"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." More present under the same handle at the other place. Stochastic tourist.
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@billbindc retweeted
Was surprised by @730_DC framing an addition to the AV bill for accessibility as “a sweetener” for “an interest group.” In DC, the current state of service from rideshare for anyone in a wheelchair or w/ a range of disabilities is…not good! We can set a better standard.
@billbindc retweeted
“With sex, lies, and money, with a corrupt president and wannabe unaccountable tech oligarch overlords, with damage to our national security and help for our main adversary, I suspect this scandal will be—and deserves to be—one for the history books.”
thebulwark.com/p/trumps-chip…
@billbindc retweeted
“Democrats that they have one mission and one mission only for the next two years:
Destroy Trump’s political standing.
You think he’s finished? That he’s had enough? No.
Hit him again.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebul…
@billbindc retweeted
View from JFK grave at Arlington National Cemetery toward Lincoln Memorial, Potomac and Washington DC. Looking at this view in spring 1963, JFK told friend Charles Bartlett, "I could stay here forever." (Photo: Getty)
@billbindc retweeted
One of the most intense and profound moments in history. 11am on the 11th November 1918 when the guns fell silent. This should be shown in every school.
The next two years are going to see a lot of this:
SCOOP: President Trump authorized a crackdown on companies suspected of diverting Nvidia's advanced AI chips to China on Thursday, but one administration official repeatedly stood in the way: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. axios.com/2026/11/11/trump-l…
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@billbindc retweeted
I’m confused why everyone is mad about the Hegseth vote. If he gets impeached now, the Republicans get credit for it and they get to appoint a new Secretary.
If Dems impeach him in January, they get credit and also get to deny Trump a new secretary. Why on earth do it now?
The nice thing about Pete Hegseth is that he will always find a way to remind everyone that all but one Republican Congressman refused to vote to impeach him:
"All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times!"
A Sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier yells after laughter could be heard from a group near Secretary Hegseth, who was taking posed photographs at the site.
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@billbindc retweeted
A US Army sentinel guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier reprimanded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and a group of his senior advisers Wednesday after some in the group laughed and talked near the solemn memorial following a Veterans Day ceremony. cnn.com/2026/11/11/politics/…
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10/12 by @AshleySchapitl and comments spot on by @BarredinDC
from a mortgage nerd...the most important point here: DC landlords can't cut rent because their mortgages were sized for a DC that no longer exists (today)
In commercial real estate, many times an empty building is worth more than a full one. Commercial real estate is priced off income or its potential income: net operating income / cap rate. The rent received is the asset
Here's an example:
Building A: fully leased, 5 tenants, all at 50% of market rent because landlord wanted to stop losing money. $500k NOI. Value = $7.1m
Building B: completely empty. Bank underwrites it at "market rent" of $1m NOI (remember, Building A is 50% of market). Value = $14.3m when stabilized. Then a formula subtracts lease-up costs like downtime, free rent concessions, buildouts, broker commissions to call current value = $12m "as-is"
Building B is worth $5m more than an occupied building to investors
add on the compounding impact of Building A
1) commercial leases run 5+ years which locks in below market value of asset
2) each signed lease becomes a comp, dragging down the next building on the block
that's why you see "6 month free rent" instead of lower rent. Because concessions protect the full rent value which protects the value of the building
Vacancy for landlords may cost less for one, two or three years rather occupying at below market which then devalues their asset by millions
It sucks for everyone from landlord, to businesses to our residents
This is why I believe 2027 & 2028 have the potential to be the bottom of DC and the moves, policy and incentives over the next 3 - 5 years will be so critically important to get back to DCs thriving years
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@billbindc retweeted
Democratic absences providing the decisive margin for Hegseth to avoid impeachment is an omen. I hope people will read these pieces. We can’t do this again.
offmessage.net/p/donald-trum…
newrepublic.com/article/2177…
@billbindc retweeted
For one, Mr. Vice President, as a very conservative lawyer friend just texted me in reply to your query: "You can’t just summarily execute alleged drug runners by blowing them up with cruise missiles."
Has Pete Hegseth committed impeachable crimes? The question is absurd and the answer is: obviously not.
Like so much of Congress, impeachment has become a ridiculous show that stands in for actual policymaking. Congress has so many tools for registering its policy disagreements. Rather than use them, they're going to try to impeach Pete Hegseth. They did the same to Donald Trump. Legislation is hard. Impeachments are easy (and ultimately, inconsequential).
The irony is that legislators are most angry at Pete on the issues where he's most correct: repositioning forces away from Europe/Ukraine and reorganizing the general officer corps.
This isn't about Iran, this is about the fact that Pete took on the bureaucracy at the Pentagon.
@billbindc retweeted
NEW: Enough D.C. Council members oppose a bill legalizing AVs to sink it, so @charlesallen is making Hail Mary concessions to labor unions to save his bill.
Story for @washsunmetro w @maustermuhle
washingtonsun.com/metro/dc/d…
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Others have made this point. I’m just echoing them. Last Tuesday was the biggest polling error of the 21st century. I don’t think I’ve seen a single story abt “reckonings” for the polling industry. Is polling broken? What did we miss? For general press it’s only an issue if GOP strength is missed.
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BLUF: most 'barbarians' in the later Roman empire were vendors looking to collect on overdue invoices.
I challenge anyone to read up on the interminable negotiations, pleading and backstabbing by the Late Roman Empire and not conclude that the Germanic "tribesmen" had the patience of saints. Alaric tried very hard *not* to sack Rome.
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@billbindc retweeted
9 Nov is called Germany's Schicksalstag, Day of Fate. It's the day of the Kaiser's abdication (1918), Hitler's Munich Putsch (1923), the Nazis' "Kristallnacht" pogrom (1938), the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989). A good day to remember that democracy should'nt be taken for granted.
@billbindc retweeted
The emergence of the Democratic majority we were promised depends on a new breed of culturally moderate Hispanic politician rather than the Woke 1 coalition politics of the Latinx era.
slowboring.com/p/the-rise-of…
"Urbem venalem et mature perituram, si emptorem invenerit!"
Jugurtha called it.
nytimes.com/2026/11/09/busin…
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