Join us Saturday, at Matthews Memorial Baptist Church, in the great Ward 8 for our Candidate Forum on the issues that matter to Home Rule in the race for Mayor and Delegate.
Moderated by @sampkcollins.bsky.social of @washingtoninformer.com
Save your seat: FreeDCproject.org/forum
"I am not generally interested in considering women's rights in relation to equality with men, or in a competition with men, but rather within their own rights"
-Shirin Neshat
Iranian artist
#InternationalWomensDay
The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.
I'm attending a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social event: Free DC Candidate Forum. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/free-...
Transgender adults in Kansas have received letters ordering them to surrender their drivers licenses until they obtain a new one with a marker reflecting their sex assigned at birth.
Their current licenses are now invalid.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
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the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
If you're a journalist listening to Homan BLOVIATE about law and order right now and your immediate question isn't *what gives YOU the authority to speak about crimes and "law and order" when you accepted a $50,000 bribe and keep avoiding any accountability?* then you are ridiculous.
This hit so fucking hard today.
"What made this moment different for you? Fear? Proximity? Recognition? Guilt?"
- hopegiselle
One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!
I’m here in DC, right before a historic snowstorn, for a last minute action.
“ICE out for good!”
Good showing in Pershing Park for the @freedcproject.bsky.social protest of the Trump administration. “Our homes, our rules,” read many of the signs.
In advance of King Day tomorrow, I am resharing a piece about Coretta AND MLK as a reminder that they were a team. open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...
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🚨 MPD's non-answer on cooperation with ICE
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If you are military personnel who does not want to serve in this fascist suppression, the GI Rights Hotline can counsel you on your options:
girightshotline.org
Written as a call to action to certain white folks in particular but a good reminder for many.
“This should radicalize all of us against ALL state violence. Not just the state violence that finally reached people who look like us or live in our neighborhoods. All of it.” -Stacy K
BIG statement coming out of the White House on indigenous land rights
One reason I favor impeaching Noem is because it's a political process for a political problem. No, this will not stop ICE enforcement action but YES it would be an opportunity to educate the public about DHS & perhaps begin to lay a foundation for dismantling it.
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
Mass arrests and kettling of protestors. Tolerating a culture of white supremacy. Leading MPD’s cooperation with federal agents.
Jeffery Carroll is the wrong choice to be DC's next police chief. Tell the Mayor and Council to choose a different permanent chief: FreeDCproject.org/carroll
When we say “billionaires should not exist,” what we mean is:
Instead of billionaires…
Everyone should have healthcare.
Everyone should have housing.
Everyone should have access to healthy food and clean water.
Billionaires are a policy failure.
Democrats flipped 25 state legislative seats this year—more than a 1/5 of all GOP-held seats that were up for election. Republicans flipped *zero* seats.
@taniel.bsky.social’s year-end statehouse analyses are always must-reads:
boltsmag.org/legislative-...
BREAKING: A judge has ruled that Trump’s warrantless immigration arrests in DC are illegal and unconstitutional.
An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀
TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The two bills the House passed last night serve only to criminalize poverty and erode trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve.
The Senate must vote these bills down and reject this blatant attack on DC’s local autonomy.
Congress has no right to drag us backward.
