It's a gorgeous fall day and by god AWS is gonna make sure that every digital staffer goes outside and touches grass today.

This group drove 12 hours from Alabama to rally outside of the Supreme Court as it hears a significant case that could undercut the Voting Rights Act

Read more about your rights when interacting with military troops or federal agents at aclu.org/deployment_kyr

It's not too late to RSVP for our Know Your Rights training tonight: aclu.org/KYRtraining_oct6

Algorithmic timelines that keep pushing more and more "suggested content" has made it practically impossible to keep up with your friends and family on social media in any meaningful way. If it's not a wedding, a new baby, or a funeral, it's not going to appear on your timeline anymore.

My mom and I talked about the impact of 9/11 recently, how much I saw on TV, and how she didn't realize how much we'd seen until a CNN commentator told parents to turn the TV off to protect kids. Now horrific footage is being piped directly into kids' phones. I can't even imagine parenting today.

A National Guard report accidentally emailed to the Post says veterans and active-duty troops view the D.C. deployment with "shame and alarm" @alexhorton.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The First Amendment protects our right to record ICE officers and law enforcement in public, whether Secretary Noem likes it or not.

President Trump deployed the National Guard to DC to create fear and grab power. No matter what federal agents and troops must uphold the Constitution. Know your rights if you're stopped by the police or federal troops.

Once again, I must remind everyone that DC has the best Attorney General ✊

Military troops have no place patrolling our streets.

Residents are finding all sorts of ways to fight ICE: They're recording and reporting. They're wheatpasting and sharing know-your-rights materials. And they're stepping up to care for each other, from delivering groceries to walking kids to school. 51st.news/dc-residents...

me last week: “There was, and is, no external crisis facing the United States. But for reasons of both personality and political ambition, Trump needs a crisis to govern — or rather, to rule. And if the actual conditions of reality will not give him a state of exception, he’ll create one himself.”

'A member of the District of Columbia National Guard, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Task & Purpose that the move to arm Guardsmen was unnecessary. “Us being out there is not sending a message other than clear provocation to our own populace,” the National Guard member said.'

A National Guard driver in a 14-ton mine-resistant vehicle ran a red light and t-boned a civilian car. The fire department needed to use the jaws of life to extract the driver. Totally safe!

There was never any reason to drive 14-ton mine-resistant ATVs around Capitol Hill — except to be backdrops in the Trump administration's photoshoots. And now DC residents are paying the price. Get these off our streets.

The only way to fully protect the rights of DC residents is to make the district a state. Demand Congress supports DC statehood at aclu.org/dc_statehood_.

it is genuinely maddening to see pundits and reporters say things like “well trump has an advantage on crime” while the public consistently says “we think this guy sucks on crime”

Republican Governors are ignoring their own sky-high murder rates to fight Washington D.C.’s imaginary crime wave. Harold Meyerson reports: trib.al/ubALA92

Went ahead and updated my map of cities with higher crime than D.C. to accommodate the two new states from the Deep South who are sending troops to the capital. In the five states there are 64 cities, home to 1.7 million people, that had more crime in 2024 than D.C. www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

The deployment of out-of-state National Guard troops onto our streets is a brazen abuse of power meant to create fear in the District. Join us in the fight for statehood to give D.C. residents the same guardrails against federal overreach as other states: dcstatehoodnow.org

We all have the right to: ✔️ Tell people their legal rights ✔️ Take photos of anything in plain view, including law enforcement activity ✔️ Share information about what officers are doing and where they're operating

Good. This federal takeover is a blatant abuse of emergency powers.

We are suing to block the federal government takeover of DC police. By illegally declaring a takeover of MPD, the Administration is abusing its temporary, limited authority under the law. This is the gravest threat to Home Rule DC has ever faced, and we are fighting to stop it.

Taking photos and video of law enforcement officers performing their duties in public is our constitutional right. This includes police, FBI, National Guard troops, ICE agents, and other government officials.

I need you to understand how deadly serious I am when I say that I am currently in Taylor Swift groupchats that have better infosec than this administration's group chats.

Know your rights if ICE agents show up at your door. Conozca sus derechos si agentes de ICE llegan a su puerta.

We need DC statehood NOW.

Without statehood, D.C. remains vulnerable to this kind of dangerous political exploitation.

An impt thing to note here is that the "laws" Pirro is referring to aren't the laws related to juvenile crimes. It's that SHE can't prosecute those crimes — because they fall under the jurisdiction of the DC Attorney General, a separate position that is democratically elected by the people of DC.

Today, the president foreshadowed that if these heavy-handed tactics take root in D.C., they will be rolled out to other majority-Black and Brown cities, like Chicago, Oakland and Baltimore, across the country. That should alarm everyone, not just Washingtonians.

Homelessness is a policy failure, not a personal one.

Little Rock, the capital city of Tom Cotton's home state of Arkansas, has one of the highest violent crime rates of any city in the United States. D.C. doesn't even crack the top-10.

Excuse me, National Guard? I found the people spitting and screaming in the face of the police:

DC statehood is now an imperative. No more dicking around. Next Dem majority, get it done immediately.

Excuse me, National Guard? I found the people destorying monuments in Washington DC:

Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK

This really gives up the game. The Trump admin's justification for forcing out Trans service members was "national security". Denying trans service members who have served for at least 15 years the retirement they've earned and deserve isn't for "national security". The cruelty is the point.

The unfortunate downside of this is also that doctors presume you have self-diagnosed from unreliable internet sources and flatly REFUSE to believe you could be sick. One doctor spent a solid ten minutes telling me the internet was unreliable while flatly ignoring the raging sinus infection I had.

We have learned that one of the women taken on Alvarado and 8th is Sabrina Medina, a pregnant U.S. Citizen expecting twins from Huntington Park, whom Kristi Noem targeted and was present last month for a photo op.

We ask community members to be cautious, vigilantly observe, and reach out to us or to the ACLU if they have any specific information on this raid or similar activity. We will continue to evaluate and will vigorously defend our communities against any further unlawful actions.

This morning, Border Patrol agents hiding in Penske rental trucks raided a Home Depot in Los Angeles to grab day laborers standing around, which the Border Patrol's current CA lead Gregory Bovino called "Operation Trojan Horse." Raises very serious questions about violation of the court order.

There are no job losses in Ba Sing Se

I don't know what hell looks like but I have to imagine that it sounds a lot like: "Hey I know you're about to leave work for the day and you've got an hour long drive but I need you to take this Teams meeting from your car — cameras on!"