Keith Ivey

Great advice from @portermcconnell.bsky.social on how to rank in the #DC at-large race. Read her post and the link. And remember to rank Elissa Silverman first and Oye Owolewa secondf if you care about having a progressive DC Council!

Just eyeballing it, prison pops in 2023 had returned to about where they would have been had the pre-2020 declines kept pace. Which suggests that any Covid-specific reductions were mostly wiped out. Which means politicians chose not to capitalize on the reductions Covid foisted on them.

In Maryland, just 50 miles from DC, a sheriff has relentlessly targeted local immigrants for over 20 years. He is running for reelection next week in a county that went for Harris over Trump. Make sure to share story: boltsmag.org/frederick-co...

I’m seeing people reacting by pointing out that he’s obviously wrong. I appreciate that, but it’s also a pointless exercise. The problem isn’t that he’s wrong. The problem is that this is normal in American politics — and it’s been normal for a while.

Judge Reyes: "Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President. ... Not to believe what the President has repeatedly told the American public. And yet, here we are."

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

And here my antique ass is asking, with my mind on a past filled with 'rules' and 'decorum' and 'the Hatch Act': Why is a White House social account posting political travel itineraries?

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Sign of the times: Someone chalked “National Guard Stay Away” outside an early voting center in Columbia Heights. There have been local and national concerns around federal agents (or the National Guard in D.C.) appearing at or near polling places ahead of next week’s elections.

“ICE Detains Deal Middle School Baseball Coach” (also coached at Jackson-Reed High School and Woodson High School) - Read more and see the fundraiser: www.popville.com/2026/10/ice-...

Platform screen doors, which Metro plans to add at 20 Red Line stations, are a global standard.

The US is not about to have a free and fair election. The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor the ruling party in multiple ways. It's a mostly free, somewhat unfair election. But still one where the ruling party can be overwhelmed by numbers. Hence the term "competitive authoritarianism."

These racist, festering lesions don’t get to dictate what it means to be an American.

People will say it’s bad that Mayer couldn’t answer this herself, and they’re right. They’ll say it’s bad she asked AI, and they’re right. But I am here to say that it’s bad that she looked at this wack ass output and called it “perfect”

aside from the fact that "let them eat liver" is not a winning message, what does this paste-brained dumbass think is going to happen to the price of liver if everyone starts eating it? How

the Evangelical version of this would be like “I have automated 75 hourly prayers asking God to bless my car dealership”

The Justice Department's last-second letters about noncitizen voting contain people with no history of voting whatsoever, and they're moving so fast they sloppily sent one county the wrong list of names.

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

The bottom line is that ICE is using taxpayer dollars to turn local law enforcement into its bounty hunters, and sheriffs are thrilled to play along. But remember that local collaboration is voluntary and, as Election Day nears, sheriffs are elected officials!

HOLY SHIT. In a sworn statement yesterday, an ICE agent told a federal judge that an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea had been cancelled and so couldn't be used to bring Ahmed Soliman back to the United States. The plane just landed in Equatorial Guinea. prospect.org/2026/10/23/t...

Remarkable. I don't know how to explain what journalism is to two of the largest media outlets in America. Journalism is not repeating an obvious, comical lie, then tacking on who said it at the end.

I have been to deextinction conferences with some of these people. I will never forget arguing with some of the scientists about bringing back Neanderthals. Them: it would be so cool! Me: leaving aside the questions about whether anything they could do would count as “bringing back” anything …

Not a single parent has filed a book challenge in Palm Beach in two years. The district just removed 1800 books anyway, because AI told them to. There are many reasons that is unthinkable but let's not forget AI DOES NOT HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOKS. IT CANNOT READ THEM. It just makes crap up!

I honestly don't know how you can look at the universe and go: "You know what we should do? We should make a death dog. That's totally going to help!"

The voters who want Dems to control the Senate but are voting Collins….

Ward 8 Council member Trayon White says he will launch a legal defense fund to continue paying for attorneys for a possible second trial that federal prosecutors say they want to bring on bribery allegations. Today his current attorney alluded to the high cost of the defense.

It is fucking insane that a military contractor (and biggest GOP donor) undermined the performance of services paid for by the DOD, and future GOP Presidential hopefuls are bending over backwards to come up with competing and bizarre excuses for why its all fine, actually.

my "zero 'coercion' required" t shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by the shirt

Federal prosecutors say they intend to re-try Ward 8 Council member Trayon White on bribery charges, and may even add new charges. White's attorney says the lawmaker is being targeted because of his race. @washingtonsun.com's Jenny Gathright was in court today: www.washingtonsun.com/metro/dc/tra...

From the conservative subreddit

“Departures from these practices should never be countenanced because they risk allowing prosecutors to impact national elections.” -Todd Blanche on DOJ’s 60-day rule, September 2024

Pretty nearly the whole actual point of getting white college students to go to Mississsippi for Freedom Summer was to draw national media attention

Could we actually soon be rid of the ugly statues Trump installed on Freedom Plaza? I'm not going to hold my breath.

Susan Collins and Joe Manchin posing with a guy at left who used the same sword to try to intimidate Somali-Americans in Lewiston (tinyurl.com/x489mum6). Absolutely vile stuff. (He's employed by the Leonard Leo-sponsored disinformation outlet to which Susan Collins is also a donor.) #MEpolitics

Imagine thinking you're a messenger for Jesus Christ and that his message was "do not help the weak and less fortunate"

Scoop from @brettlogiurato.bsky.social: CBS has sold its local election night coverage to DraftKings, stirring more controversy inside the David Ellison-owned company. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-draftk...

"Defendants later admitted they did not begin testing the material in stockpile for contaminants of concern until October 28, 2025—more than a week after dumping began—and did not learn the test results until November 17, 2025."

Tough call for JD Vance, who is supposed to be campaigning in Ohio today: Will he court the GOP's anti-Indian racists by shivving Vivek Ramaswamy over the Acton ad, or appeal to its psycho misogynists by vouching for its contents?

I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.

The press is covering the golf course theft at East Potomac National Park, but missing that most people are using the park for running, biking, fishing, picnicking, and just hanging out on the waterfront. Trump isn't just stealing our golf course, he's taking a huge, free-to-use waterfront hangout

BREAKING: SCOTUS rejects Trump admin's request to allow it to end gender-affirming medical care in prisons — a significant, if tentative, rejection of one of the admin's most extreme anti-trans arguments. Only Thomas and Alito noted they would have granted the stay. More to come: www.lawdork.com

The White House official accounts are posting Down Syndrome slurs to attack journalists. These people are disgusting and morally depraved.

"Last year, the Rev. Edward Nalwamba walked into an Aurora detention facility. On Tuesday evening, unable to stand on his own after being detained for 13 months, he was carried out in the arms of two men released alongside him. Guards had taken away his wheelchair."

“Raises questions”?? In this Kavanaugh Stop, ICE agents swerve to hit a US citizen, knock him off his bike breaking his arm, tase him, cuff him as he screams in pain, blame him, lie about everything, threaten to charge him for damage to their SUV. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...