Jen

i am pro-"partisan statehood measures." make DC a state. allow PR a binding resolution to determine if want statehood. offer the same to our other island holdings — american samoa, guam, the northern mariana islands and the US virgin islands. if they agree, incorporate them as a 1 or 2 units.

Killing the filibuster and bumping the number of states up to 52 or 53 are two things that could be done immediately and straightforwardly if the Dems took a trifecta, and one of the most essential electoral projects of the next three years is creating a Democratic Party that will.

ever. ever. ever.

Trump nominates Bureau of Labor Statistics critic to replace fired agency head E.J. Antoni, a staunch critic of the agency, had emerged in recent days as a favorite candidate among some influential Trump advisors, including Stephen K. Bannon. He has questioned the legitimacy of ...

Congrats, MAGA!

Now the world won't trust America's job reports number, and neither will Americans.

A shit hole country in 7 months.

3.5 years to go!

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump takes on D.C., sort of, in a rambling news conference full of lies It's bad. But there are limits to the steps Trump actually took on Monday — and reasons why he could take these steps — that are worth noting.

Trump’s news conference Monday was full of lies — but, unfortunately, those of us in D.C. don’t experience rights the way that people living in states experience them.

This evening, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-take...

Teachers were complaining about this is 2017 and told it wasn’t a media issue or a democracy issue

Trump pardoned Jared Wise, a January 6th rioter who repeatedly urged the mob to “kill” police officers there. He called the cops Nazis and “the Gestapo”

The same Jared Wise currently serves as a senior adviser in Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice.

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

they are murdering the people who tell the truth.

You see all sorts of regimes do this: labeling someone as a "terrorist" is the cheat code for getting permission to oppress and murder them. It's absurd and needs to stop.

Correct.

Meaning if Trump starts rounding up homeless people— calling this a “distraction” gives permission to ignore the suffering.

And giving permission to ignore when the least of us is brutalized opens this up to happen to more of us.

Self-induced paralysis.

Thread.

I GENUINELY am astounded that people are hitching their wagon to “the military would never fire on their fellow Americans” as a response to Trump siccing the National Guard on D.C. and openly practicing and planning a coup to remain in office

White people live in a whole different reality

this dc situation looks pretty horrible. i wish i had more to say except that autocracy is always mundane and petty and vicious and encourages you to look away and be safe. and you can live quite normally under it until you're a direct target

Hey @repchrispappas.bsky.social what say you about Israel’s targeted killing of the press?

D.C. mayor defends capital's crime rates after Trump threatens to take over police Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said President Trump has the power to deploy the National Guard, but "none of the conditions exist" for the president to take over the city's police.

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said President Trump has the power to deploy the National Guard, but "none of the conditions exist" for the president to take over the city's police.

TRUMP: Violent crime in DC is spiraling out of control so I'm deploying the National Guard

REALITY:

I think it’s only approved for a financial lit course for non traditionally schooled students (homeschool, online public school) which is good news that it’s very limited. I’m hoping the new commissioner is wiser, because PU is mostly trash. Accreditation is so important.

Al Jazeera English's bright red on-screen banner could not be clearer. "ISRAEL MURDERS JOURNALISTS," it has said, for the better part of twelve hours. Full coverage in today's Reliable Sources digest: cnn.it/4mH071j

It doesn’t matter if it’s goofy.

It’s acclimating

It’s turning up the boiling water

It’s goofy .. and they won’t really get into it with anyone but Brown or Black people here and it’s not gonna get stopped

And then it’ll be a few more

And then raids

Very much why we have no opposition party:

No lies detected:

Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...

"... records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejections for the same period a year earlier."

by @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social

Who in public life is regularly saying: “Be realistic - demand the impossible?”

None of these assholes are. It's all just shrunken horizons and telling people that nothing can actually change.

Just 10 members of Congress have even dared to call Israel's mass murder in Gaza a genocide. Meanwhile, they're straight up murdering journalists. The gulf between what's happening and what most of our leaders will acknowledge is so remarkably vast.

Someone forgot to take down this webpage:

www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

Then denial of medical treatment, just for youth of course, which expands to all ages quickly.

We don’t need to get distracted with the first step, we can say trans women are women and trans men are men and non-binary people are people. And then just let them live.

It’s not even hard 🤷‍♀️

2am-4am is my least favorite chunk of time to be awake. Podcast time I suppose 😬

a little girl wearing sunglasses is jumping into a pool with the caption meeeee Alt: a little girl wearing sunglasses is jumping into a pool with the caption meeeee

Guess who forgot their nightly meds and woke up in a panic attack?

Exclusion from sports is a guise to get the public comfortable with excluding ‘them’, othering trans women and making their rights negotiable. Then it’s bathrooms and soon it’s all public spaces.