Mayor Bowser, "shared priorities" with this administration means having masked agents disappear our neighbors in the middle of the night. It means soldiers with assault rifles in our neighborhoods. It means arresting children. These are the priorities of a dictator. DC does not share them.

This video makes it clear that many federal agents aren’t stopping residents based on warrants or reasonable suspicion — they’re abducting people based on racial profiling and only then releasing them once their status is verified. This is blatantly unconstitutional.

Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."

Chris Murphy: "The CBO, nonpartisan, says it's gonna kick between 10 and 15 million people off their healthcare. And for what? To be able to afford a new $270,000 tax cut for the richest families in the country ... it's a moral abomination."

This is a no-brainer. @schumer.senate.gov must do everything in his power to delay and disrupt the upcoming vote on Trump’s Tax Scam. Tell your Democratic senator to make this vote as painful as possible for the GOP: indivisible.org/resource/cal... For NY residents: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

“DEI” wth a hard R

There is never a good time to spend $100 million on a military parade to soothe Donald Trump’s ego. But right now is the absolute worst time.

$45 million for a parade that goes 7ish blocks. Yes, less than a mile. If congressional Republicans actually cared about waste & the deficit, this parade wouldn’t be happening. There are other ways to celebrate the Army’s 250th. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/15/t...

The House Committee on Rules is meeting now to discuss three bills that would interfere in DC in different ways. DC residents oppose these and ALL attempts to interfere in our local government. Earlier today we delivered the following letter to members of the Committee.

I can’t believe I watched the spectacular Janelle Monae open for the phenomenal Grace Jones tonight

Chris Murphy: "We can't be preparing for the 2026 election. It might not come. All of our focus right now has to be on protecting the democracy, about stopping the corruption."

Today marks two months since the Senate unanimously passed my bill with Senator Collins to fix the D.C. budget time bomb set off by House Republicans. If they don't pass this bill, D.C. won't be able to use its OWN money to fund its OWN schools, public safety and more. They must act.

@chmnmendelson.bsky.social & @councilofdc.bsky.social need to protect residents whose lives are under siege from fed & local budget cuts @erinpalmerdc.bsky.social & @katharinelandfield.bsky.social explain why Council needs 2 use its full power 2 set budget priorities thedcline.org/2025/05/01/e...

So for example, say you want to run the Gov like...say...Tesla. Do you think Tesla tells their accounts receivable department to fuck off? No, because they are the people who bring in the income. The genius Musk-rat is doing that to the Govs accounts receivable, the IRS. Fucking terrorist.

The so-called “moderate” GOP position on Medicaid cuts is no cuts above $500 billion. Hello? That would mean 18 million children and 2 million adults with disabilities lose health care coverage, according to the latest estimates. What’s “moderate” about that?

"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met." Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time time.com/collections/...

I think I’m going to have to give up on people understanding that “widespread, regular famine” is in fact a bigger problem than additives in food that help us feed people.

@freedcproject.bsky.social isn't letting up!

Homeland Security Secretary can’t secure her own purse.

GOOD RIDDANCE,,, well ya boy had The Time of His Life this weekend introducing Green Day for their headlining set at Coachella,!!!

The courts *should* put an immediate and unequivocal halt to all use of the CECOT prison in El Salvador, with or without due process. They may not do that. But the *people* of the US still can. Don't lose of sight of this atrocity amidst the other outrages. Make this a key focus of resistance.

WASHINGTON (AP) — AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists, citing 1st Amendment.

Where is our humanity?

We are living in the stupidest timeline.

They will never be forgotten Donald, no matter how hard you try.

Cutting Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security will result in people dying. Cutting medical research and funding will result in people dying. Cutting foreign aid, FEMA and NOAA will result in people dying. A few cars on fire is considered violence, but somehow the rest isn’t.

A friend of my compared gutting of federal agencies to a wrecking a car: if you remove 30% of the parts of the car, it does not go 30% slower. It stops working.

Threatening to impeach judges who check your power is proof you need judges checking your power.

Rereading this article tonight. Powerful thinking, useful reading. Be prepared to not cooperate! wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-t...

An Irish Blessing on St. Patrick's Day May those who love us, love us; And for those who don't love us, May God turn their hearts; And if He doesn't turn their hearts, May He turn their ankles, So we will know them by their limping.

We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!

It's funny thinking back to the argument that Dems couldn't get rid of the filibuster when they were in power because they'd miss it once the GOP was in power.

In response to what Schumer is saying on TV: A: The government is ALREADY SHUT DOWN. They’ve been shutting it down since Jan 20, for black people. Perhaps Chuck could acknowledge that?? B: They already have the reins of power. Chuck wants it open so he can continue playing pretend!

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

Chuck Schumer is the feather duster we brought to the gunfight.

Schumer told the NYTimes what he would do before telling Dem voters. It also seems Schumer hasn't read the bill he's voting for, which authorizes the very thing he says he's avoiding "if a sequestration is ordered by the President." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o... www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

There has been a lot of focus on the District’s budget due to an effort in Congress to force the District of Columbia to cut 1 billion dollars in spending 6 months into the fiscal year. Budgets can be complicated, so to combat confusion I’d like to introduce “The District Budget, 101 pt 1”. 1/4

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

Does this count as Russian collusion yet? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

A reminder for these times.

Hard not to think about how the majority of white women voted when you see a headline such as this: "Franchetti's firing has left the military without a single woman in a four-star general or admiral leadership position." www.military.com/daily-news/2...

There's not a single top appointee who doesn't fundamentally hate the department they are charged with leading. We absolutely do not deserve chain saw massacres of our govt open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Wonder if Mike Johnson thinks these are real Kansans or just a bunch of paid actors?

Damn I really wanted a shut out

Vance and Vermeule beg the question when they say federal judges can’t block legitimate acts of state : the point of having unelected judges is so that *whether* acts of state are ‘legitimate’ “can be decided by someone other than the people who are undertaking them.” www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

I want to live in the USA represented in all these uplifting Super Bowl commercials.