“There is a reason why federal agents know exactly where to do detentions and jumpouts. MPD has surveilled Black and Brown people in DC for years, and their collaboration has given feds a demographic and cultural map of our communities.” @dcmigrantmutualaid.org

"For generations immigrants have been invisible constituents of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser previously rallied in our neighborhoods… and today she betrays us, handing our communities to masked agents. Immigrants are Washingtonians," says one speaker.

Anti-trans policies aren't preventing genital mutilation — they're disrupting efforts to stop it The bipartisan movement against female genital mutilation and cutting is being co-opted by anti-trans activists, hindering urgent laws from being passed.

Yet again, anti-trans bigots are actually making it easier for adults to abuse children.

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… but people are homeless because of “mental health.” Mmkay.

While evictions rise, the city is also cutting funding to 1) rent relief 2) street outreach 3) permanent supportive housing & other housing voucher programs & 4) shelters

If we’re talking purely money, it costs more to provide appropriate housing support for someone the longer they are unhoused.

Alternatively:

Maybe it’s not all a distraction from the Epstein files, and it’s all authoritarian bullshit that they would be doing regardless?

400 to each location or in total?

it’s bad no matter what, but we had 2000 in the ~60 square miles of DC.

Putting people in mental health jail is still criminalization.

It’s still trying to disappear people who don’t fit into the capitalist demand that everyone be a “productive worker.”

It’s still violent. And that’s not even getting into the fact we know forced commitment does not work.

Sen. Schiff to NBC: "He's described me as the enemy within. He's described other Democratic elected officials as the enemy within. He is using the Justice Dept. to go after his political enemies, and he's using the Justice Dept. to protect his political friends … This should concern every American."

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There. A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

Homeland Defender (Immigration Services Officer) DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY Citizenship and Immigration Services Field Operations Directorate Protect your homeland and defend your culture. Join USCIS, America's frontline defense against illegal foreign infiltration and fraud. This entry-level role requires no college degree and offers up to $50,000 in signing and retention bonuses. If you're driven and ready to serve with pride, join USCIS and become a vital part of homeland security!

overt nazi language in this DHS job listing (which i’m told is for a low-level but important job in adjudicating immigration applications and requires knowledge of the law)

Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown Workers call the partisan email "a vile slap in the face."

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.

My story:

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

“Keeping your morale up is essential to resistance. Do not surrender in advance. Our adversaries aim to cow us into submission because they know that they cannot subdue us by brute force alone…

Even when things seem grim, keep your hopes up and keep fighting. Defeatism only serves the enemy.”

The Commanders' D.C. Stadium Deal Is An Abomination | Defector The Washington Commanders have a deal with Washington D.C. to build a new 65,000-seat stadium in Ward 7, on the site of the crumbling old bones of RFK Stadium. The D.C. city council passed a funding b...

“The deal exempts the Commanders from property taxes on the stadium and the surrounding development; it exempts the Commanders from sales taxes on personal seat licenses; it gives the Commanders the exclusive right to develop housing and retail around the stadium, at the low price of $1 per year…”

Sources: ICE detainee dies at Nassau County jail; investigation underway The man was being held under a partnership between Nassau County and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), under which the county provides 50 jail cells for immigration detainees and receive...

“The man was being held under a partnership between Nassau County and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), under which the county provides 50 jail cells for immigration detainees and receives federal reimbursement in return.”

Local cops are complicit in immigrant violence.

Sources: ICE detainee dies at Nassau County jail; investigation underway The man was being held under a partnership between Nassau County and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), under which the county provides 50 jail cells for immigration detainees and receive...

A man caged by ICE was found dead in his cell inside a Long Island jail 18 hours after arriving there.

ICE shot and killed a man in the Chicago suburbs last week. In the days since, we've seen a laundry list of escalating violent behavior from the feds: reckless driving, destroyed property, dawn raids, intimidation and threats against reporters, witnesses assaulted and threatened with pepper spray.

We cannot have a society if the American Right does not drastically change and they have no interest in this. It's their last and possibly only chance to enact their project. They're deeply, deeply unpopular and mired in corruption and scandal. All they have is violence.

There should be no forgiveness for Ezra Klein, Gavin Newsom, or anyone else who whitewashed Charlie Kirk's image in the wake of his death. They participated in a cleanup job that is facilitating Kirk's status as a "martyr." They have had a hand in the harm the administration will do in Kirk's name.

If you're still pretending that the Republican Party has the slightest interest in democracy, or the Constitution, you're either a complete imbecile or you're working with them.

Trump threatens to retake control of D.C. police over Bowser’s position on ICE President Donald Trump’s comments, just days after his 30-day police takeover ended, underline his intense interest in D.C. — and Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s political predicament.

The emergency has ended, yet the collaboration continues. Bowser’s appeasement of Trump has done nothing but hurt the District. MPD & ICE are individually deeply harmful, together they compound that harm. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Police “can be in many places more than ICE can. They know how to do traffic checkpoints. They can block streets. What you’re giving them is a demographic and cultural map of the city.”

Do not put your name on a website to register for a rally in this political climate. What the fuck's wrong with y'all. Are there any people of color that work at this org who might knock some sense into your peach colored heads.

WATCH: MPD collaborates with ICE D.C. used to limit police collaboration with immigration enforcement. This video investigation shows how much that's changed.

D.C. used to limit police collaboration with immigration enforcement. This video investigation from @bellingcat.com and @evidentmedia.org shows how much that's changed. 51st.news/dc-police-wo...

the party of free speech is threatening to call my boss over this tweet gosh i hope i don’t get fired Quote Molly White @molly0xFFF · Sep 13 > the shooter is trans > ok the bullets were trans > ok the roommate is trans

this joke broke containment and now i have a bunch of right-wingers gleefully informing me they've already called my boss and celebrating my firing

weirdly enough i haven’t gotten a single phone call!

Opinion: The RENTAL Act Guts Tenant Protections in D.C. Tenant rights are not expendable. The D.C. Council should protect TOPA and reject the RENTAL Act.

"But in the eyes of Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. Council, TOPA is a burden on developers and delays the timeline of transactions. In other words, tenant rights are always expendable in the name of landlord profits."
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People are homeless because they can’t afford rent.

Because capitalism wrings out every piece of productivity from people while just barely maintaining their survival so they can continue to work.

Because suffering on the streets is a threat to make you go clock in.

It’s not a personal failure.

National Guard is here for propaganda — they have guns so be afraid but also look they’re picking up trash!

Federal agents are targeting major intersections for working class people that commute from further reaches of the city or right outside it. Guess the demographic makeup of those communities!

A street map of Washington DC showing a cluster of red circles around the national mall, Capitol, and White House where National Guard are stationed or patrolling

A map of Washington DC with red dots representing where road checkpoints have been set up in the city — they are a scattered primarily in the Eastern part of the city including right on the border with Maryland. All of these dots but one are outside of the central area the national guard has been in, shown in the first map.

Made some maps to show the different operations &, in our opinion, goals of National Guard versus fed agents.

Map 1 shows National Guard stations predominantly clustered around the Mall & other tourist spots.

Map 2 shows where checkpoints have been set up by federal agents, at the direction of MPD