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fastest ward level campaign EVER to public matching max, 20,000 doors knocked, 200+ unique canvassers, 20+ endorsements and counting… all that’s left is a WIN on election day and we need you with us to make it happen!!! www.mobilize.us/aparnafordc/...

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Graphic of Aparna that reads "All Out for Aparna"
Co-Sponsors: AFGE Local 2725
AFGE Local 2978
ATU Local 689
DC4D (DC for Democracy)
JUFJ Campaign Fund
UFCW Local 400
Working Families Party
WTU Local 6
Wonderland Ballroom
March 31st 6-8 pm

Graphic of Aparna that reads "All Out for Aparna" Co-Sponsors: AFGE Local 2725 AFGE Local 2978 ATU Local 689 DC4D (DC for Democracy) JUFJ Campaign Fund UFCW Local 400 Working Families Party WTU Local 6 Wonderland Ballroom March 31st 6-8 pm

We’re going all out for Aparna! 🪩🎊

Join us for a special fundraising event on March 31! Hear directly from Aparna about her vision for Ward 1, ask questions about what matters to you, and help us win a DC for working people!

RSVP here: www.mobilize.us/aparnafordc/...

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telling which candidates turned out folks to speak on transit at today’s @dcbikewalkbuspac.bsky.social town hall (most didn’t…). and @aparnafordc.bsky.social’s people were the ones to speak on the working class power it’ll take to get real mass transit, rather than just cutting deals for crumbs

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Zohran Mamdani and the Rise of the Renter Politicians From city councils to Congress, homeowners have always dominated elected office. But after Mamdani’s victory, a slew of candidates want to follow in his footsteps.

“We didn’t have any sort of say in what happened to us.”

Despite Ward 1 being two thirds renters, that story of instability is too common. We deserve someone who will fight to stop major rent hikes, hold bad landlords accountable, and create more housing.

newrepublic.com/article/2076...

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Opinion: D.C.’s lax utility oversight is costing customers The Public Service Commission needs stronger supervision from the D.C. Council.

Kenyan McDuffie delivered us all higher Pepco bills.

A new @markrodeffer.bsky.social piece in
@51st.news explains the details.

"Kenyan McDuffie could have scrutinized utility rate hikes and defended struggling ratepayers. Instead, he sided with utilities. Now D.C. families are paying the price."

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Photo of Aparna with text that reads Nonprofit Processional Employees Union Endorses Aparna

Photo of Aparna with text that reads Nonprofit Processional Employees Union Endorses Aparna

@nonprofitunion.bsky.social has endorsed our campaign in the Ward 1 race! 🙌🏾 This is our fifteenth endorsement!

As a nonprofit employee myself, I'm honored to stand with NPEU members in the fight for fair wages and benefits, stronger worker protections, and more respect on the job.

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Israeli Official: Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Was Killed, His Body Found
Haaretz • LIVE
الِبَكْرُ فَا عَتَدوا عَلِيْه

Israeli Official: Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Was Killed, His Body Found Haaretz • LIVE الِبَكْرُ فَا عَتَدوا عَلِيْه

Rather than perceive the genocide in Gaza as a warning to Israel & the US about the limits of their power & global forbearance for their crimes, they seem to have interpreted as a sign that they can now get away with anything

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indiscriminately bombing Iran is not a distraction of the Epstein files, it is a validation of their significance as more than a sex pest hunt. this is what elite impunity for morons looks like. a school turned to rubble on a whim.

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The bombing of Iran, the starving of Cuba, the waging of genocide in Palestine. It's time to let go of the idea the role of the US is to enforce a rules-based order, and instead recognize the incredible harm our country unleashes around the world, and take meaningful action to reduce it.

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Diplomacy was entirely fake - again. Reuters reports that the US and Israel were planning to attack Iran for months and the date was decided weeks ago, before even the recent few rounds of talks took place.

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I think this justifies the White House meeting by itself

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UFCW Local 400 Endorses Aparna Raj for Ward 1 DC Council Seat - UFCW Local 400 "We have no doubt she will continue to champion the needs of our members and look forward to her leadership on the DC council.”

“We don’t have to wonder what she stands for – she has proven it over and over. We have no doubt she will continue to champion the needs of our members and look forward to her leadership on the DC council.”

www.ufcw400.org/2026/02/19/u...

2 months ago 5 2 0 0

Woke 2.0 ya está aquí

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My husband and my friend Jules both represented. Commonweal is crushing it this month

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While glad to see Bovino humbled, I really don’t have any higher opinion of Homan—a cruel, cold, corrupt, calculating bureaucrat who’s devoted more of his career to mass deportation than almost anyone. He’s the architect of child separation.

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Bovino’s retirement needs to be a cage. His command environment yielded Renee Good’s death, Alex Pretti’s death & Julio Sosa-Celis’ shooting. Failure to prosecute Bovino & everyone else materially responsible for these atrocities will be understood by ICE, CBP, etc as a green light for the next ones

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A lovely piece ❤️

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signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association

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Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

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Man shot in Minneapolis by federal agents identified as VA nurse: ‘He wanted to help people’ Alex Pretti, 37, worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and had assisted on scientific research

Alex Pretti took care of veterans as an ICU nurse. “He was a super nice, super helpful guy – looked after his patients," said @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social, who worked with Pretti both at the hospital and on scientific research. "I’m just stunned.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

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you should be horrified and your blood should be boiling, but a guy shouting "you'll have to kill me" at these goons to protect his neighbors should bring you the opposite of despair

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a hero and a martyr

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The detention of witnesses and seizure of their phones is an extraordinary violation of every fucking Amendment you can name:

bsky.app/profile/timd...

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One upside of living through the Bush-Cheney years was learning never to believe Republicans when they say they believe in anything. All you need to know is their ideology will pretzel to reinforce hierarchy and power no matter what. It’s actually fine for the government to kill you if you’re armed

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ICE agents killed a man and are disappearing the witnesses.

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Every single one of them is risking their lives against death squads to prove that the fascist vision of America, a country where we hate everyone different than ourselves, is a fucking lie

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They put five more bullets in this guy when he's already lying prone on the ground, five feet away from them, in addition to the previous several bullets they shot him with.

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just realized that march for life is this weekend, i’m cackling 😈

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