Pretending, under such circumstances, that we can simply "election" & "normalcy" our way out of this problem is not only unserious, but borders on complicity & fascist accommodation. Time to wake the fuck up.

This is such an insane statistic that it's hard to understand. 40% of what is shipped is fossil fuels -- not 40% of things are shipped *by* fossil fuels. 40% of *what is being carried* is the fossil fuels themselves.

warning signs up around town at the many small parks you might not realize are basically national parks

Counterpoint: they don’t need to be trained because they’re not there to enforce laws, they’re there to terrorize poor people of color. Really hate this framing considering how shitty local cops are on this stuff, too.

It really bothers me that we're not talking about how the GOP cut DC's funding before invading.

The White House’s official X account has a long thread in which they’ve posted pictures of people arrested during the feds’ occupation of the city. Every single person in the thread is a person of color.

Jesus. Pam Bondi just purported to replace the DC police chief and revoke guidance from earlier today that instructed police to continue to comply with DC’s sanctuary laws — laws duly passed by our city council, elected by our voters. Even more radical than we’d feared.

US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked

This goes to show, policing as it has existed has always been tyranny's foot in the door. If Democratic mayors could justify unaccountable, undemocratic, secretive state violence in some places, it's a much lower bar to justify it everywhere.

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

🚨ALERT: ICE & other feds raided the Home Depot parking lot on Rhode Island this morning (8/12) and detained approx 15 people who were both workers and shoppers. Multiple agencies were involved and the cowards were masked. 1/

🚨ALERTA: La actividad de las agencias federales continúa esta noche (8/11) en DC. Hemos recibido informes de avistamientos en: - Benning Rd & 17th NE - Franklin & 7th NE - Dupont (17th & Church NW) - Parque Malcolm X (Meridian Hill) y alrededores - U St - The Wharf

NEW — Video taken by a witness and shared with me tonight from DC’s Trinidad neighborhood shows FBI and Secret Service agents patrolling by foot and peering into cars with flashlights. (Per witness, residents made fun of agents, saying they can't get women and that's why they were doing this lol)

As a part of our explainer series, a few months back we covered what to do if you're arrested in D.C. Refresh yourself on your rights. 51st.news/what-to-know...

Lanternfly on the balcony crime

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser today called Trump's decision to take over D.C. police + send National Guard troops into the city "unsettling and unprecedented." She also didn't condemn him or his authoritarian move even once in her 45-min press event. www.huffpost.com/entry/muriel...

This dog that looks like my friend's dog.

How D.C. first lost its right to self-govern, and the long road to home rule 
In 1871, Congress took over the capital city, blaming the District’s financial mess on Black voters. March 2025 🎁🔗⬇️

It's a huge tell that the executive order makes no attempt to specify what services the President is requesting from MPD. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Martin is following today's news. Keep up with him here. ⬇️

If you’re in DC and seeing National Guard/Federal agent activity, reach out via Signal at marisakabas.04

Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall. If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is (h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)

it’s crazy that anyone can do politics like this. just being among the people, and not doing media opps at a dozen focus tested diners and fairs that poll for maximum impact

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VICTORY: Our clients UMD SJP will receive a $100,000 settlement from the University of Maryland — the highest financial penalty likely ever imposed on a US university for violating pro-Palestinian students’ free speech rights, to our knowledge. palestinelegal.org/news/umd-set...

Why are the vast majority of U.S. adults stressed about the cost of basic needs? In the richest economy in the history of the world, no one should believe the lie that “there’s no money” to ensure everyone’s basic needs are met.

AAA estimates the average cost of owning a car is $12,297 a year, and recommends drivers spend no more than 10 percent of their income on car costs. This means you should make 120K to afford the average cost. Median *household* income in the US is $77K. The math just doesn't work.

cruel, cruel, cruel

“We are going to create a machine that solves all our problems” is a preposterous assertion and should be treated as such. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Minneapolis!

This is actually hilarious 😆

I think there’s a big difference between “all hope is lost” and “I have lost hope” and in climate it is really important to distinguish between the two. My personal feelings, your personal feelings are not the limits of our collective politics.

Do you remember the horrific abduction in Worcester, MA where protestors clashed with ICE as they ripped a woman away from her family? The horror continues. The woman’s 13 and 17 year old daughters were placed in foster care. They are now both missing. 1/ www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/31/m...

The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/ The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone* www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...

First of many indications that the site will be SO over-parked. @kingmanpark.bsky.social @homesnotstadiums.bsky.social @sierraclub.org @ddotdc.bsky.social @doee-dc.bsky.social

Wow - Commanders rep just said in response to Chairman Mendelson's comment about them saving money bc they're only paying $1 in rent: "There's no value in the [RFK] land." Wow yea okay. So why do you want it then?

NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s" An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us: www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...

🚨BREAKING: Today, the Trump administration moved to repeal a 2009 EPA finding that human-caused climate change poses a danger to health and safety – further entrenching the idea that private profit should come before people and the planet. END CAPITALISM BEFORE IT ENDS US!

As the RFK hearings get started, Robert White took another chance to lay out some of his problems with the deal and warn that he's still not decided on how he'll vote Friday. He's among the swing votes who could extract concessions...if they have the stomach for it.

How are Trump's economic policies impacting you? Let me give you a hard example. 🧵

oh my fucking god

DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution

"The Zaynab Project is a women-led, 100% volunteer-run nonprofit operating directly from within Gaza. We are part of the very communities we serve. No middlemen, no marketing costs, no admin fees — just local teams delivering urgent relief to those most in need."

The analysis says that the reason mixed-used development without a stadium would eventually produce more tax revenue is simple: "The stadium proposal comes with a significant amount of land dedicated to large parking garages, which do not generate sizable revenues."

This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants. This is horrifying beyond words. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

They don’t care about public comment. Saying it’s been discussed for years is absurd—details matter and the details were only announced a couple months ago. McDuffie is leading the Community Benefits Agreement but hasn’t once spoken to actual communities that surround the stadium like Kingman Park.

My statement on the DC Auditor’s report on the “Grossly Inadequate” discipline of the MPD officers convicted in the killing of Karon Hylton-Brown:

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