A victory for the people of DC, despite our Mayor

Hear ye hear ye! Now that the MBT extension to Takoma is officially complete, #MBTpubroll will spend the next 4 Thursdays (sans Thanksgiving) joyously celebrating this wonderful development! Mark your calendars. Tomorrow we're starting at 5:30pm at Takoma Station Tavern then biking to City State 🚲🍻

You can send our CEO an email about this silly situation via this link

Just joined my coworkers for a practice picket outside Washingtonian HQ. Four years without a contract. We’d love to be doing something else today!

Scoop: Staffers at the Los Angeles Times have averted a strike, with the guild striking a contract deal with management after a grueling negotiating process. Details in @status.news: link.status.news/3WTZc2H

Long live the Daily News!

This article was fascinating because the access was engineered by the Mayor's PR team to try and make her look good but the facts on the ground make her look so naive. She's still waiting on the "peter out" of the National Guard and ICE like a rube. Gift link: wapo.st/43thCLr

More funny if you forget that instead of actually caring about sex abuse by elites, the right-wing tried to shoot up a great local music venue

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Takoma Elementary School's PTO is collecting toiletries & non-perishable food for the school’s Food Pantry! Please donate items like shampoo, soap, lotion, toothpaste & deodorant. 💙 Donate in person (7010 Piney Branch Rd, NW, M-F 8am-6pm) or via Amazon: shorturl.at/0lZVt

Get your coffee from NOT Starbucks today. Found this resource to help you look for unionized coffee (ty Reddit) but hey— a locally owned establishment will do (as long as they didn’t try to put over 100 additional people on their payroll ahead of a union vote).

We live in sad times. While the Mayor was cutting a ribbon on the Takoma section of the Metropolitan Branch Trail, federal law enforcement was abducting someone just down the way on the Trail and by a school.

WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!

9:30 Club owner voluntarily recognized its workers’ union: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

"Thank you for admitting that MPD is still working with ICE because the mayor has said several times that MPD is not working with ICE and you just confirmed that [you are]," Commissioner Jamila White, chair, ANC 8A, said.

Let’s give thanks and give back! Join our annual Thanksgiving Adopt-a-Block Community Cleanup: 🗓️Thurs, Nov 27 ⏰10 AM 📍Takoma Elementary (7010 Piney Branch Rd NW) All supplies, snacks & water provided. Support local faves after cleanup + on Small Business Saturday (Nov 29): mainstreettakoma.org.

Join Takoma neighbors on Friday, December 5 (5-7 PM) for a family-friendly service event making trail mix for Martha’s Table. Bring ingredients and/or pantry staples. We'll provide the pizza & drinks! RSVP for location near Takoma Metro: rebrand.ly/TrailMixDec2025.

People who say it's just bluesky should know that he's getting roasted even harder on Instagram.

This race is gonna be embarrassingly bad and both candidates will be bad. The people of DC are demanding fighters and we get whatever this is, in multiple fonts and sizes of text.

News: Ward 4 Councilmember Janeese Lewis George has started telling people she’s running for mayor, per several sources, confirming months of speculation about her political future. She’d be the first major candidate to declare for 2026. Now the question: what will Bowser do?

Time's up, @society4science.bsky.social! The workers of Science News Media Guild are OFFICIALLY on #strike for 24 hours. The union hopes that the Society returns to the table so an offer that reflects the talent and commitment of the workers can be reached. #faircontractNOW #unionstrong

Corrupt insider favor trading continues to be the hallmark of both Kenyan McDuffie's and Anita Bonds's political careers. This craven backdoor maneuver befits them.

In @brookepintodc.bsky.social's Ward with agencies she supposedly has oversight of participating.

Workers of the Science News Media Guild will conduct a 24-hour #strike on Wednesday, 11/5. This comes after our members voted to reject the Society’s latest contract proposal. Our members previously voted by 92% to authorize a strike against the @society4science.bsky.social, if necessary.

I think anyone who called ICE on employees seeking their rightfully-owed wages should suffer a humiliation beyond my own imagination, and that the last gasp of energy before the heat-death of the universe should be a curse upon their name. But that's just one guy's opinion.

The US Park Police, DC's most lawless and incompetent law enforcement agency, is on a hiring spree, aiming to more-than-double the officers it has in the city. wapo.st/4ofLO4K

Spookyville: Haunted Alley isn’t just Halloween magic, it’s an urbanist utopia. Here’s to blurring the lines between public and private space and transforming our shared places into hubs of community, creativity, and joy. ggwash.org/view/101346/...

Maybe the stupidest local politics thing I've read in a long time and zero sources. Maybe I should be mayor is as credible an idea as this drivel. Should have stayed a shower thought.

Trump is quite literally the biggest union buster in American history. Every single Republican who supports Trump is anti-union, including Vance and Hawley and the other mythological “we love workers” ones. You are all lying rat cowards.

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Metro Transit was doing the same think with FBI agents at Ft. Totten last night. The complete collaboration with the regime by @wmatagm.bsky.social is an under covered story

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

The complete absence of @brookepintodc.bsky.social from, well, anything, is remarkable.

That's the subsidized with a half billion of your DC tax dollars price. Without the subsidies it's more

🎃 Spookyville’s not done yet! We were too busy haunting the alley to run our raffle, so we’re pulling winners from everyone who’s donated: www.gofundme.com/f/9th-annual.... Donate any amount for a chance to win gift cards to local faves like La Coop and Takoma Station + a 2-night hotel stay! 🕸

A big reminder that Doug Jemal literally tried to turn one of his buildings into a child immigrant detention center during Trump's last administration and remains tight with @mayorbowser.dc.gov @chmnmendelson.bsky.social and all of the rest of DC leadership. They've been on team Trump for years.

330 musicians & artists sign petition to IMP in support of employees seeking to unionize. Instagram post shows all the signatures

First it was single family, then it was new builds, now 2-4 units. The single greatest tool we have for preserving affordable housing and building generation wealth. . All sales going forward will be to be venture capital firms and private equity. This major door to homeownership closed.

NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March. The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org. Details:

Gee, it's almost like there's a reason legislation usually goes through a committee and has hearings and public testimony before members vote on it....

Workers at IMP—my son is one—have unionized.

The email version of today's roundup is delayed today due to issues beyond our control, but you can read it on the web. Sorry for the inconvenience.

An amazing spooky clean up today. The triangle park looks so much better.

Bakers of Takoma DC & beyond, assemble!🧁 Enter Spookyville’s No Tricks, Just Treats! bake-off. Sign up by Oct 17; bring goodies to DC's best Halloween party Oct 24. Meet judges Daniela Galarza (WaPo) + Cornelia Poku (The 51st) & win GREAT prizes. RSVP www.spookyville-hauntedalley.com/event-detail...

It is WILD how many big city mayors think the point of their city is for suburban drivers to crash through them as fast and callously as possible. What a breath of fresh air to imagine a mayor who actually likes their city and the people who live there.

Think your treats can take the cake?🎃 Enter the No Tricks, Just Treats Baking Contest at Spookyville: Haunted Alley! Sign up by Oct 17 + bring your treats Oct 24 for judging by Daniela Galarza (WaPo), Cornelia Poku (The 51st) + a surprise guest. More: www.spookyville-hauntedalley.com/event-detail...

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

Wish I had local leaders opposed to this @mayorbowser.dc.gov

Post leadership has heard from us — but now they need to hear from you. Please follow this link to send an email to Post managers urging them to uphold the personal liberty of free speech and respect workers' rights: actionnetwork.org/letters/wash...