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Interesting: D.C. Police Chief Jeffery Carroll is not responding to detailed written questions from the D.C. Council about MPD's cooperation with federal agencies on immigration enforcement.

"The council and the public need answers to these questions," says Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto today.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country.
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Americans are struggling to afford housing, food, healthcare and so much more and our government’s answer is to use our taxpayer dollars to go to war — a war that makes everyone in DC and the country less safe.

Today’s attack is reckless, unconstitutional and Congress must act.

The US violates international law, devastates and destabilizes other countries, and then terrorizes the refugees and immigrants we create through our foreign policy.

Trump’s actions in Venezuela are reckless & horrifying, and make everyone— in DC, across the country, and abroad — less safe.

HANDS OFF VENEZUELA! NO BLOOD FOR OIL! Circulate the statement in your unions, community organizations, faith groups, civil rights, youth, and women’s organizations! peoplesworld.org/article/u-s-...

Happy New Year! Good Morning Revolution will return on Friday, January 9. We’ll ring in 2026 with a discussion of public debt, democracy, and revolution. Tune in Friday, January 9, at 10:30 AM. www.youtube.com/@cpusa

The post is real, their intent is loud and clear. Are you going to keep lying to yourself, or are you gonna wake up and do something about it?

Per the D.C. CFO, the impact of the federal government layoffs may finally be hitting the city's revenues. He says in a new revenue estimate that sales/withholding tax collections for October were down, potentially reflecting the layoffs taking effect.

Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.

The Justice Department ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.

How Starbucks Came Undone In the ’90s, it became a once-in-a-generation success. What happened?

ICYMI: historic union busting is bad for business 🫣

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DC does not want the National Guard here. They need to go home!

Trump and his MAGA henchmen are using D.C. not only as a testing ground for national policy, but as a fascist playground to terrorize its 700,000 residents, who are predominantly people of color. read the full article here: www.cpusa.org/article/end-...

Call, write, or visit your U.S. Senators and Representative during the holidays and demand they immediately extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. Click here to send them a letter: actionnetwork.org/letters/deli...

Season's Greetings from all of us at the Communist Party USA.

HAPPENING NOW: 100s of striking Starbucks workers and community allies are gathering in front of Starbucks's headquarters in Seattle.

If the company continues to ignore our calls for fair contracts and resolving unfair labor practices, we'll keep getting louder! #NoContractNoCoffee

NEWS: D.C. Councilmember Brooke Pinto, joined by her 12 colleagues, has sent a letter to Chief Pamela Smith asking for answers on MPD's cooperation with federal agents on law enforcement/immigration enforcement. She says answers would help "ensure accountability & bolster public trust."

While these steps back from the precipice of damaging economic confrontation are welcome news, the fact is that the summit in South Korea represents a truce, not a treaty. Read the full article here: www.cpusa.org/article/war-...

The bill would also prohibit the District from transporting federal agency officers for purposes of civil immigration enforcement, and designate essential service locations such as schools, day cares, health care providers, recreation centers, shelters, and more as “Safe Community Places."

This week I introduced the Safe Community Places and Policing Amendment Act of 2025. This bill ensures the District's policies reflect our values and public safety priorities by prohibiting personnel from engaging in immigration enforcement without a judicial warrant or court order.

Two weeks ago, the Council heard heartbreaking testimonies from residents about the toll that the District's collaboration has taken on local families and neighbors.

We must do more to protect our community.

Update: A proposed ballot initiative would increase D.C.’s minimum wage to $25 by 2029 and get rid of the tipped wage by 2031. It would also require that service charges go to employees. The initiative is being pushed by same groups behind I-82, which was partially repealed.

NEWS: @mayorbowser.dc.gov says that D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith is stepping down on December 31. That’s going to leave a big opening at the top of MPD’s ranks, just as Bowser goes into her last year in office.

MENDELSON: So Chief Wright, are MPD officers cooperating with ICE or with HSI? Yes or no, are they cooperating with ICE or HSI? [00:00:21][2.9] WRIGHT: No. Not at all. And when you say cooperate, what do you mean? MENDELSON: Well, I would think the answer is yes, because if they have a judicial warrant, they may want MPD to help them. So I would think the answer is yes. So let's start again. Are MPD officers cooperating with ICE or HSI? WRIGHT: [00:00:47] I think in if in the instance that you're I think you're bringing up that there's a judicial warrant signed by a judge, criminal judicial warrant, and there's an assist, there's an ask for an assist to to apprehend the individual for that judicial warrant signed by a judge, then I think in that instance we certainly could assist.

This hearing also featured some pointed questions from councilmembers about how much MPD is still cooperating with ICE.

MPD Assistant Chief Andre Wright repeatedly denied it...but also allowed that ICE/HSI will ask for help on warrants and does attend daily MPD roll call.

PARKER: there were reports that the president would deploy five hundred additional National Guards people to the district and that there would be a different level of coordination between MPD and National Guards. Can you give an update on what that might look like? APPIAH: That was a short term, so in the wake of the shooting which happened a week ago, MPD just quite frankly, like we they often do in the wake of a shooting, after Capitol Jewish Museum, increasing presence around synagogues or otherwise, for a short period of time, which I believe that's ended at this point. PARKER: So residents should not expect to see National Guards, armed National Guardsmen with MPD officers. APPIAH: That's correct.

Some National Guard news: Lindsey Appiah, Bowser's top public safety deputy, said in a hearing Thursday MPD is no longer patrolling with the guard, as they did after last week's shooting.

We've heard reports of the NG alongside MPD as recently as yesterday, so we'll see...

Target boycott is showing the power of Black-labor unity Consumer and community-led boycotts have long been a tradition in the fight against racism in the United States. The “Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work” campaigns of the 1930s, which took hold across the...

Target boycott is showing the power of Black-labor unity. The centrality of the struggle against racism is becoming clearer, with Black organized labor and the Black church leading the class struggle.
#news #politics #shopping

Black Friday boycott pickets hit Target stores nationwide In many cities this Black Friday weekend, long lines didn’t form outside retail giants such as Target. Instead, it was pickets, rallies, and holiday caroling organized as part of the “We Ain’t Buying ...

Black Friday boycott pickets hit Target stores nationwide. Across the nation the "We Ain't Buying It" campaign supporters made their dissatisfaction with Target, Amazon, and Home Depot known.
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The youth have something to say and tomorrow we will listen up!

Join us, tomorrow at 3pm after the Public Safety hearing beginning at 9am. Black Swan Academy’s Youth Organizers and Free DC’s Youth Safety Strategy Coalition join in the fight to protect our youth and uplift their voices!

We condemn in the strongest terms the ongoing U.S. military escalation against Venezuela, including the recent wave of deadly airstrikes on civilian boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. Read the full article here: www.cpusa.org/article/stop...