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Cake day: May 12th, 2026

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  • What a fucking idiotic take.

    The right are actively trying to suppress voting and remove constitutional rights. They’re supporting a pedophile, supporting abhorrent spending, supporting war crimes (in the Caribbean, Venezuela, and the Middle East), abandoning our allies, and embracing the rich and the corruption that enables them. They’re attacking women, healthcare, education, and the scientific method.

    These policies don’t take root without the support Republican Voters. Their stupidity does not absolve their responsibility.

    Is there some class warfare going on? Sure. Should you still be differentiating between the Right and Left… Abso-fucking-lotely.

    By all means, call out the those on the left who are choosing billionaires over voters or are supporting policies that harm the general public, but they are by far the secondary priority.










  • The court said the old laws focused on people whose substance abuse left them unable to manage their lives, while the federal law broadly covered regular drug users regardless of whether they posed a threat to anyone.

     

    “It’s a good day for the Second Amendment when all nine justices can agree to protect gun rights,” Severino said. "The mere fact of illegal drug use, without more, isn’t enough to justify prosecution for gun ownership. Historically, ‘habitual drunkards’ who habitually lost use of their reason could have their rights restricted, but not just regular drinkers — even including Founding Fathers like John Adams, who drank ‘a tankard of hard cider’ with breakfast, or James Madison, who ‘consumed a pint of whisky daily.’

    Seems like an incredibly reasonable take.







  • The water is circulating between the reflecting pool and the Tidal Basin. It was part of the 2009 upgrade to use that instead of using tap water.

    They don’t typically circulate anything back to the tidal basin, the reflecting pool’s circulation system from the 2009 upgrades is a closed loop that filters the water and sends it back to the pool.

    They have an option to top off the pool from the tidal basin to combat leaks/evaporative loss, but they don’t typically use that option during this time of the year (because the tidal basin is full of algae), and as far as I know they never use that method to completely refill it.

    When it’s filled from empty, it’s treated water from DC Water.