My Ward 1 neighbors! The primary is fast approaching, and @ward1democrats.org has endorsed Councilmember Robert White as Delegate. It's time to back up that endorsement with action! Follow his campaign at
@robertwhite-dc.bsky.social
and sign up to canvass!
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People of #FreeDC! The primary is fast approaching, and we have the opportunity to elect Councilmember Robert White as Delegate. It won't happen without our 💪people power💪. Please follow his campaign at @robertwhite-dc.bsky.social and sign up to canvass!
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Thank you @delauro.house.gov for shouting out @freedcproject.bsky.social at today's House Appropriations markup! We appreciate your allyship as House Republicans again try to control DC's use of our own funds
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📢 As I shared yesterday, I'm hosting a youth-centered roundtable on alternatives to teen takeovers. We've changed the date/time to better accommodate youth and ensure this conversation happens before the Council's next curfew vote. Sign up will be available soon; mark your calendar!
With the result in Virginia, here's what we know about how mid-decade redistricting has shifted the landscape.
Across the 7 states with new maps:
—11 districts have shifted toward Democrats;
—9 districts have shifted toward the GOP.
Sic Semper Tyrannis, motherf*ckers
gerrymandering is woke now, actually she changed her name to gina. it's ginamandering now.
We’re at DC Council this afternoon as Councilmembers debate whether to expose DC children to increased federal and police enforcement through “youth curfew zones” 🧵
More to come; but the 15th Street Bike Lanes will stay for now!! Here's the conclusion of the 61 page decision ... THANK YOU for your support! Wanted you to hear it from us first ... CONCLUSION The Court finds the decision to proceed with the 15th Street Cycle Track Removal to be arbitrary and capricious because the record does not reflect that the defendants examined the relevant data and articulated a rational connection between the facts found and the choice made. It further finds that the defendants’ invocation of the highway modernization categorical exclusion, and their conclusion that the Removal Project would not have a significant impact on public health and safety, to be arbitrary and capricious as well. Therefore, the decision to proceed with the Removal Project as described in the March 31, 2026 NPS Decision Memorandum and the March 31, 2026 NPS and FHWA Categorial Exclusion documents, as well as in the February 23 NPS and February 27 FHWA Categorical Exclusion documents to the extent they were not rescinded or nullified but only elaborated upon on March 31, is hereby VACATED and REMANDED to the National Park Service and the Federal Highway Administration. This means, as counsel for the defendants acknowledged on the record at the hearing, that the decision is null and void, and the Removal Project may not and will not proceed on April 23, 2026. Given the ruling in plaintiff’s favor on the merits, plaintiff’s request for interim relief is denied as MOOT.
WABA WON
The DC Council is voting on a permanent version of the juvenile curfew today, and I'm voting against it. Let me tell you why. 🧵
I have made Locking Kids Up my #1 priority for the rest of my term and I’ll be damned if the council is going to stop me
NEW: Rep.-elect Analilia Mejia (D-NJ) will be sworn in as U.S. House member within the hour.
Further narrowing GOP majority
Another woman OUT of the Trump cabinet.
Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.
There's just gotta be a line somewhere.
Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
– Frederick Douglass
TRACKER UPDATE: ICE planned to pay Washington Co., MD $2/day per bed instead of property taxes. We're calculating what that means network-wide and have asked ICE to confirm if it's a national rate.
Expect a new data point on the dashboard tomorrow.
tracker.projectsaltbox.com
Be sure to check out Mayor Bowser's other Kid Zones as well.
Research shows curfews don't work. Anyone who says otherwise is ignoring the data and spinning the illusion of safety for other people who also ignore the data.
💔 8 children ranging in age from 1-14 years old - including some of his descendants - were killed & 2 others were wounded in a mass shooting in 3 different locations in Louisiana this morning.
Guns are the #1 killer of children/teens in the U.S.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
@newtownaction.org
Baltimore has had success in lowering crime by providing youth opportunities instead of relying on punitive measures. Why aren’t DC leaders interested in this? We should be learning from Baltimore and trying new approaches.
ASK A DC CANDIDATE: A MAYORAL FORUM MONDAY, APRIL 20 6:30 – 8:30 P.M. MLK LIBRARY AUDITORIUM SOLD OUT — LIVESTREAM TIX AVAILABLE PRESENTED BY: THE 51ST, THE WASHINGTON INFORMER, SPOTLIGHT DC, AND THE DC PUBLIC LIBRARY
Our mayoral forum on Monday with @washingtoninformer.com + @spotlightdc.bsky.social is SOLD OUT — but thanks to @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social, there will be a livestream!
RSVP for free livestream access here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ask-a-dc-c...
In other news, @eleanornorton.bsky.social has posted the list of twenty Fiscal Year 2027 Community Project Funding (CPF) requests she submitted to the House Appropriations Committee last month, for District government, DC Water, Corps of Engineers, and UDC projects: norton.house.gov/community-pr...
In June, Washington, DC will use ranked choice voting for the first time. Voter responses to education efforts from @rankthedistrict.bsky.social & others have been powerful.
@lisadtrice.bsky.social tells WUSA9 what’s exciting Washingtonians about RCV, and how it will improve democracy in the city ⬇️
"Magyar wasn't engaging in a policy debate... His framing was Viktor Orbán and Fidesz are a criminal organization and we need to dismantle this... he connected the impact of the criminal organization to these rural Hungarians' experience."
@ambpressman.bsky.social on how Magyar beat Orbán.
Results from our latest survey of local election officials:
☑️52% are concerned about the safety of their colleagues.
☑️32% report experiencing threats, harassment, or abuse because of their job.
Once again House Republicans are using the budget process to bully DC. I love standing up to bullies #FreeDC
Drawing of first Emancipation Day celebration in DC in 1866.
First page of the DC Compensated Emancipation Act signed into law by President Lincoln.
"For the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia."
164 years ago today, President Lincoln signed the DC Compensated Emancipation Act.
It abolished slavery in DC, freed 3,100 enslaved DC residents, and marked the "first blow against the edifice of slavery."
Large red text reads “DON’T RANK PINTO” over an image of DC Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto, who is running for Delegate. Underneath reads “Leave Brooke Pinto off your ballot - June 16”
Completely missing from all the DC teen takeover discourse is the persistent segregation and enormous racial wealth gap that could be addressed by shifting resources EOTR instead of criminalizing children
Hundreds of protestors from a coalition of organizations were arrested while staging a sit in outside of Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand’s office during an anti war demonstration demanding an end to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel.
