alex baca
@alexbaca.bsky.social
Mad online about land use. D.C. policy boss @ggwash.org, Ward 1 Dems chair, Park View resident—in no order. Not paid to tweet, so DM me gossip. It’s only life; there is no real decay. I wouldn't front the scene if you paid me. Views mine.
The horrors persist, but so do the tangible rewards and joys of local organizing. We're hiring; you'll work for me! Applications due by Wed., Feb. 11: ggwash.org/careerboard/...
DC Organizer at Greater Greater Washington
Greater Greater Washington (GGWash) is hiring a DC Organizer. This is an early- to mid-career role for a practiced organizer who will, primarily, manage our work with Advisory Neighborhood Commissione...
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January 21, 2026 at 10:45 PM
The horrors persist, but so do the tangible rewards and joys of local organizing. We're hiring; you'll work for me! Applications due by Wed., Feb. 11: ggwash.org/careerboard/...
nut up about burnout. we all had to do it about emotional labor. shit that people who have it worse than you will come for you. be at peace that you are not materially or emotionally is where you thought you would be. it’s clarifying. i speak from authority as a person born in 1989.
January 16, 2026 at 4:25 AM
nut up about burnout. we all had to do it about emotional labor. shit that people who have it worse than you will come for you. be at peace that you are not materially or emotionally is where you thought you would be. it’s clarifying. i speak from authority as a person born in 1989.
listening to this rn and it’s a mistake to do so *only* bc I need to Read It and go nuts in the margins
if i have any democratic consultants or people of influence among my followers, please read this book. as someone who has met, socialized with and worked with a number of the characters in it, i cannot think of a better encapsulation of the american political right today.
January 7, 2026 at 4:19 AM
listening to this rn and it’s a mistake to do so *only* bc I need to Read It and go nuts in the margins
if u read Do Something you know I used my prof-dev dollars to buy a ton of books the other week. Paul Sabin’s Public Citizens was one. It 9
overuses rhetorical questions (lazy device imo), but is otherwise excellent. One of the reasons I am still at my job is bc it’s a c4, so, less of this crap.
overuses rhetorical questions (lazy device imo), but is otherwise excellent. One of the reasons I am still at my job is bc it’s a c4, so, less of this crap.
December 28, 2025 at 2:45 AM
if u read Do Something you know I used my prof-dev dollars to buy a ton of books the other week. Paul Sabin’s Public Citizens was one. It 9
overuses rhetorical questions (lazy device imo), but is otherwise excellent. One of the reasons I am still at my job is bc it’s a c4, so, less of this crap.
overuses rhetorical questions (lazy device imo), but is otherwise excellent. One of the reasons I am still at my job is bc it’s a c4, so, less of this crap.
Some of the things we were up to at the advocacy organization in 2025
we did a ton of advocacy at @ggwash.org this year and in this post @alexbaca.bsky.social @kaihall10.bsky.social @acornpark.bsky.social look back at all of the things we advocated for ggwash.org/view/101936/...
What we advocated for in 2025
From pushing for Maryland housing targets, to spearheading the Week Without Driving, securing zoning reform in Montgomery County, and opposing the RFK Stadium deal, and so much testimony in so many pu...
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December 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Some of the things we were up to at the advocacy organization in 2025
The golf course in D.C. that shouldn’t exist, or should be heavily redeveloped around, is at the Armed Forces Retirement Home! Any progress on which DOD canceled like three years ago. Our NPS golf courses can stay. The minigolf at Hains Point is particularly fun and you can buy beers there.
very specific to DC complaint here but when trump is threatening to take over the city's historically significant public golf courses so he can privatize them and make them another getaway for the 1% i don't think going "well maybe they shouldnt be golf courses to begin with" is helpful or realistic
December 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The golf course in D.C. that shouldn’t exist, or should be heavily redeveloped around, is at the Armed Forces Retirement Home! Any progress on which DOD canceled like three years ago. Our NPS golf courses can stay. The minigolf at Hains Point is particularly fun and you can buy beers there.
I work for an interest group that does polling *to figure out how to achieve our interests* lmao this shit is not hard it’s just my day job!! Unlike some pundits I guess.
what's happened is a certain gaggle of dc technocrats have become totally tacticsbrained--they're just forever chasing the next move--and have totally lost sight of the idea that you start with a goal and then use polling to figure out how to achieve it--not vice versa
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Right, sometimes you shouldn't run on what truth and justice demand, because it's impolitic
But you yourself should always have analytical clarity about when and whether that's what you're doing
Which requires doing the truth and justice analysis first, without looking at public opinion yet
But you yourself should always have analytical clarity about when and whether that's what you're doing
Which requires doing the truth and justice analysis first, without looking at public opinion yet
December 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I work for an interest group that does polling *to figure out how to achieve our interests* lmao this shit is not hard it’s just my day job!! Unlike some pundits I guess.
aired my grievances before the close of 2025 and before i log off from work for a year: ggwash.org/view/101899/...
A postmortem on the RFK stadium deal
May the DC government ignore opposition to legalizing apartments everywhere the way it ignored all the evidence against paying for a football stadium.
ggwash.org
December 20, 2025 at 1:53 AM
aired my grievances before the close of 2025 and before i log off from work for a year: ggwash.org/view/101899/...
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At the heart of our dysfunction lies a single law
December 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
At the heart of our dysfunction lies a single law
I am a real freak for Thanksgiving and we host three days of it. I am genuinely hype for this year cuz my house is a legit wreck (someone backed their car into it and everything is fine for now haha! unrelated we also don’t have an oven or stove anymore) but everything is still gonna be fab.
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I am a real freak for Thanksgiving and we host three days of it. I am genuinely hype for this year cuz my house is a legit wreck (someone backed their car into it and everything is fine for now haha! unrelated we also don’t have an oven or stove anymore) but everything is still gonna be fab.
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John Lovsin - Key of E [Cleveland, OH, USA ; Power Pop] (1982)
https://redd.it/ndrs0k
https://youtu.be/od6_AxphQos
https://redd.it/ndrs0k
https://youtu.be/od6_AxphQos
John Lovsin - Key of E [Cleveland, OH, USA ; Power Pop] (1982)
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November 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
John Lovsin - Key of E [Cleveland, OH, USA ; Power Pop] (1982)
https://redd.it/ndrs0k
https://youtu.be/od6_AxphQos
https://redd.it/ndrs0k
https://youtu.be/od6_AxphQos
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if i stared into the deadlights it wouldn’t hurt me. i would even take out a beach chair and tanning reflector
November 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
if i stared into the deadlights it wouldn’t hurt me. i would even take out a beach chair and tanning reflector
give me the second messy-bitch chapter for free losers
November 22, 2025 at 6:03 AM
give me the second messy-bitch chapter for free losers
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An ancient times, a person did not simply *tell* another person that they cared about them; person A in this scenario, in a totally normal way, spent several days making a mixtape of the most choice Oasis b-sides OR the best Guided By Voices tracks obv
November 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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“Managing grandpa for self-preservation” is not the same as “doing a populism.” Also, I respect the hell out of Mamdani, hate my mayor’s guts for her behavior when Trump-adjacent, and also realize that the former two are probably in tension with each other.
mamdani understood what his assignment was, which was to protect funding to the city of new york.
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 AM
“Managing grandpa for self-preservation” is not the same as “doing a populism.” Also, I respect the hell out of Mamdani, hate my mayor’s guts for her behavior when Trump-adjacent, and also realize that the former two are probably in tension with each other.
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Today on the blog: Democrats should run weirder campaigns, and people with clever ideas should go run a long shot state legislative campaign
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I need Democrats to try getting weird
We should be running creative, chaotic, and experimental state legislative campaigns
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November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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perfect album from the year I turned 16 (2005)
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
perfect album from the year I turned 16 (2005)
Actual research and reporting from @peterodrigue.bsky.social, and a rant from me, about the likely end of the District's streateries, which is closely related to the fact that it is basically impossible to close a street to cars here: ggwash.org/view/101524/...
Adams Morgan’s streateries are overwhelmingly popular. Forthcoming requirements put them and others at risk of vanishing
Pete’s on-the-street interviews find that streateries on 18th Street NW, which the District paid for but is, nonetheless, about to dismantle, are overwhelmingly popular. Alex ruminates on the connecti...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Actual research and reporting from @peterodrigue.bsky.social, and a rant from me, about the likely end of the District's streateries, which is closely related to the fact that it is basically impossible to close a street to cars here: ggwash.org/view/101524/...
This is a particularly divine specimen.
I think it's useful for any YIMBY or pro-housing person to be in the NIMBY/anti-development groups, because you'll see something like this in it:
A Republican who spent a lot of effort trying to oust Democratic state legislators, but still thinking they can tell them what to do.
A Republican who spent a lot of effort trying to oust Democratic state legislators, but still thinking they can tell them what to do.
November 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This is a particularly divine specimen.
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The people pumping Matt yglesias into my feed make me realize that he should run for mayor or council because his weird obsession with insisting people triangulate would actually go over really well with the same voters who give us Mendo, Bowser, and Bonds repeatedly.
November 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The people pumping Matt yglesias into my feed make me realize that he should run for mayor or council because his weird obsession with insisting people triangulate would actually go over really well with the same voters who give us Mendo, Bowser, and Bonds repeatedly.
biz homies do be tiresome
it's state policy by twitter DM groupchats and business cults that have infiltrated half of the policy scene in DC. That's a pretty succinct and accurate summary for what is happening.
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Like I said, I don’t think it’s a coincidence all of these guys are talking like this now. All of a sudden, bailouts, handouts, and direct state intervention is an unalloyed good that shouldn’t be questioned, neither in contingency nor in principle.
November 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
biz homies do be tiresome
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whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win
Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia governor’s race.
November 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win
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over the course of my life i’ve probably listened to the 10,000 Maniacs unplugged album at least once per maniac
October 31, 2025 at 9:03 PM
over the course of my life i’ve probably listened to the 10,000 Maniacs unplugged album at least once per maniac
