By the way, this is what a “ramped up” campaign looks like in case anyone is taking notes. Canvasses all across the city, phone banks, dance party fundraiser, debates… a campaign built to respect and engage the voters it’s asking to serve.
VO, Goodweather, and Jack Evans all are saying kids in DC's public and charter schools need more testing and assessments, even in PK.
Evans also says we wouldn't be in this current budget situation if he was still on Council.
CNN reporting that the strikes on Iran tonight are joint US and Israeli strikes.
Which means Donald Trump should be impeached for a third time.
What he has done tonight is illegal under the US constitution and the UN charter.
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
Why are 13 % of all ICE agents in a city with such a small population?
1: target blue city where people & govt will resist
2: purposely foment mass civil unrest through brutality against population
3: Claim those resisting brutality are insurrections
4: Invoke Insurrection act
5: Cancel elections
Get me a mayor whose achievements are making DC more equitable, affordable, inclusive, safe, & just. A mayor who can say all public schools improved. A mayor who can demonstrate historic environmental protections & investments. Get me a mayor who we end up calling Governor. #DCStatehood
Couldn’t agree more that serious times demand a serious leader. Having a mayor that doesn’t understand the gravity of throwing her own people under the bus to submit to a fascist regime - and then pretend she isn’t- is deeply alarming. Time for new leadership.
Democrats in Congress: Hold the line.
Do not back these bills that jeopardize DC’s right to govern itself.
DC is a testing ground for tactics that MAGA will try across the country.
Vote NO, and focus on helping struggling families afford health care.
I'm not covering the half of it. The only way's in which she's slightly progressive is like "I favor gay marriage" kind of progressive. In other words- she's much closer to Joe Manchin or Michael Bloomberg- conservative Dem/ liberal Republican. NOT close to "moderate progressive".
❗️Consistently been opposed by major DC unions except police
❗️Every advocate in the city- even moderate ones- know she's approached the job from an "in crowd" and "out crowd" perspective and very vindictive to anyone who crosses her even once
❗️CRAZY cold and hostile to press
❗️Has opposed almost EVERY SINGLE PROGRESSIVE ballot initiative from tipped minimum wage to ranked choice voting.
❗️Sides with Trump and allowed federal forces to terrorize our neighbors, kidnap residents.
❗️On housing policy while she's built more affordable housing she has been hostile to Emergency Rental Assistant programs, deeply corrupt administration of housing, consistently sided with landlords and slumlords over tenants
❗️Consistently in favor of more policing and policies that criminalize youth- curfews, SRO expansions etc...
❗️Has fought against attempts to build more stable and equitable school funding, ignored teacher turnover, cut child care pay equity program and undermined its funding
❗️Has opposed every progressive tax policy proposal, always argues we don't need to raise more revenue and stacked the tax revision commission with wealthy elites who oppose progressive taxation.
❗️Has described herself as in the mold of Bloomberg/ Liberal Republican/ 3rd way Dem
❗️She fundamentally believes in trickle down economics- her whole "growth agenda" is to put more money into the hands of the wealth, businesses and revitalize neighborhoods hoping it resolves crime, helps poor. This is conservative economics, not "moderate progressive"
❗️Bowser fought hard against PFL- almost every Dem nationally supports this- it's a moderate
❗️Every year she slashes safety net programs vast maj. of even moderate Dems nationwide support in her budget, council tries to restore them! (child tax credit, health alliance, etc..)
On the first episode of the new @cuneytdil.bsky.social & @trsdc.bsky.social podcast (which is great)- Sherwood describes @mayorbowser.dc.gov as a "moderate progressive". I think the record shows she's a conservative Dem/ liberal Republican at best (in mold of Manchin/ Bloomberg). Evidence ⬇️
On offense the problem was actually trying TOO hard to get it to AJ. Just do what comes naturally. Need better design but also can't design to his social media posts and ego.
This shows what we've know: @mayorbowser.dc.gov cooperating w/a fascist regime yielding NOTHING. Sipping cocktails, taking directions, smiling w/ white supremacists...MPD still cooperating with ICE. Ntl Guard STILL in DC. Home rule can't be repealed w/o 60 Senators. Time for @janeese4dc.bsky.social!
“When the federal safety net falters, locally rooted community schools are the resilience strategy that keeps children fed, families calm, and students in school where they belong.” Read Ward 7’s @dcsboe.bsky.social rep Eboni-Rose Thompson’s Op-Ed:
Reminder: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ran on reforming mayoral control of schools and sharing power with the community. Time for DC to follow their lead. @empowereddc.bsky.social has a plan.
Can we stop calling rogue fascist agents who tear gas children “immigration enforcement” or “law enforcement”. That’s not what they’re doing and we all know it.
Federal armed agents should not be enforcing DC's juvenile curfew. That's why I voted against the extension of a juvenile curfew.
I asked if we can be sure that there would be no federal involvement in enforcing the curfew. The answer was No.
We need to protect our young people.
DC is ready for it too :) ✊🏼❤️🗳️
Looking to get more involved in D.C.? A few ideas:
• Practice your organizing skills with D.C.'s @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social >> Sunday 2 - 3:45 p.m.
• Fold zines with @freedcproject.bsky.social >> Sunday 4 - 6 p.m..
• Discuss mental health @thedccenter.bsky.social >> Wednesday 7 - 8:30 p.m.
At last weeks hearing on the curfew, many orgs who work every day to provided safer joyful alter gauges for youth say the city has cut their funding in recent years. Young people testified the curfews make them less safe. We’re not listening and we’re not acting to ACTUALLY solve the problem.
Also- for many young people home is not safe nor are their neighborhoods. When we say ALL youth cannot be in relatively safer area for them to hang out like u street or navy yard- we’re subjecting many of them to more violence.
People want to say- “but we can do both”- address root cause and use curfews as an immediate answer. But we’re not. Last years DC budget cut child tax credit, cut Medicaid. Universal Out of School time programming bill couldn’t even get a markup while curfews get emergency legislation within days!
FUN PLACES ARE ONLY FOR ADULTS, says @mayorbowser.dc.gov says! They admit this is a very small amount of youth but bc of it they are banning ALL youth. Imagine if treated adults this way. Imagine if when a fight broke out at an NFL game we banned all adults from NFL games for a while.
