Same day; later in the afternoon. National Guard members milling about in the Mount Vernon Square station in in DC.

Another day, another set of National Guard members hanging out in the Gallery Place Metro in DC. Still not normal.

DC peeps! This Sunday! Join in celebrating DC's Emancipation Day with a parade and music and community! 🕺🎶🪘🌟https://www.mobilize.us/longlivegogofoundation/event/936968/?referring_vol=12551826&rname=Kelsye&share_context=event_details&share_medium=copy_link

🚨🚨 TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION is alive and well in the U.S.!!! 👀👀 D.C. residents who live in the nation's capital pay taxes but have no voting representation in Congress to help decide how our taxes are spent. As we work to fix our democracy, this HUGE hole needs urgent repair.

😡This is the same U.S. Park Police that was excited to do high-speed chases again under the federal occupation of D.C. that started in August 2025 and immediately led to 6 crashes THAT MONTH. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Hungarians improved their country and the entire world by staying determined, resisting, organizing, and when a chance came, turning out in huge numbers. Inspiring. Reminiscent of the “No!” campaign that took down Pinochet in Chile. Shows what “there are more of us than there are of them” can do.

Not once in this story does @politico.com mention that US factories employ ~89,000 fewer employees than a year ago. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

All the while, the mayor could have made all the footage public under a provision of law that allows her to release any body-camera footage if there's a public interest in doing so.

every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft

The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of Trump’s second administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. 🔗 Full story: https://propub.li/4e5vZLL

#NoKings from the arctic in Utqiaġvik, Alaska the northernmost city in the entire USA!

Rep. Rosa DeLauro, top Dem on the House appropriations panel, says DHS is *choosing* not to pay TSA workers while paying its other employees. She says: 85% of ICE + CBP are being paid 75% of Secret Service 0% of TSA workers "The Department made that decision," DeLauro says on the House floor.

And I condemn the 5 Ds who voted to increase an authoritarian's control over DC - the nation's capital - and make us less safe: Henry Cuellar (TX), Don Davis (NC), Jared Golden (ME), Adam Gray (CA), & Marie Glusenkamp Perez (WA). They are complicit in our democracy's decline.

Another week, another attack on DC in the House. #FreeDC is at the House Rules Committee meeting where we expect H.R. 5103 to be advanced for a floor vote. Follow here for updates!

Thanks @rephuffman.bsky.social for calling H.R. 5103* what it is: "part of House Republicans’ broad and sweeping attack on Washington, D.C., home rule and self-governance. The bill is about advancing the crackdown and takeover of the District" *It's true name should be "Making DC Less Safe"

Punchbowl confirms what I suspected in a post last night. Thune reached a deal with Dems to fund DHS except for ICE and Trump rejected it. DONALD TRUMP is to blame for airport chaos - not Democrats.

Being pro-democracy shouldn't end at the workplace. Support democratic businesses to fight for a world that grants everyone a voice in the decisions that affect them. Worker Co-ops: www.usworker.coop/directory/ Food Co-ops: grocerystory.coop/food-co-op-d...

✊CALL TO ACTION: This Saturday (3/21), baristas and allies are hitting the ground for our DELETE THE APP day of action! Let’s show Starbucks that corporate greed and union-busting is bad for business. This is a great way to make change in your community! Register + info: forms.gle/2fDcsDApukQh...

Here’s the quote, complete with laugh track provided by the #FreeDC crew in attendance 😂😭

THIS 👇👇👇 There is no "center" between democracy and dictatorship.

Election officials in Washington D.C. have been holding voter education sessions across the city, ahead of its first ever ranked-choice elections. “We understand the power of the vote and we want to continue being a voter-friendly city,” says one.

The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs is one of the most under-told stories in American history. They fought lynching, organized for voting rights, and created the infrastructure that became the Civil Rights Movement. They didn't wait for inclusion. They built their own power.

DC folks actually sort of need to demand that heads roll over this. It’s a real problem if law enforcement in the capital is so pathetic, weak, and supine that their instinct is to act as stormtroopers for illicit federal power grabs.

The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.

On Wednesday, the lawsuit challenging warrantless arrests in DC will come before District Court. Join our allies at @aclu-dc.bsky.social, Amica Center, @wearecasa.bsky.social @washlaw4cr.bsky.social @nipnlg.bsky.social to pack the hearing! RSVP to attend: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

Like clockwork.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

People also so readily latch onto all-or-nothing stories and, well, while we don't always win, we don't always lose, and the truth is at the very least in shades of gray or maybe full color.

You can’t honor the First Amendment alongside Donald Trump, he has spent his presidency making clear that he does not believe in it. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

Yes it would be very unpopular! We need to stand up for ourselves against bullies. Complying only empowers them. @michellechap76.bsky.social

Nearly 471,000 Georgia voters were removed from the rolls. Black Voters Matter Fund and two Georgia unions are suing Brad Raffensperger after he refused to turn over key records tied to the purge. Transparency isn’t optional. Voting rights are on the line. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of DC high schools students have walked out to demand ICE OUT of our communities. They’re gathering at the Lincoln Memorial in an incredible show of power and unity. #ICEout #endtheoccupation #stopcooperation

Letz go even bigger and better,,, ALL Female US Olympians and Paralympian medalists are invited out to celebrate in Viva Las Vegas for the SHE GOT GAME Weekend ,,, Hit a guy up and LETZ GOOO

With my neighbors telling DC Council to stop being complicit and #endtheoccupation of DC. The stories of MPD and ICE cooperation are terrible. The diversity and passion of witnesses and observers is amazing. I ❤️ the District.

ICE at polling sites is not about immigration enforcement. It is about making you too afraid to vote. We see it. We name it. We fight it. Keep ICE out of our polling locations. Take action: https://bit.ly/49XUgRH

"In several high-profile cases, the prosecutions fell apart because they relied on statements by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers that had no supporting evidence or in some instances were proven by video footage to be blatantly false." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This👇 Capitulation never works. The law is on our side.

Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.

Rev. Jesse Jackson stood with residents of the District demanding what should have always been ours: the right to govern ourselves. He showed up for D.C. because he believed the people of the nation’s capital deserved the same political power as every other American. Rest in power.✊🏾

Celebrate Black history and leadership by examining how past organizers built resilient movements. Transformative Justice Coalition’s Barbara R. Arnwine will explore systemic power structures and inequities, and translate historical lessons into contemporary movement-building & leadership practices.

Wow.

WT heck @npr.org and @steveinskeep.bsky.social !? “Assuming there is another Administration” just thrown in a question to Sen Klobuchar as an aside?

Thank you @chmnmendelson.bsky.social! We counted to 30 and our law stands.

If you participate in Gallup polls or are on one of their regular panels, cancel now.

I spent the morning at the DOJ looking at the unredacted Epstein files. Here are my initial thoughts and what I’ve found, so far.

I'm uninstalling my RING today. Dystopia notwithstanding, the Ring commercial about their surveillance finding lost pets makes no sense. Of the ~10M pets lost annually, their service finds ~500. They want Americans to commit privacy suicide for a .005% success rate??? Yeah, no thanks. Cancelling.

Still important to make those calls to protect DC and our budget!!

The bill in the Senate this week that will attempt to interfere in DC's tax code is chaotic, bad, and should get voted down — but don't take our word for it. Here's a running thread of the people and organizations who want Senators to VOTE NO on S.J. Res102: 🧵