Ah Bowser, the people's champion. /s

2014 MMB: In 10 years, well have ZERO roadway fatalities and serious injuries. 2025 MMB: We're back to 2014 levels! Our strategies are working.

As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods

DC traffic deaths finally dropped in 2025. These cameras quite literally saved some of our neighbors' lives. The people who oppose them think getting to drive dangerously without being held accountable is literally more important than DC children getting killed. Don't let them get what they want.

This dude is intense and correct

It's that magical time of year when #TranspoBINGO week is coming up soon! Play your way across the city with bikes, trains, buses, feet, wheel chairs, scooters, boats, trikes, and more! No cars. Let's go 🚲🚇🚌🚂🛶🦽👟!

"if you want to get lunch after your transgender clinic appointment the best options are the vegan italian deli or the queer-owned, resist lib themed pizza parlor" is both a true statement about my corner of DC and a preview of what all of america will look like under the auspices of woke 2

I've read most of the scholarship about US policing since the early 20th century. What you learn from this is that violence is inherent. You cannot "separate" out violence from policing. Police in the U.S. are violence workers.

A bit of light: beloved infant teacher Ms Irma, who was struck by a driver in Nov 2024, continues to fight for recovery. She needs your support. Please consider giving and sharing. 🫶🏻 gofund.me/2e71a2ca1

Hey everyone, We literally just added 100 more trans girl scouts to the trans girl scout cookie list. The list is bigger than it has ever been in EITM history. Go get some cookies and make a trans scout's day!

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Local radical caught riding to school day after city sanctioned Bike to School Day.

Read the whole issue. rethinkingschools.org/magazine/

Shout out to Spirit goalkeeper Kaylie Collins. bsky.app/profile/mort...

The administration may not be willing to admit it but I’ve seen our police officers cooperate with ICE myself. Our police should not be weaponized against our communities. That’s why I introduced a bill to restrict cooperation between MPD and ICE.

HAPPENING NOW: We’re at CBP headquarters in DC for a rally and vigil with Sen. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social and Rep. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social to demand ICE Out For Good. Watch: www.youtube.com/live/O25GeAh... #ICEOutForGood

I’m grateful for @propublica.org’s ongoing commitment to reporting these stories in great detail and with great humanity

In my district, students in English I & II took a full state standardized test in mid-December. They’ll take another one tomorrow. There was a two week break in between. Nonsensical. #EduSky

Heads up! This'll happen between midnight and 2am tonight (aka Wednesday morning) with them flying as low as 1,000 feet. 🤬🤬🤬

"I could not move, because history had me glued to the seat. . . It felt like Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder & Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on another shoulder, & I could not move." — Claudette Colvin Claudette Colvin ¡Presente! has died at age 86. 💔

just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday

this is war. I don't know why this isn't the language that everyone uses. The Feds are waging war on civilians.

Honestly we would all benefit from more people deep diving into Star Trek, esp DS9

mood

Wanda Sykes thanks Ricky Gervais for not being there because it means she can accept the award on his behalf... and he's gonna thank God and the trans community (he won, she did) #GoldenGlobes

so this is what they’re teaching at drivers ed

This girl is a damn hero and has more courage in her little finger than any of the bigots attacking queer communities. Becky, your amount of fight is inspirational and hopeful; where we have people with this much fortitude, there is always hope.

they say a picture is worth a thousand words. in this case the words are "get fucked lol get fucked lol get fucked lol get fucked lol get fucked lol get fucked lol get fucked lol get fucked lol get fucked lol get fucked lol get fucked lol get fucked lol get fucked lol get fucked lol get f ... (1/3)

Infuriating. Heartbreaking.

"Those who don’t know the geologic past are doomed to repeat it." Oof. I miss learning about geology, but also forgot how prescient it can be.

Everyone sitting outside at Union Market reacted in such hilarious and shocked fashion that we got a good chuckle out of it. Snow?? In January?? Groundbreaking 😆

Meanwhile Mayor Bowser has constantly tried to defund the various attempts of the DC Council to open public bathrooms around DC.

Now that's what I call traffic calming!

Community pushed them out.

Parks are for brass bands.

Mamdani's entire Big Block of Cheese Day video is worth watching, but in particular, his chat with Samina, a Pakistani woman who reminds me of my Bengali mom, made me tear up. I think her English is perfectly intelligible. But it's amazing to see how eloquent she becomes once they switch into Urdu.

Yup, Friday night I filmed a traffic stop involving 5 agencies: MPD, US Marshals, IRS CI, ATF, and another I couldn't identify. Today there was another convoy driving erratically, so I followed them down Florida Ave til I lost them.

Especially since Trump has cut SNAP to Minnesota. If folks can, try to support some of the folks struggling here.

This is the standard setup in DC now: 1 MPD car in front, 2-3 unmarked cars following holding agents from FBI, DEA, ICE, DHS, HSI… These federal agencies are staging out of MPD police stations and they leave for patrols in tandem.

JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents. @zeteo.com

That protester is fantastic—full of life, explaining the situation and his views on detail. Hannity sounds like he is toast, that his soul left his body

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

DCPS has been entirely silent on these issues. We cannot let this happen here but each day we don’t have an articulated and clear response and local presence we inch closer to exactly this. @dcpschancellor.bsky.social what is the plan? Asked you this last May. @mayorbowser.dc.gov asked you in April.

I'm reminded of Ruth Wilson Gilmore's words: "where life is precious, life is precious." I have long believed that there is a bond between people who know what it means to fight for a place — any place — where they have lived their values and cherished life in a way that the larger society does not.

ICE isn’t bad because they’re doing a bad job at something that is necessary. it is that they are wholly unnecessary, and their function is evil.

The state agents invading our cities are the dangerous ones, not our neighbors they target.

ICE has shot and killed a community observer in Minneapolis. Sending all of my love to the people of Minneapolis and the folks defending their neighbors there. This is heinous, and I am so sorry. To everyone else: REMEMBER ICE LIES ABOUT EVERYTHING. THIS IS DOCUMENTED.

Classic Mendo shenanigans. Except the shenanigans are going to have large repercussions for DC...

Phil is gonna Phil...