Reposted by Robert PohlDerf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I was a teenager in 1976, and lived through the year-long Bicentennial bash. It's striking how different it was from thos joyless, cheesy, angry 250th is. This one feels like an official celebration in Pyonyang, under the point of a gun. 914123
Reposted by Robert PohlJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I don't think any American--regardless of party, despite fondness for aviation (which I share)--would enjoy being under the nonstop low-altitude, high-speed, incredible-volume of the Caligula overflights of our nation's capital right now. It feels and sounds like being under aerial attack. 1241946514
Reposted by Robert PohlMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 28/06/2026It's not easy being meme-d. #Oh-Gee-I-See-Algae 👀 748249404566
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Really hoping this was a clip of the guy putting the cone on her head but…oh, well 000
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 21/06/2026A few pictures from the Nathanael Greene statue re-unveiling yesterday in Stanton Parl thehillishome.com/2026/06/nath...thehillishome.comNathanael Greene 250 | The Hill is HomeThere’s not much related to the American Revolution in D.C. for the simple reason that the city did not exist during that war. One of the few things we have (other than the paintings in the Rotunda of... 010
Reposted by Robert PohlMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Happy Father's Day 🖤 997420436321
Reposted by Robert PohlSK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting 139143333649
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 21/06/2026At least it gives them something to do. Like telling people to get off the (painted grass) 000
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 20/06/2026That's clearer than before the NPS started 'cleaning it up' There's a metaphor here, I can feel it. (And the reflecting pool is a synecdoche to the entire Tr*mp regime) 110
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Because it would be too on the nose if it were 177.6 times that amount 000
Reposted by Robert PohlMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 13/06/2026They tried to hide but I got em anyway 1054421442
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I just want to know if the two reflecting pools between the Capitol and Washington Monument are painted blue 110
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 04/06/2026This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone 231
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Since they seem to hang out in places already quite safe, this does not surprise me in the least 000
Reposted by Robert PohlAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/06/2026oh my goodness - Lieu played Rubio a video of Trump sleeping while Rubio tried to talk to him during a cabinet meeting. Then this exchange: RUBIO: I've never seen him fall asleep LIEU: I'm gonna show you a video that shows you just lied to Congress *plays another clip of Trump sleeping by Rubio* 41788662447
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Once there were parking lots Now it's a peaceful oasis 010
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Of course it was a fable made up by Pastor Weems. Of course. 030
Reposted by Robert PohlChris Frantz @chrisfrantz.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Good Morning From The Drummer, My Friends.youtube.comTalking Heads - Theme (Instrumental, unreleased track) Live at CBGB's 1976YouTube video by Talking Heads 311910
Reposted by Robert PohlChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Yf A.I. were trulye an excitinge and promisinge world-changinge technologye the storyes tolde about it woulde not involve so much destructioun of the planet and of the human spirit. The worde itself wolde not come to mean, as it hath, the arrival of dystopian crueltye and the breakinge of art. 112826
Robert Pohl @rspdc.bsky.social · 22/05/2026How much of the 1.776 billion from the victimization fund will he be getting? 022
