Not only did many Democrats vote to criminalize bail funds, even more Democrats (96) supported a bill (HR 5625) directing Trump’s Attorney General to develop and publicly post a list of states and localities that do not require cash bail for a variety of alleged offenses.

Council gave final approval today to my bill to make it easier to building small and mid-size buildings. The legislation allows buildings up to 6 stories to have one staircase instead of two. With modern fire suppression, sprinklers evidence shows no need for 2 stairwells.

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.

This is basically how I described the decision to a friend earlier today.

this is very funny as well as good evidence — you know, beyond what we can see with our own eyes — that there is not some epidemic of anti-white discrimination

Not sure how I missed this, but Niknam et al. (2026) released their evaluation of the District's (formerly) two violence-interruption programs: Cure the Streets and the Violence Interruption Initiative. The results are... not good. academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...

"Why won't Democrats tone down the rhetoric?"

Today, Acting Attorney General Blanche signed an order reclassifying FDA-approved cannabis products and state licensed medical cannabis products from Schedule I to Schedule III.../1

Policymakers and party leaders should be pre-ordering this book en masse. @noamlupu.bsky.social and @carnes.bsky.social are (in my mind) the most thoughtful researchers currently studying the under representation of working class people in legislative bodies.

i think folks might be unfamiliar with "the pharisees", so let's make it clear: he's saying the jews run the press, and that they are conspiring to undermine the military. it's not just antisemitism, it's indistinguishable from nazism.

We have entered the “you can’t kill me if I commit suicide” phase of American Decline

Translation of Wurman's post: "At least seven prominent law professors are peddling ahistorical crap, including me."

"The acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has delayed publication of a CDC report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half." Gift link: wapo.st/4ccudpF

The hubris and cruelty of the Trump administration has led Iranians to mobilize against America. It was easy to see this coming.

NASA's first image from the Artemis II close flyby of the moon shows "Earthset," with a crescent Earth seen over the moon's cratered surface.

All of these proposals are bad. Democrats need to stop trying to "one up" Republicans on tax cuts.

A must read from the wonderful @michaelehayden.bsky.social . It's very sad to see an organization like @splcenter.org stray so far from its core mission, particularly at a time when right-wing extremism has become mainstream.

*long, deep sigh* Why does @theatlantic.com think this is print-worthy? The right has agency and autonomy. How about we blame them for their bigotry?

This was amazing to watch 🚀🚀🚀

A great opinion piece by @jamellebouie.net that concisely exposes the hackery of Wurman, Lash, and Barnett.

I was happy to work on this bill. I learned a lot about the history of the District's building code (because I'm a nerd and did a bunch of archival research on old building codes) and what the fire science literature says about egress and evacuations

There's a long, bad journalistic tradition: All conservative grass-roots political movements are fascinating heartland phenomena, all progressive grass-roots political movements are ineffectual bleating. This one is written off as powered by white female college grads--the wine-moms slur, basically.

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

Where you live it's likely not possible to just post soldiers up on the streets forever but residents of the District of Columbia don't have the same rights as people in other cities abcnews.com/Politics/pen...

on the jim crow travesty that is the SAVE act (gift link)

This. I want to hear not only about how they will recruit, but also about basic governance: Will they establish an Office of Grants Management with robust performance metrics? How will they reduce unnecessary administrative burdens? How will they evaluate program effectiveness?

This is just astonishingly great reporting. All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them. And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

NEW: An events company whose associates helped plan the Jan. 6th insurrection have raked in millions in contracts with the U.S. government since Trump's election. The firm had previously netted only $50,000 in government contracts over the past decade.

Great point from @normornstein.bsky.social: Trump's demand that the GOP pass grotesque voter suppression measures is explicitly described by him as the way to win the midterms, implicitly admitting Trump's policies are failing. On the pod Norm is so good on all this: newrepublic.com/article/2075...

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors. My report:

Seems troubling. More troubling would be the idea that the Administration might have bombed Iran without expecting this.

Between the decline in employment in February and the downward revision to December, job growth has now effectively slowed to zero. #numbersday

There are a lot of cynical responses to this that are possible, even appropriate, but this finding is an indication of both how we got here & a window into how dire the democratic crisis. Co governance is pretty hard if you assume bad faith from most of your fellows *especially* if it’s warranted.

Donald Trump is repeating George W. Bush’s catastrophic mistakes.

OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

> @covie93.bsky.social

While the bombs fall on the regime and its opponents alike, Trump and Netanyahu say that they come as liberators. Only they won't be the ones who do the dirty work. Encouraging the IRGC to sit on its hands and receive 'immunity' is the latest tell that the Iranian people's desires are irrelevant.

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

He reported a stolen car. Then ICE arrested him at a police station, he says. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

NEW: The New York Times confirms my reporting that the DOJ is withholding several FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

NEW: @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social says in a new legal opinion that the bill passed by the D.C. Council late last year decoupling the local tax code from Republican tax cuts remains the law, regardless of Congress having passed a disapproval resolution this month.

A really great piece from @michaelehayden.bsky.social.

BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/

I am heartbroken to hear the news of Rev. Hagler passing away. He was an incredible human being, a human rights activist, a fighter for justice for all people for income inequality, racial inequality.

Trump’s FCC pressured CBS into not airing Stephen Colbert’s interview of James Talarico. Here it is on YouTube. Worth watching. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

NEWS: @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social is suing notorious D.C. slumlord Sam Razjooyan and two family members under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a law used to dismantle the mob. He says they ran a "sprawling illegal enterprise" that mostly impacted low-income residents.

Interesting update: A D.C. judge has found the city in contempt for refusing to turn over budget documents in long-running legal fight with a public interest law firm. The judge has given D.C. 21 days to turn over the documents; if it doesn't, daily fines of $1,500 will be assessed.

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

We now have data from Trump's first full year in office. Let's review the performance of Trump and the two parties since 1989 and a new age of globalization began. However you cut the data Trump continues to have worst jobs record of last six Presidents. 1/