starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:
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starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:
We should not be arresting our unhoused neighbors. What we're witnessing on our streets is cruel, counterproductive, and unacceptable. Federal agents should not be patrolling our streets, terrifying our residents, and taking people away. The federal surge needs to end.
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
Seems like maybe she just likes having a massive surge of armed agents arresting DCers for low level offenses, she has always advocated for this without waver, and has prioritized it over home rule before and is doing so again now
Crime has skyrocketed since federal forces descended upon DC. Kidnappings, assaults, reckless driving have all increased by them against innocent DC families. Our public safety has drastically deteriorated and you want more of this?? 💀
Crime has skyrocketed since federal forces descended upon DC. Kidnappings, assaults, reckless driving have all increased by them against innocent DC families. Our public safety has drastically deteriorated and you want more of this?? 💀
Next Dem president should SWAT team every evangelical megachurch in the sun belt as payback for the military invasion of our cities
Tell a group of centrists that "Cancel Culture" is a fake moral panic and watch them trip over themselves to deny you membership in their group (they really will). Left conformity policing is bad but it's much worse on the right.
Nobody rejects in-group membership for failing to conform to the Consensus Correct Viewpoint than the right wing. Why do you think there isn't a single person accepted by the right defending e.g. DEI?
No phones allowed at this new DC bar, from chef Rock Harper. You will have to secure up your phone in a magnetically locked pouch to enter. www.washingtonian.com/2025/09/02/n...
Everybody on the right thinks vaccines are evil. Everybody in the center thinks there is a woke mind virus destroying the country. If any of them try to go against their side's Consensus Correct Viewpoint, they get ostracized.
It is absolutely criminal that as the GOP crows about urban crime, every Dem isn’t on TV saying, “Look, Larry Hogan is a so-called ‘moderate’ Republican and crime in his state’s largest city has plummeted since he was replaced by a Democrat.”
We should do Labor Day every week
Yeah and the overlap here is that neoliberals have proven inherently too feckless and inert to effectively combat the fascism
The dumbest thing about nativism discourse is that, everyone's a transplant - unless you still live in your parents' house, otherwise it's just a matter of degrees.
Do you still live in your parents' house? If not, you're a transplant too, congrats!
Just a normal night in DC, sitting on the couch watching Netflix and then having to go outside because 11 cops (FBI, HSI, “police” and MPD) stopped a car on my corner.
No, we're not. We're complaining about federal forces recklessly crashing into innocent DC families.
Crime in DC is out of control rn and it's all driven by the occupiers (kidnappings, thefts, assaults, reckless driving, drunken driving, etc.). Getting federal forces out of DC will drop our crime rate by 87% or more.
Yup
Watching the Notre Dame halftime show rn where they're emphatically insisting that it wasn't Arch Manning's fault that he missed so many passes yesterday lol. The bias for football dynasty families is embarassing.
Republicans have a worse record across the board on crime. Why are the people who are worse at something framed as the only ones who are good at it? 🤔
If Republicans are so strong on crime, how come the places they're in charge of have much higher crime rates than places run by progressives?
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Alert: ICE / MPD checkpoint on Georgia Ave NW between Dahlia and Elder.
Got em!
We're gonna have to do an #MBTpubroll to Ivy City Atlas soon before they move to the Bridge District next month - and the bike lanes in this part of DC are pretty great now with lots of good watering holes to roll to like Jimmy Valentine's, Duffy's, and Trusty's 🚲🍻🎉
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Feel so eternally grateful and lucky for Rock Creek Park 🤩
"With all these mass shootings it's too time consuming to both think and pray after each one. We'll do one or the other," House Speaker Mike Johnson stated on behalf of the entire GOP.
Art depicting “Sandwich Guy” now at the scene of the alleged misdemeanor.
We posted ours for free and put it on the curb and 30 minutes later it was gone
I know it's uncouth to earnestly say something like this but RFK is a real life demon of the apocalypse (plague, pestilence) and he deserves to be drawn and quartered 💀
The reason David Brooks isn't on any social media is bc he left his wife for his young intern (true) and he doesn't want to be held publicly accountable for it when his whole job is moralizing to you in the paper
Didn't this guy cheat on his wife with his intern?
Notice how this guy and his defenders never make this argument about crime, a thing most DCers don't notice at all but nevertheless something they think we should all be hysterical about. I can't qwhite put my finger on it 🤔
Hell yeah, you've been away from home for a long time now brother ✊
Heading to Mr. Smith's in Georgetown now #MBTpubroll
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Interesting that Yglesias makes this point about the National Guard but not about crime, a thing most DCers just living their lives also don't notice 🤔
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Notice how this guy and his defenders never make this argument about crime, a thing most DCers don't notice at all but nevertheless something they think we should all be hysterical about. I can't qwhite put my finger on it 🤔
Occam's razor here seems to be that she straightforwardly likes having a massive surge of armed agents arresting DCers for low level offenses, she has always advocated for this without waver, has prioritized it over home rule before and is doing so again now 💀
For the first time ever, an Amtrak NextGen Acela train just pulled up to Union Station. It had left Boston at 6 AM this morning, taking roughly 7 hours to make the entire trip.
If we’re gonna take Mayor Muriel Bowser’s claim that crime is down due to our federal occupation at face value, let’s also calculate all the illegal arrests, detentions, and disappearances. Cause we know those are crimes too.
I just went to a wedding where none of the maga people on one side of the family would talk to one of the cousins bc she is a single parent, so not sure your "we're very different from most of America" take is so accurate.
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It's the last #MBTpubroll of the summer, so we're going to Island Time! Starting at 5:30, then cruising upriver to Mr. Smith's. We love DC, we fight for home rule, and we will celebrate joy #FreeDC 🚲🏖️🍻
"They were being overly emotional" I write as my emotions explode out of my chest from seeing somebody frown at me
Generally appreciate Martin but have noticed he can be a bit...credulous towards the powerful
There's more media stories written about how some people on the left say "birthing persons" than there are about how some people on the right commit almost all the domestic terrorism in this country 🤔
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.
Let me say this: Countless organizations, advocates & every day Washingtonians are spending 24/7 (really) working to keep residents safe. Then our Mayor goes on TV and undermines all of that and WELCOMES the federal invasion of our city that is terrorizing residents. Betrayal.
Saying - “I don’t think the President of the United States should turn the US military against US citizens” is not admitting crime is not a problem we need to work on. Trump has some of you so spooked you can’t just say a bad thing is a bad thing. And that’s dangerous and bad politics. Wake up.
I think @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social should run against her next year and I’ll be first in line to knock on doors
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
You: Here’s a nationwide poll that 81% of Americans think crime is a major problem in large cities. Me: Okay but this polling shows Americans who ACTUALLY LIVE in large cities don't think crime is a serious problem in their own city. You have no idea what a city is like if you don't live here.
Confidently asserting that outsiders know more about what a city is like than the people who actually live there? You're the one hallucinating like an AI.
Conspiracies and hallucinating facts? What in the world are you talking about? Less than 30 million Americans (out of 340 million) live in major cities. If you're polling *all* Americans about major cities then 90% of who you're polling about city life are outsiders, that's a fact.
Yeah, prelim hearings are best practice bc they weed out the garbage cases early instead of spending months working on a dud that will never result in a trial conviction. Generally, bad DAs prefer grand juries bc they don't want bad cases dismissed/want to leverage the indictments to force pleas.
Yeah I haven't seen them open for a while now, sad
The people who say lively downtown PVD streets are "too dangerous" live in a place like this where not a single one of them even walks around their own neighborhood bc their streets are so dangerous (from speeding cars) and they all know it...
It depends on the jurisdiction but often times it's up to the prosecutor whether they want a grand jury (easier to get an indictment) or a preliminary hearing (more efficient case management)
In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.
Update: it got funny again
Exactly! As soon as NIMBYs are actually on the right side of the issue for once they suddenly disappear... 🤔
If this was an affordable housing development they'd make it remove half the units to accommodate the heritage trees, but this is a stadium for billionaires not something silly and useless like housing for working people... 🤔
The nationwide polls are of people who don't live in major cities saying crime is a major problem there. Meanwhile, polls of people who actually do live in major cities dispute this. You don't get to assert your fear and will on innocent people in neighborhoods you do not live in, get real.
I think crime in YOUR neighborhood is a major problem even though I've never been there. It doesn't matter that the vast majority of you and your neighbors don't think it's a major problem, you make ME feel unsafe so we're sending the National Guard in, hope you like it. bsky.app/profile/sfcp...
"Polling shows most Americans think Little Rock is literally a little rock, a major problem. Trump's plan to use the National Guard to add bigger rocks has 50.1% support which means it's a wildly popular. His plans with 10% support don't mean they're not popular though, we would never say that." 🚩
Just so I’m clear: the technological advancement upon which our entire economy seems to rest upon spent months emphatically coaching a teenager to die by suicide, AND thinks “Missouri” includes the letter “L”?
Dark times. This is evil
Same but better losing work than getting kidnapped right
My councilwoman @janeese4dc.bsky.social put out a plea to neighbors to not order food delivery because of law enforcement targeting delivery drivers.
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
Joe Biden was *the best* US President of the last several decades and he will burn in hell. We can do so much better it's ridiculous.
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I saw a popville post about this where the consensus comments were that "delivery drivers are adults who accept all the consequences of their work decision" so I'm guessing nah 🤔💀💀
So are the food delivery apps going to come out and say anything about how their drivers keep getting targeted by the Feds, or nah?
Americans now live in a country where we have to "show our papers" at checkpoints set up by secret police around our neighborhoods just coming home from work or trying to get groceries to feed our family, this is a fact. Where have we heard of this kind of thing before 🤔?
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Remember when the censorious woke left was putting people in jail for misgendering pronouns @theatlantic.com et al? Thank god you Free Speech Warriors kept us focused on the uh real threat...
A new Saw movie starring an American headline writer would be a blockbuster
Whelp- looks like dc has given up
So then how are so many Americans trying to find the money to buy groceries obsessed with e.g. trans people?
Actual human communication is dramatically more complicated that. Democrats have, without exaggeration, driven American democracy into a wall by outsourcing their brains to this class of hucksters, who pretend to insight but who have never successfully changed the public narrative on anything.
Washington DC wildlife: Great crested flycatcher does its part by eating a spotted lanternfly this morning in Rock Creek Park by the maintenance yard. 🪶 🐞
Feels like after Great Wall closed, this was the last authentic Chinese restaurant in DC 😭
There's a fantastic asian food hall not far away in Chinatown maps.app.goo.gl/Sm2HHYMuzRXn...
also imo: the question of whether people who are literally participating in right wing propaganda campaigns should be setting the agenda of combating the right is one of those that answers itself
Philly cutting service, Metro has 40+yr old signal system, other cities hitting death spiral fiscal cliff too. We live in the richest country in the history of the world, yet other countries are funding & building more 🚇🚌. Let’s make 🇺🇸 the best in the world, it’s a choice!