Bob King

@bkingdc.bsky.social

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Deputy managing editor at POLITICO, interested in climate change, energy, transportation, technology and cybersecurity. Pennsylvania native and displaced Floridian. https://www.politico.com

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago: "For centuries the people had built and created, always honorably, always honestly, even for serf-owners and nobles. Yet no one, from the days of Ryurik on, had ever heard of wrecking. But now, when for the first time all the wealth had come to belong to the people, hundreds of thousands of the best sons of the people inexplicably rushed off to wreck. (Section 7 did not provide for wrecking in agriculture, but since it was impossible otherwise to explain rationally how and why the fields were choked with weeds, why harvests were falling off, why machines were breaking down, then dialectic sensitivity brought agriculture, too, under its sway.)"
Google's nonsense response to a nonsense question.
Trump warns on Truth Social that "a whole civilization will die tonight ... probably."
The simple, easy-peasy Chudnovsky algorithm for figuring out pi.
"Prosecutors gave greater weight to the details [Alan] Dershowitz pointed out to the prosecutors in an apparent effort to assail their character," Elisa Cramer wrote in August 2006 in the Palm Beach Post.
Jenn Wasner's band Flock of Dimes performing at The Atlantis in DC on 11/11/2025.
Batshit memo from managers of a newsroom that shall not be named.
A paragraph in a New York Times story that seems unaware that the Imperial March didn't appear until the Empire Strikes Back.
Euler's identity, an equation that manages to combine five key constants: 0, 1, pi, e and i
Screenshot of Elon Musk claiming on X that many federal employees don't exist.
Politico newsletter reminisced about a pro-Biden protester in 2020 whose sign listed King George III, Tom Brady and Donald Trump as three "assholes" defeated by Philadelphia.
Poster on DC Metro train in Washington honors civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks.
Bar graph showing annual Capital Bikeshare ridership in Alexandria
Two heads of leafy lettuce occupy an entire row of seats on a DC Metro train.