Guess who will be paying that $2 BILLION subsidy 😡 That's right! Virginia residents

"The family of a man who died in Alexandria Police Department custody last summer is asking for accountability, as the city’s Independent Community Policing Review Board has taken up the case."

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This is the white supremacist group Patriot Front and we condemn in the strongest possible terms their ideology and presence in our communities. We advise DC neighbors to protect the most vulnerable people around you today. We reaffirm DC’s values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.

approximately 80% to 86% of Americans live in urban or metropolitan areas. Again, would you know this based on the discourse of US politics?

Horrifying 4th in DC rn with the Patriot Front out of their caskets marching in full sunlight

Welp

Despite the fuckery, when you listen to Ms. Whitney Houston sing it, it's actually possible to imagine a country that lifts us all. She is missed.🙏

Lord have mercy on us all. 💔

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

The difficulty in asking our officials to be circumspect about #Flock & #surveillance tech generally is that it's in direct opposition to their jobs, which require them to buy-in & normalize #copaganda about public safety. Read @equalityalec.bsky.social so you can rebut the lies. #ACLU #DeFlock

👏Presbyterian Church USA👏 divests from genocide

Look at this photo... what absolute fuckery And to all the Democratic electeds now and over the decades who failed to ever care enough about #DCstatehood: this is on you. Fuck you all.

#FreeDC #deoccupy #51ststate #statehood

This haunting, harrowing book* about convict "leasing" (prison labor) made me an abolitionist. And pro reparations. *also Edward Baptist's The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

Yesterday, a felony indictment brought by a special grand jury charging local activist Tanesha Hudson with voter registration fraud was quickly thrown out. But not before it caused Hudson to lose her job. “The process was the punishment,” says Hudson. www.charlottesvilledtm.com/p/special-gr...

I feel like you shouldn’t have to wait a month to find out if they are hiding the fact that an elected official is in a vegetative state

Virginians - report diesel generator use. Document what you see and hear 👇

ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through August 21st! ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽

DeFlock Harrisonburg folks are organizing an action against the early renewal of Flock surveillance by attending the July 14 and 28 City Council meetings en masse deflockhburg.carrd.co #DeFlock #Harrisonburg #vadems #surveillance #DeFlockHburg

he could not possibly be more dumb yet every single day he proves yes, he can if it were just the sheer stupidity, that would be one thing but the nonstop violence and hate and death I lay it at the feet of Democrats who for decades squandered & still do, every chance to meaningfully improve lives

The fact of the matter is, sending troops onto American streets puts all our basic rights at risk. Last week's victory is a reminder that we’re still a democracy, not an Empire. Our constitutional rights are stronger when we defend them.

In the six days after October 7, 2023, Israel dropped MORE made-in-the-US bombs on just 140 sq mi of densely populated Gaza than US dropped on 252,000 sq mi of Afghanistan in TWENTY YEARS of the War on Terror. -Steven W. Thrasher, in The Overseer Class #defundgenocide

trump is stealing a golf course used by ordinary washingtonians and giving it to his rich friends

What began as an effort to protect a coastal ecosystem has become a broad movement against corruption and neoliberalism.

Making Ethiopian. What's a good beer to serve with it?

This disingenuous argument consistently pops up—that people who consent to any surveillance are essentially agreeing to *all* surveillance. Consent doesn’t work that way, but also in the case of Flock, there is no way to opt out unless you never leave the house.

“Good heavens, John! Call someone! ... The entire basement looks dry!”

Five more June #DeFlock success stories from around the country for your Friday night viewing pleasure! 🧵 - South Portland, ME - Cayuga Heights, NY - Shorewood, MN - Bishop, CA - Framingham, MA #flock #surveillance #alpr #4a 👇

lol communism okayyyyy

How to identify corporate Dems: they talk ALOT about the reflecting pool, the Kennedy Center, Mamdani, Trump. But they're SILENT about: Federal stormtroopers kidnapping/ extraditing neighbors, Nazional Guard occupying cities, continued funding for genocide in Gaza and Lebanon, universal healthcare

"Our local governments must turn away from expanding ongoing mass surveillance & refocus on proven, targeted policing strategies that support our law enforcement without requiring law-abiding citizens to surrender their reasonable expectation of privacy." NO Flock! #DeFlock #Roanoke #Harrisonburg

Victory in Mount Vernon, WA! 🏆 A motion to "turn off and cover the #Flock cameras" passed last night 4-1! Full video: youtu.be/HK32VF5zpSc - Community comments: 01:28 - Flock discussion: 59:45 - Flock vote: 1:06:10 Great set of comments at the start! 👍 #deflock #surveillance #alpr

Virginia Citizens Defense League newsletter comes out against FLOCK Safety and calls for a ban in Chesterfield County of FLOCK cameras. VCDL is the largest advocate group for gun rights in Virginia.

The devil is in the supplementals. Harrisonburg VA police chief & city manager quietly pulled a $35,000 pro forma appropriation for ForceMetrics from the agenda while the town works through concerns around privacy & data governance. #DeFlock #Harrisonburg #masssurveillance #vadems

The sentences handed down today in Texas are a threat to the possibility of a democratic society. The prosecution is rife with constitutional violations, but 30 years in prison (more than anyone for January 6) for moving some magazines? 50 years for those not involved in even planning the protest?

#defundgenocide #defundisrael #vadems #ceasefire

US taxpayers, WE are making it possible for Israel to destroy Lebanon. See the pics in this thread. It looks exactly like Gaza. We know what this is. Why are we silent?

You don't have to live in Washington County to have a stake in this fight. Find out why and submit your public comment at NoKingsNoCamps.com before July 1. blog.hagerstownrapidresponse.com/p/the-july-1...

Someone has been projecting images all over D.C. “It’s swampier than ever.” The Kennedy Center one is pretty hilarious. 😂😂😂

A well-researched, completely depressing article. Bad news for the beautiful Eastern Shore.

An eyewitness account:

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It seems that the italian prime minister is pissed off.

No offense to Chris Van Hollen or any other white male eyeing the WH, but could white male Democrats please just take one for the team and abstain in 2028 (if we have an election)?

Kennedy Center name is still covered up. 🤬