raising $40,433 entirely through small-dollar donations (averaging just $35!) in less than two months is absolutely NUTS 😭😭😭 people are ready to elect a real fighter and working class champion in ward 1!! 🩷🧡✊🏽 join us to make it happen ➡️ airtable.com/appTUXuvFKYK...

Khaled Elgindy proving that you can in fact talk to Isaac Chotiner without sounding like you've recently been lobotomized with a cheese grater

What a night! ✨ First, we stopped by the @dclatinocaucus.bsky.social mixer at La Cosecha to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. Then, we had a house party in Mount Pleasant to meet neighbors and hear what they hope to see from a councilmember. Thank you Irene, Caleb, and Rami for hosting!

Workers are the backbone of DC. But for too long, it's been a struggle to get by and now, labor is under attack. DC for Workers, by Workers is our new policy platform to strengthen workers' rights, support unions, raise the wage, increase benefits, and keep bad actors in check.

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

“good news, we’ve created the playroom that tells kids whatever they want to hear and makes them not care about their parents from the seminal Ray Bradbury short story, Don’t Create the Playroom That Tells Kids Whatever They Want to Hear and Makes Them Not Care About Their Parents”

Nadeau blaming the Uncommitted campaign for Trump is such tired bullshit. Uncommitted voters, of which I am one, were largely loyal Democrats who wanted to influence their party and were all but expelled for their tenacity.

The Mayor’s office explicitly confirms what we’ve seen on the ground: MPD continue to be collaborators. This is absolutely unacceptable, and we have the local power to stop this. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...

this article shows how critical local partnerships are for ICE to hit their numbers, which is why you should keep the pressure on your local city governments to refuse cooperation with them

it is just a straightforward statement of fact to say that the trump administration sees any black student at an elite institution as one too many

Workers built DC and they make this city run. Today, we’re proud to announce that 4 major unions representing workers in food service and hospitality, public transit, and DC government have endorsed our campaign: @unitehere.org Locals 23 and 25, @atulocal689.bsky.social, and AFGE Local 2725 ✊🏽🥳

mRNA medicine is a miracle. We should be investing in it HARD as a country, not cutting it.

The Holocaust Museum’s new slogan: “Again and again for everyone”

The cause of labor is the hope of the world! Throughout history, we’ve seen labor defeat billionaires, bad bosses, and oligarchs to guarantee rights for all of us. The current occupation in DC is another moment showing that we need the force of organized labor to defeat fascism.

"HuffPost asked Bowser whether she’d received any commitment that the 'crime emergency' would end as scheduled after 30 days. She suggested it might not, and that the city would be OK." ??????

fucking christ man

All of this is performative cruelty directed solely to avoid admitting they fucked up when they illegally sent him to cecot in March.

America now

Meet Shakira. Ten years ago, she was living in a shelter with her three kids, working at a non-union hotel. Now she's a member of HTC. Unions are how working people can build a dignified life. But in a city as expensive as ours, they need local government on their side.

really cannot describe the energy in the room last night as Aparna was giving her speech to 200+ people. chatted with some attendees who have literally never volunteered for or donated to a candidate before! this campaign has tapped into something—people want and are ready to fight for so much more

ICE getting routed in my old DC Columbia Heights hood. Public, viral, resistance is the only way to prevent them from selling the idea that we love our red state military occupation are it’s a solution to urban ills Trump/Bondi/drunk Pirro are lying. Here’s how to expose the lie.

This is so, so sad to see. The vendors are a part of our community. They bring life to a part of the neighborhood that's surrounded by big box stores and corporations. And I'm so angry that they are forced to hide to stay safe.

The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here. The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there.

We have severely lost the plot! This coordination and cooperation with Trump to target DC residents is dangerous, unacceptable and violates our Sanctuary Values Act! I’m disgusted that we would abandon our values and our people in this way. Stand for something! Defend our values!

574 DC donors, hitting the public financing threshold 2 hours after launch, and raising $30K all from small-dollar donations of $50 or less in only 15 hours is absolutely nuts 😭😭😭 if you’ve ever wished DC had a Zohran of our own, i’m telling you right now, this campaign is it!! 🌹

If you don’t know Aparna, I can’t blame you if you’re shocked at these record breaking day one numbers. But I’ve organized with Aparna for years, so I know she delivers — every time. Can’t wait for her to do the same as my Councilmember!!

“You can sweep away an encampment, but you’re not sweeping away homelessness. The person is still homeless, they’re just in a different spot.”

So much of modern American politics has to be viewed through the prism of “Don’t ever try to make me feel a feeling”

I am delighted that @aparnafordc.bsky.social is running for Council. She has been a leader in the fights for workers' rights, tenants' rights and a more affordable DC. Today is launch day and if you get a move on, you can still join me as a Day 1 donor. LFG!

Aparna is both a tenant and labor organizer - need more of those people on city councils. check out the launch video

People are being forced out of DC. The cost of living is too high, and Trump is waging an all-out assault on the District. It should be easier and more affordable to build a life here. That's why I’m running for DC Council in Ward 1. Join us: aparnafordc.com/donate

🚨 Today, the Council is voting on a plan to pause Initiative 82, which helps ensure tipped workers can earn a living wage. Swipe ➡️ to learn why suspending I-82 would harm workers and undermine the will of District voters.

🚨Hidden within the budget presented to the DC Council this week was a provision that would roll back essential protections for our vibrant immigrant community – neighbors who are a vital thread within the District’s fabric.

When she says she cares about all children she really means the ones currently being slaughtered and that is offensive to me.

deleted a post that wasn't worth it. I'll say this instead: Jimmy Carter is I think the only figure in US history to have devoted his post-presidency to atoning for being president. To be president is to author suffering in the specific & abstract, & to hope you did enough to outweigh it.

the word 'deported' is being pretty commonly misused

do you think everyone who supported “strengthening border security” the last twenty years will be surprised when they die and wake up in hell

this guy is a world class asshole

unbelievable cruelty.

For the FT, I wrote an essay about why the daily experience of the Internet keeps getting worse, tipping us into madness and conflict. I gather ideas about slop, enshittification, and dead internet theory under what I call "the hostile Internet." www.ft.com/content/5d06...

republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover

If you’ve seen a Christian bemoaning the “sin of empathy” or Elon Musk talking about “suicidal empathy” and wondered what that was about, I have an essay for you tldr version is that they are wrong but I think that the details etc are pretty interesting and scary and speak to our fascist moment

Noor Abdalla wrote a moving open letter to her husband, Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian freedom fighter kidnapped by the Trump administration www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

At a more basic level, in a democratic society, due process before a neutral fact finder is how we evaluate a conditional statement that begins with “if you <allegation>.” It doesn’t turn on and off depending on the allegation.

Trump has destroyed a federal system of labor relations that helped contain conflict for decades. The move could have unintended consequences. New online by @josephamccartin.bsky.social: www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/

Grateful to @thenation.com for this interview about my book. We talked about what really causes homelessness (hint: not addiction or mental illness), how its true scale is systematically obscured, and how entire business models exist to squeeze profit from people’s desperation for a place to live.