This is going to stay with me. Reinforces my belief that 2020 will have turned out to be one of the most important inflection points for the U.S. bsky.app/profile/went...
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This is going to stay with me. Reinforces my belief that 2020 will have turned out to be one of the most important inflection points for the U.S. bsky.app/profile/went...
This is class solidarity. In case you’re at all confused.
Spotted at a dmv area Giant yesterday
This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC
If anyone in DC is in need of a cat, this absolute sweetheart showed up at my house last weekend and is now up for adoption bvspca.org/adopt/ski
i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this
Mayor Bowser, "shared priorities" with this administration means having masked agents disappear our neighbors in the middle of the night. It means soldiers with assault rifles in our neighborhoods. It means arresting children. These are the priorities of a dictator. DC does not share them.
Can she be recalled
I cannot express enough how much work, time, sweat, sacrifice, blood, and tears went into securing home rule for the people of the district and how jarring it is to see that achievement offered up lightly by the choices of a mayoral administration which clearly doesn’t value it in such a proud place
Labor Day — a perfect day to read about the promise of economic democracy if you ask me! www.thenation.com/article/arch...
Labor Day is a celebration of the power of collective action and the workers in DC who have fought for the labor protections we have today. As workers across the District continue to be put at risk by attacks on DC’s autonomy, today, we draw strength from our history of progress through solidarity.
Happy Labor Day 🙂
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
The people of DC are joyful, powerful, and we deserve better than interference in home rule. Free DC is building the cultural and political movement it will take to make DC’s demand for dignity un-ignorable. Be part of it: freedcproject.org/sign-up?sour...
Hey, @mattyglesias.bsky.social, have you literally just not left your apartment? They’re in every single metro station, all over the mall, and doing checkpoints on 14th and U. DHS is all over Hispanic neighborhoods and harassing uber drivers. You genuinely cannot not see this. Go outside.
So proud to be a DCer
COMMENTARY: Gov. Morrisey has deployed 300-400 members of West Virginia’s National Guard to Washington, D.C. support the President’s initiative to restore "safety” to the district. Both Charleston and Huntington have higher violent crime rates than Washington, D.C., writes @leannray.bsky.social.
JD Vance Asks National Guard Member If He Can Touch Gun https://theonion.com/jd-vance-asks-national-guard-member-if-he-can-touch-gun/
Let’s be clear: the National Guard troops, federal law enforcement, and D.C. police cannot violate the Constitution or the D.C. Home Rule Act. Understanding your rights can help you make the best decision for yourself if approached by law enforcement.
❗️ALERT❗️ ICE currently at Fort Totten Metro — stay clear of the area. If you see someone being detained, film it, get their name & a family contact and DM us to coordinate getting that information & we will connect them to Migrant Solidarity.
DC will always rise.
“MPD takes guns off the street every day and every week. Anytime you have a surge of officers, I would expect that you have some results. I say repeatedly, we need 500 more officers in D.C. With 500 more officers, get 500 more officers' worth of results”
NEW POLL from The Washington Post shows that Washington, D.C., residents are overwhelmingly against the deployment of federal agents and national guardsmen in their streets. The poll also shows that support for D.C. statehood is at its highest since 1995. trib.al/7AfP29L
Suddenly become worker owned lol
Do I think it would make a big different w the military takeover if DC's sole elected delegate was doing rallies and interviews about it? Not really. Is it weird that she hasn't been seen in public since this started, and her office put out a 2-year old pic of her at an unrelated rally? Maybe.
Apropos of nothing, this photo of a Catholic girl in Derry making fun of a British soldier's height during Operation Banner
The lack of political response to this is WILD to me. We’re literally an occupied city and all anyone can say is that it’s a distraction??
Not a word about this from Democratic leaders today
En route to this morning’s encampment eviction with tents, camping supplies, & moving/storage bags. Help us order more supplies as evictions ramp up: CA: $RemoraHouseDC GB: givebutter.com/remorahouse
I am FROM this wet bitch’s district in Kentucky and now live in DC, I have never wanted to kick a man’s ass so badly before.
I was going to say that we need a Christmas movie where a woman goes back to her small town and realizes that it sucks terribly and so recommits herself to her liberal lawyer boyfriend in the big city.
me on my last visit to washington, dc.
the goons will likely try to scrub this but here’s what the official website of the US Attorney’s Office says about crime in DC (www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...)
It's not the cherries everywhere in bloom it's not the way they put folks on the moon no no no it's not the spectacles and pageantry the thousand things you've got to see it's just that's where my baby waits for me
Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall. If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is (h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)
D.C. is a lovely and vibrant city, the unhoused people there just want help, and the people who live in the city have no voting representation in Congress and thus lack one of the major opportunities for anyone to advocate for them.
I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was
Behold: a woman.
Read news, op-eds, and analysis, not AI summaries. Create your own art (even if it's messy) or hire an artist to do it. Do your own homework. Talk to people, not chatbots. Keep your thinking and skills sharp and cherish our messy humanity. That's the new punk rock.
Washington, D.C. has become the most surveilled city in the world, with 44 government-accessible CCTV cameras per 1,000 people. More than Beijing, Moscow, or London.
I can hook you up with an AFSCME 3976 shirt lol
Breakfast time
Official federal employment has dropped 84k, or about 2.8%, since January amidst DOGE cuts Keep in mind that workers on severance/paid leave are still counted as employed here, so this heavily undercounts the number of jobs lost
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They’re getting paid but they are effectively on admin leave, not working
Members of both parties on the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee chastised a U.S. Department of Agriculture official Wednesday for not consulting Congress before proposing to shift thousands of jobs out of the Washington, D.C., area, reports @fischler.bsky.social.
It's here! The 2025 SK Classroom Wishlist Project starts today. Here is the spreadsheet of all the classrooms that have requested help getting school supplies: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Gaza Freedom Flotilla has released statement that Black labour leader Chris Smalls (Amazon Labour Union) faced violence that no one else on Handala did. He has been severely beaten in Israeli custody. Smalls follows in legacy of Black radical tradition for Palestine. Labour must stand for Smalls.
“If there ever come a time I get rabies, you’re high on the bitin list” is a real (incredible) lyric on the new Tyler Childers album
The big open secret about "elite" Ivy League universities is that the stuff you learn there you can learn at any reputable college or university in America. What you're paying for is a network whose value is derived from the brand. And they're about to do to the brand what they did to Twitter.
Big News! Some generous friends have stepped up with matching money for tomorrow. We can make a big dent in the federal funds that were lost. Can you help share this today to get people ready? Phone: 1-800-599-4737 Web: donate.nprstations.org/wkms/wkms-gi... Let's do this! 💪
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
Every Dem on Capitol Hill should be demanding the heads of Russell Vought, Stephen Miller, Sean Duffy, and Pete Hegseth on platters, at MINIMUM for this shit. Harikari for every senator who voted to confirm these clowns. If only DC weren’t the most shame-starved place on Earth save Jerusalem.
Helping!
“Mr Loader told her to 'stay in the kitchen where she belonged instead of going out drinking with boys Walpole went to her garage and returned with a container of petrol. She poured it over him and waved her lighter around before he teased her, saying 'go on, do it', then Walpole set him alight”
And I grew up in the WKMS area, so I just became a sustaining donor there.
My two favorite mugs
I did see an ad for Sugar, that bizarre Collin Ferrell Apple+ show, at a DC United game. Not their best show by a long shot and also maybe the only time I’ve seen an ad for lmao
I like Coldplay
I am ready to be hurt again
If I see it called “return to work” and not “return to office” I will…well I’ll still be annoyed
Let me tell you about my weirdo Animal Nutrition professor in undergrad (a state SEC university) who had a Ron Paul sign in his window and was on the anti-fluoride beat long before it went mainstream.
I still love you jimmy lumber
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It still blows me a way a bit that Bryan Cranston was, when this came out, primarily known for being Tim Watley on Seinfeld and the dad in Malcolm in the Middle, and he’s hilarious in both. If you haven’t seen the ep where he learns to skate in MitM, do yourself a favor.
I make these for new moms in my life and it’s always a hit: smittenkitchen.com/2018/09/brea...
It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”
This is honestly truly brave of her
University of Louisville President Bradley: Despite our efforts to convince members of Congress of OBBB harms, "the final version of the legislation is worse than we feared. Calling it 'drastic' is an understatement. These changes threaten to upend health care in Kentucky for generations to come."
the other thing is that no one who fetishizes manual labor actually cares to improve life for people who are in those circumstances! no support for unionization or a generous welfare state! no interest in policies that make life easier for people who work their hands or afford them more autonomy!
still another hour until the farmer's market even opens. why do we let late sleepers even participate in society
Deviled eggs 🤢
Sabine is growling at the noise, she always picks appropriately sized enemies
Ft Totten, I beg of you, please relax on the fireworks, my cats are not thrilled.
Well, I guess it’s never too early to post this again —
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
Run on the most left and progressive policy ever. FDR on steroids. Bernie on steroids. More AOCs and Zohrans. Do not yield a single inch to centrist scolds
One of those autoblock days for liberals who celebrate poor peple losing health care because of the way a majority of people in their state voted.
Voters who supported Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso in their most recent general elections = 440,734 NYC voters who ranked Zohran #1 in the *primary* = 432,305 Perfect distillation of how unrepresentative the Senate is
You should periodically have to acknowledge that you understand that the National Weather Service, a US government agency, is providing the information before you’re allowed to look at the weather forecast on your phone.
We’ve been on a Taskmaster NZ binge, and I was telling A that Jeremy Wells is known as a cricket commentator, and he was like “oh, their Joe Buck.” And now I’ve convinced myself that Joe Buck would be a great Taskmaster.
Ok, I am tired of heavy conversations in the fridge in The Bear, we realize carmy is emotionally frozen.
Alas
This bitch on Jeopardy! tonight will not fucking stand still when answering questions and I am rooting against her
@amandamull.bsky.social I just wanted to tell you that I’m leading a reading group this summer on Worn: A People’s History of Clothing based on you posting about and it’s great—generating a lot of terrific discussion. So, thanks!!
In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.
He should recall that rizzo was also there!
The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
My Side of the Mountain
one of the really challenging asymmetries in american politics is that democrats are asked to answer for the actions of every single hypothetical democratic voter in the country but republican lawmakers are not even asked about the behavior of their own elected peers
the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
There are more people down at Warped Tour at the RFK complex lmao
These 11 Democrats just joined the GOP to vote to force DC police to cooperate with ICE, against the city's own laws. Ed Case Henry Cuellar Don Davis Laura Gillen Jared Golden Vicente Gonzalez Adam Gray Kristen McDonald Rivet Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Tom Suozzi George Whitesides
It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.
NYC, I beg you, please vote for Mamdani because I hate knowing so much about your politics against my will.
I have one million dental issues but the way I destroy temporary crowns is unmatched.
