Will Singer

"Why are you a billionaire?" is such a simple yet EFFECTIVE challenge.

They literally ruin everything they touch

By a 2-to-1 margin, Americans blame arsonists for starting fires. Is there hope for democracy after all?

Yes! The DMV is evidence that District government could be so much better!

While they are busy *not* enacting appropriations for the federal government, Congressional Republicans are advancing such stupid bills as the “CLEAN DC” Act. This act would repeal a package passed by the DC Council to require reports about police overtime, among other things. Read while you can!

Treating bus riders like criminals — instead of the billionaire tax cheats who are robbing our communities of revenue for schools, hospitals and more — highlights the absurdity & cruelty of the federal occupation of D.C.

We demand an end to federal overreach and the harassment of our communities.

Notable too that Frumin isn’t mentioned. He was on this nonprofit’s board until stepping down to join the Council.

Virginia’s attorney general claimed that dozens of Virginians—first 53 of them, later 70—were murdered by offenders who had been released early from prison.

It wasn’t true, according to data released by his own Office of the Attorney General. But he and his campaign won’t admit a mistake.

Pop-up teen gatherings overtaking D.C. nightlife neighborhoods Some have led to robberies, leading Mayor Bowser to call for a new strict curfew.

If the teens gathered in public places after the 90-day curfew law expired, isn’t that evidence of their law-abiding behavior?

Anyway the city has to have a better message than ‘stay home and rot your brains online’

Yes but enough already

pollsters have a lot of ways to put their thumb on the scale and some of them are less than subtle

wording matters

All appropriations to compensate military personnel are exhausted. It is unconstitutional for the Pentagon to spend this money in this way.

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

In yesterday’s Senate hearing on 3 nominations to DC Superior Court, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) displayed a poster-sized photo of “Big Balls” from the night of his beating by 2 Maryland teens. Hawley blasted their sentences as too lenient—without having all the evidence from a confidential proceeding

The Reagan foundation opposes the quotation of President Reagan’s formal statements because they do not want people remembering what he once said.

Now *this* is the truest spirit of Reagan.

this is the website for elder millenials with humanities degrees. everyone has done the reading on why people invest meaning in public buildings. you can’t fool me

Our community deserves transparency on the extent of MPD's coordination with the federal government in its unlawful, anti-immigrant campaign.
 
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Here is Arendt’s brilliant but difficult essay, Truth and Politics (as first printed in the New Yorker)

If a guy threw a sandwich, I know this because he said “I did it. I threw the sandwich”—not because the government claimed that he threw a sandwich.

Likewise I know that DHS executed a military-style operation against a Chicago apartment building, treating all residents as enemy combatants.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to reject the authoritarian government’s lies as if they never had been said.

Train your own brain to block Tricia and her comrades, even when their words appear in reputable sources.

Maybe, or even probably, the government did another horrific wrong—but a moral person but be *sure* in order to justify the most solemn responses.

Authoritarian governments understand that this uncertainty translates into a muted reaction.

Thus Tricia’s mission is accomplished.

Even without believing the lies, many people will perceive a dispute that they are unable to judge, due to a lack of personal knowledge about the underlying events.

This perception limits the credence people will give to factually correct reports.

Yes, Tricia McLaughlin of DHS is a liar.

But more importantly, she is engaged in organized lying—an effort to prevent the existence of factual truth by putting true statements on a par with baseless assertions.

Chris Gowen: Will the DC Council strengthen Ticketmaster’s monopoly? If you’ve tried to buy tickets for popular events in DC lately, the odds are high that the event sold out in seconds and you were forced to purchase severely marked-up tickets from an online reseller....

This strikes me as thoughtful, constructive, and important writing on pending local legislation in DC

This is a good point: the White House demo project is surely putting asbestos and lead dust into the outdoor air, with precisely zero precautions taken.

The Partisans Are Wrong: Holding No Sincere Beliefs Is the Way to Win “Moving to the center would enable Democrats to confront [Trump] more aggressively and effectively because voters would see them as credible.” — Fr...

"From our vantage point as a fundamentally innumerate body of milquetoast thinkers who are wrong about everything, holding fewer sincere beliefs is the key to electoral success."

Trump promised that sending in the National Guard and the Marines would prevent D.C. from looking like a war zone.

Oh well.

“DOB specifies…” is such a strange thing to say.

The Home Rule Act forbids the Council from passing any act “which concerns the functions or property of the United States,” so the District’s DOB cannot regulate federal projects.

I like how the NYT tried to do a “some experts say” framing, and the expert was like, you do not need an expert opinion to see this is bad.