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Cake day: May 12th, 2026

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  • 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.




  • With enough H2O2, about 6,500 gallons in this case, they can definitely kill the algae (for a time being, the H2O2 won’t last long before breaking down, and then you’ll get another algae bloom). The dead algae will lose its green color and settle on the bottom.

    The bigger question is how it will react with the algaecides that are also meant to be in the pool.

    If the Trump team isn’t involved and it’s just NPS acting on its’ own, it might be well thought out: shock the pool with H2O2 to kill the algae and reset, then get ahead of the next bloom with a larger algaecide does to compensate for the warmer waters created by the darker bottom.


  • Are we sure it’s hydrogen peroxide? Even before Trump NPS regularly added algaecides.

    If it is H2O2, it will react with the chloramine that’s in the water and both the hydrogen peroxide and the chloramine will be neutralized. It wouldn’t take much, 50-100 gallons of H2O2 would be enough to neutralize all the chloramine in the pool.

    But to both neutralize the chloramine and reach enough hydrogen peroxide to effectively kill the algae, they’d probably need around 1 gallon H2O2 per 10,000 gallons of water, so around 6,675 gallons of H2O2.