LOL. The corrupt billionaire who thought your average retirees might own "5, 10, or 12 homes" is now saying it is "elite" to care or understand that burning fossil fuels is causing #ClimateChaos that puts our food, water and clean air supply at risk.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/b...
It's good! For people who can't take that risk, we can still do something. We can at least register our discontent by not making this easy for them.
We're supposed to pay taxes for this terror next week? DO NOT MAKE THIS EASY. If you get a refund, change your withholdings NOW. Don't overpay fascists next year. If you owe money, don't e-pay. Pay $1 with 100 1 cent checks. Pay in person. Make them regret firing IRS workers. #SlowTaxes
What a day. I'm so angry and ashamed of this country. I'm also resolved. It is our responsibility to fix this. The work remains the same: organize by meeting people where they are, respond to every attack & make it backfire, and get ready for mass collective noncooperation. Sign up: maydaydc.org
Pepco bills are sky high in DC. It's a crisis. PSC needs to control rates AND we need to place blame where it belongs: Bezos/Amazon is not paying the full cost of their data centers in VA. To lower bills we need solar/wind and no billionaire data centers in VA, MD, DE, NJ, PA (PJM states)
HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of people in DC are marching to Fort McNair where Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi, and other leaders of this regime are living to make it clear we want to #EndTheDCoccupation and #FireStephenMiller. #NoKings #NoKingsDC
I’m so sorry Karen. It’s just the worst.
Friday news dump alert! For just $1.65 million per day National Guard from 15 states fight crime in DC by hiking in Rock Creek Park! And next week the House votes to spend $2.4BILLION to keep them here until the 2028 election so they can help prevent a transfer of power. “Safe and beautiful!”
Ok HR 5525 is up. Rep. Perry from PA is introducing the bill. Rumor has it he holds a personal grudge against DC's traffic laws. Maybe he should consider following our laws instead of repealing them.
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Bezos offered a blunt response when Washington Post opinion editor, David Shipley, noted in fall 2024 that changing the editorial ideology could turn off some subscribers. “I don’t care,” Bezos said. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...
This might be the first time that D.C.’s CFO has been directly protested. Someone sent me a photo of a @freedcproject.bsky.social flyer posted outside his office in the Wilson Building today.
Operation Epstein Fury is so obvious. Not sure they thought this through.
Thank you to @chmnmendelson.bsky.social for being clear that the law enacting DC's Child Tax Credit that the Senate is CURRENTLY voting to "disapprove" of is ALREADY law! The Senate is too late. @51st.news @washingtoninformer.com @postguild.bsky.social
The bill in the Senate this week that will attempt to interfere in DC's tax code is chaotic, bad, and should get voted down — but don't take our word for it.
Here's a running thread of the people and organizations who want Senators to VOTE NO on S.J. Res102: 🧵
Photos of Senator Lisa Murkowski and Senator Susan Collins sitting and speaking at the dais. Text reads: "S.J.Rs 102 is Anti-family, pro-Trump, and fiscally irresponsible. Attacking DC's local budget would hurt DC families while advancing Trump's agenda. Tell Senators this week to VOTE NO on S.J.Res 102. FreeDCproject.org/money"
Tomorrow the Senate is expected to vote on a bill aimed at interfering in DC's local tax code.
This move would thrust DC into financial chaos, hurting families and helping an administration that we know thrives on confusion and fear.
Tell key Senators today to VOTE NO: FreeDCproject.org/money
Okay, there are still great reporters at the #BezosIsALackey Post, writing important pieces about how the Senate is voting early NEXT WEEK to overturn DC's tax law AFTER people have already started filing, to give people who earn >$1.3M a break. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
The Washington Post slashes its newsroom staff.
The #BezosIsALackey Post has an opinion, lol
Good news and great reporting from @marisakabas.bsky.social! Now we just need Bezos to leave too! Get him to sell it to the @51st.news for $51 dollars @bezosearthfund.org. The passive voice line about millions of customers is hilarious, given their current circulation: www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...
Journalists have critical skills we need! BUT don't blame "people" and "consumers" for this loss. Bezos killed the Post by: deciding not to pay its workers, offending readers by running his personal opinions, & hiring management that hates reporters. "Consumers" aren't the problem; billionaires are.
And to be clear, paying these reporters is so affordable to Bezos that it's like buying a pack of gum for the rest of us. He's just not going to notice that amount of money, and yet he chooses cruelty and chaos over decency.
Poster on blue bus seat that celebrates Rosa Parks Day
In our 6th month of military occupation and federal surge forces, DC is celebrating #TransitEquityDay and the economic noncompliance that beat back the racial authoritarianism of Jim Crow. S/o to Claudette Colvin for paving the way! #FreeDC #BoycottTarget #CongressStopOverturningDCLaws
Hoodie with a DC MPD graphic surrounded by a ring of acronyms for federal agencies: HSI, IRS, DEA, DHS, USSS, FBI, USCP, USMS, MTPD, CBP, ATF, and USPP.
But there’s no coordination with immigration enforcement, right @mayorbowser.dc.gov ? @cmbrookepinto.bsky.social ?
Book cover for Hide and Sikh: Letters from a Life in Brown Skin by Sunny Dhillon (Wolsak & Wynn): Memoir. In 2018, Sunny Dhillon resigned as a journalist with the Globe and Mail. His blog post announcing his departure went unexpectedly viral. In this sharply funny memoir, shaped as a series of letters to his daughter, Dhillon shares his journey so that his daughter will not have to struggle through the lessons he took too long to learn, so that she will know who she is and be proud. https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/hide-and-sikh
Book cover for The Revolution Will Not Be Rated G by Keya Chatterjee (Green Writers Press): Romance featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): " If you longingly look back to the 2010s dystopian craze, you’ll be glad to know it’s back. For those who were teenagers during this time and are looking for something more adult with an emphasis on romance, this is the perfect read. A queer Romeo-and-Juliet tale set in 2042 Upland and Lowland US, where segregation is back, and hurricane Eamon is set to destroy all with the help of the richest."
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Hide and Sikh & The Revolution Will Not Be Rated G. See alt-text.
@thesunnydhillon.com @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @keyachatterjee.bsky.social @greenwriterspress.bsky.social #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #booktok #booklovers #100smallpress
The men who did this were white nationalists- as evidenced by the decision to let racist white South Africans have refugee status and Black Africans die. This was maliciousness not carelessness and those men are not from DC.
Today I joined patriots at the Kennedy Center to make clear that Trump’s desecration of the Center will not stand. It’s not a matter of whether, but of when, his name will come down. We will not allow him to despoil what belongs to the American people.
Trump wants DC's crime numbers to be high so he can seize power here and look legitimate while he does it.
If DC's numbers aren't what he wants, he's willing to go back and erase them.
We condemn this attempt to distort DC's objective police data. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Can't imagine how hard this hits for the NG :( This is a horrible tragedy. They shouldn't have been in DC as props on Thanksgiving. For folks from WV, here is a link where you can demand all the WV troops come home before the next holiday: freedcproject.org/news/for-all...
S/O to Croix Bethune in this clip from @nbcwashington.com
"We don't want to play a 3 hours soccer game. That was insane."
"We're just trying to be the light of the city. I know y'all hear the chants "Free DC" that are going on and the signs that are there."
www.nbcwashington.com/video/news/s...
