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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We knocked 5,366 doors for @tomperriello.bsky.social this weekend, bringing our total count to nearly 9,000 doors! In a city where ~16,000 people typically vote, we’re turbocharging turnout to unseat John McGuire and flip VA-05 blue.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/10/2026

the general sentiment

hand holding up a sign that reads FUCK ICE

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It will, in fact, be an amazing night on 11/3 if VA Dems manage to flip three seats (VA02, VA01, VA05 in that order). Anything beyond that would be "gravy" - also kinda miraculous, given how red the other two Republican-held districts (VA06 and VA09) are. bluevirginia.us/2026/10/frid...

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Michelle Chappell @michellechap76.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

DC folks, if you film an arrest, especially one involving federal agents or National Guard, please make a report to Film the Police DC. @harrietsdreams.bsky.social and @dcmigrantmutualaid.org can then take action to help arrestees #WeKeepUsSafe www.filmthepolicedc.org

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Film the Police DC

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Michelle Chappell @michellechap76.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Thank you so much for filming, please report this incident here: www.filmthepolicedc.org

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Film the Police DC

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Michelle Chappell @michellechap76.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Tubman is majority Latino students. They see uniforms and, with good reason, fear their parents will be disappeared. Hard to learn when you and your classmates are terrified

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Tom Bonier @tbonier.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That’s not a misprint - more Latino voters have cast a ballot already than did at the same point in the 2024 presidential election.

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Michelle Chappell @michellechap76.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Increasing access to deadly weapons will very predictably increase violent crime rates. This decision is beyond irresponsible

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Everytown for Gun Safety @everytown.org · 09/10/2026

BREAKING: The federal agency tasked with enforcing our gun laws is now deciding not to. The National Firearms Act was enacted nearly a century ago to prevent criminals from getting their hands on weapons like short-barreled rifles and shotguns, and silencers.

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Michelle Chappell @michellechap76.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My move lately is just really obviously taking their photo, I’m too angry to try to interact with them

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Michelle Chappell @michellechap76.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A soldier with his fucking hand on our ballot box #FreeDC

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Michelle Chappell @michellechap76.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You want blood boiling? Here they are in formation outside Tubman Elementary last week

Four armed soldiers standing backs to each other on a quiet street corner across the street from an elementary school

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 09/10/2026

@dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social look who's helping you with DC v. Trump. Time to get JTF-DC to reissue its guidance to respect the bare minimum 50' perimeter. #freedc #nationalguardgohome #possecomitatusact #voterintimidation

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Repeating my sotto voce refrain that I think we are very soon going to have to deal with the plain (but seldom spoken) fact that police are simply not under the control of the political leadership who command them on paper.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I know this is kind of a cliché, but sometimes I'm sitting here in my living room with my front door open listening to neighbors greet each other on the sidewalk and bugs make bug noises and I read some garbage thing on Facebook about how the place I live is a hellhole and the contrast is absurd

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Michelle Chappell @michellechap76.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is what we need from leaders right now. Get out in the streets and defend your people, and the people will have your back.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When I started writing about Supreme Court expansion, you couldn’t get the question *asked* in a poll. The first time I saw it actually polled, it was 8%. Now, we here.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

have seen surprisingly few national guard other than during the march, which is kinda confirming my suspicions that they are mostly in our neighborhoods now

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Crowd shouting “we are Jane Doe”

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Michelle Chappell @michellechap76.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

THE CHILD WAS NOT UNHARMED, CHUCK ABOLISH ICE

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Can’t imagine spending another hour listening to a tech guy hand wave at risks without explaining how the AI gets a gun.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I remember when I took my Chinese in-laws to DC, and we walked past the handful of perennial protesters in Lafayette Square. They looked at me in surprise. I was like, yeah, this isn’t Tiananmen or Zhongnanhai. We get to do this if we want to.

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For my ENG speaking followers Unprecedented High School blockades began in the outskirts of Paris in Créteil on the 21st of Sept. National mobilisations followed on the 29th of September, the 1st and the 6th of October. The movement is ongoing and has spread both in scope and scale. #tippingpoint

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Appropriately hammering her for her failures as Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

These should be making their way into national ads run by the Democrats. Republicans think this kind of stuff is popular because the groypers think it shows they're "tough". Ads saying "Republicans want ICE to give electric shocks to children" will hit them where they live.

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Julie Patton Lawson @srfrjulie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I raised this issue because it seems likely that a lot of DC voters want both Oye and Elissa, but most will rank Oye first because he’s the Dem nominee, so their support of Elissa will never be seen. We need a good group of folks to rank Elissa first so she has enough votes to be in the top two.

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Michelle Chappell @michellechap76.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yikes. Next time think before commenting on someone's appearance (please note, I am not apologizing for her work to support fascism, which should be freely criticized)

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OpenANC @openanc.org · 06/10/2026

OpenANC has been rebuilt from the ground up: openanc.org 🗺️ List of districts, candidates, & commissioners: openanc.org/districts/ 📍 Map of contested seats: openanc.org/contested/ ✏️ Suggest a correction from each page, or in general: openanc.org/suggest/ 📊 Counts by Ward and ANC: openanc.org/counts/

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Michelle Chappell @michellechap76.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Every time I leave my house I run into National Guard troops from Arkansas or Georgia

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 04/10/2026

Since this statement was issued the National Guard presence at DCPS schools has increased.

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Michelle Chappell @michellechap76.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Please folks. I quit X and you can too

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James @cdnjimmyjames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Kid sandbagged him; hell of a worker.

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Michelle Chappell @michellechap76.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Y'all, there are a surprising number of ?? that are unanswered in US laws. We can work to create a better future by interrogating, for ex, the third amend and what it means to quarter troops in peacetime. The govt is spending $$$ to put National Guard troops up in luxury apts in DC, is that legal?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Suuuuper interesting, I was not tracking this. The judge found the law criminalizing noncitizen voting is a voter qualification statute, and therefore outside of Congress’s power. Surprisingly, this is an issue of first impression! Decision is here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The best reading of the actual statute that underpins this criminal case yields an inescapable
conclusion: 18 U.S.C. S 611 is a voter qualification statute, and the Constitution does not authorize
Congress to legislate voter qualifications for federal elections. Except for very specific constitutional
provisions (that cannot support this statute; we will go through them, Congress has no power to say
who can vote or who cannot vote in federal elections-that foundational power is reserved for the States,
and limits Congress.
Some legal principles are so fundamental that they form American constitutional bedrock, and
this case reveals a big one: When you're prosecuted based on a law that Congress did not have the
authority to pass, the prosecution cannot stand. That principle in federal law harkens back to cases
like Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137, 180 (1803), and United States v. Hudson, 11 U.S. 32, 34 (1812), and
has had explicit and unbroken support in criminal cases since Ex Parte Siebold, 100 U.S. 371, 376-77
(1879) ("An unconstitutional law is void, and is as no law. An offence created by it is not a crime. A
conviction under it is not merely erroneous, but is illegal and void, and cannot be a legal cause of
imprisonment."). The principle is so fundamental that it even predates our constitutional republic; it
lies at the very heart of our constitutional heritage. See, e.g., Bayard v. Singleton, 1 N.C. 5, 9-10 (1787) (striking down a legislative act as unconstitutional and holding that a court cannot enforce an
unconstitutional law in any type of proceeding). This principle acts as a shield for every person facing
criminal prosecution in the United States, citizen and non-citizen alike. That shield protects the
Defendant here, and none of the Government's arguments break through it.

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Looks like it’s Georgia’s occupying forces out menacing DC’s schoolchildren this morning.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We remain in steadfast solidarity with Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, shot by ICE while working for DoorDash in Austin TX, and his family and call on DoorDash to join the chorus of leaders and community members demanding his release. Until that happens, #DeleteDoorDash until it's backwards.

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Federal prosecutors charge Venezuelan man shot by ICE agent in Texas with assaulting an officer

Federal prosecutors in Texas announced assault charges against a Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot in the back by immigration enforcement agents Sept. 20.

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Withdrawing their support for #HR9720 is one of three demands we made of DoorDash. We still demand the company issue a public statement against ICE, and to state publicly that the “DC Safe and Beautiful Task Force” should end.

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Let this make it undeniably clear that consumers have the power to hold companies accountable for their behavior and demand changes.

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

DoorDash, a $15 billion company, has issued a formal apology for their decision to back a GOP attack on DC Home Rule in July. Organizing made this happen.

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DoorDash Apologizes for Siding With GOP Bill Targeting D.C.

The company still wants the D.C. Council to make changes to a new delivery fee taking effect Thursday.

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

DoorDash walked into a buzzsaw of criticism and boycotts in D.C. this summer when it backed a Republican bill that would restrict when city lawmakers can impose new taxes and fees. The delivery company is now walking back that bill: www.washingtonsun.com/metro/doorda...

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DoorDash Apologizes for Siding With GOP Bill Targeting D.C.

The company still wants the D.C. Council to make changes to a new delivery fee taking effect Thursday.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's hard to fathom that, let alone be OK with the fact that, the six people who allowed tonight to happen will start hearing cases next week, the outcome of which will affect us all.

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Michelle Chappell @michellechap76.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The answer to a botched execution is not to propose more efficient ways for the state to end someone’s life, it is to demand the end of state sanctioned murder

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