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I know this is pithy social media content, but does *anyone* anywhere ever think Congress would run D.C. better? Or any city, county or state? I dug into history for a story last year, and the really simple answer is absolutely not: 51st.news/district-of-congre…
Compromise proposal: DC should be allowed to elect a member of congress but it should not have home rule
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The gold definitely is shameful, gaudy and proof that money does not equal good taste.
President Trump’s Oval Office puts Barack Obama’s Oval Office to shame.
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We will wish we had listened to these warnings before the massive attack that is coming. To summarize: all code has bugs, continuous attacks by thousand of AI agents guarantees that they WILL eventually find their way into any website/database/system. So we need a new way of thinking about defense.
The cyber tsunami isn't a future prediction. It's here already. As I’ve said before, all code is buggy. And recent events continue to prove this, at scale  The exposure we just witnessed from vulnerabilities in the PHP engine made evident the buggy truth far faster than anyone in the industry expected. PHP powers 70% of the web. For years, deep engine vulnerabilities inside platforms like Zend were known, but widely ignored because the industry assumed they were too complex for human attackers to weaponize. AI just flipped that assumption on its head. By drastically lowering the cost and time required to find exploits, AI models discovered attack paths that human developers couldn't easily see or predict. Attackers are no longer just exploiting custom application code; they are cracking open the underlying platform engines that power millions of websites simultaneously. The waves are coming ashore.   AI creates "toxic combinations" by chaining together lower-priority bugs that seem harmless on their own. A Priority 3 bug today can easily become a Priority 0 crisis tomorrow when a smarter model finds a new way to connect the dots. In short: cyber attacks have moved beyond human comprehension. The hard truth for every CEO and Board member is that much of the legacy cybersecurity playbook was built for a human-comprehension era. Those tools and assumptions are now obsolete. You cannot patch your way out of a tsunami. When every piece of software is penetrable under continuous AI analysis, the strategy has to change. Prevention alone is no longer enough The ultimate metric is cyber resilience. You must assume breach, and preemptively plan to protect your core, critical operations, and ensure that your business can get back up and running the moment the water reaches you.  It is rising around us all.
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individual, republican-aligned donors spending double that of democrat-aligned donors in us midterms (polls not reflecting this)
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Breaking news: A grand jury rejected the DOJ’s attempt to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson for the account she gave lawmakers of President Trump’s actions during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to people familiar with the matter. wapo.st/4jFAkbz
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NEW: U.S. theme park attendance was largely steady in 2025, according to the TEA Global Experience Index. Disney’s six U.S. parks were flat compared to 2024, while Epic drew 4 million visits in its partial first year and helped lift combined Universal Orlando attendance.
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Trump tonight adds a new reason he must renovate the golf course "immediately," one that DOJ didn't mention in months of litigation: "Narrow fairways ... leading to a constant barrage of people being hit with wayward shots." truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT…
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This week marks 15 years since the historic Northeast snowstorm of October 2011.
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President Trump’s proposed 250-foot-tall arch would be a towering new presence in D.C. To understand its impact, The Post built a to-scale digital 3D model: wapo.st/4BnYc9T
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😎 🍂 Today makes 10 days with sun, comfortable temperatures, and no rain. Possible we make it another week. Details: capitalweather.com/dcs-dry-s…
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In a new poll, 15% of Americans said they believe between 1 and 5% of NCAA athletes are transgender. 14% think between it's between 6 and 25%. Meanwhile, an NCAA spokesperson confirmed that the current number is "effectively" zero thebulwark.com/p/new-poll-bu…
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The Trump administration has drained CISA, a federal agency tasked with protecting election systems, of its staff and resources. Some state authorities said they no longer trusted the administration enough to share information with the agency. propublica.org/article/cisa-…
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WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE President Trump escalated his invective against Norway, calling it a ‘shit house country’ and saying Norwegian immigrants are not welcome in the United States because the Nobel committee, based in the capital Oslo, has not awarded him a Peace Prize reut.rs/3U1joSt
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Nice round-up of thoughts for winter from meteorologists across the nation. Includes some thoughts from us on the DC area.
Replying to @BenNollWeather
In Monday's @washingtonpost: A wild winter is brewing. Here’s what meteorologists want you to know. With gratitude to all the meteorologists tagged in this thread who helped bring the story to life! 🎁 Gift article wapo.st/48fbHeD
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Interest on the national debt topped $1 trillion this fiscal year. That’s $87 billion more than we spent on defense.
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House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein. ms.now/news/house-judiciary-…
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Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.
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This person is 62 years old. She has spent more money on botox, filler, and hair coloring than the median American income. A perfectly fine thing to do if you can afford it but don’t pretend to be in touch with the working class with a 6 figure face.
MacCallum: The Cheesecake Factory comment goes exactly to why Democrats lost the middle class, why they lost blue-collar voters. Because it's kind of a guns and religion clinging kind of comment and it turns a lot of people in this country off
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