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Dawn O

@dodrowski.bsky.social

Avid news consumer. Democracy devotee to the end. Former federal attorney. Current resident of the Occupied Territory of the District of Columbia.

created September 28, 2023

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Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Well done, Guardian. Courage, conviction and truth win!

2/9/2025, 3:08:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Happy birthday!

2/9/2025, 1:25:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Home of the Brave (@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social) reposted

Public servants should face the public. So why are federal agents wearing masks to hide their faces? Check out our mobile billboard driving around Washington, D.C. right now demanding federal agents take their masks off!

30/8/2025, 1:48:12 AM | 1517 410 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

This president is a diplomatic embarrassment.

29/8/2025, 8:40:45 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Caravan to Canada!

27/8/2025, 8:31:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Good to see you on here, Commissioner. We have a lot of work to do.

27/8/2025, 8:30:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

How about fact-checking the Administration’s statements, @thewashingtonpost before printing/posting? Yael Eisenstate says he hasn’t had a security clearance for several years. You know this Admin lies repeatedly. Time to start holding them accountable.

27/8/2025, 3:50:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

So they’re incompetent as well as corrupt.

27/8/2025, 3:44:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

I wouldn’t assume it’s nullification—more like a lack of sufficient evidence.

27/8/2025, 2:17:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

I don’t know why the Pod guys continue to post mostly on Twitter. But I gotta say here that as someone who donated frequently to Dems in the 2024 cycle(small cont.), my wallet has been closed so far. The party needs to fire its current consultants with its focus on phraseology rather than action.

24/8/2025, 6:41:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Always quick to weigh in on the matters of most import to the country. Texas should be embarrassed it keeps electing him.

22/8/2025, 12:26:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Accompanied by a troop of secret service too. What a man! Probably the only time he’s been out in DC outside his sad former hotel or a fundraiser.

21/8/2025, 6:22:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

What the hell is he talking about?

21/8/2025, 6:12:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

A party of law and order that breaks laws every day because it can. Get real with your framing, NPR. He’s already gutted your funding.

21/8/2025, 2:29:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Just subscribed today after cancelling Amazon Prime.

19/8/2025, 6:14:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Good for you, Mayor! Standing up to thug government action.

19/8/2025, 3:34:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

I would love to know their subscription numbers. Can’t believe they are signing up any new subscribers with this dreck and they are certainly losing the long-time ones.

14/8/2025, 5:09:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Can’t wait to be on the jury for that “felony.”

14/8/2025, 5:00:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

If you learn anything, please publish, Josh. I’m a long-time TPM subscriber and DC resident, and I haven’t found any reliable reports about it.

13/8/2025, 1:58:26 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes we do!

12/8/2025, 12:59:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Where does Charles Fain Lehman live? I was considering subscribing to the Atlantic but if this is the drek you are promoting, I guess not.

12/8/2025, 12:55:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Then why aren’t they concerned with their own towns and cities and rather than focused on those run by black mayors? C’mon Sarah, you gotta call out the stink behind it.

11/8/2025, 10:48:34 PM | 74 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

This is nothing more than a power grab of a city run by an African American mayor. Sure hope WaPo finds some courage to call out this ridiculous performative BS since it so values civil liberties as an opinion-page topic.

11/8/2025, 4:20:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Why do you need to be incentivized by something other than a desire to help out your neighbors?

11/8/2025, 1:58:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social)

How is it that AI companies can be worth billions of dollars and fight over employees by offering 8 and 9 figure salaries, but say they can’t afford to pay for copyrighted content that they continue to steal? Why do we stand for this?

3/8/2025, 2:36:09 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

We non-evangelicals are right there with you.

28/7/2025, 6:54:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Good!

25/7/2025, 6:54:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

I am really sorry to hear this. I will be “leaving” the Post when my current subscription expires. I hope to read your thoughtful analysis elsewhere.

17/7/2025, 2:01:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

I rarely read anything in the Sports section but I’m starting to read your work and will do so until my subscription expires. Great article.

10/7/2025, 3:55:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks!

7/7/2025, 12:22:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

What is the cost of your subscription? I don’t want to have to enter my email to find out. That’s an incredibly annoying Substack feature and I’m getting way too many emails from them as a result.

6/7/2025, 5:00:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Omg. Amen to this!

5/7/2025, 12:04:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Fitting that editor only posts on the Nazi-filled social media website. His explanation is hooey: how does a story originating from hacked information trafficked by a white supremacist about a high school student’s application box-check “help illuminate the background and thinking” of a candidate?

4/7/2025, 11:54:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Using a white supremacist as a source and granting them anonymity for what? What is the point of your story?

3/7/2025, 11:55:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

So the official White House social media accounts publish lies. Good to have official confirmation.

2/7/2025, 1:03:48 PM | 14 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

What happened to the all of the MAGA First Amendment crusaders?

1/7/2025, 4:23:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

This from the man who cried about getting no due process all through the zillion court hearings he got.

26/6/2025, 10:45:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

I know.

26/6/2025, 9:38:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Kennedy is partly responsible for the mess we are in thanks to his vote in Citizens United.

26/6/2025, 6:27:39 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

She’s absolutely right as applied to this Administration.

26/6/2025, 6:25:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Good to know. Thank you and @annabower.bsky.social .

26/6/2025, 5:32:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Great article.

26/6/2025, 3:57:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Really, David Frum?

25/6/2025, 8:36:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Have these people on Wall Street never taken a political theory class? Socialism isn’t communism for Pete’s sake.

25/6/2025, 8:18:58 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Sen. Smith’s staffer’s email was compelling. I hope it gets through to at least one or two Lee staffers.

17/6/2025, 2:19:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Nice shots of the big crowd, WaPo. I could hear the cheers all the way in upper North West.

15/6/2025, 1:56:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Seriously NBC, can you not tell that truth that Padilla said who he was. What is wrong with you?

13/6/2025, 1:34:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

You and other Senators need to starting putting holds on all nominations until Noem steps down or her dept issues a formal apology.

12/6/2025, 10:14:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

The same applies to the people those goons are rounding up.

7/6/2025, 6:51:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Shame on you for vetoing legislation prohibiting surprise billing for your constituents.

30/5/2025, 6:25:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Sounds like a job for Jake Tapper.

24/5/2025, 12:54:20 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Why aren’t you publishing the list?

23/5/2025, 9:53:11 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

The model fits right in in tne current U.S. political environment where self-dealing and law-breaking is a daily occurrence.

23/5/2025, 6:42:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

I feel like I’ve read this at least twice before.

17/5/2025, 12:00:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Do these people realize able bodied adults with no children or adult children can have addiction and mental health issues? But sure, put more ill people on the streets untreated.

16/5/2025, 1:44:48 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

How the heck is this information going to show the cause of autism?

9/5/2025, 1:40:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Crime is down in DC . . . All thanks to Ed Martin and his letters of inquiry about DEI.

8/5/2025, 4:17:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Breathing a sigh of relief as a DC resident. Until the next incompetent nominee.

8/5/2025, 4:14:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

All about himself and his bizarre view of trade. No empathy at all for dockworkers, millions of middle income families and small businesses who will be hurt by these erratic nonsensical tariffs. I so despise him.

8/5/2025, 4:12:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Congrats to Pro Publica. One favorite news sources.

5/5/2025, 7:29:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

I wonder why this is not one of those anti-Christian acts this Administration is so concerned about? Must be like their due process concerns. Applicable only to their supporters.

5/5/2025, 7:27:17 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

This is absolutely deplorable. This Administration has no standing to make a decision about the child’s best interest without due process.

3/5/2025, 4:12:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Shaming sort of works sometimes.

3/5/2025, 3:15:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Omg. Why does Texas put up with this crap? If they hate government so much, abolish the AG’s office. He’s useless.

2/5/2025, 9:45:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Outrageous!

2/5/2025, 8:05:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

And how can he have two primary residences in Alabama for state tax purposes?

2/5/2025, 4:13:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Perfect Musk timing. What are they going to haul with decreasing imports due to tariffs?

29/4/2025, 8:26:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

CBS News will never recover if it settles that bogus lawsuit that Trump brought. And Sheri Redstone should be ashamed. Many with wealth are simply greedy and care about nothing more than getting more.

28/4/2025, 2:05:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Bad move, 1199. Why are you supporting a sexual harasser?

26/4/2025, 10:11:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Name any DEI task that took half a day.

25/4/2025, 7:56:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Right. As the Constitution says, “A trial lottery will be conducted when the President thinks there are too many people seeking due process to preserve their life, liberty and property.”

21/4/2025, 10:18:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Personally I think it's totally defensible for the head of a meteorology department to say, "you can't work here unless you believe in climate change." That department is going to end up with zero conservatives in it but it's not the department that needs to change!

21/4/2025, 1:16:04 PM | 3859 420 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) reposted

The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology. If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.

21/4/2025, 11:56:19 AM | 11728 2945 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Axios should name the centrist or the coward should publicly own his remarks. That he dismisses fundamental due process rights is shameful.

16/4/2025, 1:09:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Godspeed, Senator Van Hollen. We won’t forget about Mr. Garcia.

15/4/2025, 11:21:53 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Yet another reason not to rank Cuomo.

15/4/2025, 1:22:13 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Canadien universities are going to prosper. Good for them.

15/4/2025, 12:45:48 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

This is just evil.

10/4/2025, 8:42:54 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

So right. Just do it for Pete’s sake. Should have had the lawsuit ready to go.

5/4/2025, 1:20:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Excellent work getting the emails. This man should be nowhere near a public service job. He should be fired outright.

2/4/2025, 8:24:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social)

Thank you, Wisconsin! You beat the billionaire and got an upstanding Supreme Court justice!

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2/4/2025, 2:35:37 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Congratulations, Ben!

2/4/2025, 9:53:51 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you. As a resident of Washington D.C., we don’t want and can’t afford a U.S. Attorney, responsible for also prosecuting our local laws, who diverts resources to unwarranted “inquiries” and investigations and fires or sidelines experienced prosecutors for partisan reasons.

1/4/2025, 10:58:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

And the “gang” report was by the Prince George’s County Police, a bastion of racial discrimination: apnews.com/article/ente... The lawsuit also said the county’s police chief at the time, Henry Stawinski, allowed racism to “thrive” in his department.

1/4/2025, 5:17:23 PM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social)

Finally, the Dems are exercising some of the powers of the minority. Slow it all down!

1/4/2025, 3:40:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Excellent journalism!

1/4/2025, 3:32:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

One of the quintessential Washington slips of the tongue where the slip is the truth.

1/4/2025, 2:19:43 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Congratulations Mark and team!

31/3/2025, 8:21:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump’s secretary of defense is a dangerous moron exposing defense secrets to foreign hacking so he can cosplay being a warrior and Trump is upset only about Goldberg being on the call.

29/3/2025, 10:08:08 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

It looks delicious!

29/3/2025, 5:10:03 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

He was also not supposed to be able to unilaterally close agencies, but where are USAID and the CFPB now? I sure hope Dems step up.

29/3/2025, 4:06:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

He is such an idiot. He extrapolates from a business model that attracted fraudsters to programs that help out country’s most vulnerable. He knows nothing.

28/3/2025, 12:39:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

So glad resources are being focused on what’s really important: protecting the substandard products of the world’s richest man-child.

27/3/2025, 9:28:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Gotta plan a trip to Canada soon. Wishing Carney strong support in the April election. He is speaking like a leader.

27/3/2025, 9:26:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

That sucks. Hope your wife finds another covered job soon—or journalism starts to pay?

26/3/2025, 5:34:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

His constituents, at least those who bothered to vote or voted for him, must be as dumb as he is. Loud and ignorant.

26/3/2025, 3:41:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

If 42% of young men have invested in crypto per your stats, how do you get to “young men don’t open bank accounts”? 58% don’t invest in crypto. I admire some of your work but sometimes your takes are so off the wall.

25/3/2025, 2:33:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Why are you still voting for Trump’s incompetent nominees? For Pete’s sake! Get a backbone.

25/3/2025, 1:19:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Lady reining him in is a superstar!

25/3/2025, 12:17:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dawn O (@dodrowski.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks for the perfect post!

24/3/2025, 11:40:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view