Reposted by Teriosity🐝Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Whenever I visit, always struck by the disjunction between "Washington" the synecdoche for US empire and "Washington" the beautiful city for the people, just packed with public good and beauty, a promise to be something better. It's good to be upset about the latter's destruction. 119340
Reposted by Teriosity🐝ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. (Published March)propublica.orgVeterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under TrumpHundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ... 36953569
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Questionnaire by Wendell Berry 91398508
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026SCOOP: Trump officials are pressuring the National Park Service to find a way to give a small piece of Yosemite to a private developer. The land would be used for a road, to give the developer rare private access to the heart of the park.notus.orgTrump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private DeveloperThe National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park. 51548433
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Voters of Tomorrow @votersoftomorrow.org · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton could've hoarded a fortune like every other billionaire. Instead, she gave it back, funding hospitals, paying for her employees' college, and giving kids the power of reading while politicians failed to fund their schools. Imagine what we could build if power like that actually cared. 💛 516242
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Dr. Abigail Desmond @abigaildesmond.bsky.social · 02/08/202615,000 years ago, in one of the the earliest settled communities in the world, a child collected fine clay from the slow-moving river by her home. She then committed an act familiar to all inveterate play-doh enthusiasts; rolling and and pinching the squishy clay into tiny round balls. 3534169
Teriosity🐝 @teriosityb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026It’s so clearly a naan (thrown like a frisbee/discus)! But I guess I’ll be better at the next bread throwing war than 51% of poll responders 🤣 000
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026"“You can’t get rid of 30 percent of your staff and expect to be functional,” says Traci DiMartini, the former IRS human capital officer who was one of the first high-ranking officials DOGE pushed out last year. “Things are starting to break.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comThe IRS is imploding.The CEO says the agency is proving it's possible to have “less people and better results.” 24657230
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The "Fee D.C." movement is born. (I'll see myself out now.) But for real, DoorDash can't be happy that Rep. James Comer publicly unveiled that the platform supported the Republican bill to restrict D.C.'s ability to increase taxes or fees. It's a PR challenge, to say the least. 24619
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026If Other Jobs Were Like US Senator www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... 163195693
Teriosity🐝 @teriosityb.bsky.social · 05/07/2026these two groups are not in the same universe as each other and should not be equated. 000
Teriosity🐝 @teriosityb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026This piece is an essential stop at the Smithsonian SAAM/Portrait Gallery - wildly impressive in real life. One man’s trash … 000
Reposted by Teriosity🐝The Onion @theonion.com · 23/06/2026Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating theonion.comArchaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For LegislatingWASHINGTON—Calling the discovery the “clearest proof yet” of how the U.S. government was originally designed to function, archaeologists published new evidence Thursday that suggests the Capitol build... 7196932148
Reposted by Teriosity🐝The Onion @theonion.com · 29/04/2026Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ theonion.com/supreme-court-overturn… 114138154223
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Logan Jaffe @loganjaffe.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Look at this: @inquirer.com has digitally preserved the interpretative signage removed by NPS, and used annotations to explain what specifically was flagged before removal. This keeps the content publicly accessible (for now) while doing newsworthy reporting www.inquirer.com/news/philade...inquirer.comHere are the signs the Trump administration removed from Independence ParkFollowing last year’s review, every sign has been removed from the President’s House site. 16859403
Teriosity🐝 @teriosityb.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Words cannot describe how cruel and depraved this is, and how complicit we all are in allowing this to happen, throughout our history, our present, and the foreseeable future. 000
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Councilmember Charles Allen @cmcharlesallen.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Despite the constant chaos around us these days, we can't let this dark anniversary pass without remembering that 5 years ago, while the nation looked on in horror, many Ward 6 neighbors, businesses & places of worship felt a deep fear that remains with us to this day. charlesallenward6.com/jan62026 0112
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 09/12/2025A German Christmas ornament catalogue from 1934 www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/g... 014428
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/10/2025Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you." 345171106275
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Paul van der Meer @paulvandermeer.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Exactly this part of the White House is gone. 27509189
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 19/10/2025the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist 204176553973
Reposted by Teriosity🐝The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/10/2025Exclusive: In the first half of the year, upheaval from the Trump administration’s foreign aid freeze delayed the delivery of hundreds of USAID shipments of antimalarial and HIV medical supplies to regional warehouses in dozens of countries. The consequences were deadly.washingtonpost.comTrump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found... 79763
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 19/09/2025OVERNIGHT Federal law enforcement agents dismantled the White House Peace Vigil, the nation’s oldest and longest lasting protest, two weeks after President Trump ordered it taken down. Some sign-wielding volunteers remained @marissajae.bsky.social reports www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...washingtonpost.comThe White House Peace Vigil, after standing for decades, is dismantledParts of the vigil were removed earlier this month after Trump ordered, “Take it down.” On Thursday night, only the vigil volunteers and some signs remained. 25637
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com · 16/09/2025Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.vanityfair.comCharlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost CauseBy ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy. 13497237
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Book stairs. Balamand University, Lebanon. (source: dreamstime.com/staircase-know…) 311235
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 14/09/2025I like that they've left a gap for the discovery of a new dairy animal. 5315
Reposted by Teriosity🐝jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2025wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekendnytimes.comOpinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either. 369143243174
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 08/09/2025"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector. 851309307765
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/09/202540% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem. 11262651794
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Protests get the attention, but D.C. residents have been engaging in smaller acts of resistance to Trump's federal surge. They're recording ICE agents and calling in thousands of sightings to a tip line, helping scared families get kids to school, and more. @51st.news: 51st.news/dc-residents...51st.newsWith cellphone cameras and tip lines, D.C. residents find small ways to fight ICEHow neighbors and school communities are organizing against the immigration crackdown. 113163
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 22/08/2025A few hundred people are gathered in the Columbia Heights Civic Plaza to protest Trump’s federal surge in D.C., especially the crackdown on the immigrant community. More than 250 arrests of immigrants have happened over the past 10 days. 010235
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/08/2025The DC resistance isn’t manifesting this week as recognizable members of Congress marching up and down Pennsylvania Avenue with CNN cameras in tow, but as an array of ordinary DC residents documenting what’s happening in their neighborhoods and mobilizing pop-up actions.motherjones.comThe resistance is active in DC—you’re just not looking closely enoughIt's not massive protests on Pennsylvania Avenue, but happenstance hecklers and Nextdoor posts. 482043639
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Councilmember Charles Allen @cmcharlesallen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025The driver of the National Guard’s 14-ton mine-resistant ATV ran a red light, struck a vehicle & injured the driver requiring jaws of life extraction. These vehicles are designed for warfare, not our neighborhood streets—they don’t belong here. 👇washingtonpost.comDriver of National Guard vehicle gets red-light ticket after collisionA crash involving a D.C. National Guard vehicle and SUV on Capitol Hill left the civilian driver with a minor head laceration Wednesday, officials have said. 13520
Reposted by Teriosity🐝The Onion @theonion.com · 22/08/2025Atrocities Keep Getting In Frame Of D.C. Tourist’s Shot theonion.com/atrocities-keep-gettin… 212390450
Reposted by Teriosity🐝stevemmills.bsky.social @stevemmills.bsky.social · 18/08/2025NEW: In his first term, Trump talked like he wanted to improve mental health care in the U.S. and how the insurance industry covered it. In his second term, not so much. Smart story from @mayatmiller.bsky.social and @jeremykohler.bsky.social of @propublica.org. www.propublica.org/article/ment...propublica.orgTrump’s Rollback of Rules for Mental Health Coverage Could Lead More Americans to Go Without CareThe president, who has framed mental health as a national crisis, paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawfully denying coverage. And Congress cut funding to the agency that enforces insure... 912830
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/08/2025100% intended, they want DC to suffer, they want it to feel hostile to everyone who lives there or goes there. The Republican ideal is for cities to be places where everyone is afraid of getting kidnapped or shot by roving gangs of masked bandits working in cahoots with the police. 331287348
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 11/08/2025If only there were a recent example of people destroying a famous piece of Washington DC, out of which we might make an example 9704125
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 01/08/2025We’re about to do this for the economy 352712729
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Wow, who could’ve known this would happen? (Everyone. Everyone knew this would happen.) 07828
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Mouldy bread, made of jewels. www.instagram.com/stories/pres... Kathleen Ryan at Gagosian London 526356
Reposted by Teriosity🐝新金梦 Check Out What the Doorman Bought @xinjinmeng.neocities.org · 01/07/2025I can't stop thinking about barbecued ice cream. 281
Reposted by Teriosity🐝darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 25/06/2025hey this sounds like pretty good stuff here fox news thank u for the summary 362427245
Reposted by Teriosity🐝Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 18/06/2025We are all foreground cat 221836