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elephant like memory for every national Dem who betrays DC <333

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 11h
"Several law enforcement agents were still at the scene, including one who was wearing a reflective vest of the kind worn by construction workers and wielding an assault-style weapon with one hand..."
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ICE Agent Shoots Man in New York City (Gift Article)
The person who was shot had been taken to a nearby hospital and was conscious and receiving medical attention, according to the New York Police Department, which said it was not involved in the shooti...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.
thecut.com
The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence
The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.
motherjones.com
The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Zara Norman @zaraleinorman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The D.C. Council will vote this fall on whether to allow driverless cars to operate in the city. But DDOT has exempted AV companies from public records law, meaning all crash data from its testing program is withheld. My latest for @washsunmetro.bsky.social: www.washingtonsun.com/metro/waymo-...
washingtonsun.com
Waymo Touts Its Crash Safety Data, But D.C. Won’t Release the Numbers
Autonomous vehicle companies — which could be permitted to operate in the District this fall — enjoy a blanket exemption from public records law.
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agnesbrown.bsky.social @agnesbrown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
well if you read the article, you'd know he is Epsicopalian and married
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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In suburban Maryland, where many Salvadorans fear the Trump Administration is about to target them for deportation, an Episcopal priest has pledged to become temporary guardian to 31 kids if their parents are arrested by ICE. “I feel a lot of responsibility, and a very heavy weight."
time.com
This Priest Pledges to Care For 31 Kids If ICE Detains Their Parents
A Maryland priest has agreed to become the standby guardian for 31 children whose immigrant parents fear arrest and deportation.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In Maryland, just fifty miles from DC, a sheriff has targeted and attacked local immigrants for over twenty years. The harm to those communities is breathtaking. a NEW must-read, just weeks from his latest reelection race... (in a county that Harris won over Trump).
boltsmag.org
“We're Afraid on a Daily Basis”: How a Maryland Sheriff Targeted Immigrants Long Before ICE Raids Spiked - Bolts
Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impo...
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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...
nicolakelly.substack.com
The RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroes
I have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like.
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agnesbrown.bsky.social @agnesbrown.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
you should at least note that the evidence says they have not successfully helped fight crime
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Federal agents and the National Guard – assisted by a U.S. Park Police helicopter – flooded into Park View this morning, scaring parents of kids at Bruce-Monroe Elementary School. Federal officials say it's to help fight crime; critics say it's overkill: www.washingtonsun.com/metro/dc-fed...
washingtonsun.com
Neighbors Upset Over Federal Agents’ Presence at D.C. School
Agents and National Guard troops handed out fliers outside a Northwest elementary school, as a helicopter hovered overhead.
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agnesbrown.bsky.social @agnesbrown.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@dc.baddrivers.lol MD 4ET1855
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I just got a frantic call from Allison Statham. She's the mother of Haley Oliveaux, the girl Chris Duncan was wrongly convicted of killing. She says the police are now at her door and demanding a DNA sample. They're threatening to arrest her.
radleybalko.substack.com
The framing of Chris Duncan: Part Two
“God doesn’t let innocent babies die for no reason. Somebody has to be punished.”
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agnesbrown.bsky.social @agnesbrown.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
it would be much less frustrating to report things if the tickets weren't closed BEFORE the piles were removed and without any expected deadline for the trees to be removed. @ddotdc.bsky.social
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My fellow Americans, this is being done in our name. wapo.st/4h1hNmT
wapo.st
Alligator Alcatraz detainees were put in small cages, DHS watchdog report finds
The Florida facility’s staff referred to the enclosures as “calming areas.” Investigators said their use violated federal standards and did not align with “standards for humane treatment.”
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CNN @cnn.com · 08/09/2026
A member of the Georgia National Guard assigned to the task force patrolling Washington, DC, is facing assault and gun charges after he was accused of pulling his firearm on a fellow soldier during an argument last month.
cnn.com
National Guard member deployed to DC accused of pulling gun on fellow soldier in dispute over hair regulations | CNN Politics
A member of the Georgia National Guard assigned to the task force patrolling Washington, DC, is facing assault and gun charges after he was accused of pulling his firearm on a fellow soldier during an...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 04/09/2026
Flock hosted a webinar on how to use its license plate–tracking cameras. trib.al/npGrFGT
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Leaked Video Shows Flock Taught Cops How to Hunt No Kings Protesters
Flock hosted a webinar on how to use its license plate–tracking cameras.
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agnesbrown.bsky.social @agnesbrown.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I guess I don't think eerie means scary. and for example, walking by the Heritage Building with the Trump Poster and the national guard wandering to or from Union Station is a deeply surreal (negative) experience. I agree after the initial jump scare, fear is not the primary emotion they inspire.
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agnesbrown.bsky.social @agnesbrown.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I think Cleveland Park also has a different vibe than downtown/Capitol Hill wrt to both guardsmen and random sightings of DHS goons. sometimes they're on Conn Ave, or in the Metro, but they're not walking sidestreets up here.
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agnesbrown.bsky.social @agnesbrown.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
no e-bikes should be on the sidewalk unless ttey are going to park. nothing that goes 20 miles per hour needs to share tight space with people averaging 3 mph.
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agnesbrown.bsky.social @agnesbrown.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
my doctor didn't do a pap smear on me either last time (she said I wasn't due, and it had been a year and a bit) and she immediately gave me an HPV vaccine when I said I didn't remember getting my third shot in my 20s.
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agnesbrown.bsky.social @agnesbrown.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
not just who's single, but which *women* are single
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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New from me: LAPD released video from an in-custody death that occurred in July. Jose Carlos Hoyos-Munoz appeared to be in crisis as 6 to 9 officers beat him three separate times. One officer is seen putting his knee into the back and neck of Munoz. He died 20 min later. lataco.com/lapd-beat-ha...
lataco.com
Police Video Shows LAPD Beat Handcuffed Man in Van Nuys Jail Before His Death ~ L.A. TACO
LAPD officers forcefully restrained a man, kneed him, and struck him with their elbows. He was later found dead in his cell.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/08/2026
Palestinian woman and NBC News team reportedly attacked in West Bank
theguardian.com
Palestinian woman and NBC News team reportedly attacked in West Bank
Matt Bradley and crew assaulted while interviewing woman who said settlers had driven family out of home A Palestinian woman and an NBC News team are reported to have been attacked and injured by masked Israeli settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Saturday, amid worsening confrontations in the area. Benjamin Netanyahu said he condemned the violence committed “by a handful of rioters”. Continue reading...
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
For more than a year, the National Park Service has been quietly working to fulfill an unprecedented directive from Trump officials: Parcel off a corner of Yosemite National Park to give to a private developer. www.notus.org/agencies/tru...
notus.org
Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer
The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Flock's powerful license plate readers are getting plenty of attention, good and bad, these days. D.C. has had 67 of the cameras since early last year, but there's not much transparency around how they are being used. In @notus.com: www.notus.org/metro/dc-flo...
notus.org
D.C. Won't Say How It's Using Its Flock Cameras
MPD has the powerful license-plate readers at its disposal, but hasn’t disclosed who has used the data — and for what purpose.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 28/08/2026
Tennessee National Guard members assigned to a federal anti-crime task force in Memphis fatally shot an armed 20-year-old man in the back, according to an autopsy report obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, contradicting police accounts that said the man was facing the troops when they fired.
bit.ly
Autopsy shows Tennessee National Guard fatally shot 20-year-old armed man in the back
An autopsy shows that an armed man killed by the Tennessee National Guard was shot in the back. The report that Tyrin Johnson’s family shared with The Associated Press on Thursday contradicts accounts by law enforcement.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: A sailor who jumped from the USS Abraham Lincoln this month in what his wife describes as a suicide attempt is now facing disciplinary action from the Navy, according to his wife and charging documents reviewed by MS NOW.
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Navy sailor who jumped off USS Lincoln faces disciplinary charges
The sailor on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier who jumped overboard in an attempt to die by suicide has been charged with violations and could have his pay docked.
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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Guardian analyzed yesterday's Deportation Data Project release and found that this summer is a record high for arrests and removals: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Despite the change in DHS leadership, the mass deportation campaign is still going on
theguardian.com
New data shows record number of arrests and deportations of immigrants in the US
Trump administration has moved away from high-profile, militarized raids as its deportation spree has ramped up
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Algorithms killed the spectrum of emotional valences. Everything now is set to 10. Bring back the eyeroll, the exasperated sigh, the hand wave, the shoulder shrug. Some stuff is just mildly annoying or blandly dumb. You don’t need to blow every emotional outburst on the mundane.
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agnesbrown.bsky.social @agnesbrown.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
definitely get a rabies shot, you really might not notice a bite.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 23/08/2026
there are now almost 600 signatories to the pro-cofnas letter. of the first 100 i examined, _two_ spoke out against campus crackdowns on pro-palestinian speech. 75 said nothing and 23 spoke out _in support of the crackdowns_!
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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
In case anyone missed this at the time
aftonbladet.se
Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
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Greater Greater Washington @ggwash.org · 13/08/2026
DDOT staff have been doing top-tier research for a decade. They’ve found that when DC adds bus and bike lanes, crashes go down by a lot, @peterodrigue.bsky.social and @sp-ainsworth.bsky.social report.
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When DC adds bus and bike lanes, crashes go down by a lot
View this post on ggwash.org
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
NEW: ICE attorneys have been detailed to work as prosecutors in DC Superior Court.
turtlediaries.net
"Sacrificial Lambs": The ICE Attorneys Working as DC Prosecutors
ICE lawyers are now working in DC Superior Court
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Defector @defector.com · 07/08/2026
"When it comes to the family policing system, the problem is obvious: Parents are punished for being poor, Black, or both—now with the help of algorithms." defector.com/new-yorks-us...
defector.com
New York’s Use Of AI For Family Policing Summarizes The Last 30 Years Of City Politics | Defector
Davene Roseborough still can’t believe the number of foster homes she lived in that had locks on the refrigerators and cabinets. At one spot, Roseborough was barred from eating dinner if she wasn’t…
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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"The rise in conspiracy charges has caused some legal experts to worry that the federal government is stretching the bounds of the law to sweep up political activists who oppose the Trump administration's deportation agenda." www.npr.org/2026/08/03/n...
npr.org
She protested ICE raids. Then agents showed up at her door
The Justice Department is using federal conspiracy charges to sweep up ICE protesters. Some legal experts worry the agency is casting too wide a net to prosecute political activists.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
safe and beautiful task force seems to be doing mass arrests outside Union station tonight
MPD van and unmarked silver SUV, officers and guys in vests standing nearby
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Masked ICE thug just casually shooting pepper spray at a few old ladies standing peacefully on the sidewalk filming them in uptown Manhattan today. Just because these monsters are quieter now doesn’t mean they’re not still out there violating people.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"The only apparent reason the Guards targeted Ms. King was her speech, via the prominent signs in her window, criticizing their presence in the District." Idaho National Guard members assaulted Anna King. Now she and @aclu-dc.bsky.social are taking legal action.
washingtonpost.com
Her arrest by the National Guard went viral. Now she’s taking legal action.
Attorneys for Army veteran Anna King say she was assaulted for exercising free speech. Authorities say she threw an unknown liquid at troops in D.C. days earlier.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
stlpr.org
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 26/07/2026
These cops at the 57th Street underpass were still there nearly six hours later when I passed through, and I was forced to open my bag full of groceries for an inspection before I could bike home.
Very crooked photo. Looking over a metal railing towards a grassy area where you can count at least seven cop SUVs parked on the grass next to Lake Michigan with cops milling around pointlessly.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 24/07/2026
New, by me: The Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border agents with a "duress" passcode that wiped the contents of his phone when they entered it. We've confirmed the phone was running GrapheneOS. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260724...
techcrunch.com
US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch
A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constit...
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agnesbrown.bsky.social @agnesbrown.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
people bringing reusuable bags to the grocery store keeps plastic bags from becoming litter and getting into waterways.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Just canceled my DashPass and sent this email to DoorDash. I encourage you to do the same if you support D.C. home rule. press@doordash.com and ir@doordash.com
Hello,

I’m writing to let you know that I just canceled my DashPass because of DoorDash’s disgraceful campaign against D.C. home rule.

DoorDash is urging Congress to nullify a new D.C. law imposing a 20 percent tax on food-delivery services—not merely by overturning that law, but by prohibiting the District from enacting any new tax without prior congressional approval. That is an extraordinarily sweeping assault on D.C.’s right to govern itself and an odious insult to the District’s residents.

I am especially disgusted by DoorDash’s public claim that it is somehow defending D.C. residents while actively seeking to strip us of our right to govern ourselves through our own democratically elected lawmakers. Please do not pretend that disenfranchising District residents is an act undertaken on our behalf.

I intend to publicize DoorDash’s attack on home rule as widely as possible and urge everyone I know to boycott the company.

Shame on you.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
For anyone keeping score at home, MPD officers were spotted assisting immigration agents as they made an arrest in DC last week. Original source: www.facebook.com/share/p/1CfE...
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