If all the space in Adams Morgan currently dedicated to tables and dining goes back to being car parking, it will be a huge loss to the neighborhood. That land is of far greater benefit to the community as is rather than as car storage. wtop.com/dc/2025/09/t...

Nate Fleming is running for at-large council and his transportation qualifications include bragging about making it easier for bad drivers to stay on the road, so it's going to be pretty tough for him to earn my vote.

I don't know what @mayorbowser.bsky.social's plan is to "build trust" between DC residents and masked ice agents but I can tell you it's not going to work

If the wallet inspectors are really concerned with the quality and workmanship of the wallet I just handed them, they should make that plain.

I didn't bring my family to DC, because they already live here, because it's an amazing city and a great place to live and raise a family

the only solution is statehood for DC. Spread the word.

since the topic of DC statehood is once more on my mind, one small but important thing I think we need to do is change the DC license plates to be way more obvious in their message.

Two 16-20 mph speeding tickets in the last few months plus blocking a bus zone. Seen parked last night in the 15th Street bike lane. And note the illegal rear plate cover! Who knows how many more tickets this person has evaded thanks to blocking their license plate.

Finally, it IS theoretically possible for Congress to abolish our local government and let Trump rule by fiat. The only solution to this injustice is DC statehood. If you think it is wrong to allow the President to have dictatorial power over DC, we need you to join the fight for DC statehood

Does anyone know if Friday's DC Council vote on the NFL stadium deal needs to pass with a simple majority or a super majority? Is it being pushed as emergency legislation?

What a day at the Wilson building -- with mixed results. I'm sorry that the Council didn't move forward with funding semi-open primaries, but huge appreciation to @cmbrookepinto.bsky.social for introducing the amendment on it.

"This is the clear will of the voters," says Pinto as she introduces her amendment to fund semi-open primaries in D.C.

This fails on a 7-5 vote. So that means RCV funding survives, without any additional study/delay.

Thanks to @cmbrookepinto.bsky.social for this amendment! We need to fully implement I-83, as supported by a huge majority of DC voters last fall

Also interesting: Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto is proposing an amendment to fund semi-open primaries in D.C., which was one half of Initiative 83. The other half, ranked-choice voting, is being funded separately. If this passes, D.C. would get RCV and semi-open primaries in 2026.

Amazing!!

Interesting: An amendment from Ward 7 Councilmember Wendell Felder and At-Large Councilmember Anita Bonds that would have delayed ranked-choice voting (by requiring a feasibility study first) has been withdrawn. So for now it looks like RCV will come to D.C. elections in 2026.

Per an email from the ANC, there's a new bikeshare station coming in front of the Adams Morgan Harris Teeter! This is great news, that spot is very tricky to get to by bikeshare now.

You don't say!

I can tell you that in addition to the 20 tickets ($4,030, mostly speeding) that this driver has earned in the last year, they also have a serious anger management problem

I looked up my voter registration info (apps.dcboe.org/VRS/Home/Sea...) and it also lists all the people who currently represent me in various levels of government. All good except that they have old info for our US Senators and @ankitjaindc.bsky.social is not listed there even though he should be!!

This was me, a little over a year ago, dressed in suffragette white, wearing a sandwich board stating: I CANNOT VOTE TODAY ASK ME WHY. As a registered unaffiliated (independent) voter, I'm barred from voting in DC's taxpayer-funded primary elections. 73% of voters here want to change that. 1/2

With more votes behind counted, the Ward 8 special election just gets closer and closer, and becomes a better and better example of why DC made the right call to switch to Ranked Choice Voting next year

Uhhhh l'll just say it's a damn good thing we're getting Ranked Choice Voting next year

this seems extremely promising!!

BREAKING: The DC Council has officially voted to fund and implement Ranked Choice Voting in DC elections in 2026!

DC Council just voted, 8-4 to ADD funding for Ranked Choice Voting -- one half of I-83. Semi-open primaries are not, at this point, funded. Great news for DC and for demcoracy!!!

Does anyone want to lend me a food mill for a few hours? Will trade tomato sauce for it. DM me, especially if you live in or near Ward 1!

The @wshcommanders.bsky.social can kindly fuck off if they are pushing to get Trump involved. It is embarrassing and says volumes about the ownership.

i too made a voluntary separation from the Post (as a reader though, in my case)

the trump-endorsed RFK stadium deal would be terrible for DC, and the fact that @mayorbowser.bsky.social is saying that an ultra-right wing GOP congressman should have more say over the city than our own city council is....pretty concerning!! www.wusa9.com/article/news...

Saw this car on the bed of a tow truck today, though I can't be sure if it was being towed because of all these tickets. It had some dents in the side so it's possible the towing was a result of unrelated damage.

Hey, maybe we should try this congestion pricing in DC, it sounds awesome

I had been trying to give the new bus routes a chance, but I just learned that the new route I was planning to use a lot will actually not work for me at all. It'll only go to the destination I need during weekday rush hours.

Saw a car today that sped up like crazy to ran through an intersection just after the light turned red. It was immediately stuck behind several cars at the next red light and I easily caught up with it on my bike and noted its license plate number

Rare chance to visit the inside of the Smithsonian Arts and Industries building! Some areas are set up as part of the folklife festival -- always worth checking out, but especially so since this building has been mostly closed to the public for 20 years

i have been pretty much avoiding the Washington Post for the last 8 months (turns out it's pretty easy and there are way better sources for local news!) but I went back to the homepage today and it has a new scroll on the bottom of the page?? like a cable news channel??? it's incredibly annoying

Let's see who is blocking the new Columbia road bike lane today

wait, would a multi-billion dollar corporation teaming up with an authoritarian president to crush public opposition be good or bad, we can't tell

Capital Bikeshare raising membership prices pretty significantly...

I wonder how the citizens of DC would react to Mayor Bowser and trump, working hand in hand, forcing the city to build an NFL stadium over the objections of the DC council

@mrose.ink just want to make sure you know that this year's Smithsonian folklife festival includes a children's puppet show about copyright law --

The D.C. Council votes Tuesday on a rule change that would allow members to expel Trayon White again—should he win the July 15 special election— without launching a new investigation.

Depending on the specific route I look up, Google maps is sometimes suggesting new bus routes and sometimes still has the old ones... Hope they can fix that soon!

Budget season is critical for implementing I-83 -- the election reform law overwhelmingly passed by voters last fall. DC voters clearly want it, but to take effect, the Council still has to fund it, and it's not clear if they will.

Cutting library hours by 1/3 while also giving away billions of dollars to the NFL is a pretty bad look for @mayorbowser.bsky.social

A few months ago, the Bowser administration said it was "pausing" all new bike lane plans for 5 years. When we expressed outrage that they would do that, the reply was, "well, we have lots of other bike lane plans already in the works which will still happen". Now those are getting cancelled too.

It was bad enough when Mayor Bowser was blocking plans for badly needed new bike lanes. Now she's started the extremely dangerous precedent of getting rid of bike lanes the city has already built.

In #bikeDC news, @ddotdc.bsky.social is *removing* the protected cycle track on Arizona Ave NW due to community concerns over the “aesthetics” of flex posts. Why is DDOT reverting to bicycle infrastructure even THEY call unsafe instead of upgrading to permanent materials?