There is a statue of author Alex Haley in East Knoxville, TN. Knox County just removed Roots from all school libraries.

Recent rains were hit-or-miss 🌦️ DC picked up 0.22", with ~0.2-0.4" common south of the city (up to 0.5" in spots). Northern suburbs saw little. Still: DC is ~1" below avg for May and ~4" down for the year. Updated forecast: www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

“We need to be more than an anti-Trump party. We need to be a pro-worker party.” Public drug production Housing affordability Utility rate reform Unfair and deceptive pricing Seed independence Windfall profits taxes for Big Oil Child care needs Paid vacation time Overtime pay Defanging of super PACs

The Florida Legislature is about to make all other Republican states look like beacons of transparency. It’s 4/27 and they plan to vote on new maps TOMORROW and no member of the public has even seen a draft. No wonder voters from all parties hate this. floridapolitics.com/archives/793...

Pretty extraordinary that the U.S. is experiencing its worst March drought on record, worse even than the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s. Drought is the most dangerous threat of climate change.

🥵 🌡️ With the cooler river moderating temperatures at National, DC 'only' hit 89 today, a few shy of another record. 92 at Dulles and 91 at BWI, both records. 11th day at or above 80 this year in D.C. -- tied for the most to date with 1945. Details and updated forecast at cwg.live.

April 16, 1862 marked the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, through the DC Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862 over 3000 individuals were freed before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Record highs reached 🔥🥵 Highs through 2 p.m. include 89 for DC/Dulles, and 90 for Baltimore. DC has tied a record for the date, while the other locations have established new records. Today is the 10th day with a high of 80 or higher in DC, second most on record to date behind 11 in 1945.

Dan Wedderburn, who was long a part of the DC local political scene, died Tuesday. Over the years, he served as treasurer for organizations including DC for Democracy, Phil Mendelson's campaigns, and the DC Democratic State Committee. Rest in peace, Dan. www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/w...

If I, If I have been unkind I hope you know it was never a sign

Like a beast with his horn I have tried in my way to be free

If you are the dealer, let me out of the game If you are the healer, I’m broken and lame And thine is the glory, mine must be the shame You want it darker

I Want It Darker….

No Kings DC 3/28/26 (One of the marches)

The strongest sign that major news outlets are doing better truth-telling on this war is that the Trump regime is in full freak-out mode about the coverage. My free Stop the Presses newsletter.

Trump multiple times just today has said the country is at war. War can only be declared by Congress, and Iran posed no imminent threat. What Trump is doing there is a textbook illegal war and impeachable offense — if we still had a Congress.

Watching public opinion shift this quickly on an issue is unheard of. Even the Iraq War took years before people admitted it was failing.

going to keep saying: to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

“This is an important win not just for The Handbasket but for the promise of transparency in DC. The court’s ruling vindicates the public’s right of access to body cam footage, and ensures that the public will get a full and accurate accounting of the episode at the US Institute of Peace last year.”

This case is insane: ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.* The young man they killed had no criminal history. All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs. We don't know officers' names. We don't have footage. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

A lot of people gathered tonight outside the Department of Veterans Affairs in D.C. for a vigil memorializing Alex Pretti, who worked as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital.

DC Vigil for Alex Pretti outside Dept of Veterans Affairs

Violent settlers in the West Bank are burning Palestinian villages & beating residents with impunity. These attacks have been met w/ silence from the Trump Admin & Netanyahu govt. US taxpayers shouldn't be giving the Netanyahu govt an annual $3 billion blank check for weapons. (1/2)

Kicker is brutal: “Mr. President, the American people didn’t vote for these scenes and you can’t continue to order them to not believe their lying eyes.” nypost.com/2026/01/25/o...

HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.

Trump Derangement Syndrome

"agents told hospital staff that Castaneda Mondragon ... 'purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.'”

🎶Give me absolute control over every living soul, and lie beside me baby, that’s an order 🎶

NEWS: @mayorbowser.dc.gov has selected a development team to rebuild the Chevy Chase Civic Center as a new library, community center, and 177 units of market-rate and affordable housing. It will also have a public plaza, park, amphitheater, and roof terrace.

"Two to three thousand armed agents of the federal government have been deployed to Minnesota. Armed, masked, undertrained ICE agents are going door to door, ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live."

Oglala Sioux Tribe demands the release of Lakota men detained by ICE www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Down by the Capitol on Sunday in DC

Farewell to the great Bob Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead who kept the long, strange trip rolling long after the death of Jerry Garcia. variety.com/2026/music/n...

Remembering Bob Weir and an amazing life and music that will live on for generations youtu.be/9NqggeXq6ms?...

Yeah, I mean ICE detained “Marilyn” from Northern Exposure in November. She gave them her tribal ID, they said it looked fake. She tried to call the enrollment office for them, they tried to take her phone. They don’t want to know. They just want to terrorize. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Regarding today’s shooting in Minneapolis, recall that in mid-October a federal agent shot and almost killed D.C. driver Phillip Brown under similar circumstances. The agent claimed Brown was driving towards him as he tried to flee from a police stop.

In the Senate, there are now 43 cosponsors on the #DCStatehood bill and we have a great lead sponsor in @vanhollen.senate.gov! There's lots of work to do in the Senate, including getting @captmarkkelly.bsky.social & Sen. Angus King to cosponsor the bill too. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Just as there have been lots of attacks on Home Rule, the movement for #DCStatehood continues to make progress. There are now 200+ cosponsors on the #DCStatehood bill in the House but there's more cosponsors to gain! www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

#StarTrek #Sisko197 #BilbyFiles

DC statehood now.

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

🎵It’s not in the way that you hold me It’s not in the way you say you care It’s not in the way you’ve been treatin my friends It’s not in the way that you stayed til the end 🎵

“[Andrea Velez] said in a federal complaint that officers repeatedly assumed she did not speak English. Federal officers later requested access to her phone in an attempt to prove she was colluding with another citizen arrested that day, who was charged with assault.”

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Evictions in DC hit record levels last year, with 1,869 households removed from their homes. We don't have final numbers for this year yet but avg. monthly evictions are the highest they’ve been in six years. New investigation from @51st.news @streetsensedc.bsky.social 51st.news/record-evict...

Today we marched for & with the 700,000 people in DC who are sick & tried of our colonial status. #FreeDC #DCStatehood

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC