Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Hide and Sikh & The Revolution Will Not Be Rated G. See alt-text. @thesunnydhillon.com @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @keyachatterjee.bsky.social @greenwriterspress.bsky.social #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #booktok #booklovers #100smallpress

Today I joined patriots at the Kennedy Center to make clear that Trump’s desecration of the Center will not stand. It’s not a matter of whether, but of when, his name will come down. We will not allow him to despoil what belongs to the American people.

Trump wants DC's crime numbers to be high so he can seize power here and look legitimate while he does it. If DC's numbers aren't what he wants, he's willing to go back and erase them. We condemn this attempt to distort DC's objective police data. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

S/O to Croix Bethune in this clip from @nbcwashington.com "We don't want to play a 3 hours soccer game. That was insane." "We're just trying to be the light of the city. I know y'all hear the chants "Free DC" that are going on and the signs that are there." www.nbcwashington.com/video/news/s...

We should make the tech billionaires mad by killing driverless cars in DC, right? Waymo Killed a Cat. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

I was the Banksy version of the sandwich guy for Halloween, so I now feel especially connected to this folk hero and appreciative of his lawyer's puns. Also, this entire thread is hilarious. #FreeDC

Our entire national democracy will always be at risk until we actually protect the capital of this country. Everyone across this country needs a free DC. - Kaya Chatterjee

DC SAYS #NOKINGS, #FREEDC

Great turnout tonight for @keyachatterjee.bsky.social’s book launch: The Revolution will not be rated G. At @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social Our world needs more activist romance novels like this (+inspired by Beverly Jenkins!!!) please!

It’s pub day for my romance novel about tearing down fascism! Thank you to everyone who helped it get out into the world! Launch event tonight at @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social, Wed @peoplesbooktakoma.com, Thurs NYC & then Boston/Philly @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Very few people are on BlueSky to see Stephen Miller, who runs the DC Task Force, admitting that this regime thinks they have total power. If you want a say in your future, or a say in anything at all, start pulling the rug out from under this regime today if you haven't already. #FreeDC

we’ve experienced so much solidarity from our fellow SGs, this community is everything ❤️

Washington Spirit games have become a massive bastion of protest against Trump's military takeover of DC. Thousands of people chant "free DC" at the 51st minute of every game now.

The boycotts work, kids, & represent our most direct weapon against fascism in this moment. Time to *expand* them & leverage their impact against this increasingly dangerous regime.

Signs of the Times cont. www.popville.com/2025/09/sign...

Watch these videos and explain to me why Congress should vote for a budget that INCREASES hiring for gangs of masked armed agents, snipers pointed at the protestors, and the gassing of a TV news van. What is the argument for not defunding this?

Relieved the (Progressive) Dems are fighting! And glad we now (finally) have all the Dems in this committee voting to protect DC rights. The 29 Dems who most recently voted to take away DC rights can be found here: freedcproject.org/news/29-dems... #FreeDC #EndTheOccupation

We were planning to get a donut from #KrispyKreme but the guys with the long rifles at Dupont circle reminding us we are under military occupation turned us around. #FreeDC #EndTheOccupation

Thank you Rep. Robert Garcia for your solidarity with DC communities. We are calling on every Democrat in both the House and Senate to reject ALL attacks against DC's local power and policy that are moving through Congress right now.

Outstanding. “These people should not get a second of peace wherever they are. If they’re in public, we will find them and we will make sure that they hear what we have to say,” says DiNucci[.]"

This week on "The State of Belief," @keyachatterjee.bsky.social shares how the Trump administration’s federal takeover of the nation’s capital is having a profound impact on DC’s 700,000 residents – and on our very democracy. Listen now! religionnews.com/2025/09/06/t...

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 the moment. On September 6, we march from DC’s neighborhoods to the White House. DC is not a warzone — it’s home. #FREEDC www.mobilize.us/dclabor/even...

Thousands of DC residents chanting “fuck Jeff Bezos” outside of the P Street Whole Foods

Register for the #WorkersOverBillionaires Labor Day Mass Call this Saturday, August 30, at 1 pm: www.mobilize.us/mayday/event... . Speakers include CTU President Stacy Davis Gates, @freedcproject.bsky.social's @keyachatterjee.bsky.social, journalist Michael Harriot & UTLA Pres. Cecily Myart-Cruz.

Free DC's Keya Chatterjee with a bit of a lesson for the political media 19thnews.org/2025/08/free...

FEDERAL FORCES OUT OF DC NOW! For allies across the country, we have two ways you can support us in standing down the federal escalation: ➡️ freedcproject.org/allies ➡️ freedcproject.org/occupation

"This is a moment for people who believe in equal rights to stand with DC, because right now you’re either with DC or you are with tyranny." — @keyachatterjee.bsky.social

People in DC "understand the assignment," #FreeDC co-founder @keyachatterjee.bsky.social told me this week. In this case, Columbia Heights. 19thnews.org/2025/08/free...

“We started thinking about the need to have a clear anti-dictator plan,” said @keyachatterjee.bsky.social, one of @freedcproject.bsky.social's four co-founders. In DC, “people understand the assignment.” 19thnews.org/2025/08/free... via @19thnews.org

Nurses condemn President Trump’s inhumane order to forcibly remove, jail, or involuntarily commit unhoused people in Washington, D.C. It is a violation of their civil and human rights, and it'll only exacerbate wait times at already-struggling hospitals.

Leading conservatives from every administration from Nixon to Trump 45 are CONDEMNING illegal take over of MPD They will be filing a legal brief in the court case to support DCAG We @democracydefendersfund.org is proud to rep them w/ Lowell & Assoc. www.democracydefendersfund.org/prs/8.15.25-...

Threatening children and making families afraid to drive around their own city endangers DC families and the freedoms and futures of us all. Real public safety looks like fully-funded schools and public services—not President Trump’s hostile takeover of the U.S. capital.

@keyachatterjee.bsky.social has been planning for DC’s federal takeover. She founded FreeDC in January, in part, to prepare for possible martial law. “When you have an authoritarian, it matters very much if you can organize in the capital,” she said in April. www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

The District of Columbia is under attack today — not from violent gangs or thieves, but by the President of the United States. The President's weaponization of the Home Rule Act is a direct attack on the 700,000 residents of DC and we will not stand for it.

For two nights federal law enforcement agents have been out in DC. Now, Trump has announced a press conference Monday to unveil even more plans for DC. We don't know what they are. DC BELONGS TO DC RESIDENTS, NOT TRUMP. Join us Monday @ 10 AM for a press conference + rally: bit.ly/free-dc-our-...

On the Metro in DC. Though we saw aimless Fed agents last night, right now there are no bored armed agents of the state roaming, just loads of people heading to meet friends/family, and on errands. I’m repping @altusaid.altgov.info @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social @freedcproject.bsky.social

The America that exists in my head is one where we take care of each other through the storms.

"He can either give us a license... or we’ll smash the fucking window out and drag him out.” That's not just any ICE officer saying that. His name is Matthew Elliston and he now oversees ICE field operations on the East Coast.

Frustrating that this article focuses only on broken promises rather than on how the US legislature and the media are succumbing to intimidation and bribery, esp when it's running above an op-ed on justifying acquiescence. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...

lol. My version of #1 is available for preorder, and I would absolutely read others’ versions of it too! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

While I'm on here asking people to do things-- please also read/listen to this thread and send some emails asking that the Fox News anchor who supported firing assistant US Attorneys who prosecuted the J6ers is not confirmed as US Attorney for DC tomorrow. @normeisen.bsky.social

Bozos is so nefarious. All DC PEPCO bills went up by ~18% starting in June to subsidize Amazon Web Services data centers in VA. And they have a contract with the ICE Gestapo, so we are disgusted by what they are doing w/ the data storage contracts. Sign the petition: freedcproject.org/amazon

MISSION STANDING-AROUND-FOR-NO-PARTICULAR-REASON ACCOMPLISHED!

Guilherme Lemes Cardoso E Silva, an artist known for painting murals across the Bay Area, was taken into custody by ICE agents. His wife is now pleading for his release before their baby is born.

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

DC is already flawless, first of all. But if Trump wants to "help" he can start by making Speaker Johnson fix the hole Congress blew in our local funds, undo his own disaster of a federal budget that cut Medicaid and SNAP, and then get rid of the largest criminal operation in DC by leaving office.

NEW: Federal agents rolling into MacArthur Park in LA like they are trying to take Kabul. Absolute madness. As the reporter says here, it’s an unmarked, heavily armored vehicle with armed ‘soldiers’. No-one knows if it’s ICE or National Guard.

Great summary here by @washingtonpost.com on the events leading up to the tragic floods in Texas -- including how NWS repeatedly attempted to warn local officials of the impending disaster, even if the final rain totals caught everyone by surprise. Gift link: www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...