Damnit, I donate money the other day to ActBlue and now I'm freaking inundated with dumb texts for money for candidates from all over the country. Remind me not to donate online anymore.
NO media
1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media
Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended
Wa Post buried it
A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it
Repost the march they buried
DC, we want your help. If you see Guard from Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, or Maryland anywhere other than the Mall, snap a photo or video and send it to
team@freedcproject.org.
@governorwalz.mn.gov has said Minnesota's Guard are not meant to assist Trump's disgusting "DC Safe and Beautiful Task Force," but this is sure what that looks like. Governor Walz, recall your Guard members out of DC NOW.
I biked through DC from NE to Arlington this morning, and holy cow, the Mall is a shit show. Everything is closed off, everything is ugly, accessibility is so limited, and it did smell like fish down by the Reflecting Pool.
Anyone know what the rumbling sound is I’m hearing in DC right now? At first I thought it was trains passing on the red line, but it keeps on going on!
EVERGREEN: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." (FrankWilhoit)
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
For today, "Loose and easy language about equality, resonant resolutions about brotherhood fall pleasantly on the ear, but ... each modest advance ... promptly raises the argument that the Negro has come far enough. Each step forward accents an ever-present tendency to backlash.” MLK, 1967
Sen. @kaine.senate.gov, I'm a constituent and just called your office, but of course it's closed, so let me message you instead. Do NOT support the CR-Minibus because it does not protect Congress's power of the purse. Without such provisions, the WH will continue to ignore Congress with impunity.
@markwarner.bsky.social folks from VA are texting me to contact their reps to say "No" to this fake deal. Have Trump and the Republicans kept a deal? Look at what they did to DC funds! Look at what they've done to court decisions! They are playing Dems to get a concession that they will not keep!
@davidjroth.bsky.social Listenin' to the pod, and as a child of divorce in the 70s, I remember People's Express stewardesses running credit cards in the aisles through those old chunka chunk machines of our youth midflight. And their honey roasted peanuts which were delicious.
Wearing my "Policy & Change" tee, & it started me thinking of the 2 parties' responses to recent gun violence--1 side, fund mental health, increase gun restrictions; the other side, CIVIL WAR! It reinforces my idea the left is principled & is about policy; the right is merely out for power.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments.
Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Listened to “To Kill a Mockingbird” with the kids and started thinking. Were we more fascistic then, but used to it? Was it as angst-inducing then (especially for white folks) as it is now?
The next 45 days are going to be a time when everybody in DC needs to know our rights and how to assert them.
Here are five important things for everyone to know while DC is under occupation 🧵
This is Heritage Foundation Chief Economist EJ Antoni, Trump's new nominee for Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner.
And THAT is his Nazi battleship wall art/Zoom background.