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#chicago warming up for #chalkcrime @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org
On today’s #DogShirtTV, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @hollybfletcher.bsky.social, @jonrauch.bsky.social and John Hawkinson discuss best practices for drawing on the sidewalk. It's a crime now, so you have to be careful. #ChalkArt #ChalkProtest www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG_5...
A LOT of sirens in upper NW DC right on the Wisconsin Ave corridor. Anyone know what’s happening?
#ChalkCrime #ChalkCrimeDC
#FreeDC Cactus Cantina #ChalkCrime
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Wisconsin Avenue #ChalkCrime
#ChalkCrime
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Oh dear. Lots of children in my neighborhood draw with chalk on the sidewalks. And someone wrote Free DC on theirs and left chalk for others to add messages. Did I? No comment.
Also, saw this in front of Heritage a few weeks ago
Also, when engaging in resistance using a sandwich, do not take any bites from it first, because DNA. And remember that your condiments can be used against you in a court of law.
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
Foil wrapping is next level! I’m stealing that idea
#chalkcrime
Time for some hopscotch civil disobedience. Dance D.C.! Dare the fascists and have fun while you do it 💃🕺
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I lived it, man.
Civil disobedience, now available in spray chalk.
Reminder: there is such a thing as spray chalk. Faster, more efficient.
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@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org I just listened to your Aug 18 #dogshirtdaily, and my $0.02 for the barrister's wig is that you should "consult" with it: run arcane legal questions by it; ask if it concurs with your takes; etc
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And be sure when you take a pic of it and post it to social media that you don’t confess to doing it yourself. It’s never “I did this” or “Look what I did.” It’s always “SOMEONE did this” or “Look what SOMEONE did.”
Pics or it didn’t happen!
Remember, folks, it is a CRIME to draw with sidewalk chalk on the streets and sidewalks of Washington DC so when you do it be sure to invoke your Fifth Amendment right to remain silent if asked about it. #ChalkCrime
My friends and I drew chalk rainbows and hearts on the sidewalk a few days ago. We live in Florida’s capital city.
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Absolutely
Take pics and attach them to this thread.
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It’s time folks for some #SidewalkChalk civil disobedience. Grab some chalk, go outside with your kids, and draw, write, sketch, vent, play hopscotch. This shit has gone too far. #ChalkCrime
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“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
On today’s #DogShirtTV, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org guilts Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca into joining him on the show. The #GreekChorus asks questions on Alicia's new book, the #Deportation system, and how early one should get to the #Airport. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWS1...
Happening now: We're talking Lisa Cook, domestic military deployments, rescissions, and more!
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"If you can humiliate the National Guard by making a couple thousand guardsmen stand around to assert power over the nation’s capital...what else can you get the guard to do if need be?" @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org on what the National Guard is up to in D.C.
On today’s #DogShirtTV, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org talks about how different structures of #CivilSociety are resisting Trump and how to participate. Anastasiia Lapatina @lapatina.bsky.social reports in from #Kyiv under missile fire. #Resistance #SlavaUkraini www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhVl...
Today, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook filed a lawsuit challenging President Trump's attempt to fire her from her role as governor on the Board. View her suit, and other litigation challenging the Trump administration's actions at Lawfare's litigation tracker. www.lawfaremedia.org/trumptracker
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A very earnest piece. The Situation. August 26, 2025
National Guard keeping Krispy Kreme safe at DuPont Circle. #FreeDC
Thanks to @evegaumond.bsky.social and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org for the invitation on #DogshirtTV We had the opportunity to speak, for about an hour, about the legal flaws that #Trump 2 is trying to abuse and that also exist in Canadian and Quebec Law #polqc #polcan #constitutionallaw
On yesterday’s #DogShirtTV, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org & @michael-feinberg.bsky.social discuss the continued firings of career #FBI agents. www.dogshirtdaily.com/p/the-fbi-pu...
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The Situation, Aug, 22, 2025 About that search warrant at John Bolton's house: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The "ghost" investigation or probe is a useful concept from @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org. One common tell is the eagerness with which the DOJ/FBI announces or speaks publicly about an "investigation." We can't say for certain without seeing the warrant of course, but it seems to fit the pattern:
Okay, yeah, sometimes--very occasionally--I wake up early to break news: www.dogshirtdaily.com/p/fbi-action...
A source familiar with the matter tells me that @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org was NOT wearing a dog shirt when he first broke the news about the FBI search at John Bolton’s home on Dog Shirt Daily
This morning, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org livestreamed from in front of John Bolton's house, where there appeared to be FBI action. Watch the video:
In The Situation, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org discusses the ongoing politicization of the Justice Department and what a future administration could do to rebuild the department. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
Yay!
It’s a very interesting question. Definitely feel uneasy about it.
The Situation, August 21, 2025 In which @ruthmarcus.bsky.social outflanks me about how bad things are at the Justice Department, and the. @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social outflanks Ruth: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
Full bloom at the sunflower garden
Crime!!!! I hope the US Secret Service is on it!
No promises
I actually have a lot of sympathy for this view.
As I say, I am pretty confident that being either a president or a candidate is not what Catherine wants in life, but I don’t want to speak for her.
By the way, any time @crampell.bsky.social wants to come on #DogShirtTV and discuss either the economy or the draft Rampell for president idea, she knows she is welcome.
Doing what I can…
If you would like to write on this, and the history of ideological exclusion, for @lawfaremedia.org, @tylermcbrien.com and I would love to have a submission from you.
Thanks to the lovely @dogshirttv.bsky.social viewer who brought me this last night and whose name has gone right out of my middle aged brain @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org
I cannot express how much I love this idea.
The sunflower could be the new symbol of resistance.
russian embassy, Ottawa, Canada
"Washington, D.C. is currently under federal occupation, and there are only a limited number of ways in which the city government can fight back. Clarifying that citizens of D.C. can lawfully write on their sidewalks...is matter it can address," writes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org.
Want to write about this for @lawfaremedia.org?
And post it. And tag me.
What does Jan 6 have to do with sidewalk chalk? I wish very much the insurrectionist that day had satisfied themselves with such harmless expression.
Also, as you can see in this video from 2022, most of the discoloration on that area is not from chalk but long predates any beautification efforts on my part. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8tr...
Correct
And make sure you snap a picture.
I mean honestly, people, this is a really good idea. Cut sunflowers make Russian diplomats really really angry. Buy a few sunflowers. Drop them at an embassy/consulate near you. youtu.be/R8tr6Dhn78A?...
A sprite of mischief in New York left sunflowers at the Russian consulate.
It will be gone in a few days
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The Situation An idea for the DC Council regarding how to fight back. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
Traces remain.
Free DC Mouse 
Texting Menace 
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