Sauleh Siddiqui

“harassing teenagers waiting for the school bus.” - PoPville "Dear PoPville, This morning at 8:20, 10 uniformed national guard troops and 3 uniformed MPD spent 25 minutes harassing teenagers waiting for the school bus. This is on 20th and O Street, NW Half the ...

This is where Ellington and MacArthur students transfer to buses to get to their schools. The accountability is firmly with @mayorbowser.dc.gov and @dcpublicschools.bsky.social Lewis Ferebee for abandoning kids. Our school choice transit system makes kids vulnerable. www.popville.com/2025/10/hara...

Bike lanes are anti-ice! Also love the other biker that made room.

tapping the "please support billionaire-free, independent, and/or worker-run local newsrooms" special DC edition:

@51st.news
@washingtoninformer.com
@wcp.bsky.social
@streetsensedc.bsky.social

A note on this: a source with knowledge just told me former Ward 4 CM/lobbyist/Bowser pal Brandon Todd is throwing his annual summer party on Martha’s Vineyard tonight. Not saying I’ve heard the mayor is there (she says she’s picking up her daughter from camp) just observing the coincidence…

The Washington Post reports per two sources familiar that Mayor Bowser’s “strategy…is to try to outlast the White House’s interest in the city and position the mayor as central to Trump’s wins… That approach involved agreeing to cooperate with ICE”

Bowser’s strategy is to collaborate and throw DC to the fucking wolves?!? No hell is hot enough!

I hate this so much for a ton of reasons but especially because of *course* physical & life sciences are political. Maybe moreso, because they can be very expensive. Why do you study this instead of that? Who decides what’s fundable? It’s a resource allocation, and that’s political.

Unconscionable bullshit from the mayor.

@mayorbowser.bsky.social showed a hell of a lot more fire and urgency about getting a stadium deal than about the federal government taking over and occupying our city

biden, mayor bowser, and plenty of centrist pundits share a big chunk of the blame for the DC mess. the nonsense they spread about the DC criminal reform bill a couple of years ago paved the way for what trump is now doing.

Strongly dislike the DC Council statement on all this. I wish we had stronger moral leadership.

it is not some accident that the people suing charlottesville over its efforts to build more housing are retired university professors and their friends

If it is OK for publicly-funded scientists to be political activists in their capacities as publicly-funded scientists, then is it also ok to defund those scientists for political reasons?

We should engage in political activism as well-informed human beings, and not in our professional capacities.

Historical model biases in monthly high temperature anomalies indicate under-estimation of future temperature extremes - Communications Earth & Environment Models tend to underestimate mean monthly maximum temperature anomalies by 2-3% and extreme anomalies by 11-12% over the period 1980 and 2023, which could lead to temperatures 3 °C to 5 °C higher than...

Climate models have underestimated the departure of high temperature extremes from monthly means.

If we assume these model biases persist in future projections, then the climate models are also likely underestimating the magnitude of future high temperature extremes.

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

we are apartment sitting for some close friends in brooklyn and i have to say that as a person who does not live here the density of public services and amenities is incredible. (and, of course, literal density is what makes it possible!)

ICYMI: DC’s weekend floods were part of a bigger pattern. AU’s Stephen MacAvoy explains how a wavy jet stream, warmer air, and more humidity are fueling more extreme weather across the U.S. Read the interview: bit.ly/44GWodR

DC Deserves Better than a Stadium Surrounded by Parking Garages

8,000 spots in towering parking garages? That’s a fumble. A brand new Metro Station? Touchdown!

Hear more from CM Allen: youtu.be/6WQcD8Uqog0
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Portland fires contractor, hires new firm to study historic districts The city says that PlaceEconomics' draft report was missing information, but the company counters that the city was difficult to work with and was unhappy that its report was not more critical of hist...

Same firm was fired from an impact study of historic districts, with an oversight member commenting their report "reads almost as a defense of a historic district rather than a rigorous intellectual examination of their impacts." www.pressherald.com?p=6923924&uu...

"Would you tell Jack Evans to fundraise for a review of the District’s ethics laws, and then conduct that review?" But that's exactly what DC OP is doing by asking the DC preservation league to assess historic districts. If you are in one of the ANCs listed, please write to oppose this.

Amazing! I'm so happy the DC Council is moving forward in implementing I-83.

Councilmember Brianne K Nadeau speaks into a microphone on the dais in the Council chamber of the John A Wilson Building

COMING SOON: Ranked Choice Voting, as demanded by voters in I-83! @cmchenderson.bsky.social and I introduced a budget amendment this a.m. which passed 8-4. Let’s give voters more agency and let’s honor their Nov 2024 vote for this.

Congratulations to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social‬ who is giving New Yorkers and all of us hope tonight. His campaign was about lowering the cost of living for working class New Yorkers and I am not surprised that it resonated so deeply with voters! 🙌🏾❤️🌹

My new piece looks at proposed climate policy changes under the second Trump administration so far. Here's the tl;dr version.

This is part of a @cepr.org eBook out today edited by Gary Gensler,
@simonhrjohnson.bsky.social, @upanizza.bsky.social, and @wederdim.bsky.social.

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.

Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

Judge Session: I see no evidence of risk or danger of any kind. The court orders ICE to release Rümeysa Öztürk from custody IMMEDIATELY. She is free to return to her home in Massachusetts. Also free to travel within Mass and VT. I'm not going to restrict her travel, because I see no danger of flight

Unlike other people who pretend to know what they’re talking about on this, I actually represent the country’s biggest military community. Kicking out trans service members is the last thing we need when trans people are TWICE as likely as cis people to join the military.

This is by far the best path I've read that universities should follow.

Today, we celebrate and uplift our transgender family, friends, and neighbors, and stand strong in our commitment to making our city a home for everyone. 🏳️‍⚧️

#TransDayofVisibility

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?

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A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.

Do not let anyone play games with you.