Breaking news: An ICE officer fatally shot a Mexican immigrant in Houston during an attempted traffic stop arrest, authorities said. ICE identified the man as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and said he was in the U.S. illegally and refused to comply with officers.

BREAKING: The Brennan Center and 2 dozen+ other orgs sent a letter to Gov Gretchen Whitmer urging her to withdraw MI National Guard members from DC. There's "no reason to trust” the Trump admin to use the troops “appropriately or even lawfully,” they write.

@governorwalz.mn.gov why are your National Guard troops occupying DC residential streets right now? We didn’t ask for them.

Pete Hegseth: "This background noise is perfect. It's the sound of ingrates, of ingratitude, of people who are so blinded by ideology they can't see law and order and common sense in front of them."

We are not going to get ICE off our streets or protect Home Rule by fearing this President. Threatening DC because you do not like how our residents vote is an attack on democracy itself. The people of DC elect the Mayor of DC. And they want someone who will stand up to Donald Trump.

NEWS: @chmnmendelson.bsky.social has unveiled his changes to @mayorbowser.dc.gov's '27 budget, ahead of tomorrow's vote in the D.C. Council. The big takeaways: - He found more than $400 million to restore funding for lots of programs. - He's kicking the can down the road on some big funding issues.

NEWS: D.C. has released body-camera footage from the incident last October where D.C. resident Phillip Brown was shot by a federal agent during a traffic stop on Benning Road NE. The release comes after the D.C. Council passed an emergency bill requiring the disclosure.

House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark tells House Dems to vote against the “Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Act of 2026” (H.R. 5103) - final vote on the House floor will be tomorrow (Wed., March 25) between 1:30-3pm:

SAVE is not an anti fraud bill it isa voter suppression bill. It requires re-registration with a passport, and/or birth certificate. Without these documents, someone can’t register to vote. We should be making voting more accessible, not less. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Tonight at 6:30PM (virtual) w/ @notechforapartheid.bsky.social and @claudiajonesschool.bsky.social Surveillance has long been used to monitor, criminalize, and control our communities. Join us for a teach-in on how these systems operate and how we can protect ourselves. Join: bit.ly/BLOCKISHOTDC

NEWS: the DC Council has proclaimed that the “D.C. Income and Franchise Tax Conformity and Revision Temporary Amendment Act of 2025” is now officially law (L26-89), effective through Sept. 25, 2026! Regardless of how the Senate votes today, the 30-day review period ended Feb. 11!

Our members are not only workers & consumers, they're long-term Target investors. Our urgent request to Target's new CEO Michael Fiddelke is that he call for ICE to leave Minnesota now, warning that the company’s silence jeopardizes its brand & our members’ investments. www.aft.org/news/aft-pre...

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.

This Wednesday, join the @fedworkersunited.bsky.social DMV Hub and local partners to mourn our federal worker and union sibling Alex Pretti outside the Dept of Veterans Affairs. @mdcdsa.org @claudiajonesschool.bsky.social @50501dc.bsky.social @nationalnurses.bsky.social @commondefense.bsky.social

Target is based in Minneapolis and ICE is using their stores. Hilton is lodging ICE officers, and cut ties with a local operator who kicked ICE out. And Enterprise is renting the cars that ICE uses in their raids. Tell their CEOs to stop their cooperation: FreeDCproject.org/ice-out

WATCH: Federal agents are being promised immunity to unleash chaos. They're surrounding our schools & threatening our places of worship. We cannot stand by while families are separated & our neighborhoods are turned into battlegrounds. Stand with us to stop the raids: go.aft.org/keepiceout

BREAKING: Minnesota and Twin Cities sue the federal government to stop ICE enforcement surge after the fatal shooting in Minneapolis.

NEWS: The D.C. Council just voted unanimously to decouple 13 provisions of the city's tax code from the federal code. It's a step to avoid some of the tax cuts (and loss of revenue) that would come from the GOP's tax bill passed earlier this year.

We visited more than 40 Senate offices today and it's working. We're hearing more and more Senators ready to VOTE NO on this bad funding bill attempting to sabotage DC's local budget. Now we need to see it all the way through. Join us tomorrow (Thursday) at the Hart Atrium: bit.ly/dcs-budget

The new GOP spending bill cuts $200 million from DC Public Schools and a billion total from DC’s budget (which gets federal money because we are a colony not a state)

A crackdown on Palestinian solidarity was always part of the plan for Trump Term 2. @premthakker.bsky.social reported on 'Project Esther' back in October zeteo.com/p/project-es...

📣 DC Join us again this Monday (3/10) bright and early to RALLY FOR WORKERS! We'll rally outside the courthouse before the next hearing in NTEU v. Vought.

UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

Less than one year ago, thousands of TSA employees signed a seven-year union contract. On Friday the Trump announced that “it is ending collective bargaining for the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA)” They just tore up the contract. It’s appalling www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/strike-or-...

“Our union stands ready to support any actions initiated by our union siblings in the TSA, including a boycott on air travel and work stoppages of any kind.” -- 50,000-member UFCW Local 3000. Hope to see more of this around the labor movement.

Happy International Women’s Day! The precursor to International Women’s Day (National Woman’s Day) was organized by the Ukrainian-born labor activist, suffragist, and author of "The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker," Theresa Serber Malkiel in New York City on February 28, 1909.

It's almost as if they don't know anything about DC. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Our public schools are facing devastating cuts that will hurt millions of students—especially kids in poverty & kids with disabilities. This Tuesday, March 4, join us to demand full funding for our schools. #ProtectOurKids bsky.app/profile/aftu...

Not great financial news for D.C.: The CFO's quarterly revenue estimate shows that for FY26, which starts in October, D.C. is expected to take in $325 million less than it expected back in December. And that repeats in the following years. A big cause: federal layoffs.

Elon Musk and DOGE are firing or trying to fire tens of thousands of federal workers who keep the essential programs that working families rely on running every day. We want to hear your story: How have you been impacted? act.aflcio.org/forms/share-...

Last week, we took action because America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist oligarchs who undermine our democracy. Worker power has saved us before—let's do it again. #SaveOurServices.

Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

Born #tdih 1868: William Edward Burghardt (W. E. B.) Du Bois, one of most important scholars of 20th century. Sociologist, historian, Pan-Africanist, author, editor; co-founder of NAACP, leader of Niagara Movement, & editor of NAACP’s The Crisis Magazine. 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/we...

Planned USPS changes could put people’s lives at risk by delaying medications, mail-in ballots, financial documents, and letters of great importance. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

Protest against Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center 💃🏽 • Feb 13 2025 Queer, trans, and disabled folks will be the ones who die first, throughout, and after. They will also be the ones of the front lines fighting for our collective freedom. Protecting them means protecting us all, I promise.

🚨🚨🚨STARTING AT NOON 🚨🚨🚨 70+ CFPB workers were fired last night in an email that didn’t even bother to mail merge [AppointmentDate] and [JobTitle]. Join us at 12p TODAY to rally for them! #saveCFPB

Trump said no drag shows at the Kennedy Center. DC says: this is our house, we’ll do it anyways. Join us and @claudiajonesschool.bsky.social @harrietsdreams.bsky.social @dykemarch.bsky.social + more for a dance party TOMORROW at 6:30 PM. freedcproject.org/event-list/d...

We're suing Russy Vought to stop the #CFPBLockout and #DeleteDOGE!!!!!!!!!!!! 😇 🥰 🥳 😎 💅 See you in court boss 😘 🇺🇸 🗽 🏈

You've heard of Kent State (1970) & maybe Jackson State (1970). Did you know #tdih 1968, 28 students were injured and three killed (one a HS student) — most shot in the back by state police while involved in a peaceful protest in Orangeburg, SC? 🧵 Read ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/or...

Big protest by the CFPB union happening in front of the CFPB building right now. “FORK OFF ELON”

Solidarity with the CFPB employees as President Musk the 47th president and his DOGE children wreak havoc.

AFL-CIO President @lizshuler.bsky.social marched with @dcculinaryunion.bsky.social workers last night to demand respect, stability and a stronger voice on the job at some of DC’s top restaurants. Workers showed that Starr and Knightsbridge's union-busting tactics won’t break their solidarity.

“I don't operate out of fear. I try to focus on listening more, how the work could change, and trying to figure out what kind of other layers we need to add within our work.” - Fariha, MSMA core organizer, in @teenvogue.bsky.social. Read the article: www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...

Our Executive Director sent a letter today to Speaker Johnson in response to his attacking Bishop Budde for her "radical ideology," the same radical ideology Jesus preached. festivalcenter.org/2025/01/27/d...

This is deplorable. Andrew Zabavsky was found guilty by a federal grand jury in Dec. 2022 of conspiracy to obstruct & obstruction of justice regarding the Oct. 2020 death of Karon Hylton-Brown on Kennedy St. NW in Ward 4. Zabavsky was sentenced to 4 years in prison in Sept. 2024.

Horrible, racist take. One thing we cannot do under the new fascist administration, is to bend over to their shock troops and adopt their backwards positions.

🚨ALERT 🚨ICE activity has been reported (still unverified) at Woodley Park Metro as of 9:30AM on 21/Jan.

We're building power to make DC’s demand for full democratic representation un-ignorable. Our communities deserve dignity, respect, and self-determination. Join the effort to win it. #FreeDC

More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”