Evan Yeats
@evanyeats.bsky.social
Union guy. Former Commissioner. DC denizen.
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We’ve filed two more unfair labor practice cases against @baltimoresun.bsky.social, which has been refusing to bargain with us for over 4 months — instead choosing to threaten our members with new union-busting policies.
Baltimore deserves better. We won’t be silenced.
Baltimore deserves better. We won’t be silenced.
December 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
We’ve filed two more unfair labor practice cases against @baltimoresun.bsky.social, which has been refusing to bargain with us for over 4 months — instead choosing to threaten our members with new union-busting policies.
Baltimore deserves better. We won’t be silenced.
Baltimore deserves better. We won’t be silenced.
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District of Champions remains undefeated
Is the Chief's stadium deal the largest public subsidy ever offered. When looking only at stadium capital construction costs, I say yes. But when you throw in everything else, @gpropheter.bsky.social says it's still not as bad as the Commanders giveaway. It's bad. www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...
Is Chiefs’ Kansas stadium deal the largest ever offered? What experts say
With some caveats, the Kansas City Chiefs stand to receive more public dollars for their stadium than any other professional sports team in the U.S. or Canada has before, an expert said.
www.kansascity.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
District of Champions remains undefeated
Lol @mayorbowser.dc.gov and the DC Council who are still record-holders at bad deal making.
Is the Chief's stadium deal the largest public subsidy ever offered. When looking only at stadium capital construction costs, I say yes. But when you throw in everything else, @gpropheter.bsky.social says it's still not as bad as the Commanders giveaway. It's bad. www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...
Is Chiefs’ Kansas stadium deal the largest ever offered? What experts say
With some caveats, the Kansas City Chiefs stand to receive more public dollars for their stadium than any other professional sports team in the U.S. or Canada has before, an expert said.
www.kansascity.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Lol @mayorbowser.dc.gov and the DC Council who are still record-holders at bad deal making.
They've been doing it all over and the Metro board looks the other way. Randy Clarke denied any officers were masked at the very again masked federal cops were yanking people off buses the day before.
Hey @wmatagm.bsky.social — why is MTPD collaborating with Feds in the CoHi station for fare enforcement?? This is unreasonable and unnecessary. This needs to stop. #FamiliesNotFeds
December 31, 2025 at 12:49 AM
They've been doing it all over and the Metro board looks the other way. Randy Clarke denied any officers were masked at the very again masked federal cops were yanking people off buses the day before.
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Every time you think the current presidential administration is uniquely tilted toward privatizing public institutions & governance (& sending public funds to private hands), DC says "hold my beer."
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Expanding The Private Wealth Business In DC Public Education
The private wealth business of influencing DC’s public education is poised for an important boost in 2026. That is because the DC council is considering the nominations of four DC charter board mem…
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December 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Every time you think the current presidential administration is uniquely tilted toward privatizing public institutions & governance (& sending public funds to private hands), DC says "hold my beer."
educationdc.net/2025/12/27/e...
educationdc.net/2025/12/27/e...
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BREAKING: While baristas continue the largest ULP strike in Starbucks history, 19 more stores filed for a union election today - one of the biggest filing days since our union began.
330+ workers across 15 states hope to join the 250+ baristas who have unionized since mid-November alone.
330+ workers across 15 states hope to join the 250+ baristas who have unionized since mid-November alone.
December 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
BREAKING: While baristas continue the largest ULP strike in Starbucks history, 19 more stores filed for a union election today - one of the biggest filing days since our union began.
330+ workers across 15 states hope to join the 250+ baristas who have unionized since mid-November alone.
330+ workers across 15 states hope to join the 250+ baristas who have unionized since mid-November alone.
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We are told @dcpolicedept.bsky.social is not coordinating with federal abductions but today MPD 4D made a stop and arrest for an individual charged with not having a front license plate while MPD let the federal agents they were coordinating with drive without any license plates. #FreeDC
December 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
We are told @dcpolicedept.bsky.social is not coordinating with federal abductions but today MPD 4D made a stop and arrest for an individual charged with not having a front license plate while MPD let the federal agents they were coordinating with drive without any license plates. #FreeDC
Mayor for Porsche drivers, not for bus riders.
They got rid of the extended sidewalk at this bus stop on M Street in Georgetown and this is what happens now every single day.
December 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Mayor for Porsche drivers, not for bus riders.
One thing that hasn't been part of the discussion is that even in testing, Waymos are making the public fast charging infrastructure in DC almost impossible to use. They clog up charging stations, sometimes a dozen at a time, but the company doesn't build their own infrastructure.
Charles Allen responding to critics complaining that he is slow rolling driverless cars
December 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
One thing that hasn't been part of the discussion is that even in testing, Waymos are making the public fast charging infrastructure in DC almost impossible to use. They clog up charging stations, sometimes a dozen at a time, but the company doesn't build their own infrastructure.
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2. What he says about climate is patently false (more on that later) but to the extent he's saying "politicians shouldn't do the right thing unless it's popular", I'd note only that that is a toddlers view of leadership. If the popular kids are mean, should you be mean?
December 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
2. What he says about climate is patently false (more on that later) but to the extent he's saying "politicians shouldn't do the right thing unless it's popular", I'd note only that that is a toddlers view of leadership. If the popular kids are mean, should you be mean?
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This is horrific. RFK Jr’s CDC is funding a study in Guinea-Bissau which would involve deliberately withholding the hepatitis B vaccine from hundreds of newborn infants, putting them at great risk of death. They want to repeat Tuskegee.
CDC awards $1.6 million for hepatitis B vaccine study by controversial Danish researchers
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This is horrific. RFK Jr’s CDC is funding a study in Guinea-Bissau which would involve deliberately withholding the hepatitis B vaccine from hundreds of newborn infants, putting them at great risk of death. They want to repeat Tuskegee.
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Why would a political writer keep arguing that Dems should go along with Trump’s harsh immigration crackdown, cruelty to trans people, and climate change-worsening stances as politically necessary, no matter what public opinion data shows?
One logical answer is the writer agrees with those stances.
One logical answer is the writer agrees with those stances.
matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong.
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
December 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Why would a political writer keep arguing that Dems should go along with Trump’s harsh immigration crackdown, cruelty to trans people, and climate change-worsening stances as politically necessary, no matter what public opinion data shows?
One logical answer is the writer agrees with those stances.
One logical answer is the writer agrees with those stances.
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Sorry it is sadly so funny to me that we hit peak women’s sports confluence today where the WNBA and the NWSL are both publicly arguing with their PA’s
December 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Sorry it is sadly so funny to me that we hit peak women’s sports confluence today where the WNBA and the NWSL are both publicly arguing with their PA’s
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Celebrate the holidays with your neighbors over a free, hot, catered lunch and chat about all we’ve done & will do in 2026.
🍴Takoma Neighborhood Community Meal & Potluck
📆Saturday December 20 | 12:00 AM–2:00 PM
📍Seeker’s Church 276 Carroll Street NW
RSVP & details: rebrand.ly/TakomaCommunitymeal
🍴Takoma Neighborhood Community Meal & Potluck
📆Saturday December 20 | 12:00 AM–2:00 PM
📍Seeker’s Church 276 Carroll Street NW
RSVP & details: rebrand.ly/TakomaCommunitymeal
December 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Celebrate the holidays with your neighbors over a free, hot, catered lunch and chat about all we’ve done & will do in 2026.
🍴Takoma Neighborhood Community Meal & Potluck
📆Saturday December 20 | 12:00 AM–2:00 PM
📍Seeker’s Church 276 Carroll Street NW
RSVP & details: rebrand.ly/TakomaCommunitymeal
🍴Takoma Neighborhood Community Meal & Potluck
📆Saturday December 20 | 12:00 AM–2:00 PM
📍Seeker’s Church 276 Carroll Street NW
RSVP & details: rebrand.ly/TakomaCommunitymeal
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DC's council spent the last year or so ruthlessly crushing every DC small local business selling recreational weed, they caused all that needless harm for nothing in the end 💀
Interesting: Trump may just have legalized recreational weed sales in D.C.
A congressional rider has banned those sales in D.C. since 2015. But it specifically references Schedule I drugs, which weed was. With Trump rescheduling marijuana, the rider may no longer apply.
A congressional rider has banned those sales in D.C. since 2015. But it specifically references Schedule I drugs, which weed was. With Trump rescheduling marijuana, the rider may no longer apply.
President Trump Reschedules Marijuana from Schedule 1 to Schedule 3 Controlled Substance
December 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
DC's council spent the last year or so ruthlessly crushing every DC small local business selling recreational weed, they caused all that needless harm for nothing in the end 💀
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I can't make it but I vouch for Olive Lounge being a great spot!
Come join us for the final #MBTpubroll of the year! We're completing our 4-part series exploring the MBT extension to Takoma by starting at 5:30pm at Olive Lounge all the way in Montgomery County then cruising safely home to our beloved DC for a night cap at #1 Dew Drop Inn. Happy holidays 🚲🎅🍻!
Tomorrow is the final #MBTpubroll of 2025, and the finale of our 4-part series celebrating the milestone MBT extension to Takoma. If you haven't checked it out yet...it's awesome, come join us! Starting at 5:30 at Olive Lounge in MD, then cruising to our DC fave Dew Drop to finish out the year. 🚲🍻🎉
December 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I can't make it but I vouch for Olive Lounge being a great spot!
RIP the 63 which is not the Takoma-Petworth line, but is now consigned to history and not replaced.
December 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
RIP the 63 which is not the Takoma-Petworth line, but is now consigned to history and not replaced.
A few other names I've heard passed around:
Jamie Sycamore
Kathy Henderson
David Grosso
Jess Giles
Branden Givand
Chander Jayaraman
Alex Padro
Shareece Crawford
Charles Wilson
Ed Lazere
Jamie Sycamore
Kathy Henderson
David Grosso
Jess Giles
Branden Givand
Chander Jayaraman
Alex Padro
Shareece Crawford
Charles Wilson
Ed Lazere
Another name to add to the list: @zachisrael.bsky.social, an ex-Ward 4 ANC, who's earned the support of some other ANCs and activists.
A caveat for all these names, though: Mendelson seems to holding his intentions for this appointment very close to the vest right now.
A caveat for all these names, though: Mendelson seems to holding his intentions for this appointment very close to the vest right now.
The rumor mill is spinning fast and furious already: Megan Browder, a Legal Aid DC exec/former deputy AG, is in the running, per sources. She wouldn't run for the seat, positioning herself as a nonpartisan expert.
I also hear Vincent Orange is telling people he's interested...
I also hear Vincent Orange is telling people he's interested...
December 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
A few other names I've heard passed around:
Jamie Sycamore
Kathy Henderson
David Grosso
Jess Giles
Branden Givand
Chander Jayaraman
Alex Padro
Shareece Crawford
Charles Wilson
Ed Lazere
Jamie Sycamore
Kathy Henderson
David Grosso
Jess Giles
Branden Givand
Chander Jayaraman
Alex Padro
Shareece Crawford
Charles Wilson
Ed Lazere
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In August 2016, Judge Richard Leon stopped Purple Line construction, on grounds that Maryland had not conducted an adequate survey of the environmental impacts. (A US Court of Appeals judge overruled him in December 2017.)
There seems to be an endless supply of judges who are only now hearing about Donald Trump for the first time. “Oh, well, if you pledge to follow the law, that’ll do I guess.”
December 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
In August 2016, Judge Richard Leon stopped Purple Line construction, on grounds that Maryland had not conducted an adequate survey of the environmental impacts. (A US Court of Appeals judge overruled him in December 2017.)
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Nico Coronado from Teamsters 705 out here at press conference denouncing Bovino and CBP for visiting the Mauser picket line today, harassing union members, asking them their status. “Our members didn’t take the bait,” he says, thanks to know your rights trainings from Arise worker center.
December 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Nico Coronado from Teamsters 705 out here at press conference denouncing Bovino and CBP for visiting the Mauser picket line today, harassing union members, asking them their status. “Our members didn’t take the bait,” he says, thanks to know your rights trainings from Arise worker center.
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Save the date! TranspoBINGO 2026 runs Feb 5-12.🚍🚲 This year's theme: Play Your Way Through the City—where curiosity sets the route, exploration earns the points, and the city itself becomes the game.🎲 A joyful reminder of what’s possible when we move through our city together. www.transpobingo.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Save the date! TranspoBINGO 2026 runs Feb 5-12.🚍🚲 This year's theme: Play Your Way Through the City—where curiosity sets the route, exploration earns the points, and the city itself becomes the game.🎲 A joyful reminder of what’s possible when we move through our city together. www.transpobingo.com
On second reference, the bill may be referred to as the "I can't win the support of the majority of voters but deserve to be in office in perpetuity" act.
#BreakingNews - At-Large DC Council member Anita Bonds right now proposing emergency bill to put off until ‘27 new ranked choice voting that is set to begin with the June ‘26 primary. Unclear she has votes to pass it.
December 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
On second reference, the bill may be referred to as the "I can't win the support of the majority of voters but deserve to be in office in perpetuity" act.
Clear evidence that McDuffie continues to have no beliefs or unifying desire or plan, just an amoral attachment to power. I want to be Ward 5 CM, no AG, no at-large CM, no Mayor, I'm die hard Democrat, no an independent, no a Democrat.
NEWS: At-Large Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie says he will be resigning from the D.C. Council on January 5, 2026. That's in preparation for his run for mayor, since he will be changing his party affiliation to Democrat and he's currently in an At-Large seat reserved for non-Democrats.
December 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Clear evidence that McDuffie continues to have no beliefs or unifying desire or plan, just an amoral attachment to power. I want to be Ward 5 CM, no AG, no at-large CM, no Mayor, I'm die hard Democrat, no an independent, no a Democrat.
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🎁 Help Whittier Reach 500 Toys by TOMORROW! 🎁 Whittier Elementary's PTO is collecting new toys so every student can go home with a gift at Winter Wonderland (Dec. 18). If you can, please donate and help spread the word:
👉 www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/....
👉 www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/....
December 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🎁 Help Whittier Reach 500 Toys by TOMORROW! 🎁 Whittier Elementary's PTO is collecting new toys so every student can go home with a gift at Winter Wonderland (Dec. 18). If you can, please donate and help spread the word:
👉 www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/....
👉 www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/....