Literacy is Political

D.C. crime dropped 26% in 2025, total crime down 7%.

Trump seizing D.C. when crime is at a 30-year low isn’t about safety — it’s about the Epstein files.

Liar Liar

Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall.

If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is

(h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)

And this is why I no longer subscribe to the paper I used to admire.

Meanwhile over at the Washington Post, Bezos' remake of the editorial page is underway.

Have the AMA’s been influenced by MAGA & Trump? Gwen Stefani, Janet Jackson… #AMA

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Janet Jackson tells The Guardian that she heard Kamala Harris “isn’t black” in new interview

https://www.inbella.com/730071/janet-jackson-tells-the-guardian-that-she-heard-kamala-harris-isnt-black-in-new-interview/

Janet Jackson tells The Guardian that she heard Kamala Harris “isn’t black” in …

DHS official Tricia McLaughlin keeps insisting that members of Congress and the Newark mayor assaulted and "bodyslammed" ICE officers even as Blackwell plays her video demonstrating that they in fact did not

Now listen to this in the context of the SCOTUS’ decision.
Yes, you can get a lawyer and file a habeas petition IF you can get a lawyee. But when wheels go up on the flight you are gone. And from what we’re seeing in the Garcia case this Admin will fight like hell to keep you gone.

They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.

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We have entered the French Revolution, enjoy your visit! #letthemeatcake #fdt

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Please consider donating to support the mom of one of our student that was murdered last weekend. gofund.me/e6c43293

MSNBC fired Joy Reid, Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart, Ayman Mohyeldin and cancelled Alex Wagner’s show. Jen Psaki has been promoted. WTF is wrong with you @msnbc.com ! #racism

The Senate Must Block Trump’s Loyalist Cabinet Nominees Trump's Cabinet appointees have no real interest in serving the American people. Working Americans will pay the price for this dysfunctional leadership, through the repealing of the Affordable Care Ac...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/th...

Congress: Stop Trump's Attack on Birthright Citizenship! Trump's attack on birthright citizenship is unconstitutional, and it's just one part of MAGA's far-right playbook to scapegoat our immigrant neighbors, all while Trump makes life easier for his wealth...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...

Prevent mass deportation NOW! After months of campaign threats to deploy the military and National Guard to raid our communities, President-elect Donald Trump is expected to deport record numbers of immigrants. Our local and state...

Our local and state governments must take proactive action immediately to defend our immigrant communities from Trump’s authoritarian agenda. sign.moveon.org/petitions/de...

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

Elon: Hands off our Social Security · MoveOn **Come rally outside of the Social Security Administration (SSA) Headquarters near Baltimore on Monday** to help hold unelected billionaire Elon Musk accountable for stealing from the American people....

www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

In Trump’s first 3 weeks name something that he has done FOR the American people?!?

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Proud to be from Maryland

www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...

These are the dems that voted to confirm the guy that just handed the Treasury to Musk:
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Cantwell
Coons
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Hickenlooper
Kaine
Kelly
King (Independent)
Peters
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner

Draw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump is not behaving like a leader who expects democratic accountability for himself or his party next year or in 2028.

A diverse flight crew of a gay guy, a Black man, and a woman

A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼

Louisiana indicts NY doctor for telemedicine abortion It's the first known criminal charge against a physician under a state's shield laws.

"In what is believed to be the first criminal case of its kind in the post–Roe v. Wade era, a New York-based telemedicine provider has been indicted in Louisiana...for supplying the abortion pill to a teenage patient in that state." By Nina Martin:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Criminal records of Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump include rape, domestic violence Dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who received pardons from President Trump had past criminal convictions for charges including rape, manslaughter, domestic violence and drug trafficking.

“NPR has identified dozens of defendants with prior convictions or pending charges for crimes including rape, sexual abuse of a minor, domestic violence, manslaughter, production of child sexual abuse material and drug trafficking.” www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

Making America Great Again!

Anyway as they pull bodies out of the Potomac bear in mind that the guiding ethos of Trumpism is that the TSA, NTSB, and FAA should be radically downsized and run by dudes whose main qualifications are loyalty are a willingness to say “cunt” a lot