Almost all of our unhoused friends were born & raised in DC. This is an actual city where actual people grow up, live, thrive, struggle, & build communities. And they’ll be here long after this political regime is gone. Housing for all who want it. Now!

While most people understandably focus on D.C. statehood leading to 2 Dem senate seats, for D.C. residents, lack of statehood means the federal government gets involved in local teen curfews, which is a stupid waste of time for everyone. Your state or county doesn't have to worry about this; we do.

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

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I have been told several times by NYT reporters that they *include this crediting* in drafts and have it removed by editors.

perhaps the biggest media takeaway of the last few years is that nearly all of our nation's most prominent journalists are abject cowards

is it a problem when the head of trust and safety is someone nobody trusts or feels safe around

to be clear, fabricating quotes is a fireable offense at any real newspaper.

They suspended @cara.city for this!!! Dogshit website run by absolute babies. It is a Serious Violation to point out that the head of trust and safety’s pants fell down and everyone saw his little red ass and laughed

Denmark has a chance to get the funniest revenge for all the greenland shit

What police force is this? Why are they concealing the tags of their cars? This is blatantly illegal and dangerous — MPD should be ARRESTING these officers not ASSISTING them.

hello please enjoy this photo of a bee enjoying some foxgloves I took today. #photography #bloomscrolling

great job

The New York Times writes far more stories about the trans community than any other US print outlet, and is the least likely to quote a trans person when it does. Seems bad?

If you like what happened in Virginia, you’re gonna love DC statehood

Under a new leader, the nyt’s standards operations are less interested in serving readers by ensuring stories are factual, fair and ethical. Incredibly, they’ve evolved into a form of political ops. Press statements are issued regularly these days that disseminate disinformation and attack critics.

Look it’s either this or a cruel unfair system of taxation where Jeff Bezos goes from having 419 billion dollars to 417 billion dollars

Once again, the national average pay for adjunct professors with PhDs is a flat fee of $3900 per course.

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Nearly 20,000 people have been detained in just over a year, in the DC area. READ THAT NUMBER AGAIN. The impact? Communities living in fear, avoiding public life (going to work, dropping their kids at school), and constantly questioning the occupation of our city. ICE OUT NOW 🗣️

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I'm heading to the white house for an emergency rally against today's genocidal statements. if you're in the area, come join me. I'm planning to livestream the rally, which I've never done before so we'll see how that goes.

The way that some of you are lecturing me that I’m arguing for preventing the expression of religious beliefs and should let people have their freedom when it is literally Passover and the astronauts went out of their way to do a special Easter message about the resurrection is pretty telling!

People should actually be very alarmed that while AP's business model is shot to bits, Americans are still very much reliant on the news it delivers. The alternatives in some cases are inferior or non-existent. apnews.com/article/news...

excited to be on a nasa livestream rn

A fast-tracked youth curfew extension in DC is being pushed as protection, yet it risks doing what policies like this have always done: over-police, over-surveil, and criminalize Black & Latine youth. We reject harmful curfew extensions! 1/8

On the 58th anniversary of Dr. King's assassination, it's time to reckon with the media's troubling role in the civil rights struggle. (I pitched this to @nytimes.com who found it "fascinating..[but] the news is making deeper & certainly more historical pieces very hard." But they're the news.) A 🧵

perfect warm going-out weather in DC all weekend and the metropolitan police department has just announced a number of zones in the city where teenagers have an official, city-imposed curfew of 8pm. in case anyone was wondering how the exponentially increased police presence there has been going

I specifically wrote about how 1st Amendment law is becoming bastardized to ensure trans people lose in the courts regardless of their position.

To do this on Trans Day of Visibility is violence. At 15, I was sent to a "troubled teens boarding school" that used conversion "therapy"...it is torturous & I know of five who experienced it that died by suicide. This "therapy" is not evidence-based, it is unscientific, and it kills.

“States can’t ban conversion therapy but they can ban trans healthcare. They can’t regulate ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ but they can ban abortion. The plain text of the Constitution just happens to align with the GOP political platform. Do not dare suggest we’re doing politics.” —The Supreme Court

it looks from the outside like the NYT adopted an advocacy position on the anti-trans side. anti-trans people rarely have issue getting a byline or a story-defining quote in the Times when no trans person is ever given that chance? I don't want advocacy from the NYT, I want fairness.

Banging on this that batteries met up to 44% of demand on the CA grid yesterday, roughly equivalent to 6 hoover dams. Cheap batteries are powering the grid. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicola...

John Yoo Ilan Wurman Michael McConnell Michael Ramsay The sum total of law professors quoted in this article. This is the legal equivalent of diner journalism with 12 angry Trump voters. Other choices, as always, were readily available.

The NYT is being disingenuous here. The AMA has *always* said that gender-affirming surgeries should generally be reserved for adults. That's part of why so few kids get them! The AMA reiterated this position and the NYT is characterizing it as a policy change. It's not.

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

So the NYT is so committed to shitting on trans people that when the AMA tried to correct their reporting, they responded by saying they know more about the AMA's position than the AMA itself. That's zealotry.

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Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

The NYT purposefully mischaracterized the position of the AMA to make it seem like they changed policy and opposed gender affirming care on trans youth. It appears they have rejected efforts by the AMA to correct the record.

I will never vote for gavin newsom

Jay Bhattacharya refuses to even fix the shot-out windows at the agency he purportedly leads.

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The Atlantic during the campus protests