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Dan Emerine

@dan-emerine.bsky.social
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Urban planner/doer. Transportation nerd. Struggling against systemic racism, and for more just and sustainable cities, one day at a time. Views are my own.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 01/09/2026
New York’s congestion pricing program has resulted in a statistically significant reduction in travel times for EMS vehicles
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Urban Congestion Pricing and the Response Times of Emergency Medical Services
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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.
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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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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
From @ms.now: "DoorDash customers across the country now know what the company thinks the democratic rights of 700,000 Washingtonians are worth: about 20 cents." #DeleteDoorDash www.ms.now/opinion/door...
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Opinion | DoorDash is selling out D.C. over a 20-cent delivery tax
The food delivery platform backed legislation that would strip Washington, D.C., residents of power over their own taxes.
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Dan Emerine @dan-emerine.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
My favorite sign of the day from No Kings in DC today. Walter (military veteran and First Amendment scholar) knows what’s up.
Person holding a sign at the No Kings rally in Washington DC on March 28. The sign has a picture of John Goodman as Walter from “The Big Lebowski,” under the words “This isn’t ‘Nam, Donnie. This is democracy. There are rules.”
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
See everybody soon #NoKingsDC
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Dan Emerine @dan-emerine.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
Deagol holds the One Ring in his palm, entranced by it. Smeagol starts to reach for Deagol's throat to choke him and steal the Ring.
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Boromir from the movie The Fellow ship of the rings thinking out loud about the one ring, with the caption "Perhaps we could give the ring better training."
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Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 08/01/2026
I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This is excellent coverage: it gives readers context beyond the specific incident, showing a pattern of excessive force, and also documents that DHS keeps using the same and increasingly debunked explanations. Much better than both sidesing the shooting.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
“Three men in black vests entered a NY restaurant claiming to be ICE agents. Inside, they tied a worker’s hands and pulled a garbage bag over the person’s head. Another, believing the burglars’ story, surrendered themselves, only to be kicked to the ground and tied up as the intruders robbed an ATM”
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FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
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Dan Emerine @dan-emerine.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Yeah! Like a bunch of lose— Hold on, I’m being handed a message…
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This is still the thing that scares me most right now. Generally, I think the National Guard would actually be less violent and abusive than what we’re seeing from ICE and CBP. But Hegseth and his underlings would be hand-picking these teams.
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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Trump nominated a pro Jim Crow man to be the U.S. ambassador to South Africa. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. So, I transcribed some of it. Brent Bozell is a sad excuse for a man. He should be shunned by everyone. No one should ever serve him a meal or a drink, fix his car, or mow his lawn.
[partial transcript of hearing testimony, 24 October 2025

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Sen. Chris Murphy:
Would you, would you support reinstituting laws in this country to only allow white people to vote?

Leo Brent Bozell III:
Senator, I'm going to serve as ambassador to South Africa. And, I'm going to focus on that.

Sen. Chris Murphy:
You will not share your personal views on whether it is right or wrong to reinstitute discriminatory policies in this country to prevent Black people from voting?

Bozell:
Senator, my personal views are irrelevant. I am serving here to do what the president is asking me to do in South Africa
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
will there be any followup to this fascinating story by the president of the united states that a friend of his sent him a check for $130 million dollars and the president is going to give the money to the military because i for one am fascinated about the details tbh
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
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Matthew @dlthings.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
I have a note: Please don’t make AI slop versions of actual signs ppl made by hand.
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Dan Emerine @dan-emerine.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Is there anyone out there who cares enough for this person to look into arrangements for a conservatorship?
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Fighting Against Fascism @fightinginjustice.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Stephen Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said. The fact that he knows he's not supposed to be just saying it out loud like that because it's not true and he didn't mean to telegraph their intentions that clearly
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Dan Emerine @dan-emerine.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
substack.com/@letsgetinto...
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LetsGetIntoIt2025 (@letsgetintoit2025)
This is the first time I have seen local police stand up to ICE agents. I’m not saying it hasn’t happened in other places, I’m only saying I haven’t SEEN it happen. I don’t know anything about thi...
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Dan Emerine @dan-emerine.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
My timeline rn.
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Dan Emerine @dan-emerine.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
This is the good stuff. open.substack.com/pub/michaelp...
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Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 05/10/2025
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
@govpritzker.illinois.gov 37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois. This is assault.
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Katie Brennan @katiebrennan.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Take it from me: You do NOT negotiate with abusers. So if Trump wants to illegally take New Jersey’s funding, we have to fight back with everything we’ve got. My idea? Eminent domain Trump’s golf course for affordable housing. My debut in @nydailynews: www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/04/t...
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Trump took Gateway money, we must take his golf club
Take it from someone who’s spent years as a survivor advocate, working with people hurt by those in power: You do not negotiate with abusers.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This is interesting: Per a new @nytimes.com poll, 50% of registered voters in the U.S. oppose Trump's decision to deploy the National Guard in D.C. (And 41% support.) Opposition among Black voters is 80%, and Hispanic voters 58%. Women and younger voters also more likely to oppose.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.
PARTIES3. Plaintiff José Escobar Molina is a 47-year-old man who has lived in D.C. for 25 years. He has maintained valid Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) for El Salvador since 2001. On August 21, 2025, Mr. Escobar Molina was walking from his apartment building in Northwest D.C.to his work truck, about to start his workday, when two cars pulled up next to him. As he was about to get into his truck, plain-clothed and unidentified federal agents exited the cars and—without conducting any inquiry—seized Mr. Escobar Molina, grabbing him by the arms and legs and immediately handcuffing him. The agents arrested him without a warrant and without asking for his name, his identification, or anything about his immigration status. The agents also did not ask him where he lives, whom he lives with, how long he has lived here, or anything else about his ties to the community prior to arresting him. After ICE detained Mr. Escobar Molina overnight at its processing center in Chantilly, Virginia, the next day an ICE supervisor finally realized that he had valid TPS, which statutorily prohibits ICE from detaining him, and released him. Due tohis Latino ethnicity, Mr. Escobar Molina fears being arrested and detained again while going about his daily life in D.C.
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Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”
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JazzReads📚🏀 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
So exhausting..
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 26/09/2025
ICE is firing pellets and pepper balls at journalists in Broadview outside Chicago today, but they're local journalists so it feels like the national media will not care at all. I hope I'm wrong.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
“Imagine if Congress declared Wyoming a Federal Natural Resource District…managed by the government and no longer have congressional representation. Republicans would of course be appalled. Disenfranchising 600,000 people who live in Wyoming would be immoral.”
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Dems need to get serious about DC statehood. For real.
No more pussyfooting. With troops in the streets, the time is now.
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
By the head of the Federal Communications Commission, in 2022:
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Dan Emerine @dan-emerine.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
@repmarcykaptur.bsky.social voting against the people of DC hits hard. Marcy, I grew up in Toledo & looked up to you. I interned in your DC office 30 years ago & I still have my signed picture with you on a shelf in my office. You’ve betrayed me and the 700,000 Americans who live in DC. For what?
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Dan Emerine @dan-emerine.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Donald Trump Is Practicing Politics the Right Way by Ezra Klein
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/09/2025
if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war
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Dan Emerine @dan-emerine.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
“But it’s impossible to miss the Guard units and other federal agents patrolling some Metro stations.”* * unless you’re Matt Yglesias
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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
A charter school administrator tells me that attendance for schools across DC was down over the first week of classes. One concern for parents: National Guard and federal agent patrols all over transit kids use to get to school www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Parents Mobilize to Protect School Commutes Amid Trump Deployment in DC
With National Guard and other federal agents in Washington, families are fearful that common school routes are becoming vulnerable places.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
New acting director of CDC Jim O'Neill expressed being pro paid organ donation. "There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused."
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Dan Emerine @dan-emerine.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
If there is anyone left in DC who still takes Matt Yglesias seriously, you can finally stop.
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Alex Koma @alexkoma.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
New: Stephen Miller says Trump's focus on DC is meant to help Black residents. But people living in the city's historically Black wards don't want this kind of help So what could the feds actually do for wards 7/8? I asked and a federal police takeover didn't make the list: wamu.org/story/25/08/...
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Trump says his crime crackdown is helping the District’s Black communities. Here’s what Southeast residents actually want
Residents of Wards 7 and 8 say Trump could do many things to improve their communities. Most wouldn’t include the current surge of federal law enforcement and takeover of local police.
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
ICE detains husband of Democratic congressional candidate—who is also a disabled U.S. Army veteran. He is wheelchair bound—after suffering severe injury during training for deployment in Iraq. Agents arrested him at his naturalization hearing—he is already a green card holder.
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Dan Emerine @dan-emerine.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Earlier today, I was like, “gah, is Gavin Newsom the only politician with national reach who is going to speak out? Is that the schmuck we’re going to have to look to for leadership?” Thank you, Governor Pritzker. Challenge accepted, moment met.
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I was speaking to a Latino resident this morning, and they said that people in the community are far less likely now to call the Metropolitan Police Department if they see a crime or are victims of one. The concern is over MPD's work with ICE, or at least the perception of it.
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Dan Emerine @dan-emerine.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
With every cell in my body resisting, I am boosting Gavin Freaking Newsom until some other politician with similar reach can speak out with this level of clarity on the nationwide danger of an authoritarian takeover.
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Dan Emerine @dan-emerine.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Also, one email from my Trumpy uncle, mansplaining to me about how safe I should feel in the presence of the troops occupying my city. (We’ll call that one a negative result.) I did not test the alternative hypothesis of “pivoting to kitchen table issues,” BECAUSE I AM NOT A SOCIOPATH.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
UPDATE: Fox News reports that ICE told Kilmar Abrego Garcia they are going to deport him to Uganda on Monday.

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BREAKING: Per DHS & ICE sources, this afternoon, DHS notified Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s counsel via email that ICE may deport Abrego Garcia to Uganda “no earlier than 72 hours from now”, & ICE is also ordering him to report to ICE’s Baltimore office on Monday. Notifications below 👇🏻
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
A few hundred people are gathered in the Columbia Heights Civic Plaza to protest Trump’s federal surge in D.C., especially the crackdown on the immigrant community. More than 250 arrests of immigrants have happened over the past 10 days.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/08/2025
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
Photo of DOGE staffer Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old white man in a blue pullover, carrying a black backpack.Photo of 53-year-old Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi. He is sitting, wearing white pants and shirt with a brown vest.
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