I’ve lived in DC for 30+ years and never once carried a whistle for my own safety. Now I carry one to warn my neighbors about the goon squad. See something. Say something. #walkswithmaisey #FreeDC
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I’ve lived in DC for 30+ years and never once carried a whistle for my own safety. Now I carry one to warn my neighbors about the goon squad. See something. Say something. #walkswithmaisey #FreeDC
8pm noise making still going strong in The Devil’s Playground
Ooof.
Has MPD checked to make sure his parents/guardians weren’t disappeared by the goon squad? @dcmigrantmutualaid.org
This morning (9/1) at 8 AM feds pulled over a couple at 18th & Park NW. They smashed the window, dragged the husband out & arrested him. When a community member stopped to record they were grabbed & threatened w/ pepper spray by this piece of shit. @mayorbowser.bsky.social do you welcome this too?
Why is there so much helicopter traffic today?!?
I’m proud to join fellow ANCs across all 8 Wards to speak out against the federal takeover. This op-ed was a true collaborative effort with so many Commissioners. I encourage you to share with friends/family outside of DC - they need to hear this message! 51st.news/opinion-a-jo...
WTAF? It’s 730 am on Labor Day Monday and there are two low circling helicopters over CH.
Haven’t seen any puffy jackets yet on my morning #walkswithmaisey but I did just see a stocking cap.
Easy like the last Sunday morning of summer.
What a time for stickers in DC! #walkswithmaisey #FreeDC @joeheim.bsky.social
Alley neighbor is practicing their harp on this lovely Saturday morning.
Alert: ICE / MPD checkpoint on Georgia Ave NW between Dahlia and Elder.
So many this morning and I was gonna post a photo but BSKY has plenty of nutjobs too! 😒
I feel like my #walkswithmaisey are now immigration patrol (as in looking for ice to warn people). All dog walkers should really. We see a lot especially in those early morning hours
Are you fucking kidding me?!?!
Just broke out my old lifeguard whistle so I can carry it around with me now when I walk Maisey in case we see more ice folks.
There is a group of folks who are clearly out and about watching for them and trying to warn people.
Just watched ICE pull a guy out a car at 16th and Park.
As of Jan. 1, 2026 the Atlanta Journal-Constitution will only be online.
Lot of money to be made in trash
Shortest summer ever. 🥶
This is a moral moment for DC. Washingtonians are being taken off the streets and charged with crimes that even grand juries won’t indict. Residents are scared to leave their homes, and workers are scared to go to their jobs. All while they drag our city through the mud. This is wrong. Call it out.
Morgantown would like a word. 💛💙
I may or may not know someone currently serving grand jury duty (doing the lord’s work) in DC! 😂
Enjoying a lovely evening in dangerous DC park. #nationaldogday #walkswithmaisey #MyDC
Not the breaking news many of us go to bed dreaming about every night, but still some good breaking news!
Now I’m gonna have “Man of LaMancha” stuck in my head all dang day. Great.
It’s the bum of the bumblebee. 🐝
Uniformed SS cop talking on his cell while driving and “I said, oh so it’s OK for you to break the law?” And he heard me and said yes. 😒
Really glad to hear so many folks in The Devil’s Playground making noise at 8pm every night
It’s the other way around.
It’s Monday… again
Today's Washington, DC #sunset time-lapse with Clear conditions and 78.8°F (26°C) #DCwx
The absolute best was on one website for a national voter reg org I found it in the Ts as in The District of Columbia. I shit you not. I knew folks who worked there so once I stopped laughing I called and had them fix it. 😂
Y’all the seasonal cicadas are loud AF this evening. Pipe down bugs!
So are bath mats, like top sheets, just not something lower Millennials/Gen Z use? Every under 35 dogsitter I’ve had doesn’t seem to grasp the concept.
This venue. Wow.
Lovely. 🤬
#freedc
Tail Up Goat while you can!
It's time to GET LOUD, DC. The people who oppress our communities are not welcome in our communities. No matter where you are tonight, bring noisemakers, pots and pans, GoGo on the stereo, whistles, chants, or any other way to MAKE NOISE so Trump hears we want FEDERAL FORCES OUT NOW — FREE DC.
Damn all you transpo geeks in my life, now whenever I travel I pay lots of attention to mass transit and bike and ped infrastructure in other places.
You guys!!! Even our good friends at @penzys.bsky.social are getting in on the action! Throw them some support!
I’ve seen more unhoused folks sleeping rough on my walk is Salt Lake than do on my morning walks in DC. Just sayin’ 🤷🏻♀️
Mid. But nice try.
Brutal
Thanks to the LATimes for being the only media outlet I saw (and trust me I saw a lot) to accurately reflect the situation
President wants to stop states from voting by mail and using voting machines; AZ voters caught up in state error should keep full voting rights, attorney general says; NC updates more than 20,000 voter records, seeks more ID numbers: electionline.org/news/2025/08...
Best Practices for Bystanders and ICE Watch! #WeKeepUsSafe
It’s Monday…again #walkswithmaisey #freedc
As if everything wasn’t awful enough 😭
I can hear some sort of protest or march across the park. Maybe at the VP’s? Anyone know?
When are you going? I’m headed over next year and high on my list are the giant kelpies and the Falkirk Wheel! And all the history and stuff too!
For those wondering, Maisey and I had to go but I kept in touch w/ the locksmith and he got her in and even cut her extra keys because f*ck her employers for putting her in that position
JFC. A nanny just approached me in MtP because she got locked out and the baby was sleeping inside. We called multiple locksmiths and they all were 30 minutes away. But we did not call the cops 😒. We talked about it but…a locksmith is on the way.
Looking at you @raskin.house.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov @beyer.house.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social @booker.senate.gov @corybooker.com @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov #DCStatehood
When news of the WV Guard coming to DC broke I commented to someone that DC was gonna be Kent State. And now Ohio is sending in their Guard. 😬😒🤬
Not from there just went to school there. My West By God friends are as upset about this as we are.
The entirety of the 51st minute of the Amazon Prime broadcast of Spirit vs. Louisville in DC Big shouts to @mikewattsonair.bsky.social and Lianne Sanderson for letting the crowd have that moment of airtime, however intentional or not it may have been
[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
Making plans to be in the park this weekend? Many green spaces in DC are federal property and are now places where you are at higher risk of interactions with law enforcement. Be smart and be safe this weekend, y’all.
Saturday #MyDC
Heads up DC, they’re doing traffic stops in SW smh, saw it on my walk to Audi
It’s more humid out here after the rain 🤮
Adams Morgan Listserve: Get your sub off my lawn
Thank you!!! I was looking for a way to report this. Just called! Will for sure save this number. Grrrr…
A bunch of unmarked cars w/ NY plates w/ some sort of LEOs inside all parked outside of 2801 15th St. which is a largely Latino/immigrant building. All just sitting their cars waiting
President wants states to feed voter info into powerful citizenship data program; LA’s legislative maps violate Voting Rights Act, 5th Circuit rules; CA counties brace for potential November special election costs after redistricting announcement: electionline.org/news/2025/08...
Elected officials are 100% allowed to have private lives, especially when it comes to their children. No one would have batted an eye or inquired one iota more if she had just said this from the jump. People get it!
“Trendy Northwest DC” 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 all this is missing is a leafy reference and “just blocks from the White House”
Heads up DC! Tomorrow (8/15). 10am. Especially those of you around Navy Yard!
Americans are being conditioned to think of crime as an urban issue. Ask why. Alabama's murder rate is far higher than New York City's. Urban crime is not worse than rural crime. It's just more visible. In cities everything is more visible. So be careful what you blame city leaders for.
Life is short and pretty terrible right now. Find your joy. #walkswithmaisey #MyDC
Un. Fucking. Hinged.
When do you have jury duty? 😂
Yay Charles! Well done!
In #MyDc neighbors leave bowls of water out for the dogs and the local firehouse has biscuits!
On Wednesday we wear pink. #walkswithmaisey #MyDC
Denver council rejects ranked-choice voting proposal, but another election change advances; Salt Lake County sees heavy use of drop boxes and ‘slow and steady’ turnout; OH Dems propose letting voters sign up to always use absentee ballots: electionline.org/news/2025/08...
Mouth weather is back. 🤮
Seeing a homeless person does not actually make you the victim of a crime. Hope this helps!
The “dog” days of summer.
Executive order on voting machines puts many OH counties in limbo; Judge blocks FL’s citizenship requirement for voter registration, but dismisses other challenges; Local election officials from across GA share change-wish list with lawmakers: electionline.org/news/2025/08...
Oh I let my colleagues know what BS all this is. They all sat silently. One not even looking at the camera 🙄 My immediate supervisor did chime in in support
People are pulling up old footage (maybe from 2020 or sometime else) with troops all over DC and saying it’s right now and posting it on TikTok
Lucky for us, the “roving mobs of wild youth” in DC buy lots of books.
The lies are staggering
Was the glam team running late or something?!? Why is he so late?
At our staff meetings every Monday, the person in charge always asks me how things are in DC (I am the only one in DC). I cannot wait for her to ask that question today.
It’s Monday…again. Stand strong DC.
TX redistricting standoff complicates preparations for March 2026 primary; Justice Department widens its request for PA election information; As AZ adopts new system for overseas voters, some officials sound alarm: electionline.org/news/2025/08...
We received this message and video from one of our community members. This took place today on Florida and 13th NE.
Easy like a 61 degree Sunday morning in DC in August
84 degrees and 33% humidity on Aug. 9!!
So if the fat-fingered orange fascist calls up the Guard in DC on Monday can he at least put them to work doing something useful like mowing the grass and cutting back invasives on NPS land.
Area man’s house after a Friday night out.
Right!! So many of the ones we’ve encountered are just in the grass and not even clover. Go pollinate the flowers!
Two dudes loudly jawing at each other at 8am on the street corner in The Devil’s Playground. One in Cowboys gear the other in WFT paraphernalia. Football is back baby.
The bees are awful in DC this year. So. Many. Bees. 🐝