The vote is in, the #WALeg House has voted 51-46 to pass the Millionaires Tax!!!!
11.03.2026 01:15
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The vote is in, the #WALeg House has voted 51-46 to pass the Millionaires Tax!!!!
It's @washingtonea.bsky.social official folks, the #WALeg House has been debating the Millionaires Tax for over 24 hrs: www.washingtonea.org/advocacy/deb...
Good morning! It is 8am, the #WALeg House has been debating the Millionaires Tax for over 14 hours, and there are still 29 amendments remaining 😵💫
My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it. On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned. Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.
What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right. "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.
I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:
Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.
Jackson @tree_bro Follow *knocks on door* Mrs Smith? I'm from Army. Your son got owned in Iraq. He showed great valor in the face of epic fail. Semper fi or whatecer 4:20 PM • Jul 22, 2011
This tweet preceeds and anticipates deaths in Operation Epic Fury by almost 15 years
Posting again about the total lunar eclipse, because I really hope you'll get to see it tonight.
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Seth Rogen accepting Catherine O’Hara’s posthumous award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for The Studio #ActorAwards
Long shot of two whales jumping
The two of them surfacing RIGHT in front of the bow
WHALE NEWS: this mom and baby whale were jumping around some distance out from our boat and then went underwater for a while, and then they resurfaced, I would say, “alarmingly” close to us
“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’”
GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON
reminder to keep disabled people in mind when asking “who is this for??” but also that most disabled people could never afford stuff like this
TIL that the L, 2, and 8 are in three different typefaces, and I'm not going to be able to unsee that for the next two years, goddamnit.
I've been looking at the LA28 logo a lot more than usual over the last few weeks and I had some questions. Once I show you the problems with having 50+ variations of a logo, this information will haunt you for the next two years as you see these graphics spattered across the city
DATA NARRATIVE 19 - EPSTEIN FORENSIC FINANCE PROJECT I Audited $2.1 Billion in Epstein Financial Records. Here's Every Name the Money Touched. The Season 1 finale. 10,964 transactions across 14 banks, 8 shell entities, and 123 connected nodes. Randall Scott Taylor February 2026
It’s amazing what regular people have been doing with the files that have been released.
It’s a lot.
randallscott25-star.github.io/epstein-fore...
My labor of love and heartbreak coming Sunday in The New York Times Magazine.
A hard one to write, but proud of my teen. When I asked if we should share her story, she only had one question. “Do you think it might help someone?”
Here’s hoping it does
Sharing ahead of Casey Means’ Surgeon General confirmation hearing tomorrow:
she's making a "get out" gesture with her thumb
get a load of Nicole Malliotakis as Al Green's "BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T APES!" sign is ripped down by House Republicans
(Chip Somodevilla/Getty)
Please take offramps like "Earthquakes: How *Do* They Work?" or "Can *You* Understand Middle and Old English?"
"Blue Whales Eating" offramp is a good option as well
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"As his post goes on, his language gets older. 100 years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words" Fascinating. So how far back in time can YOU go?
This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen
Love how serious Olympic commentators are taking THE DOGS, as they should be
Yes,,, your boy has taken a ride in the 4 man bobsled,,, but im an adrenaline junkie and needed to try skeleton. And now I’ve officially joined the team and am gonna try to start competing.
66 years old going 66 mph.
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for
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Who is Jeremy Hansen, the Canadian tapped by NASA to fly around the moon?
Find out here: https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/who-is-jeremy-hansen-the-canadian-tapped-by-nasa-to-fly-around-the-moon/
This event did not happen so hard that it has created an unreality vortex of staggering magnitude, obliterating several major world events that *did* happen.
As of 10am eastern standard, we’ve lost the Kennedy assassination and the 1917 epidemic of Spanish Flu.
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they never stopped to ask if they *should.*” —THE ACTUAL
POINT OF THE FUCKING MOVIE THESE PEOPLE ARE DEBASING!!
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