The Third Reich had an agency called the Reichskulturkammer, "Reich Culture Chamber". All singers, writers, musicians, journalists, and actors had to apply for membership and were ideologically vetted. Expulsion or failure to gain admission resulted in an occupational ban. Jews were not admitted.

🚨ICE Alert 🚨ICE has been spotted at the intersection of 14th St NW and Missouri, with various arrests since this morning. Please avoid the area if possible.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

Congress caused a judicial vacancy crisis in DC by repeatedly failing to confirm judges for DC courts. Instead of fixing it, today it will vote on a bill to eliminate the little say DC gets on selecting the judges in our local courts. The bill would let President Trump handpick DC judges instead.

“Instacart has built a model that is based off exploitative practices.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/n...

statehood for DC

Here, in our city. And, at the end, the worker shows how he earns $9 for two orders. A workforce we've chosen as a city not to protect or dignify. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

The Snitch State This is the nightmare of many faculty at public institutions in GOP-controlled states… being ratted out by students to hostile administrators.

📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else! www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

Art 🖼️

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

“The future is not inevitable. There are a lot of choices that people can make along the road.” So good to see @mishal-khan.bsky.social of @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social get a spotlight from @sfexaminer.bsky.social! Check out this great interview: www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...

if you're not reading brian's work yet, here's a beautiful essay to get you started. so thankful we have his voice in this moment. the rise of the gig economy and the rise of homelessness go hand in hand. "it’s not just that wages are too low; it’s that work has become more precarious than ever."

“Uber will only support expanding the state’s 6% sales tax if the commonwealth classifies app-based drivers or couriers as independent contractors, not employees.” www.standard-journal.com/news/local/a...

Tae Heung “Will” Kim, a doctoral student at Texas A&M University and longtime US permanent resident, has been in ICE detention for OVER one month. The AAUP stands with the Texas AAUP state conference in demanding Mr. Kim’s release. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-st...

A metaphor for where we are as a country: obsessed with deporting immigrants, no matter what the resulting damage to American society.

Everyone should listen. We are already in extremely dangerous territory. Key is to connect with your community and not give up on democracy. www.nytimes.com/audio/app/20...

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

🚨SCOOP🚨 Over 7,500 gig workers had their Instacart and Shipt accounts hacked in a $30 million fraud, court records show. The hackers first bought a stolen list of shoppers and were able to dupe them into handing over one-time passcodes. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

"Under Seattle law [but not everywhere else yet], companies must notify workers how much a job pays to ensure pay transparency. This includes how earnings are calculated, before work begins, and at the time of payment." mynorthwest.com/mynorthwest-...

UPDATE: Our Ward 4 neighbor has been released & retrieved his car this morning. Thank you to our neighbors for showing up in numbers. This is how we get through this: we keep fighting, we keep showing up, we keep recording, we keep speaking out, and we keep organizing! We keep us safe.

we are going to win www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/f...

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...

My councilwoman @janeese4dc.bsky.social put out a plea to neighbors to not order food delivery because of law enforcement targeting delivery drivers.

ICE is helping them by terrorizing their employees and the general population, lowering workers' expectations and heightening the fear of speaking out against exploitative work

"As authorities round up their work force, the big players in the world of Silicon Valley-developed delivery apps have largely remained silent. Three of the biggest — Uber, Grubhub, and DoorDash — did not respond to requests for comment. That silence disappointed but did not surprise Katie Wells..."

For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE

ICE GOONS in Mount Pleasant 9/25

Israel pioneered this tactic a decade ago: deporting 4,000 asylum seekers to Uganda and Rwanda, where they faced horrific conditions and were often funneled into deadly trafficking networks. I investigated this shadow deportation system for @newrepublic.com in 2018: newrepublic.com/article/1488...

so a generalized decree of martial law without pretext

This video makes it clear that many federal agents aren’t stopping residents based on warrants or reasonable suspicion — they’re abducting people based on racial profiling and only then releasing them once their status is verified. This is blatantly unconstitutional.

Masked ICE agents are bringing fear and insecurity into our communities in DC. This morning an ICE agent pointed a taser at a bystander who was horrified at seeing a community member be aggressively kidnapped. Fuck ICE.

🧵 The district is under military occupation so you may have to dig a little deeper see the resistance. Try the #FreeDC hashtag on Instagram. Watch @washprobs.bsky.social IG stories. www.instagram.com/washingtonia...

A DC man has been arrested for filming the police. Follow Harriet’s Dreams on Instagram for more local coverage www.instagram.com/harrietsdreams

They illegally deported this man to a Salvadoran torture prison, relentlessly slandered him, drummed up federal criminal charges against him, and said he would never return. Yet tonight, he reunited with his family and loved ones in Maryland. There is a long road ahead, but the fight matters.

Park police, MPD, HSI, and IRS CI stopping people exiting Rhode Island metro in DC.

Video of a scary scene in Adams Morgan last night is making the rounds on DC listservs. The feds (presumably ICE) seemed to be making immigration/traffic stops. When protesters started shouting, one pointed his Taser at them until other protesters tried to deescalate things...

Moped delivery drivers disappearing from DC streets under Trump’s police takeover — which is looking more like an immigration crackdown than anything else www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

ICE Agents in D.C. Coordinate with Police to Target Immigrants in Moped Traffic Stops

Last month, one Venezuelan delivery driver said to us (in Spanish) "I want to look for a job, a job that pays better... I would like to be Amazon [driver]...Uber doesn't value your work... They don't care if you are okay or not [after a collision]."

To hold off fascism, we need to do more than resist. We need to learn from history, and build a *charismatic* state, with civil servants working hand-in-hand with working class communities to make lives better. @ear2thepavement.bsky.social nails it! www.currentaffairs.org/news/make-bu...

"officers impounded 11 unregistered scooters across the city on Monday." wjla.com/news/local/w...

“Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are accompanying D.C. police officers on moped traffic stops to determine the immigration status of those delivery drivers.” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

NEW—Earlier this evening agents from ICE/other fed agencies were outside Rhode Island Ave metro in DC asking people exiting the station for their IDs, per someone who experienced it. When the person presented their Real ID license, an agent said that wasn't sufficient. Luckily they had secondary ID.

"Authorities have targeted delivery drivers who often cluster on mopeds outside restaurants waiting for orders. During the arrests, the authorities have on several occasions refused onlookers’ offers to translate."

New from 404 Media: photos we were sent show the aftermath of a National Guard vehicle in DC t-boning a civilian vehicle. The Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) All Terrain Vehicle was previously used in the Afghanistan War. Now bashing peoples' cars in U.S. www.404media.co/a-national-g...

"The pitch for ending Trumpian chaos cannot be simply settling for the simpler times when only tech titans and billionaires got to ignore the rule of law." We also make this point here www.nybooks.com/online/2024/... and here journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

can also run this backwards: we watched the development of mass incarceration, waves of repression of anti-police brutality protests, and a spiraling post 9/11 surveillance and detention apparatus. we shouldn't wonder how a president in 2025 could decide the guys with guns can do whatever they want

State of DC: ICE and MPD are starving out Mt Pleasant community members - people are too scared to come to the weekly neighborhood Catholic Charities food distribution. Traitors to the city they swear to protect.