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This would strip *thousands* of DC residents who live in 2-4 unit buildings of their TOPA rights.

TOPA is the first right to buy your home — a key tenant right in DC.

DC residents had NO opportunity to testify on this because it was a last-minute amendment to the bill.

No one should support this.

Time and again, members of UNITE HERE Locals 25 & 23 have fought for a voice on the job, better pay & benefits, and dignity.

Yesterday, I met with members across the region and in Ward 1 specifically to talk about what a pro-labor Council could look like. When we fight, we win! ✊🏾

Text-based graphic with "Aparna for DC" logo in the upper right corner and heading "On Indigenous People's Day." Text reads: On Indigenous People’s Day, we remember that the land we know as DC was originally home to the Nacotchtank, Piscataway, and Pamunkey peoples for thousands of years. Today, I’m thinking about the horrific legacy of colonization that devastated these tribes and destroyed so much of this history—and how these violent logics persist today. Native peoples have long been at the forefront of the fight for climate and racial justice and against imperialism, and those struggles remain as important as ever, both in DC and across the globe. In addition to celebrating Indigenous cultures and heritage today, I encourage all of us to honor Indigenous resistance and survival by continuing the fight for a better world.

Today, we commemorate Indigenous People’s Day and honor the histories and resilience of the Nacotchtank, Piscataway, and Pamunkey peoples who were the original inhabitants of present-day DC.

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...

Photo of Aparna and Vida standing in front of a red DC Latino Caucus banner and smiling at the camera

Photo of someone speaking into a microphone in front of a DC Latino Caucus banner

Photo of Aparna talking to a room full of people with an Aparna for DC sign behind her

Photo of Aparna and a fellow of people standing and smiling at the camera, with an Aparna for DC sign in the center

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!

Policy Platform, DC for Workers, by Workers

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”

100 percent, her framing is astonishingly gross and i’m so disappointed.

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.

Screenshot from the NYT article: “The Metropolitan Police Department has left in place a policy change allowing officers to share information with federal immigration authorities about people not in custody, such as during traffic stops, according to Daniel Gleick, a spokesman for the mayor’s office. And the police department continues to work with a federal task force focused on Washington that includes officers from homeland security, the mayor acknowledged on Wednesday.”

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

So Much for Class-Based Affirmative Action The Trump administration considers even race-blind admissions policies illegal if they’re intended to achieve diversity.

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

Endorsement graphic with four local union logos and a photo of Aparna speaking into a mic over a magenta background. Text reads: Hospitality, transit, and District workers endorse Aparna.

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.

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be? The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing. By Rogé Karma

The capability-reliability gap might explain why generative AI has so far failed to deliver tangible results for businesses that use it. When researchers at MIT recently tracked the results of 300 publicly disclosed AI initiatives, they found that 95 percent of projects failed to deliver any boost to profits. A March report from McKinsey & Company found that 71 percent of companies reported using generative AI, and more than 80 percent of them reported that the technology had no “tangible impact” on earnings. In light of these trends, Gartner, a tech-consulting firm, recently declared that AI has entered the “trough of disillusionment” phase of technological development.

By one estimate, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Tesla will by the end of this year have collectively spent $560 billion on AI-related capital expenditures since the beginning of 2024 and have brought in just $35 billion in AI-related revenue. OpenAI and Anthropic are bringing in lots of revenue and are growing fast, but they are still nowhere near profitable. Their valuations—roughly $300 billion and $183 billion, respectively, and rising—are many multiples higher than their current revenues. (OpenAI projects about $13 billion in revenues this year; Anthropic, $2 billion to $4 billion.) Investors are betting heavily on the prospect that all of this spending will soon generate record-breaking profits. If that belief collapses, however, investors might start to sell en masse, causing the market to experience a large and painful correction.

The dot-com crash was bad, but it did not trigger a crisis. An AI-bubble crash could be different. AI-related investments have already surpassed the level that telecom hit at the peak of the dot-com boom as a share of the economy. In the first half of this year, business spending on AI added more to GDP growth than all consumer spending combined. Many experts believe that a major reason the U.S. economy has been able to weather tariffs and mass deportations without a recession is because all of this AI spending is acting, in the words of one economist, as a “massive private sector stimulus program.” An AI crash could lead broadly to less spending, fewer jobs, and slower growth, potentially dragging the economy into a recession. The economist Noah Smith argues that it could even lead to a financial crisis if the unregulated “private credit” loans funding much of the industry’s expansion all go bust at once.

It's seeming likelier and likelier that AI really could eliminate a lot of jobs very soon. Just not in the way boosters have suggested. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

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!! 🌹