Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Proud of my cousin Cooper for having a perfect 4 innings as his MLb debut 010
Reposted by Grace Jane HjerpeNick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 24/08/2026mars eclipses suck lmao go earth 2185
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Former customer of mine. Very compelling article, worth the read 000
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I think the lesson from Graham Platner is that Democratic recruiters should embrace populist and anti genocide candidates, and not cede that ground to risky and untested outsiders. 010
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Mitch McConnell talked to my cat last night and said I should give him unlimited belly scratches and replace his food with Churus 000
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Trump really is the kiss of death for a sports team isn’t he 140
Reposted by Grace Jane Hjerpejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/07/2026not really fourth of july content but i found thus explanation of affordable housing financing in DC very informative.ggwash.orgWhy affordable housing can’t pay for itselfUnderstand development costs, the financing needed to meet them, and the ever-present “gap.” This is the first in an ongoing series about how affordable housing works. 331149179
Reposted by Grace Jane HjerpeMatt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 01/07/2026Anyone saying they want to do a genital check on kids before they can play on a sports team needs to get a throat punch and be curb-stomped until they change their shitty life choices 447111891988
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 15/06/2026There are too many goddam offices on the ballot in DC 000
Reposted by Grace Jane HjerpePaAAAAAAAAH!!!z Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social · 22/05/2026this is the ideal car body. you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like 1754115389
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Hey Washington Post, do that math on that. I dare you. I double dog dare you 010
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Bringing this to my Strixhaven prerelease tonight 000
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 14/04/2026An under appreciated aspect of the Hungarian election is that the winner’s name, Magyar, literally translates to “Hungarian”. Imagine replacing Trump with a guy named Johnny America 000
Reposted by Grace Jane HjerpeKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 04/04/2026I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination. 10187202342
Reposted by Grace Jane HjerpeJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026It’s such a laughably bad argument for the war on Iran to say “The people there want regime change.” I want regime change in the US, and I 100% do not want the US to be bombed. F off with garbage arguments. 334141687
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 23/03/2026As a long time listener I am begging TMR to bring serious guests on to talk about housing. I know you don’t like Ezra Klein, but bringing on a guy who denies that there is a housing shortage in the US is tantamount to bringing on a climate denier, given academic consensus in the field. 110
Reposted by Grace Jane Hjerpejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/03/2026oh look at that www.pew.org/en/research-...pew.orgAustin’s Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down RentsAfter decades of explosive growth, Austin, Texas, in the 2010s was a victim of its own success. Lured by high-tech jobs and the city’s hip reputation, too many people were competing for too few homes.... 7752521070
Reposted by Grace Jane Hjerpemechanical twerk @ruhee.ca · 08/02/2026No Kings includes Draft Kings 178258776017
Reposted by Grace Jane HjerpeAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/02/2026A new systematic review has found that trans women on HRT have the same level of fitness as cis women and don't retain any advantage in sports. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...independent.co.ukTrans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study findsFindings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time 602760887
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Regardless of who wins this Texas Senate Primary, I need Democrats more broadly to talk like this. 010
Reposted by Grace Jane HjerpeTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready. 8638831816
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Planning for the future with my partner has made me wish we got Missing Middle done in Arlington 30 years ago. The availability of older (eg cheaper) family sized units in DC dwarfs that of Arlington. Why? Cause they didn’t ban row homes and apartments 100 years ago. 010
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 28/01/2026In an ideal world, JD Vance would have to answer to at least as many questions about anti-semitism as Ilhan Omar for cozying to Nick Fuentes and not mentioning Jewish people in his holocaust Remembrance Day statement. But alas 020
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 27/01/2026@gavinnewsom.bsky.social Arrest Greg Bovino? 000
Reposted by Grace Jane HjerpeSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 26/01/2026the idea that you can “protect” 7400 miles of border and tens of thousands of miles of coastline not from attack or invasion but from civilians trying to make a home for their families is an insane white nationalist fantasy. anyone seriously suggesting it should be laughed out of the room 531032
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Aaaand she actually gave it to him. Just one poorly aged decisions in a long line of poorly aged decisions from the Nobel Peace Prize committee 021
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 12/01/2026The fact that the winner of the Nobel Peace prize is offering it to Trump in exchange for an illegal forced regime change should probably invite scrutiny on the Nobel committee, but maybe that’s just me 🤷♀️ 1320733
Reposted by Grace Jane HjerpeJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11/01/2026The problem with ICE is not insufficient training or even training content. It’s creating an agency where you give people guns and tell them to terrorize Brown people and then recruit people excited to do that. 371460392
Reposted by Grace Jane Hjerpejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/01/2026masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo. 230128833648
Reposted by Grace Jane HjerpeBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0... 32878984092
Reposted by Grace Jane HjerpeAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/01/2026Everyone should be submitting this to Apple and Google. 5640451670
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Well, hopefully this will lead to a flourishing of better local coffee shops. Coffee shops which don’t union bust, refuse to pay vendors and landlords, and also defrauds taxpayers by using relief money to buy bitcoin. 030
Reposted by Grace Jane HjerpeThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 06/01/2026Compass Coffee filed for Chapter 11 reorganization bankruptcy, throwing the company’s future into question amid lawsuits with landlords, suppliers and even a founding member of the D.C.-based roaster. washingtonpost.comCompass Coffee files for bankruptcy amid lawsuits, lagging downtown salesThe Washington-based chain plans to close 11 of its more than 20 cafes around the region amid lagging sales and lawsuits. 4198
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Crypto bros appear to be going around DC handing out free shitty coffee to promote their scam of an industry 110
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 16/11/2025I don’t know who needs to hear this, but giving corporations and wealthy people money for nothing is not the same as legalizing less expensive forms of housing construction. Reaganomics is not the same as repealing segregationist zoning laws 081
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Megyn Kelly: No no no, that’s EPHEBOphilia not PEDOphilia, it’s different 000
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 05/11/2025With days like today, why would you need drugs? 020
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Skeletons and ghouls are scary and all, but if you really want to terrify your suburban neighbors, turn your house into a duplex this Halloween 042
Reposted by Grace Jane HjerpeSenator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 09/10/2025The Supreme Court ruled states can ban trans youth from receiving gender-affirming care, which is scientifically validated. The Court is now poised to rule states *cannot* ban conversion therapy on kids, which science finds to be akin to torture. Through line: Religious bigotry > LGBTQ humanity 49723
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Replace Elon with Russell Vought and it’s exactly the same situation as earlier in the year 020
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 29/09/2025The 2028 election if Trump goes after anime 021
Reposted by Grace Jane HjerpeSam @samd.bsky.social · 29/09/2025just my two cents on Ezra Klein: he is generally good on policy and his work on things like housing is helpful the problem is that his punditry is misguided for two reasons: 1) he is not skeptical enough of right wing bad faith 2) he is acting like the U.S. is Hungary, where the right is popular 2774652
Reposted by Grace Jane HjerpeKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 03/09/2025If you hear about a Mexican Independence Day celebration in your area, go. There is strength in numbers and — especially if you’re white — you can protect your community just by being there and not flinching if ICE shows up. These goons are cowards. Don’t be one. 332683799
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Transition is less of a linear path than an all you can eat buffet 030
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 31/08/2025I hope that anti-abundance libs/leftists understand they’re joining ranks with Padilla when they say stuff like “we don’t need more housing, it’s all the landlords’ fault” Perhaps a time to reconsider knee jerk reactions to that book? 001
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Is there a mechanism for the DC Council to remove Bowser? Her response to this occupation is dreadful, and outright dangerous to this city’s residents 020
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 20/08/2025I feel like Tim Robinson could do a mean Stephen Miller impersonation 010
Grace Jane Hjerpe @arlvagrace.bsky.social · 07/08/2025My theory of national politics is that the candidate that seems like less of a narc usually wins 000
