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Jason 🛥️🏄‍♂️<p>Remembering the Pearl Escape of 1848 at the Southwest Waterfront</p><p><a href="https://thesouthwester.com/2025/04/13/remembering-the-pearl-escape-of-1848-at-the-southwest-waterfront/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thesouthwester.com/2025/04/13/</span><span class="invisible">remembering-the-pearl-escape-of-1848-at-the-southwest-waterfront/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://photog.social/tags/boating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boating</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/ThePearl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThePearl</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/washingtondc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>washingtondc</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/potomac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>potomac</span></a></p>
Jason 🛥️🏄‍♂️<p>Update ... we're getting very wet and bounced around on the second front ... and it's a big one! <br><a href="https://photog.social/tags/boatlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boatlife</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/washingtondc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>washingtondc</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/potomac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>potomac</span></a></p>
Jason 🛥️🏄‍♂️<p>Good morning! Ran to Hains Pt yesterday and the blossoms are popping 🍾🌸! Also dinghyed with friends in the evening and saw the bridge piling lights have been changed to pink for Bloomaroo at the Wharf this weekend. </p><p>If you come to DC to enjoy the blossoms, you'll be in for a treat. Please be patient, be safe, and have fun! It'll be very crowded.</p><p><a href="https://photog.social/tags/cherryblossom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cherryblossom</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/pink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pink</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/boatlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boatlife</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/swdc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>swdc</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/washingtondc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>washingtondc</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/dmv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dmv</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/potomac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>potomac</span></a></p>
LilMikeSF<p>5 yrs ago the <a href="https://c.im/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a> editorial board wrote "Democracy is at risk, at home and around the world. The nation desperately needs a president who will respect its public servants; stand up for the rule of law; acknowledge Congress’s constitutional role; and work for the public good, not his private benefit.” </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Billionaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Billionaire</span></a> baron buyer of that iconic <a href="https://c.im/tags/Potomac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Potomac</span></a> paper <a href="https://c.im/tags/JeffBezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JeffBezos</span></a> has since put his thumb on the <a href="https://c.im/tags/editorial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>editorial</span></a> scale.</p><p> The once disagreeing voices needed in the editorial opinion pages are muffled and only bending truth to please the owner and his new pals at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in DC. Bezos has since announced he is paying over $40 million for exclusive rights to a documentary about the first lady produced by the first lady herself and directed by a Hollywood cretin who was last seen being chased out of town under a cloud of rape accusations. </p><p>This ain't Katherine Graham's <a href="https://c.im/tags/WaPo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaPo</span></a>, Woodward &amp; Bernstein definitely don't work there anymore ... <a href="https://c.im/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> aren't telling truth or shedding light in darkness, but bending viewpoints towards vaguely defined support of the owner's interest in "personal liberties and free markets" ... and I , along with millions of others have canceled a long time <a href="https://c.im/tags/subscription" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>subscription</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/RuthMarcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RuthMarcus</span></a> tells of her final daze writing under Bezos editorial control, beginning with the passage...</p><p>"The values of the Post do not need changing,” Jeff Bezos told <a href="https://c.im/tags/employees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>employees</span></a> when he bought the newspaper a dozen years ago. He echoed the words of the Post’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/owner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>owner</span></a> Eugene Meyer in 1935, emphasizing, “The paper’s duty will remain to its readers and not to the private interests of its owners.”</p><p>...and ultimately reveals the rest of column that paper refused ... revealing "the unavoidable truth: the Washington Post I joined, the one I came to love, is not the Washington Post I left."</p><p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/why-ruth-marcus-left-the-washington-post" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newyorker.com/news/essay/why-r</span><span class="invisible">uth-marcus-left-the-washington-post</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@alexlunaview" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>alexlunaview</span></a></span> personally, I want to see a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/REFORUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>REFORUSA</span></a> as in <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NATO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NATO</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> troops yeet <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> out of office.</p><ul><li>With him firing everyone who's more competent than himself, I'm pretty confident there would be no meaningful resistance if amphibious landing forces were to roll up the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Potomac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Potomac</span></a> and into <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Washington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Washington</span></a> D.C. ... </li></ul><p>In all seriousness, I think it's a necessary evil to <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Elser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elser</span></a>"</em> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> out of office!</p>
Shine My Crown<p>Read Karen Huger’s Full Heartfelt Public Apology Before DUI Sentencing: ‘I Was Wrong’ <a href="https://shinemycrown.com/read-karen-huger-full-heartfelt-public-apology-before-dui-sentencing-i-was-wrong/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">shinemycrown.com/read-karen-hu</span><span class="invisible">ger-full-heartfelt-public-apology-before-dui-sentencing-i-was-wrong/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/KarenHuger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KarenHuger</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/RealHousewives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RealHousewives</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DUIApology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DUIApology</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Potomac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Potomac</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/RealityTV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RealityTV</span></a></p>
Shine My Crown<p>Karen Huger’s One-Year Jail Sentence For DUI To Begin Immediately <a href="https://shinemycrown.com/karen-hugers-one-year-jail-sentence-for-dui-to-begin-immediately/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">shinemycrown.com/karen-hugers-</span><span class="invisible">one-year-jail-sentence-for-dui-to-begin-immediately/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/KarenHuger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KarenHuger</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DUI</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/RealHousewives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RealHousewives</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Potomac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Potomac</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/RealityTV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RealityTV</span></a></p>
LilMikeSF<p>In <a href="https://c.im/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> the <a href="https://c.im/tags/majority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>majority</span></a> of voters have favored preserving or increasing funding for the Department of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a>. </p><p>Unfortunately for those voters, the people that agree with them did NOT win the last election, and federal gov primed and in a rush to destroy <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dept" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dept</span></a> of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Edu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Edu</span></a> along with any <a href="https://c.im/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a> initiatives </p><p>As scapegoating and irate legislative attacks against <a href="https://c.im/tags/Diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Diversity</span></a> in educational initiatives continues, silence = complicity.</p><p>While <a href="https://c.im/tags/DJT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DJT</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/RWNJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RWNJ</span></a> wage war of <a href="https://c.im/tags/WhiteSupremacist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacist</span></a> rooted rants , the constant and oft uninformed attacks against inclusion policies reveal a rabid <a href="https://c.im/tags/racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racist</span></a> retelling of false facts flagrantly spewed to spread bigotry, and destroy confidence in people of color's qualifications, while few say anything to oppose this <a href="https://c.im/tags/NeoNazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeoNazi</span></a> narrative. </p><p>The blaming of the tragic plane crash over the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Potomac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Potomac</span></a> brought on a new low, and few, if any, stood and denounced the words that spewed from the <a href="https://c.im/tags/President" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>President</span></a>'s <a href="https://c.im/tags/bully" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bully</span></a> pulpit.</p><p><a href="https://briefly.co/anchor/Higher_education/story/as-dei-is-scapegoated-silence-is-complicity-opinion" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">briefly.co/anchor/Higher_educa</span><span class="invisible">tion/story/as-dei-is-scapegoated-silence-is-complicity-opinion</span></a></p>
Ranger Dan<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://pol.social/@krzysiek_borek" class="u-url mention">@<span>krzysiek_borek</span></a></span> here is a winter photo I took of the same place when i worked there. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/NationalPark" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NationalPark</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Virginia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Virginia</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Maryland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Maryland</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Potomac" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Potomac</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nature</span></a></p>
FinchHaven sfba<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/@BakerRL75" class="u-url mention">@<span>BakerRL75</span></a></span> </p><p>From another, highly credible report:</p><p>&quot;Duffy said that the flight paths of the plane &amp; helicopter were “not unusual for what happens in the DC airspace.. …everything was standard in the lead-up to the crash,” pointing out that US <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>military</span></a> helicopters routinely fly up &amp; down the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Potomac" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Potomac</span></a> River.</p><p>There was “not a breakdown” in communication between the military helicopter, the plane &amp; the air traffic control tower, Duffy said.&quot;</p><p>This will not end well...</p>
Ranger Dan<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ForestFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ForestFriday</span></a> Got in a little hike yesterday along the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Potomac" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Potomac</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/River" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>River</span></a> through beautiful late summer hardwood forest (photo from earlier hike in same place) <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Maryland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Maryland</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DMV" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DMV</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Virginia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Virginia</span></a></p>
Ranger Dan<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GoodMorning" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GoodMorning</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Potomac" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Potomac</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Kayak" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kayak</span></a> ers Happy <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Paddling" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Paddling</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Maryland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Maryland</span></a></p>
Ranger Dan<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@nationalparks" class="u-url mention">@<span>nationalparks</span></a></span> yes, i think 18 or maybe 19. we passed 17 downriver and looked for the sing for this lock but didn&#39;t see one. Love that towpath walk and the beautiful <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Potomac" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Potomac</span></a>.</p>
Ranger Dan<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/kayak" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>kayak</span></a> competition race gates along the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Potomac" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Potomac</span></a> river <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/COCanal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>COCanal</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/NationalPark" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NationalPark</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Maryland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Maryland</span></a></p>
Ranger Dan<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dmv.community/@Elliehood" class="u-url mention">@<span>Elliehood</span></a></span> We spent Thanksgiving and days before <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Chritmas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Chritmas</span></a> at <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GreatFalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GreatFalls</span></a> Maryland- songs by costumed group inside the tavern and hot cider! We always go out along the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Potomac" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Potomac</span></a> for <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Thanksgiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Thanksgiving</span></a> with family &amp; friends for a <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Hike" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hike</span></a> if weather permits. then we can have more pumpkin pie!! We love it here also but love our &quot;real&quot; home on the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/redwood" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>redwood</span></a> coast. Tavern decorated for Christmas - Great Blue Heron along the canal. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Birds</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>history</span></a></p>
Ranger Dan<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/autumn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>autumn</span></a> into <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/winter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>winter</span></a> along the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Potomac" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Potomac</span></a> in <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Maryland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Maryland</span></a> at <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GreatFalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GreatFalls</span></a> with autumn-breeding <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Spotted" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Spotted</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Salamanders" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Salamanders</span></a> with eggs under a log, carefully replaced after photo. we have monitored them here for over a decade now. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Amphibian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Amphibian</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/NationalParks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NationalParks</span></a> Love these guys!!!</p>