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During Trump's federal law enforcement surge in DC, Park Police helicopters increased their hovering time over city neighborhoods sevenfold -- and flew hundreds of feet lower than other helicopters. From @abtran.bsky.social and @imogenpiper.bsky.social : www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

Tear gas everywhere.

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

Moon, Venus, and Regulus rising Friday over the Peace Monument in #DC! @capitalweather.bsky.social @ianlivingston.bsky.social @meteormolly.bsky.social

Trump’s cracking down on free speech—targeting organizers + trying to scare us. But joy is resistance. and we’re not going anywhere. 📍 3307 M St NW, DC 🗓️ Sat, Sept. 20th ⏰ 11am - 1pm 🔗 www.mobilize.us/indivisible/... Come dance, bring a friend, and show we’re still here. ✨

“Well then,” said Toad, “a little more sleep will not hurt me.”

🔥🔥🔥 #FreeDC

Deploying the National Guard is a waste of taxpayer dollars, all for a political stunt. Want to reduce crime? Fund DC and support crime reduction programs, not militarizing the city.

This morning D.C.'s three highest elected leaders are testifying before the House Oversight Committee. In her prepared testimony, @mayorbowser.bsky.social makes a number of asks, including: help D.C. hire 800 more police and build a new MPD training facility, fully fund NPS.

New in PN: Dems need get serious about DC statehood. For real. "Republicans act like DC residents need to earn their political rights, something they supposedly have not yet done. But consider this: If DC were populated by white Republicans, would it have statehood by now? We all know the answer."

NEWS: A person is in custody after allegedly firing a gunshot at the home of Democratic state Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel, a state lawmaker in Illinois. There are no reported injuries.

In non-stadium news: The D.C. Council just voted to extend the expanded youth curfew that was first imposed earlier this summer. It covers more youth, and allows police to establish temporary zones where the curfew is even earlier. It will run through the fall.

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📣 Political violence is gun violence, and it’s silencing our First Amendment freedoms. The ‘individual right’ to carry guns isn’t from 1791 — it was created by the gun lobby Supreme Court justices in 2008 (Heller) & expanded in 2022 (Bruen). #PoliticalViolenceIsGunViolence #EndGunViolence

Georgetown, just now. Protecting us from what? 😠

This morning (8:15am) right next to EL Haynes with school children present TRYING TO GO TO SCHOOL!!! That’s an automatic weapon NEXT TO AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL!!

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Congress caused a judicial vacancy crisis in DC by repeatedly failing to confirm judges for DC courts. Instead of fixing it, today it will vote on a bill to eliminate the little say DC gets on selecting the judges in our local courts. The bill would let President Trump handpick DC judges instead.

folks, I want to remind you that a ton of federal workers are about to get their last pay check at the end of this month and this stuff is going to get much worse

Yesterday, 31 House Democrats sided with Trump instead of DC. Today they need to hear from all of us. Two more anti-DC bills are on the floor this afternoon: one allows high speed car chases and the other gives Trump total control over nominating DC judges. We say NO #FreeDC

These Dems are gonna hear from us tomorrow #FreeDC

To the 31 House Democrats who voted with Trump: I would never vote to disenfranchise your constituents, undermine their democratic rights, or impose harsher penalties on them against their will. Regrettably, you have done exactly that to my constituents and legislative body. Shame 😪

What you can try to control is how YOU fight... not how they fight.

When I tell y’all I’m tired…. I know Dems strive to be a “big tent” but I’d hoped they could reach consensus on the fact that federal adult prison is not the appropriate place for a 14-year-old. (And yes, unique to DC — adults convicted even of local crimes serve their time in the federal system)

Tomorrow, the House will vote on bills requiring police to conduct high-speed car chases in most circumstances and giving Trump total control over who DC's local judges are. Will @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @whipkclark.bsky.social whip those votes? Or will they abandon DC again?

Congressional Democrats voted today to sell out Washington DC and their constituents, as numerous Dems backed bills advancing the Trump takeover of DC. After meeting with our Council and saying nice things, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and leadership *declined* to whip a No vote on the bills

Checkpoint Georgia Ave and New Hampshire Ave NW

“From a broader civil and human rights perspective, the disenfranchisement of DC residents stands out as the most blatant violation of the most important civil right that Americans have: the right to vote.” #DCStatehood

Police shot someone in the Palisades?! Address given was 5100 block of Sherier Pl NW

From yesterday's House Rules Committee meeting, where four anti-DC bills were advanced to the floor. Thank you @scanlon.house.gov for explaining the big picture. Call key lawmakers and tell them to side with DC residents, not Trump! #FreeDC

This week the House will vote on four bills attacking DC. Nine more are in the works. No one in DC wants these measures. They will not support our safety. We want every Democrat to VOTE NO on all of these bills. Make calls today and tomorrow to 30 priority reps: freedcproject.org/news/make-ca...

TODAY the House is voting on two anti-DC bills, HR 4922 and HR 5140. House Democrats have a choice: vote to preserve local democracy in DC, or side with Trump #FreeDC

We were planning to get a donut from #KrispyKreme but the guys with the long rifles at Dupont circle reminding us we are under military occupation turned us around. #FreeDC #EndTheOccupation

FOP will bleed this city dry and our electeds will let them do it with a smile. Cops are not labor.

With the federal budget deadline two weeks away, guess what the House is focused on this week? That’s right, undermining DC’s self-governance! Tell key MOCs to keep their eyes on the ball and their hands off DC #FreeDC

Solidarity from DC #FreeDC #FreeChicago

Hi ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere If you have any national platform at all Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us

Even when rejecting bad premises, it’s important not to let them structure the conversation.

Hey maybe instead of gay conversion therapy, conservatives should focus on gun worship conversion therapy. The sickness runs deep and starts young.

We need a national year of service. It’s a matter of national security. The problem is, the people who thrive on polarization and division would never let it happen.

If you actually study this stuff, the dots are easy to connect. So many of our mass shootings and domestic terrorism is linked to a subculture of radicalized young men who have gone from Fox News and MAGA to literal Nazi influencers and communities. It’s our biggest threat and it’s ignored.

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Democracy Helpers meeting Wed, Sept 17 @ 7PM – VA elections + working group updates – Supporting members amid political upheaval – Mapping activism to democratic pillars 🔗 Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/84948786751 IN PERSON 6-7p Winning Wed. with Andrea Miller www.mobilize.us/wndc/event/8...

Making nice with Trump working out for @mayorbowser.bsky.social

I think something people struggle with that I personally can't relate to is that nothing really shuts down someone trying to strong-arm you like a resolute, challenging "no, you're not going to do that".

The House Oversight Cmt will hold a hearing on 9/18 @ 10am with DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, Council of the District of Columbia Chair Phil Mendelson and DC AG Brian Schwalb, per notice that just went out